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LAWSUIT CLAIMS MOTHER TERESA SHIELDED PAEDOPHILE PRIEST.

JANUARY 1, 2020 BY BARRY DUKE

A LAWSUIT filed in California yesterday (Tuesday) alleges that Mother Teresa vigorously defended her ‘spiritual advisor’ – a priest known to have abused numerous young boys in various locations around the world.

In 1994, Teresa of Calcutta, now a saint, wrote a letter to Fr Donald J McGuire’s superior, the Jesuit provincial, supporting McGuire and refusing to believe abuse allegations against him. In that letter, Mother Teresa noted that McGuire:

“Admitted imprudence in his behavior”.

But:

“We, in the Missionaries of Charity, will do all in our power, to protect him and the Priesthood of Jesus Christ, which he bears, when he once more takes up his mission with us. I am full of hope that you will send Fr. McGuire to continue his ministry to the Missionaries of Charity as soon as is possible”.

The ghastly old fraud’s support McGuire, whose predatory behavior stretched back to the early 1960s, came to light in in a lawsuit filed by attorney Jeff Anderson on behalf of Robert J Goldberg who alleges that McGuire sexually abused him:

More than 1,000 times, in multiple states and countries.

The Jesuit priest touted his connection to Mother Teresa as a way to gain people’s confidence so he could “access kids and violate their trust.”

McGuire was serving a a 25-year federal prison sentence for molesting minors when he died in 2017.

According to the lawsuit, Goldberg was 11 when he first met the priest in 1970 in Chicago. Subsequently McGuire hired him as his personal assistant. When Fr. McGuire moved to California in 1976, Goldberg and his family followed along.

At times, the priest would share the boy’s bed at the family home. Much of the alleged sexual abuse happened as Goldberg traveled with McGuire to spiritual retreats. The abuse included “sexual touching, oral copulation and anal penetration,” the lawsuit states.

In a videoed press conference yesterday Anderson said Jesuit provincials knew of pederasty allegations against McGuire, but kept him in ministry for years, shuffling him across the country and letting him travel around the world.

Thus, this lawsuit names the Jesuit order. It also names the archdiocese of San Francisco [because] it gave permission to Donald McGuire and the Jesuit order to allow him to work here.

Anderson presented reporters a map of the world with red dots representing places where McGuire allegedly perpetrated the abuse. It included:

• Sexual abuse in Austria and Germany in the 1960s

• Abusing a boy at Loyola Academy in Wilmette, Wisconsin in 1968

• Molesting two boys at Loyola Academy in 1972 (McGuire was later convicted in 2006 on these allegations)

• Repeatedly abusing a boy in Phoenix, Arizona and Barrington, Illinois from 1988–1994, beginning when the victim was nine years old

• Abusing five minors while stationed at Canisius House in Evanston, Illinois, 1989–2003

As Teresa’s spiritual advisor he helped screen potential candidates for the Missionaries of Charity, the order she founded.

Last year, the Jesuits’ Midwest Province included McGuire’s name on a list of credibly accused clergy involved in sexual misconduct.

Goldberg’s lawsuit comes after the state of California expanded the statute of limitations for child sexual abuse victims. In October, lawmakers decided to suspend the statute of limitations for three years, allowing victims to file civil suits for abuse that happened decades ago. The three-year window begins January 1.

PAT SAYS

The Mother Teresa LIE is RCC propaganda at its worst.

I do not believe that Teresa was a saint.

She was a backward women who, almost like a sadist, believed in the redemptive power of UNNECESSARY SUFFERING.

Suffering, that we cannot do anything about, if approached in the proper way, can indeed be redemptive.

But suffering that is unnecessary, that can be solved by human effort, is not redemptive, if just ignored or indeed romanticized.

Teresa spent too much time ass licking John Paul 11 and other rich and famous leaders.

She should have been taking their money off them to HEAL the sick and dying.

Hitchens is quite tough on Mother T.

But his toughness is deserved.

The poor and the deprived do not need “holy” people to send them on the Paradise Express asap.

They need fiery prophets and champions of justice to shame world and church leaders into emptying their coffers and pockets to uplift the downtrodden.

This latest revelation that Teresa supported and covered up for a paedophile priest is the last straw.

“Sure the child is dying. The priest might as well get some use out of him before I despatch him on the Paradise Express”.

Utterly shameful!!!

110 replies on “LAWSUIT CLAIMS MOTHER TERESA SHIELDED PAEDOPHILE PRIEST.”

