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SILVERSTREAM – A SUMMARY.

Kirby

The Charity Regulator in Ireland has received two formal complaints about Silverstream Priory.

The second complaint is from Robert Hourigan and he has received confirmation that they have begun to investigate.

The first investigation has been under way for a longer period.

There have been problems at Silverstream for a very long time.

Silverstream was the dream of Father Mark Kirby.

But Mark Kirby is not a well or stable man.

He is a homosexual man who have never fully accepted his sexual orientation.

Two people exist in Mark Kirby.

  1. The man who wants to be a monk and be holy.
  2. The man who has never resolved his sexuality.

He has been from country to country and from monastery and diocese to monastery and diocese.

He gets emotionally and sexually involved with men and that leads to great conflict in his own life, the life of others and the life of the monastery he is in.

Who is Lennoxtown?

He founded Silverstream with a very small number of younger men.

The current “Whistleblower Monk” became the target of Mark Kirby’s emotional and sexual advances.

No great sexual sin was committed but there were years of “loving” touches, “loving” messages

And on a number of occasions the younger monk claims that Mark Kirby sexually exposed his genitalia to him using excuses like having the monk find an insect bite!

Indecent exposure is a criminal offence.

Many people from Mark Kirby’s past have unpleasant memories of him and recall disturbing stories about him.

It seems that the former Bishop of Meath, Michael Smith, did not do proper checks into Kirby’s past and character.

And for the first ten years of Silverstream Smith conducted no visitations to see everything was alright.

Deenihan inherited the unhappy situation.

Money is another great concern. In the last 6 years Kirby has raised Euros 4,500,000

SCREENSHOTS FROM THE CHARITY REGULATIR WEBSITE.

It is claimed that Kirby kept a big drawer of cash in his office – thousands of euro.

Workers were paid under the counter without records being kept. Tax and VAT rules were flouted.

At least one instance of extortion / blackmail is alleged.

Kirby, a 68byear old guy man only allows under 35s to join

Alert!

So. The Charity Regulator has a great deal to look into.

Oh! By the way – the man in charge of the money during Kirby’s time was Dom Elijah – the new prior – who is not even a priest !!!

Dumb Elijah

135 replies on “SILVERSTREAM – A SUMMARY.”

Will this be in the Irish Catholic? Don’t they love doing features on monasteries like Hello! Magazine. At home with the Abbot type stuff. Or At Homo with the Abbot of Melleray type stuff.

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it is wrong that these HOLY MEN are being set upon fo the things they are the chosen ones by jedus and he never makes mistakes e we must listen to what these HOLY MEN are saying because Jedus is sauing it we will be judged

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2:30 am
Are you confusing Jesus with Judas? Not surprising.
The Irish Church has an abundance of the latter.

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@3:50: I think he’s just confused, …….in addition to other easily recognised traits!

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Pat, you have left out a very important zero. Over the last six years they have raised 4,595,645 Euro.

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I feel sorry for the people who donated, Bp Pat, particularly the ugly, old faghags, who gave their all for Kitty. They would have been better spending their money on Botox for their frog-like, leather-textured faces.

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He is dead at the moment but give it a few days and he’ll be back, as he said he would.

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Another concern is the ‘Annual Report and Audited Financial Statements’ to the Irish Charities Regulator having been strangely deleted from the Documents tab, so we cannot ascertain where the year-end balances went, e.g., are they carried forward to the next year’s statement or syphoned off somewhere else?

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There is also a question mark over the ownership of the priory and any surrounding land, e.g., is it owned outright by Silverstream or is it mortgaged?

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I am glad you now have someone like Mr Robert Hourigan to help you, Bp Pat, with these complicated scandals involving delinquent clergy.

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I wonder why he is hiding out in Silverstream. Funds must be low or he’s waiting for the storm to blow over. If half the stories are true he will face criminal charges.

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+Pat, you wrote in your blog recently this week would be a momentous week for monasteries in Ireland. I thought you were bluffing. You have not let us down. And we should not be surprised as there has been no leadership in the Irish church for decades. Monks, priests, bishops, and dare I say it some nuns have been doing what they like in Ireland for decades. Hourigan says he is in Kerry. +Ray is a disaster. Say no more.I send links to your blog to my brother. He is a solicitor. I wanted to know his views about Hourigan. He was impressed. He said either Hourigan is mad playing a very dangerous game where he could lose evething if +Purcell calls his bluff as the costs involved in court case in Dublin are so big or a cunning enemy that has the best legal advice money can buy. I am not sure. But the fact is has gone to the regulator and they are taking him seriously suggests he means business and has some evidence and I would not want him on my case.

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Rawhide Barebacker Purcell would not dare bring a case against anybody. He knows that what is being alleged is true and that there will be a horde of ponies that he has ridden in the past at places like the Boilerhouse that will come forward and say so. He has not a leg to stand on. Very rarely do church people sue because they know they will not be believed and the facts, when out, will condemn them. The only example of kickback that I have seen recently is the stuff in Liverpool where they have gone to court against some deluded, not well, guy. The optics of that are not great for them. Whether they are right or wrong. Purcell, Silverstream, Rory, Gorgeous, Kennedy, Dallat, the whole list, have not got a leg to stand on. If they have, then come forward and challenge what is being alleged. But, they won’t !

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9:03 am

Lets not overlook your mention of , dare I say it, ‘some nuns have been doing what they like in Ireland for decades.’ What are some of the nuns getting up to?

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More navel gazing. More revelations of the kind that we have become so used to. Surely there are more important things – or even entertaining things – that we could concentrate on than the Barebacking Abbot and the Twink Loving Prior ? I am of the view that these people exist these days in their own little dysfunctional bubble that does not interest the vast majority of people, and that if we just leave them alone they will sink in to ever increasing irrelevance until they are completely ignored as the rest of us get on with our lives. I worry that giving therm all this exposure just gives them a prominence that they no longer deserve and no longer hold in reality. Let them continue to exist in a downward spiral in their own oddness until such time as they die out, or just remain as a little historical footnote. Of course, if there is evidence of criminal activity – as perhaps in the financial shenanigans in Sliverstream – then that should be left to the statutory authorities. I don’t want to waste my time on this lot anymore. Now, any suggestions – serious ones – about what we might discuss ….?

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“Baby Daddy” is a common definition for BD on Snapchat, WhatsApp, Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram.

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@9:03
To be honest, I am not surprised you sent the link to your brother. The on-going lack of integrity on the part of Purcell does not come as a surprise. Yes, your brother is correct, I have access to the best legal advice money can buy, partly due to my family connection to Mount Melleray Abbey. The senior counsel that is providing the advice is married to an individual who has a close relative who was a monk and priest of Mount Melleray. As I have written before on this blog; he is scandalised by Purcell and even more scandalised by the on-going inaction of the Abbot General Eamon Fitzgerald. As I write these words, he is reviewing a lengthy letter that I have written to Fr. Fitzgerald. You never know, I might send a copy of it to Pat Buckley.
In the extremely unlikely event that Richard Purcell was stupid enough to bring proceedings against yours truly — yes, your brother is accurate in his description that I would face ruinous and crushing costs if I lost my case at the High Court in Dublin. In fact, I would have to sell a house, and at least 100 acres of land to satisfy Purcell’s legal bill. But, I have more than enough evidence to evidentially satisfy what I have repeatedly asserted.
However, I would wish to dissuade you that I am some moral crusader; I am not. Basically, I am seeking the resignation of Richard Purcell as the abbot of Mount Melleray Abbey; I will continue to make the case for his resignation until that event occurs. The only reason I wrote to the Charity Regulator about Silverstream is because several individuals have brought information to my attention as a result of this blog. They had concerns about Kirby and Purcell, so I was obligated to make the Regulator aware. Last evening, I received further information about the involvement of Abbot Brendan in the visitation, and that will have to be addressed to the Charities Regulator also over the next few days.
I am also waiting for an individual to get back to me about Purcell’s time as the a bit of Mount St. Joseph Abbey, and that, too, will have to be brought to the attention of the Charities Regulator, TULSA, and possibly the Teaching Council of Ireland. Again, this is going to continue getting increasingly ugly until certain people resign and the church follows its own norms and procedures.

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Is this whole eacapade a power trip on the part of R. Hourigan? If I believe someone should resign, they should resign.

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I wonder how The Priests are faring in lockdown ? Little chance to escape the parishes for the stage. Are they doing on screen stuff ? I’m sure there will be all sorts of saccharine shite nonsense being uttered by them about how painful it all is, how they are hanging in there by signing to themselves, by saying the rosary and praying the breviary, and all the sacrifices they have to make. What a load of tosh !

