IRELAND
Herald
Friday April 27 2012
Bono once told Father Brian D’Arcy: “You’re the last one standing.”
Now Pope Benedict is trying to cut him off at the knees.
After everything the Catholic Church has been found guilty of, you’d have thought it would be open to a bit of self-criticism — but instead it has been revealed that the Vatican is censoring Fr D’Arcy’s writings as if they were some 21st Century version of the Da Vinci Code.
Measured
Earlier this week, DJ Ray D’Arcy caused a stir by declaring that the Church has “in many ways, f**ked up this country”.
His namesake uses much more measured language, but the authorities in Rome seem to think that Fr Brian’s message is basically the same.
He has used his newspaper columns to insist that the Church should allow married priests, accept homosexuality and too confess that it broke most of the Ten Commandments by protecting so many paedophiles in dog collars.
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