Congregation applauds priest threatened over predecessor’s abuse

NORTHERN IRELAND
Christian Today

March 12, 2018

A parish priest in Northern Ireland has received threats telling him to ‘get out of town’ following publicity about a separate priest in the parish who died in 2002 and has recently been revealed as a paedophile.

Fr Charles Byrne made the revelations to parishioners during mass yesterday in the Clonduff parish in the village of Hilltown, County Down.

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