A man taken from an orphanage by Cardinal Cahal Daly who lived all his life with the cardinal has died in Belfast.
James Donnelly, an orphan in Nazareth House, Belfast, who used to serve Mass for Cahal Daly every morning, was taken from the orphanage by Cahal Daly and brought to live in Longford when Daly became bishop of Ardagh and Clonmacnoise.
Daly told James not to tell the nuns where he was going or who he was going with!
James then lived with and a servant to Daly from 1967 to 2009 – a period of 42 years in Longford, Belfast, Armagh and finally Belfast.
James himself told me that he was paid £ 50 per month or £600 a year for a six day week.
He was allowed a day off every Thursday if it suited Dsly.
Daly always referred to him as his “valet”. His duties included helping Daly to dress, polishing Daly’s shoes and treating the leather headband of Daly’s mitres with Johnsons Baby Oil.
DEATH NOTICE
MY INVOLVEMENT WITH JAMES DONNELLY
One day I got a telephone call from a middle-aged Protestant lady who lived in Belfast. She told me she had a Catholic neighbour in the flat adjoining hers who was very depressed as how he had been treated by the Church. She asked to visit her and James for a meal.
That is what I did and that is how I got to know James.
James referred to Cahal Days as: “My man”.
He showed me aound his flat and showed me a lot of religious objects that were gifts from “My man”.
He was unhappy that after Daly’s death he was being supported by a Trust Daly had set up for him. His contact with the Trust was the PP of St Brigid’s Parish on Belfast Malone Road – Fr Edwars O’Donnell. James said was somewhat afraid of O’Donnell who treated him like a headmaster treated a child.
THE DALYS
James was taken to Daly family occasions. He liked a drink but at the Daly occasions he was not allowed to drink. He was given Shloer while others had wine etc.
He also sat at a distant part of the table, according to him.
James did like a drink. What other luxury had he?
Afterwards I often brought him for a meal and a few drinks and left him home safely.
When Daly died James did start to visit some of the gay establishments in Belfast and made some friends there whose company he enjoyed.
All of this would have been a no no for the Dalys.
When he lived with Daly Longford and when he got his Thursday off he would cycle from Longford to Galway and visit Bishop Eamon Casey for lunch – 79 miles each way ! He told me Casey gave him a large whiskey for his return journey.
He must have been extremely fit at the time to undertake such a journey.
CONCLUSION
I do not know if Cahal Daly’s relationship with poor James ever veered into the genital.
What is clear is that Daly took unto himself a very vulnerable and uneducated orphan and turned him into his life long slave.
I am quite convinced that Daly was a repressed homosexual and used James to fill an ugly gap in his own psychosexual circus.
James did not enter this relationship equally, knowledgeably, freely and with proper consent.
He was almost kidnapped from his orphanage by a man full of egotistical guile and submitted to a life of physical, emotional and monetary slavery.
Daly represented himself as James’ saviour while giving him the victoriana title of valet.
A LETTER I SENT TO DALY IN 2008.
May James Donnelly now experience the love, freedom and respect that he was deprived of by a man whom I accused many years ago of “being strong with the weak and weak with the strong”.
BISHOP PAT BUCKLEY 
163 replies on “CARDINAL DALY’S HUSBAND DIES IN BELFAST !”
Let’s hear the cathbots chorusing that James should have been grateful to Daly and you’re in no position to criticise.
Disgusting treating him like that.
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11.18
That comment would preclude you from jury service for life. Prejudice is prejudice.
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My god the awful thought of what a state run by cathbots would be like. Cathbot: jury service and voting and nobody else can.
Not bitter because I preempted your comment are you?
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8.51 am is a striking revelation of what Catholics want society to be like, where only they have access to the machinery of civic and democratic process, including no doubt voting, and presumably having an abortion would be punishable by the death penalty.
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12.49
Not exactly. There’s no virtue in being the first to shout your mouth off without engaging your brain.
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Shammy the pax man is keeping his beak shut today. Why so, Shamser?
Have you a house hubby?
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1.45
The death penalty is contrary to Catholic moral rheology.
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12:49 Luckily they’ve shot themselves in the foot too much to achieve that.
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The death penalty is not contrary to Catholic moral theology. The abuse-enabler in Rome has his personal views but he is not an oracle or font of truth.
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But he is infallible.
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7.16
The evidence points to the contrary.
The supreme authority in the church is twofold:
1. The bishop of Rome;
2. The bishop of Rome in communion with a General Council.
Both are of equal status.
On this issue Papa locutus causa finita.
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9.08pm.
On this issue only or on every issue, eg the teaching on artificial contraception in Humanae Vitae?
BTW, yours is a grotesque parody of what the Church teaches about the papacy.
