Priest describes senior Vatican Cardinal's comments as 'like Trump'

Fr Tony Flannery, a co-founder of the Association of Catholic Priests, said there are "polarised positions" in the Church and in the Vatican itself on possible reform

A Redemptorist priest who has been suspended from active ministry for the past eight years has described comments by a senior Vatican Cardinal as "like Trump" amid a deepening row over potential reforms in the Catholic Church.

Fr Tony Flannery, a co-founder of the Association of Catholic Priests and an advocate of the ordination of women priests, made his comments after a report this week in the National Catholic Reporter quoted Cardinal Luis Ladaria of the Vatican's Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith (CDF) as saying it had done "everything possible" to come to some type of resolution with him, but this had been unsuccessful.