The
Catholic Church in Ireland is considering restricting trainee priests'
access to the internet amid claims that young seminarians have been
meeting up using the gay dating app Grindr.
The Church is also looking at ways of encouraging young priests to mix more with women, families and lay people. Earlier
this month the Archbishop of Dublin Dr Diarmuid Martin said he was
'somewhat unhappy' about rumours that students at St Patrick's College
in Maynooth were using the app, which he claimed 'fostered promiscuous
sexuality'.