Presently, my dear friends Wim and Sharon are celebrating the 25 anniversary of their wedding. I celebrated their marriage at the Temple of the Winds in Mount Stewart, Newtownards in September in 1996.
Win and Sharon were in Ireland for the summer flying people to various parts of Europe for their holidays.
Weve remained friends all these years and they have visited me and and I have visited them on Lake Simco outside Toronto.
In fact I will be going to see them there in the coming weeks to celebrate their anniversary.
MY FLIGHT TO REUS IN THE COCKPIT.
1996 was before 9/11 and I had confessed to Wim at the top table on the wedding day that I had a fear of turbulence. He promised to sort that out.
A week later I joined him at Belfast International Airport at 8 am one morning to join him in the cockpit on a return flight to Reus in Spain.
Apart from take off and landing I spent time in the co-pilot seat and marvelled at the equipment and safety features of the Airbus.
On turbulence I was told:
An airplane’s wings can bent 12 feet in either direction so when you see it moving a few inches just think of a bird’s wing flapping.
After the flight and the experience on the cockpit and the new knowledge, I lost all my fear of turbulence.
The whole experience was exhilarating.
THE BAD TIMES:
This past week the two victims of abuse by Fr J J Murray of Down and Connor got closure as they saw a jury find him GUILTY.
They had waited a painful 40 years for this moment of closure and had been to hell and back.
Murray will be sentenced later this month.
CARDINAL KEITH O BRIEN:
One of Keith O’Brien’s priest victims has said the Vatican is SINNING in keeping the church report of him SECRET.
Surely Brian Devlin, as a former cleric, should know the the ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH has been burying its secrets for the last 1700 years.
BISHOP PAT BUCKLEY 
152 replies on “THE GOOD TIMES.”
Of course the Vatican is sinning, the church’s topsy turvy worldview makes it inevitable. That’s why Roman Catholic ministers on here describe anyone being open about this as twisted.
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You sound like a bitter and twisted old Prod. You can’t help yourselves can you? The hatred just rolls of the tongue naturally.
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9.31: “TWISTED” is used to describe only those who are poisonously hateful towards clerics; the kind that incite racism and bias and vengeance. Your comment is close to “twisted”. 😎😎😎😎..
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7.58 am
Oh don’t start being so bloody awful to people so early in the day.
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Betty @ 8.11am Go back to bed my love and hold your whist. You keep sounding like an old hag by the day.
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Who the hell holds a whist party in bed?
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Come out of her and know the liberty of the children of God.
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A great experience to have had, Pat. I hate turbulence in flights but once you understand it, nerves ease a little. Titonti us a super city. Loved it and you are lucky to be able to make the trip. The story about Fr. Murray is just sickening. I hope and pray that all victims/survivors find some comfort, healing and strength. God bless them.
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Popery is on an ever inclining irrelevance. 😊 Along with its priesthood and priests, which Jesus the Christ NEVER intended.😠
H-a-l-l-e-l-u-j-a-h!😆
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10.20: What a way to begin a new week: quoting the same hate-filled and erroneous narrative. The more you repeat it, Maggie, the more conclusive it is that you are in “rejection effect” mode for life as a result of childhood, young adulthood and later life traumas. Psychologically you prove effortlessly your derangeelment of spirit. But we’ll keep praying for you and hope that one day you’ll have a God-epiphany of grace.
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@8.24 am
Well I blame 7.58 am for getting the week off to a bad start by being so bloody awful!
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8:24. Erroneous narrative! Why so? Explain…. 😲
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8.24
Anyone NOT so inclined about the RC institutional church these days would definitely show symptoms of all the problems you listed. And much more, and much, much worse.
You still can’t figure it out, can you? Your institution is a criminal fraternity and is in abject moral disgrace around the globe. It is laughed at, especially when it lauds itself as the ‘one true church’, the ‘Bride of Christ’, and when the pope is divinised as ‘Holy Father’; in fact, such is the high comedic character here, that this self- pretension, in light of all we now know about the institution’s true nature, could rightly, without any exaggeration, be called ‘uproarious’.😅😅
‘Derangeelment of spirit’? 😅 Me? Well, all I can say to that is you people would know such ‘derangeelment’, since your instituion is its prototype and archetype.
