VATICAN CITY
The Guardian (UK)
Lizzy Davies in Rome
theguardian.com, Friday 4 April 2014
A Vatican-appointed bishop will fly into Scotland next week to investigate allegations of sexual misconduct surrounding Cardinal Keith O’Brien, it has emerged.
O’Brien’s successor as archbishop of St Andrews and Edinburgh, Leo Cushley, announced the unusual step in letters sent to his clergy this week, according to the National Catholic Reporter (NCR).
The Pope’s spokesman, Federico Lombardi, told the Guardian he had “nothing to add” to the report, which said that, following a request from Pope Francis, the Maltese auxiliary bishop Charles Scicluna would visit the archdiocese from 8-10 April.
According to the NCR, Cushley’s two letters said Scicluna, the Vatican’s former sex crimes prosecutor, would “listen to and report the testimony offered by past and present members of the clergy … concerning any incidents of sexual misconduct committed against them by other members of the clergy whomsoever.”
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