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Bishop Leo Cushley: We Got a Battering

By Annabelle Love
The Sun
July 24, 2013

http://www.thescottishsun.co.uk/scotsol/homepage/news/5032505/Bishop-Leo-Cushley-We-got-a-battering.html

THE Pope’s aide chosen to replace shamed Cardinal Keith O’Brien as Archbishop of St Andrews and Edinburgh said yesterday the Catholic Church can recover from its recent “battering”.

Airdrie-born Monsignor Leo Cushley, 52, said he was “humbled” that Pope Francis had chosen him.

The hillwalking U2 fan said: “I know it’s a delicate moment and that there is a lot to be done.

“I will work cheerfully and willingly with all the energy I can muster.”

He added: “I think the Church has taken a bit of battering. I think that is fair.

“But also I think the fundamentals are good and they are right.

O’Brien, 75, stepped down in February over claims by three priests and a former priest of inappropriate sexual behaviour dating to the 1980s.

Mgr Cushley has been working in the Vatican as an interpreter.

He will be ordained in his new role on September 21.

He jokingly held up a street atlas of Edinburgh at a press conference yesterday and called it his “homework”.

 

 

 

 

 




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