Cardinal Keith O’Brien dies after fall

Source: BBC News

Cardinal Keith O’Brien, formerly the Catholic Church’s most senior cleric in Britain, has died at the age of 80.

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The cardinal, who resigned as Archbishop of St Andrews and Edinburgh in 2013 after apologising for sexual misconduct, was hurt in a recent fall.

He was being cared for in Newcastle and was transferred to hospital there after suffering a head injury.

His successor administered the last rites on Friday, on the eve of the cardinal’s 80th birthday.

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