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DERMOT FARRELL REMOVES TWO PRIESTS – TAYLOR AND COMMANE – FROM RATHGAR PARISH

MICHAEL COMMANE

A MAJOR ROW HAS ERUPTED IN THE ARCHDIOCESE OF DUBLIN AND THE ARCHBISHOP HAS REMOVED TWO PRIESTS FROM RATHGAR PARISH.

RATHGAR

Paul Taylor, a long time pet of Archbishop Diarmuid Martin, was removed from Rathgar after only two years and sent to the less elegant parish of Beechwood Avenue. We don’t know if his closeness to Diarmuid Martin was a factor.

BEECHWOOD AVENUE

Michael Commane, a Dominican priest who has been “parish chaplain” in Rathgar for 10 years has been abruptly send back to his religious order.

The archbishop Dermot Farrell, asked Commane’s superior Fr John Harris to take him back as the diocese no longer required his services – in spite of the priest shortage in Dublin!

HARRIS

Farrell acted under Canon 682 of Canon Law which states that a religious priest with a diocesan appointment can be removed either by the bishop or his religious superior.

The whole scrap started when Paul Taylor sacked two lay parish workers and dismissed the parish Council.

Why Taylor took these executive decisions is currently unclear.

There was a row about disputed minutes of the parish council meeting.

Farrell had previously set up a diocesan mediation procedure which did not work.

The process shows that Dermot Farrell is capable of tough and quick action when required.

**** The Blog is interested in hearing from Dublin priests and parishioners on this matter.

221 replies on “DERMOT FARRELL REMOVES TWO PRIESTS – TAYLOR AND COMMANE – FROM RATHGAR PARISH”

I know, I know. I was happiest in the poorest of parishes. There’s less politics and more openness there.

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“From plum to plum and slum to slum” we used to say.
It takes a miracle, or a very disgruntled bishop, to go from one to the other

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In some plum parishes there are poor bits, and curates hate being asked to look after them, and in the presbytery they mock the people who live there. I saw that often in Enniskillen parish when, in the privacy of the presbytery and parochial house, the priests mocked Kilmacormick (a large, rough Catholic social housing estate).

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From pllum to plum and slum to slum -sugar and spice and all things nice- dance of the
sugga plum fairy.

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Beechwood Av is a backwater/ completely lifeless with tiny attendance. Will suit Lady Taylor.
He’s not know for his pastoral zeal.

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10.42: Sadly Pat, some parishes are “dead” because of a particular constituency. Beechwood Parish, Ranelagh is now mostly an elderly going congregation, a big flat land area and young yuppie newcomers think the church tower is a minster or a Disney castle!!! Times have changed. Would not like it as a parish. It’s certainly not inelegant. Lots of poshies and stunning homes.

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Michael Commane makes no mention of it on his blog. I’m sure he won’t be happy going back to the Dominicans. A lot of his blog is taken up with pot shots at the Irish Province.

Incidentally, is it true that he owns two houses?

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I asked him, by way of a comment on his blog, about the claim that he has two houses. He declined to post my question or to answer it.

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Is there a difference between absolute poverty, relative poverty and religious poverty?
I don’t see any difference in practice if a religious priest can own two houses. What’s the difference, in practice,if any?

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I wonder if Commane will keep his health service-funded chaplaincy job? Presumably DLF cannot take that from him?

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This strange announcement has been posted on the Rathgar parish website. How is this canonical language meant to be understood by parishoners?
New Appointment
This is to announce that the Very Reverend Andrew O’Sullivan, newly appointed Parish Priest, will assume the pastoral care of the Parish of Rathmines and the Parish of Rathgar. Father O’Sullivan has been dispensed from the normal means of assuming the pastoral care of the parishes.

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It is strange phrasing, for beyond the basic meaning, there is also the question what exactly is meant. Diarmuid Martin, quondam archbishop had this thing of appointing administrators instead of parish priests as it meant less annoying canonical rights for the priests under his authority. Actual parish priests again? It presumably means a third type of parish ordinary, parish chaplain, which could mean anything.

