

The least known and least interesting creature among the generally uninteresting Irish Roman Catholic bishops – Francie Duffy – has been made the RC archbishop of Tuam by the RC bishop of Rome.
He is a former teacher and school principal with little or no parish experience.
As a Kilmore priest, he is another protégé of Sean The Wounded Healer Brady.
A safe man – famous for not thinking, not speaking, and not acting.
THREE INDIGNANT IRISH BISHOPS THIS MORNING.
1. FINTONENSIS MONAHANIBUS

Fintan, the former secretary to Neary, wanted Tuam more than Snowwhite wanted to sleep with Dopey.
I’m told that he is beside himself with anger and actually flung his pectoral cross at his picture of Greasy Franki screaming VAFFANCULO.
In the Vatican’s eyes Fintan has been seriously damaged by letters from Tuam priests saying they would not accept him and by his handling of the case of one of his priests choking the turkey at Salthill and the infamous affair between 23 second Ger and Vonnie.
In the Congregation for the Clergy in Rome they still joke about Fintan’s handling of Vonnie and Ride.
The Vatican is also unimpressed by his friendship with Dick Purcell.
2. KEVINI HOMOPHOBIAENSIS DORENSIS

There was no way Pro Gay Francis was going to promote Doran after he publicly said that being gay was like being Downs Syndrome.
Francis regarded that as an insult to both the Gay and Downs communities.
Doran did say to an Elphin priest yesterday: “On the good side I will avoid all the packing and moving at 68”.
3. BRENDANISIMUS LEAHIENSIS

Leahy is disappointed but not as disappointed as he was when Farrell got Dublin.
And the good thing about Leahy is that he can always take refuge in a good theology book while he is licking his wounds at his cosy home in Stab City.
AND THEN THERE’S RICHARD BENNET GIBBONS

And then there’s poor Richard Bennet Gibbons PP who fancied himself to replace Neary.
But Richard annoyed Francis by fussing over him at Knock.
And Francis is not impressed with priests who wear black water silk fascias with their cassocks. Looks far too ambitious.
But a Cloyne priest says that Gibbons is now hoping to replace Duffy in Ardagh?
In the meantime he has Lola and Millie to comfort him.

COVID PECULIARITIES

158 replies on “A THREE MONKEY MAN GETS TUAM.”
We just get bland, unremarkable bishops now, who are not known to be saintly, brainy, dynamic or orators. They basically see themselves as upgraded PPs and are not leaders. What is the point of them and why do we have so many of them? The only qualification seems to be years of working at a desk doing a job a lay person should have done.
Has any Irish bishop in the last 20 years said, done or written anything interesting?
Though maybe these humble invisible men are an improvement on the old style bishops such as Casey, Cackle etc who presided over massive abuse, decline, loss of faith and huge social change.
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No boats will be rocked by Archbishop Duffy. The archdiocese of Tuam can go back to sleep. It’s business as usual.
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Gibbons is bulling Pat she is bulling.
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The photo of Duffy at his episcopal ordination on the Irish Independent website is interesting. Look who is behind him- Michael Router. Clearly a friend, if so close on that occasion. What’s going on here? Are all these guys part of the Wounded Healers clique? If so, it suggests Amy Tits has no clout and Seanie Boy is still pulling all the strings when it comes to appointments.
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The cavan Mafia is still at large @11.37pm.
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Wasn’t Piggy Gray the head of the Cavan Mafia in England?
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Wounded healer’s fingerprints all over Tuam and aux in Armagh. Sean is doing what Worlock did to the English Church. A total scandal.
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Couldn’t she find some directoires to go over its mouth?
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Pat @ 11.36am You are on the ball mate. Joey Piggy Gray was indeed the head of the Cavan Mafia in Brum and only had time for Cavan clergy there. Seamus was his blue eyed boy before Seamus died young RIP. This was before piggy cleared off to his sty in Shrewsbury.
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But was in Liverpool in between?
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Yes I remember Gray as Auxiliary in Liverpool. It was a staging post for Shrewsbury. Horrible little man, a user. Brum couldn’t wait to get rid and Liverpool too.
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@11.41am You are right. Worlock’s legacy on the English & Welsh Chirch is yer man now in Westmimster.
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Yes, Nichols was Worlock’s blue eyed boy. The blue eyed boys have now the best positions and parishes. Especially the ones who have spent their years outside of said dioceses.
