THE snell wind blowing across Glasgow's Bellahouston Park did little to chill the throng which had gathered to greet Pope Benedict.
THE snell wind blowing across Glasgow's Bellahouston Park did little to chill the throng which had gathered to greet Pope Benedict.
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It was September 2010, and the size of the crowd confounded those who had predicted a pitiful attendance. In retrospect, it was to be the high point of Cardinal Keith O'Brien's career.
His origins were relatively humble. He was born in Ballycastle, County Antrim, and moved as a child with his family to Scotland when his father, who was in the Royal Navy, got a job at Faslane. He attended Edinburgh University and was ordained as a priest in the capital in 1965.
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