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SHOULD MONSIGNOR BURRILL HAVE BEEN OUTED AS GRINDR USER?

The darling of the clerical gay club, James Martin SJ,  has said that Mons Burrill’s privacy should not have been invaded by those who outed him as a very regular Grindr user.

I TOTALLY DISAGREE!

Burrill is the most senior and visible non-bishop RC cleric in the USA.

In his work and actions he represents the RCC in the USA and also represents RC teaching, doctrine and discipline.

He made a public vow of celibacy at his ordination and his work and mode of dress says: “I am an authentic representative of all things RC – including the current USCCB’s thoughts on President Biden as a practising RC being pro choice”.

In effect, the thought is that Biden is a public sinner for his stance on abortion and WE are considering banning this immoral man from receiving Holy Communion.

The fact that Burrill & Co are judging Biden like this begs the question of whether those calling him immoral are immoral hypocrites themselves and therefore not in a position to condemn Biden or anyone else.

We do not know who really was behind the digging into Burrill’s life and activities. Their motives may not have been pure. We simply dont know.

But we do know that they found him on Grindr seeking sex with men and tracked him to several places including a gay bathhouse.

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You cannot be both a promoter and defender of RCC condemnation of homosexuality and at the same time be meeting men for sex all over the country and in orgiastic gay bathhouses!

Its a contradiction!

Its hypocrisy!

Burrill and others like him in the USA, Ireland and everywhere else, have to make their minds up.

You are either an authentic priest struggling to be faithful to your vows.

Or you leave the priesthood, with all its perks, and become a homosexual private citizen, who does not seek to be a high ground moralist, and enjoy all the gay sex you can, whenever you can and for as long as you want.

You cannot be the grey Father Hyde and the pink Mr Jekyll.

ANOTHER US PROBLEM

The bishop of the Diocese of Manchester has been named in a civil lawsuit that alleges sexual abuse of a minor in the 1980s in Deer Park, New York.According to the accusations made in the lawsuit, Bishop Peter Anthony Libasci sexually abused the alleged victim when the child was around 12 or 13 years old on “numerous occasions”.

Would ye look at the get up of him

150 replies on “SHOULD MONSIGNOR BURRILL HAVE BEEN OUTED AS GRINDR USER?”

The bastard’s first public act as Abp of Westminster was to say how brave paedos are to turn themselves in. Nothing is too harsh for him as some of the replies to that tweet show.
In fact it can only be a great sign of the times that people feel able publicly to call the Cardinal Archbishop of Westminster as useful as a chocolate teapot on his social media.

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Well, it just shows Nichols is very thin skinned and reacts to criticism. “Read what I wrote”, he says. I’ve read it and it is a tortuous read, and essentially gives carte blanche to the EF brigade to continue as before after filling in a pro forma and sending it in. There is a sense that Nichols is making it possible for everybody to skirt around the MP of Francis. It’s an interesting contrast with Lang’s apparently total banning in Clifton. Is it because Nichols just has so many of the lace and frills EF traditionalists in his diocese (ex-Anglican clergy and rich laity) that he just cannot afford to piss them off ? I guarantee you that this will have been weighed very carefully, and Nichols will have come to his decision not on principle but on practicality, and particularly the financial and networking impact it could have. I doubt if much prayer was exercised over the decision, more like hard headed diocesan politics. That’s why it stinks and sticks in the craw. Nichols should reflect on the fact that so many people these days just do not trust him and his decisions and his rationale. He’s lost trust. Time for him to go. He’s right to be thin skinned. He better get used to it.

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Interesting – I was wondering the exact opposite, whether he realizes he won’t be pope and doesn’t care so has chosen the way of least resistance. Your reading would certainly be characteristic of the old Vinnie we all loathe.

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@ 1112 – I’ve known Vin in both his dioceses over the years, and my assessment is that he does nothing without a thorough and clinical evaluation of its impact on him and the furtherance of his career. Now that he is over 75 and looks like hanging on for a few more years, he is unlikely to get a place in Rome, so it is in his interests to keep his eye on things in his own diocese and keep things sweet so that his last years there will be plain sailing. Pissing of the traddies and the EF crowd, most of whom are ex-Anglican, would not be good for him. So, I reckon the rationale behind this is purely selfish in the interests of making his life bearable for a few more years. Isn’t it odd, though, that we have to evaluate and unpick Vin’s motives for pretty much anything ? Well, that’s because he has long since taught us that we cannot trust what we see, and that he is always operating in his own interests, and anybody who does not fit his purposes is sidelined, overlooked, ignored or just treated with distain. That’s why we loathe him. True. Sad.

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Yes I hope that this is the start of the great revelation which will unveil just how sick the RCC priesthood is. A doctor has to look at a wound before healing it. I for one would donate generously for Grindrs data set for Oscott and Maynooth. Those priests who have been leading a Grindr lifestyle ought to slope off now before their depravity is revealed.

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No disrespect at all to you @ 1:10, but I’m minded to ask why God :
1) Doesn’t use present technology to clearly proclaim his/her wishes for all humankind.
2) Hasn’t used more technological means to clarify his wishes as opposed to the great mish mash of highly controversial quasi authentic new testament writings.
3) Doesn’t use modern technology to confirm and clarify his wishes to ALL humankind as opposed to the obvious bumblings of his alleged messagers, the RCC.
Just wondering…….?
MMM

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Thinking more on this wondering business.
We’re told by the RCC that God loved us so much that he sent himself, in the form of his son, to earth 2000+ years ago to “redeem ” us from our sinful ways and show us how to “behave properly “, so to please him, and thereby attain Heaven. ( that in summary is the gist of it)
I’ve given up trying to understand why this alleged God “sat on his hands” doing nothing for at least 100 thousand years of humankind’s previous existence before this whole Jesus rescue mission 2000 years ago! And why the whole rescue mission wasn’t organised so as to be clearly, independently and irrefutibly recorded and documented, so everyone could understand and believe…. and even convince hard headed seekers of truthful evidence, ….like me?
Was this God careless, incompetent, ……or simply pissing us about with an eternal guessing game of choosing which of many competing truths to believe?
I’m a simple man, and seek to understand things that really ought to be straightforward if our “salvation ” was so important for this Godfellah to have “sacrificed” his son.
So why doesn’t this “Godfellah “, if he loves us so much, simply use modern technology to convey his paramount position and requirements? Why this ‘guessing game?’ Why this catch 22 business of ” having faith?”, ………in the incomprehensible, the,…well frankly the ridiculously unbelievable based on controversial gospel writings.
He’s had another 2000 years to think about it since that alleged Calvary episode. Meanwhile the alleged conveyer of this Godfellah’s mission, the RCC, has consistently shown itself to be corrupt and unreliable.
Has this Godfellah some problem getting his salvation act together? I mean like surely he doesn’t want to lose doubters like me to oul Nick if he wants us all to get into that heavenly place so we can all sing his praises ad infinitum?
MMM

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Pat, are you an authentic priest living your vows? You made up your morals. Would Jesus approve of all your behaviour? Just curious. The ongoing revelations of double standards and hypocrisy is shattering whatever faith I have. These stories really challenge the core of my Catholic identity as a priest. The truth will eventually set us free but not without much pain and discomfort for the Church.

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Are you really serious at being shocked by this? If you are not aware of the utter depravity of the church already you must have been hiding in the sacristy cupboard all this time.
Wake up and smell the coffee.

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You can’t be a priest and have a ‘private life’ totally opposed to your vocation. I think priests should have private lives restricted to family friends and any hobbies.
Magna commented about the possibility of suicide and blackmail yesterday. The only difficulty I have is that the men who had to keep homosexual lives secret in the sixties did it because it was illegal and would have had repercussions such as loss of employment.
However a priest who keeps his sex life private is doing it because he knows that life is not part of the deal he has signed up for. In those circumstances – where secrecy is made necessary by your own misdemeanors- I think you can reasonably expect to get outed.
It is also clearly in the public interest to know the reality of the cesspit so they can stop giving money to it.

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Theory:
– CCB strings him along;
– CCB shops him to warn others;
– Democrat Party will let them off hook re Biden stance and humour them (smirkingly) re their varied stances of “outrage” ;
– Pillar gets to look tough (even – in this theory – with CCB collusion);
– CCB fool Pillar into thinking they are getting one over on Martin;
– Burrill gets consolation prize;
– The rest of the world don’t understand Americans (they think they’re boring) and hasn’t heard of the “catholic church”;
Who’s not to win?

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That seems a bit sophisticated for them. Although granted Fr Grindr is obviously being sacrificed and used as an example not to get caught out.

