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Ian O'Doherty: First they came for the cranky priests and I said nothing
Church: The Cappuchin Friary in Kilkenny where Tom Forde gave his controversial homily. Photo: Gerry Mooney
The fuss created by Capuchin cleric Fr Tom Forde started off as a mildly amusing example of a priest going rogue in the pulpit, and quickly descended into farce.
Fr Forde took to the stage in his parish in Kilkenny two weeks ago and went on what can only describe as a stream-of-consciousness comedy routine. Bringing zombies into his sermon, the cranky cleric admitted that while the undead weren't real, people could still be "physically alive but spiritually dead, morally rotten or at least infected".
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