Older priest tried to rape trainee on night before ordination as priest...

A priest has told a court how a fellow cleric attempted to have sex with him on the night before the accused cleric’s ordination into the Catholic Church.

Fr Patrick McCafferty — who once called on former Archbishop of Dublin, Desmond Connell to resign over clerical sex abuse — made the claim as he gave evidence against former Catholic priest, James Martin Donaghy.

The 53-year-old former priest of Lady Wallace Drive, Lisburn, denies a total of 26 charges involving the alleged sex abuse and indecent assault of three males — Fr McCafferty, another trainee priest and a former altar boy — between June 1983 and December 2000.

Fr McCafferty said that after years of abuse, which started when he was a trainee in Wexford, he decided to confront Donaghy, who agreed to meet him in the presbytery of St Comgall's Church, where he was parish priest. Full story...

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