UNITED KINGDOM
Manchester Evening News

By Lisa Gray

A former cleric has hit out at the Catholic church for ‘interfering’ in his life more than 10 years after he left the priesthood.

Sean Page married his partner, Clarice Young, at St John’s CE Church in Heywood last year – more than a decade after quitting his life as a priest in Ireland.

The wedding took place in front of Clarice’s five children in a ceremony led by Rev Matthew Carlisle and the couple are now happily married and living on Grasmere Avenue in Hopwood.

But Sean, 54, says he is ‘hurt’ by the way he was treated by the Catholic church in the run-up to the wedding.

The community radio DJ was sent a document from the Vatican instructing how to conduct himself after marrying Clarice.