Posted on 09/16/2021 6:10:56 PM PDT by marshmallow
Father David Palmer's Tweets concerned bosses
A Catholic chaplain has spoken out about a Nottingham university's 'preposterous' decision to cancel him.
Father David Palmer was supposed to take over from former chaplain Father Jonathan Rose as a mentor for Catholic students in Nottingham.
The University of Nottingham have decided not to recognise the priest as an official chaplain due to Tweets he has posted about his views on abortion and euthanasia.
On his Twitter account he commented that assisted dying is "killing the vulnerable."
University bosses say they have no issue with his views but rather the manner in which he has expressed them.
Father Palmer, along with other Catholic figures, have been questioning the university's decision to cancel a priest for sharing beliefs that are in line with the teachings of the Catholic Church.
Father Palmer has been invited to be a guest speaker for Sunday Mass but most of his other duties will take place off campus.
Father David said: "Basically, Nottingham University has a chaplaincy team and it has had a Catholic chaplain for about 90 years.
"So I was appointed as chaplain and they asked to meet me and that all seemed to go fine.
"They then got back in touch after a couple of weeks to say that they had concerns so they called another meeting to say that they were concerned about some Tweets that had been brought to their attention on my Twitter.
"The two that they brought up was about Joe Biden's abortion views and one on assisted dying.
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