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AN OPEN LETTER TO IRISH JESUIT PROVINCIAL LEONARD MALONEY – WHO REFUSES TO ACKNOWLEDGE OR REPLY TO LETTERS AND EMAILS.
Dear Leonard,
I am writing this open letter to you because you do not acknowledge private emails and Ms Fox says she checks the blog everyday.
Jesuits are renowned for being highly educated men. But education does not, automatically bring good manners with it. My father used to say: “If nature play not her part, in vain is labour. I regard your refusal to acknowledge emails, especially from alleged victims of sexual abuse, to be an example of extreme bad manners.
Saoirse Fox
In recent times you and your safeguarding person, Ms Saoirse Fox, have received 4 complaints from:
Dublin J – an ex Maynooth seminarian.
Dublin N – a young Dublin layman
Dublin P – a young Dublin layman.
Birmingham M – a recently left Jesuit novice.
All alleged complaints refer to Fr Paul Prior – currently a Jesuit Novice.
Ms Fox did confirm to Dublin J that a complaint against Prior by Birmingham M is being is being investigated currently.
Ms Fox told Dublin J that she has never heard of Dublin N or Dublin P.
But Dublin N has sent me a copy of an email he received, yesterday, from Ms Fox!
Here are emails between Dublin J, Dublin N and Ms Fox?
EMAIL FROM SAOIRSE FOX TO DUBLIN P
Various questions arise;
1. Are the Jesuits acting in good faith on these matters and abiding by best practice procedures
2. On the basis of the emails above, is Ms Fox speaking out of the two sides of her mouth or has someone hijacked Ms Fox’s email or identity?
3. Does Dublin N and Dublin P really exist or is someone engaging in mind games?
4. Dublin J believes that mind games are being played and he believes that Fr Prior could be behind them? Dublin J says he experienced Fr Prior playing mind games while in Maynooth?
5. What did Ms Fox mean when she said to Dublin J “I do not want to get involved with whatever is going on here”. What is going on here?
In any event, Leonard, these are most serious matters and in my opinion, you have the duty to issue a statement clearing up these issues.
I do not have much hope that you will do that π₯
St. Ignatius, pray for us!
Yours sincerely
+ Pat Buckley.
UPDATES
Email today from Joe Sheridan to Leonard Maloney
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Joe Sheridan <joesheridan79@yahoo.ie>
Fri 31/01/2020 11:17
You; lamoloney@jesuitlink.ie; Saoirse Fox
Dear Fr Moloney,
If I do not receive a response from you today with regard to what you intend to do regarding emails sent from your Child Safeguarding Manager’s, Saoirse Fox’s, email address to individuals whom Ms Fox claims to have no knowledge of – I will be providing all the relevant email correspondence previously provided to you to An Garda Siochana.
Yours sincerely,
Joe Sheridan
MY EMAIL TODAY TO SAOIRSE FOX
Pat Buckley
Fri 31/01/2020 12:21
Saoirse FoxξΈ
Dear Saoirse,
Various emails have been sent from your address to complainants H and P.
But you told Joe Sheridan you never heard of a H or P.
Has your email account being hacked or your personal identity stolen?
+ Pat Buckley
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MOVEMENT FROM THE JESUITS
The former seminarian Joe Sheridan has, this afternoon, received a solicitors letter from the Irish Jesuits solicitor confirming that are taking all the allegations seriously and promising a thorough investigation.
BISHOP PAT BUCKLEY 
194 replies on “WHAT ARE YOU THE IRISH JESUITS PLAYING AT WHEN IT COMES TO SAFEGUARDING?”
Dunno about the Irish Jesuits but there is an ever increasing number of complaints of a safeguarding nature here in Scotland about a Glasgow based Jesuit who was attached to the prestigious school, St Aloysius College.
The whole bloody place knew what was going on yet when he died a few years back my son said the church was mobbed and he had an enormous funeral
Seems his requiem was a gathering of the great and the good of alumni who are now leading lights in the professions in Scotland.
My son, a lawyer, said the deceasedβs antics were the talk of his group of his friends and seemed to be very amusing.
A visit from the priest in the changing rooms at rugby seemed to be a rite of passage.
What are the βJsβ coming to?
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Pat, the Jesuits are the biggest shower of liars in God’s creation. Mental reservation and semantical gymnastics are what they are now known for instead of furthering the Gospel. It will be a great day for this country when there is not one SJ left.
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11.30: Produce your researched data to back up your lies.
