IRELAND
Irish Independent

Wednesday October 10 2012

Public relations should never become central to how the Catholic Church goes about its business.

What it believes and espouses should always come before how its spins or delivers its message.

But there are obvious presentational pitfalls that it should avoid and the badgering of an ageing liberal priest has to be questioned.

The silenced Redemptorist and Association of Catholic Priests founder, Fr Tony Flannery, has come under increased scrutiny and pressure from the new head of the Vatican’s Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith.