VATICAN CITY
CT Post
By NICOLE WINFIELD, Associated Press
Updated 4:01 pm, Monday, April 7, 2014
VATICAN CITY (AP) — The Vatican is sending its former sex crimes prosecutor to Scotland this week to investigate “recent serious allegations of misconduct” surrounding disgraced Scottish Cardinal Keith O’Brien, who resigned last year after admitting to sexual misdeeds.
The Vatican and the Scottish church said Bishop Charles Scicluna will report on the situation.
O’Brien, once Britain’s highest-ranking Catholic leader, resigned in disgrace as the archbishop of St. Andrews and Edinburgh in 2013 and recused himself from the conclave that elected Francis as pope in 2013 after unidentified priests alleged in British newspaper reports that he acted inappropriately toward them.
The men said they had complained to church authorities about O’Brien’s conduct but that the church had failed to respond. None of the men are believed to have been minors at the time of the purported misconduct.
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