IRELAND
Irish Independent
ELAINE KEOGH – 22 SEPTEMBER 2013
A COMPLAINT that Fr Iggy O’Donovan, the Drogheda-based rebel Augustinian priest, allowed godparents to pour water on a baby’s head during a baptism was used as the basis of a complaint about him to Rome that contributed to him being removed from his parish.
The complaint was made without the knowledge of the parents, who have told the Sunday Independent they fully support Fr O’Donovan.
It was initially made to Cardinal Sean Brady and subsequently forwarded to Rome.
As a result, another priest in the diocese approached the parents and told them the baby would have to be baptised again – and not by Fr Iggy, who leaves Drogheda this weekend for a year-long sabbatical in Limerick.
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