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They decided to put up the Irish flag and the rainbow flag in the hope that seeing them “might become a visual sign from outside” for gay people “that they might feel ‘oh, I’m being remembered, I’m being lifted up in God’s house. He and the parish pastoral council were “conscious that there were gay men and women who live in our parish and their families and they’ve often told us how hurt they’ve been maybe by the language that the church has sometimes used in regard to them and how maybe they sometimes feel there’s no place for them here and they feel excluded”. He explained how June, Pride Month, was a significant time for gay people. “And I am very proud that we have a parish pastoral council too that is willing to take risks to proclaim that message,” he said. Jesus turned nobody away and as long as I’m parish priest here that will always be the case”. He said he hoped church authorities would “see what’s happening here and be pastoral in their response”.įr Egan said everybody “was welcome in the company of Jesus. I’d say lots of letters and complaints and phone calls have gone to various offices in the Church.”
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“Am I in trouble (with church authorities)? Probably. He said the archdiocese “obviously had been getting flak over this too” and phoned to point out its protocols and that the flags should be taken down. I was the anti-Christ, the heathen, I should be ashamed, I should be removed, I should be dismissed and somebody said to me ‘enjoy the next time it snows because you won’t see it where you’re going to’,” he said. “Because I’m the parish priest some of it came directed at me. We were advocates of sodomy and of paedophilia and all kinds of things. Speaking in a weekend homily, Fr Egan said he was told that the parish was “doing the Devils work and we were advocates of Satan. He was told “that here in Assumption we were pursuing an ideology or promoting an ideology or philosophy that was anti-Church, that was anti-Catholic, that was filled with hate, that we were undermining Church teaching, that we were promoting a lifestyle.” However, Fr Egan said the flags had attracted “a lot of messages in various forms that were aggressive and hostile and nasty and loud and accusatory and condemnatory and claiming that we were up to all kinds of things”. The flags were flown last week by decision of the parish pastoral council and parish priest Fr Adrian Egan. It pointed out that “on special occasions only” the papal flag and/or the national flag can be flown on church grounds in the archdiocese such as “for the celebration of the sacrament of Confirmation”. A rainbow Pride flag and a Tricolour flown at the Our Lady of the Assumption parish in Ballyfermot have been removed on the advice of the Dublin Catholic archdiocese.