Imagine belonging to an institution so morally dark that it had to be dragged by global media pressure, through its own obfuscation, prevarication, lying and thwarting, to implement ANY protections for children against kiddie-fiddling romanist priests and their machievellian, episcopal facilitators.
Personally, I would be just too ashamed to belong to such an institution. You clearly aren’t, ‘Father’. For this reason, I would never allow a child of mine anywhere near you, especially a boy.
As for your ‘prayers’, they are like smoke in a lateral edding wind: billowing from side to side, and rising nowhere useful.
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you should be too naïve to believe in God-EpiPen!!! Doesn’t exist!! As it doesn’t exist any God Call for you to commit as Roman Catholic Priests. There are two ways:
Severe Schizophrenia
The Crises Of Your Own Identities
Pick your trash!!!
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Amen @10:20!
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Amen @ 8:24!!
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10:20am
Oh! Please, would you ever give up, giving out with the same ould mantra. You’re such a bore altogether.
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Magna, I never thought I may agree with you, However I am changing a word from Irrelevance to the Priesthood and its Priests.
The Bishops of the UK and Ireland are very concerned at the number of parishioners not returning far worse than expected although they are trying to play it down they are very concerned for parishes.
Promotional material of all sorts has been arranged to come back.
They do not want to be seen as saying come back the obligation is lifted as that would go against the Governments guidance however it is very concerning.
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‘the obligation is lifted’
There is now no condemnation and that is why the people aren’t going back to the Scarlet Woman. God wants those who worship him in spirit and in truth, not from fear!
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10:20,
All restrictions are likely to be lifted by the end of October. The Church will need to mark the end of the restrictions with a dedicated Sunday mass for all those who have passed away during the last 18 months. A lot of people have suffered from not being able to gather together for the passing of a loved one.
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11:05 Praying for the dead is a useless ordinance. Christ died once for the elect.
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11:29, in your opinion. Other people have a different opinion.
It is a wonderful thing to gather in memory of our loved ones who have passed away. Some people like you see it different and that’s fine.
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12:04,
November 28th is way too late. That will have to be revised and brought forward by a month.
Covid restrictions are to be lifted by Friday October 22nd. Sunday October 24th should be the date for the grand return and remembrance.
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11.29
That’s not Catholic theology, magna! It’s called predestination about which many reformed Christians have serious questions.
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1.16
I did not post at 11.29.
As for romanist theology, whatever made you believe that I gave the proverbial about it?
Remember it was part of romanist theology, Moral Theology, that capital punishment was approved. This is now revoked, without one word of apology from the Vatican to Catholics about the fact that for hundred of years, Rome had taught in grave contradiction to the will of Christ. The spineless Romanists preferred to sweep that one under a carpet of silence, just as it had the dirt it taught on the afterlife for unbaptised children and adults.
Your institution believes in never saying ‘sorry’ for its errors and crimes.
Gutless, the lot of you.
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Magna at 3:59 And that is without mentioning the bizarre contradiction that the church which allowed capital punishment now calls itself pro-life and has adopted abortion as its pet moral issue. Your body my choice.
Not to mention the just war theory. It’s absolutely bizarre and interesting that they’re all leaping on our predestination to election interlocutor saying they don’t know what they’re talking about!
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Didn’t Treanor and O’Hagan give this filthy pervert an opportunitiy yo escspe justice?
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Seamusviii
It was planned for the First Sunday in Advent 28th November however looks like it will need to be brought forward even by a week to Christ The King would help.
Suppose the worry for Clergy will be the November lists.
Votive candles are well down as people are not burning them and I understand you get 100 for £2.30 in Asda and some parishes have signs 50 Euro’s or 50P lowest I have seen is 30p
Big changes will need to happen sooner rather than later.
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I’m still burning them. I haven’t paid a single cent for them since 1996 and take a handful home.
Fuck them.
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11:29am
It is a Holy and wholesome thought to pray for the dead, that they may be released from their sin’s
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Those who have been washed in the blood of the Lamb are redeemed. Praying for the dead can not help them.
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10.39
That is how it looked to me.
Did the police question Treanor and O’Hagan about what they apparently did? Surely such conduct would constitute a criminal offence?
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Jesus Died exactly for you to Risen as Paedophiles, Gays Roman Catholic Priests!!!
