If you were to choose a venue for a public talk with Father Tony
Flannery, a Redemptorist priest, the old, disused courthouse in the town
of Dingle, County Kerry is as apt as any. Flannery sits at a table by
the witness stand to speak about 100 years of the church in Ireland
during the Feile no Bealthaine, an annual weekend festival held
in the town. But he never gets around to that; the public are far too
curious about Flannery and the public and personal trials he has faced
since 2012.
It’s been four years since he was “silenced” by the Vatican, with his subsequent struggle detailed at length in newspapers, on radio shows and in his own tell-all book. By his own admission, some of his supporters feel the story has been exhausted. Even so, Flannery still manages to draw a crowd.
http://americamagazine.org/content/dispatches/ireland-silenced-priest-speaks
It’s been four years since he was “silenced” by the Vatican, with his subsequent struggle detailed at length in newspapers, on radio shows and in his own tell-all book. By his own admission, some of his supporters feel the story has been exhausted. Even so, Flannery still manages to draw a crowd.
http://americamagazine.org/content/dispatches/ireland-silenced-priest-speaks
