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Fr Aidan Ryan, Pullough
An Offaly priest is set to feature among 15 priests in a new RTE One programme, titled 'The Confessors', set to air on October 12 next.
Fr Aidan Ryan, of Pullough, is amongst a selection of Irish priests, urban, rural and chaplins, who discuss the sins they've heard that have impacted and stayed with them. They also discuss why they have stayed within the church.
Through the prism of the confession box, which are now mainly used for storing vacuum cleaners and cleaning products, Irish priests from small parish churches to big city cathedrals open up about what it’s like to hear the sins of others.
They also make a powerful and a uniquely honest case for how the Catholic church in Ireland became infected by the sins it condemned; sins, which they believe have spread all over the world. Nevertheless, each priest has their own reasons for staying within the church. This is their story.
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