A WEST Belfast man subjected to a catalogue of abuse at the hands of a former St Paul’s curate saw his tormentor sentenced to four years in prison yesterday. Daniel John Curran appeared at Downpatrick Crown Court on Wednesday, February 29, after admitting to indecently assaulting two boys while they stayed with him at a cottage in Tyrella, County Down in the late-80s and early-90s.
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A cool, fresh wind blows
It will be an interesting time ahead with – possibly – republicans courteously meeting Britain’s Queen and the Pope visiting Cuba. The more interesting of these is the Pope in Cuba.
Time for Fathers to be fathers?
SHOULD there be an end to clerical celibacy in the Catholic Church? The former Bishop of Derry, Dr Edward Daly, spoke out at the start of the week, calling for “a place in the modern Catholic Church for a married priesthood”.
