Fr Tony Flannery’s silencing by Vatican causes new damage to Catholic Church

How can the Pope tell pilgrims in St. Peter's Square this week that faith is a personal matter and they should be prepared to "go against the grain" while allowing this kind of persecution of people of faith following their conscience? This is unbelievable hypocrisy.http://freecatholic808.com/2013/01/27/faith-a-personal-act/

Flannery, don't let the door hit you on the backside on the way out. Roma Locuta est. Causa finite est.

The time is ripe to begin again to elect bishops locally as was done in the Church for over a thousand years. We also need to make the media see that the Church is NOT the old men in red hats who rule the Vatican. The Church is the People of God who must wrest control from the old Controllers.

PipoerMac, the RC Church is not your personal property. Quit trying to kick people out of it. It's gauche behavior. 'Tis a pity that diversity of views and evidence of people thinking makes you uncomfortable, but try to find some tolerance. Don't you recall what Christ said to those who would exclude anyone from his presence?

Aand did God tell the church to take in married (with children also) episcopal priests. While it just recently forced to resign the aux bishop of LA for having two children by a woman. (you can find via google, about a month or 2 old.)

to piper mac - "gods laws " huh. did God tell the church to hide the endless molestation? did god tell the church to end marriage for priests to insure total control and inheritance issues. Did god tell the church to oppose birth control pills and prophylactics, or was that one just another attempt by the church to have more minds to control, and corrupt and more little boys and girls.........

Rayosun put it quite well down below (or next page( where he told how he escaped from the tyranny of Rome..........As for the vatican, where Bennie has had a couple decades to turn the curia and college of cardinals to his distorted view of the world, I must remind all of us of the battle cry for civil rights for black people in the USA.......................it btw now applies to the vatican - BURN BABY, BURN.....................BTW the scene we have in the vatican is so similar to every tyranny where one man rules over all with "infallibility" and absolutism.

Rayosun! There are therapists who specialise in cult deprogramming. "FREE FR. FLANNERY" indeed Murph46 - with every packet of Rice Crispies! Flannery - a Provo? Now you're really phanning my phlutie - PhlutiePhan! You lost me on biological chronology. How can one abort what was immaculately contracepted? PP - keep taking the prozac! As John Lennon once said: "Leave Ireland to the Irish. Not for London or for Rome!" Jesus is busy. Save yourselves.

For those of you who call themselves Catholic but do not agree with 2000 years of teachings handed down from Christ to the Apostles, my suggestion to you is to find a liberal church that meets your needs. Thos teachings are immutable and are not open to reinterpretation to satisfy a hedonistic desire based upon so called modernism, or cultural relativism. This battle has been waged since the church's inception. No matter how nice or popular a priest may be, if he teaches that which opposes the established doctrine of the church he must be admonished by the hierarchy. St. Paul did as much to St. peter when he felt he preached that which deviated fro the faith. Liberals think they can change everything to fit their debased ideas. God's laws and commandments do not change with the culture.

I'm checking out "Jesuswouldbefurious" as soon as I can. We must bring reform, we must.

Time to be brave and vocal, NO SILENCE! That got us this scandalous mess if you think about it.

Wow, it's amazing in this day of a shortage of priests to minister to Catholics in Ireland and around the world, that the Roman Church will ignore a discussion with 800, yes that is 800 priests!

No surprise here at all if you read Malachi Martin and his warning of the taking over of the Church by those who espouse social justice and the creation of a world wide socialist government. That is what Gerry Adams is all about and that is what so-called Father Flannery is all about. How can a pope sit back and espouse abortion under the guise of contraception? Same problem with Obama and his conflict with the American bishops, at least those who have not bought into the great "gay" cause espoused by Bernardin and his followers.

God bless Pope Benedict!!

The Association of Catholic Priests has brandished no sword, only words. They have spoken about matters of discipline and tradition that are weakening and shrinking the RC Church world-wide. They have given voice to the sensus fidelium, the moral conscience of the laity, and Fr. Flannery in particular has expressed that conscience well, in no way lacking in humility. Pride and rebellion are not the ACP way. Those who are unafraid of the voice of truth have no reason to practice censorship.