NEWCASTLE (ENGLAND)
Press Association
April 5, 2018
The funeral of Cardinal Keith O’Brien, formerly the Catholic Church’s most senior cleric in Britain, is being held in Newcastle.
The 80-year-old, who resigned as Archbishop of St Andrews and Edinburgh in 2013 after admitting sexual misconduct, died in hospital last month following a fall.
A requiem mass is taking place at the Church of St Michael in Newcastle, led by Cardinal Vincent Nichols, Archbishop of Westminster.
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