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Requested data 7:56 am:
https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/jul/10/pope-francis-sexual-abuse-victims-catholic-church
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sexual_abuse_scandal_in_the_Society_of_Jesus
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.nytimes.com/2019/01/15/nyregion/catholic-church-sex-abuse-jesuits.amp.html
https://apnews.com/050df63743e58fe93cf6f1a6f51e8089
https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.independent.ie/irish-news/jesuits-have-not-a-single-trainee-priest-in-ireland-25958799.html
https://www.thedailybeast.com/jesuit-group-names-five-ex-priests-accused-of-child-sexual-abuse
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.irishtimes.com/news/apology-over-sex-abuse-by-jesuit-priests-1.1274141%3fmode=amp
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That day is coming soon 11:30 pm. Thank God that putrid branch of the CC called the Jesuits will soon fall off by the weight of its own putrefaction.
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Irish Jesuits are an endangered species.
Prior’s presence within their ranks will be the final nail in their coffin.
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Hi if these are genuine allegations Where are bobbies peelers and guards in th mix
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Identity fraud is also a serious crime.
The Guards may have to be brought in here to help source personal email IP addresses if it is a case that someone/some people have hacked another personβs email address for their own use.
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Dear Jesuits,
Saoirse appears to be unable to write a coherent email. May I suggest you invest in a graduate.
KInd Regards,
Canon Matt Hep
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She is a graduate Matt.
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Buckley you are asking a safeguarding officer to supply you with private information that does not relate to you.. She is not going to tell you anything as it does not concern you. Which is proper and correct.
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I have never spoken to her and never asked her for anything.
The three alleged Dublin victims are all in touch with each other.
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FYI 12:42 am.
The Jesuit Safeguarding Officer confirmed that the Jesuits were conducting an investigation into one complaint against Prior β and only one β to a third party. She denied there were three complaints being investigated against Prior and also categorically denied knowledge of two individuals who received emails from her email address with regard to complaints against Prior.
Saoirse Fox was just asked to confirm β1β or β3β. She confirmed β1β.
There are no personal data contained in numbers.
The difference between the number one and three is two. There is no personal information there, just another number.
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The complaint regarding whatever it was had happened in Birmingham will be dealt with by that Order’s British province.
And their handling of the complaint will be liable to oversight by whatever member of the English Hierarchy has been nominated to oversee that particular Order’s Safeguarding Procedures.
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Really ‘Joe’? I think you are gravely mistaken.
For an ‘old’ protestant, you appear to know much about contemporary Catholic Church safeguarding issues.
Wait and see…
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Who wrote Paul Prior’s reference for the Jesuits.
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Those most good and sincere people in Gaynooth and the Irish hierarchy, of course; for the great job he did in helping turn Maynooth into a menagerie.
The SJs sure got a doozy in Prior.
Is Prior the only Irish Jesuit in their Novitiate?
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Was this one of the guys tipped to replace Dermo ?. I hope not.
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The usual head in the sand and cover up Pat. Ms Fox job is to protect the institution, don’t be under any illusions Pat.
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She isnβt going to bite the hand that gives her a six figure annual salary. Also, if they got rid of Prior they would probably have to close down the Birmingham Novitiate, which would be most embarrassing for the SJs as their Irish Novitiate is now closed because of lack of vocations.
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It would be no embarrassment at all.
Theyβd simply join all those other Orders that now have just the one seminary or novitiate in Rome.
That means the people at the top of the Order can see have a good look at new entrants, and before those newcomers have undergone any βSpiritual Formationβ β that is, learnt the tricks of the trade in respect of disguising a seriously flawed personality.
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The problem is, though, Lollard, that many of the fellas at the top have seriously flawed personalities. And they tend to produce and promote those most like themselves. The cause is always some way present in the effect.
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Saoirse doesn’t look like that now!
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That was on her appointment in 2015.
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Same aul crap!
Thereβs nothing new under the sun.
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The Truth sets us free? Not on your nelly ! Not when it costs!
Isnβt that right, Bishops & Superiors.
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So, Fr Prior, a priest in his fifties with no parish experience, runs over to Birmingham to enter a novitiate with a religious order with no other Irish novices following the Maynooth fiasco of 2016.
It appears that this priest wants to live a perpetual adolescence being surrounded by young men.
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PROBLEMS I am finding it difficult to access my blog today to publish comments etc.
I believe someone is interfering with this blog remotely.
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Pat, the CC have friends who could have hacked into your Email or computer. have you had any issues with your email?
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MI5 are only down the road from you. Some years ago in the North we heard the click click during telephone calls knowing full well we were being listened to. Technology has moved on a lot since then and Iβm sure bugging is going on frequently by MI5.
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1.28
Why would MI5 have gone to the trouble of bugging either you, or this blog?
No more Ian Fleming for you with your bedtime cocoa.
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11.28: That doesn’t look goid Pat. Could it be private detectives, an Gardai or PSNI? This observation is not encouraging for us to make comments for fear of being traced. Can you guarantee security?
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11.40
Traced?
Good grief?
