Kevin McKenna: The church’s document on gender contains both truth and wisdom

IN the face of civic Scotland’s eternal suspicions, born of fear and ignorance, the voice of the Catholic Church still carries significant influence. It’s just that the leaders of the church in Scotland seem lately to have been cowed by the expectation of malice. In recent years, the Catholic Church has been reduced to a vestigial presence in public life, only rarely glimpsed and faltering in its speech. It seems to have taken a vow of silence and marginalised itself.

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