One rule for one...

Fr Tony Flannery informs us that he has been threatened with excommunication from the Church, an institution to which he has dedicated the greater part of his life.

Apparently the Roman authorities wish him to conform with their views on such matters as the role of women, homosexuality, and that ever-present old chestnut — contraception.

To my knowledge, he is the first Irish cleric to be so threatened in many decades.

I take it, then, that our ecclesiastical authorities regard Fr Flannery’s views on sexual morality as a more grave crime than that committed by any other cleric over the years.

Fr Iggy O‘Donovan

Drogheda

Co Louth