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11.01
Second point first.
1. In the Catholic Church supreme authority is vested in two equal parties: the Pope, on the one hand and, on the other, a General Council in communion with the Pope.
Even a superficial familiarity with the teaching of the Magisterium would have alerted you to that basic tenet. Your denial without a refutation is inane.
2. Secondly, any point of church teaching requires an assessment of its reception by the faithful. On the matter of capital punishment that is now a foregone conclusion. Whereas, on the matter of Humanae Vitae, which it appears you haven’t read, the encyclical advises Catholic spouses on their responsibilities to plan their family. On the precise issue of the inadmissability of artificial contraception, the overwhelming majority of Catholics have voted with their feet and refused reception.
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There’s a best seller here.
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3:27 no it is not. Between JP2 and Francis the CCC was revised and it casts it in terms of the development of values:
2267. Recourse to the death penalty on the part of legitimate authority, following a fair trial, was long considered an appropriate response to the gravity of certain crimes and an acceptable, albeit extreme, means of safeguarding the common good.
Today, however, there is an increasing awareness that the dignity of the person is not lost even after the commission of very serious crimes. In addition, a new understanding has emerged of the significance of penal sanctions imposed by the state. Lastly, more effective systems of detention have been developed, which ensure the due protection of citizens but, at the same time, do not definitively deprive the guilty of the possibility of redemption.
Consequently, the Church teaches, in the light of the Gospel, that “the death penalty is inadmissible because it is an attack on the inviolability and dignity of the person”,[1] and she works with determination for its abolition worldwide.
https://press.vatican.va/content/salastampa/en/bollettino/pubblico/2018/08/02/180802a.html
This would be like saying that saints and saintly rulers acted or advised contrary to moral theology.
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I know of a gentleman in his eighties who lives in Dublin who claims and I have no reason to doubt him as he is a gentleman of the highest integrity that he was propositioned whilst a student at Queens in the fifties by one Cahal Daly
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That is plausible, although something in the water might have cause him to run away with himself. +Cathal Daly had something of an old nun, a prudish, sour and cautious one, about him. With a little adjustment in time and space, Cardinal Burke, in his former role of bishop of La Crosse could have had another transgender nun. It’s interesting. I always had a higher opinion of Cardinal O’Fiach, even if he was rated as an intellectual lightweight. For one thing, O’Fiach had good Irish. Although many might disagree, a senior Irish Churchman should have a decent grasp of Irish. Perhaps his views on Church architecture were contentious, see Armagh Cathedral, but a solid Republican, solid overall.
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It is a typically Bergoglian act of hubris and overeach to think that by you change Church teaching unilaterally and literally with the stroke of a pen by changing the text of the catechism. The catechism is a summary of Church teachings, not the personal book of the pope at the time. Using that presidential style approach, Bergoglio’s successors could change it again.
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8.20
You and the majority of US Republicans may regret it all you like. The Pope has ruled on this issue.
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5.34
Even though Pio IX signed the death warrant of people in the Papal States the position is now changed utterly.
“The church teaches that the death penalty is inadmissable.”
QED
Did you not notice the contradiction in your comment?
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Note the hard working Signor Giovanni Bugatti who executed hundreds in the Papal States from the late 18th to the mid 19th century.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giovanni_Battista_Bugatti
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@7:17pm
Only when he speaks Ex Cathedra
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9.40
Only on matters of faith or morals.
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Can someone please play the clip of him on the Late Late Show where he looked and acted like an auld repressed Mercy sister. He hadn’t the panache of a Dominican or Benedictine nun. If ever there was a case of Vocations Directors checking to see if prospective students had balls – that auld nun is a prime example
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Unable to locate vid on YT.
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Is that when D’Arcy challenged him on the Gaybo show?
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That night Daly was asked by Gaybo if he had ever loved a woman.
His reply was: “Oh no, thank God”. 😀
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According to Wikipedia, “He was heckled by the audience on live television during a broadcast of The Late Late Show on RTÉ One on the topic of paedophilia in the 1990s. After his retirement in 1996 he made no public statement on the issue.”
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Was Daly a gay
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Unsurprising that a vile man like Daly should choose the equally vile and egotistical Edward O’Donnell to liaise with this gentleman. The two of these “clerics” are a shinning example of how not to be a Christian. Both men were (in O’Donnells case still is) full of their own self importance.
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Pat – a few years ago you mentioned in your blog someone in south Belfast who was under the control of the church – is this the guy?
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Yes.
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It seems Cardinal Daly did not treat his husband very well who remained humble and loyal until his death. Do you think other priests treat their boyfriends/lovers as bad? I mean we see them walk around with them by their side constantly, dining out, coffee dates, cinema, few pints in the local bar etc they are paraded about like trophies
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@5.56am Also parade them at bingo.