Do you live permanently on a James Bond set in your head?
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I do, Magna, with you as James Bond. I picture you very much as Daniel Craig actually π
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5.36
Well, ahem, thatβs another matter, of course.
Daniel Craig, you said?π
Of course, the physical resemblance has been remarked on before, by others. Iβm prettier featured, but thatβs no problem.
Er, carry on.π
(Daniel Craig, eh? π)
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5.36: I actuall envisage Magna as a Dolly Parton typeβ¦.You know the big bust one!! Except Maggie would be suited to blond wigsβ¦
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8.27
Magna does not need βblonde wigsβ: Magna has his own blonde (well, dirty fair, actually) hair.π
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8.41: Marge, Hope your hair is cleaner than your filthy, dirty black mouth….
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I think you are on to something big here Pat? Such as exposing an intricate clerical sex ring.
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Letβs have less of the conspiracy theories. Pat might update us on whatβs happening. It is disconcerting to think that anyoneβs emails can be hackedβ¦.
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There has been no response from the Jesuits.
Able people can hack accounts and indeed steal identity.
That’s why I email Saoirse Fox today.
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Eh 12:30 pm, these arenβt βconspiracy theoriesβ, they are logical inferences based on current information.
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A lot of what’s being written here is tripe.
I don’t know about private detectives or amateur-hackers. But if MI5 or the PSNI are listening in on you, or monitoring your broadband, everything will work perfectly for you.
And if you were to damage the phone yourself there’d be an engineer round to repair it within an hour or two of you reporting it – even at times when your neighbours were having to wait weeks.
Anyhow, look on the bright side. We’ve pulled off BREXIT.
The next thing now is to ditch the Jocks.
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βOldβ Joe, you must be in the early stages of senile dementia? There are only a couple of comments here regarding M15 and the PSNI.
You wouldnβt be trying ever so subtlety, almost subliminally, to try to rubbish the entire blog? Would you βJoeββ¦?
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3:42pm
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Peopleβs emails are hacked every day.
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‘s emails are recorded, all day everyday, by Google, Facebook et al, and they’re then, all of them, made available to the US Security Agencies who pass them on as required.
Do you object to that?
When a young person goes missing one of the first things the police do is .their smartphone records to see where the’ve been and what they’ve been doing .
What’s the problem?
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Who are you referring to old Lollard?
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3.42
My goodness! Strange you should say that about βthe Jocksβ, Joe Lollard.
My dad, an English ex-squaddie (Royal Warickshires), thinks the same, dismissive way about the Jocks (sorry, βScotsβ).
Me? π I hope they stay.
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Whatever way you look at it, the Jesuits certainly are moving slowly with their investigation. That’s fair enough if they are being robust and truthful. The denial by the safeguarding officer of further complaints is most alarming and does not inspire one with great confidence in either her office or capabilities. Abuse of any kind is despicable and must be investigated thoroughly without any cover up, especially from an organisation which professes to be in the service of Christ. As for the priest Prior I do not know whether he is guilty or not and he is entitled to be presumed innocent until otherwise proved. What is his current status? Has he been suspended pending the investigation given the gravity of the charges levelled against him. This would be the normal course of action. With its history of cover ups, I fear that the complainants will not have their cases adequately investigated by the RCC. Despite Ireland becoming a more secular society, there does still seem to be a reluctance (maybe divided loyalties) on behalf of the civil authorities to pursue claims against RCC clerics adequately.
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Unless the complainants are minors the accused is not asked to step down as a normal course of action.
Also,the exaggerated length of this investigation combined with the insincerity and disingenuity of the so-called investigators has all the hallmarks of another cover-up.
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Civil authorities have not yet been asked to investigate Prior. Yet being the operative word.
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Seminarian Joe has spoken to the Gardai
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Don’t make me laugh, the Jesuits have stopped serving Christ for a long time.
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3.17
But now youβre making me laughπ : the institutional RCC hasnβt been serving Christ for even longer.
(Just sayinβ, like. And no βcoddinβ β. π)
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So glad you’ve improved your redactions on the emails. Was rather shocked to clearly see the names when I looked at the blog last night.
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Thank you.
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So Prior is driving seminarians out of the Jesuits as he did in Maynooth?
Who is this dope of a Jesuit provincial? Wait till ya see, heβll be made a bishop yet. I jest not.
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MaireΓ‘d β a woman on the Joe Duffy show the other day said her husband was revealed to be gay, and that a lot of his friends were priests. She believes there was a gay scene among clergy. She confronted a priest who she believes was in βthe circleβ.
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Wouldn’t be the first married man having it off with a curate. We had a recent incident with a Cookstown CC. Amy’s answer was not only to move him but to promote him to PP. Joke. It’s the thrill and danger these men thrive on.
