GALLOWAY DIOCESE beats the odds and Bishop Alvaro del Portillo, finds the weather gives the group an the ‘founder’ of increasingly uplifting pilgrimage to Our OPU S DEI in Glasgow, is to Lady shrine at Loudres. Pages 10-11 be Beatified. Page 5 No 5528 YOUR NATIONAL CATHOLICwww.sconews.co.uk NEWSPAPER SUPPORTS THE YEAR OF FAITH Friday July 26 2013 | £1 I Episcopal appointment for Scotland means homecoming for Motherwell priest Rio welcomes Pope Francis to WYD events By Martin Dunlop POPE Francis has been greeted by thousands of pilgrims in Brazil since arriv- ing for this week’s interna- tional World Youth Day 2013 celebrations. The trip to the world’s most populous Catholic nation marks the Holy Father’s first foreign engagement since his election as leader of the world’s 1.2 billion Catholics in March. Shortly after his arrival in Rio de Janeiro on Monday evening, where hundreds of thousands of young people are gathering for this week’s World Youth Day celebrations, Pope Francis urged pilgrims to ‘make disciples of all nations.’ “I came to meet young people coming from all over the world, drawn to the open arms of Christ the Redeemer,” he said, referring to Rio’s world famous statue of Jesus, which overlooks the city. New archbishop for St Andrews “They want to find a refuge in His embrace, right near His heart to hear His call clearly and powerfully.” Following his arrival in his and Edinburgh is Vatican diplomat home continent of South Amer- ica, the Argentinian Pope toured Rio in an open car and was then By Ian Dunn late September. Only then will I be able to take stock of Mgr Leo Cushley, the new Archbishop of St Andrews and officially welcomed to Brazil by Edinburgh, flanked by Bishop Stephen Robson (left) and what has happened and see what can be done.” Archbishop Philip Tartaglia (right), speaks to the assembled the country’s President, Dilma POPE Francis has appointed Mgr Leo Cushley, However, Mgr Cushley said he intended to act press PIC: PAUL McSHERRY Rousseff, at the state governor’s 52, a senior Vatican diplomat and Motherwell ‘always in truth and in charity, with a view to recon- palace. diocesan priest, as the new Archbishop of St ciliation and healing among the Catholics of Edin- As the SCO went to press, the Andrews and Edinburgh. burgh’ and his primary task would be to ‘preach the lain there in the early 1990s, said he was someone who Holy Father was preparing The new archbishop-elect was introduced on good news, Christ Crucified and risen from the dead, to was ‘obviously highly intelligent… but he was a really for a visit on Wednesday to the Wednesday morning by Archbishop Philip Tartaglia, confirm my brother priests in their Catholic Faith and good chaplain as well and he got on really well with who has been serving as apostolic administrator of St ministry, and to be a loving, simple, wise shepherd to the children.’ I Continued on page 2 Andrews and Edinburgh since the resignation of Car- the flock that has been entrusted to me.’ “When he went off to Rome we were surprised in dinal Keith O’Brien in March. His Episcopal ordination will take place on Septem- one respect because we didn’t think of guys from Air- Mgr Cushley said he was ‘humbled that our Holy ber 21 at St Mary’s Cathedral in Edinburgh. drie going off to the Vatican, but we weren’t really sur- Father Pope Francis has nominated me for such an prised because he was so clearly a really able guy,” Mr important task here in our ancient capital’ and that he Reaction McLoughlin said. intended to begin his episcopate with a focus on ‘rec- Friends of Mgr Cushley said he has the potential to be He added that he believed Mgr Cushley would have onciliation and healing.’ an excellent archbishop. no illusions about the size of the task he was undertaking. Canon Gerard Tartaglia, of St Margaret’s parish in “This is someone who is stringently honest with Wealth of experience Clydebank, who has known Mgr Cushley since they himself,” he said. “He would not have accepted the job The archbishop-elect has been serving as head of the were at seminary together, said he ‘has all the qualities if he wasn’t confident he could do it.” English-language section of the Vatican’s Secretariat you would want from an archdiocesan archbishop.’ of State and has worked very closely with both Pope “He’s a great guy, he always has been,” Canon Motherwell priest Benedict XVI and Pope Francis. Tartaglia said. “He’s kind and thoughtful, just decent. Mgr Cushley was born in 1961 to Bill, a baker, and Mgr Cushley said he would dedicate himself to heal- He can be very witty, but he doesn’t do put downs, he’s Eileen, a secretary, in Airdrie. He is the oldest of three ing the pain over the retirement of his predecessor Car- just not interested in being like that.” children and his brother and sister and their families dinal O’Brien, who admitted that his conduct had Canon Tartaglia also said that although Mgr Cushley both still live in the West of Scotland. ‘fallen below the standards expected of me as a priest, has been in the Vatican a long time, his pastoral experience Ordained to the priesthood in 1985 in St John the archbishop and cardinal.’ in Motherwell Diocese had been very important to him. Baptist Church, Uddingston, Mgr Cushley served in “I know it is a delicate moment and that there is a lot “He loved being a school chaplain, and he loved Motherwell Diocese for eight years, as a chaplain to St to be done, but with God’s grace and the kind support of being in the parishes,” he said. “And I know it was with Aidan’s High School in Wishaw and Our Lady’s High the clergy and people of Edinburgh, I will work cheer- some hesitance he went to the Vatican, this is not an School in Motherwell. He also was an assistant priest fully and willingly with all the energy I can muster,” Mgr ambitious guy, he’s not looking for the next bauble or at the parishes of St Aidan’s Wishaw, St Serf’s, Airdrie, Cushley said. “There are certain important questions that to be recognised, he’s not like that.” and Our Lady of Good Aid Cathedral in Motherwell. I will also have to familiarise myself with. I have no juris- Hugh McLoughlin, who was a teacher at St Aidan’s visit www.sconews.co.uk diction in the diocese until after I have been ordained in High School in Wishaw when Mgr Cushley was chap- I Continued on page 5 SCO, 19 Waterloo Street, Glasgow G2 6BT I tel 0141 221 4956 I fax 0141 221 4546 I e-mail [email protected] 2 PICTURE NEWS THE SCO SUPPORTS THE YEAR OF FAITH SCOTTISH CATHOLIC OBSERVER Friday July 26 2013 The feast of Our Lady of Mount Carmel saw Catholics from across the north of Scotland come to the Banff parish of the same name as celebrations. A Mass was celebrated in the parish by guest preacher Fr James Bell from Inverness, who blessed a new statue of Our Lady of Mount Carmel outside the church.The parish draws its name from the Carmelite Monastery founded in the town by King Robert in 1321, and Our Lady has even been suggested as a possible source for the town’s name, as a contraction of the Gaelic Bean-naomh meaning ‘holy woman.’ After Mass parishioners and visitors alike relaxed in the parish grounds as a barbecue was held in the garden, featuring a Polish contribution to the feast day as Fr Marek Kaleta prepared a number of delicacies from his homeland. A diamond day in Rutherglen FRIENDS and family of Fr John Sweeney recently joined him for a special cele- bration of Mass, marking the diamond jubilee of his ordi- nation to the priesthood. A concelebrated Mass, with a number of clergy, took place at St Columbkille’s Church, Rutherglen, on Friday July 12. Fr Sweeney is a member of the Mill Hill Missionaries, St Joseph’s Missionary Society, an international fellowship of Catholic missionaries dedicated to announcing the Good News of Jesus Christ to people throughout the world. Those gathered to share the SPOTLIGHT ON... jubilee celebration with the priest joined him after Mass for a reception in the church hall. (Above) Mgr Sweeney with members Parishioners of St Clare’s Church in Drongan recently helped their parish priest celebrate his 80th birthday. of his family after the (right) Mass to Mgr Joseph Boyd is pictured celebrating his special day with a number of members of St Clare’s parish. Mgr mark the diamond jubilee of his ordi- Boyd, who is also vicar general of Galloway Diocese was ordained a priest in 1957 nation PICS: PAUL McSHERRY World Youth Day celebrations begin in Rio de Janeiro with Pope I Continued from page 1 a homemade ‘low power’ explo- Speaking prior to his departure, Today, the Pope will visit sive device had been discovered at however, Pope Francis warned young prisoners and, later on, lead national Shrine of Our Lady of the the national shrine and had been that with economic hard times the Way of the Cross on the Conception of Aparecida, destroyed. being used as an excuse not to hire Copacabana beach. On Saturday, between the cities of Rio and Sao In the past few weeks and young people, the world risks he will meet with Brazil’s leaders Paulo, and to the St Francis of months, Brazil has seen a wave of ‘tossing them aside and endanger- in Rio before joining young peo- Assisi of the Providence of God protests against public service cuts ing its own future.’ ple for a prayer vigil.