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As bold as brass.
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Have you considered that Dale may have been James’ father or uncle? Particularly since, through a trust he took responsibility for him after death and the Daly family maintained connection
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Daly did not like women.
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Interesting. I never met him and have no insight.
Are the terms of the trust public? As in would James’ have lost access to his funding if he made any allegations or spoke openly about any abuse he may have endured?
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I have never seen the terms. If James wanted anything he had to ask Fr O’Donnell – a not very approachable man.
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Poor James. May he finally Rest in Peace. It sounds like he was very controlled & exploited like a modern day slave & surely Cahal Daly could have paid him a proper wage & so he could have paid for a bus to Eamon Casey’s house. Poor James would probably have been better off financially on the dole or perhaps should have been in the care of a support charity for people with special needs where his income & housing & training & well being were addressed. They have lovely days out & everything & live with care & dignity, not cleaning shoes & hats for a crabby old Bishop & are paid for work placements on top of their special needs payment. Our clergy regularly publicly pray for victims of people trafficking in our churches – but what about this going on in our own country by a local Irish Bishop. Scary to hear of this exploitation by an educated man of the cloth against a vulnerable orphan going on in such recent times. I will light a candle for poor James. Rest in Peace.
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@12.59pm Never a truer word spoken by yourself. You have “no insight”.
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A man taken from an orphanage? Presumably, you mean a boy, Bp Pat. Daly would have been forty-seven in 1964 and an ordinary priest at the time.
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Hasn’t Cahal Daly got a nephew who is a priest of D & C ? Perhaps he could give some insight in to the life of his uncle, and especially this particular relationship and any coercive or abusive elements there were to it ? I must say the notion of having a tall, good looking man hanging around Cahal’s houses and palaces does seem a strange construction. Is the same happening at Lisbreen these days with young nubile Brazilians – men of course ! – being ’employed’ by the bishop in his ‘household’ ?
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I suppose the Daly family may have been concerned about how James would behave or start saying once he had a drink in him.
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Yesterday, I asked why no one from the Irish Hierarchy has the bottle to apologise to +Buckley; was it because of disapproval from, ‘ The Firm’ ? The reply I got was Pats past is not the priority. So, what is the priority? Don’t tell me, let me guess- covering arses in the present, in more ways than one.😷
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Nobody could improve on the answer you’ve given!
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@12:52
Merci beaucoup
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Who is next for the bums rush?
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I knew Jim really well and he was a very pleasant and laid back soul, may he RIP
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How old was James?
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I can remember a long standing VG having a ‘man’ who lived with him and looked after all the household / cooking chores. A sort of ‘houseman’. I remember at the time thinking it a bit odd, but this VG was a substantial figure and had clout, so there was no point in airing my views. Some religious houses had ‘houseboys’, young men who did all the skivvie jobs. Invariably, they had some connection to one of the priests – nephew, cousin etc. I guess it was a different time and people were grateful for the favour and the employment, although I suspect it would not pass employment laws these days. Of course, the other strange clerical relationships in days past were the female housekeepers, who often stayed with the same priest for decades, even retired together. A priest considered himself lucky to have a good and loyal housekeeper. Different times, different exceptions, different culture.
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This story is sad at many levels. I cannot accept all of the narrative as true because of Pat’s experience with Daly. That very negative conflict and interaction has poisoned Pat against Cahal. It’s written in every word. It would be interesting to hear from other people who knew James. There are suggestions which infer sexual, emotional and material abuse by Cahal. These are very serious inferences. We will never know the full truth but we are left with innuendos. Nazareth Care Village is a beautiful place, so I trust James was well cared for and that he was happy and contented there. Did James express any dissatisfaction of his treatment by Cahal?
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9:12 This is a textbook example of gaslighting. What your comment means is
1. We can’t trust Pat because he’s bitter
2. There is no way to know the truth (conveniently ignoring that James himself told Pat his salary)
3. Best leave it alone.
= Let’s bury this one as well.
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Lock up your daughters!!…MEA MAXIMA CULPA…lock up your sons!!!
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If +Amy had one, he would call her “my mum”.
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9.31
James was a human being. When we humans have our basic needs for shelter, food and drink met other needs emerge – closeness/intimacy, sexual desire, achievement, and self-worth.
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…a mammys darling….
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The threads running through this story are from one person only – Bishop Pat. Therefore, we cannot expect any positive aspect to be aired. I would imagine that James was content to have some work, a roof over his head, meals provided and may have felt a sense of importance, which he may not have otherwise have had. We do not know for certain and with accurate recall if James ever expressed disillusionment with his arrangements. After Cahal’s death who looked after James and did Cardinal Daly arrange for him to live his days at the Nazareth Village? When we have a permanent bias against someone we will forever see that person as having no redeeming qualities. So it is with Cahal Daly. Sadly. James seemed a happy and contented man. I think it’s iffe5nsive to refer to him as “husband” of Daly. In his death, James deserves respect.
