IRELAND
Irish Independent
SARAH MACDONALD – 10 AUGUST 2013
A POPULAR priest who is to leave his post as prior of an Augustinian order has denied he is being forced out by the Vatican.
Fr Iggy O’Donovan was responding to claims by the lay reform group ‘We Are Church Ireland’, which suggested he was being forced to take leave of absence by the Vatican’s watchdog on orthodoxy.
However, Fr O’Donovan (56) told the Irish Independent he was not stepping back from the priesthood, he was taking a sabbatical next month as his two terms as prior in Drogheda, Co Louth, were coming to an end.
He also rejected suggestions that he had meetings with Cardinal Sean Brady of Armagh, in whose diocese he serves, over articles appearing in an Augustinian newsletter.
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