Deliberate obscurity and public uncertainty have dominated the issue of sexual abuse in the Scottish Church, but at last there is a sense that change is to come. In three days’ time, and in a spirit markedly more sober than the usual Festival and Fringe shenanigans of an Edinburgh August, the McLellan Commission will present its findings at a press conference in Scotland’s capital.Set up by the Bishops’ Conference of Scotland in November 2013, the 12-strong commission has worked under the chairmanship of the Very Revd Andrew McLellan, a former Moderator of the Church of Scotland and a former chief inspector of the country’s prisons, to investigate the current safeguarding policies, protocols and practices of the Catholic Church in Scotland. Despite the protestation
13 August 2015, The Tablet
A day of reckoning dawns
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