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Which diocese is Covid Peculiarities bishop of?
Love the titles!
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Bananas Father. Feed them bananas
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3 monkeys dance craze
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Would it not be better for a New Bishop to come from that Diocese who knows the Clergy , people , problems e.t.c?
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Obviously there were no suitable priests in the archdiocese of Tuam, so once again Cavan was sent for. That county is a school of priestly holiness.
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The majority of the appointments of late are an outsider.
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Having a bishop native to the diocese is no guarantee of success. Clogher is a great example……..local bishops yet zero vision or leadership.
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Is Larry Duffy not a benign character?
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We know who Bishop Larry’s replacement will be here in Clogher. It will be a native.
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Jimmy McPhillips?
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Jimmy ruined his chances when he deliberately played The Sash at the end of Mass. A crass, irreverent and lightweight act (typical of Jimmy).
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Anybody but Joe / Anybody but Peter. That’s what the Clogher clergy think.
The permanent deacon is intolerable.
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As a poster said yesterday the ‘Cavan Mafia’. This appointment has Sean Brady stamped all over it. He is still a Cardinal and he still has influence in Rome and especially over the derry dick womble in Ara Coeli.
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Sean has Router going up to him regular with the gossip on Eamon and what he is up to in Armacha. There is still a Cavan snitch in Armagh. The Brady bunch. Big Sean is pushing Router for D&C.
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In Clogher Pat, you always seem to know the score, the next bishop of Clogher is Bishop McPhillips. The clergy know it but hate the thought. The perm deacon in Enniskillen ex teacher thinks he is the Bishop.
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Joe screwed it up closing parishes when Adminstrator in Clogher. The power went to his head. The permanent deacon in Enniskillen is power mad also, a total gobshite. If the Fathers want someone to undermine them and be the PP instead of them get yourself a permanent deacon. Permanent pain in the ass. If I was replacing that ecumenical dick pp in Enniskillen the deacon would have to go too.
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Pat, Kevin Connolly is prepared to share his Diary with you.
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Is anybody bothered…..
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You are sufficiently bothered to read this blog item and to comment on it. Different people are interested in different things. It would be a dull world otherwise.
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Supremely indifferent to who is a bishop or archbishop. Much more interested in uncovering the hypocrisy that festers amongst the clergy. Which + Pat does very well. It’s the only way to clean out the stinking stables….
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Hi Mark Moriarty, how is your transition to lay life now.
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The jungle drums are getting louder about the plan to make James Martin SJ a cardinal, as revealed on this blog weeks ago. I’m very excited at the prospect of the Church getting her first gay cardinal.
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First gay cardinal 🤣
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@ 9:01am
Please God, that doesn’t happen, it’s not excitement you should feel, it’s fear and alarm.
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Bp. Schneider, Cdl. Müller say Fr. James Martin’s pro-LGBT agenda disqualifies him from being cardinal
https://t.co/g34ByJB4hG
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4.07
On the contrary, it would be difficult to imagine a greater recommendation for promotion than the resistance of Müller and Schneider.
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I have met the newly appointed Archbishop twice and was underwhelmed on both occasions. He is a surly and gruff individual with all the personal warmth of an ice cube.
Thank heavens he’s going to another unimportant diocese.
Pity Doran didn’t get the gig, he’d at least generate a headline or two and liven things up wheras Duffy will preside over the quiet demise of Tuam.
Nothing changes really. The deck chairs are being rearranged on the Titanic.
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Bishop Fintan is being very magnanimous on Twitter about the appointment of the new Archbishop of Tuam.
https://twitter.com/BishopFintan/status/1458390473052131333
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Public show.
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9.10: At least he expressed good wishes and prayers, which you, Pat, haven’t done. You are so spiritually defunct. You only profess to believe in Jesus, your life being very removed from his heart and mind. Sad really. You are capable of so much more. Why do you try to bring every bishop down? Why?
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Bishops, and priests, bring themselves down, I’m afraid.
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If, as yesterday’s appointment suggests, there is a ‘Cavan mafia’ then the logical consequence of that – and something already widely believed by many priests in Down and Connor – is Michael Router will become the next Bishop of Down and Connor.
By then he’ll be familiar with the Northern social and political system, in particular the education system, and be ready to move to Belfast.
He is already assisting in the pastoral governance of the ever-vacant Dromore which must increase the likelihood of his appointment to Down and Connor.
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Noel is here for 5 more years.
