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DICK GIBBONS THINKS KNOCK IS SECRET WEAPON TO TURN THE IRISH BACK INTO CATHBOTS 😁

“Knock is a miracle that keeps giving. In just three years, this small shrine on the periphery of Europe has raised a whopping €13.4m in donations and pledges to finance a much-needed structural and spiritual revamp. Some €11.4m has been used to refurbish the 40-year-old basilica which had become dated and worn”.

(Sarah Mcdonald – Irish Independent)

Dick Gibbons is the RCC PP of Knock and the general manager of “Knock Casino”.

In the video above Dick gives us an insight into the way he thinks:

The two referenda – same sex marriage and abortion – represent Ireland turning down a bad, non Catholic road.

Knock is the primary Defender of The Faith of Our Fathers.

Irish RCC resurgence will come from Knock with Mary being the new Queen Maeve.

Knock will defeat the referenda heretics and schismatics.

Saint Dick himself, like Louis Marie De Montfort before him, is Mary’s 21 st century social and spiritual warrior.

The 13.5 million raised by Dick is part of raising up the new Blue Army of which he is the 4 starred General.

Its weapons of Mass reconstruction will be Novenas, missile like candles, extra powerful holy water from Mayo bogs, jet arrivals into Horan by bishops, cardinals and popes and all the Marian weaponry, primed and hidden in underground basilicas.

The Holy Water Hens will continue to fund the war with Mass Offerings, Novena Enrolments, the purchase of pictures of Frank and the appropriate clauses in wills.

The Ireland of Garrett Firzgerald, Enda Kenny (the local heretic) and Lovely Leo will be crushed under General Dick’s stirrups and Mary’s heel.

John Charles McQuaid and Eamon Devalera will rise from their tombs to reinstall the 1937 Constitution.

Noel Brown’s corpse will be uninterred and strapped to a Legion of Mary banner and displayed at the 15th Station.

And Ireland will return to the holy, pure, chaste, child loving, Magdalen loving place it was from 1923 until 1970.

The Christian Brothers will be flooded with new meat eating members from the Kerry and Mayo mountains.

Kilnacrott Abbey in Cavan will reopen as the National Shrine of Saint Maria Goretti for youth.

The Kremlin will announce that Annie and Peter Murphy were Russian propaganda inventions and Eamon Casey will be the patron Saint of Catholic orphanages country wide.

Mary will reveal that Michael Cleary’s kids with his housekeeper were immaculate conceptions.

Dick will be made Bishop of Galway and later succeed Kevin Doran as archbishop of Dublin.

Dick will sell archbishop’s house to the GAA for 300 million and pay off DM’s air flight bills with interest.

Sean Brady’s Dundalk interviewees will be made Papal Counts and publicly forgive Brady on Paddy Reilly’s Bridge in Ballyjamesduff.

Amy Martin will elope with the Armagh child safety officer Gay Gordon and have a same sex marriage in the former Loreto Chapel in Dublin presided over by humanist solemniser Ryan Tubridy with Mary McAleese and John Waters as witnesses.

And they will all live happy ever after…NOT!

CARDINAL GIBBONS

Cardinal Gibbons once told a very shocked cleric that he didn’t believe the pope was infallible.

“Why”? the shocked cleric asked.

“Because every time he meets me he says Hello Cardinal Gibbins” said Gibbons.

185 replies on “DICK GIBBONS THINKS KNOCK IS SECRET WEAPON TO TURN THE IRISH BACK INTO CATHBOTS 😁”

Why does the Roman Church always refer to a cost as an ‘offering’? That is what is said here of lighting candles at Knock: ‘Suggested offering: €2’.

It is just a cute way of lying, because ‘offering’ implies that the money is voluntary, a donation, when in fact it is nothing of the sort.

It is also how priests speak of payment for Masses: an an ‘offering’.

Truth is that Romanists charge for God’s grace; they always have. It was in large part the cause of the Protestant Reformation.

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Has Paisley been let out of Hell? He’s the only one I’ve ever heard talking about “Romanists”.

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I’m not. I’ve had so much abuse over so many years now – it is water off a duck’s back.

