A cardinal who had been the top Catholic cleric in Britain resigned Friday over sexual impropriety allegations, but was allowed to keep his title – an arrangement that opened debate over what it said about Pope Francis’s treatment of clerical misconduct. The mere fact of Cardinal Keith O’Brien’s resignation was startling – he is reportedly the first cardinal to do so since the 1920s.
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