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A little over four at most. Router can wait and learn.
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I get the feeling that Router is an aggressive character?
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Router is a nasty man.
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Does anyone know what happened to Sean Mawn he was or is a priest from Cavan?
What do clergy in Cavan think of Cardinal Brady?
Interview with Brady in The Greatest Catholics in the World was superb – author boxed Brady in and when suggested that his careerism and ambition played a role in his egregious role in silencing victims of child abuse an ice cold mist or fog descended and the interview came to an abrupt end – said everything you need to know about Brady.
Brady has hung into his clerical power like a drowning man clinging to a raft – this much I know when he shuffles of his mortal coil history will make its judgement and history can be a bitch.
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I met Seamus Hegarty once and he was fecking scary – scared the bejesus out of me – mad wild scare and weird clerical beast – like he loved the church but didn’t much care for God or human beings unless you were a priest and gave the impression that he wouldn’t cover things up but he’d dig the grave so deep they’d never even find the hole.
Runs shivers down my spine!!
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@9:38am
I’ll bet you scared the bejasus out of the poor Bishop realizing the type he had to deal with, that’s really fecking scary
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Hegarty and those eyes would go through straight through you. Boyce was another cover up merchant but Seamus played the dementia card in the end over abuse. What gets me with Seamus being a Pioneer was when someone broke into his pad in Derry they stole a whole pile of booze from his bedroom??? Maybe it was the dementia.
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Such horrible cynicism from so many disgruntled clerics. Probably all passed over…not a positive word of encouragement. Of course they’re all wonder workers in their parishes……Indeed.
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Two new canons for Birmingham today – it’s like a mafia ceremony and their being made made men – less capo more canons – mind you they are proven men – proven to be as thick as thieves and promise to serve the chapter their reward their 30 pieces of silver.
One word to the newly appointed canons – what did you know about Joe Quigley? And how much money is in the Johnson fund?
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I know, they will be preening themselves and thinking that finally they have ‘arrived’. But, who cares ? Does anybody ever refuse to take the canon / monsignor title / status when it is offered ? Probably not. It’s the only way these clergy can feel good about themselves, with clerical gongs. They have lost respect, trust and their integrity when viewed by the rest of the world. They are laughed at, avoided, shunned and viewed as suspicious. They only have themselves to blame. So, I guess we should be kind and allow them a little bit of schmoozing and self-congratulation. Poor, sad things.
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Remember, the Johnson Fund is a grant, not a right. It depends on the munificence and generosity of the trustees, and there is no right to it. So, you have to keep in with them, play the game, keep your nose clean. It’s another way of tying priests to the apron strings on the diocese and archbishop. It can refused. It can be taken away. It’s all about control, no matter how they dress it up. It gives some people in the archdiocese a lot of power and influence over the priests.
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Ah yeah I don’t begrudge them a little bit of delusional status – as I say it’s like the Mafia isn’t it – the bishop knows he can rely on them to cover up, grass on other clergy, dig the grave of the body they are going to bury knowing that they will be rewarded if not in the next world definitely in this one.
I read once that the chapter is where the grubby little secrets are kept and belonging to a chapter means your a member of an exclusive diocesan club.
Mind you I don’t rate the physical health of the two Brum Canons being inducted today and I imagine part of the package is a cathedral funeral with all the trimmings and trappings which may come sooner than later!!!
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Who are the new canons?
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Cousins got a nice title.
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This just goes to show the cult-like following that priests enjoy within the TLM movements. Most alarming.
https://www.patheos.com/blogs/thefreethinker/2021/11/gofundme-shuts-down-appeal-for-priest-accused-of-child-porn/
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@10:45am
Like all “Freethinkers” I’m sure you do get through a lot of coffee keeping you awake to spread your errors. I don’t think you’d get $6 never mind $6.000. Envy is a terrible thing ,perhaps you should investigate the cult of freethinkers, you’d at least have the advantage of being an insider and save us from being too alarmed.
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As Killarney John would have said; that man was so open minded, his brain has fallen out ( he did not like Flan Markam ( ?) whom I did not know).
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Fr Flan Markham was a Sacred Heart priest who tauught philosophy to the sem course sems, as recalled by Vincent Sherlock.
For those who don’t know what it is, the sem course was/is a two year non-degree philosophy and English course taught to seminarians whose Leaving Cert/A Level grades were too low even to meet the not exactly onerous requirements of Maynooth University.