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Cardinal Emeritus McCarrick wasn’t just humiliating seminarians to destroy their morale, there was more to his assignments than that. Burrill was told it was alright to not keep his celibacy vow, as others whose position is simpler don’t. But: what did he know about the hundreds of bishops and what they know about who knows what about who – perhaps including money flows in Ireland?

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Bishop of Manchester looks an older version of Bishop John Keenan Bishop of Paisley and future Archbishop of Glasgow.
They all love the net curtains don’t they looks a Gay icon the Lace and Frills.
God help us.

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Pat and Wikipedia chose that photo deliberately. Normally the bishop wears the hideous floaty polyester kaftans that pass as chasubles.

For the millionth time, McCarrick, Tobin, Roaree, Mrs McCamley, the Pomeroy PP, Fr Jack McCabe, Mgr Grindr, the whole lot who are featured on this blog have no interest in the Traditional Latin Mass. That photo was taken at a Novus Ordo ordination.

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9.56
The term ‘Novus ordo’ is now obsolete, if it was ever appropriate. The expression is ‘Roman rite’ ordination.

Similarly with ‘Traditional Latin Mass.’

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9:56, if you read the comment you’re replying to carefully you will find there is no mention of the TLM. You will find mention of tat, as worn by the bishop in the picture.

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The new name for the Novus Ordo is the tv cookery show. That’s what it looks like with the priest hosting behind the table and playing up to his captive audience on the other side of the table. At the end the permanent deacon washes the dishes.

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I have no issue with anyone ‘s sexuality or preference, so long as it’s practised privately and consensually. But I do object to individuals, like Burill who attained public prominence power and privilege on their portrayal/image of probity, behind the scenes practised behaviours in complete contradiction to what they profess as requirements for others.
These unending revelations of high ranking RCC clerical duplicity serve to confirm my belief that the whole RCC institution is nothing but a self serving innately selfish organisation parasitically self perpetuating itself on our human insecurities concerning the inevitability of our demise.
MMM

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I do object to individual social workers, like William McGrath of Kincora who attained public prominence power and privilege on their portrayal/image of probity, behind the scenes practised behaviours in complete contradiction to what they profess as requirements for others.
These unending revelations of high ranking social worker duplicity serve to confirm my belief that the whole social services institution is nothing but a self serving innately selfish organisation parasitically self perpetuating itself on our human insecurities.

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The holy catlicks trying to deflect to social workers again.
MMM, I think they’re just jealous that you got out, made your own life and have your own mind.

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Shush, don’t mention Kincora, Baby P, Sh**on S*oes*ith, or the county homes. MMM and the social worker who comments blow their tops.

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It’s interesting that NNN chose to demonstrate ignorance of relevant facts by referring to an untrained individual working in an unqualified position as a housemaster, and the “prominence, power and prestige ” referred to was derived not from any public portrayal of probity, but from his membership of the “loyal orders”, his lay preaching and highly dubious network of political and military acquaintances.
The behaviours referred to took place almost 50 years ago, at a time when social work organisations were mostly staffed by well meaning but untrained individuals as the profession only developed from the late ’60’s.
But then maybe none of that matters to the riders of hobby horses.

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MMM’s understudy, Kieran, chimes in to observe that Kincora should be disregarded because it was fifty years ago and people were untrained.
Setting aside the callous disregard for still living victims, could that breezy defence be offered in favour of Mother and Baby Homes?
Also, Baby P and St Sharon wasn’t 50 years ago.

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Is Anon 3:43 another commentator with scant regard for the facts and little apparent knowledge or interest in relevant issues? This comment replicates the tabloid press’s habitual “blame the social worker” facile response to these regrettable tragedies. Perhaps that’s what this commentator solely relies on for his/her information?
While I offer no excuses, it should be noted that the Baby P inquiry found incompetence in almost EVERY worker involved. The doctors, schools, lawyers, police, Gt Ormond St hospital, were also found to have been incompetent.

Sharon Shoesmith, director of Haringey’s Children’s Services had a professional background in teaching. She became the focus of media frenzy leading to her being summarily sacked. She later won a judicial review for unfair dismissal and reportedly £600,000 compensation and damages from the council.
More level headed knowledgeable commentators have described the whole saga as an extreme example of scapegoating social workers. And yet it continues.

