Sean Fortune
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US bishop tells parents LGBTQ events harmful to children
- Religion & Beliefs
- June 2, 2019, 20:11
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(...)

Mass-goers tell Pope Francis: ‘Rock the boat, your holiness’
- People
- August 18, 2018, 06:00
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(...)

Vatican fears over redress costs drove Cardinal Sodano indemnity proposal
- Religion & Beliefs
- August 8, 2018, 03:00
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 (...)

Pope will meet abuse survivors as part of his visit to Ireland
- Religion & Beliefs
- August 2, 2018, 14:22
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(...)

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

Sexual violence silences the victim – it is up to others to speak out
- Opinion
- March 13, 2015, 05:02
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(...)

Wexford house where children abused by priest now a creche
- Religion & Beliefs
- August 9, 2013, 01:00
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(...)