SCOTLAND
Daily Record
4 SEPTEMBER 2015
BY BILL HEANEY
Apologies were made for 61 cases of sexual abuse by clergy and related others in the past decade
It was the strangest press conference I have ever attended in half a century in journalism.
One half of it was held in Edinburgh in the Apex Waterloo Hotel and the other half in Glasgow in St Andrew’s Cathedral.
They were not linked – or at least they were not supposed to be seen to be linked – but one had been set up to launch the report of the McLellan Commission on clerical abuse in the Catholic Church in Scotland. The other was for Archbishop Philip Tartaglia to respond to the report which Scotland’s bishops had invited a panel of “experts” to deliver.
This panel of 12 distinguished apostles of democracy, faith and fairness was set up in 2013 under the chairmanship of Dr Andrew McLellan, a former Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland.
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