Moves to Get Cardinal to Leave UK

Scottish Catholic Observer
May 10, 2013

http://www.sconews.co.uk/latest-edition/28270/moves-to-get-cardinal-to-leave-uk-for-the-good-of-the-church/

Suggestions made that it may be best if Cardinal O’Brien retires outside the country

Cardinal Keith O’Brien has been advised to leave the UK after stepping down from public life and in light of his recent admissions over his conduct that have caused great difficulty for the Church.

Last week the retired Archbishop of St Andrews and Edinburgh began moving into the Church-owned home in East Lothian that he had been planning to retire to for a number of years prior to his recent statement that his behaviour had fallen short of what was required of his office.

Sources close to the developments told the SCO that—in spite of recently getting approval from the Apostolic Nuncio, Archbishop Antonio Mennini, to retire as planned to Our Lady of the Waves parish in Dunbar—there had been a late push for the cardinal to leave the UK ‘for the good of the Church.’