IRELAND
Irish Independent
By David Raleigh and Colm Kelpie
Saturday April 07 2012
Priests are being subjected to FBI-like attention from Catholic “agents” who want to silence anyone brave enough to voice their own opinions from the pulpit, a leading cleric claimed yesterday.
Fr Adrian Egan — the head of the Redemptorist Order in Limerick — criticised the Vatican and publicly backed Fr Tony Flannery, who is being investigated by Rome because of his liberal views.
Fr Flannery, an Athenry-based Redemptorist, who is the founder of the Association of Catholic Priests, has for the past 14 years written his opinions in the Redemptorist Order’s ‘Reality’ magazine.
However, the Holy See has now intervened, and his monthly column has been discontinued.
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