IRELAND
Irish Independent
Nicola Anderson
PUBLISHED
10/01/2016
Fr Tony Flannery, the liberal Redemptorist priest who has been taken out of ministry by the Vatican for his outspoken views, has claimed that the Church would not talk to him when it came to addressing their complaints about articles he had written.
The cleric, who was taken out of ministry for writing articles the Vatican claimed were out of step with Church doctrine in the Redemptrist magazine revealed that the Papal Nuncio has “refused” to meet the Association of Catholic Priests which represents 1,000 priests across the country, while attending “every dog fight in the country.”
He was interviewed on RTE Radio One’s ‘Miriam Meets…’ programme, alongside his brother, the former Fine Gael director of elections, Frank Flannery.
Mr Flannery accompanied him to a couple of meetings in Rome when he was going through the ordeal and explained that: “You never know who your accusers are, there is no process,” describing it as: “beyond medieval.”
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