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9.59am What are you doing that is worthwhile during lockdown? Apart from talking shite and pouring out your scorn and poison that is
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Members of the catholic clergy have been instructed not to engage with this blog, nor with Pat Buckley. He is to be given no recognition nor acknowledgement. I agree! But it is a great daily read.

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“INSTRUCTED !” By whom?
If it was that crowd of hucksters also known bishops, nobody will take a blind bit of notice of them.

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Friends Re : “Inspector Taggart” and this Executor as far as know if this New “Jardine” being Executor that is strange as the only Priest that died recently was in Edinburgh and the late Priests family sorted everything out and he did not get buried in the Diocesan plot at mount Vernon.
Father Hugh did sadly have an addiction problem and was Priest in Residence for a while and sadly passed away few weeks ago.
As for Paisley Diocese nothing is going on father Joe has been made a Monsignor.
It is Glasgow everyone is worried about and the Leadership and given recent small changes of clergy is shocking and Rome is well aware of the situation in Glasgow.
Where is the Big plan that was to be complete over 4 years 2016 – 2020 yes nothing happened.
Inspector Taggart and Jardine maybe the same person LOL

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Illiterate gay Irishman living in Scotland has not gone away.
Is he getting enough sex in lockdown?
Are letters being posted to nuncios?

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What about the questions surrounding their sem? Why has Bishop John refused comment on the matter?

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Carluke 75. Bishop John has enough on his plate just now but if you are interested drop him an email bishopjohn@rcdop.org.uk
The Vocations Director Father John Morrison is self isolating so No Holy Masses in his two parishes for next 14 days.
Monsignor Joseph Burke has tested positive so is self isolating also the two curates at the Cathedral so NO Holy Masses there either.
Where is Bishop after all it is his Cathedral and dioceses.

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Paul D, the diocese seems to be falling apart. Priests with covid, a sem blackmailing his bishop and the bishop nowhere to be seen.

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10.36: Did you not hear – Robert Hourigan is to be the Grand Master – (of the bogs of Kerry): yippee…😉😉😉😙😉..yippee.. ☠☠☠☠☠..hurrah for the boggies…

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Can anyone explain why the fanfare when Fr. Richard was appointed and/or elected
Abbot of Mt. Melleray Abbey considering Mt. St. Joseph Roscrea is apparently a daughter-house of Mt. Melleray Abbey? Apparently, Dom Augustine McGregor
had been elected Abbot of Mt. Melleray Abbey in 2010 until 2014, having previously been Abbot of New Mellifont Abbey, another daughter house of Mt. Melleray Abbey.
Was there a similar fanfare following Dom Augustine’s election as Abbot ?
If not, why not? Also, I looked through the photos of the Inauguration of the New
Abbot in 2017 and could not see a photo of Dom Eamon. Was he not in attendance?

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It’s time to do a full blog on the Irish Dominicans.
In brief, they are split into two camps. One group tends to be liberal. The other conservative in public at least. These wear white stockings that are orthodpedic in design. Allegedly, the wearing of these means you sign up to the view that it’s better for members not to admit their homosexual orientation in public, but rather to adopt a publicly anti-gay position and a conservative political and theological stance – Benedict over Francis, Trump over Biden, ‘Alive’ over ‘Occasional Scribbles,’ porridge over cornflakes. Time to shine the bright light of publicity on to this arena.

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12.21
It’s bizarre you would describe as true sons of St Dominic those who say one thing in public and in private, do something else.
The motto is veritas.

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Actually the liberal op’s are quite homophobic. Yes the hate traditional liturgy and all the paraphernalia that goes with it. However they are also quite intolerant and homophobic. The occasional scribbles author for example is always ranting obsessively about homosexuality. One wonders if his employer, the HSE knows that.

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Maybe it’s the hypocrisy of the anti-gay in public and the opposite in private that people object to.

2:05

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@11.37 am

“It’s time to do a full blog on the Irish Dominicans”.

Agreed. One of them not a million miles from where this reply is been written is very “friendly” with Richard in Mount Melleray and was a visitor to Mount St. Joseph in the past.

