CATHOLIC ANTISEMITISM IN LIMERICK AND MAYNOOTH NEW YEAR RESOLUTIONS.

2.02: You need to pray for deliverance from your hatred and that you may recognise ALL abuse in society, even today. We need to pray also for the many good people in the Church, including many good priests and religious. God bless them too.

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11:51

Well, priest, now that you’ve got that off your narrow chest, do you feel any better? Self-justified and self-vindicated?

I did try, priest, to read your post with greater seriousness and respect than you wrote it, but I’m afraid its unintended comedic moments had me in wry stitches.

Roman Catholic priesthood as gift? Now there’s a thought more taxing to the human intellect than any theorem in astro-physics (and given the, by now, staple revelations of sexual abuse by ‘gifted’ Roman Catholic priests, a dark, but nevertheless hilarious, irony).

I suppose I should expect a Roman Catholic priest, like you, to accept such self-evident nonsense about priesthood, because it provides some balm against what you know to be contrarily true: Roman Catholic priesthood, as historically theologised and structurally constituted, has been a yoke round the necks of ordinary Catholics for generations. Not just because, as social parasites, you drain the wealth of financially hard-pressed families, but because too many of you have allowed the ‘gift’ of priesthood to allow you to think yourselves invincible and untouchable, righteous, and qualified to do, and say, whatever the hell you liked. And dont doubt the salient fact that Hell was behind all of it.

It doesnt help either priest that it was the ex-Nazi pope, Benedict, who, in recent years, ressurrected this preposterous notion of priesthood as gift…er, the very man who, as prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, sat on reports, from around the world, that your ‘gifted’ colleagues were raping and sodomising minors, and that it was all being covered up. (Well, Benedict already knew, since he was arguably the greatest practitioner of this dark art: as prefect of the CDF, he would have known more about ‘gifted’ priestly sexual abuse and its cover-up than anyone else in the Vatican (and, indeed, anyone else around the world).

Sadly, Roman Catholic priesthood need not have presented in this way, but historically, this is the path that was chosen by self-regarding, self-aggrandising priests, like you.

Jesus called ALL of us to be servants of one another, but Roman Catholic priests have traditionally ‘pulled rank’ on the laity, believing themselves ontologically superior, and perfectly entitled to be obeyed. Even your use of the phrase ‘gift of PRIESTHOOD’ (especially in such an accented way) suggests your self-perceived superiority. And use of such self-lionising phrases as ‘vocation to the priesthood’ and priests as ‘men set apart’ bring home the supercillious, sniffy attitude you have to the laity. Add to this the fact that you expect the laity to support financially your avoidance of paid employment, and your arrogance, priest, simply beggars belief.

What’s more priest, your calling yourself ‘shepherd’ manifests your internalised (and probably unrecognised…by you) clericalism, since the metaphor projects yourself as sole and legitimate guardian and guide, and the laity as powerless, and unable theologically and spiritually to contribute anything even remotely positive to your mammoth and resonsible role as a leader.

If I were you, priest, I wouldn’t ever again speak of Roman Catholic priesthood as gift, unless, at best, you enjoy being laughed or, at worst, seek the deepest contempt you undoubtedly deserve.

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Thank you, Bishop Pat.

I have rarely come across such a deeply arrogant and self-serving mindset as his.

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