REBEL CLERIC Fr Tony Flannery may have seriously miscalculated by defying a five-year-old Vatican ban on celebrating mass to mark his 70th birthday. Worse still, the Founding Father of the unapproved Association of Irish Priests has compounded his error by publicly ridiculing as an outdated relic from the 16th century, the Catholic Church’s deadly weapon… Read more »
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