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Former Ireland president Mary McAleese has called on the papal nuncio to show more leniency to priests who speak on controversial matters.
McAleese told the Vatican’s Ireland representative, Archbishop Charles Brown, that the priests were held in high esteem by the public.
The remarks were reportedly made during a lunch with the Papal Nuncio last month, and McAleese is understood to have said that the priests were keeping people in the church who would otherwise go elsewhere.
McAlese’s appeal follows the Vatican’s reprimanding of five of Ireland’s priests who have expressed liberal views on the likes of compulsory celibacy, women priests, homosexuaality, conscience and sin.
Censured columnist Fr Brian D’Arcy now has his column vetted before publication.
“In these difficult times it is the price one has to pay when one is committed to the truth,” said D’Arcy.
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