SCOTLAND
Sky News
By James Matthews, Scotland Correspondent
Scotland’s most senior Catholic has offered a “profound apology” to victims of abuse within the Church, following the release of an independent review of how it has handled past allegations.
The report urged the Church to address the wrongs of the past and make an “unmistakable and unequivocal” apology to those who have suffered.
Archbishop Philip Tartaglia used Tuesday afternoon’s homily at St Andrew’s Cathedral in Glasgow to address the issue publicly.
“As the president of the Bishops’ Conference, and 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,” he told the congregation.
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