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James constantly referred to Daly as MY MAN. For him it was a relationship.
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9.43: Pat – that’s your interpretation of James’s experience. You make it seem as if it was abuse. This is a horrible slur against a dead man. Will we ever know what James truthfully thought? No, regrettably.
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How many conversations did you have with him?
James was a gay man and would have loved to live a true life and find love.
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10:55 Working six days a week for €50 is abuse.
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It was 30 says for £ 50. Monthly.
£ 1.60 a day.
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Pat, using any yardstick you are not a neutral actor when it comes to the late Cardinal Daly. This is a very odd and bizarre story in 2022, however, in the context of the time it was perfectly “normal”.
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Normal? Christian ? Gospel centred?
Is abuse ever “normal”.
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9.52: Pat, no one can ever normalize abuse of any kind. Never. Ever. While you have rightly called out and named much abuse, surely much of your own narratives against prelates and clerics have been abusive? You express very string opinions and are to be admired.. When we are talking about abuse we must each examine our own language and our caustic responses to different people. There’s a tendency to personalise commentary on this blog which can be interpreted as incitement to hatred and violence. I still believe that you are being most unfair to your nemesis, Cahal, in attributing your (subjective and biased) interpretation of James’s experiences. Why, when James was alive, did you not draw attention to what you now perceive as a possible abuse?
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Employment as priests housekeepers was frequently arranged for single mothers who had been in mother & baby homes & after baby adopted. Some “housekeepers” had more children whilst living in priests house but no sign of a boyfriend or partner publicly. Priests seemed to initiate contact with families by landing on doorstep to exert social pressure when they discovered there was an unmarried pregnant daughter in house & to insist on bringing Daughters into This system that seemed to provide church with a source of babies to sell to Yanks, free labour in laundries from women & orphans & various other money making schemes for the nuns & priests. Whilst some families might have approached church for help, many other families were hounded by local clergy to enter their unmarried daughters into this system & now we know why. Same story with insisting on placing young lads in institutions on basis of petty theft & then sending them out to slave & do heavy farmwork in brutal conditions. Obviously eyeing up the misfortune of the vulnerable for parasitic gain for some of these opportunist clergy although I’m sure many others were genuinely trying to help when “asked”.
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Some if not all industrial schools ensuredthat when the residentsleft they had a trade.
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9:52
James would not regard his life as abuse. But he longed for freedom.
A bird in a cage is beautiful. But cages are not bird’s first choice.
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Reminds me of the beautiful book by Maya Angelou, ‘The caged bird sings’
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12.56: Pat, always refer to your sources when using lines of poetry…As In Maya Angelou. James, I’m sure, would be much kinder about Cahal than you are now. What’s The purpose of referring to the dead so often?
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There’s an obvious parallel here – Benedict XVI Ratzinger and Georg Ganswein. Still together in the residence in the grounds of the Vatican. Inseparable. I wonder what will have to Georg when Benedict dies ? I expect they will shuffle him off to some diocese in Germany to finish out his episcopal ministry.
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Life hasn’t been all a bed of roses for Gänswein. He has had health issues. The arrangement of Prefect of the Prefecture of the Papal Household of Pope Francis and personal assistant or secretary to Benedict at the same time hasn’t worked.
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As in: https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/45791/archbishop-ganswein-hospitalized-with-severe-kidney-problems
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Presumably, “Mein mann” in Georg’s case.
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Bela Lugosi will provide us with the Latin translation before long.
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3.34
Owl Go Sip A Lert
The only Latin she knows are Kyrie eleison and Amen.
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This man James, RIP, he had his right to self determination removed from him. This was modern day slavery and no amount of pious nonsense attributed to Daly’s motives excuses Daly for his actions. Daly was the author of the majority of Pope John Paul II, speeches when JPII visited Ireland in 1979. If this abuse story is true, it sure calls into question the real motivation behind many Bishop’s action and indeed their inactions. By omission, their refusal to even respond to any form of written or electronic communication, is despicable. Unfortunately or maybe fortunately any young reasonably educated person would outright reject many pronouncements and promulgations by The Irish Episcopal Conference. On the basis of informing ones own conscience, they would be justified in adopting such a position and stand before God with clear conscience. Whether James expressed disillusionment or not is irrelevant. For all we know he may have been suffering a form of Stockholm syndrome. The man was a captive. All it takes for evil to thrive is for good people to ignore and do nothing. RIP James.
