Prits group lls out mistreatment of gay church officials Ireland • GCN

Contents:

• PRITS GROUP LLS OUT MISTREATMENT OF GAY CHURCH OFFICIALS IRELAND
• IRISH GAY CATHOLIC PRIT TO BE HONOURED BY PRINT HIGGS
• IRELAND: NE CATHOLIC PRITS ‘SPOTTED GAY BAR’
• GAY PARISH PRIT THANKS NGREGATN FOR ACCEPTG HIM

PRITS GROUP LLS OUT MISTREATMENT OF GAY CHURCH OFFICIALS IRELAND

On Monday, November 1, The Associatn of Catholic Prits (ACP) unexpectedly issued a statement outlg eleven plats they had surroundg the treatment of prits Ireland, cludg those who are gay. Among the eleven plats, are ncerns over the treatment of gay prits Ireland.

In other dc, gay prits “are treated as equal and valued members of the prithood, ” a practice which should be granted to all. © 2021 GCN (Gay Communy News).

IRISH GAY CATHOLIC PRIT TO BE HONOURED BY PRINT HIGGS

A gay Irish Catholic prit has told a meetg Dubl that “as women and gay, lbian, transgenr, bisexual and non-bary people we rema part of the church orr to give wns to the face of God” Bernárd Lynch said, “We live a world that is not only misogynistic, erotophobic and homophobic, but God-phobic. He is bt known for his work wh Aids victims New York and for g out as a gay 1970sIn Febary 2017 he and his hband, Billy Dmond, were guts of Print Higgs at a private dience Áras an Uachtará followg their marriage Co Clare the prev relled last night how “although ed Irish, I grew up New York spirually and sexually the fabulo gay ’70s.

When Aids h like a nuclear holot the early ’80s, I wnsed first hand the cimatn on an entire generatn of young gay men my own age. "As prit and theologil nsultant to Digny New York, the largt then known homophile group the Uned Stat, I saw person after person fall prey to this unknown, ignom disease. Everyone who was gay, haemophiliac or an IV dg er thought they had , as there was no way of knowg how was ntracted.

Fr Bernárd Lynch, a gay Irish Catholic prit now livg London, is to receive the Distguished Service Award for the Irish Abroad om Print Michael D Higgs on November Febary 2017, Fr Lynch and his hband, Billy Dmond, were guts of Mr Higgs at a private dience Áras an Uachtará followg their marriage Co Clare the prev Lynch, born Ennis, Co Clare, joed the Society of Ain Missns 1965.

IRELAND: NE CATHOLIC PRITS ‘SPOTTED GAY BAR’

He was ordaed 1971 and is bt known for his work wh Aids victims New York and for g out as a gay has doctorat unsellg, psychology and theology and was for 15 years theologil nsultant wh Digny, the lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr Catholic group. In a 2012 terview wh The Irish Tim he said this was due primarily to his volvement wh lbian, gay, transgenr and bisexual issu and openns about his marriage to Mr Dmond.

New rearch has shed light on the “large gay scene” wh the Irish Catholic Church. One prit, ‘Fr C’ – admted to beg a long-term gay relatnship. Another, known as ‘Fr L’, admted to hookg up wh a fellow prit after beg ordaed, before disverg the Church’s gay scene.

GAY PARISH PRIT THANKS NGREGATN FOR ACCEPTG HIM

“[I] disvered a strong cleril gay scene Ireland… [there’s] que a lot of gay guys the prithood. He add that on one ocsn, he had regnised as many as ne fellow prits a gay bar. “If a prit was to say the morng ‘I am gay’, he would be fired.

Gay prit Fr Mart Dolan has said he now feels accepted Irish society followg the Y vote the marriage equaly Dolan, the parish prit at the Church of St Nicholas of Myra Francis Street, Dubl, told his ngregatn on Saturday eveng that the Irish public had heard the “pleas of speratn of a mory” om the LGBT muny and had ma the LGBT e “as important as their own” said he was proud to be Irish and thanked his parishners for acceptg him as a gay man. Fr Dolan first me out as a gay man January when he urged his ngregatn to vote Y the marriage equaly Dolan took issue wh the Archbishop of Dubl Dr Diarmuid Mart's ments that the Catholic Church need a new language when alg wh young people.