Issues he spoke of now discussed freely right around the Church with no fear of sanctions
Redemptorist priest Fr Tony Flannery, now facing his 10th year of being silenced by the Vatican for publicly expressing support for women’s ordination and same-sex marriage, as well as liberal views on homosexuality, has called for an independent review of his treatment by Rome.
«Recently I heard a theologian being asked how he could be so outspoken without drawing sanctions on himself as had happened to me. His answer was that it was a matter of timing, that the climate is different under the present papacy», he said, Irish Times reports.
