SCOTLAND
Express
DISGRACED Cardinal Keith O’Brien blocked a sex abuse inquiry a year before resigning over his own inappropriate sexual conduct, the Catholic Church has admitted.
By: Rod Mills
Published: Fri, August 23, 2013
The astonishing admission was revealed in a letter from the retired Archbishop of Glasgow, Mario Conti.
The cardinal 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.
Now, it can be revealed that the Bishops’ Conference of Scotland commissioned a report into allegations of abuse in 2011 but that it was halted the following year when Cardinal O’Brien, then president of the conference, withdrew his support.
His opposition to an inquiry into Church-related abuse allegations was revealed in Catholic Church news weekly The Tablet.
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