“It’s all crystallizing these days around the subject of same-sex marriage and this is expressing the whole crisis in the relationship of the Church to society”.
Just one day after the 61-year-old native Glaswegian was appointed by Pope Benedict XVI to take over the leadership of Glasgow from retiring Archbishop Mario Conti, the Scottish National Parliament announced the introduction of legislation permitting same-sex marriages.
When enacted, Scotland could become the first part of the UK to allow same-sex marriages.
The move has been strongly opposed by both the local Catholic Church and the Church of Scotland.
Archbishop Tartaglia notes: “There are challenges [for the Church – ed] which are associated with our self presentation to the political class and to the elite class, which if you like has adopted almost entirely and uncritically the whole liberal agenda”.