The media, official inquiries, and TV programmes especially, invariably focus simplistically on single issues or individual cases. In child abuse cases, the prevailing impression given is that the worker has only had this or that single tragic case to deal with, along with the luxury of sufficient time to exercise professional consideration of all the conflicting issues, and of course the requisite resources to call upon, such as foster parents, residential placements etc.

The ignored reality is, that in most public services, understaffed grossly overworked individuals are invariably dealing with the conflicting demands of excessive workloads politically created by cumulative cutbacks, increased demand, and incessantly prescriptive legislative requirements. And the fallback resources of safe supportive alternative placements for children, just like current NHS beds are invariably unavailable.
I’m over 20 years retired and discuss these issues occasionally with younger family members currently working in public services. I don’t envy their task. They are well intentioned and committed to doing their best in what by times seems intolerable situations.
Those who ignorantly replicate the ill informed simplistic derision of the “gutter press” only serve to undermine and dishearten such committed individuals.
MMM

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You’re in denial. You should actually have said, Those are the guys whose duplicity got made public. The default position when meeting an RC cleric should be to assume he’s leading a double life until proven otherwise.
BTW your money is funding this so if you want to stop it you know what to do.

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I have no idea how my money would be finding this. And I have known good and bad in any organization. Definitely bad in any organization that holds unquestionable authority – church, law enforcement, politics, justice, education…..

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The backstory to the outing of Burrill is anybody’s guess – could it be related or connected in some way to the Latin Mass and a kind of tit for tat – you damage the standing of the Latin Mass and we damage the reputation of Burrill and the US Bishops etc.
Who knows – the timing raises suspicions.
Was the obtaining of the data illegal?
I’m not sure – I doubt it even if it skirted close.
Burrills hypocrisy trumps his right to privacy – public figures are fair game, especially blatantly hypocritical ones like him.
Is Fr Martin on Grinder and that’s why he’s protesting too much. Maybe he’s next – he’s bound to know clergy who are on Grindr and active.
Clergy love privilege but hate accountability.
Investigative journalism (NoW some of the best) holds the establishment to account and is an important part of a free democracy.
For every cleric and prelate Burrill’s sin was being found out – boxed up like a kipper – they don’t care if he’s flouting his public vow of celibacy – they virtually all do – discretion is the key rule of the Closet and keeping it on the downlow.
My hope is Burrill is the first of many scalps – watch out Bishops their coming for you.

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Outrageous! What is the world coming to if an esteemed abbot such as myself isn’t able to have a bit of fun on the side! Granted I made certain assurances to the congregation and the lord himself…..but we are all human. Allow me to make the odd mistake! I particularly like Grindr due to the functionality and features of the app. Very clerical friendly it is. Also it allows me to catch up with lads I knew when training to be a priest, neighbours are important. Here in the monastery we all agree that lads should be left alone to get on with their business. Even the local bishop is a fan, but let’s keep that quiet as it would do damage to his national reputation as an intolerant old-fashioned bigot. Bless him.

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Elsie’s proforma request to offer the 1962 Mass just skirts around the MP and ignores the fact that the Mass is not to be offered in parochial churches. Why should permission be given for to priests to say the mass privately when they should be using the novus ordo?

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This is the tip of iceberg re monsignors, bishops or cardinals out there with lot of power at stake, playing their double lives at the same time. It’s not on cos of their sheer rank hypocrisy.

Mc Carrick, burrill exposed, whos next?

Just out of curiosity, who had appointed Burrill in the first place? It suggests that one(Bishop) who appointed him might be compromised as well.

Rcc in USA is like a house of cards about to crash down now. They all think of 🤑🤑🤑🤑🤑🤑 but not God or no belief in God or JC.

One poster commented yesterday re no priest no eucharist. It’s pure arrogance by Hume thinking he get away with it.

Saw another blog saying, no Mary no jesus etc. If no Mary, then jesus wouldnt be around.

They as rcc are playing with just words. How gullible are we as the laity?

