SCOTLAND
Sky News
By James Matthews, Scotland Correspondent
Pope Francis has accepted the resignation of Cardinal Keith O’Brien.
It follows allegations that he had engaged in inappropriate sexual misconduct against junior priests.
He will now be stripped of the right to take part in any of a Cardinal’s key duties.
As Cardinal, he was the leader of Scotland’s Catholics but admitted in 2013 that his sexual conduct “had at times fallen beneath the standards expected of him.”
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