Paul Prior and Andrew McCarthy (both of whom were mentioned here recently) did the sem course. In the old days, up to the early 70s, such academically weak candidates were not admitted to Maynooth
https://sherlockshome.ie/good-to-be-there-and-nice-to-be-asked/
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Is Kiddie fiddling ok with free thinkers?
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What title carries more status – a Monsignor or a Canon?
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Monsignor – you can wear the gear anywhere. Canon is only supposed to wear his choir dress within the diocese and when the chapter gathers.
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10.48
Both are for “ services” rendered and expected.
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…. 10.46…… error
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Given that you now have to be drawing a pension to attain the title of monsignor or have a high position within the Roman Curia – most dioceses have to use the canon title to recognise ambitious priests. Most of the US dioceses do not have chapters, so they cannot single out clergy for merit. Who was the bishop who refused to award the title, saying, “I give one priest purple and turn 99 red with rage.”
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10.45pm
Ah yeah a lot of sucking up (probably sucking off too) of Johnson Trustee clergy – several million in the fund – Wilcox ran it like it was his own cash and could be benevolent or mean depending on his mental state which was pretty reliably haywire.
One of the Canons being done today is a big gun in the Johnson find – they have an especially strong hold over sick clergy who are behoven to them but step out of line and you could find the funding refused or declined.
Do other dioceses have a similar set up I wonder?
Clergy power and money – who knew?
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Yep, I’ve heard quite a few stories of clergy who have fallen foul of the subjective and vindictive decision making of the Johnson Fund. They all know that they have to keep the trustees sweet and happy if they want to benefit. I do wonder, given that it will come under charity status, if there should be some more rigorous oversight of it, so that subjectivity isn’t such a big matter. Surely there should be objective criteria and aims for a body controlling and handing over money like this. Remember, the money comes from the JF collections that are held each year, so they much be under the charity rules and law. Perhaps someone should ask some awkward questions ? + Pat ?
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Don’t forget Wilcox and Nichols are besties. Cocoa de Bournville (Maurice) fell out with Wilcox big style and sent him to the furthest place from Brum – Redditch to Henley-on-Thames. Our Vincent drank a few cocktails on a boat on thr Thames with our Tony. He kept him there. Wilcox is an enigma. A friend of Fr Michael Doyle, Paraclete, Stroud, taken in by Nichols to Birmingham and Westminster. Scratch my back, mafia etc
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Instead of red buttons and belly bands, they should give priests McDonald style badges with stars. Far more practical – the laity would soon see how important they are by the number of stars displayed.
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If Francis Duffy does not have a doctorate and the Vatican press release yestersay claimed he did, without saying where from, does that mean the nuncio passed on false information to the Congregation for Bishops?
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Read that book ‘best Catholics in the world’ re Brady. He’s a careerist as brendan boland wouldn’t call him as a ‘wounded healer’. He was given a stern warning that if he sqeauks, he would get excommunicated without the presence of his parents at the age of 11 or 13. That’s bullying and coercion par excellence.
That was what I call it as oppression, clamping down any info at all costs to preserve their institutional reputation.
I’m not au fait with rcc politics but it looks like Brady fingerprints is all over it. That much is clear to me.
What’s story with vacancy of bishopric in Glasgow.🤔🤔🙈😉.
Keenan is a careerist, period. I sincerely hope that he won’t get that plum post.
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https://www.catholicculture.org/news/headlines/index.cfm?storyid=52856
‘Our Church is a place of serious crimes,’ France’s leading prelate says, as bishops adopt reforms
November 10, 2021
” In his closing address at the French bishops’ meeting in Lourdes, Archbishop Eric de Moulins-Beaufort, the president of the episcopal conference, said that “our Church is a place of serious crimes, of frightening attacks on the lives and integrity of children and adults.”
“We must recognize and confess it: we have allowed an ecclesial system to develop which—far from bearing life and opening up to spiritual liberty—damages, crushes, tramples on human beings and their most basic rights,” he added.”
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Funny, when I say that here you all start ranting that it’s not fair. 🤣
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The press release of the Holy See stating that Archbishop-elect Duffy obtained a doctorate in education:
https://press.vatican.va/content/salastampa/it/bollettino/pubblico/2021/11/10/0735/01561.html
The fount of all knowledge Wikipedia states that his doctoral studies were placed into abeyance when he was appointed a bishop:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Duffy_(bishop)#Early_life_and_education
The thesis of a “Francis Duffy” is held in the library catalogue of the Trinity College Dublin:
https://library.catalogue.tcd.ie/record=b12482099~S7
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12.19
That thesis in TCD is probably a Master’s thesis.
