SCOTLAND
Daily Record
BY STEPHEN STEWART
ARCHBISHOP Philip Tartaglia said Scottish bishops were “shamed and pained” by the suffering over the years.
SCOTLAND’S most senior Catholic yesterday offered a “profound” apology to the Church’s sex abuse victims.
Archbishop Philip Tartaglia said Scottish bishops were “shamed and pained” by the suffering over the years.
But campaigners dismissed the apology as empty words. And they accused the Catholic Church of glossing over decades of abuse.
Tartaglia spoke out after an independent commission set up to investigate abuse called on the Church to make an “unmistakeable and unequivocal” apology.
Speaking at St Andrew’s Cathedral in Glasgow, the archbishop said: “On behalf of all the Bishops of Scotland, I want to offer a profound apology to all those who have been harmed and who have suffered in any way as a result of actions by anyone within the Catholic Church.
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