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  • [Catholic Caucus] Pro-choice TD Troy is denied holy communion

    01/28/2019 10:31:36 AM PST · by ebb tide · 9 replies
    The Times ^ | January 27, 2019 | Justine McCarthy
    Pro-choice TD Troy is denied holy communion A Catholic priest refused to give communion to Fianna Fail TD Robert Troy at a recent funeral mass because the politician supported the introduction of legalised abortion services.Fr John Hogan, parish priest of Multyfarnham in Co Westmeath, withheld the host from Troy on January 4 during a requiem mass at St Nicholas’s parish church in the diocese of Meath.Troy, who had been regarded as “anti-choice”, revealed last month in an interview with Hot Press magazine that he voted yes in the referendum to repeal the eighth amendment last May. Last week the TD...