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Incident? Weβve not had one for a while. Was it in the gents, I wonder?
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Good work Pat by getting a response from the Jesuits.
Fr Prior causes havoc wherever he goes. I think its time for him to consider a career change.
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Fair play Pat. People power works!
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Anonymous 31st Jan 2020 β 4:34 pm —
Really βJoeβ? I think you are gravely mistaken.
For an βoldβ protestant, you appear to know much about contemporary Catholic Church safeguarding issues.
Wait and seeβ¦
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1. Britain and Ireland are two separate Jesuit Provinces. I thought everyone knew that.
2 The Hierarchy’s’ oversight of the way that Orders handle Safeguarding matters was explained at one of the IICSA’s many Hearings into the Roman Catholic Church – I can’t remember which one. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCOVrA6CKedUmM4PU38XS4HQ
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Oh yeah, Lollard, EVERYONE knows that Britain and Ireland are two separate Jesuit Provinces.
Even βauld retired prodsβ like you! LOL!
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I’d be interested to know how much a safe guarding officer is paid by the Jesuits. is it FT, PT?
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Excellent essay written by a current seminarian who acutely details what it is like to suffer a narcissistic, gas-lighting formator’s projections.
https://spiritdailyblog.com/church/mailbag-anonymous-seminarian-writes-of-corruption
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I know of a Jesuit school in Ireland that has an atheist teaching religion. not so very holy of them
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5.54
And?π
Christianity is historyβ¦in large part.
The theistic aspect of it is a matter of faithβ¦taking the personal plunge to believe in a benevolent deity.
Wish Iβd had an atheistic RE teacher. Would have enjoyed being intellectually challenged in my theism. The one I had, a believing RC, was a coward. I asked him how God could be just in creating humans he KNEW would end up in Hell. The philistine coughedβ¦and changed the subject.
The RCs are monumental cowards. Worse, uneducated and unthinking cowards.
Like their bishop-bowing priests.
(Ack! Iβm just beinβ awkward, like. As I was at schoolβ¦a smart-arse with attitude, like.π)
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But even while acknowledging that you are anything but a βcathbotβ, I still find it mystifying how you can continue to have theistic belief Magna.
MMM
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8.50
MMM, I did respond.
But Bishop Patrick, for his own reasons, censored my answer.
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Thank you Magna.
+Pat: Any comment on Magna’s reply?
MMM
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Brilliant essay 6:39 pm. The last line is one that bishops need to really think about.
βI am convinced that when one has saints as formators, then oneβs priestly formation will take on that character. If, however, the seminarian has narcissists and gas-lighters for formators, then I shudder against the monstrosities that shall arise.β
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7.35
From that last paragraph alone, your would-be seminal, seminarian sounds a pompous, supercilious prick.
Saints, indeed.π
Ack! There are no such thingsβ¦outside the Romanist pantheon. And THIS is the deserved object of derision these days.π
(Ask the canonised Pole. Ack! You know: the one that protected paedophile priests, and allowed them to continue sexually abusing the young and the vulnerable.π¦)
JUST F**KIN SAYINβ, LIKE.π’
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Paul Prior has produced some monstrosities.
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Hi + Pat. I note that the pictures of the letters / emails on your blog today have been properly redacted, because when I looked last night or this morning I could easily read the redacted names beneath the black felt pen. Actually, Iβve forgotten them now. They meant nothing to me. But I guess it was wise to further black / white them out.
Prior does seem to be in some bother. I suspect that this matter is being looked at by various bishops, superiors and safeguarding people, perhaps even the police in various jurisdictions on both sides of the Irish Sea. I was interested to see that one of the complainants has a Birmingham connection, and others SJ connections. So, I guess + Bunty / Nursey Longley will have to take a view as well, if Prior is still in his jurisdiction.
I donβt know the detail, and probably never will, but there really does seem to be a great deal of questionable stuff being reported about Prior. I just wonder why these things were not being addressed before now, by Maynooth, by his bishop, by the SJs in their recruitment process. It seems strange. I bet it will be a matter of various people, perhaps quite a number of them, knowing things but just keeping quiet. Actually, that makes them complicit in matters of breaches of safeguarding. Itβs more of the business of various forms of coverup, denial, thinking itβs not my business, that the Church and clergy have relied on for centuries to ensure that significant issues are not brought to the light. Well, those days are over, and the light will shine on this stuff and people and they will have to be held accountable. Watch what is happening in the Grenfell Tower Inquiry, admittedly a completely different issue, but the same dynamics apply, namely lots of people knowing that things were wrong and did not fit and that things were dangerous, but keeping quiet, and leaving it to others to make decisions, and then when things go badly wrong spending huge amounts of capital and energy to ensure that they do not get held accountable. Well, they will be held accountable. As will the people in this present Prior case, because they knew in all likelihood and have done nothing.
