Ireland: Popular media priest faces Vatican censors

Fr Brian Darcy

One of Ireland’s best-known priests, Fr Brian D’Arcy, who is also a popular journalist and broadcaster, has been told that in future he must submit his writings and broadcasts to an approved Vatican censor, Sarah MacDonald reports in the Tablet this week.

The Passionist priest, who is a regular contributor to BBC Radio 2’s Pause for Thought, and a best selling author and columnist is the sixth priest to be disciplined by Rome. The action against him was taken by the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith (CDF) last year after an anonymous complaint.

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