Priest reconsiders plan to ban sale of Catholic paper

A PRIEST who considered banning the sale of a Catholic newspaper from his church has said he will not do so, despite his disapproval of some of the content.

Fr Gerard Deighan – administrator of St Kevin’s parish, in Dublin 8, where the Latin Mass chaplaincy is based – said his threat to ban The Irish Catholic from his church was “a reaction to other peoples’ anger” in relation to a headline and some of the material in it.

“I was perhaps swayed by that. I did question the appropriateness of a headline and I did threaten not to sell the newspaper this week, but I have decided it will not be banned,” Fr Deighan said.