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Longley is involved.
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How so ? Expand, please ! He always looks and sounds like a nice, gormless type. But, there is more to him than that, surely ? What’s he hiding ? What’s he up to ? I suspect he knows more than he lets on. And has protected people who shouldn’t have been shielded in the past.
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Prior was protected by Connolly and Mullaney in Maynooth. He got promotion for his hatchet job in 2009, which has been already outlined on this blog.
The inevitable trajectory was set which ended in the disaster of 2016 for which, Prior, as Senior Formator, shoulders the greater proportion of blame.
The Irish bishops are a conglomerate of weak, corrupt, in-denial and compromised men.
The Jesuits? Well, a cursory glance over their recent history doesnβt do them any favours, to say the least.
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that would be CD of AoD.
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a sexual predator if there ever was one.
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@10:35 pm, Derwin has passed the accused phase. He is now being laicized.
If by accused priest you mean Prior, I would advise you to inform the Papal Nuncio.
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The wee Pryer has produced some Hall of Famers during his time in Gaynooth.
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Papal nuncio of Great Britain retired.
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A great loss!
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are you being sarcastic, Pat?
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Yes π
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7 43: Pat, the same will be the epitaph of you.. A great loss…hmm…hmm… a great loss to Jesus… Your headstone will read…a great loss…to all the haters.
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+Pat is there any expose due on the carry on in Westminster Cathedral?
I heard theyβre all a bunch of fairies.
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What exactly are the substantial accusations against Prior ?
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The Jesuit Safeguarding Officer would not divulge that information for obvious reasons.
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There does seem something odd in Prior’s trajectory. A 50 something year old man, already a priest, moving over to the SJs to hang out in noviciate with 20 or 30 something young men, having been moved on from Rome and then Maynooth, with a track record of an inordinate and inappropriate interest / fascination with underpants, which he wasn’t shy about sharing with young seminarians, and other rather off track involvement with these young men. What was there not to see / notice when the SJs were talking to him and considering him as suitable for their noviciate ? I reckon the SJs dropped the ball there, and didn’t do proper background checking of Prior before taking him on as well as the already known problems that came wit him. I think the Irish SJs need a new vocations director with a bit more common sense and antennae !
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9:23
A bottle of smoke. You are scraping the bottom of the barrel in your rush to impugn another personβs motives. A laughable and derisory interpretation for a person entering a noviceship.
According to your perverted logic, anyone choosing to live or work where there are people in their 20s or 30s is suspect.
And what sexual perversions do you attribute to people who opt to work in a geriatric health setting?
The delusions of a warped mind are one thing, to commit them to writing on a public forum such as this blog, albeit anonymously shows how unreliable your judgement is.
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Thank you, Father SJ ! If you’re antennae and common sense were engaged you would be asking these questions about this man and this situation. You may find everything is innocent, which would be fine, but it is wholly irresponsible not to ask the questions. Not asking these kinds of questions is more of the head in the sand, denial, obfuscation, coverup and denial that has got us in to trouble in the past. Just saying….
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9:53am – one thinks rather that it is YOU scraping the bottom of the barrel. Are Pry-er himself? Or Collins? Or maybe Fanny?
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Youβre going off on a tangent and distracting from the main point, that the SJs should have done proper due diligence on Prior as a candidate.
Apart from reference checks, there was/is enough information in the public domain about the Irish College findings and the goings-on in Maynooth to make them dig deeper before making a decision.
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I never heard about Prior’s underpants obsession.
Far more worrying was his well known obsession when in Maynooth regarding seminarians’ erections, wet dreams; jokes involving anal sex with children; psychological games; etc.
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Yep, and that kind of stuff should have been picked up on and acted on PDQ. I guarantee you that people will have known these things, and wondered a bit about them, but then decided – yes, decided ! – not to follow them up and find out what was really happening. It takes a seminarian to have the courage and guts to tell about them, probably at great personal cost to him given the power imbalances in this whole thing. What is as important about this whole matter – Prior’s peccadilloes and predilections are probably secondary in this matter – is that nobody thought to act on what they could see, hear and smell, but rather chose – yes, chose ! – not to do anything. That’s irresponsible, callous, careless and probably actionable because these were people with a duty of care, which they signally failed to carry out.
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Sur, thatβs been the way of doing business for years! Nothing new.
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Read 8:18 pm’s comments in order to dissipate your perplexions as to how Prior has moved with impunity.
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When it comes to safeguarding, who is safeguarding who? Can the church be trusted to police itself?
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Please….”who is safeguarding whom”…..standards, please !
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11:04
Standards! Standards!
Standards are an irrelevancy. Visit Gaynooth to find out more about, standards!
