Church will not take bishop’s celibacy remarks ‘too kindly’

THE ASSOCIATION of Catholic Priests (ACP) has said the Vatican “won’t take too kindly” to calls from the former Bishop of Derry to end clerical celibacy.

A bishop for 20 years, 77-year-old Dr Daly raised the issue in a book about his life, A Troubled See.

“I ask myself, more and more, why celibacy should be the great sacred and unyielding arbiter, the paradigm of diocesan priesthood?” wrote Dr Daly.