UNITED KINGDOM
The Times

Mike Wade

The disgraced Cardinal Keith O’Brien has been gifted a retirement home in a quiet Northumberland village by the Catholic Church.

Cardinal O’Brien stepped down from his post at the head of the Church in Scotland with immediate effect in February last year, following allegations of inappropriate sexual behaviour with five seminarians. It was later reported that he was doing penance in a Cumbrian monastry after he confessed to behaviour “below the standards expected of a priest”.