Mother Teresa received Noble prize and became Saint based to great work in Calcutta for loving the unloved and cared for the unwanted!!!
She might not be aware about that priest private life!!! She was not living with him and that priest never confess to Mother Teresa about his evil side!!!
Maybe with Mother Teresa he wear a different mask!!! Mother Teresa was not a lawyer neither anticrime officer.
She was a nun, who dedicated her life and prayers to the poorest of the poorest!!! If you do as much as Mother Teresa to help humanity and denying yourself I am sure you will be better priests and citizens!!!

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Buckkey, you do all in your power for self aggrandizing reasons, to demolish any vestige of true Catholic faith. Not happy with carping on about Priests, now you take to attacking Saint Teresa, who despite her human failings, achieved more by way of encouraging compassion in others in a way you remarkably fail to do. What would you expect from Atheist Hitchens? Lies, disdain and hatred.

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12:33am
‘Attacking Teresa, who had her human failings…’ are you completely stupid or what? She used her considerable power and influence to cover up for a paedophile priest then allowed him to go on to abuse again.
She was a monster.
She sold her soul to the devil when she allowed the little ones to be suffer.
It would have been better a mill stone tied around her neck from the outset, is the reference from scripture.

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It’s a moot point concerning the degree to which ‘cover up’ actions like Teresa’s, and many other high profile clergy, indicates an utter naivety of any shred of understanding of the nature and damaging effects of sexual abuse, or alternatively, that it indicates primarily a protectionist stance of minimising and denying anything which might show the RC establishment and its ministers as failing in any way.
Purely from my own perspective, I think that in general, it was probably something like 75% naivety, but with that percentage diminishing in line with the seniority of the cleric. By that I mean that the more senior the cleric, the more likely to have been the propensity to cover up and engage in damage limitation strategies with little concern for the victims of abuse.
A moot point, and one on which I welcome other views.
MMM

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@MMM,
Thank you for inviting other views. Your point essentially mirrors what I was going to comment so I won’t create a new comment. Please permit me to add tangents though.
I suggest that the higher the cleric the further he is from the suffering and the closer he is to the central politics of the church and this motivates cover-up. Additionally the increasing likelihood to cover up is reflected in many other institutions – we know this from various policing bodies etc,and the need in recent years to enact protected disclosure legislation.
The clergy, like many of the laity, will act to protect organisational reputation.
Sadly the church will only ever protect itself by embrasing the call to be meek and humble of heart. Nevertheless while clericals globally call the laity to be counter-cultural it is the church itself that fails to hear it’s own message.

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Can such generalizations be made? Why cover up unless it’s known to be legally and morally wrong? Forget about their awareness of the psychological/ emotional impact on victims.. That’s irrelevant when required to do the right thing.
Of course protecting the institution was paramount because abuse was recognized for what it is, legally and morally wrong, as well as a potential for huge scandal. The ‘mark of the priesthood’ says it all! The clerical fraternity protects it’s own. These people claimed to be our moral and spiritual leaders, when the reality is, many of them are morally and spiritually bankrupt, as well as lacking in humanity. They’re not just another institution.

With who would Jesus Christ align Himself?

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The frequently-used excuse that bishops did not know child abuse was illegal has always been nonsense, of course. Additionally these are men who will all have been trained in moral theology and none of them has the excuse of not knowing the church teaches that sex outof marriage is mortal sin. Naivety my *rse.

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@ Anon 12.47.
They learned in moral theology that it was sin. However they learned in life and in the confessional that sexual immorality was also rampant in society. Think of the thousands of women sent to laundries on the perverted understanding that they needed to atone for their sins. They understood it as being like an alcoholic who falls off the wagon and tries again.
They key failing however was that because of the celibacy mindset sex comes to be viewed as a purely physical transaction between two people – which priests often fantacise about. In the post transaction mindset the focus is on sin and broken vows/promises. Their damaged mindset fails to consider the other person, and the effect of abuse/rape on them – regardless of age.

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I do take your point, Holy Goat, however think your perception of the confessional mindset is accurate but still portrays a distorted mindset about sin. The priests who have got into the mindset of not being that bothered about sexual sin are dangerous in every way. Say if someone married confessed an affair some reflection on the effect of their spouse should be expected. If someone confessed rape then clearly three hail Mary’s is not enough because it not only affects other people but is both dangerous and illegal.
The underlying problem here is that we are talking about clergy who are not bothered about the effect on other people of abuse and this is about as twisted as you get, and comes from men who are professionals in the area of sin!