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Devlin’s is a good book except for whitewashing the big shouts at Keith’s do in Newcastle: they should have stayed in the pew and quiet, he only needed a Newcastle rural dean plus a no. 4 from Edinburgh out the front. I got the impression someone has told Devlin to cut too much out of it.
I found “Paper Cuts” a better read and even more chilling.
Why did Cormac and McCarrick work hand in hand, after Phony Tony called the cops off?
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10.41
Devlin cannot write anymore than he did as they all loved the parties and outings right up to KOB’s Death.
The one who brought down KOB was the late Mike Regan RIP who did not get a mitre and others did not get plum parishes.
Thankfully a well able Archbishop was appointed and cleaned up the Archdioceses.
Devlin’s book IS a total waste of money as it is all about HIM.
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Kitty O’Brien brought about her own downfall by her own duplicity.
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Thank you for sharing your experience of overcoming the fear of flying, Bishop Pat.
And yes, the Airbus is an amazing aeroplane.. the safety features being the bee’s knees!
Btw the picture of your friends, Captain Wim and his wife, Sharon, is adorable.
They look very much happy and in love, God love them x
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Glad to hear the two victims of Fr. J.J. Murray got justice after all that time. They are very brave and courageous, I hope they are now at much better peace. They are an inspiration to all victims and survivors of abuse.
Reading today’s blog has just lifted my spirits, twofold.
God bless you, Bishop Pat x
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Cupich in Chigago suspended three priests this weekend. One, unusually, was in a relationship with a women, the other two were involved with men.
https://www.archchicago.org/en/statement/-/article/2021/09/04/the-archdiocese-of-chicago-distributed-the-attached-announcements-on-fr-orlando-flores-orea-fr-pedro-campos-and-fr-rene-mena-beltran-
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Wow – that’s a useful precedent letter for bishop’s. They can just delete man/woman as appropriate. When will the Bishops’ of England and Wales take similar decisive action and show the same transparency.
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11.38
And still the anomaly remains. An ex-Protestant and now RC priest lives with his wife and pass their time in rest and quietness while down the road there are suspensions.
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And the fact you can’t see the difference there is the reason you shouldn’t be allowed out without a carer.
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11.31
The difference is clear but it is an anomaly.
It’s a matter of time before the decrees of the First Latern Council (1122) on clerical celibacy are reversed. That council was primarily concerned with eliminating civil ownership of clerical benefices and that is the crucial context of its decrees.
The anomalous situation referred to is part of the piecemeal process whereby obligatory clerical celibacy will cease.
A fortiori when a priest in a parish leaves to marry and is replaced by a married former Protestant.
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Meeting Cupich was akin to opening the door of a freezer.
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He has remarkably tidy hair, like a Brylcreem ad.
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During the height of the scandal, I read “everybody knew” about the Cardinal. I knew some queens in Edinburgh over the years, but his name was never mentioned once in the passing. He must have just been pooving on priests and seminarians.
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You’ll be very disappointed to know that gays don’t know and sleep with all other gays. You yourself certainly aren’t in with a chance.
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7.42
It was all in house and they all loved the PJ parties with the food and drink.
The biggest Queen was based at the Cathedral right in the heart of Edinburgh’s gay area.
Sadly a false promise was made for a mitre as Auxiliary Bishop and Mike never got it as it went to Stephen Robison so they brought KOB down.
There is none of the KOB party crew in active Ministry now however one is still doing supply in Galloway. (Mattie)
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Didn’t Mike die young(ish)? Wasn’t he an intimate of the Belfast MIA Dean?
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Yes he was. The Dean Emeritus was at his funeral sitting with the family
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+Pat, do you have any idea of the number of marriages you have blessed?
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Funny how the Roman Catholics can’t stand to see any opinion expressed which differs in the slightest from their own world view and deride anyone who disagrees. Anyone would think they were a cult!
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9:51,
It is the Anti-Catholics who cannot stand to see any opinion expressed which differs in the slightest from their own world view and they deride anyone who disagrees. Anyone would think that the Anti-Catholic brigade are a cult!
PAX
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In love, Christians just want you to be saved and know the truth.
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9.13
Good riposte, Seamus. Give them a taste of thrir medicine.
