SCOTLAND
Daily Record
THE Catholic Church in Scotland have been rightly accused of hypocrisy, their official spokesman admitted yesterday.
And the Church have failed to support people struggling with their sexuality, Peter Kearney, director of the Scottish Catholic media office, said in the most frank comments by a Church official yet about the downfall of Cardinal Keith O’Brien.
After a gruelling fortnight for the Church, which saw O’Brien, their most senior cleric, admit sexual misconduct, Kearney admitted the Church rightly faced charges of being hypocritical.
Archbishop Philip Tartaglia – who replaced O’Brien – said last week the Church had been accused of hypocrisy “for obvious reasons”.
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