Father Sean Sheehy disapproves of gay couples but hugs sex offenders.

Not sure why anyone is complaining its literally part of the religion & its nothing new,

If we are open minded it goes both ways, We let men believe there women & vice versa , So if a priest doesn't believe in gay couples then so be it let him at it,

Personally I'm not religious because it nonsense but each to there own ,

Welcome to boards, I am free to respond to any post.

You claimed someone is being attacked and shouted down. Me pointing out that this isn't the case,doesn't mean I assume it is an attack on me. Less of the projecting.

Like I said reign in the victim complex.

Let the guy have his opinions. Let him spout his opinions. It is just showing the church is so out of touch with its people.

They wonder why vocations are non-existent. They wonder why churches are empty on Sundays. Why evangelical churches are growing? The old saying is that you change or die.

Personally, I have not been a church-goer since I was 13 years old. Am I religious? Not really... do I think that living a good life, respecting all is important? Absolutely!

Do I believe in a higher power? Yes. Do I believe the Catholic Church is a moral authority on anything? NOPE!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Priests are human like all of us, they are no different. Frankly I think many of them need to experience more sexual awareness and need a good ride. Then they could discover what they preach... ;)

I assume this is meant to be a response to me.

I have no desire to appear smart. Again less of the projecting.

13! You hung in there a long time. I went oh oh at about 10 when the priest visiting our school said " not alone does God know what you get up to, he knows what you're thinking!"

The church is not out of touch with people. The people are out of touch with the church and instead, listening to bullshit media.

Who attends church out of laziness?

Anyway, why are you so annoyed and angry that people attend church? You seem to have a hate festering.

Is everyone that attends church now (after events in the past) all cowards?

That would still be the case with some of the Islamic branches which generally lag around 100 years behind the Christian churches in terms of evolviing. I mean it's not that long ago, 50 years perhaps, that if you died after eating meat on a Friday before making it to confession you would go to hell! This is the sort of nonsensical outfit that have the neck to preach rights and wrongs to people.

Complete whataboutery. We're discussing what fr sean said from the altar not " what if an imam said itYou are correct in that he is sticking to his guns and he was hung out to dry by his Bishop.

And what's next, if a priest thinks women should be banned from working full time he should be allowed to say this?

I want to hear more priests speak like this and stop this pussy footing from the Catholic church who think they can fall into the shadows with their soft touch after their reign of terror.

The church is dying it can't be reversed, they should go down fighting and do us all a favour and disappear sooner.

I went to last nights All Souls mass for the dead over the past year in the parish - about 20 people remembered and candles lit for each one of them during the mass.A number of deaths during the year were trajic enough. Apart from Christmas day its probably the biggest crowd in the church during the year circa 400 people which was a fair crowd on a cat night.

Im not a devout catholic but i try go once a month at least ,i felt good coming out of the church last night after praying for the dead of our parish ( none of which were my own family) and meeting quite a few neighbours , why is there never anything said about positive events like this which are big enough deal particulary in rural parishs ??