SCOTLAND
Herald Scotland
Gerry Braiden
Senior reporter
Monday 13 May 2013
CATHOLICS have been hurt and embarrassed by the “shameful revelations” surrounding the church’s leading figure in Scotland, according to the head of the faith’s biggest congregation in the country.
In a message to parishes read at churches yesterday, Archbishop of Glasgow Philip Tartaglia said the fall-out from the Cardinal Keith O’Brien scandal had highlighted how stretched the Church has been in dealing with the crisis.
He urged Catholics to embrace Facebook and Twitter, as well as more traditional platforms, adding that the Church had to “take up the challenge to be present, to be coherent and to be convincing in the media”.
Archbishop Tartaglia’s letter was sent out as part of Communications Sunday.
It comes on the back of almost three months of revelations surrounding Cardinal O’Brien, who has faced allegations of sex abuse against trainee priests and admitted having had same-sex relations going back decades despite preaching against gay marriage.
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