SCOTLAND
Scottish Catholic Observer
During Mass at St Andrew’s Cathedral today, Archbishop Philip Tartaglia offered the Scottish Church’s full response to the publication of the McLellan report from the commission chaired by Dr Andrew McLellan, a former Church of Scotland Moderator
The Bishops of Scotland came together in Glasgow’s St Andrew’s Cathedral this afternoon as Archbishop Philip Tartaglia apologised on behalf of the hierarchy to those abused by people in the Church, saying such abuse ‘shamed and pained’ them.
At a Mass concelebrated by Bishops Joseph Toal of Motherwell, Hugh Gilbert of Aberdeen and William Nolan of Galloway and Archbishop Emeritus Mario Conti of Glasgow and Bishop Emeritus Maurice Taylor of Galloway, Archbishop Philip Tartaglia, president of the Bishop’s Conference of Scotland, gave the Church’s response to the final report from the McLellan Commission report into safeguarding practice in the Church.
The Archbishop of Glasgow began by addressing the first recommendation in the report that the Bishops’ Conference of Scotland make a public apology to all victims and survivors of abuse.
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