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The βfruitβ of Connolly, Prior, Collins, Mullaney, et al. has been nothing but scandal, deviancy and chaos. Maynooth is not fit for purpose. Add Mullaneyβs recent βJesus was a racistβ announcement. Close it down and send itβs merry crew packing.
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Connolly, Mullaney and Prior have deliberately attempted to pervert the Irish priesthood into their own murky, confused image.
The nadir of 2016 was their responsibility, and theirs entirely.
Diarmuid Martinβs recent calling time on Maynooth and Rome just indicates the destruction wrought on the Irish Church by these morons.
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The legacy of Connolly, Mullaney and Prior has been nothing but poison.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/world/2016/aug/02/gay-sex-allegations-ireland-priest-st-patricks-college
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Part of the problem though was Diarmuidβs own students β βGorgeousβ Byrne, Derwin β¦.
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10:21
Re your βracistβ comment. Subtlety and nuance may not be your favourite approach.
In the Hebrew Bible there were at least two observable strands when it came to Jewish views of non-Jews which crystalized after the exile. One, as in Exra-Nehemiah took the view that the Lord was God of Jews only. The other, as in Deutero-Isaiah adopted a universalist perspective.
It would be strange if either did not figure in Jesusβ early formation.
It would be an anachronism to use the term βracismβ for the former since the concern was primarily theological and not anthropological.
It would also fall within the boundaries of poetic licence for a preacher to use the word βracistβ to enable his/her audience to connect their experience with what might otherwise be thought of as obstruse biblical facts.
I was present at the carol service. It was a well-delivered reflection. Not only that, but given that we are still discussing it in February, it was successful.
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Hello Fanny.
You are an agnostic at best; atheist at worst.
Well done on your “fine legacy”: POISON!
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How has Mullaney’s homily been successful 10:57 am? Has it resulted in an increase in numbers of prospective seminarians? No.
Has it done anything to ameliorate Maynooth’s reputation? No; it has only worsened it.
Your comment was just an opportunity for you to parade your apparent “superior knowledge” relative to the poor “uneducated plebs.”
You are inflated with intellectual pride.
I get far more from listening to a humble preacher on YouTube with no theological education or training than I would from listening to Mullaney’s nonsense.
Maynooth stopped preaching God’s Word a long time ago.
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10:57am – as an aul fella over the field here would say – βyer talkin a load of shiteβ.
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10:57am – youβre definitely one of Fannyβs kittens . Purrrrrr. Prrrrrr. Meeeeeeow.
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Captain Underpants has left a trail of destruction after him.
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Yes. The Irish College, Maynooth and now the Jesuits.
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Funny thing is, no one has actually proved jack shit, Thats the prob! Everyone running to throw dirt and accusation and then you look at the above and itβs clear β¦ smear campaign! Made up people with made up emails hence why the Safeguarding officer can only substantiate one which was a previous one and that was dealt with, so here we go again β¦ change record. Sick of the same old same, are you ever happy?
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10:42 am
The Safeguarding Officer confirmed that the Jesuits are investigating a current internal complaint against Prior.
Letβs not try to muddy the waters here now.
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10.36: Would you ever go out and work your energy on soup runs for the homeless and yield fruitful good works for the comfort of the poor and forgotten..Go on bishop, go on, go on, go on… You are smearing people and prejudicing ongoing investigations. Outrageous Bucccckeeelleeelle. Go on now and do something really worthwhe. There are lots of vacancies for volunteers for soup runs up your Larne Way….
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11:21, he never shows up to any commemorations that we have or services.
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11:21
The Institutional Church has an overdose of superior sounding, intellectual snobs, full of intellectual pride,
with endless amounts of godtalk.
Meanwhile, moral bankruptcy is rampant within the Institution, for all of their guff. Not to be taken seriously.
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That’s not the “funny” thing. The “funny” thing is 20 – 30 years coverup by the Brady Bunch.
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The other βfunnyβ thing is how Maynooth deal with complainants: interrogate their friends and either chuck them out or pressure them to leave; blacken the complainant with every slander under the sun.
Such is the modus operandi of Maynooth that seminarians have to resort to anonymous letters for fear of similar treatment.
Itβs a warped dynamic and was a dream environment for perverts like Prior.
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Nah the βcurrentβ one is Joe Maynooth revisited.
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11:04 am.
Sorry to have to disabuse you of your erroneous notion, but Saoirse Fox confirmed to me that the Jesuits are investigating a contemporary complaint made against Prior.
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10.57 sounds like the spokesperson for a right-wing religious rag whose tones are as recognisable and unwelcome as loud greeting early in the morning.
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@11:04 am. Funny how the so called ‘liberals’ always try to politicize issues regarding abuse.
