SCOTLAND
Daily Record
Jul 16, 2014 03:00 By Keith McLeod
DESPITE O’Brien’s self-imposed exile from Scotland, he is living just 50 miles across the Border in a house bought by Archbishop of St Andrews and Edinburgh Leo Cushley.
SEX shame cardinal Keith O’Brien is enjoying a quiet retirement in a comfortable home provided by the Catholic Church.
It had been believed O’Brien was doing penance at a monastery in England after admitting he had “fallen beneath the standards” expected of him.
But the UK’s former senior Catholic is staying in a £208,750 bungalow – bought by Archbishop of St Andrews and Edinburgh Leo Cushley – in a Northumberland village.
O’Brien, 76, refused to explain his situation yesterday, saying only: “I’m not speaking to anyone at the moment.”
The disgraced churchman has been staying in the former pit village of Ellington, Northumberland, since January.
The house was purchased in the same month by Cushley – who succeeded O’Brien as Archbishop of St Andrews and Edinburgh – and two other leading churchmen in their capacity as trustees of the archdiocese.
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