SCOTLAND
Motherwell Times
By Mike McQuaid
Published on 24/07/2013
A priest from Uddingston has been chosen to succeed the disgraced Cardinal Keith O’Brien as Archbishop of Edinburgh and St Andrews.
Monsignor Leo Cushley (52) had been head of the English language section at the Vatican, a post he held for four years.
He was the official English translator for Pope Benedict, who stepped down earlier this year.
And when the newly-elected Pope Francis addressed cardinals for the first time in March, Mgr Cushley acted as his personal secretary.
Mgr Cushley, a former pupil at St John’s School in Uddingston, was ordained a priest in 1985. He served as a curate at Motherwell Cathedral and chaplain at St Aidan’s High School in Wishaw before moving to the Vatican’s diplomatic corps.
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