SCOTLAND
Daily Mail
Shamed Cardinal Keith O’Brien personally blocked an inquiry into sex abuse in the Catholic Church in Scotland less than a year ago.
The probe had been agreed by the most senior members of the Church hierarchy.
It would have examined all abuse cases on file on behalf of the Bishops’ Conference of Scotland.
The hierarchy planned to publish the results of the investigation, but the then president of the Bishops’ Conference, Cardinal O’Brien, who resigned earlier this year after admitting sexual misconduct, objected.
He refused to allow his archdiocese of St Andrews and Edinburgh to participate, forcing the project to be scrapped.
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