SCOTLAND
Herald Scotland
Sunday 5 January 2014
A BISHOP will today tell parishioners he is struggling to control a priest he suspended after making claims of sexual bullying within the Catholic Church.
Bishop Joseph Toal, who is in temporary charge of the Motherwell Diocese, will also appeal to supporters of Father Matthew Despard to help bring him into line.
Last year Despard, the parish priest at St John Ogilvie’s Church in High Blantyre, Lanarkshire, self-published a book, Priesthood In Crisis, which alleged that the Catholic Church in Scotland was dominated by a “powerful gay mafia”.
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