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This person still refuses to put his name to the letter. It must be safe to do so now? It suggests that the person has NO integrity, backbone or evidence.
There’s an old saying that if a lie is told often enough, it becomes the truth. Actually, it doesn’t. What happens is that people simply start believing that it’s true.
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The letter was true.
Look at what has happened since: Gannon β gone; Marshall β gone; McElroy β gone; Byrne β wilderness; Derwin β laicized; etc.
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11:36 am. You are deluded mate.
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The letter was wrong because it specifically stated that
1. Seminarians were having sex in each others rooms – it has been refuted by the seminarian involved. The other seminarian who made the initial allegation withdrew it because, and I quote, βhe thought that something was going onβ.
2. Seminarians are on Grindr – the newspaper who broke the story, never supplied one bit of evidence that seminarians were on Grindr. It just said they were. No profiles, no screenshots, no lay people making accusations, nothing. So yes the letter was wrong!
12:57 – what you are referring to is the which hunt which followed the initial false letter. Pat decided to throw dirt at the seminarians listed until it stuck. Same old story…
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Diarmuid Martin did a pontius pilate and washed his hands of it all because he cannot stand up to Pat. FACT.
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1:21, You are deluded.
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1:21 pm.
Pat didn’t through dirt on anyone. The dirt wasn’t generated by him.
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@1:21 pm.
The bishops didn’t get rid of the mentioned individuals without evidence.
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@1:35 pm. I donβt think so. There is one thing about the Irish bishops, they wonβt be told what to do by anyone.
Those mentioned seminarians, deacon, and ex-priest arenβt as culpable though as Connolly, Mullaney and Prior.
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What happened to Deacon Sean Jone?
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@2:19pm. The very fact that Jones was ordained is proof that the bishops aren’t influenced by Pat.
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1:51
Who needs evidence when you have a blog like this? When seminarians and priests attract negative attention, they (the bishops) throw them under the bus and protect themselves. Just because the named individuals are gone does not mean there is truth to the rumours. They simply became too burdensome for Bishops like Diarmuid and Eamonn Martin. They protect themselves…ALWAYS!!!
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@2:41 pm.
Fr David Marsden, a real priest, had the principle and integrity to speak out about Maynooth and prove his disgust by leaving.
https://www.lumenfidei.ie/maynooth-cesspool-of-liberal-theology-and-heterodoxy/
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2:30
It is not proof. Only ONE Bishop (Ray Browne) had the courage to stand up Pat Buckley. Pat was disempowered in Kerry as opposed to being empowered by Diarmuid Martin in Dublin. Diarmuid allowed Pat to decide who gets ordained for his diocese and thus lost all his seminarians because of it.
Jesus wept.
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Don’t forget also that Ireland has lost a genuine vocation in Conan McGonagle to the FSSP because of all those wasters.
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Gaynooth’s anthem should be Alice Cooper’s ‘Poison’. LOL!π€£π€£π€£
https://www.google.ie/amp/s/www.irishtimes.com/news/social-affairs/religion-and-beliefs/atmosphere-at-maynooth-poisonous-says-seminarian-1.2746828%3fmode=amp
https://www.google.ie/amp/s/www.irishmirror.ie/news/maynooth-college-seminary-poisonous-claims-8571079.amp
https://www.thejournal.ie/maynooth-atmosphere-grindr-poisonous-2911475-Aug2016/
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10:06
I am neither a Jesuit nor a priest. But I am a fair-minded observer who calls out humbug.
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1:57
I have provided various bishops with sensitive evidence I have not published on this blog.
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Isn’t it ‘funny’, no person in position of power was ever charged with criminal conspiracy
in covering up child rape and protectioning child rapists! That’s very very ‘funny’.
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Who mentioned “child rape”?
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11.36
Where have you been for the last 30 years re cover ups?
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https://www.jesuit.org.uk/simple-and-dramatic-first-vows
Have a read of this … who is quoted and ask why! Because nothing thatβs why. I am also led to believe something is not right here. If there is something internal going on, why was the naked individual quoted in an article recently by the Jesuitβs? This blog has made reference to this before this, so why would they want to quote a person that is meant to be investigated? Mid summer murders gone to the head!
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It’s means nothing 11:10 am.
It’s dated 2nd January 2019 – over one year ago.
You are definitely scraping the bottom of the barrel now! Desperate?
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Where has this blog made reference to this before?
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The cutting of the cake looks like a gay wedding π
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11:10, are ya well? are ya? do ya be well in the head?
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Away back down to Moore St yβaul waggin!
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typical diversion 11:10 am. Did ya think weβd miss the date?
Ya shouldβve gone to specsavers!π€£π€£
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Liar Prior underpants on fire 11:10am!ππππ
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Who are the runners and riders for the Dublin job?π
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Ponsies back in the race. Mandatory cold showers for everyone.
