Irish Priest Calls Musician Shane MacGowan’s Raucous Funeral Mass ‘A Scandal’

By Matt McDonald

A Catholic priest in Northern Ireland has called last week’s funeral Mass for Irish musician Shane MacGowan a scandal. 

“It was an abuse of what the Mass is and what the Catholic funeral liturgy is all about,” said Father Paddy McCafferty, pastor of Corpus Christi Parish in West Belfast, according...