SCOTLAND
Herald Scotland
Stephen Naysmith
A man who is demonstrating chained to a cross outside Glasgow’s St Andrews Cathedral is receiving regular offers of help from the Archdiocese of Glasgow over his history of childhood abuse, a spokesman for the Catholic Church has claimed.
Dave Sharp began his protest yesterday, saying the church had failed victims of abuse and had not apologised after the recent conviction of two former schoolteachers for abuse carried out at St Ninian’s School in Fife, which was run by the Christian Brothers.
He said chaining himself to a wooden cross was a symbol of his inability to escape from his past without acknowledgement from the Church.
However a spokesman for the Archdiocese said Archbishop Philip Tartaglia had issued a full public apology a year ago, when he described child abuse within the Catholic Church as inexcusable and intolerable. Asking for forgiveness, the Archbishop’s statement said: “We apologise to those who have found the Church’s response slow, unsympathetic or uncaring and reach out to them.”
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