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And to think that Pat teamed up with this lot on homosexuality and the priesthood. I knew nothing good would come of it…for Pat.
But look on the bright side! 😃 We are all going to Hell…according to ‘Athanasius’, the right-wing, cod-theological blogger, and kindred spirit of the doctrinally poleaxed, Patricia McKeever.
And here is that damnably damning judgement by ‘Athanasius’:
Hence this man (Pat) and his followers do not represent anything remotely holy and they will…assuredly perish in eternity unless they repent of their filth and rebellion against God and His Spotless Bride, the Church.’
Spotless bride? The Roman Church? 😕 Hilarious! 😅
‘Athanasius’, you poor and utter fool, where have you been for the last 25 years? 😳

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I have just read this newsletter really carefully. I could have missed it, but amidst all the focus on a very legalistic approach to faith, nowhere did I read anything about the love and compassion of God. I kept thinking about those Jesus likened to “whitewashed sepulchres”. My Catholic truth and faith feels very different from the one expressed in this newsletter. I support absolutely the right to free speech and find myself in agreement with some of what is written about the possible cover-up over former Cardinal McCarrick. But if heaven is a place of legalistic self-righteousness, it’s not the place where, sinner that I am, I feel I will fit in.

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@10:13 have you tried Anglicanism. You can believe whatever you like there and it might make you happier?

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11.30

Did CTS give you the day off?

It isn’t about belief; its about self-sacrificial love, when all is said and done. Stuff like kindness, mercy, compassion, forgiveness, getting along with sh*the*ds like you.

This all is going over your cranium, isn’t it? 😕

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Lol, you-know-who talking about mercy and compassion and then calling people shitheads (why the coy “*”s?) in the same sentence. 😂🤣😂

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12.13
I do apologise for omitting, from the litany of Christian virtues in my previous post, something of quintessential importance: truthfulness.
And I should have been less than truthful (and less Christian, too 😇) had I referred to the poster in any higher way.
A spade IS a spade, isn’t it? 😕
Not a ceremonial shovel. 😉

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Pat, she says that you misunderstood the Wee Scottie Day. According to Patricia that was meant to be a debate on Scottish matters on her blog with you as a guest, rather than you sounding off on your blog about her blog.

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Isn’t this little sycophant the one who interviewed (lionised) Phonsie?
It is really sad to see an Irish person so young…and so self-deluded about Romanist clergy.

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You wouldn’t refer to a man as a little sychophant. She is small because she is a young, slim female.

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6.28

You make a massive presumption about me. I suppose this is easier than having to admit you were wrong about me. And you are.

Yes, I would refer to a sychophantic man in precisely the same way, because ‘little’ in this case refers not to stature, but to personality. That was another presumption by you. And again, you were wrong.

You berk. (Not a presumption: a statement of fact. 😎)

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And little did these emotionally bouyant, expectant two know how much an utter, humiliating flop the so-called ‘World Meeting of Families’ was going to be. 😅

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Until the ‘rona, Knock had more pilgrims than ever. It was booming. Fr Richard will similarly rejuvenate Tuam when he is Archbishop.

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@11:56 who da fook goes camping on the bogs of Mayo for a holiday among the midges? You must be a right tightwad. At least you’d be a cheap date – “can I invite you back to my tent for a coffee? I got a new gas canister for the primus earlier” 🍵🏕️🌋🌄🌧️⚡

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11.42

Pilgrims? Now that’s a strong word. Are you sure they all were pilgrims? Weren’t many of them just curious? Or tourists looking for a cheap holiday in one of the camping sites. This was me a few years ago, when I brought an aunt and uncle there for a long weekend. The aunt did her devotions, but the uncle and I couldn’t have cared less about the place; in fact, it nauseated me with its mixture of sentimental piety, huxterism, and blatant superstition.

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11.21
We stayed in a mobile home for the duration. I use ‘duration’ deliberately, since it suggests how I spent the period: as an unmitigated endurance.
When I booked a home there, the catalogue said there were tvs provided, but actually none were…in the mobile homes themselves. There was just one tv on site for all the unhappy campers, in a dingy and damp room.
I couldn’t help but think the deception was quite deliberate: to keep people out of the homes to attend devotions, and to explore the holy kitch on sale in one or more of the shops on main street.
The place had the tawdry atmosphere of a downmarket…well, market.
Fond memories of Knock.

