VATICAN CITY
Times-Colonist
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
MAY 15, 2013
VATICAN CITY – The Vatican says the Scottish cardinal who resigned as archbishop after admitting to sexual misconduct will leave Scotland for several months of prayer and atonement.
Cardinal Keith O’Brien recused himself from the March conclave that elected Pope Francis pontiff after a newspaper reported unnamed priests’ allegations that he acted inappropriately toward them.
O’Brien subsequently acknowledged he had engaged in unspecified sexual misbehaviour. He resigned as archbishop of St. Andrews and Edinburgh, apologized and promised to stay out of the church’s public life.
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