Father Joe wants to see an end to celibacy.
Describing him as “The People’s Priest,” the Irish Independent carries a report on an interview which Father Joe Young gave to unlicenced radio station Radio Limerick One.
The well known priest who served the community of Southill for 20 years, has claimed that the Catholic Church is “losing thousands of great priests because of its rule on compulsary celibacy.”
In the Interview he said “The current statistic is that 110,000 priests worldwide have left the church in the last number of years simply because they wanted to get married, and I think these people should be priests. I would love if we had a Pope that would understand that we are losing great men because of the tragedy of celibacy, which was a man-made law, not a law made by Christ,”
In the interview, he also asked for people to welcome home former Galway bishop, Eamon Casey.