IRELAND
Irish Independent
SARAH MACDONALD – 23 OCTOBER 2013
BROADCASTER and columnist Fr Brian D’Arcy has said his censure by the Vatican “destroyed” him “as a human being and as a priest” and almost caused him to leave the priesthood.
In his new book, ‘Brian D’Arcy’s Food for the Soul’, the 68-year-old said it has been “the most devastating faith crisis of my life”.
Recalling the events that led to his rap on the knuckles from the Vatican, Fr D’Arcy said that in 2010 he was formally censured by the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith (CDF).
The then head of the CDF wrote to the Superior General of his religious order, the Passionists, accusing him of being “a source of great scandal”.
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