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11 55: What a witch hunt Hooligan is engaging in!! Outrageous. Completely anathema to CHRIST and human decency. I’m friendly with gay people. Does that make me complict in any supposed wrong behaviour in the your mind? You are equating friendship in a sinister manner with your homophobia, for underneath your contempt for this monk lies your own personal hate for gay people. Utterly reprehensible. I am beginning to think that, with so many comments from Hooligan, he really is a bully at this stage. If he was truly interested in justice and truth he should, in charity, knock on the Abbey doorbell and sit quietly with The Abbot and argue the case for personal renewal. I guess that would require the bravest and highest ideals of Christian, ethical and moral courage. Easier to crucify someone through a blog and easier still to smash that person into the ground. Irrespective of the wrongful harm or miral transgressions (?) done by any cleric or monk, your perceived grievances are not grounds for waging a vendetta. You will have to have very reliable, substantive and validated proof of your allegations, otherwise you may be the one called to repentance.

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5:38 pm
Bella, what the hell are you going on about? Wise up, for the love of God.

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5.38: It’s a known truth that those who definitively expect the highest ideals and standards of others are often filled with many unrecognised sins, moral failings and imperfections. Those who define themselves as “true” followers of Christ are often very nasty, repulsive individuals and filled with pride.

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Bella love, why are you attacking Hourigan? Recently on this blog you called for the expulsion from the priesthood of men like Purcell and Collins. Have you changed your mind, then? Do you want these deviants and hypocrites to remain in place?

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Apart from the moral wrongs committed by The Abbot and the necessity for him personally to “repent and make amends and a contrite renewal” (if he is guilty) I find it difficult to comprehend why anyone would – if they think a lawsuit might follow – be acting now as judge, juror and executioner. Surely all the implicit bias, innuendo and prejudice expressed about this issue would make finding truth and justice almost impossible. Mr. Hourigan is certainly not a very Christian person in his onslaught on the Abbot. While all of us (if we TRULY belong to God and profess to be OF CHRIST) are called to holiness and perfection and charitable, merciful behaviour – which is a huge ideal and one we fail at – we each have a duty to name wrongdoing and deeply sinful behaviour – but I cannot approve of the unsavoury tactics of continued legal threats, intimidation and harrassment. Since when did humiliating and crucufying another for their “wrongdoing”, however inappropriate, become law? Can we hope that the Abbot – indeed any of us who are ignominiously humiliated because of wrongdoing – might be urged to genuiney repent and follow the path of gospel “metanoia”. God’s grace often works when we are at our weakest. This is a gospel maxim i keep before me every day.

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7:22pm

Patsy of course I have not changed my mind about these degenerates I want them removed immediately. But there is something not quite right about the Hooligan he does not ring true with me perhaps you should investigate him before you believe all he tells you I think he’s Loathsum

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https://waterford-news.ie/2015/06/05/thrill-of-the-chaste/
Waterford News and Star.
By Marion O’Mara
THRILL OF THE CHASTE
FRIDAY, JUNE 05, 2015
FOLLOWING the success of the inaugural Café Theology held under the auspices of Bishop Phonsie the next session of Café Theology takes place in the Granville Hotel tomorrow evening Wednesday, June 10 at 7.30pm.
The title of the talk by Dawn Eden is “The thrill of the chaste – finding fulfilment while keeping your clothes on.”, which coincides with the title of her book on the same subject.
Dawn Eden, an American Catholic author and journalist, who was formerly a rock historian and tabloid newspaper headline writer.

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10:33 pm
Thank you, Bella. No worries. I look forward to meeting you.
By the way, Bella, you won’t know if I’m a brother, priest, monk, bishop , mother or sister. I’ll be undercover, incognito.

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@11.37 am

I would have some sympathy with your position — IF — Purcell had “fallen” only on one occasion. However, we have evidence of a sustained pattern of behaviour over many years. Thus, this is something that is integral to his personality, sadly.

As I have written, if Purcell wishes to have as much “fun” as he likes — he is free to do so, but not as the abbot of Mount Melleray Abbey. Your failure to comprehend Purcell’s institutional hypocrisy is staggering, but it does not come as a surprise. Again, if Purcell wishes to go to the Boilerhouse every evening, I do not care; but he should do so NOT as a monk and priest.

However, a Rotal Advocate is being instructed. A letter will be sent to the abbot general, asking him to formally deal with the matter, but if, Dom Eamon continues to sit on the fence; Purcell will be formally canonically denounced to a Roman Tribunal.

Upon adjudication of evidence, this Tribunal has the jurisdiction to remove him as the Abbot and Ordinary, and the can also forcibly laicise, Purcell.

