SCOTLAND
The Tablet
[letter from Archbishop Emeritus Conti]
Christopher Lamb – 23 August 2013
Cardinal Keith O’Brien blocked an independent examination of clerical sex abuse files held by Scottish dioceses, a senior bishop has claimed.
The Archbishop Emeritus of Glasgow, Mario Conti, has said all but one member of the Bishops’ Conference of Scotland had agreed in recent years for diocesan case files to be reviewed but this did not go ahead due to the cardinal’s objection.
“It was the intention of all but one member of the bishops’ conference to commission an independent examination of the historical cases we had on file in all of our respective dioceses and publish the results but this was delayed by the objection of the then-president of the conference; without full participation of all the dioceses the exercise would have been faulty,” the archbishop writes in a letter to The Tablet’s editor.
Cardinal O’Brien was President of the Bishops’ Conference of Scotland from 2002 until 2012.
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