Cardinal Keith O’Brien’s resignation from the ‘rights and privileges’ of his office removes him from public life. He has admitted sexual impropriety but questions remain about his management of the diocese Given his very public fall from grace, it is appropriate that Cardinal Keith O’Brien will mark 50 years as a priest on Good Friday. The once popular, gregarious church leader, who was a dominant force in Scottish public life and mixed easily with politicians, celebrities and civic leaders, is not planning any sort of party. Instead, he will be joined by a couple of friends for the traditional penitential liturgy of that day in the small oratory of his bungalow in a village in Northumberland. In the light of allegations of sexual misconduct by five men, fou