A retired Armagh priest is calling on members of the clergy to stand ‘side by side’ with Father PJ Hughes.
Father Gerard McGinnitty, a former Derrynoose priest, has come out in support of Father Hughes who has been continuing to perform mass despite Covid restrictions in Mullahoran in Cavan.
He has dubbed Father Hughes a ‘man of courage’, who is ‘answering a higher law’, and he feels the way faith is being looked at by the Government in Ireland is draconian.
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Father McGinnitty feels people are being deprived of religion when they need it most and is urging all priests to show solidarity with Father Hughes at this time:
