IRELAND
Irish Times
Patsy McGarry
Tue, Sep 3, 2013
Redemptorist priest Fr Tony Flannery said he believes the Vatican’s silencing of him last year was really about dismantling the Association of Catholic Priests, of which he is co-founder.
“If they could sideline the current leadership, they would frighten off any others who might take our place, and in this way crush the whole movement,” he has said in a new book, A Question of Conscience, to be published on September 12th.
‘Lack of justice’
He has written the book to “let people know the methods they [Rome] were using in this investigation and their lack of justice and fairness,” he said.
It also explains how the Redemptorists’ Irish provincial warned each of Fr Flannery’s colleagues, when it came to supporting him publicly, “that if even one of them spoke out of turn, he [the provincial] would be forced to resign”.
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