You are warmly invited to attend this event (see poster attached).
Diego
‘Rebel Priest Tony Flannery to speak frankly on sex and loneliness among Catholic priests’
On the 28th February 2018 Fr. Tony Flannery the rebel Irish priest is due to give a public talk at the University of Edinburgh on one of the most critical issues facing the Catholic Church today: the crisis of vocations, the question of compulsory celibacy, and the loneliness epidemic among priests. Tony Flannery is a published author and leading light of the Catholic reform movement. In 2012 he was disciplined by the Vatican’s Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith (CDF) for views he expressed on Catholic teachings, suspended from ministry, and banned from public speaking. Fr. Flannery has continued to air his views in public in defiance of his Vatican ban, and will give his talk at the University of Edinburgh under secular laws that uphold the right to freedom of speech.
We expect that many of Edinburgh’s Catholics will welcome the chance to hear this charismatic speaker, who represents the progressive side of the Catholic Church. Fr. Flannery’s public appearances in Ireland and the United States have drawn such large crowds that venues have had to be changed at the last minute.
As well as speaking out against mandatory celibacy, Fr. Flannery is a well-known supporter of Catholic women’s ordination and will take time out during his Scottish visit to attend an inclusive Mass celebrated by Edinburgh’s very own Morag Leibert, the first and, so far, only woman in the United Kingdom to be ordained as a Roman Catholic Woman Priest. Leibert trained as a priest with the Roman Catholic Women Priest movement and was ordained in 2009. Although she is officially excommunicated, she remains an active Roman Catholic, and offers an inclusive feminist ministry from her small house church.
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