Vincent Gerard Ryan - CathNews New Zealand https://cathnews.co.nz Catholic News New Zealand Thu, 13 Aug 2020 06:16:38 +0000 en-NZ hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.1 https://cathnews.co.nz/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/cropped-cathnewsfavicon-32x32.jpg Vincent Gerard Ryan - CathNews New Zealand https://cathnews.co.nz 32 32 70145804 Paedophile priest Vincent Gerard Ryan has priestly faculties removed https://cathnews.co.nz/2020/08/13/paedophile-priest-vincent-gerard-ryan/ Thu, 13 Aug 2020 05:53:21 +0000 https://cathnews.co.nz/?p=129653 The notorious paedophile priest Vincent Gerard Ryan will no longer be permitted to celebrate the sacraments or dress as a priest, after a decision to remove his priestly faculties. The 82-year-old walked free on parole last month; he had served less than half of a three-year sentence relating to two altar boys. Ryan had previously Read more

Paedophile priest Vincent Gerard Ryan has priestly faculties removed... Read more]]> The notorious paedophile priest Vincent Gerard Ryan will no longer be permitted to celebrate the sacraments or dress as a priest, after a decision to remove his priestly faculties.

The 82-year-old walked free on parole last month; he had served less than half of a three-year sentence relating to two altar boys.

Ryan had previously spent 14 years in prison for abusing more than 30 boys.

The Catholic Bishop of Maitland-Newcastle, Bill Wright, had been pressed to reveal what steps he had taken to ask Pope Francis to remove Ryan from the priesthood. Read more

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