IRELAND
Irish Independent
John Mulligan
31/05/2015
A senior priest at one of Dublin’s wealthiest suburbs has told parishioners that he sees “no logical reason” why there can’t be women priests.
He also said the Church will have to reassess its approach to a wide range of issues following the groundswell of support last Friday week for same-sex marriage.
Father Gary Darby, a co-parish priest in Portmarnock, Co Dublin, told his congregation at mass today that the vote has been a wake-up call for the church.
He recieved rapturous applause for his sermon, in which he voiced opinions that would have caused significant controversy only a few years, or even months ago.
He said that most young people he knows don’t attend mass because they say the church is now irrelevant to them. But Fr Darby said that he believed young people didn’t attend mass because they also felt judged and shamed by the institution. He also told parishioners that he also felt the same when he was growing up.
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