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A priest has been suspended from a North Lanarkshire catholic church amid a police investigation into historic sex abuse allegations.
Father Richard Rodgers was suspended from his parish after a complaint was made to the diocese and then passed on to police.
The 79-year-old, who served at St Mary’s Parish Church in Cleland was axed from active ministry for an “unspecified period of time” after the allegations came to light.
He will not be living in the parish house while the investigation takes place.
Bishop of Motherwell Joseph Toal is understood to have stepped in to cover mass at St Mary’s while cover from elsewhere in the diocese will be put in place for parishioners in his absence.
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