Dismissed priest appeals to highest court in Rome

SCOTLAND
The Times

Kat Lay

A Roman Catholic priest who was dismissed from his parish in September after claiming for years that he had been sexually abused by another priest, is to appeal to the highest court in Rome over his removal.

Father Patrick Lawson is also pursuing an unfair dismissal claim in an employment tribunal, after being dismissed from St Sophia’s parish church in Galston, Ayrshire, by the Bishop of Galloway, John Cunningham.

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