{"id":53334,"date":"2025-04-26T23:41:17","date_gmt":"2025-04-26T23:41:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/53334\/"},"modified":"2025-04-26T23:41:17","modified_gmt":"2025-04-26T23:41:17","slug":"controversial-minister-rebrands-himself-as-catholic-priest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/53334\/","title":{"rendered":"Controversial minister rebrands himself as Catholic PRIEST"},"content":{"rendered":"

A MINISTER has been suspended by the Church of Scotland \u2014 and is now serving as a \u201cpriest\u201d.<\/p>\n

Rev Brian Casey has joined the Old Catholic Apostolic Church, despite facing a Kirk disciplinary probe<\/a> and being removed from his post last week.<\/p>\n

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Rev Brian Casey has been blasted by members of his former congregation\"21-06-2019<\/a><\/p>\n

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The congregation in Springburn, Glasgow, was informed of his suspension<\/p>\n

The organisation, which is not part of the Roman Catholic Church, revealed the ex-cop was accepted as one of their clergy at Easter.<\/p>\n

But last night shocked members of his congregation accused him of \u201cabandoning\u201d them<\/a> after they\u2019d backed his fight to keep his job at Springburn Parish Church, Glasgow.<\/p>\n

Rev Casey had opposed plans to close buildings and merge three local churches.<\/p>\n

One angry parishioner hit out: \u201cHe made us believe that he was fighting for his people. But he has abandoned us.\u201d<\/p>\n

Earlier this year, churchgoers and residents protested against claims the campaigning minister was being forced out as part of a five-year restructuring plan.<\/p>\n

After a petition was launched in February, parishioner William McCool said: \u201cBrian Casey isn\u2019t just a name. <\/p>\n

“For countless people like me, he represents a guiding light and a source of faith, hope, and love \u2014 a symbol of spiritual leadership that the Church of Scotland should be proud of.\u201d<\/p>\n

Rev Casey revealed in 2023 that he had considered converting to Catholicism <\/a>over his claims that the Kirk had been \u201cwalking away from the poor\u201d.<\/p>\n

Now he has been \u201cincardinated into the OCAC, whose UK base is in Upton, Dorset,<\/p>\n

An online directory lists the married dad as a priest in their Scots diocese of Fortriu and Dalriada.<\/p>\n

But it adds he will \u201ccontinue his ministry\u201d in the Church of Scotland<\/a> and serve \u201cbi-vocationally for the time being\u201d.<\/p>\n

The church, part of a group which split from the RC faith in 1870, boasts of its \u201cliberal ethos\u201d.<\/p>\n

Their rules \u201cdo not require celibacy from clergy\u201d.<\/p>\n

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The congregation at Springburn was informed of his suspension by Rev Janet Matheson, Moderator of Glasgow Presbytery.<\/p>\n

But Kirk officials have remained tight-lipped<\/a>.<\/p>\n

A spokesman said: \u201cRev Brian Casey is currently suspended and subject to disciplinary proceedings. As such, we can\u2019t comment further.\u201d<\/p>\n

Rev Casey, left, and the Old Catholic Apostolic Church have both been approached for comment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A MINISTER has been suspended by the Church of Scotland \u2014 and is now serving as a \u201cpriest\u201d.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":53335,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8816],"tags":[748,1102,918,4884,8547,712,5119,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-53334","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-edinburgh","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-edinburgh","10":"tag-glasgow","11":"tag-great-britain","12":"tag-religion","13":"tag-scotland","14":"tag-section-newsscottish-news","15":"tag-uk","16":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114406915061649411","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53334","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53334"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53334\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/53335"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}