SCOTLAND
Scotsman
CHRIS MARSHALL
Saturday 09 January 2016
BISHOPS who allegedly colluded in the cover-up of child abuse are maintaining their “iron grip” on the way the Catholic Church treats victims, it has been claimed.
The Church recently published details of how it plans to implement the recommendations of the McLellan Commission, which called for an “unmistakable and unequivocal” apology for victims. But despite a “profound apology” issued by Archbishop Philip Tartaglia, survivors of abuse say the Church is continuing to fail them.
In an open letter, In-Care Abuse Survivors (Incas) said those who had been abused by priests had not been consulted in the drawing-up of the plan which sets out how the Church will implement the McLellan recommendations.
Last August, Archbishop Tartaglia begged forgiveness from victims, saying the Church had been “shamed and pained” by what had happened.
It followed the publication of the report by the Very Rev Andrew McLellan, a former Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland, who said safeguarding victims and potential victims was the “greatest challenge” facing the Church.
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