SCOTLAND
Telegraph
By Auslan Cramb, Scottish Correspondent
The Roman Catholic Church in Scotland has offered a “profound apology” to the victims of child sex abuse after a damning review said it must rid itself of systems “which allow evil”.
A commission led by Dr Andrew McLellan, a former moderator of the Church of Scotland, said support for those abused must be an “absolute priority” if the church was to restore its credibility.
He called for an “unmistakable and unequivocal” apology to the survivors of abuse and warned his report represented an “unrepeatable chance” to make things better.
The churchman said that if the opportunity was missed, survivors would know there was “no hope left for them within the Catholic Church in Scotland”.
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