SCOTLAND
Scotsman
A BISHOP from Malta has been enlisted by the Vatican to investigate claims of sexual misconduct against Cardinal Keith O’Brien.
Auxiliary bishop Charles Scicluna, who has been probing clerical abuse for the last ten years, will travel to Scotland next week to hear from those with information about sexual misconduct surrounding the former Archbishop of St Andrews and Edinburgh.
Wider allegations will also be looked into.
Cardinal O’Brien’s successor, Archbishop Leo CUshley, said in a letter to the archdiocese clergy that Bishop Scicluna would ‘listen to and report the testimony offered by past and present members of the clergy’, adding the investigation would look at any incidents of sexual misconduct committed against them by any other members of the clergy ‘whomsoever’.
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