Record shock news for parish priest (5)
I believe the answer is:
annal
'record' is the definition.
(I've seen this before)
'shock news for parish priest' is the wordplay.
I cannot really see how this works, but
'news' could be 'nn' (the abbreviation for 'new' written twice) and 'nn' is present in the answer.
This may be the basis of the clue (or it may be nonsense).
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for annal that I've seen before include "Record of one year" , "Official record" , "Year's entry in chronicle" , "A record in a chronicle" , "Yearly record" .)