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@Anon 8.18pm
I am glad we are in agreement. That is the exact point I was trying to make on mindsets.

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Some further thoughts this morning on the naivety aspect.
I would not accept hierarchical naivety as an excuse, in the sense of an exoneration, where they have failed to act appropriately when abuse by a cleric has been disclosed, or suspected. Some could argue that such naivety might be more understandable in the distant past before the deluge of abuse revelations began. Perhaps, but I think that over the past 30 years or so the hierarchy has had ample opportunity and certainly a paramount responsibility to inform themselves of all the dynamics associated with abuse in order to take appropriate action.
That they patently failed to do so invites speculation: …… criticism of an arrogant ‘know-it-all’ attitude; criticism of a regime that recruited, formed, promoted and sustained such morally and intellectually feeble characters……as well of course as the ostrich like ‘head burying’ or conscious cover up tactics primarily concerned with protecting the church and themselves.
MMM

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MMM, Holy Goat and Anon – I agree with the sentiments expressed in your posts.

Thank God the days are long gone when people gave too much deference to priests, bishops and cardinals whom un-impacted individuals thought could do no wrong and were above reproach.

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Are you sure he’s not batting away the hand of the security guy rather than the woman in this video ? It’s hard to tell.

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11.52
No; Pope Francis definitely struck the hand of that woman. (Why does he think this form of behaviour acceptable?)
If he behaves this way in full view of the public and of television broadcasters, one can only inagine how he behaves privately to those who annoy him. I shouldn’t say that patience is Francis’ forte.

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What is utterly shameful Pat is your printing totally unverifiable accounts of Mother Teresa’s connection to a paedophile priest suggesting that she was offering that priest opportunities to abuse. That’s outrageous it then you have a careless disregard for truth when you want to show your hatred of the Catholic church. With all your (cheap) talk about that we should have lay Cardinals, Bishops etc… you didn’t tell us how many such people your oratory possesses, if any! And bow many other “oratories” have you created and inspired around the nation? None. Says it all. May Saint Teresa bless you in your ignorance.

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1:01
Blame the messenger. This story is on numerous websites including The Washington Post.
Don’t worry. It will all come out in the wash.

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Have a look at this – a 1999 Carriculum Vitae of him that’s been copied onto the Bishop Accountability website – http://www.bishop-accountability.org/news/1999_12_31_MissionFIDES_FrDonald.htm
Fr. Donald J. McGuire, S.J. was certainly one of his Order’s Literati and Glitterati: Classical Studies, Greek Archaology, travelling the world.
It might be informative to know what company he kept when he travelled, and what pastimes and weaknesses did he have besides paedophilia.
For example did he always keep himself to himself, or might he when in foreign lands, and moving in academic circles, then move into the inner-circles of the demimonde?
There seems to have been very little Criminological Research into clerical child sex abuse and there badly needs to be.
It’s very politically incorrect to say it, but ‘There’s always a pool in which the fishes swim’.

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That hideous Jesuit pervert scumbag had what must have seemed an amazing life. Travelling the world, studying archaeology (why), bed and board, all found.
The SJs must have spent $ millions on him, for what?
The process that declared Teresa a saint will wheel into action when Francis corks it. There were about two papal canonisations in 600 years but all the Vatican II popes are canonised. What a grotesque farce.

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Absolutely correct. I can’t understand how every Vatican II pope could have miracles attributed to them. It’s just not feasible. Canonisation process is a total farce.

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5:15
Joe, you’ve raised an issue I’ve mentioned from time to time ; ‘the pool in which the fishes swim!’
That ought to be a matter of serious concern, particularly nowadays with the internet.

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Yes – the pool in which the fishes swim.
In the case of the priest here:
What company did he keep?
Was he an alcoholic, or drug addict?
What were his other sexual activities? AC/DC?
And, in particular, who in the Jesuit Order did he particularly associate with, go travelling with, etc?
Nobody wants to look at the Criminology.
In Australia the Salesians of Don Bosco admitted to 21.9% of their priests being the the subject of paedophile allegations. How did they all get away with it? What other pastimes did those perverts share?

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The CV merely indicates that clericalism is about pampering clerics. The rest of us are fortunate that they are thus prevented from interfering with us, and in this case the Missionaries of Charity are fortunate that he was into kiddy fiddling, or he may have raped the sisters and then that would have been covered up in the interest of protecting his priesthood.

