Priest Silenced by Vatican Shares His Story

By Erica Smith
St. Louis Public Radio
November 4, 2014

http://news.stlpublicradio.org/post/wednesday-priest-silenced-vatican-shares-his-story

Tony Flannery

This interview will be on "St. Louis on the Air" at noon Wednesday; this story will be updated after the show. You can listen live.

In 2012, Tony Flannery found out the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, the Vatican watchdog group, was displeased with some of his writings about the church.

Flannery, a Redemptorist from Ireland, was suspended and forbidden to return to ministry unless he agreed to publish a statement saying he accepted the moral teachings of the church and that women should not be ordained priests. After a year of back-and-forth with the Vatican, Flannery went public with the matter in January 2013. A few months later he wrote about the experience in a book, "A Question of Conscience."

Flannery will be in St. Louis this month for an event sponsored by the Catholic Action Network for Social Justice. On Wednesday, "St. Louis on the Air" will talk to Flannery about his faith and his book. Do you have a question for our guest? Email us at talk@stlpublicradio.org, or tweet us at @STLonAir.