The McLellan report is a whitewash and a public apology is simply not enoughIf Satan were ever to consider deploying a PR strategy to gloss over all his crimes and misdemeanours he could achieve worse than contact one of his oldest adversaries,the Catholic church in Scotland.
For more than two decades now, the church has been revealed to acquire been exhibiting behaviours and conduct that would acquire led to a full public inquiry and suspension of its activities pending the outcome. Yet, or following decades of child sex abuse by several of its priests,and subsequent cover-up by its hierarchy, it has managed to escape proper scrutiny and any degree of accountability. I suppose we should all be grateful for the McLellan report into safeguarding practices in the Catholic church that was published last month; it reminded us what a whitewash looks like.
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Source: theguardian.com