The Vatican plans an apostolic visitation of the Church in Scotland, to probe charges of widespread corruption, according to The Scotsman newspaper.
Though no word has come from the Vatican, the newspaper said a priest who accused the resigned Cardinal Keith O’Brien of homosexual conduct was told there would be an investigation in a meeting with Archbishop Antonio Mennini, the apostolic nuncio to Great Britain.
A successor to Cardinal O’Brien, who resigned from the archdiocese of Edinburgh and St Andrews in February, has not yet been named.