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The pilgrim numbers are derived from the number of sacred hosts distributed. Fr Gibbons explained that to the papers. He said there is a complex mechanism for counting, the same as is used in Lourdes and Fatima. Penny-pinching so-called holidaymakers in tents and caravans with their thermos flasks and packed lunches are not part of the published pilgrim total.

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Galway appointments out, Bishop Pat:
https://galwaybayfm.ie/galway-bay-fm-news-desk/bishop-of-galway-announces-diocesan-changes-for-2020/
The former Redemptorist officially given his appointment, which means he is believed and the cover-up continues. It really does pay to have money and connections in the Irish church. All the priest’s and people that he spread slander and lies about, but, most of all, his predatory behaviour is swept under the carpet. I just pray he has reformed, but psychiatry and past patterns would suggest otherwise. He will cost Galway a lot of money yet. Does the Irish church ever learn? There will so many upset people in Galway today knowing he has got away with everything. Meanwhile, the Redemptorists are ecstatic they managed to dump their little problem on the Galway Diocese. On another note, the minister for setting up committees about committees, continues his relentless pastoral expansion in Galway City East. He is a nice guy, but somehow manages to get the diocese to do his bidding, even buying a former hotel in Doughiska to set up a church and community centre in. The wife said to me this evening, ‘he will end up like that lad in Belarus at this rate, the unelected pastoral dictator’.

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The redemptorists are very good at dumping their dysfunctional “brethren”. They offloaded one on Down and Connor also.

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Galway lost a priest to Arundel & Brighton because of him and he made life hell for a sucession of other Galway priests who have needed counselling. It was a red letter day for the Reds when they unloaded him to Galway.

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That’s definitely Pat’s writing style. I remember it well from his News of the World column, and it is in the knockabout style the old blog had before a certain person arrived and chased the funny people away and introduced a ton of invective.

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11.14: News of the World… Gutter trash written by gutter journos, slapper style and crass. Not a brain between them: -150 for their intelligence…

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5 million readers. And a source of income for 11 years for the Bishop of Larne.

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A&B is now being run by priests from Nigeria and other parts of the Third World. + Moth will take anybody. Well, anything usually goes down there in A&B. Lots of clergy boys like to be down near the coast. Lots of distractions for the day(s) off.

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11.45

‘The Third World’?

OMG! 😲

That is sooo unPC. 😕

It’s ‘the developing world’ these days. 😇

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11.38

You must have been an avid reader, then, to give an account of the paper that isn’t so much impressionistic as utterly familiar. 😄

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Any journalist will tell you that it takes more skill to write for a tabloid than for a broadsheet.
Did you write for the Sunday World or was that Darcy’s domain?

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Darcy did well out of the Sunday World. They supplied the Merc and fixed the big end when it went after going to too many celebrity funerals.

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Jesus Pat that’s some poem 😂 well done boy.
What got me was water from the Mayo bogs ! Sure the water in Sligo is holier 😂

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The new Scottish seminarian is off all of his social media and no doubt trying to hide all of his selfies? He hasn’t been seen in his home parish since last week’s news and now I hear he is on retreat before he heads to the Eternal City!

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No, no. no. no, no……the future is Littleton…..only he can be our salvation….in with ill matched maniples….long live incorrect liturgical flourishes….give us the high pitched screech…..deliver unto us the conveniently packaged mechanistic trite that will be our infallible teaching….be our salvation, Fr Peter……we need more Littletwats like you……the future is bright, the future is Tooting Bec……sod all that Irish nonsense in Knock……

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…there are no tipping up chairs in Tooting Bec….perish the thought….just good old wooden benches….splinters in the arse sort of thing….the only other distraction is the swishing maniple of Fr Littletit…..I have to keep trying to guess what colour it is and whether it is liturgically correct…..well, given that most of his liturgical manoeuvrings are made up…..needs to go and do a proper course if he is going to swan around swishing the maniple and spouting chapter and verse……

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It’s curious that Dick Gibbons refers to the pope as the ‘supreme pontif’. I thought no one used such archaic terminology anymore. It takes you back a bit, to the time when every Catholic in Ireland knew his place…submissively at the feet of a priest. Any priest, even the many paedophiles among them.

