IRELAND
RTE News
An Irish priest has claimed he is being threatened with excommunication from the Catholic Church for supporting an open discussion on issues like women’s ordination.
Father Tony Flannery has called on the Irish bishops to state publicly what they think about the disciplining of priests like himself.
He blamed the breakdown of his year-long exchanges with the Church authorities on the intervention of Archbishop Gerhard Muller.
Archbishop Muller who took over as prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith (CDF) in July last year.
Fr Flannery told a news conference in Dublin this afternoon that the German Archbishop had raised the bar for his readmission to active ministry by demanding he accept the Vatican’s ban on debate on women’s ordination and a pledge to support all Church teaching on sexual matters.
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