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11.02
Good riposte?😕
Sorry, but anyone who remains loyal to a morally corrupted and putrifying insitution, the RCC, is in no position to make a riposte, because he has disarmed himself.
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And what cult do you belong to me lubber @ 9.51am?
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I’m saved by the blood of Jesus and that is no cult. Try asking him to enter your heart.
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Just ignore the old anti Catholic bible thumper. He is one of those idiots shouting nonsense on the streets about being saved. Keeping the Sabbath holy and locking up kids play parks on a Sunday.
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9:51. Outstanding ignorance of catholics and cults. Well done! 😜
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The Church of Rome is the Whore of Babylon.
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11:32. Now outstanding ignorance of scripture. See Matt: 10:25. 😜
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Mary can do nothing for you.
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12:29 pm. Oh, yeah? Says who? 😝
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3.59
Mary herself. At Cana. ‘Do whatever HE tells you.’
Yes, I know what you’re going to protest: ‘But-but, it was Mary’s intercession that had Jesus perform the miracle of changing water into wine.’
No, it wasn’t. Mary cannot change the Divine will. This miracle was always on the cards. Mary was prompted, by God himself, to request it.
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4:39pm Is God a gambler playing poker with marked cards using Mary as a puppeteer uses a puppet? Any differentiation between the particular and permissive will of God? 😉
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7.54
You mean God’s PERFECT and permissive will. There is no differnce in terms of his knowing both, along with their respective outcomes.
I can see how you might think of God here as a poker player gaming with a marked deck. The deck is indeed marked for him, since he cannot be play to happenchance.
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9.25 am
Oh go back to bed you old hag. Further, do try and keep a civil tongue in your head.
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11:32am
No. I think the Whore is You. Have you been listening to those heretical hate preachers in Larne. I’ll set Patsy on ya, he’s the boy that’ll sort ya.
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Satan is always enraged by hearing the Word of God. We are not given a spirit of hate but of agape.
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12:29pm
O yes She can, She is The Virgo Potens and Her intercession is indeed powerful. How sad without Mary life’s journey would be.
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Idolatry.
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6.20
Giving Jesus’ mother a title in Latin, ‘Virgo Potens’ (‘Mary Most Powerful’) does not change her status in relation to the Divine will.
God is eternal, you silly romanist; all that was, is, and will be is already known to him. He already knows what will happen, and his willing good is fixed. Mary cannot change anything here, unless God himself has willed change upon intercession by anyone, not just by Mary.
Your understanding of Mary’s role presents God as making up his will on the hoof: moment by moment. This is a denial of God’s eternal nature and, therfore, a denial of his omnipotence.
You Romanists are bliblical heretics.
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But Magna, if this God you speak of already knows all things, including the future, why did he bother to create us in first place? Wasn’t He setting us up to fail?
Now don’t be giving me yer oul “free will ” crap. Surely the whole “creation project” by an “Almighty loving God” is inherently contradictory.
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8.03
Your questions are good ones, and I distinctly remember my asking them of an R.E. teacher when I was around 15. He ducked them completely.
Yes, God knew that even Lucifer would rebel, so why did he create him, and us? I truly don’t know. But if God is eternal, then all these were already in his mind, created as it were, when he knew what they would do, and not do.
I can suggest only that God was not free to pick and choose which of these internal creations he could not objectively manifest, since this would have been a denial of something that already existed, if only in his mind as a construct. God would then have been a killer, as it were; and God is not a killer.
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Oh Magna! C’mon now. YOUR answer is as evasive as your RE teacher. Snowball perhaps?
Frankly you’re talking cobblers here.
Despite all your evident familiarity with biblical matters, you appear to still regard them ( however one interprets them, factually, figuratively symbolically etc etc) as conveying the knowledge, authority and will of a supreme Creator God with active involvement in the earth and its inhabitants.
What a strange and convoluted interaction process by an allegedly all powerful God, and what a bizarre means of communication!
Maybe you are so wedded to “belief” that you cannot intellectually appreciate how distinctly odd religious beliefs really are once one analyses all the psychological emotional and societal factors inducing belief, both consciously and subconsciously.
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11.17
My answer was ‘I truly don’t know’.
What’s ‘cobblers’ about that?🤔
The remainder of my post was simply speculative.
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Anonymous @ 9.25 am. What an old fool you are coming on here talking about whist!!!! Now keep to topic and stay civil.