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10.56: If you didn’t have such hatred and vindictiveness towards Daly, your post might be accepted with some objectivity. You have swallowed Pat’s story only. If Pat was aware of any imprioriety while James was alive, surely he would have written about it or brought it to the attention of authorities. All we now have is Pats recollections and interpretations. They cannot be credible in light of the acrimonious relationship between Pat and Daly. I do not accept that Cahal, force him I had little respect, abused James in any way.
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James would not regarded his life as abuse. But he often longed for more freedom.
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12.46pm
He most certainly did. There are those who know. Pat Buckley has not the half of it. Daly sits ( in bust form) on the stair case to Eamonn Martins private rooms. Oh, if only someone could force that Bronze to talk !!
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The only bust Amy’s ever touched.
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Oul Gossip Alert @3:34pm
Don’t be ridiculous Nettie ya oul troll you only know Gibberish so I wouldn’t waste my time.😏
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James should have been grateful to Daly and you’re in no position to criticise.
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LOL
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How on earth can you simply say ‘James should have been grateful’ — and at the same time telling Bishop Pat ‘You’re in no position to criticize’? People are entitled to their opinions, even criticize, if they so wish: and most certainly in the case where there exists such an imbalance of power—or justice.
We all know that where there is power there lies the real possibility for power to be greatly abused; sadly, it’s more common to hear about the upsetting abuses of power in our society than it is to hear of power being used to help those on the edge of things…
It is often the case that abuse of power is what puts vulnerable people on the edge of things in the first place.
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Abuse. If you see it, hear of it, or suspect it’s going on—then do something about it!
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With these types, Bishop Pat, it’s all about Control: Control, Control, and Control. And they will stand on anything or anybody just to have Control over others. They don’t care who they hurt, or destroy, in the process — they must have have Control over others.
And of anybody rejects their “behaviours” then they had better watch their backs — their lives will be systematically destroyed. These types of abusers get great satisfaction from causing pain and misery to unsuspecting vulnerable individuals.
And when they have “friends in high places” — you can even be “taken off of the radar”, so to speak, as a human being, as citizen.
Your cries, 999 calls ignored, etc.
Very, very scary, I can tell you!
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Who you gonna’ call? GHOSTBUSTERS! 😂 X
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Pat
It’s hard to have sympathy for the way Daly treated you, when you treat people the exact same way on this blog.
It’s hard to distinguish beteeen you and Daly, you are both cut from the same cloth.
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How can calling out abuse be abuse?
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Lord rest Cardinal Daly
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11.44: This is the problem with Pat. He rarely, if ever, a knowledges the abuse he inflicts on many whom he despises. He is blind to his contradictions and hypocrisy.
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Name a person I have “abused”.
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I could not see His Eminence at the funeral. Maybe he was in the congregation? Strange if he was not present.
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His Eminence was not at the funeral and no other Bishops were there but many set condolences and they also said James was in Nazareth House with Bishop Walsh.
They paused the funeral for 30 minutes to go to the Parish centre for refreshments they taking James to rest.
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Afternoon Pat,
Any update on PJ Lyttle?
We never hear about him in the Diocesan Emails
Thank you
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Power Bottom JP Lyttle is supposed to be doing ‘special projects’ for the diocese, but maybe he’s now been cut loose / cut himself loose and is out and about doing what he does best. I’ll leave that to your imagination !!
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Daly was a prissy, repressed, vindictive and nasty little man, I think + Pat has been clear about that. He held grudges and was intent on getting people if they crossed him. It was all covered by a faux veneer of religiosity and spirituality, but in truth he was vindictively nasty with a twisted and evil little mind. I doubt if there were many people who actually liked him or loved him. Even his family, I suspect.
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‘He held grudges and was intent on getting people if they crossed him. It was all covered by a faux veneer of religiosity and spirituality’
It’s almost as if he’s still commenting here from beyond the grave.
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1.02: Pat, the alive one is doing and making and writing the commentary along with his trenchant fans. Cahal is at rest in God’s presence and received God’s mercy. I suppose you lot want to deny him this too…
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He tried to ruin people’s lives but he hated it when they stood up to him which were few.
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This would be indentured servitude except it isn’t even that good because wasn’t apparently entered into freely for a fixed term and only ended at death.
There are striking similarities to the way the clergy are treated with no contract and no employment rights.
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12.38: Now Pat, you are playing games. Look back iver your blogs and scrutinise the ridiculing, sneering, mocking, effeminising of men, name calling…Need I say more. Many a young person and older has taken their life as a result of the type of language used about them on social media platforms, lsnguage which you use all too frequently. I know of priests who were the focus relentlessly by you in horrible nastiness who went unto deep depression and reached almost fatal decisions about their lives. Just be aware of the impact of language when used nastily and viciously. Wrongful usage of words is ABUSE. Need I really name people? Pat, you’ll have no problem recalling your victims.
