Bishop condemns Peter Tatchell’s Channel 4 Pope documentary

[Michie]

The Catholic Bishop of Paisley has hit out at an hour-long documentary on the Pope presented by controversial gay rights campaigner Peter Tatchell.

In the programme, which airs tonight, Tatchell suggests among other things that the Pope was involved in a cover-up of child sex abuse cases, and that he sympathises with the beliefs of Holocaust denier and suspended bishop Richard Williamson, whose excommunication was lifted by the Pope last year.

Bishop Philip Tartaglia said Tatchell’s past assertion that “not all sex involving children is unwanted, abusive or harmful” cast “huge doubt on his claim to be an expert on human sexuality or a credible critic of the Pope or of the Catholic Church”.

He admitted that the child abuse scandal had been “catastrophic” for the Catholic Church, but insisted that the Pope “has done and is doing everything possible to punish the perpetrators, console the victims and repair the damage”.

He said it was “disturbing” that Channel 4 had given Tatchell an hour-long prime time programme “in which to attack the Pope and the Catholic Church” and said the programme’s content showed that the campaigner knew “next to nothing about the real nature and mission of the Catholic Church”.

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