SCOTLAND
Metro
By Mark Molloy Friday 23 Aug 2013
An independent inquiry into historic allegations of sexual abuse in the Catholic Church was ‘blocked’ by disgraced Cardinal Keith O’Brien before he resigned, it has emerged.
The report was commissioned by the Bishops’ Conference of Scotland in 2011 but was delayed after Cardinal O’Brien objected, the former archbishop of Glasgow Mario Conti has said.
It was to analyse statistics relating to abuse and allegations of abuse over a 60-year period from 1952 to 2012.
Cardinal O’Brien resigned from his position in February after admitting inappropriate sexual conduct with other priests.
His opposition to an inquiry into Church-related abuse allegations was revealed by Mr Conti in a letter to the Catholic newspaper The Tablet.
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