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Did those priests go into deep depression because of me or was it because their deeds came to light?
Calling out abuse is not abuse – only in theys of the abuser.
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Pat at 1:12 exactly. 1.09 is a cover up merchant and would obviously refuse to name names if asked. The question he should actually be asking is why the church doesn’t support its errant clergy, instead of blaming you.
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If they are queer and adhere to the extreme Catholic teachings on homosexuality, instead of trying to rescind them, they can expect no mercy on the blog comments.
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“Expect no mercy”.
You sound nice.
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Pat is your spiritual path open to the idea of setting up an inclusive seminary.
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Absolutely.
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1.56: Why have you never set this in motion before? I think it may be unworkable for you as you are too used to working so independently and to readapt to taking others on board is a hyge challenge. It sounds a great idea. But, has our society moved so far away now from any organised sects, religious groups or a faith based vision of life that such initiatives are unattractive?
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What is meant by inclusive ?
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Stephen Wilson as Spiritual director 🙏
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Or, Head of Formation…?
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Another parallel would be Elsie and Carmel except she’s a religious.
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Interesting re Daly. Repressed sounds more like it but I have no way of knowing it. Therefore, no proof.
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Recall seeing somewhere that 1st question to any Bishop was that very question, are you a homosexual? At first years ago, I thought it was very rude question to ask.
But now I don’t think so, given the fact that priesthood is turning into a ‘gay profession’ with stories of some cardinals, bishops, priests whose double lives were coming out. I felt sorry for hetero priests out there.
Priests are human beings as they have feelings as well. Just leave at that but focus on bishops,just like bishops in braveheart country.
*poster at 5th Jan blog asked me what’s the update of towards healing. Nothing has changed as regards to composition of the board as RP is still a chair. It’s top heavy with church figures nuns and priests except for a solicitor and an accountant.
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Link is here (perhaps wtheir website isn’t updated, the only way we know is via ‘new’ company records) :https://towardshealing.ie/governance/
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Been reading few days old blogs up to start of Jan. One thing that concerned me was scouts in silverstream. It’s a huge red flag.
Speaking from experience, there are ways to access kids is
1. Boarding schools.
2. Scouts.
3. Swimming pools or clubs.
4.sports clubs where access to kids aren’t restricted.
My ex supervisor now registered in sex offender lists was often around the swimming pools with a camera, loitering around etc.
His supervisor pal was my ex supervisor who was a leader of scouts. I joined the scouts on 1st night as I quitted scout after 1st night sessions was over. I didn’t like what I saw there. Luckily I was free to do so. Over the years, scouts as I realised were the gateway to in terms of accessing the kids.
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Silverstream welcoming kids was a huge red flag for me personally cos of Kirby. I found it mind boggling that nobody followed it up for a couple of years until very recently on this blog.
I wonder what does Anderson know about this 🤷♂️
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The recent miniseries on Chernobyl, starring Jared Harris, very eloquently describes the kind of institutional stupidity and craven dishonesty which is making the Silverstream/Kirby scandal so epic. It will not end well and I’m afraid it will take many souls with it.
“The official position of the state is that global nuclear catastrophe is not possible in the Soviet Union.”
“The official position of the Diocese is that monastic catastrophe is not possible at Silverstream Priory.”
Thank you, Comrade Premier Deenihan!
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Absolutely, Pravda. The other similarity is that immediately after the disaster a lot of attention was focused on the operators who (completely foolishly and irresponsibly) removed the control rods from the reactor with the effect we know, and on them alone. Since then more attention has been paid to how men who thought they could do that were allowed to get as far as running a nuclear reactor. It is apparent that while their action was insanely dangerous there was nothing in place to stop that happening.
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By the way, is it not significant that in “1984”, the Jesuit-trained Orwell makes his protagonist’s re-educator/torturer an Irishman named O’Brien?
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I stand corrected. As a child, he was educated by French Ursulines, despite being from an Anglican family. In any case, the O’Brien dialogue with Winston Smith (“How many fingers am I holding up, Winston?”) was inspired by Ignatius Loyola’s “What seems to me white, I will believe black if the hierarchical Church so defines”.
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There is no legislating for stupidity.
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Angela Hanley describes a similar scene in her book on Fr Seán Fagan SM and the CDF – a very different institution under JPII and Benedict from what it is under Francis. In the book a Superior General asks a curial official whether he wishes X to say that black is white. The former nuncio Brown, whose baleful influence on the church in Ireland, not least necause Phonsie was appointed during his term deserves a blog in itself.