Dick, if you are hoping for a faith revival in Ireland (for a return, in droves, to that good ole old-time religion), you need to update your lexiconic wardrobe. The stuff you parade about in now is so passé.

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11.24
Burst into tears? 😢
Are you kidding me? 😕
Burst out laughing, more like. 😅
Both Dick, and the Vatican, are on a losing wicket with terminology of that sort.
No need to wonder why the so-called ‘World Meeting of Families’ was such a monumental flop in Ireland just two years ago: the Vatican, and dear old Dick Gibbons, just keep wearing yesterday’s styles. And fewer and fewer are impressed. 😅😅

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1.57
And the title originally denoted a pagan high priest in Ancient Rome.
Good to know that the current ‘Pontifex Maximus’ is continuing that pagan tradition of bridge building…all the way to Hell. 😅 And it shows, doesn’t it? In the relentless drip-drip of sexual revelations about the Church, and her priests?
Pagan through and through. 😨

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11:24am
Burst out laughing all you like, you and your lot couldn’t raise a penny and are so jealous that Fr Gibbons raises millions with no bother at all God Bless him. May Our Lady of Knock Queen of Ireland crush under Her heal all the Buckbots,apostates,heretics and begrudgers like She did with the serpent.

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She didn’t do a good job. The serpent is more powerful than ever especially in the RCC.

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12:30
Bella, is Fr. Gibbons running a lottery or working for a bank? Jesus had nothing.
You’ve lost the plot !

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Wheat and chaff, Pat, and tares in the vineyard. All will be sorted at the Last Trump.

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“Dick will sell archbishop’s house to the GAA for 300 million and pay off DM’s air flight bills with interest.“
I don’t think 300 million would pay half of his bills Pat 😂

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1:07pm

No you’ve lost the plot, Fr. Gibbons is in charge of the Shrine and we are all happy to support him. Our Lord may have been poor on earth, He is now King of Kings and Lord of Lords and no amount of money is enough to worship Him or venerate His Holy Mother. The Lord loves a cheerful giver,, we are not all cheapskates like you.

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The “movements” and the “quangoes” and the “business modellers” (Big Five) will “be so sorry” anyone would get “optics” about that price. Such simplistic thinking will get us nowhere.
We need some Dicasteries’ penthouses, some enclaves more “offshore” than Ireland is, and some “registered companies”, in there somewhere, all of them with “parallel” sets of accounts that don’t “add up” and that don’t need auditing till 2090.

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Patricia from CSC has published an article claiming that +Pat and his followers do not represent anything remotely holy and we will all perish in eternity. Her website is full of gossip and criticisms of the holy mother Church, she likes nothing better than a scandal and she follows this blog regularly, so that makes her one of us. See you there the. Patricia. Following some Latin and lace camp old Queens will not save your soul. Your outing of a certain gay brother Priest friend of mine a few years ago drove him to attempting suicide, that’s the kind of person you really are you horrible old lady. We all know that you are a repressed old lesbian with your own agenda. I feel sorry for you.

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So what’s your surname, “Fr James” so that we can inspect your hard drive. Even when you delete Grindr it leaves traces, as does your deleted search history.

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Pope Francis, no Latin and lace man he, says your gay priest friend should not have been ordained, and should not have been admitted to a seminary.

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4:02
The Master also mentioned millstone, harm and children.
Anything can be rationalized, justified and tolerated, as the numerous reports into abuse illustrate.

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Jesus, Mary and Joseph! Lol
There’s me feelin a bit guilty for getting annoyed with people, and you lot are bitching and clawing away on your scratchers 😂
Lol I’ve just popped the kettle on and I’ve got the biccies out. Sod it lol.
As my old man used to say, “I ain’t one to gossip, as you well know, but that one from number 107B is with a new fella…….. Etc.”

