Fr Seán Fagan a ‘brilliant thinker’ who was ‘broken’ by Rome

Late priest was censured by Vatican until former president Mary McAleese intervened. The late Fr Seán Fagan had his “heart and spirit” broken by the Vatican in the years before he died, former President of Ireland Mary McAleese has said.

“His long and illustrious priestly career was blighted in latter years by being silenced by the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith,” she said. Marist priest and theologian Fr Fagan died at St Vincent’s hospital in Dublin last Friday.

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