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Do you prefer Bridge?
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10.55: Behhy, Behhy – not should you whist up: get lost: MYOB…stay in your cave..👽👽😈😈👽😈😈👽👽🤡🤡🤡….
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@ Magna’s Mumsy 11.59 am
Oh grow up! What a pathetic comment, you sound like you are still at primary school and haven’t managed to grow up properly. And, do learn to speak properly child!
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7:29pm
Maggs, I wish you would you have some devotion to The Immaculate Mother of God and get away from all that heretical proddy bible nonsense you seem to have inflicted on yourself. You’d feel so much better. Her status is “all generations shall call me blessed”. Just say Monstra te esse Matrem and she will be a Mother without compare to you.
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McCarrick and KOB
https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/uknews/cardinal-keith-o-brien-was-like-god-to-me-then-he-tried-to-seduce-me-the-whistleblower-s-tale/ar-AAO7iwr?ocid=msedgntp
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Richard Sipe wrote a open letter to PBxvi re mc Carrick in 2010.
That pope did nothing until it was forced on them to act in 2018 or 2019.
A wasted decade which enabled MC Carrick to continue and abuse as well.
How long did the Vatican know re KOB? A decade or more before it spilled out into the open by 4 brave priests.
Are there many other mc Carricks or o KOB’s out there around the world, not exposed yet especially cardinals or bishops🤔.
Top tier or top brass in the Vatican are corrupted cos they did nothing whatsoever and availing of their long established omerta code of silence. Thus enabling the abusers to continue their lifestyle or their double lives.
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Yes, there are.
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Never finish a sentence with a verb….
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2.44
Julius Caesar wouldn’t agree. (Excuse the final verb.)
Dum spiro spero.
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Oh! Bileen you’re a caution.
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Il Santo Padre ha nominato Capo Ufficio nella Congregazione per il Culto Divino e la Disciplina dei Sacramenti il Reverendo Enda Edward Murphy, Officiale del medesimo Dicastero.
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It’s a spelling mistake. It should be Edna.
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I want them all exposed, the lot of them.
They are evil, wicked and dangerous animals for what they have done – conspired.
People have the right to know so they can be aware of the dangers which are so real and present in this city.
This is Not for any kind of vengeance; this is solely to prevent it from happening to any other kids or vulnerable people. That’s all x
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12:52pm
Peter, perhaps if you stopped kissing everyone, you’d be safe!
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Everyone who hates his brother is a murderer, and you know that no murderer has eternal life abiding in him. 1 John 3:15
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1.14
If laying down one’s life for another betokens ‘no greater love’, then what does taking another’s life betoken? Not love, that’s for sure. Hatred, then? Such an act kills not just the person, but murders the Christ-person within: ‘What you do to the least of these you do also to me.’
None of the major Christian denominations, especially the RCC, has ever observed that biblical counsel. All have compromised it, themselves, and their followers through morally sanctioning capital punishment and the idea of just killing in war.
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Thank you, 1:14 pm. Your comment is very true x
“For there is nothing hidden that will not be disclosed; nothing concealed that will not be made known in the light of day.”
– Luke 8:17
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https://videos.sharesome.com/file/videos-out/936899-1630938533-422/936899-1630938533-422-480.mp4
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4.37: The chief hater on this blog whose penchant for hate incitement narratives goes unchecked. Magna, you are a total contradiction. You are definitely not of CHRIST. You murder the “Christ-Spirit” of many on this blog. You are so full of anger, rage, dysfunctionality and pathological malaise that you even destroy that God life within yourself. Your prose speaks of all of these behavioural traits. Sad.
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5.15
I murder the ‘Christ-spirit’ of many here? If by this, you mean I shake the faith of romanist priests, then I’m delighted! For one thing, it demonstrates that they never had a ‘Christ-spirit’, since the spirit of Christ cannot be crushed, but triumphs over evil.
Is this the same spirit that drew and kept these men loyal to an institution whose record on kiddie-fiddling, its systemic, and canonically mandatory, concealment, general worldliness, corruption, careerism, fraud, and distinquished absence of humility and moral integrity? This is a spirit of evil, not of goodness.
But you cannot tell the difference, can you, priest?
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The Bible says Christians will be guided by the Holy Spirit until He comes again.