Purcell will not be the first Abbot of Mount Melleray to be removed by a Decree of the Holy See; but he will be the FIRST to be removed for sexual misconduct. Gregory Collins, formerly of Glenstal Abbey jumped before he was pushed. Richard Purcell would do well to consider his position as this issue is not going away…

Now, I look forward to all the hate-filled invective that will come my way, but, please keep it rational and evidence-based. “Legal Eagle” please enlighten us with your encyclopedic knowledge of Canon Law, and the Norms of the Tribunals of the Holy See. I appreciate you will be busy drafting Purcell’s verifying affidavit pursuant to Section 8 of the Defamation Act 2009, but I look forward to your positive contributions.

http://www.irishstatutebook.ie/eli/2009/act/31/enacted/en/print#sec8

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Mr. Hourigan is now appearing as a totally nasty individual whose perceived moral and spiritual grievances are grounds for his shameful harassing of and threats of law suits are as egregious as any spiteful behaviour can be. If you have a modicum of human decency, you must surely conclude that after a week or more of crusading against the moral failings of this monk, you too should look to your conscience.

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“He is a homosexual man who has never fully accepted his sexual orientation.”

I think it’s a common affliction amongst the clergy, Bp Pat, although most of them are not conning old faghags out of thousands.

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That’s true. Agreed. Whether you call it redemption or reconciliation. There is hope.

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12.39: You obviously meant your reply for 11.55 not 11.37!! Getting confused!! Inderstandablevwhen you become obsessed with rectifying other people’s lives. Mr. Hourigan, nowhere did I say I approve of the moral wrongdoing as levelled against The Abbot. In the contrary I disapprove for the reasons you outline. But I, as a Christian and one who tries to act in a Christ like way, must, while naming the sin, be charitable in my understanding. Anyone who fails in a serious way or who is hypocritical and who blatantly flouts vows must be helped accept responsibility for the consequences if their decisions. I can only hope that the monk at the centre of this issue is engaging in his own repentance and renewal. I do not believe it is your right to ask for a head on a plate as s price for your offended sense of holiness or perfect living. I pray that this monk and all of us will recognise our need for God’s mercy. While Christ never hesitated to condemn all sin and wrongdoing and challenged people to change, he never threw a boulder at nor isteamrolled over the sinner. This, as Christians, it is imperative that we do not make definitive, harsh judgments of others. We trust civil courts to seek justice where criminal wrongdoing occurs and we trust that any person whose failures are writ large will and be encouraged to make amends. Is it for you and me to decide another’s pathway to genuine sorrow? As for your earlier, cynical and snide comments re: Legal Eagle, I find them to be contemptible. You, Mr. Hourigan, on the evidence so far, are far from being CHRIST like!!

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@1:18pm. What about the the souls of those visiting or novices in formation?
Mt 18:6 “But whoso shall cause one of these little ones who believe in Me to fall, it were better for him that a millstone were hung about his neck, and that he were drowned in the depth of the sea.”
Another guide for the church to use when evaluating the penitent, especially those trusted with greater things where greater things are expected.
Mt 3:8 ” Therefore produce fruit consistent with repentance;
Keep going +Pat and Mr Hourigan!

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Pat, do you think it fair and just that apart from justifiable criticisms of Monks Purcell and Kirby, the rest of the communities should alsi be vilified, sneered at, mocked, torn apart, name calmed and be shredded to pieces through filthy, suggestive imagery, unnecessary humiliating, judgment and harrassment? I really think this is now descending into a completely unacceptable nasty, vicious, mean spirited narrative and a dehumanizing of particular individuals. I’d like, in all honesty, for you to both morally and spiritually justify this nastiness. I’m not asking you to cease your criticisms but isn’t there a certain line you don’t cross in publicly humiliating another human being, and moreso since, as a Bishop, you claim Christ-likeness.

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The Silverstream whistle-blower has gone out of his way to say the only one misbehaving sexually in Silverstream was Kirby.

There are question mark over the new Prior ‘ Elijah as he was in charge of the money for Kirby and apparently has serious bullying issues.

What is Christ likeness?

The Christ raising the son of the widow of Nain?

Or the Christ with the whip in the Temple.

A lot of you guys just the soft Jesus!

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That’s why you need Greek Orthodoxy. Christ glares down at us from his perch on the dome and He’s not happy, but He is just.

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3.32: Not a comprehensive response. Typically, a very self serving justification. Your hatred blinds you to your nasty behaviour.

