Britain’s Top Catholic Resigns as Vatican Faces Scandal
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Britian’s most senior Catholic cleric resigned amid allegations he behaved inappropriately toward priests in the 1980s, casting a shadow over Pope Benedict XVI’s final days in power before retiring on Feb. 28.
The 85-year-old Benedict, the first pontiff in 600 years to resign, has seen his last days as head of the world’s 1.2 billion Catholics dominated by mounting questions over clerical sex abuse and Italian media reports of a secret Vatican dossier on the leaking of papal documents.