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Sean Fagan was an athiest in all but name but he didn’t have the courage of his convictions by leaving.
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An outrageous slur on a faithful priest. Shame on you Bela Lugosi!
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I had never thought of that allusion. But with someone as intensely interested in the nuances of language as George Orwell……I am sure that there was nothing accidental in the naming of O’Brien. The details of the terrible interrogation, swinging from Winston Smith being savagely tortured to being caressed with almost parental gentleness by an interrogator anxious for his redemption, have a suspiciously religious undertone.
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Dalys tomb in Armagh needs pissed on regularly
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Awful + Vulgar.
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You couldn’t miss Cahal’s outdoors tomb in Armagh. It stands out because of the little man syndrome mentality. Henry VIII’s tomb in Windsor is much more humble.
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Deaf guy wrote,
“Nothing has changed as regards to composition of the board as RP is still a chair. It’s top heavy with church figures nuns and priests except for a solicitor and an accountant.”
This is absolutely amazing, and deserves to be highlighted, Bishop Pat, in a separate blog post.
As of today, 19 January 2022, Father Richard Purcell OCSO, who notoriously resigned as Abbot of Mount Melleray for serial sexual misconduct, is STILL listed as a director of Towards Healing, an organisation founded to assist victims of sexual misconduct in the Roman Catholic Church.
I suggest writing to each member of the board, demanding an explanation and immediate action:
Anne Carpenter, secretary
Anne Confrey
Bill Fitzgerald
Bishop Michael Router, Auxiliary Bishop of Armagh
Cait O’ Dwyer RSM
Fr Hugh Lagan
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Oul Gossip Alert @ 3:52pm
Guess who is suggesting you right to six board members? She never gives up.
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If Richard Purcell is not gone within days, there are three others compromised in their complicity. The “ State Umbrella “ needs to act. Why are bishops not issued with the same yearly valid cards by this body as priests are? Very dangerous. Needs attention. They will not do it themselves. Imagine a Catholic Bishop (Tom Deenihan) referring to violence against women… his priests and predecessors were “ churching “ women into the seventies to say nothing of what they don’t pay women who “ slave” for them in sacristies…. Up until very recently anyway. You
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Bileen, there was no churching of women in the 1970s. I bet you’ve never read the old rite of churching, which was a prayer of blessing and thanksgiving for the mother and baby, and not as caricatured. It is in the Book of Common Prayer also.
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Financial abuse as a means of control. That had to be the reason Cahal Daly had for paying James only €1.60 per day this cynical move ensured James didn’t have a way to build up a nest egg to escape or just leave if he wanted to. Control, more control, & gaslighting – shameful & unchristian- why was he promoted when all this was going on? Would that be Because his bosses clearly had no problem with him being a slave master. Rest in Peace, James
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I have heard of religious whose communities didn’t pay their national insurance so that they would be entitled to nothing if they left.
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Pat Barry,
I wish James was still alive today to get advice as to how you can go to many different Countries and a visit to holy Land and yet only on 1.60 a day.
The list of foreign places was amazing for 1.60 a day.
Sadly they did say James could not read of write but James certainly loved life.
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6.51: James lived life through the kindness of Cardinal Daly. Indisputable fact. God rest James’s good soul and may he be reunited with his kind Bishop. F**k all the haters on the blog today. You should all lock yourseves in the Oratory.
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Daly surrounded himself by little bullies. He recognised and identified with them.
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Cahal Daly was an insidious wee dictator. A vindictive man as well. Malice emanated from him. He was more about upholding the firm than he was anything else. The story from today’s blog is horrible. But sadly nothing shocks me anymore when it comes to the RCC. Abuse, slavery, financial corruption. Ties to the mafia and the illuminati. Murder even of their own to cover up their misdeeds. It’s all there. Truly a cesspit
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Very interesting blog, Bishop Pat. It is somewhat soothing to know that people are “on to” these wicked individuals behaviours.
Thank goodness people care.
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https://books.google.com/books/about/Time_to_Heal_Handbook.html?id=t5kdtgYuOBkC
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That’s truly sad. RIP James Donnelly.
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I wonder if other Bishop’s/ Clergy had or have Servants like Mr Donnelly. I recall one or two who may fit the profile. Females as well
The auld Me lud Bishop was a great image for some
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@ 5:53pm
Where’s that fly swat?
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Pat as we know, even today in Northern Ireland, every Archbishop has his favourites.
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You’ve really rattled the cages today, Pat.
1. You should let the dead rest.
2. You should have said this before.
3. It was normal at the time.
4. You’re biased.
5. You’re abusing people by bringing up misconduct.
They don’t reflect (so I’m going to do it for them) that these are exactly the excuses used in the CSA crisis. The only one missing is ‘he didn’t know it was wrong’!
