Cardinal Keith O' Brien

POPE Francis met several times in private with the late Cardinal Keith O'Brien, and expressed sympathy over the anonymous accusations which ended his career, a close friend and colleague has claimed. Canon Matt McManus, who knew the Cardinal for 60 years, said the Pope had been concerned that ...

A ROW has broken out in the heart of the Scottish Catholic Church after former friends of shamed Cardinal O'Brien claim the hierarchy “misled” worshippers over his final wishes. Canon Matt McManus, who was a friend of Cardinal O'Brien for 60 years, criticised an “almost universal presumption of guilt” on ...

Cardinal Keith O'Brien, who was removed in 2013 as Scotland's ranking Roman Catholic cleric after acknowledging that he had engaged in the very sort of homosexual behavior he had earlier denounced... Published: 11:45 , Refreshed: 11:38; The New York Times. Print; eMail · Cardinal Keith O'brien play. Cardinal Keith ...

Funeral arrangements for Antrim-born Cardinal Keith O'Brien (80), who died on Monday, have yet to be decided by the Vatican. Former Archbishop of St Andrews and Edinburgh in Scotland, he resigned in 2013 following admissions of inappropriate and predatory sexual behaviour with seminarians and ...

Cardinal Keith O'Brien, formerly the Catholic Church's most senior cleric in Britain, has died at the age of 80. He had recently been injured in a fall and died in a Newcastle hospital. Cardinal O'Brien resigned as Archbishop of St Andrews and Edinburgh in 2013 after admitting sexual misconduct.

Cardinal Keith O'Brien, formerly the Catholic Church's most senior cleric in Britain, has died at the age of 80. The cardinal, who resigned as Archbishop of St Andrews and Edinburgh in 2013 after apologising for sexual misconduct, was hurt in a recent fall. He was being cared for in Newcastle and was ...

Roman Catholics need more protection to combat a rise in hate crime in Scotland, says Scottish Labour's inequality spokeswoman, after figures showed they are targeted more than all other religious groups combined. MSP Elaine Smith called for anti-Catholicism to be given the same prominence as that ...

Cardinal Keith O'Brien, the former leader of Scotland's Roman Catholics who stood down after allegations of inappropriate conduct, received the last rites yesterday on his 80th birthday. O'Brien has deteriorated since suffering a fall last month in which he broke his collarbone and suffered a head injury.

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Cardinal Keith O'Brien, the former leader of Scotland's Roman Catholics, who resigned after allegations of inappropriate conduct, was rushed to hospital last week after a fall at his home in Northumberland. The cardinal, who turns 80 on St Patrick's Day next month, is understood to have a broken collar ...

Cardinals and bishops attend a special mass celebrated by Pope Francis for the Roman holiday of St. Peter and St. Paul in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican, Thursday, June 29, 2017. (Credit: AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia.) By the end of June, six cardinals will have crossed the threshold of being over 80 and ...

To be given the last rites of the Catholic Church on St Patrick's Day, which also marked his 80th birthday, and to die two days later on the feast of St Joseph the Worker, surrounded by family, is the stuff of ecclesiastical hagiography that would surely have ensured Cardinal Keith Michael Patrick O'Brien of ...

Whatever people thought of Cardinal Keith O'Brien – and he was a man who divided opinion – there is no debate over his place in the Church's history books. The flawed, colourful and outspoken Scottish Catholic leader died on Monday. When allegations of sexual misconduct surfaced, he became the first ...

CARDINAL Keith O'Brien, the former Archbishop of St Andrews and Edinburgh, who died on Monday aged 80, was a robust defender of the Catholic faith, particularly on sexual and bioethical matters, and a major player in the Scottish political scene who called for full Scottish independence; in 2013, ...

The funeral of Cardinal Keith O'Brien will take place in Newcastle next month. Cardinal Vincent Nichols, Archbishop of Westminster, will be the main celebrant and will deliver the homily. Cardinal O'Brien, who died on Monday aged 80, will then be buried in Mount Vernon Cemetery, Edinburgh in the same ...