A priest has compared the catholic church to the Taliban due to how they treat women.
Fr Roy Donovan is a parish priest in Limerick and was reacting following a recent statement from Bishop of Limerick, Brendan Leahy.
According to the Irish Daily Mail the statement called for expressions of interests from men over 35 years old, married or single, to take up roles as permanent Deacons.
Fr Roy Donovan told the paper;
"In recent weeks we have learned of the Taliban's negative attitudes to women in Afghanistan.....in the catholic church, women are excluded from the hierarchical structures - no women can be ordained a deacon, priest, bishop, cardinal or pope."
"Men in every dioceses in Ireland should join in solidarity with women and refuse the male Diaconate" concluded Fr Donovan.
