The Joe Jackson Tapes Revisited: Fr. Brian D’Arcy

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Broadcast Details: Friday 29th December, 10.00pm

During his 1996 Joe Jackson interview Father Brian D'Arcy revealed for the first time that he was sexually abused.

He was highly critical of the laws of celibacy in the Catholic Church, claims that his spiritual training was “life denying” and that he needed to “re-learn” a “version of goodness.” Jackson says, “I’d forgotten how truly soul-searching D’Arcy was, more so than I had space to allow him to be in the original magazine interview. D’Arcy certainly is more outspoken than he now is allowed to be having been censured in 2012 by the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith in the Vatican.