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Instead of tweeting about our enemies, let’s pray for them: “That Patricia may become holier than I, provided I become as holy as I should, Jesus, grant me the grace to desire it.” —Litany of Humility

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It’s rock bottom at ground zero needing hard graft to bring renewal.Hard graft! Unpack.
How faithful are the faithful, says he. When the faithful were very faithful, with up to 90% attending church regularly, look what the clergy and hierarchy were playing at….
How faithful were, are, the priests and bishops? If Fr. Gibbons is considered bishop material God help us. He’s talking boring aul tosh to a young budding media cailin.

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12.04

When Gibbons asked how faithful are the Faithful what he meant was ‘how true are they to their priests?’.

People like Gibbons never learn. And the older they become, the less likely they are ever to learn.

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2.18
And who defines Catholicism?
Those who apparently have the ‘fulness of priesthood’ : the bishops.

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Is 12:04 a middle-aged white man offended by a young woman having the impertinence to break into the media? Should she be at home washing the dishes and darning socks?

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3:04
Not necessarily.
But she should learn to ask tough questions of her interlocutors.

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5:13
The bishops! 😂
Who cannot be trusted-the bishops. 😯
Pick and mix Catholicism as covering up by bishops highlights.😜
Gibbons failed to mention the Irish Church is at rock bottom primarily due to clerical and hierarchical moral corruption, as well as covering up and criminality. 😝

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6.45

On about?

SERIOUS journalism, I should think.

Propaganda doesn’t count as such.

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Pat, I’m sure you’ve seen the episode of Father Ted where three bishops go to Craggy Island to upgrade the Holy Stone of Clonrickerd to a 2nd class relic? One leaves in an ambulance to have the Holy stone removed from his back passage, another leaves in a coffin and the other, after several conversations with Fr Dougal, realises it’s all a load of codology and that he doesn’t believe a word of it. So off he goes and joins a hippy commune.

I’ve a feeling something like no 3 will happy when Coddle actually retires. He will appear in a tie dye tee shirt, cut offs and loafers, join a free love community and declare the church to be all a load of codswallop!

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1:21
Well, we had Michael Ledwith, the International Theological Commission member,
go from Gaynooth to The Ramtha School of Enlightenment.
Key in Dr. Michael Ledwith to Youtube for your entertainment. An almighty crock of…

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Well, whad’Ya know!
We’re living in the hamburger universe according to Dr. Leadwith.
How yankee doodle dandy does that sound.
And, there was me thinking all along, the universe was a battered sausage circled by three onion rings! Silly me.

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Very humourous but a lot of accuracy also at 1:21pm. DM is not a holy, spiritual, pastoral man. He’s a bureaucrat and he was happy for years, swanning and mooching around Rome and Europe, as a fonctionaire of the Holy See.

That role suited him because he didn’t have to do anything much “spiritual” or “religious”. He didn’t have to say Mass all that often.

At the same time, he was dressed to the gills in the trappings of a Catholic prelate. As the saying goes, “get the name for rising early and you can lie all day”.

He was known as a Catholic prelate but, alas, like so many of them, faith and belief didn’t come into it. It was a “career”.

How he managed as a diplomat though is anyone’s guess for he is a very rude, ignorant and intolerant man.

There is a well known story about him that Dermot Ryan wanted him home from Rome to take up a parish appointment in Dublin in the 1970s. The young DM threw such a hissy fit and strop that he was allowed to stay in Rome and the rest is history.

His vocation, again like so many of his ilk, was not to serve in a parish. God didn’t call him to serve the parishioners of Dublin diocese but to rub shoulders with the inhabitants of an altogether more ratified atmosphere.

He doesn’t care about Dublin – hence his carelessness – and playing fast and loose – with the resources of the diocese. He doesn’t give a tuppence of a damn about the future of the church in Dublin.

Even his much vaunted “concern” for the abuse victims was from the teeth outwards. All part of the fraudulence and the putting on of the performance.

“Strange goings on” how are ya and “revolting truth” is right!

Okolo, if you’re reading this, take careful note. Dublin diocese is on the ground. Whoever comes after DM it will be handy if raising the dead is among his gifts.

