Meet Fr. Tony Flannery, Founder of the Association of Catholic Priests as he comes to the United States for an eighteen-city tour.
Father Tony Flannery, an Irish priest censured by the Vatican will tour the U.S. speaking on the importance of conscience in the Catholic Church. The tour, sponsored by 12 progressive Catholic organizations, will cover 18 U. S. cities between October 22 and November 14, 2014.
Father Flannery has been a member of the Redemptorist Congregation for over 50 years, and is a founder of the Association of Catholic Priests (ACP) in Ireland. He is the author of several books including A Question of Conscience, Keeping the Faith, and The Death of Religious Life?
In February 2012 Flannery was summoned to Rome because the Vatican was unhappy with his writing on the origins of the Church, and when he suggested that the priesthood as we have it now was not as Christ intended. After being ordered to silence and suspended from priestly ministry, Fr. Flannery spent a year trying to reach agreement with Vatican officials. The final break came when he refused to sign a document stating that he accepted that women would never be priests, and that he accepted all the moral teachings of the Church.” Refusing the imposed silence, he began speaking publicly on the need for reform in the Church.
See the tour schedule below and learn more at CatholicTippingPoint.org.
Date | City | Meeting Venue | Time | Local Media contact |
Wed 10/22/14 | Washington DC | Augustana Lutheran Church 2100 New Hampshire NW Washington DC 20009 | 7pm | Katie Breslin |
Thurs 10/23/14 | Baltimore | Faith Presbyterian Church 5400 Loch Raven Blvd. Baltimore, MD 21239 | 7pm | Jeannine Gramick Frank DeBernardo |
Fri 10/24/14 | Philadelphia | University of the Sciences McNeil Science and Technology Building 723 S 43rd Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104-4495 | 7pm | Regina Bannan 215.545.9649 reginab317@gmail.com |
Sat 10/25/14 | New York City | Judson Memorial Church 55 Washington Square South NY, NY 10012 | 2pm | Francis Piderit 917.916.7575 |
Sun 10/26/14 | Providence | Emanuel Lutheran Church 9 New London Ave. | 3pm | Contact: Kathleen Pannozzi, kduffy6@yahoo.com
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Tues 10/28/14 | Boston | First Church of Dedham 670 High Street Dedham, MA | 7pm | Marianne Duddy-Burke |
Wed 10/29/14 | Syracuse | May Memorial Unitarian Universalist Society Syracuse, NY | 7pm | Meg Ksander 315.445.7014 |
Sat 11/01/14 | Independence Middle School 6111 Archwood Independence OH 44131 | 7pm | Deb Rose-Milavec 513.673.1401 debrose@futurechurch.org | |
Mon 11/3/14 | Detroit | IBEW Union Hall 1358 Abbott St. | 1pm | Fr. Tom Lumpkin 313.963.4539 dayhouse@flash.net |
Wed 11/5/14 | Minneapolis | St. Frances Cabrini Church 1500 Franklin Ave S.E., Minneapolis, MN | 7pm | Art Stoeberl 651.278.6630 stoeberl@bitstream.net |
Sat 11/8/14 | Memphis | Call to Action Conference 255 N Main St, Memphis, TN | 8:30 am & 2:15 pm | Ryan Hoffmann |
Mon 11/10/14 | Sarasota | St. Andrews UCC 6908 Beneva Rd, Sarasota, FL 34238 | 7pm | Bridget Mary Meehan sofiabmm@aol.com |
Wed 11/12/14 | San Antonio | Viva! Bookstore at Viva Galleria 8407 Broadway San Antonio, TX | 7:30pm | Deb Myers 210.585.6254 |
Thurs 11/13/14 | St. Louis | St. Stanislaus Kostka Church St. Louis, MO | 7pm | Jenn Reyes Lay 314.707.7313 can@catholicactionnetwork.org |
Sat 11/15/14 | Phoenix | Shadow Rock UCC Church 12861 N. 8th Ave. Phoenix, AZ 85029 | 6pm | Dan Peitzmeyer M. J. Benton |
Sun 11/16/14 | Sacramento | St. Mark’ United Methodist Church 2391 St. Mark’s Way Sacramento, CA | 2 pm | Caryl Callsen 209-295-2151
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Tues 11/18/14 | Portland | Central Lutheran Church 1820 NE 21st Ave Portland, OR | 7pm | Nancy Barrett-Dennehy 503.238.1942 ndbdpdx@comcast.net |
Wed 11/19/14 | Seattle | St. Mark’s Episcopal Cathedral, 1245 10th Ave. E. Bloedel Hall Seattle, WA | 7pm | Pat and Julie Callahan 206.329.1234 revcall@aol.com |