Fr Brendan Kilcoyne said he had initially disapproved of the schoolteacher's long-running protest but now wondered whether he had been wrong and Enoch Burke right
An Irish priest has urged Catholics to “stop laughing” at Enoch Burke and admitted that his sympathy for the sacked schoolteacher had grown, despite originally disapproving of his long-running protest.
“There is a huge problem if you’re teaching in a Christian school. There is a huge problem if you are acknowledging alleged gender transformation, gender transition in a Christian school,” he added. “I must acknowledge that, if I am right in this, that I am being taught by him. I must acknowledge that as a matter of honesty,” Fr Kilcoyne added on an episode of his podcast, The Brendan Option.
Fr Kilcoyne said Catholics may have to think more about the issue, and may have to conclude that Mr Burke – who is not a Catholic – has shamed us. “And I’m saying to you, Stop laughing at Enoch, right? Now, I didn’t laugh at him. I was bothered, I was worried, and I was disapproving… it bothered me that he was doing something that many of us didn’t have the courage to do.”
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