SCOTLAND
KaleidoScot
1 November 2014
Posted by: Dan Littauer
The Catholic Church is denying allegations by parishioners it is shutting their local Church in Scotland in an attempt at a cover up claims of gay sexual assault.
Father Matthew Despard was suspended last year after publishing allegations of gay bullying within the Church in the wake of the Cardinal O’Brien sex scandal.
A parish in Blantyre is now being closed in the wake of its former Father, Matthew Despard who was suspended from the Church after publishing allegations of gay sexual assault, reported The Herald.
Fr Despard published the allegation in the wake of the Cardinal O’Brien sex scandal, and was then suspended, last year.
His parish, St John Ogilvie, in Blantyre, is now one of about 40 parishes in Lanarkshire facing closure, bring forced to merge with St Joseph’s, Blantyre, which has a much larger Catholic population within its vicinity.
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