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Vatican press release,July 17, 2013 when Francis Duffy was appointed to Ardagh & Clonmacnoise says he was completing a doctorate in education during a sabbatical.
If he did not complete it, someone forwarded incorrect information to Cong for Bishops. They won’t be happy.
È stato ordinato sacerdote il 20 giugno 1982 per la diocesi di Kilmore.
Dopo l’ordinazione sacerdotale è stato docente di Storia e di Lingua irlandese al St. Patrick’s College di Cavan, insegnando poi nella scuola diocesana di St. Felim a Ballinamore, divenendone più tardi il Preside.
Dal 2008 al 2012 è stato Segretario e Cancelliere diocesano.
Attualmente, pur prestando assistenza nella parrocchia di Laragh e nella chiesa di St. Michael, Clifferna, stava completando, in un anno sabbatico, il suo Dottorato in Educazione.
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…For the sake of the clerical ecclesial system- cover up, lie, deny.
For the sake of the clerical ecclesial system- cover up, lie, deny
For the sake of the clerical ecclesial system- cover up, lie, deny….
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Sorry Bishop I Was ill recently. I went with a lady friend to have lunch at the Greenvale in Cookstown a few weeks back. There was a gaggle of clergy at a table in attendance including its former curate Fr Emlyn. They were clearly gossiping and I can only describe it as cackling like hens. My late wife would have been appalled. I watched some of them, worse for booze, drive off in their fancy cars afterwards.
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Nosey husband of former wife is back again. Annoying but funny.
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@12:52pm
I think you and your late wife were clergy stalker’s, I remember you both on here gossiping about them all the time. I’m surprised you don’t have indigestion trying to listen to the clergy’s conversation instead of MYOB.
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I did have indigestion you are quite correct but only after witnessing the carry on of the clergy. The food, as always there is most excellent.
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https://www.churchmilitant.com/news/article/irish-apostasy
On Monday, in an interview with RTÉ Radio, Dublin archbishop Dermot Farrell lamented the near extinction of the Catholic faith in Ireland
.August 19, 2021.
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Institutionally and in Episcopal terms… it is indeed nearly extinct, that the gods…. but the core of the Gospels is still to be found in Irish people; a kind, gentle and generous people ( let down by leadership of all kinds for centuries). So long as there are people on the streets without shelter and warmth…… so long as the appalling needs of whole cohorts in Irish society are trampled and ignored…Margaret Mead ( or whoever) or the Nazarene need to be heard ; ordinary Irish men, women and children still care… it’s the leaders who do not hear them or want to…..I didn’t hear him the other day but Dermot Farrell can light a flame to warm if like one of his predecessors I cited in relation to him on this blog; he quietly hits the streets in the darkness or the day ( with a helper/ minder or two) and helps those who have nothing, NOTHING, and breathes life into what this blog says he refers to in terms of extinction. I actually think it could be in the man !! Walsh.
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….. thank the gods….error
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He is a man of some means/ wealth. He might remember the one the one who went away sad; though Jesus looked at him and loved him.
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I have always spoken up for Pat Buckley( I do not like his episcopal habit of sundering priests.. but that’s what bishops do ( power)) . My first appointment for a summer was to St. Paul’s on the Falls road. In those six weeks I met quite a few people from the Divis flats… married a few ( in the marriage documents were several death documents concerning the death of former spouses). Those people told me inspiring stories of one Father Buckley who helped greatly when no one else would ( and Sine Fein also was spoken of as a group who helped the forgotten) . It was the summer of two commemorations ; the arrival of the British troops( who used to prop their weapons against the wall of St. Paul’s and go to Mass with their Catholic girlfriends)…. and Internment . Pat Buckley in terms of care and kindness to people in need always has had a sense of Gospel urgency… not common to bishops in the Anglo/ Saxon/ Celtic world. They are usually all words about the poor but do absolutely nothing…. as recently a Minister wrote a letter about the appalling home problem and a Prelate made a reply… as Greta T. would put it about Climate Change; blah…..blah …… blah. I’d love to know how much a Roman Catholic Bishop in Ireland gives to their own Trocaire( big business of course) from their own pockets( I wouldn’t really). Yes , Pat Buckley has always quietly helped those who have needed… and been available to do so. That cannot be taken from him by any Cathal Daly or his ilk.
