IRELAND
Irish Independent
By Luke Byrne
Monday April 16 2012
AN organisation representing hundreds of priests last night described the silencing of Fr Sean Fagan over his writings as “outrageous”.
The 84-year-old Marist priest was ordered to stop writing and commenting in public after he had called for an inquiry into clerical sexual abuse in all dioceses of the State.
All available copies of a theological book written by Fr Fagan were also bought up by his religious order and he was required to give an undertaking not to write again.
The move came after he had advocated allowing women and married men to be ordained as priests.
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