CANADA
Leader-Post
ASHLEY MARTIN, REGINA LEADER-POST
On a Tuesday afternoon in Cupar, the main doors to the two-tone brick St. Patrick’s Catholic Church are locked up. The white-on-black sign lists the next service as Saturday.
The rectory is similarly quiet. Its resident, retired priest Robert MacKenzie, has been moved to a retirement home in Regina in light of allegations of sexual abuse in Scotland dating back 36 years.
“He claims he’s innocent,” said Archdiocese of Regina Archbishop Don Bolen, who met with MacKenzie on Monday morning, just hours after returning home from Rome.
“Even when he gets to the priest retirement place, he tells them why he’s there, because there’s this accusation. He’s not hiding the fact that there is an accusation and he talks openly about it.”
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