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11.53: Bishop Buckley I believe is in the ring -( but only to try sumo wrestling with Phonsie).
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Now!:Now! Dont be disrespectful of my lovely Fons Fons
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4:13
Phonsie and sumo wrestling , no! More a tiddlywinks, man.
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My Timmyβs not interested in the job. Heβs far too busy.
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Fonzie wonzie is neck an neck with Timmy.
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MC Hammered runners to replace Dermo are possibly a lot of the usual we have seen here before but I would think Pope Francis would go for a Pastoral Guy so maybe Leahy, Nulty or a total Suprize. Couldn’t see Francis appointing Tighe. Doran OR phonsie. Rome really needs to get it right. Their are some good guys in the Arch itself who would be great.
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Anyone but Ciara OβCarroll. She has caused enough trouble in Rome.
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Lenny Maloney SJ – or will the Prior scandal bring her down?
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Fair play to Msgr Carroll for getting rid of Fitz and Gannon.
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3:05
The truth will come about Msgr Ciara in the not to distant future. Watch this space!
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Yeah, yeah 3:15 pm aka Ciaran Gannon. Go post your puke elsewhere.
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Nulty might be considered too young for the job but would bring a lot to it. He doesnβt seem to go in for the self-promotion as much as some others either. Still missed in Meath.
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Nulty. Skeletons ?
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Bishop Buckley, I have raised a few serious concerns to the UK Nuncio, Edward Adams in Wimbledon. It regards Canon David Oakley, soon to be Bishop of Northampton during his time as head of Oscott College in Birmingham. My letters and then emails and then telephone calls have all been cast aside like an oily rag. This man must not be ordained a bishop. The Nuncio needs to at least make him sign something on his day of ordination because this is so serious. I’m concerned that Cardinal Nichols and Archbishop Roche in Rome are pushing for this.
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They often deliberately ordain unsuitable as bishops.
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Hi Marsden,
Go read HUMANAE VITAE. You are safe there.
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You are a friend of Marsden and the Nuncio doesnβt live in Wimbledon.
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Adams most certainly lives in Wimbledon. Heβs hardly a resident of Hackney. Fool
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The Nuncio lives on a council estate in Battersea. Isnβt that what Jesus would do!
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Is Roche still in Rome? He has no job there after messing up the language of the new translation of the Missal. What the hell role does he have? The good people of Yorkshire hate him after his hatchet job in Leeds.
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My understanding is that Oakley has an interesting and colourful past, which you wouldnβt normally expect of a bishop to be. Well, so did Kieran Conry, and anybody with any sense knew about his womanising, but they ordained him. So, maybe extra-curricular activities donβt count any more in the criteria for choosing a Roman Catholic, celibate, bishop ? Iβm not so sure that the intelligence services of the Papal Nuncios and the Vatican are that impressive and exhaustive, and they often just donβt know about things. I know a prospective bishop who had fathered a child, but they didnβt know about it, until he told them about it ! There have been a few prospective bishops who have had the sense to βfess up before the hands are laid upon them, and withdraw, and save us all a lot of embarrassment. For, I assure you, if there is dirt about, and you put your head above the parapet by becoming a bishop, you will certainly get a face full of crap and be in very choppy waters.
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has Albus been married yet? will he be kept on by AoD?
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Pat, commentary is way too long today -too many comments β very difficult to keep up with material today. bear in mind for future.
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Perhaps. But massive interest
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Pat. I have some information about the the Provincial of a British Religious Order who has frequented gay saunas. Who is the best person to send this to? In addition I have specific information about an a actively gay Priest from
a Scottish Diocese who has brought young man back to his Presbyteries for sex , that I wrote to the Bishop about and didnβt receive a reply. Is it Rome or the UK Nuncio for both? Thanks
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You can try both but you will probably get nowhere. You could tell them if they dont act you will send the info to this blog.
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UK Adams Nuncio covers Ecosse too at Wimbledon. Better send it to the wombles of wimbledon instead. Who remeners the song: Underground, overground wombling free, the wombles of wimbledon common are we
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Provincial of a British Religious Orderβ¦.oooohhh, I bet I know who that is !
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Yeah. And, ‘Remember Your a Womble’. The nuncs chorus.
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lots of revelations today. keep them coming lads
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mmmm Conny lingus π
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cunning lingus more like it.
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have you any info, Conny?
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Archdiocese of Glasgow β plenty of gay scandals to come out.
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Stop talking shite. Proof. If not. Shut up
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Tell us more. Of no proof then shut up poof. The Scotland (allegedly) all talk shite with no proof.
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Adams retired yesterday
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8:46 & 8:48
Girls, calm down.
Donβt go getting your knicks in a twist.
Is there something to be concerned about?π³
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