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I wonder if it just means he won’t be inducted as PP in the customary induction ceremony involving parishoners and the bishop, because of covid?

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I’ve never heard of a priest being referred to as a “parish chaplain”. What’s that all about? Michael Commane has been replaced as parish chaplain in Rathgar by Fr David Larkin, a Kiltegan who is one of that large band of Irish so-called missionaries who are working in Irish parishes.

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Well if they inspired enough vocations in Africa that they could come home than the mission must have been successful. The missionaries ultimate job is to make himself unnecessary

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No, they are still needed in Africa but they get homesick, seek creature comforts, have family issues in Ireland, or wanted to be a diocesan but were not accepted for diocesan formation.

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One good thing in this time is that Africa has no shortage of vocations. A missionary from Ireland is now usually unneeded. I heard that quite a few missioners prefer to stay where they are, in part they like it, but also the Ireland they left and the people they knew are gone.

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11.17
Ireland is mission territory. Priests from societies and religious orders complement the diocesan cohort. They are freer to respond to where the church needs them and the Spirit beckons.

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It is not in use in Down & Connor, or Clogher, which are the dioceses I know best. Perhaps it’s a Dublin or England thing?

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Also not an England thing. My first thought was it was a way to avoid the obligations on both sides of being PP.

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11.53
Parish Chaplain’s is not used in the terms of Parishes as they are administered by Canon Law and Pope Francis in 2020 issued new Canon Law that they were to stop using priests as parish Administrators they have to be appointed Parish priests.
Chaplains is usually for Schools, Prisons and Hospitals.

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Parish Chaplain is often used to a priest who has fewer obligations to a parish than a curate. Someone with a weekly or daily mass, for example.

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Has the organist or “master of the music” also being removed as his name no longer appears on the website?

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The ludicrously titled Master of the Music has also switched parishes. He went with Fr Taylor to his new parish.

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An interesting factoid from Michael Commane’s blog is that he reveals that the MONTHLY (not annual) stipend of the Archbishop of Cologne is €13,800.

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Indeed, the rich German dioceses still bankroll the Vatican and they were significant donors to Maynooth, especially in the Ledwith years, when they and American donors paid for the JPII library and cleared the massive college debts caused by opening up to lay students.

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@10.57
Correct.
Same for school, hospital, army chaplains. These publiccally funded jobs are never advertised

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This is incorrect. Type “Chaplain” in to IrishJobs.ie to see all the advertised roles. Yes the Bishop nominates but only after the state selects the person though interviews etc. The nomination by the Bishop is purely ceremonial at this point. I would guess the nomination aspect will be dropped soon because all it takes is one person to challenge it in a court of law. State run institutions will not actively discriminate based on a Bishops assent or disapproval.

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@11.00 am
I do believe those jobs are only advertised where the bishop has no priest to nominate.
Look at Pobalscoil na Trionoide Yaughal, Cork University Hospital and Collins Barrack’s Cork. Were those chaplaincy posts advertised for lay chaplains? Who knows….

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I had a brief look at Fr Commane’s blog. The World According to Commane, flitting from one thing to another. I read newspapers for better commentary. Why would I bother about the ramblings of a dipsomaniac religious cleric who is outside his friary ? He must have pissed off Farrell, who has acted decisively and brutally. I guess if you are going to chop someone’s head off, then just do it cleanly and quickly. Same goes for Taylor. I think the message will go out to other Dublin clergy that they should not be tempted to test the new incumbent.

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COMMENTS AND PROOF
Some very interesting comments coming in today with ring of truth about them. I need a bit of proof to publish

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Thanks for that. I would not like to see you or your blog getting into trouble by anonymous cowards. Thankfully you have deleted a malicious post and my response.
Pax
Garngad Lad

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We’ve always look for proof of some kind. Credible information is also good.

We were not wrong about Maynooth and several individuals.

