A bishop has claimed a priest at the centre of a row with the Catholic Church booby-trapped his parish house. Father Matthew Despard refused to leave his home at St John Ogilvie in High Blantyre, South Lanarkshire, despite being ordered out by the Bishop of Motherwell, Joseph Toal. He had been suspended by senior church […]
A bishop has claimed a priest at the centre of a row with the Catholic Church booby-trapped his parish house. Father Matthew Despard refused to leave his home at St John Ogilvie in High Blantyre, South Lanarkshire, despite being ordered out by the Bishop of Motherwell, Joseph Toal. He had been suspended by senior church […]