Priest suspended for views on women's ordination asks if hierarchy will change approach 

Fr Tony Flannery, a founder of the Association of Catholic Priests, has been a longstanding advocate of women priests.

A Redemptorist priest who has been suspended from active ministry for the past eight years has asked whether the hierarchy in the Catholic Church will now change its approach to him after senior clerics expressed support for the ordination of women. 

Fr Tony Flannery, a founder of the Association of Catholic Priests (ACP) and a priest since 1974, has been a longstanding advocate of women priests, one of the issues which has put him on collision course with authorities in the Vatican.