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Pat, Is this you trying to look for dirt on Archbishop Dermot Farrell as no one will be surprised as you have already had your go at him with the DLF.
Archbishop Farrell is very able and maybe screwed but he has a dioceses in a mess with too many parishes, elderly clergy and to many buildings and yes there is worse to come for some clergy.
PRAY that the Holy Spirit guides the Archbishop in his Dioceses as the same will happen in Glasgow with the only difference none of the current Bishops has the guts like Archbishop Farrell.
Your friend Mr Keenan must be getting ready for the move with the new hairstyle “just for men” and there I thought it was only gay lads that coloured their hair.

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11.56
Lots of US prelates die their hair well into their 70s and maybe beyond.
At least one Irish prelate travels to Dublin for a monthly rinse.
There’s a episcopabile in Belfast who looks asif he dies his hair too, having didpensed with his spectacles for a laser alternative, allegedly.
Move with the times, Jim S.

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Dermot Farrell is a stark contrast to his predecessor for all of us here in Dublin, Pat. Many are walking on eggshells since his arrival; he set about laying down the law and showing who’s boss very quickly. His pastoral approach is awful, he has an awful disdain for clergy, he’s always angry about something or someone. He’s very like Ray Brown in Kerry. Oh and he’s desperately trying to entice religious into care of parishes (Redemptorists, Augustinians, OMIs, SVDs and MSCs).

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Why would all those religious orders take up parishes ? They have barely any men who can walk. They are ageing and dying out themselves. Although, they do have access to theirThird World provinces and so could import foreign priests from abroad. But, is that the solution ? No, the only way is for the Church to re-imagine priesthood and ministry. Since they won’t, it will just be more and more decline in to decrepitude. Farrell and co are simply overseeing that process.

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Bring in the FSSP, ICKSP and the SSPX. They are awash with young vocations, including from Ireland.
BTW, 10.43am, be careful ypu don’t stray into racism and xenophobia when talking about priests from one part of the Universal Church serving in another part.
Tabletistas can be guilty of that, eg Bishop Terence Drainey said that priests from the developing world coming to England needed to be reeducated in English church ways. Imagine a bishop of a ecclesiastical territory in decline telling those coming from a growing area to adopt the norms and mores of the declining place.

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@10:44 “Why would all those religious orders take up parishes?”
Thankfully, we’re not. I’m currently the last of my kind in a parish that ought to have been handed back years ago, or better still not taken up at all. Its just a last bid by Farrell to do something to tackle the priest shortage.

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Good riddance, Len. The old “renewal” business didn’t work out for your crowd? Lol.

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@11:33, it only took us 40 years to realise. With that said though, I’d be willing to give it another go in, say, Foxrock or Ballsbridge perhaps.

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11.10
Your post is quite tendentious and daft. Most people going on foreign missions, including lay people are obliged to prepare to inculturation, especially by learning the language.

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11:10 Your comment about racism is ironic when your comments regularly reflect an abusive attitude to older people. This either suggests you’re a troll and these comments do not reflect your real opinion, or, more likely, you are unquestioningly reflecting gay culture and a taste for twinks. Really ironic.

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11.16
Because people like you would try to block the obvious alternative solutions: ordained women snd men married to women or men.

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@11:16 already done for the churches near Holy Ghost / Spiritan houses (or at least was under the shock of recent COVID and age related deaths). Leaving aside possible visa issues and logistics, a fair few are not that easy to understand and people are too polite to tell that. Places like India where people have their own language like Hindi but also a long tradition of native spoken English can provide many English speaking priests, but they not always the most easily understood. The same could be said for Polish priests. St Audeons probably could lend a priest or two, but some who stick to the migrant community can have less than perfect English. Still foreign priests with thick accents or no priests is often it.

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5.54pm
The priest who replaced the Glastonbury Monks in two of their parishes has an incredibly hard to understand accent.

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Len
You are mistaken his plans is to amalgamate parishes not transfer them to Religious.
Rome would not be happy with too many parishes going over to Religious.
Given parishes to religious will not solve the financial situation Dublin is in buildings will need to go.