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Anger and rage are a proportionate response to the crimes of the Roman church. Since all the people who claim (= lie about) to know who he is have so far failed to name MC you are not in a position to determine his ‘dysfunction’.
You just want to shut him up. It’s about control.
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6.37
You are wrong. It is, on the contrary, very possible to diagnose a person’s state of mental (ill)health from what they write – especially over a protracted period of time. That’s why psychologists and psychiatrist employ written material when formulating diagnoses.
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8.06
Hatred is not an indicator of mental ill-health; in fact, its absence in light of so much evil commited by romanist priests, like you, might suggest sociopathy, or even psychopathy.
I know that a psychiatrist who, among other research, observed one of your kiddie-fiddling colleagues, Fr Brendan Smyth as he worked in prison, was convinced that Smyth was indeed a psychopath.
Your lack of hatred for the kiddie-fiddling and criminality of the institution you serve over Christ suggests a similar profile for you. In fact, I believe that the vast majority of romanist priests incline at least to sociopathy, since their noted absence of open and vocal protest against the crimes of the RC institutional church is difficult to accept purely as financial and career self-preservation. Even if one were to accept this in its entirety, it still leaves open the question of habitual emotional and moral indiffernce to the behaviour of the institutional church, the classic characteristics of sociopathy/psychopathy.
Never allow a child to be alone with a romanist priest. Ever.
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8:06 For a start I’m a psychiatrist, a Member of the Royal College of Psychiatrists, and know for a fact that no reputable professional will diagnose without a full mental state examination, which will be conducted in confidential and reassuring circumstances.
I also know for a fact that ‘hatred’and ‘dysfunction’ are not psychiatric diagnoses.
Leave mental health to professionals who understand it.
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Telling (a commenter you imagine to be Magna Carta) that what he is saying isn’t Catholic theology, as if that would have any relevance for Magna Carta, really is spectacularly stupid. 🤣
As if Magna wants to be instructed in Catholic theology.
As Sophia Petrillo would say, has he given you any indication at all that he cares?!
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8.06: You make a very relevant point. Mental illness can indeed be detected from the repeat hate and twisted rage of someone over a period of time. On Magna’s own recording here, he has personal issues whuch have marked, harmed and wounded him. Ssdly these personal issues which he disclosed have weakened his functionality as a goid, rational human being. Magna at 8.57 displays the presence of a complete unawareness of his sociopathic and repeat “angst behaviour”. His proclivities for mental and emotional outbursts, using the same vitriolic language, is evidence enough of his dysfunctionality as a human being. The sad thing is that others might try to camoflague their instability and retain their dignity and humanity Magna revels in his self destruction. Just reread his comments today. If only Magna would reach out to true carers!!
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9:27 pm You don’t know what you are talking about regarding mental illness. What category of dysfunctionality does hierarchical cover up of child rape come under? Were/Are they all delusional, demonstrating psychopathic tendencies, lacking empathy compassion or conscience? And, it’s systemic! Tell us, are they criminals for covering up or just loopy or maybe both?
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Perhaps he has or does. He is wise enough to know he won’t find any among Roman Catholic s
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Hi Pat. I can’t read the Sunday World image you posted about Fr J J Murray’s case, and when I google him there is no mention of the case except in your blog. Can anyone point me to a clearer image or other coverage of this case? I’m surprised it wasn’t covered by the Irish News or the Belfast Telegraph.
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Maybe they are waiting until he is sentenced so that they can report it at that point?
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Frankly I suspect a criminal conviction for a priest is no longer news worthy, it has happened so frequently.
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Congratulations to Sharon and Wim and it’s great that you have all kept in touch. The Temple of the Winds is a beautiful venue.
Pat, I’m jealous of you getting that opportunity to sit in the co-pilot’s seat. It must have been great and of course surely not possible now since 9/11, as you alluded to.
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6.37: I understand the response of rage and anger at the Catholic Church. That’s justifiable. However, when that rage and anger pushes someone, like Magna, to gleefully incite hatred of priests, then it is harmful, destructive and counter productive. It’s irrelevant if Magna’s true identity remains unknown, the truth is that he and anyone else who persistently and relentlessly over years peddle hate inciting narratives, then we have a right to condemn that anger and rage. Almost invariably his words evoke a poisonous invective against clerics. Those of us in Maynooth with him know the true reasons for his behaviour ever since his departure by edict. Magna is the one who wants all the control to write his ignorant, vituperative crap. Yes, those with him know his dysfunctionality.
