Censored Irish priest Father Brian D’Arcy is critical over Vatican decision

Brolaur, Fr Brian does visit all of those nursing homes and hospitals. Im not too bothered that he doesnt visit prisons though. Fr. Brian was sexually abused by priests himself so he is especially qualified to speak about the abuses perpetrated by the Catholic church here. Good for you Fr Brian!

D'Arcy is an ordained priest and has used that collar to get on every tv and radio show in the country. He has a vow of obedience; let him obey. That collar has opened doors to him. On his way to all these tv shows and radio talk shows there are a lot of doors in nursing homes, prisons, hospitals etc etc that would love to see a priest visit. Why did he become a priest. Without that COLLAR we would never have heard of him. He should take a serious at the man in the mirror(Not the man in the Sunday World)!

EphraimKibbey No Paddy the Patriarch was a slave trader.

Ireland: 1 island nation - 2 artificial states - 4 ancient provinces - 32 historical counties. (I'll spare the reader the minutae of baronies/townlands/parishes/dioceses). The neo-provincial statlet (or 19% kingdom) of Northern IRELAND is situated in the north-eastern corner of the island of Ireland - probably why it is not called western Britain. Fr. Brian D'Arcy (as also Ulster/Northern Ireland Deputy First Minister (DFM) Citizen McGuinness), would both consider themselves Irish! Might the Vatican not be censoring ego-centric self-promotion as much as proto-heresy?

Bytheway, check your facts, so what if he was born in N.I. he was based for many years in Mt Argus in Harolds cross in Dublin, where he did such good work. He is very much a peoples priest and has written for the Sunday World which is based in Terenure in Dublin for as long as I can remember. Bytheway you seem very much anti-N.I.

No, Stropaire, there is no contradiction between being a priest and a journalist. The church has always defended the right of conscience and D'Arcy is exercising that right. The Vatican attack on Irish dissident priests as well as on American nuns is clearly a diversionary tactic. "Look at these priests, these nuns," says the Vatican. "Look at them, not at the priest pedophiles and the bishops who cover up their deeds and further endanger the lives of women and children." D'Arcy and his colleagues need to stay and organize and fight Vatican corruption and authoritarianism-- or things will never change. Ireland, that pile of windswept rocks in the North Atlantic, is now a leader in changing the church. May its efforts reap many successes. We need to support this, or at least stay out of their way. Bless them!

Father D'Arcy is needed to expose the excesses of the church. He is a good Irishman.

The Church seems bent on it's own destruction !!

Interesting how all the censorship seems to be focused on Irish priests, hmmm. Not a big stretch at all to see it as "corporate" retaliation for the Irish church's stance on holding the Vatican accountable for all the child abuse cover-ups. Really pathetic!

The good father D'Arcy has chosen to follow God and the teachings of Jesus over the orders of a out of touch totalitarian regieme. More power to him! St. Patrick must be smiling down at him from above.

Bytheby, put the drink down and try to sober up. You never seem to know what you are talking about.

This priest has nothing to do with Ireland. He is Northern Ireland based, writes for British publications.

It seems to me that Brian now has a problem, if, as reported his newspaper column has been subject to prior approval by the Vatican for over a year without his informing the readers that this is the case. It must be clear to him that his two occupations; a priest and a journalist (he is a longtime member of the Irish journalists union) are mutually exclusive, thanks to the Catholic Church's hierarchical, nazi-like censorship regime. I feel he must resign one or the other position, and inform us of whick one and why.