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DLF already has Dermo’s bad habit of analysing the Church as if from the viewpoint of an outsider. He was on the inside track for decades and responsible for the formation of a great many Irish priests. Surely he accepts a bit bit of responsibility?
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@2:51pm
Ah! Bileen, poor Cardinal Daly, Lord rest him, he’d a lot to put up with.
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I believe Dermot Farrell remains reflective, the pain of that reflection shows on his visage. Honourable in my opinion.
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Pat there are a few Cavan men in the Vatican HQ. Do you think they were behind you being held a prisoner of the Pope?
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6.40.
Cathal Daly never had a lonely day in his life. He never lived what the Roman Church calls celibacy. He had the constant companionship of a chosen “ other” ; James.
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Bill, you are right. And there was the young male primary school teacher in Ardagh and Clonmacnoise.
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@6:54pm
Bileen you should never listen to unproven gossip, look what they say about you.
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Wounded did all he could to promote Kilmore’s Paul Prior, and got him two disastrous spells as dean of Maynooth and the Irish College.
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And the Jesuits !
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Bishop Hayes in Kilmore (Cavan) knows loads of secrets from his Thurles teaching days. Including a suicide of a sem. Tainted. Follow the dots
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Router and Brady go way back. Prior fell on his sword.
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Michael Router is a decent fellow. He would be the last to think he’d be as he is today…. as he truthfully said“ when he was appointed. The punishment h”e has now for saying yes… is he can never have the integrity of his past life back ( before he was bishoped).
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He could have said No if he wasn’t so arrogant.
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I have thought carefully before writing my comment. Most of the postings about today’s blog are an attack on a man chosen to be an Archbishop which, in the hierarchy, is a position of high standing. How dare you attack His Excellency Bishop Duffy, He is a fine man. How dare you attack one chosen to lead within the Church in Ireland.
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Do you know him personally?
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3.28: Pat, tell us how personally you know him. What is your experience of Fr. Duffy? I think it’s most unkind and un-christian to seek to demolish this man even before taking up his new appointment. I wish him well. I believe him to be a most caring man. He doesn’t shout his good deeds from rooftops. God bless him now and always.
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@3:28 pm Bishop Pat, with your experience of sifting the chaff from the wheat I am sure you find the veracity of my comment.
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@3:12 You’ve supposed to be at COP26.
https://videos.sharesome.com/file/videos-out/936899-1636646099-729/936899-1636646099-729-480.mp4
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😂 Love it!
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@3:57pm
Heh ! Heh! Heh! Good wan PMSL🤣🤣🤣
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@3:12 You can jest. Be aware that I speak the truth. Desist from your trivia. Desist.
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Didn’t see anyone attacking him on todays blog, unless you count being called a company man and a safe pair of hands an attack?
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3:59pm
It’s probably a dose of cognitive dissonance. Considering a french Archbishop publicly acknowledged the Church as a place of serious crimes, of frightening
attacks on the lives and integrity of children and adults- which damages, crushes,
and tramples on human beings and their most basic rights- it must be very difficult for a person with a mindset who uses deferential terminology of ‘Excellencies’ to square the circle.
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Chosen by who? God?
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Pat, I’m bitterly disappointed you or your Armagh side kick Wee Jamie ‘Lukey’ McConnell didn’t get the post.
That bullfin would have made some changes😅😅😅😅
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That Fintan chap seems to feature quite regularly on the blog these days. As well as the unrepentant Dom Purcell, I think I have also seen him, as bold as brass, in pictures with the disreputable Kitty Kirby of Silverstream to. Not a very good look for a bishop.
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I wish to agree with 3.12.
Today’s blog is a terrible hatchet job on a decent kind man…I know Bishop Francis to be exceptionally polite, reserved, humble and gracious…He is a kind and caring pastor. He has a tremendous work ethic and decency is in his DNA. He deserves words of encouragement today no the ridicule he has been exposed to here.
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Granted he received no words of encouragement but where was he ridiculed today? 🤔
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It’s a rite of passage.
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Did I get the impression that Phonsie was another mother Burke in disguise.
