SCOTLAND
Herald Scotland
Saturday 16 May 2015
A PRIEST at the centre of a bitter row with the Catholic Church has been ordered to leave his parish house.
Father Matthew Despard, 50, is involved in a dispute over a book he wrote alleging a gay mafia was operating at the top of the Church.
He was ordered to leave his home at St John Ogilvie in High Blantyre, Lanarkshire, but refused, disobeying the wishes of the Bishop of Motherwell, Joseph Toal.
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