2 Nov. 2020
Fr Tony Flannery was ‘silenced’ by the Vatican in 2012 and his appeal in 2020 was not successful. MIT DEUTSCHER ÜBERSETZUNG.
About this Event
• Tony Flannery (born 1947) joined the Redemptorist Order in 1964
• He was ordained a priest in 1974
• In 2010 he was one of the founder members of the Association of Catholic Priests (ACP) who support Vatican 2 reforms
• In 2012 he was ‘silenced’ by the CDF and removed from public ministry for writing about the role of women, contraception and homosexuality
• In 2020 his Order appealed to the CDF that he be allowed return to public ministry
• The CDF replied that Fr Flannery must first sign 4 oaths: {1) No ordination for women (2) Homosexual acts are intrinsically disordered (3) No same sex marriage (4) No Gender theory
• Fr Flannery refused to sign these oaths and remains removed from public ministry
• His new book ‘From the Outside; Rethinking Church Doctrine’ is to launch on 21 October