Scandal-scarred Cardinal Keith O'Brien renounces 'rights and privileges' of his office
Cardinal Keith O'Brien, in a 2007 file photo, outside St.Mary's Cathedral in Edinburgh, Scotland. Photo courtesy of Reuters/David Moir. *Editors: This photo can only be used with RNS-OBRIEN-RESIGN, originally transmitted on March 20, 2015.
(RNS) When Pope Benedict XVI accepted O'Brien's resignation, O'Brien admitted "there have been times that my sexual conduct has fallen below the standards expected of me as a priest, archbishop and cardinal.”