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Anonymous 4th Jan 2020 — 12:59 pm – The CV merely indicates that clericalism is about pampering clerics. … would have been covered up in the interest of protecting his priesthood.
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That’s what we’ve all been thinking that the Church’s reason for moving-about of pervert clergy. That it was so as to protect the good name of the Church,. But in the last few weeks I’ve come to doubt it.

The Norbertines were hardly protecting the priesthood, or the good name of their Order when they persisted in moving Brendan Smyth about rather than firmly confining him to an enclosed monastery.

In order to protect the good name of doctors the medical profession have the Medical Defence Union. But they don’t move pervert doctors around. They strike them off. And internationally they have measures in place to prevent miscreant doctors relocating.

It’s only since 2002 or 2003 that the public have known anything at all about the involvement of the Papacy and the Hierarchy in the movement of criminal clerics. And I suspect that at we’re still only starting to scratch the surface.

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Ghastly old fraud is such a lovely and accurate description. The fact she has been canonised demonstrates the church has no respect for life outside the womb.

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You have correctly identified the fundamental flaw in Catholic moral theology. Moreover life refers to the entirety of creation. Our narcissism imperils the whole planet and will bring us all done with it – whether we are in the womb or out of it.

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he was a charlatan and showman who conned vulnerable people. I have very mixed emotions about him. condolences to his family tho

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I’m not a gambling man, but even if my eternal salvation depended on it (and I don’t think for an instant it does) I would back Hitchens’s secular compassion over either unSaint Theresa or Fr Paedo.
The commentors above are just volitionally ignoring the plain facts that both he and she are/were monsters operating within an inhuman system of degradation and abuse.
Incidentally the connection between these two has been public for years so you can all stop sniping at Bishop Buckley.
And incidentally, even if the final judgment came into it, I would maintain this position and would rely on God to see the truth and expect people to behave like adults in judgement.

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The Cathbots are particularly sensitive on certain issues
Babies in the womb – not out of it
Their pope
Mother T
Sex

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And their beloved clergy.
In fact you have listed the articles of faith for them – God doesn’t even come into it!

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A perfect and logical example of a fundamental flaw, +Pat. It would easily stand up to the hardest of scrutinies, surely.

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11.17: That is an utterly ridiculous and stupid argument to make. You use it all the time as a soundbyte. It’s patently untrue and you should stop peddling untruths. In M8ther Teresa’s India and in many other cities of the world, there are many abandoned, unwanted and thrown away luttle children, many left to rot and die in gutters. At least Saint Teresa picked them up and embraced them in their dying moments. We have children begging for survival on the streets of Ireland and eating food from a cardboard plate on O’ Connell Street. Only for charities, many of them Christian (and Catholic), these children and homeless families would be forgotten. I think that old chestnut soundbyte (caring for unborn but not born) is a useless, meaningless and untrue soundbyte. It sounds good but it’s a distraction from other truths, which, you, Pat, cannot articulate. Why do you find it so difficult to affirm the genuine goodness of Catholic charities?

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Of course I accept that individual Catholics and Catholic charities do much good.

But how do those people feel they can operate under such a corrupt banner?

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11.44: Another crap comment. The evidence is there for you to see. Pat, there is a level of corruption but not all are tainted by it. Stop being utterly ridiculous. Accept, acknowledge and affirm true goodness when you see it, irrespective of the banner under which charitable work is carried out. Stop your broadswerping generalisations. Of course people working in charities are appalled at any corruption in their organisation but don’t condemn all.

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One of these days you will have to face up to the fact that all *are* tainted by the level of corruption. The ‘few bad apples’ fib has been replaced by the truth that the United Nations has indicated the church’s disgraceful conduct amounts to torture, and this is not isolated incidents.
Which bit of ‘criminal’ don’t you get?

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11.31: A good comment but you will never get answers to legitimate questions from Pat. He prefers the shallow soundbyte approach. Keep faithful.

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11.31

The Order is worth millions from worldwide donations (including holding on to at least a million dollars fraudulently obtained from the life savings of elderly Americans), and yet, very little of this money is spent on helping the poor and dying. One reason for this is that Mother Theresa believed, dogmatically, in the efficacy of human suffering (it’s good for the soul) that she thought the sick and dying should not avoid what she would have called their ‘crosses’.

Listen caregully to the video above. Theresa wouldn’t spend money on even providing palliative care. Some of the people she supposedly tended must have died in agony.

