Catholic church sued for six-figure sum over fatal fall in Dundee care home
Relatives of a 94-year-old man who plunged to his death from the window of a Dundee care home are suing the Catholic Church for a six-figure sum.
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Priests molested 1,000 children in Pennsylvania – report
Around 300 Roman Catholic priests have molested more than 1,000 children – and possibly many more – in Pennsylvania since the 1940s, a US grand jury report has revealed.
Police investigating claims priest spat on during Glasgow Orange Walk
Police are investigating allegations of assault after the Catholic Church claimed a priest had been spat on during an Orange Walk.
Faith no more: Are Scotland’s churches facing a crisis of Christianity?
As churchgoer numbers continue to fall in Scotland, is Christianity in crisis? Michael Alexander reports.
Could ‘lost treasure’ lie beneath the ruins of St Andrews Cathedral?
Could "lost treasure” – including the relics of Scotland’s patron saint – lie hidden beneath the ruins of St Andrews Cathedral - or is the suggestion a misguided dream? Michael Alexander speaks to an author and researcher who hopes to solve a 500-year-old mystery.
Dundee pupils and staff pray for St John’s school teacher 50 years on from shooting
Staff and pupils at a Dundee academy have remembered a former teacher exactly half a century on from her murder.
500 years after the start of the Protestant Reformation, what lessons can be learned in modern Scotland?
Five hundred years after the start of the Protestant Reformation in Germany, Michael Alexander examines the bloody role of St Andrews in the Scottish Reformation that followed and asks Scotland’s modern day Catholic and Protestant leaders what lessons can be learned from a tubulent past.
Kirk condemns apparent anti-Catholic attack in Rosyth
The Church of Scotland has condemned the perpetrators of an apparent anti-Catholic attack in Rosyth last week.
Catholic school graffiti being treated as hate crime by police
The vandalism at St Aloysius' College in Garnethill reportedly read "the famine is over it's time to go home".
What are the long term consequences for survivors of child abuse?
As two men are jailed for abuse at the former St Ninian’s School in Falkland, Fife, what are the long term consequences for survivors of child abuse as they move into adulthood? Michael Alexander spoke to some of the survivors to find out.