One of Scotland's most senior clerics is to apologise for decades of physical and sexual abuse of pupils at a Catholic boarding school. See: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-23566192
The Bishop of Aberdeen, Hugh Gilbert, will address the parish at Fort Augustus in the Highlands.His statement comes after the BBC found evidence of physical and sexual abuse by monks at Fort Augustus Abbey School and its prep school in East Lothian.
The Benedictine order which ran the schools, has already apologised.
Bishop Gilbert's address will be the first time a senior cleric has spoken publicly about abuse at the abbey schools.
He has said he wants to be with parishioners in Fort Augustus in the wake of the allegations. He is expected to tell them of his "horror and shame" and to say sorry for the hurt caused to victims.
BBC Scotland spoke to more than 50 former pupils during its six-month investigation.
Many said they had nothing but good memories of the school, but the BBC also heard accounts from old boys of serious physical violence and sexual assault, including rape, by monks over a 30-year period.
BBC Scotland Investigates: Sins of Our Fathers, which aired on Monday, contained evidence against seven Fort Augustus monks. Two headmasters have also been accused of covering-up the abuse.
Fort Augustus Abbey School was one of the most prestigious Catholic boarding schools in Scotland
Since the programme was broadcast, the BBC has been contacted by other former pupils with similar claims of abuse, right up until the boarding school closed in the 1990s. Police Scotland have confirmed they are investigating the allegations.
Dom Richard Yeo, the Abbot President of the Benedictines order which ran the school, apologised on the programme and said mistakes were made.
"All I can say is that I'm sorry that it happened, it shouldn't have happened," he said.