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@ 2:51 pm
You, tell me, WHERE, was/is the Christ-likeness of bishops, to survivors of child rape,
to vulnerable adults abused by the church, to former seminarians abused while
in seminary!! How is institutional cover up by the hierarchy Christ-like ?
The hypocrisy, double standards and duplicity of you people, is incredible !!
Black-eye for the church from the McCarrick report, according to Dolan-
the face of the church is disfigured!

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5.35: A total side tracking from the issues we are duscussing. A usual tactic. Furthermore, you have no idea about me and what I have personally done to help and accompany those who have been deeply hurt and wounded by the Church. That repeat accusation flows off me like water off a duck’s back.

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Mr. Hourigan, Pat’s ally and dare I say, confidante, is bloating with his sense of importance. There is much truth in the adage..”Pride comes before a fall..” I do not wish public humiliation on any person, least for Mr. Hourigan, but often our arrogance, miral superiiruty and self righteous indignation are a prelude to our own falling.

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5:49 pm

Don’t be so disingenuous. It is NOT a side track from the issues being discussed.The one adopting tactics is you. Are bishops selectively Christ-like, when it suits? I couldn’t careless what you personally have done or not done. I’m speaking about Institutional response, or lack of, to survivors of a diverse amount clerical and institutional abuse and cover up.

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6.13: Still totally irrelevant to the issues being discussed. Simple as. I couldn’t care less about your bias, hatred or nastiness. What we each do in CONSCIENCE is relevant. I try to do what I believe Christ expects, as do the majority of priests,

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That says there are only seven monks. Mount Melleray is clearly doomed and living there must be absolutely ridiculous.
Incidentally Richard is thicc 🥰

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6:45 pm

Precisely, what we each do, in CONSCIENCE is relevant, but not only relevant, paramount. Simple.

Did you watch Mick Peelo’s, “Would You Believe” video, on yesterdays blog?
Now, and, ‘here’s the rub’; at ordination, the priest is expected to obey his Ordinary;
he, metaphorically speaking, puts on a pair of blinkers. At a bishops ordination,
a bishop is saddled with a pair of blinkers pertinent to his role as Ordinary, answerable
to the Pope. This, was blatantly illustrated in Peelos documentary, which caused
mayhem for bishops in the late 1990s in Ireland, when bully boys from Rome ordered them to ‘toe the Vatican line’. It is not my intention to be nasty, I’m not hateful, but I will ALWAYS support the anawim, the oppressed and the downtrodden, regardless of
who is oppressing. That, I believe, in conscience, is what Christ Jesus expects of me.
“God has no favorites.” Romans 2:11.

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For 1,000,000 Euros – Is canon law in the Irish Catholic Church ? :

A) Ignored
B) Irrelevant
C) Made up on the Hoof
D) All of the above

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6.52: So what???? Does that make him unworthy? Look at your suitability for your fake role…..no diocese, parish or religious community would have you, Mr. Terminator.

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8:39, the association of catholic priests didn’t want him, and that’s saying something

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@10:42 am
Yes, at that time, it was noteworthy to several people that Dom Eamon did not make the journey from Rome for the installation of Abbot Richard Purcell. In fairness, the Abbot General does not normally visit every Abbey when a new abbot is installed; blessed and/or translates; but given that he was previously the Abbot of Mount Melleray, and the Abbot General; it was unusual that he did not attend. He has absence was conspicuous.
@2:40 pm
I am, of course troubled to read that you consider yours truly to be “a totally nasty individual”. I will not be able to sleep tonight. Again, I have never threatened a lawsuit; I have merely highlighted that if anything I have written is untrue — I am willing to defend it before the High Court in Dublin. That is an important distinction; one that several commentators do not appear to appreciate.
This is not about human decency; it is about calling out institutional hypocrisy. There is an important distinction. Purcell’s actions in Roscrea were an abuse of his abbatial authority. We have seen this time and time again in the church. The abuse of authority unchecked leads to petty tyranny with ruinous consequences for the lives of the great number of individuals.
@ 3:24 pm
Pat Buckley and yours truly have not made it a secret that we have been communicating in recent times. My good man, I am from the bogs of Kerry, I have little to be boasting about. Like you, I do not wish to visit public humiliation on any individual; but, the fact of the matter is Richard Purcell has been active on the gay scene for a conspicuous number of years. This fact has been acknowledged by the Abbot General of the Cistercians, Dom Eamon Fitzgerald, who acknowledged that the issue was known to him, but he erroneously believed it was a one-off. The conversation that occurred between Pat Buckley and Dom Eamon Fitzgerald can be slogged out in affidavits, and confirmed by the telephone records of both parties — should the conversation be denied.
@3:43 pm
The act that occurred in the monastery guesthouse at Mount St. Joseph Abbey was between Purcell and a priest who was contemplating a vocation to the monastic life. Using any yardstick, the events that followed can be attributed to Purcell’s abuse of authority. I could be incredibly crude, but one does not need to have a PhD in psychology to work out the consequences of having Purcell as a potential superior. What makes the action all the more egregious is the fact it was known to at least two bishops of the diocese of Killaloe, and they have been complicit in the cover-up of Purcell’s behaviour. All of this will be evidenced in due course. I, for one am grateful for your kind words. Of course, I would prefer not to be dealing with this matter, because one sees the “filth of the church” far too closely than one would like; but little in this life transpires as we expect and so, as we would like.
@4:53 pm
Yes, it is true that the community at Mount Melleray Abbey is greatly diminished. But, some of the large abbeys in Europe had no vocations for over two-decades, however, in recent years, numbers are starting to slowly increased, with many of these monks persevering to solemn profession, and ordination to the priesthood and they have not been leaving. As long as there is life there is hope, however, there is no hope if Richard Purcell remains as the abbot and ordinary. It was remarked to me in recent days that Purcell is the kind of individual that would rather petition for the closure of the monastery to protect his own reputation.

