IRELAND
Belfast Telegraph
By Louise Hogan– 22 April 2013
An Irish priest whose love affair rocked the Catholic Church has revealed that he feels new restrictions sent to him by the Vatican make him a “second-class citizen”.
Sean Page (54), originally from Castlerea, Co Roscommon, last year wed his partner, Clarice Young, a mother of five.
The wedding took place in a simple Church of England ceremony near his home in Rochdale, greater Manchester.
But despite leaving the Catholic Church, he still feels it is interfering with his life.
Among the conditions delivered to him in a Vatican document were to ensure any wedding celebration was “low-key”, to “absent himself” from areas where he would have been known as a priest and to undertake to not engage in teaching theology.
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