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There is one glaring fact and reality that screams out in the Burrill affair: staggeringly outstanding hypocrisy. Forget the issues of privacy – actually, he lost the right to privacy by his actions in public places like gay saunas and bars where he was acting out his sexual proclivities and probably lying wholesale to those he had congress with (do you ever think he told them who he is ?). The real issue is hypocrisy. In no walk of life would such a disconnect between what he is publicly saying and what he is doing be accepted. Nobody trusts a hypocrite. So, for me the matter of Burrill himself is an open and shut case. What intrigues me more is just how much did those with whom he worked, lived, including bishops and priests, know about his hypocritical lifestyle – I am sure they did – and what did they do about it ? Anything ? I suspect not.
What is just as damaging as Burrill’s behaviour and hypocrisy is the collusion of the priest and bishop club in turning their eyes away from the dysfunctional and hypocritical behaviour that was being committed by one of their own. We have seen this before, haven’t we ? Especailly in the child sexual abuse scandal where for so many decades bishops and priests knew what was going on and just covered up for priests or just moved them along to pastures new where they could continue with their abuse. This business of Burrill, while finished for him personally, still has a long way to run in the way in which it will bring focus on to the collusion and coverup of the dysfunctional, hypocritical, sinful and damaging behaviour of clerics by other clerics.

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Do you think Little Father Peter (where is he now ?) will be required to stick to the liturgical requirements of the Mass and Missal, and get rid of that ridiculous accretion he wears on his arm ? I mean, if I have to stop celebrating the EF, surely he and others should stop doing whatever whim takes them when saying Mass. And I include rainbow stoles, as well, that some like to sport. What is good for the goose is good for the gander.

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“We do not know who really was behind the digging into Burrill’s life and activities. Their motives may not have been pure. We simply don’t know.”
Does it matter what the motivation was? The bottom line is he’s exposed as a hypocrite and deserves to be mocked and pilloried. And then left in piece to put his life back together.
If he was being blackmailed then the motivation is reprehensible but not more than the moral blackmail practised on a daily basis by hypocrite like Burrill and his fellow RC cynics.

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Sleepy Joe is as subject as any CINO to heed the Apostle’s warning not to eat his own condemnation.

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They like their privileges alright.
In his memo to the USCCB members, Archbishop Gomez refers to himself as
“His Excellency, Most Reverend Archbishop” Four words, each one reinforcing privilege. Not reflective of the Gospel – the antithesis in fact.
Irish bishops do not use this grandiloquence.

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The “Most Reverend” nonsense for all bishops started in Ireland and was exported to the US by Irish priests. Also, Irish bishops give themselves unearned DD’s.

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An Orthodox priest acquaintance who likes the old, old Roman Rite once told me that Dual-Ritual was a better term and less susceptible to misinterpretation.

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The liberati are up in arms about exposing Burrill – the Tablet because the Pillar got there first – James Matin because he’s worried about who else will get outed and clearly he prefers hypocrisy to transparency.
Thing is though desperate times desperate measures – and necessity is the mother of invention – its a broad side, a shot across the bow, a line drawn in the sand.
Use Grindr and other gay pick up Apps, condemn others (gays, Presidents) and run the risk of being exposed as a rank hypocrite and be forced to resign.
The people are revolting let me tell you – you can fool us once or twice but try it a third time and all hells going to break lose and ya gonna get bit on the ass – and not just from a Grindr hook up, oh kinky, but from lay Catholics whipping your hypocritical ass.

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If a former disgraced Grindr member, Fr Rory Coyle, moved on to an assignment in London plus a flat and £25K a year (allegedly), I wonder what this two-faced American Bathsheba will end up with. She will, of course, know all the dirt on everyone.

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I’ve been in touch with Lotame Data Exchange who told me that I can buy Grindr data by location, at very granular level ie down to two metres. I am going to ask for data for St Mary’s House in Maynooth from 2016 to the present. This will establish, once and for all, the extent of strange goings on in the summer of love.

I’ll then move on to Oscott, the Irish College, Wonersh and the English College.

It’s surprisingly inexpensive.

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I guess you are just trying to provoke. Grindr can’t give you that information. It may have records of where the app is being used and you might be able to access that data but it will not be as ‘granular’ as you say and all user info will be heavily redacted.

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Add to that that most users on Grindr don’t sign up using their real email , name etc and however inexpensive that data is you’re still wasting your money.

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It does record device details. It has very sophisticated software which prevents those who are banned from opening a new account from the same device despite changing their emails etc. The only way to circumvent it is to buy so called “burner” phones. I guess once you have a device details and name it is pretty easy to track. E.g. I am sure Bishop Pat’s device name on Bluetooth etc will show as Pat’s I phone…

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I expect like other rent boys and drug dealers, seminarians are used to having several burner phones.

