On this National Day of Prayer for Those who have Suffered Abuse, the faithful are invited to join their prayers with those of the Catholic Church throughout Scotland for people in our families and communities who carry within themselves the deep and traumatic wounds of abuse in any way inflicted...

Please see below link to a recording of a webinar recently provided by the Scottish Catholic Safeguarding Service. https://www.scsafeguarding.org.uk/Training

Here is the link to “In God’s Image” (version 1): https://www.bcos.org.uk/Portals/0/In%20Gods%20Image%20WEB.pdf Publication of In God’s Image version 2 ‘In God’s Image’ – the document which is an ‘Instruction on Safeguarding’ from the Bishops of Scotland to all Catholic jurisdictions in Scotland – was published in March 2018 initially for a...

I strongly recommend the reading of this very informative, and sometimes disturbing, article by Fr. Federico Lombardi, SJ. As well as giving a perspective on the clerical abuse of children, he provides useful information about the dangers to children in the “digital world.” There is still clearly much to be...

  The darkness and death on Golgotha were not just events restricted to that time and place. Everything in the earthly sojourn of Jesus has relevance for every time and place given that he experienced these things not only as man but also as God.   And so the darkness...

The following links are to relevent safeguarding internet pages: Galloway diocese The Bishops’ Conference of Scotland The Vatican Safeguarding.org.uk