IRELAND
Irish Independent
SARAH MACDONALD – 23 SEPTEMBER 2013
A HIGH-profile priest has lashed out at Cardinal Sean Brady for listening to “malicious complaints intended to discredit” Fr Iggy O’Donovan.
Fr Tony Flannery, a spokesman for the Association of Catholic Priests in Ireland, accused the Catholic primate of behaving “very inappropriately” over his role in reporting the Augustinian priest to the Vatican over a baptism deemed invalid on the basis of a complaint by someone who attended the ceremony.
The parents of the child were asked by a local priest in Drogheda to have their son rebaptised following the complaint to Cardinal Brady.
The complainant reported the priest for allowing the godparents and parents pour water over the child’s head. This is considered incorrect procedure in the Catholic Church.
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