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Just finished a baptism and lovely that the wee baby was named after St Teresa of Calcutta. I don’t accept that the then Mother T would have put any child in danger from this monster. I will pray to her today and for everyone who has contributed to +Pat’s blog. Have a good weekend.

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12.30: Pat, why don’t you spend your time more usefully out on soup runs for the homeless and forgotten. I think Jesus would have great respect for you then. Instead, you prefer the daily diet of condemning, judging, demeaning and discarding all who profess their Catholic faith and who seek to live by its highest ideals. Your little shed on the hill has yet to ignite into a fire of a bright new dawn for all who await your promises….

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Was Jesus operating soup kitchens when he excoriated the Pharisees as ‘fools’ , as ‘whited sepulchres’ , as ‘blind guides’ ? He was warning others of the Pharisees’ leaven: of the spiritual danger they posed.
There is work more important than dishing out soup.

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3.54: And you Mr. Mags haven’t a bulls notion about works of charity or soup runs. Go out and live a real life, fool.

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Magna at 3.54…More important work than dishing out soup….like…dishing out venom and hatred as in your case. I’d do a soup run any night than entertain your silliness.

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5.59

Venom? This depends on which side of a fence one stands. To the Pharisees, Jesus’ excoriation of them must have been especially venomous, since they subsequently (and successfully) plotted his death.

If you think my earlier post venomous, then I’ll cheerfully accept the thought as a backhanded compliment, since the criticisms in quotation marks are Jesus’ words, not mine.

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6.47: But you Magna Dear, are not Jesus not are you one of his adherents. Don’t be so delusional.

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12.54: I will never allow sweeping assertions which suggest we are all tainted to get in the way of my work in ministry. Yes, it can be very challenging to rise above the condemnatory judgment of some but I won’t stop doing what I believe I am called to do.

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Would Jesus have ‘risen above it’? I don’t think so and I think your attitude arrogant. You obviously find great comfort in your insistence that God agrees with you.
Yawn.
Another pampered cleric.

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The Sisters of Charity is a religious order that not only embraces personal suffering with a worrying fervour, but inflicts it, too. The video above refers to some of it.

Mother Theresa’s immediate successor, Sr Mary Nirmala (died 2009), once, on a YouTube video, justified to herself a senior sister’s searing, with a knife heated over a stove, the hands of four very young children she had SUSPECTED of stealing from school funds.

When this was put to Nirmala by a journalist, her reply was that the children were being taught whom it was they served.

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M.C’s comment here is misleading and indeed erroneous. Mother Teresa’s congregation is the ‘Missionaries of Charity’, distinct from the much older Irish founded ‘Sisters of Charity’.

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6.57

I made one error…in naming the order. ONE error. And yet, you extrapolate from this that my entire post is erroneous. Are you serious? Or just in a skittish mood?

Sr Mary Nirmala was Teresa’s immediate successor? Are you denying this?

I watched the video on YouTube in which Nirmala cold-bloodedly justified to herself the barbaric treatment meted out to four young children by one of her fellow senior sisters.

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3.45: How uninformed and remiss of you Magna: St. Mither Teresa founded the Missionaries of Charity: Mother Mary Aikenhead, the Irish Sisters of Charity….a big difference.

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On yesterday’s blog someone suggested Pat Buckley should travel to Scotland and investigate matters there. What utter rubbish. Buckley has no authority to set foot in any diocese in Scotland and would be in breach of Canon Law. Keep out. The hierarchy here know all about you.

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I have regularly ministered in Scotland. The Scottish RC hierarchy have no authority over me. I’ll go to Scotland whenever I wish.

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5.19: And when you go to Scotland keep your busybody nose out of other people’s business. You have left the Catholic Church by choice, so mind your own business. Go for a holiday but get lost otherwise, troublemaker layabout.

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Dear Bishop Pat
If you are in Glasgow you are most welcome here. I have plenty room and would enjoy your company. I would also be happy for you to concelebrate holy Mass here. I will email you my details shortly.

God bless.

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Thank you Fr. P. Would love to take you up on your brotherly offer.

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@5:55, please just tell us if you are a priest.
I want it to be clear that a priest still thinks in 2020 that the revealing of scandalous misconduct in the church is inspired by the devil, if you are a priest.

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Any word on Tullamore Pat? Haven’t you connections down there? Can you ask what exactly happened? Or would the bishop down there let you know?

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I think the IVF message was placed on the newsletter by a retired elderly person the Tullamore priests are covering up for her. The bishop – Tom Dennihan – now theres ANOTHER BIG STORY!!!

