Dismissed Priest Appeals to Highest Court in Rome

By Kat Lay
The Times
February 2, 2014

http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/news/uk/scotland/article3993762.ece?CMP=OTH-gnws-standard-2014_02_02

Kat Lay

A Roman Catholic priest who was dismissed from his parish in September after claiming for years that he had been sexually abused by another priest, is to appeal to the highest court in Rome over his removal.

Father Patrick Lawson is also pursuing an unfair dismissal claim in an employment tribunal, after being dismissed from St Sophia’s parish church in Galston, Ayrshire, by the Bishop of Galloway, John Cunningham.