IRELAND
RTE News
Fr Brian D’Arcy, the popular journalist who is being censured by the Vatican, has said he has never questioned the defined doctrine of the Catholic Church.
Fr D’Arcy claimed he had been told by his provincial in Ireland that the move by the Vatican 14 months ago was prompted by a headline on an article he had written for the Sunday World, a letter on homosexuality which he had published in his column and criticisms of the Catholic Church’s response to clerical child sex abuse scandals.
Asked about the Vatican ban on the ordination of women priests, he dismissed Rome’s argument that Jesus had never ordained a woman.
Fr D’Arcy pointed out that Jesus had not ordained a black man either, but that black men are allowed to be priests.
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