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  • ACP expresses solidarity with Fr Tony Flannery

    April 9 2012
    Martin

    It is vital to have a properly formed conscience. The same Joseph Ratzinger also had this to say about conscience. >>> '' It is thus an oversimplification to put a statement of the magisteriu

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  • ACP expresses solidarity with Fr Tony Flannery

    April 9 2012
    Sean McDonagh

    This quotation from the writings of Fr. Ratzinger expresses exactly what i and many others believe. "Over the pope as expression of the binding claim of ecclesiastical authority, there stands one’s

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  • ACP expresses solidarity with Fr Tony Flannery

    April 9 2012
    Harry

    The Association of Catholic Priests cannot pretend to be an innocent bystander in all of this. Some writings and pronouncements of some of its leaders have been unjustly critical of the present and pr

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  • Tony Butler laments the “silencing” of Tony Flannery

    April 9 2012
    Pól

    I don't think Tony Flannery gave Enda an unqualified endorsement. . Everyone knows that the speech was not subject to the usual quality control, as it should have been, and that the Pope was badly mis

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  • ACP expresses solidarity with Fr Tony Flannery

    April 9 2012
    A Rural Priest

    It's all very well for the ACP to invoke Vatican II, but if Fr Flannery is under investigation for what he has been preaching about contraception, one has to ask whether he has been faithful to that s

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  • ACP expresses solidarity with Fr Tony Flannery

    April 9 2012
    joannes sacredotus

    Remember those words spoken long ago: " Do You promise obedience to me and my successors"? They are still valid now as they were then. As priests we have to accept the cross, like Padre Pio, like Do

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  • ACP expresses solidarity with Fr Tony Flannery

    April 9 2012
    Mairtin

    Dualta, you said (No 7 above): "There are a lot of issues to be addressed here and one of these is that of the priestly vow of obedience. If this is not maintained then everything else falls out of pl

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  • ACP expresses solidarity with Fr Tony Flannery

    April 9 2012
    Pól

    Sad and all as the occasion is, it is hugely uplifting to read many of the comments on the most recent posts on this site. The sense of solidarity with the true Christian mission of the Church, and th

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  • ACP expresses solidarity with Fr Tony Flannery

    April 9 2012
    Mal-rev

    Like many others from Scotland, with Irish heritage our faith was sustained by priests, mainly from Ireland. Those times are gone, but I for one support the position of ACP. What is so contradictory o

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  • ACP expresses solidarity with Fr Tony Flannery

    April 9 2012
    Richard O'Donnell

    I fully support Fr. Tony Flannery and the ACP. It does not matter to me, and I suspect most Irish people, what the Magisterium think and teach. I say this with sadness not arrogance. The Roman Catholi

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