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12.01
Words to the wise. Jim S. opines that ‘Rome’ (Il Colosseo perhaps? Il Patheon?) will not be happy. By which our gay Irishman domiciled in Scotland (ad nutum Sanctae Sedis) lets slipthat he knows what all the important inhabitants of the Eternal City are thinking.
Mind you, his vain but harmless musings are preferable to the vulgar Bela Lugosi and her owl go sip a lert and poor punctuation).

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Rare Goose Loose Alert!!
While Jim,S. seems fixated on encouraging contacting the Eternal City via the postal services in the British Isles, Bela Le Goosi seems fixated on every ad nutum Sanctae Sedi since The Council Of Trent. What can one say!!

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Commane had this to say last year about Farrell’s appointment as Archbishop:

“The Catholic Church in Ireland is tired and its leadership leaves much to be desired.

Is it a good idea to move one of the current Irish bishops to Dublin?

Was there not a priest in the archdiocese suitable for the position?

The archdiocese needs someone with imagination and courage, who will not be afraid to try new ways, so as to capture the imagination of the people.

A bishop needs to be in touch with his priests and deacons.

Just imagine if the new man, say within 100 days in the job, decided to organise a gathering, some sort of synod, to plan for the future of the archdiocese.

Dermot Farrell needs to give us hope, not just to Catholics but to all people of good will.

Hopefully he will be kind and good natured to the people in the archdiocese.”

In the Independent no less!

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@ 2:46pm
Oul Granny Grammar back on with her poorly written pedantic corrections and personal insults. Reminds me of MC on the gargle, perhaps it is the oul lush escaped yet again from rehab, and can’t resist her vulgar ad hominem insults. It could of course be Nettie aka Jim S herself, replying as usual to her own ill-informed posts. Anyway who cares, a pox on the both of them.😏

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@10:09 What a load of codswallop DF is the best thing to happen to Dublin in a century. Far more pastoral experience than any of his predecessors.

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Is that a joke?

1980: ordained
1981-85: postgraduate studies in Maynooth
1985-88: more postgrad studies, in Rome this time
1988-90: curate in Tullamore
1990-2007: various positions on the staff at Maynooth
2007-2018: PP of Dunboyne
2018-2020: bishop of Ossory
2020- : Archbishop of Dublin

A two year curacy and an admittedly very fruitful stint as PP in a parish. Hardly CV of the century when it comes to pastoral experience.

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What other Archbishop served as a curate and a Parish Priest. In the last 102 years. None I think.

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Gregory is right. Dublin has had a succession of schoolmasters, academics and desk priests as archbishop. Farrell is a change for the better.

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Dear Pat,
I told you about Taylor being moved many months ago!
Dermot Farrell decided to move everyone in the parish rather than deal with the situation at hand. There was a troublesome secretary who caused numerous issues over the years. My sympathy rests with Taylor as he inherited a poisoned chalice.
Dermot Farrell has acted decisively yet recklessly without any regard for clergy or laity alike. He is a cold, arrogant and unemotional. There are many other stories in Dublin like this, you just have not heard them….yet!
I believe Ledwith-Farrell will ultimately fall on his own sword.
Regards.

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You did.

Interesting. Others have spoken of PT behaving bizarrely? Was Paul not spoiled a bit by DM? In Clonliffe I both respected and like Paul

Your take on DLF in notable.

We look forward to hearing the other stories.

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This “AB’s House” has proven to be a reliable source of news long before it breaks.

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Dear Pat,
Diarmuid Martin feared PT. They were friends in their youth but were not friends later in life. Paul and Diarmuid travelled together in their youth. Paul knows all of DM’s secrets which involve some scandalous stories, some of which, have been shared with you. (All true by the way.)
DM kept Paul sweet like he kept others sweet. He only fears exposure which is why he engaged with you so willingly, all he had to do was sacrifice some seminarians. Admittedly, Paul has not helped himself at times but the parish already had issues before he went there. It would not have ended well for anyone.
A new scandal is developing within Dublin. Look at all the religious orders pulling out of Dublin parishes. Dermot Farrell has alienated them all. Apparently he is acting like a child, throwing his toys out of the cot. Many provincials who have met him do not have a good thing to say about him and his erratic and offensive behaviour. A bully. You should look into it.
Regards.

