A Catholic priest from Co Tyrone who “inadvertently” displayed gay pornographic images to a group of parents and a child has issued an unreserved apology. The images were shown on a screen by Fr Martin McVeigh, the parish priest of Pomeroy, during a PowerPoint presentation at St Mary’s Primary School about children’s first Confession on Read more
Posts Tagged ‘Ireland’
Vatican in talks over Irish combining Italian and Vatican embassy functions
Monday, April 30th, 2012Minister to Foreign Affairs Eamon Gilmore has said that discussions with the Vatican were under way to allow the former Irish embassy to be used as a location for embassies to Italy and to the Holy See, according to the Irish Times. Gilmore said that the non-resident Ambassador, department secretary general David Cooney, was in Read more
BBC2 priest censored by Rome
Friday, April 27th, 2012One of Ireland’s best known priests, who is a prominent journalist and broadcaster, has been censured by the Vatican. Fr Brian D’Arcy, who is also a regular contributor to BBC Radio 2’s “Pause for Thought”, as well as a best-selling author and columnist with the Irish tabloid the Sunday World, has been told he must Read more
Ireland’s priests not protected by confessional seal
Friday, April 27th, 2012
Priests in Ireland are now legally obliged to break the Confessional Seal and report the sexual abuse of children, reports The Tablet. The change was confirmed by Ireland’s Justice Minister Alan Shatter who said the laws were intended to encourage every individual to report abuse, and it would apply to priests in the confessional. Shatter Read more
Ireland’s bishops resist slashing dioceses
Thursday, April 26th, 2012There is “deep unease” among some members of the hierarchy over Vatican plans to slash the number of Irish dioceses, The Irish Catholic understands. Despite this, however, the Vatican is intent on pushing ahead with the reform a well-placed source has confirmed. In comments to this paper, theologian Fr Vincent Twomey has also predicted that Read more
Dissident Irish priests need to eye endgame
Tuesday, April 24th, 2012
It is not about the journey the outspoken Irish clergy are taking, and is about the destination, warns Irish Independent’s David Quinn in his weekend column. Quinn says the Association of Catholic Priests (ACP) need to ask themselves what if they cannot influence the Vatican over women priests, artificial contraception or in a more general context Read more
Support for Irish Marist priest on Vatican censure
Thursday, April 19th, 2012The Marist priest and theologian Fr Sean Fagan has been advised by Rome that if any word of their latest action against him reached the media he would be stripped of his priesthood. According to Mary Cunningham, a friend of Fr Fagan’s, “the silencing of Sean, after a lifetime of service to the church, was Read more
Irish Catholics want married priests and women priests
Tuesday, April 17th, 2012
The vast majority of Ireland’s Catholics want married priests and women priests, reports the Independent. The finding is the result of a poll conducted by Ireland’s Association of Catholic priests (ACP) which has one of its founding members silenced and sent to a monastery for a period of reflection. The ACP claim a mandate from mass-goers Read more
Ireland’s priests ‘treated like imbeciles’ by Vatican visitation ACP claims
Monday, April 16th, 2012Catholic priests in Ireland were treated like imbeciles during a Vatican probe into the clerical child abuse crisis that rocked the country, it has been claimed. Father Sean McDonagh criticised the investigation and maintained processes used by Rome when examining complaints about clergy were appalling. The Columban Father, a founding member of the liberal Association Read more
Vatican unwise – warns 800-strong Ireland priests’ group
Friday, April 13th, 2012
A body of 800 priests in Ireland is disturbed over the Vatican’s silencing of one of its founding members for his liberal views. As reported in CathNews, Redemptorist Fr Tony Flannery last week was asked by the Vatican to stop writing articles in the Redemptorists’ monthly magazine. In a statement released on Tuesday, Fr Brendan Read more
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