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A very good summary of Dermo the desk man. His Vatican jobs in Geneva could have been filled readily by a suitably qualified lay person. Dublin and its priests will seem very drab to Dermo after his Geneva life. It’s no wonder he always looks like he has the weight of the world on his shoulders.

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Same with that other airport bishop, Noel Treanor, lifted from Brussels to boring old Belfast. That also was a job for a lay person. Cynical old Joe Duffy pulled strings to give Noel that job.
Noel and Dermo would love to have their old lives back.

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Coddle had to brush up on his Mass saying when he came back to “clean up” Dublin. I’d say the oratory in AB House saw and sees little action.

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Interesting that Down & Connor say the coked up priest doesn’t live in their diocese or belong to them. Another injunction applied for.

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Is there a technical name for the apron?
(I am perfectly satisfied no such steampunk wear existed pre-council.)

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This is the world according to Littlewank. Looks pleased with himself, doesn’t he ? I think he needs bringing down a peg or two and made to realise that the priesthood is not a stage for him to cavort about and indulge his liturgical and theological fantasies. I think he treats the liturgy like a wankfest where he gets his jollies. He needs to grow up. A bit like mist of the Traddy tribe – Institute if Christ the King, TransAlpine Reds, Cong Orats, and various other tit ends.

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Ah he loves his biretta – makes him feel superior doing a self-styled Tina Turner type floor show homily – centre stage – not from the lectern – no, from the front of the sanctuary, in front of the tabernacle – he is no private dancer – homilies as inspiring as a damp rag with frayed edges. One place for this – the BIN.

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Looks like a Ming dynasty manequin.
What has this revolting dressage to do with the Gospel and the Kingdom of God!

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6:36 – and you’re not anonymous? Be kind? Who is Be kind when they are at home? Probably an ex-boyfriend? A fellow ONS – a Valladolid bed bunny? If that is you gorgeous go back to the wards where the people of Dublin paid for your education to enable you to become a “pastoral” care worker.

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All priests in the West dressed like that up until the mid 1970s. If you saw an Orthodox priest in his vestments you wouldn’t mock, which is an attitude far from the Gospel and the Kingdom of God.

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9.09, I probably only went to low masses. Overall it’s quite strange how experience of both before and after the council has been so different from one district to another. And the history of liturgical change is very different from place to place (as Pat’s contributors showed in recent weeks.)

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Pat, do you know the identity of that cocaine priest yet? Just wondering. If anybody knows then you would.

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Pat, someone is pulling your chain. There were no injunctions applied for or given – I checked the court lists and ICOS.

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5.47: Good news for Fr. Prior. God bless him. The barrage of nasty innuendo levelled against him on this vicious, hating blog is utterly immoral. All this hatred comes from dysfunctional individuals and morally bankrupt idiots.

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An outside bet for Dublin is Very Rev Richard Sheehy, Moderator of Glasnevin group of parishes and Vicar Forane. Cousin of Conor Cruise O’Brien, former PP Rathmines and former TCD chaplain.

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Why Pat? Because he’s as decent a man as you ever would meet and they don’t usually appoint men like him.

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Are you for real ? You must be on the bottle. Next thing you will be saying Martin Hogan. Sheehy was a singer in the chorus line in Coddle the Panto. We don’t need nor want Coddles arse lickers.

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Captain Underpants rides again! A great opportunity for Paul to practice what he has preached for all those years. He must be thrilled to be given the opportunity to work at the coalface as last !

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I’ve just checked the online Civil Courts’ lists of active Orders – my name is not listed.
How very bizarre.
I wonder why that is then?
Hmm

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Pat, any sign of tha dorty auld wan that comes around here roarin’ “are ye well in the head?” I’ve an auld coat here might do her for da winter. It’s hardly been worn at all. A lovely warm coat was got in Clery’s.

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Canon Hep, my Timmy has bet all our savings with Paddy Power on you NOT becoming the Archbishop of Dublin. He’s so confident of a windfall that he’s gone and bought that quiet little parish in the Antrim hills of which he’s always been dreaming.

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Ugh Bishop Pat, Juno it was like Belfast in them rare oul times so it was the other day on here so it was. Somdy mentioned thon big dean so they did.
Jesis Pat I miss thon big dean so I do

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