SCOTLAND
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Disgraced Cardinal Keith O’Brien blocked an independent inquiry into cases of historic sexual abuse a year before resigning over his own inappropriate sexual conduct.
The Bishops’ Conference of Scotland commissioned a report into allegations of abuse in 2011 but it was halted the following year when Cardinal O’Brien, then president of the conference, withdrew his support.
He stepped down as Archbishop of St Andrews and Edinburgh in February after three priests and a former priest made allegations of inappropriate behaviour against him.
He issued an apology, saying “there have been times that my sexual conduct has fallen below the standards expected of me”.
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