DERRY (NORTHERN IRELAND)
Derry Now

October 15, 2017

By Father Paddy O’Kane

[Note: The photo at the top of this article is not identified. It shows Anglican priest Father Alberto Cutié, who left the Catholic Church and married in 2009. He is pictured with his wife, stepson, and infant daughter in Biscayne Park FL in 2011.]

Story one. Three years ago in Lourdes we were sharing the hotel with another pilgrimage from Liverpool. In the bedroom next to mine there was a Roman Catholic priest and his wife.

All above board. He had been an Anglican minister and became a convert, one of the many to leave their church in protest against the introduction of women priests and bishops.

Story two. After dinner one evening on a recent pilgrimage I passed this question around the room: ‘”If you were Pope Francis for a day what changes would you make?”

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