Cardinal O'Brien's resignation is an opportunity to reform Scotland's...
Tom Gallagher, professor emeritus of politics at Bradford University, has sent me an article about Catholicism in Scotland that is so thoughtful and provocative that I'm reproducing it here in full....
View ArticleHypocrite Cardinal O'Brien admits sex acts – in a vague apology that will...
I'm deeply unimpressed by Cardinal Keith O'Brien's vague and guarded admission that "there have been times that my sexual conduct has fallen below the standards expected of me as a priest, archbishop...
View ArticleThe hypocrisy of Cardinal Keith O'Brien: Christopher Hitchens nailed it years...
In a tangential sort of way, at least: Whenever I hear some bigmouth in Washington or the Christian heartland banging on about the evils of sodomy or whatever, I mentally enter his name in my notebook...
View ArticleThe chortling Cardinal Murphy-O'Connor should never be allowed to give...
Just whose idea was it to allow Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O'Connor to appear on the Today programme this morning to defend the Church following the O'Brien revelations? In syntax worthy of John Prescott,...
View ArticleSome slightly longer thoughts on Cardinal Keith O'Brien, homosexuality,...
All right, a few slightly more considered thoughts on Cardinal Keith O'Brien, after having got my cheap-shot Christopher Hitchens quote out of the way a little while ago. Some commentators have pointed...
View ArticleCardinal O'Brien 'ordered to leave Britain' by Vatican
Gerry Braiden of the Glasgow Herald is reporting today that Cardinal Keith O'Brien, former Archbishop of St Andrews and Edinburgh, has been ordered to leave Britain by the Vatican following his...
View ArticleCardinal O'Brien plays the compassion card and loses
This is a guest post by Tom Gallagher, professor emeritus of politics at Bradford University and an expert on Scottish Catholicism. Like an earlier post by Prof Gallagher, it will make painful reading...
View ArticleMgr Leo Cushley, the new Archbishop of St Andrews and Edinburgh, must...
Normally the appointment of a Catholic archbishop to St Andrews and Edinburgh would pass virtually unnoticed. But Keith O’Brien, the previous incumbent, chose to boost the profile of the position by...
View ArticleScottish Catholics are being desperately wooed by the SNP; they could swing...
The big leap in support for Scottish independence, as shown by the ICM’s recent poll, is a tribute to the campaigning zeal of the SNP. They and their radical Left allies dominate the public spaces in...
View ArticleThe Vatican knives are out – again – for disgraced gay Cardinal Keith...
Cardinal Keith O'Brien, former Archbishop of St Andrews and Edinburgh, already bears the title of Most Disgraced Cardinal of the Twenty-first Century. He was the only cardinal-elector banned from...
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