Vatican unleashes the CDF on Fr Tony Flannery.
We Are Church Ireland fully support and applaud Fr Tony
Flannery’s decision not to sign the CDF document. We know that
Tony is a dedicated and much loved priest and his suspension from
public ministry has been a great loss to the church in Ireland.
The issues which concern the CDF – women priests, homosexuality,
same sex marriage, and gender theory – are currently being widely
discussed in the Catholic Church around the world, for example at
the German Synodal Way.
We thought that under Pope Francis dialogue was being
encouraged and that “silencing” would no longer be the tool of
engagement. But it appears that in the Vatican “compassion” must
always be second to “obedience”. Where does that leave Christ’s
message of love?
Colm Holmes
Spokesperson
WAC Ireland