I was told that Mother Burke has plans for another trip to Fota liturgical conference sometime next year. I won’t be there anyway just to avoid it😉😉😉
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gcp8BV59y2Y
The Odd Couple Intro (Season 1 Version 1)
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DG at 4:24pm
You’re constant insults to His Eminence Raymond Cardinal Burke is a disgrace. You wouldn’t like it if someone was insulting you. So pack it in and behave yourself. You wont be missed at Fota🙄😏
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7.05
@ Bela Lugosi.
Owl gossip a Lert.
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It’s remarkable when you meet Irish bishops in real life. You expect a reasonable degree of substance, presence, warmth, considering that they have been chosen by the Vatican as the best person for their respective dioceses.
However when you meet them they are just like a very ordinary person you’d never notice in a meeting. No warmth, no small talk and no presence.
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5.12
An argument for having diocesan bishops elected as the result of a transparent and fit-for-purpose process.
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It is indeed unfortunate that the mighty Joseph Merrick did not make the cut as a cleric, Joe would make a fine Archbishop. He lacks intellect, warmth and personality: perfect for high office in the RCC. Saying that, his buddy Rawhide Purcell may have held him back. Joe spent all those years in Roscrea looking after Dom Dicky.
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5.44
Canonical age ( their arrangement) reduced to allow his appointment. Tells The Discerning everything necessary about the system that pertains. An absolute disgrace and indictment of “their” processes. Funny that you can come unstuck if those making “disclosure “ “ have form,” Absolutely reprehensible; Shame on the very Ordinary Ordinary that he does not apply the same yard stick as His Disgrace, Dermot Martin of Dublin. So much could be articulated but what’s the point? The Abbots of Monasteries was in Italy… as they might say; “ got away with murder.” Literal for legal reasons not implied.
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…… was…. subtract….. error
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It was not so long ago Dom Dick Purcell was being put forward as a candidate for Archbishop of Dublin. How the mighty have fallen.
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Dom Dick and Sleepy Joe Merrick ? There’s an odd couple if ever I heard of one.
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Whose to guess….. what in ten or fifteen years what’s blogged here might constitute?
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That French Archbishop needs to watch his back now…. God preserve him from them.
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Sodano will have ordered it.
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@6:40pm
Spot on again Bileen.
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Great to observe Sodano relinquishing the suburbicarian see of Ostia in late 2019.
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Great to observe Sodano relinquishing the suburbicarian see of Ostia in late 2019.
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To be fair to the Wounded Wounder; Francis Duffy would have been a better choice for Armagh than what’s sitting there now… and to quote the wisest priest in Armagh at the time( not myself! In case my detractors get blogging); “ we’d have been better with Sweeney” but Sweeney had the capacity to make Brady feel his ineptitude. He paid a very very high price. Yes, Brady still playing the piper since they realised the disaster that was Charlie Brown( Did anything ever come out of Dunwoody?)
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If Rome was wise ; they would consult with Dublin now ( Brady also approved him)….and between Dublin and Joe Murphy…. with the Ebo adjudication; they might come up with an idea of what is needed before “ extinction “ as the Blog alluded today.
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Igbo
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Into Great Silence
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Billy,
How do you feel about your old flame being moved from Rathgar? I guess your paintings will be moving with him?
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8.01: Are you suggesting that William actually had a flame in Paul? Hmmmm..
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8.01pm
How is retirement
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7.07: Into the great silence…is where we’d like you to go permanently, William.
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Hilarious comment @ 8:16pm exemplifies the clericalist answer to those deemed a threat, dissenting or risk to the clericalist establishment….. be silenced…..permanently. Love your neighbour, how are you!
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8.01: You are so wrong about Rathgar P.P..Ranelagh is part of his responsibilities. Billeen has a past with him from Australia. Wonder will Millicent Sweetie Pie sell his art and artefacts (bought by SALARIES he received from parishioners and his former Diocese!!) and give the money to the poor?? I wonder….
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8.14
Salaries which, by definition, were earned.
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8.33
And, I should have added, are entitled to be spent as one chooses.
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Duffy will be off to Gammerelli Pat opening his wee account.
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Why. He Has the clobber already? Just gets a pallium – in the post these days.
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Not Arch’s clobber.
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8.16pm
It’s means meaning was lost on you.
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8.36
Check times past before you limit your spelling school.
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Sure don’t you have to be a three monkey individual to pass the unspoken test with the church…. Don’t they all look out for eachother…
Its good to be back, what did I miss?
I hear a girl in ennis was about to jump in the river at all hours last week and guards pulled up by chance and talked her down, apparently she contacted the church, that did nothing nor respond… now there’s a story…
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