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To be frank the mere fact the abbey has already elected a monk of another monastery as abbot indicates one of several things-
1. The monks are all too old, too junior or too sick to be abbot
2. If there is someone electable, they haven’t elected him for some reason. This could be as simple as him just being shy or awkward or as complex as a wildly divided community who loathe each other.
Therefore they have elected a monk from somewhere else and now it has come out that he’s getting his end away.
You are bang on the nail that any monastery with an abbot like that is doomed, but unless there are other candidates for abbot in another monastery your own actions could be the thing which causes the abbey’s demise.
That said it wouldn’t be impossible to build up the abbey with monks elsewhere but it is apparent from the OCSO’s website that they are closing monasteries so this doesn’t sound likely.

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7.57: I understand that a proposal was considered by all Cistercian Abbeys to amalgamate into one community and that Roscrea was the more suitable house for such a project. It was rejected by all for now. Perhaps it may have to happen sooner rather than later because of the age profile of members. I have a huge empathy for all the Monks in the different Abbeys as I’m sure they feel very threatened and assaulted by the on-going questions surrounding Purcell. I think we should pray for these monks – mostly elderly men who have given their lives faithfully to God and their Benedictine ideals of striving for perfection and holiness. I have visited and stayed at various monasteries over the years and was blessed by the kindness, prayerfulness and humanity of those whom I encountered. I feel we should remember that they too are very hurt, upset and disturbed by all of this. For their well-being alone, perhaps the present Abbot should resign.

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7.05:…..The bogs of Kerry….that explains much…😆😆😆🤠🤠🤠☻☻☻😈😈..

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8.41: Jesus, with all the seriousness and the awful pandemic a little humour helps to get through…thanks Lolita. Brillo.

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Exactly. We are wild down here in Kerry – wild men from the bogs and mountains who feast on “raw meat” 🥩

We are also cunning pugilists.

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Where is ex Dom Augustine mc gregor? Met few times in Mt Melleray. Decent and approachable guy to talk to as he wrote a small book on Padre Pio?

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Surprised Mr Hourigan’s advisor never advised him to contact the Past Pupil’s Union of CCR or the parents’ association or the board of the school. The Abbot is still the patron isn’t he? He still appears at Past Pupil events. The Union is very powerful in the school and the Abbey. More powerful than any Rota or bishop nonsense

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The issue of the school is on my radar. I need to protect the ex-priest, because he is in many ways – a victim of Purcell. He should have made a protected disclosure. In my e-mail to him I suggested that it was the option of senior counsel that he seek legal advice.
I gave Pat Buckley a copy of this e-mail.
I have an e-mail drafted to the school leadership, and it is waiting to be sent at the right time.
Like, I keep writing, I have access to excellent legal advice.
The longer Purcell remains as abbot the more damage will occur.
However, if someone else wishes to made an issue with the school the more the merrier.

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9 27: Hooligan, think you mean “cunninglingus” – after all you’re from the bog…a culchie fighter and a raw meat eater…now we’re seeing the bitch you really are!!

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