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H94iJYeWfH8
Al – On The Border –
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Your hatred of Cardinal Daly comes out loud and clear time and time again. The one exception was when I defended you against a caustic critic who wrote criticising you for praising Cardinal Daly for attending (I believe it was your mother/father’s funeral). To describe James as the husband is a little bit more than naughty. Very UnChristian.
I am afraid there are too many comments on this blog which hit below the belt regarding deceased. Particularly the lovely young teacher who was recently murdered.
Garngad Lad
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Cardinal Daly trafficked this child/person and kept him in servitude, the same m/o of any human trafficker.
This is and was evil – how many more Cardinal ‘valets’ are there?
The suggestion of homosexuality is interesting and having met Daly a few times he seemed antithetical to the fairer sex – an irritable and crotchety old man – imperious yet fragile with a clear Napoleon complex (little man syndrome)
Did he receive sexual favours from his valet – blow job here, hand job there, full anal sex (giver? receiver?) who knows we can only surmise – we content ourselves that sex wasn’t part of the agenda but let’s just say he wasn’t trafficked for altruistic reasons so what other reason did a powerful man have to traffic a vulnerable boy personaly other than to serve and I suggest servicing him would not have been off the menu – the secret would have been to keep stum and seems our poor trafficked friend was good at that!!
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7.00: Take your brain out of your a**e. This is pure caca and evil. What outrageous allegations!! You wouldn’t submit these to any reputable journal or thrashy gutter rag. You’d be sued. James was very happy in his role and enjoyed his life – a life that few cared about. Don’t be such a pig ignorant fool.
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7.00: What outrageous allegations. Morally reprehensible. I am certain that this “anonymous” would ever give his real name to anyone or express these evil comments in a public place. Coward.
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Until 1968, Maynooth had a servant whose title was “President’s man”, whose job was to be valet, waiter, chauffeur and general dogsbody for the President. Michael O’Riordan, the current butler in the priests’ dining room, had the job until 1963 and he reminiscences about it in the recently published college history. His bedroom was directly below that of the president. He also notes that the postgraduate priests living in the college also had a servant, whose job included making their beds and serving meals, and their was another servant whose full-time job was looking after the shoes of the resident priest staff. All the servants lived in, had their own oratory and had to go to Mass on Sunday and every day during Lent. Even in the 80s, there were still retired servants living in. I remember a few had rooms in Long Corridor and there is still one living in New House.
Different times.
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Pat- you might do a blog on upcoming Synod on Synodality – how’s that project going….? This group could make a submission…. Just a thought…
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Why did Daly dispense with Fr Jimmy Clyne as secretary was it to make way for James Donnelly
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These clergy like Cahal Daly repeatedly instigate troubling situations & then victim blame anyone who dares speak up. Toxic gaslighting. What’s with all these churchy crowd that have Brazilian cleaners & also motorhomes parked in church yards at odd times. Are they lending their motor homes to the priests? I’m beginning to think that although we know a lot, we still haven’t heard the half of it.
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Tom Brandon does your bf know how many other set ups you have with men? Glass houses
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“THE HAPPY … IN ROME WHEN DALY WAS MADE CARDINAL.
He was unhappy that after Daly’s death he was being supported by a Trust Daly had set up for him.
… said was somewhat afraid of [His contact with the Trust] who treated him like a headmaster treated a child.”
A happy time in Rome and unhappiness after Daly’s passing.
Ar dheis Dé go raibh a anam.
Pax.
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If the man had to deal with O’Donnell, no wonder he was unhappy. O’Donnell is a horrible “cleric” who thinks everyone is beneath him. Believes that he was born to lord it over everyone. Money is his God
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Pat any word from the Western Front?
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As in France/Belgium?
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When I was a student at Garron Tower the bursar, Fr Charlie Agnew , had an “assistant’ called Pat Delargy. His nickname was Pierpoint.
It was a very strange relationship.
When Agnew left the college his “ man” went with him.
Strange goings on-indeed!
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Er, you can’t be sued for asking a question v stating a fact – people who are trafficked are often sexually abused – this man was clearly trafficked and treated appallingly – an economic slave at the very least – now watch this, the clue is the question mark – he was financially abused by Daly (and no doubt had Stockholm Syndrome) but was he also sexually abused?
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Er, there were no allegations simply asking the question – trafficking (tick), financial abuse (tick), sexual abuse?
Go figure?
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That bridal gown looks very similar to some of the liturgical dress Cardinal Burke wears. Maybe he is modelling it?
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Lol
Well spotted.
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There are issues with O’Donnell as PP in St Bridgids in regards to his respect for parishioners, he seems to think he is above them
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