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DLF is a coarse bully. During the Zoom launch of the new history of Maynooth (the video is still online), DLF spoke briefly. He said something or other was “shit”. The other people on the call, including Fanny, looked as shocked as if a servant had farted in front of Queen Victoria.

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2.44
Would you prefer if he displayed a victorian morality? Polite and prudish in public and in private, anything goes.

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2:57 A consistent behaviour in public and private would reflect an integrated morality. Not everyone is like you, fortunately.

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AB’s House: Agree with everything said here 100%.

Were you present at the Zoom meeting last year when a north side PP who shall not be named interrupted to ask when parishes might be able to open again? That was some dressing down he got..poor bugger

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11.35: You are being very mischievious and deliberately misleading. Archbishop Dermot Farrell inherited a lot of incomplete work projects and commitments. Changes were made just before the departure of DM which disadvantaged Dermot Farrell. it is not true to say that the AB read the riot act to religious provincials. He has not alienated anyone so far. For years we’ve known that religious orders working in Dublin parishes were on borrowed time with their ageing profile. They are making decisions which are necessary for them. These orders have served and continue to serve the Dublin Diocese in very admirable and generous ways. It is sad that some orders are forced to make these decisions but let’s not put a sinister spin on the correct assessments made and the difficult decisions being made. The nasty devilment (satanlc) by this poster is from someone seriously and painfully aggrieved over personal failure at being sidelined. Tough shitty….what a shame you have engaged in lies.

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4:29 It’s not suitable for a blog and I would have thought you would be able to guess.

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@11.13am Yes, Fr Commane speaks fluent German and often includes very interesting reflections about Germany on his blog. He is also interested in transport. A fine priest whose perspective extends beyond the rigid confines of the RC Church. I find it difficult to mention any of his shortcomings – we all have them – that approach the need for a sanction. Conjecture and rumour mongering about him on this blog is most undesirable and, to put it bluntly, utterly abhorrent.

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He doesn’t like the new recruits to the order and makes no secret of it. I enjoys his posts about buses, though.

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I wondered how long it would take for the naysayers to attach Archbishop Farrell. Seems like the season has opened. Compared to the vast majority of Irish Bishops his CV qualifies him eminently for the post. He has a proven track record in the world of academia and in pastoral life. His style is ‘no-nonsense’ and to the point. He respects priests who are workers, and has no time for those swinging the lead. He is not afraid to make decisions.
The rubbish about the religious provincials reacting negatively is pure nonsense. The orders are in trouble because of ageing members and a lack of vocations. Naturally their first rationalisation will mean jettisoning parishes, since these were never part of their original charism anyway. So save the nonsense for the gullible.
He is doing a good job in very difficult times and i’m sure is untroubled by the crazy ruminations of the demented souls who populate this blogs comments.
You may huff Pat, You may Puff Pat, but the Lord’s House you will never blow down!
You should be preparing your soul for judgment day instead of rabble rousing.
Dermot Farrell will account for himself before the Almighty.

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I’m not trying to attack DLF.

I know of no dirt on him.

His dealings with his cousin Ledwith might make for interesting research ?

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2.15: Buckley, pay attention to your own conscience. You have a lot of unresolved issues from the past which has turned you into a vengeful person, full of poison and venom. Archbishop Farrell is the correct title for Dermot not DLF. You demean, diminish and denigrate every cleric you despise, which seems to be every cleric. You are a contradiction of all that the gospel represents. Even your assertion “I know of no dirt on him” and “his dealings with his cousin Ledwith might make for interesting research” are threatening in tone and very dangerous. You are filled with bitterness and horribleness of heart. No doubt you told your congregation of 4 that you are wonderful!!

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‘Archbishop Farrell is the correct title for Dermot not DLF’
Yet you address Pat as’Buckley’?! 😂
The clergy show they are crippled in morals, insight, manners and just plain human decency on a daily basis.

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The identification of the church with God is easily the most scary and abusive religious idea. It sets the institution on a divine level and it’s only a very short step to an abusive priest telling his victims it would be a sin to tell anyone.