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1.28: What a crabby queen you are!! Wonder would you waste your time and energy caring for the poor? You won’t need to search their whereabouts. They’re right under your nose…You are a total slutty fool…God will ask you: When did you feed the hungry, clothe the naked, visit the sick, the prisoner, not who you found in grinder?….Did someone in 2016 disappoint you? Really, get a life. I’m a former seminarian, now married with two children. I left because i fiscovered after 5 years, celibacy was too difficult. My God, you’d know what real life is if you were in my position. Some former seminarians are out of control with rage and jealousy. Grow up boys.

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What do YOU do to help the poor, @3.13pm? Mgr Grindr was travelling here, there and everywhere, using collection plate money to pay his expenses, sauna entry fees and motel rooms for his Grindr hookups.

Your anger needs to be directed at that. Are you another of these married men on Grindr by any chance?

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And it’s nice to see you are not bitter and twisted in the slightest. 😂
I pity your wife.

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You ain’t no married man 3:13 pm. You are either a priest or sem with lots of skin in the game. Your erratic angry post gives you away. See people that love the Church are prepared to give their blood for her. They don’t think like slithering snakes like you. Names and threats will no deter them. The Lord’s vice is closing in on the likes of you. Enough is enough is enough of our church being destroyed.

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Who the hell discovers after five years that celibacy is too hard?
The wife is really unlucky and there must be five years between the alleged two children if he only gets the urge every five years.

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It does matter if the location is turned on or off. Its always on via the cell mast towers which pings now and again even without turning it on.
There is something uncannily similar between Burrill and Purcell. Cos both were appointed to a senior position or ranking such as Burrill to UCCSB and Purcell to towards healing as a chairman.
Both went to boiler house or sauna which contradicts their oath of chastity and also a buy-in to rcc lifestyle of celibacy and God as well.
WHO appointed Purcell and Burrill in the first place re their position. 🧐😉
Will UCCSB appoint someone similar to Burrill again or a new hetero priest or prelate.

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Exactly, it knows every user’s exact location. The “switch off location” functions refers only to whether the user’s location is disclosed to other users.
In addition, it has a host of data when people use the paid for service, which allows access to many more men and allows for unlimited blocking.
Those who have nothing to hide and are faithful to their promises and station in life will have nothing to fear.

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I knew a woman who suspected that her husband was using Grindr. She took his phone (which he went mad about when he discovered it was apparently lost). There was no sign of the Grindr app.
She took it to the Geek Guys at Currys, claiming that she had storage issues, and asked if they would delete large files.
Lo and behold, they found the massive imprint left behind by Grindr, even though it had been deleted, uploaded and deleted many times.
Needless to say they are divorced now.

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The standard advice given by anarchist groups last year was to leave your phone at home if protesting even if turned off. Phone location is what caught out a lot of the January 6 insurrectionists.

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4.21: No, I am a happily married man. Beautiful wife and children. We live our Christian duty in all things. Doubt you do!! 4.29: Yes, my life turned around well after i made a new decision about my life. Sorry if you have a miserable time but your begrudgery is stupid. Great seminary education: great teaching post: great wife and family and very united. No need to worry about my wife. Look after your boyfriend…

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Hint: if you feel you have to say to strangers that you doubt they live their Christian duty in all things after telling them you do, not only are you failing in your Christian duty, but you are a pompous git.
I suspect your wife has a hairy chest and the children are poodles. Pink ones.

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Towards Healing: “The service is funded by way of a budget provided by the Catholic Church in Ireland. The service is supported fully by the Irish Episcopal Conference (IEC),
and the Association of Missionaries and Religious of Ireland (AMRI).” The Bishops’ Episcopal appoints the ‘independent’ board including priest, bishop and abbot! Control is never far away.

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Purcell’s expertise to serve in this role is highly suspect. Just because he is a priest does not give him expertise in everything. He is qualified as a teacher of music, not in counselling or trauma. If the Church wanted an independent board the likes of Purcell should be dismissed and independent members board appoint independent board of directors. Purcell has nothing to offer…..

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The board of Towards Healing is full of people who are beholden to the bishops…they are not independent. No independent appointment process is in place. Like all appointments in the Church they are appointed because they know someone in a position of power. This is corruption in its purest form. Not appointed for expertise but for patronage.

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To claim Towards Healing is independent is nonsense. I wonder if tales are told out of school for the purposes of damage limitation… In my experience confidentiality is a myth.

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Evident that the board of Towards Healing, chaired by Dom Dick Purcell of the Boilerhouse Diocese is a mouthpiece and instrument of the powers that be. The power structure of the Catholic Church is sickening. They preach about gay people being against the natural order & condemn a gay couple sharing their lives yet sneak off for secret liaisons. Hypocrisy at its best. Funded by innocent people. Property developers & hypocrisy- That’s all they have to offer.

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@4.21pm My late wife and I used to see the clergy regularlt dining out together with the collection basket money. My late wife used to go outside and watch them drive away under the influence of drink. They were fussed over by staff and drinking, eating and hollering like old women. Aughnacloy seemed to be a favourite place mid week.

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In pre-Celtic Tiger Dublin, the priests and nuns up from the country used to dine in Wynn’s Hotel. It was great crack playing “spot the nun”. Even without their veils you could spot them a mile off.

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4.39: “My late wife and I” is back again, as stupid, dense and thick as ever. If anyone is hollering like old dames, it’s yourself, Miss Fluffyballs! Go find your lost pussy…🐺🐺🐺🐺🐺🐺🦊🦊🦊🐱🦊🦊🐴…you auld gossip.

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Because he’s a Grindr priest or seminarian trolling the blog before heading out for some action on a Friday night.
Judging by the tone he’s a frequent commenter here, always that crabby. 🦀

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I am not sure who ‘you lot’ are. You need to substantiate what the ‘total lie’ is. The board of Towards Healing is totally and wholly made up of people who have a long history and relationship with the episcopal conference. There is no independent process in place to appoint directors. The facts speaks for themselves.

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Yes. When the roles are advertised and people appointed on merit. I wouldn’t expect you to be familiar with this concept.

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This comment is funny! “ advertised and people appointed on merit”. Appointed by whom? Who are the members or the trustees? You can advertise all you like but they are appointed by the bishops. The previous comment is correct that the directors all have a connection with the hierarchy. Let’s face it, bishops do not appoint on merit. Once you have a relation who is a mercy sister you are seen as grand. These directors are appointed because they will not upset anyone, will not question. Correct governance requires that directors question and challenge. Looking at the board of Towards Healing there will be very little questioning of practice, funding etc. The bishops appoint people who are quiet and slightly insecure. People who will do as asked. Anyone who suggests that a board put in place by the bishops will ask hard questions is not living in the real world. Governance in the Catholic Church is 50 years behind.

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No evidence being offered here I’m afraid. Merit, appointment and a board controlled by the episcopal commission don’t mix. Obvious the board is stuffed with people the lads in Maynooth can control. Purcell is a pawn in a game of chess. The bishop and the queen 😁etc etc. The top brass have the dirt on Purcell.

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“It was actually in answer to the question of when you lot would be happy”

“Yes. When the roles are advertised and people appointed on merit. I wouldn’t expect you to be familiar with this concept.”

I think this poor soul is a bit confused. Whilst now claiming the comment was answering the question, the later part asserting that the person wouldn’t be familiar with the concept of appointing on merit…clearly they can offer no proof that the previous comments were incorrect. It’s unfortunate that people defend the bishops on reflex and not offer any proof or context.

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4.21: I din’t detect any anger in 3.13: I think he hit some edginess and raw nerves about your life. Have a look at your life’s miseries. Check out your well being. 😋🤣😂😁😄😂😁..

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There is an Armagh youngish priest constantly on grindr. He has a distinctive tattoo that he shows to very few. His profile pic is of his skinny torso. I have taken photos as proof.

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Yes happy to send. When I messaged him on grindr asking him if he was Fr …. his profile and pic was immediately deleted. If you have a tattoo then you are easily identified to the few (in this case) who know about it. It’s an imprint.

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5.36: Aren’t you a right mischievous sordid gay queenie gossip…lace curtains? They must be in tatters by now, those curtains, being pulled back so often..Horrible as the men you condemn.

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I know who you mean. The sneaky tatt. Do these guys get a thrill living dangerously? Only a matter of time this one.

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8.37
Ageist, sexist, bitter and twisted comment. Let’s see a face pic so we can judge for ourselves how youthful, masculine and slender you are.

