SCOTLAND
Edinburgh Evening News
DAVID O’LEARY
DISGRACED Cardinal Keith O’Brien has again apologised for his “sexual conduct” after formally resigning from his role at a meeting with Pope Francis.
Cardinal O’Brien, 77, stepped down from the archdiocese of St Andrews and Edinburgh in February 2013 after three priests and a former priest made allegations of inappropriate behaviour against him.
At the time, he issued an apology saying “there have been times that my sexual conduct has fallen below the standards expected of me”.
He left Scotland and said he would play no further part in the public life of the Catholic Church in the country.
He will retain the title of cardinal, the Church said, but has now been formally stripped of the “rights and duties” of the role after an investigation.
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