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Nah. You take the opportunity to repeat the lie about him being thrown out.
He never incites hatred of priests. I would be more prepared to engage with your ridiculous opinions if you made some effort to understand what his comments actually say and didn’t lie.
Could it be…. Could you be the one doing the hating….. 😮
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I presume you are a friend of magna carta. He does incite hatred of priests presumably through drink, drugs or mental aberrations. On vary rare occasions (and they are very rare indeed) he doe make some sense and valid points. But his ranting and raving does himself and this blog no favours at all.
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To the commenters replying to me above: grow up and realize that when you fail to obtain the continual adulation you want, it doesn’t mean you are getting hate.
Talk about narcissists!
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6.32: Perhaps you need to be educated abiut the content of Magna’s rants! Read them again. They are nasty, vicious and poisonous. Worst of all, they incite hatred of priests..Undoubtedly. Simple as ABC…
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6.32
How you failed to recognise that you were replying to MC under an anonymous tag is difficult to understand. Even a superficial glance at the rhetoric, tone, mood and stream of consciousness betrays its provenance.
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6.50
No; rage and anger isn’t directed at such an abstraction, ‘the Catholic Church’, but at the personal concrete: romanist priests. And these emotions are exacerbated when priests, like you, continue to lie about others, including me.
Not one of my posts has incited hatred against priests; on the contrary, they have sometimes been expressions of MY hatred for a priesthood Christ himself did not institute, and most certainly, given its morally inglorious history, could never have wanted.
I shan’t be coy about my hatred for RC priesthood (and never have been on this blog) and the men who aspire to join it, not to serve Jesus, but to serve an institution so mired in its own corruption, it couldn’t, on its own through the prompting of conscience, move to protect innocent children from the priest perverts and predators who had seen the possibility of personal power, gain, and advantage in this sick institution and hurried to join its Christ-betraying ranks. It took the global media time, and relentless pressure, to FORCE the RC institutional church to implement safeguarding for children from the very men, and liars, who so pretentiously proclaimed themselves ‘other Christs’.
And here we go again with that tired old chestnut about knowing my identity from my time at Maynooth. If you know me, you gutless, lying priest-parasite, then name me. But you won’t, because you can’t.
Now sit back, you social leech, and watch the hatred deepen for you, and your pathetic, vile and sponging kind.
God bless.
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7.58: You make my point very admirably. You piss out the same LIE and DISTORTION narratives about priesthood and clergy. God love you!! You poor dejected reject. Ever since your dreams were shattered all those years ago you’ve desecrated not just others, but your own humanity. Your ongoing attention seeking is, psychologically, a deep cry for affirmation, love, friendship and nourishment of spirit. Why would any person honour you, liar and freak, by naming you on the blog? We know you. Your aggressive, bullying sentiments add further validation to the common perception that, with you, we are indeed dealing with a pathological, psychotic and sick man. We all go through bad times and wisely seek out help. May I respectfully suggest you do likewise. I thank God for the ministry of priesthood which gives me amazing contentment and great daily opportunities of treating people as Christ asks. You, Magna, were denied such but that rejection should not define your life now. All that negative energy in rage, hatred and anger will destroy you. I’ll pray for you as a PRIEST. God bless…
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8:55. An obnoxious comment from a priest! To claim MC is a pathological psychotic sick man is nonsensical but illustrative. Gaslighting as a defense is not rational, extremely abusive and antithesis of Christlike. More gospel cherrypicking. Hey,what’s new! 😎
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LoL. “We know you”… BS. But, otherwise, a great display of negative energy.
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An excellent and moderate comment, despite significant provocation from the ‘men’ ‘of god’. Obviously they want to wind you up so they can further insult you.
If they were of God they wouldn’t behaviour like that.
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6.50
Can you let us know in which decade he parted company from the seminary! Those of us who were seminarians at that time will e able to rule out other potential identification.
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The 1930s.
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Looking to crucify him, Mister? Jesus you people are nasty cunts.
Pat edit this if you want.
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8:41 pm Incorrect. It was the late 1950s. I remember him, well.
