IRELAND
Irish Examiner
More than 150 people picketed the residence of the Papal Nuncio in Dublin this afternoon in protest at the Catholic Church’s treatment of well-known Irish missionary Fr Tony Flannery.
Last week Fr Flannery said he had been censored by the Vatican for his views on homosexuality and women priests, and called the Vatican’s systems “unfair and unjust”.
The 800-strong Association of Catholic Priests previously warned that forcing Father Tony Flannery to stop writing for a Redemptorist Order magazine would fuel belief of a disconnect between Irish Catholics and Rome.
Fr Flannery, a founder of the association, had his monthly column with the religious publication ‘Reality’ discontinued on orders from Rome.
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