SCOTLAND
Daily Record
Hundreds of people packed into St Bride’s Parish Church this morning (Thursday) to welcome back Father Paul Morton – their parish priest and friend wrongly accused of sex abuse.
Father Morton was last April cleared of any wrongdoing by the police after an eight-month investigation into the alleged historic offences.
But the priest, who has been at the helm of the Cambuslang chapel for 15 years, was subject to a further investigation by the Catholic Church.
Concluded in December, it also vindicated the East Kilbride native of any wrongdoing.
Following a petition calling for Father Morton’s speedy return to St Bride’s, the priest took to the alter to celebrate the Feast of St Thomas Aquinas.
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