IRELAND
National Catholic Reporter
by John Cooney | Jan. 28, 2013
Dublin —
An estimated 250 protesters demonstrated Sunday evening in Dublin at a vigil outside the papal nunciature in support of the restoration to ministry of Irish Redemptorist Fr. Tony Flannery.
A letter addressed to the papal nuncio, Archbishop Charles Brown, was handed in by the Irish branch of the We Are Church lay movement.
The protesters were mainly in their 60s or older, and two-thirds of them were women. They carried a banner that read “Dialogue Yes. Silence No.” and sang the 1960s protest song of the civil rights movement, “We Shall Overcome.”
The letter stated that the Vatican Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith had acted unjustly in its treatment of Flannery and should now restore him to his full priestly ministry.
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