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In Armagh, Séamus White is skinny, but it sure ain’t Séamus on Grindr. He’s one of God’s triers.

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6.42
XXXX XXXXX is very thin but I do not think he has tattoo’s.
God help whoever it is Amy will have him out under Jude’s direction.
So here is the excuse to Amy My lordship I must have been at the gym or swimming when someone has taken my picture so I hope it matches Grindr and make him another LIAR.

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He doesn’t show the tattoo in public but i have a pic of it. His bishop isn’t aware of it. Hard to identify.

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Bishop P. What are your thoughts about plenary indulgence. My PP keeps banging on about them with nearly one every week being advertised.

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Interesting concept Indulgences. Question is how does one cash them in and how do we know God will honour the IOU. Subjective v Objective Reality How much do we really know

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Plenary indulgences. What a laff! Had forgotten about them.
A bit like “Cash in your chips folks: it’s all right now!”
How much do they cost these days, …….by cash of course: no questions asked.

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Burrill Bubble Busted. All this stuff is in public domain Still given the context it would appear someone speak with forked willie, That being said it could be added that there are kinks in the whole cutlery drawer

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The Irish Charity Regulator need to examine Towards Healing. Their structures are not helping persons abused. I can speak from personal experience. The fact their board is full of clergy speaks volumes. They need an independent board. Separate from Maynooth. Appoint independent members and an independent board. Help people by funding an honest approach. Whilst the wolves are in charge the sheep will stay away.

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It is worth noting that the provincial of James Martin LGBTQ sj, has forbidden him from speaking publicly about his own sexual identity.

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Mr Gordon is already on damage limitation. There is a few scrwany Armagh clergy. Study closer. Church Mlitant is already on him.

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Is Church Militant on the North West debacle, Bishop Pat?
Please, give some kind of indication..

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Can I just say these have been the best two days in a long while. It’s delicious to see a fat auld hypocritical priest caught out. One minute pontificating about other people’s sex lives and then paying 40 bucks for anonymous butt sex in a gay sauna… then holding up the sacred host. LMFAO.

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Vinnie has moved his gay pal from Alice Hall (a disaster) to the prestigious St Albans in swanky Herts Michael O’ Boy. Jobs for the boys.

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I think we’ll see a rush of diocesan priests becoming religious. As a diocesan priest you get kicked out for going on Grindr. But as a Cistercian you can be a convicted pedo and be novice master and do gay saunas as an abbot. In the benedictines you can get up to all sorts and still be Abbot.

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The Cistercians are excellent at pretending they are pious. Behind it all they betray and undermine. They have known for 15 years that Fr Richard Purcell has a penchant for visiting gay saunas and meeting men on gay dating apps. His confreres elected him Abbot of Roscrea twice and then to Mount Melleray. The Benedictines have a similar score card. They protect their own. This is how the Catholic Church runs. This is the reason they have such a horrid legacy. If you are not a cleric you are nothing. They abuse and they bury. They bully and defend. This is Catholic Church in Ireland in 2021. They ignore and lie. They have selected the rock to perish on. They worship money.

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I forget his name but it was on this blog a week or two ago that the last Abbot appointed as novice master of Mount Melleray, a monk who already had a conviction.

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It’s evil what Burrill has done. It is also evil to give abortion promoting Biden Holy Communion. The American Church is in disarray. It needs cleansing as does the Church everywhere. It will break too and soon about Burrill’s equivalents among the Irish clergy and hierarchy.

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Brilliant and I love the bit where the diocese questioned the morality of the Pillar using the data to identify clergy houses where the apps had been done.
That’s like telling an abused child it’s a sin to blame the priest.
If the Pillar can get this data presumably anyone can and this is where the meltdown starts 🤣

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Ha ha is the that Cardinal night night baby’s diocese? And so it begins. How can we fund these guys to start looking in then UK and Eire?

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10.34
That’s a novel idea: guilty by similarity of body shapes. You could go places with a brain like that.

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It’s mainly the blobby clergy that have to resort to truck stops and glory holes for action… to be fair.

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On the topic of yesterday, I agree that Burrill and others like him in the USA, Ireland and everywhere else, have to make their minds.
May all the good and honest clergy enjoy this retreat season! ☮️
Like any of the Birmingham Six, I am an innocent man who has been wronged.
Is mise le meas,
Séamus
PAX

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