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I don’t believe the nonsense about an elderly lay person. If it’s a smokescreen, it will eventually out. Murder will out.

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Pat, what’s the BIG STORY about our great Bishop Deenihan? Please enlighten me.

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Pat, the message was posted on the Tullamore Parish Facebook page. Are you sure about it being a lay person. The only other place I have seen this mentioned was on this blog by someone anonymous!?

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5.22pm. Don’t worry a Scottish Bishop knows when Buckley sets foot on a ferry to Scotland and when he lands. Passenger lists do come in handy when they book. Buckley needs to be kept out of Scotland and it’s affairs

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7.10pm. Why are you being so horrid? And so that you know – there isn’t such a thing as a passenger list for sailings in the Common Travel Area. One can book in any name without ID – you’d be surprised how many are called Michael Mouse. I have good knowledge of this from previous employment when a student. Another thing – the Scottish Bishops have no jurisdiction over Bishop Pat, so if he does take up the offer of Fr P, they can do nothing about it. Pat is a Priest and a good man and deserves to be treated with respect and dignity like the rest of us. If he chooses to investigate double standards or corruption then good on him!

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McTaggart. I’ve changed my opinion about you. Good on you for this sensible post and for your posts over the last few days. A fair few contributors on here are half wits, so good to read a heartfelt contribution.

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The horridness and threats are the standard fare of these bullies (who obviously have something to hide), Inspector.
I for one can’t wait to hear what is unearthed!

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Taggart the fraud speaks again. He says he’s off the booze but we know different. Where are the pictures you said you would provide Taggart? I know – they are a figure of your imagination. Have sent your Ordinary your name and the posts you’ve been putting on here under the Taggart name. Your next address will be c/o Archbishop’s House.

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7:10pm: we’re all quaking with fear at a Scottish bishop knowing who’s in the country!
What’s he going to do to Pat – sexually abuse him?

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No Scottish bishop gives a tuppeny damn if Buck does the Fandango on the Bonnie Bonnie Banks of Loch Lomond. So cop yourself on ye eejit ye.

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I like to keep a score of fatuous unintelligent comments like this. Just keeps me amused to realise how many idiots lurk out there. So thank you @ 7:10, you’ve boosted my tally.

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Hi I met Mother Teresa once. It lasted half a minute. I said honoured to meet you She said hhhh I thought it was strange. We visited one of her convents. Is she really the helping hand she is portrayed to be.

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That advice to Magna that he would be usefully employed running a soup kitchen is very interesting when considered further. These organisations of course carry out useful humanitarian work for the poor and homeless who have fallen through the safety net because of inflated rents and the concentration of most of the world’s money into the hands of a few.
Haven’t I read that the RC church is the biggest property owner in the world?… And therefore directly has a hand in the number of homeless people.
There is such an irony in a representative of this money grabbing representative of Mammon telling someone else to run a soup kitchen for the poor. If the church was sharing its great wealth to make affordable housing for the poor these clowns would be certain to mention it here, but of course not a dickie bird.
Duh!

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8.00pm: If you open your eyes you’ll find that many Catholic Charities are indeed to the forefront in advocacy for the homeless and starving: Focus Ireland (Sr. Stan): Br. Kevin: Fr. McVerry: Dublin CROSSCARE…to name but a few who ACTIVELY work for and provide both housing and food for the poor and homeless, many of them supported by Catholic Parish Communities through fundraising. Let he who is not blind see…..The Truth.

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At 9.12, I forgot to mention the St. Vincent de Paul Society who are to be found in every parish community working for the poor and homeless, work made possible by generous donations from parishioners – the volunteers deeply inspired by their Christian (Catholic) Faith.

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Lol and if you actually read my comment this time you will see you have completely missed the point!

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bishoppat 4th Jan 2020 — 5:37 pm – I have investigated and will investigate Scottish RC scandals.
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May I point out respectfully that you’re not getting any younger.
There are plenty of scandals to be investigated in places with warmer climates.
I’d suggest Malta or Australia.

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England is close and there are plenty of “Church of England” strange goings-on worthy of Pat’s scrutiny.

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Have just read today’s blog and the comments with it. It is remarkable that some so called Catholics still have a hissy for every time one of their heroes is exposed. Are they living in the real world? The Catholic hierarchy, right up to the Pope, have been covering up for their paedophiles for years.

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Thanks HG, Anons, etc for your thoughtful comments. It’s good to have other’s perspectives to reflect on, especially when expressed intelligently and coherently.
MMM

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