Sean Fortune

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Bishop Tobin tweeted: LGBTQ “Pride Month” events “promote a culture and encourage activities that are contrary to Catholic faith and morals. They are especially harmful for children.” Photograph: Dara Mac Donaill
US bishop tells parents LGBTQ events harmful to children

A tweet from a US Catholic bishop, advising parents not to let their children attend LGBTQ “Pride Month” events has been described as “dispiriting” by(...)

The choir of St John the Baptist Catholic church in Killeagh, Co Cork, which will sing at the World Meeting of Families. Photograph: Michael Mac Sweeney/Provision
Mass-goers tell Pope Francis: ‘Rock the boat, your holiness’

At Mass in St Matthew’s church in Ballyfermot, Dublin, Fr Joe McDonald is criticising homophobia within the church. He jokes about people who have ask(...)

November 2004: Pope John Paul II meets former minister for foreign affairs Dermot Ahern, in his private library at the Vatican. Photograph: Giampiero Sposito/AP Photo
Vatican fears over redress costs drove Cardinal Sodano indemnity proposal

The year 2004 was a significant one in the long, tortured annals of the clerical child sex-abuse scandal in Ireland. Particularly significant was the (...)

Colm O’Gorman was founder of the One in Four group, which assists abuse survivors. File photograph: Eric Luke / The Irish Times
Pope will meet abuse survivors as part of his visit to Ireland

The Pope will meet abuse survivors as part of his visit to Ireland later this month, it is understood, though details of when and whom he will meet wi(...)

Sister Cathy Cesnik disappeared one evening in 1969 – the suggestion in ‘The Keepers’ is that she was murdered because she had discovered what Maskell was up to and threatened to expose him
The Keepers shows the struggle between good and evil in the church

The staggering new Netflix documentary series The Keepers is riveting television. But it also speaks in unexpected ways to one of the deep uncertainti(...)

‘We cannot place the burden of reporting the threat to others posed by a suspected rapist solely upon his victims.’ Photograph: Getty Images
Sexual violence silences the victim – it is up to others to speak out

Twenty years ago I made a Garda statement detailing how I was raped and abused by Fr Seán Fortune, a Roman Catholic priest, from when I was 14 years o(...)

Fr Seán Fortune leaving the Circuit Court in Wexford in 1999. He faced 29 charges of sex abuse against young boys, perpetrated in the parochial house in Poulfour, Co Wexford. Photograph: Eric Luke
Wexford house where children abused by priest now a creche

A man who was abused as a child in Ferns diocese by the late Fr Seán Fortune has expressed his shock at discovering that the parochial house in Poulfo(...)