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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Lucy Skoulding

Priest banned from giving Mass after ‘shocking’ service criticising gay couples and abortion

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A priest who said gay couples are ‘sinful’ and criticised free contraception has been banned from giving Mass again after his comments were rebuked as “unchristian”.

Retired priest Fr Sean Sheehy told worshippers at St Mary’s Church in Listowel, County Kerry, over the weekend that sex between two men or two women was sinful, and said the handing out of free condoms was “promoting promiscuity”.

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