IRELAND
Inside Ireland
By Ciarán Hanna
A British Catholic weekly journal has reported that six Irish Catholic priests are being silenced by the Vatican.
The Tablet newspaper, which has been published since 1840, is reporting that five Priests have been censured from speaking to the Press.
The Vatican based Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, CDF, has warned Fr Tony Flannery, one of the leaders of the Association of Catholic Press,to stop writing for a magazine while the paper’s editor, Fr Gerard Moloney, is being investigated by the CDF.
The other priests include Fr Sean Fagan.
A supporter of Fr. Fagan wrote in a blog:
“ The silencing of Sean, after a lifetime of service to the Church, was even more painful because if any word of this action demanded by the CDF got into the media, he would be immediately be prohibited from exercising his priestly faculties.”
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