Complete vindication of Fr Bernárd J. Lynch.
We are delighted to learn that the defamatory allegations made once again
against Fr Bernárd Lynch have turned out to be without basis or even a scintilla
of evidence to support them.
These false allegations were made in 2019 just as Fr Bernárd Lynch was
receiving a Distinguished Service Award for the Irish Abroad from President
Michael D.Higgins at the Áras – designed to cause maximum embarrassment.
Fr Bernárd Lynch has been honoured for his extraordinary service over several
decades to the LGBT and AIDS communities of New York, London and Ireland
and for his courage in the face of tremendous adversity.
He was with the first ever openly LGBT group invited to Áras an Uachtaráin by
President Mary Robinson in 1995.
His relationship with his husband Billy Desmond was publicly blessed in 1998
and he became the first serving Catholic priest in the world to have a civil
partnership in 2006.
We Are Church Ireland are honoured to have Fr Bernárd Lynch and his husband
Billy Desmond as members. In their lives they have shown themselves to be
true followers of Christ.
Colm Holmes
Spokesperson