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Top British Cardinal Resigns After Accusations of ‘Inappropriate Acts’ - NYTimes.com:
Top British Cardinal Resigns After Accusations of ‘Inappropriate Acts’
By ALAN COWELL and JOHN F. BURNS
Published: February 25, 2013
LONDON — A day after a newspaper accused him of committing “inappropriate acts” in his relations with three priests and one former priest, Cardinal Keith O’Brien said on Monday that he had resigned as Britain’s most senior Roman Catholic cleric.
But he made no specific public comment on the account in The Observer newspaper on Sunday, which said accusations dating back to the 1980s had been forwarded to theVatican. Cardinal O’Brien also said he would not attend the deliberations at the Vatican over the selection of a new pope to replace Pope Benedict XVI, who stunned the Catholic world by announcing his own resignation on Feb. 11.
The cardinal’s dramatic move only days before Benedict’s formal departure on Thursday seemed likely to darken the shadow over the final days of a troubled papacy and the delicate transition to a new pope, evoking some of the most vexing issues of Benedict’s almost eight-year-reign.
A statement issued by the media office of the Roman Catholic Church in Scotland said Cardinal O’Brien had informed the pope some time ago of his intention to resign as archbishop of St. Andrews and Edinburgh as his 75th birthday approached on March 17 but no date had been set.
The pope has accepted that the resignation take effect on Monday, Cardinal O’Brien said - [a day after the Ichabod posting, blogger Gregory L. Jackson warned WELS and LCMS.]
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