Irish Times Interview, November 2010
On 6 November 2010, controversial and potentially heretical opinions were expressed by Bishop Walsh in an Irish Times interview conducted by journalist Kathy Sheridan. Walsh's expressed viewpoints on key issues such as homosexuality, birth control and family planning, the ordination of women as priests, celibacy within the priesthood and the existence of the afterlife.
Walsh asserts to have been “stunned” upon hearing about Pope Paul VI’s Humanae Vitae encyclical, a document published to reaffirm traditional Roman Catholic teaching on family planning in 1968. “That was a watershed. Up to that time, I think, practically all Catholics accepted that, whether they disobeyed Catholic teaching or not, the teaching was right. It was there that the questioning began.”
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