SCOTLAND
The Tablet
Elena Curti, deputy editor
16 August 2013
Peter Stanford can’t be alone in sometimes wishing that the endless flow of revelations of clerical sex abuse would just stop. It’s natural for Catholics to feel dispirited that all the good the Church does is continually being drowned out by revelations of what happened to children many decades ago.
Investigative journalists who have turned their attention to Church have, without too much difficulty, been unearthing historic abuse allegations for more than a decade.
The latest case in point is Fort Augustus Abbey in the Scottish Highlands where a BBC investigative team aired one television programme, Reporting Scotland: Sins of Our Fathers, on 29 July, and will transmit a follow-up with more revelations on Monday. The school, which was run by monks of the English Benedictine Congregation, was closed 20 years ago and the abbey community was suppressed not long after that.
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