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8:52 But you won’t name him, will you! Funny how you all knew Magna Carta at seminary – while the 1930s obviously isn’t right – yet on the basis of all your memories he seems to have spent about 40 years at seminary and despite your clear memories none of you can remember his name.
This is just plain bullying, lies and abuse. Magna is right about you lot!
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10:25 pm Silence is golden.
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9.25: Get a grip man. Magna causes divisions on this blog. He spits out volcanic caca. You should not defend his hate incitement. Never.
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When you’ve met one Maynooth reject you’ve met them all.
They were either loopers before they entered Maynooth and the college identified the problems and booted them out, or they were OK mentally to start with but they were rejected and that rejection turned them into loopers.
Whatever the cause or explanation, they are loopers, every one.
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11:09 And that doesn’t say much for the loopers let through 🤣
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The only people inciting hate and divisions on here are priests and other cathbots. Otherwise you wouldn’t all keep talking about Magna Carta!
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11:07 pm. I’m challenging you. Jesus is a source division. Turn the other cheek.
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@ Anonymous 6.50 pm.
I have noticed many times on this blog, the personal attacks on Magna. What I don’t understand is this – you state ‘Those of us in Maynooth with him’, etc etc. You go on to say that you know of his dysfunctionality and the reasons for his behaviour etc etc. Now tell me, bearing in mind you say you know all this about him, then where is your support and understanding for him?
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They don’t have any, Betty. They’re bullies and they hate him.
They’re also liars – despite many claims of people claiming to know him nobody has yet named him.
But then that’s clergy for you.
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10.00: Miss Betty Boots, the truth is that Mad Mags never accepted help, still doesn’t want help. He lives a miserable life. You need to go back a long way on this blog to understand his dysfunctionality. Yes, we’d all love to redeem him from his self destruct behaviour. Maybe you, as a “woman” might get through…
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Clerical fantasists , Betty. Some believe in nathin. Sad but true.
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Perusing through the comments, one humorous observation suggests itself: in the almost two-thousand-year history of the Church, all the Church’s problems as identified by Magna Carta apply only to the last few decades. In other words, only to the time after he had applied to (and was ejected from) seminary. His case reminds me of the religious who was a Pioneer until well into his 50’s and died a roaring alcoholic.
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Another Romanist lie. You could do with reading the history of your sect before you make a fool of yourself.
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8.34
You miss the point at 6.56:
MC’s ‘identification’ of the Church’s problems achieved its clarity after he exited the seminary.
Draw your own conclusions.
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Luther and others identified them before.
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11.18
But apparently not sufficiently persuasively to deter him from applying for and being accepted initially for seminary.
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Pat the best thing on this blog is when the priests let the facade slip and you see the reality 😘
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@ Anonymous 8.57 pm
I think you could be right there.
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Betty you are a boring old windbag.
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Poor auld magna is getting a bit of going over from other commentators. He does seem to be very angry sometimes and common sense can be lacking in an anger fueled reaction. I don’t find myself in agreement with him too often. However I wonder if free speech might allow for emotive reactions and if the church has not benefited much from suppressing such expressions in the past. A space like this blog offers a remedy to that by having a more Liberal approach to comment moderation. Not speaking for +Pat but that’s just one of the things that I think the blog has to offer.
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Yes it does. Pat’s moderation policy does irritate me at times and I take some time off. But the great strength is the way this policy reveals people’s behaviour when they are anonymous.
Hint to the priests and cathbots reading this: get used to it because your days of not being answered back are gone and throwing your toys out of your pram won’t bring those days back.
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Why does one person crave so much attention?
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To which priest do you refer?
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Pat,
Maybe MC is one of your Larne street preachers. Why?
1. His theology is not Catholic.
2. He believes in predestination – though many mainstream Protestants who used to have abandoned it.
3. He’s a unionist.
4. He’s homophobic.
4. He has three or four lines (life jackets) to fall back on when he runs out of ideas which he rehashes ad nauseam.
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9.40: Majority of commenters are non cleric. It’s so obvious, you idiot. Who cares about you haters?
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LOL they always deny being clergy. As it happens a few have admitted it today. And you’ve revealed it by your clerical attitude.
I don’t blame you, I’d be embarrassed to be an RC priest as well 🤣
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