IRELAND
Irish Central
By
JAMES O’SHEA,
IrishCentral Staff Writer
Published Thursday, April 12, 2012
Several leading priests in Ireland are predicting a “Catholic Spring” as dissent against the Vatican decision to ban Father Tony Flannery grows.
The Daily Beast website has reported that leading priests now believe that the Vatican has gone too far in silencing Father Flannery who has been sent to a monastery to reflect on his actions.The Association of Catholic Priests which has 800 members has already come out strongly against the silencing.
Another leading priest Father Sean MacDonagh a founder of the ACP has now strongly criticised the Vatican move.
“It is a bit like Walmart, where you have the CEO in Rome and his people there decide on policy and then insist that the bishops, as branch managers, implement that policy,” he told the Irish Examiner.
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