Rome Urged to Inquire into Cardinal O'Brien 'Cronyism'

By Mike Wade
The Times
March 5, 2013

http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/news/uk/scotland/article3705722.ece?CMP=OTH-gnws-standard-2013_03_04

Mike Wade

Catholic critics of the Church in Scotland have urged that a Vatican inquiry into the scandal surrounding Cardinal Keith O’Brien examine an alleged “culture of cronyism” in his archdiocese that lasted for years.

Following the cardinal’s weekend confession of impropriety, he faced further accusations yesterday from lay and clerical figures that his sexual escapades might have compromised his role as Archbishop of St Andrews and Edinburgh, a post he was appointed to in 1985.