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5.13: You do not possess a bright intellect. Your comment is silly. I deliberately used ‘Buckley’ in the hope that he would get the message. You obviously did. Why does Pat feel the need to diminish all clerics through ignorant acronyms, name calling and the effeminising of men? Why? Its a sickening, bullying, childish and ignorant behaviour. When children behave like this in school yards, there are consequences.

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What about Commane’s property portfolio – at least two houses. Then he has four pensions. Plus he has a 750cc motorbike and a new car. How does a man with a vow of poverty have so much personal wealth. He needs to be brought back to living in a Dominican community. Why is he given such freedom especially when he continually shows such disrespect for and animosity towards his Dominican order. Time for the OPs to crack the whip. Its only in time that Three Patrons will appreciate how blessed they are to be rid of him. My sympathy lies with Paul Taylor.

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I’d always assumed Michael Commane was an ex-Dominican, given the unrelentingly critical take on the OPs that he displays on this blog. The only Dominicans he seems to like are those who left.

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Fr Commane OP will surely be donating this wealth to OP heeding our Lord’s call to follow me. EWTN celeb priests got in trouble for living like that, although I don’t think Commane has made any women pregnant like Fr Corapi SOLT. The Dominicans are doing well enough in respect of vocations, but if they allow certain priests to do their own thing, they might find that going into reverse. It’ll discourage any brother or priest who tries to follow the Rule and prospects will go elsewhere.

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Who is this mystery man Michael commane? I suggest a full blog on him to get to the bottom of the mystery. It cant be difficult to get the dirt on him. Some of the Dominicans must know it. Let them share it.

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Its now time for the Irish OP Province to investigate the affairs of Fr. Michael Commane OP. He is a loose cannon and is scandalizing even more the already bad reputation they have. Why not send him to Tehran where he will not be able to cause any more trouble in Dublin and where he will have to answer to sharia law. That would quiten his silly and dangerous tongue.

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6:11 very telling comment since you reveal you think breaking the code of clerical omerta should be punished by having your life endangered. Niiice.

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11.24am speaks of Kilmacormick in Enniskillen as being a “large, rough Catholic estate”. It’s not rough….it’s one of the best parts of the town. The PP wouldn’t be interested in it (don’t know about the curate) but the people who live there have a heart of corn. They got off their arses years ago and helped themselves have a better life.

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I agree with earlier comments about how sad it is to observe such negative things in communities. Just look at the state of the world today with threats of war and destruction. Such needless negatively at every level. Life is short and death is sure. (Sorry to be so cheerful of a Sunday afternoon 😋) If you haven’t had a look at the 2nd reading for mass today go find it and if you’ve already heard or read it go back to it. St Paul couldn’t have made it clearer if he tried.
http://universalis.com/-800/mass.htm
There’s a resolution in there for the week ahead I’m sure 🧐🤔💗

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Judging by the critical comments from the clergy you’ve obviously hit a nerve with this one. I wonder what else there is to come out.
The comments about anger are particularly interesting. No doubt the holy ones expect you to suck up your bad treatment and look to yourself in the pseudo spiritual way they (supposedly) do themselves.

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Good, intelligent, well prepared homily.

Will Ronan speak the truth about his Maynooth etc ?

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Owner of this blog is on fishing expedition.🐟🙄🤣
Yes re cousin as the way DLF shut down everything related to maynooth seminarians and mc ginnity. It showed his ruthless side and no takers.

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Yes, but the departure was engineered by his cousin, Ledwith, whom he was later happy to serve as “executive assistant”.

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3.11
You are scraping the bottom of the barrell to make someone guilty for the deeds of a relative.

And, for that matter, what evidence do you have for the claim of Ledwith’s engineering it? G.Mc G left in 1984. Ledwith took over the following year.

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I used to live in Rathgar long ago when working in Dublin. At that time, Dublin was great place to work, boozing sessions, nightclubs, cheap flats.
I used to attend that church. I never liked one priest there as I didn’t know why, maybe instinct.

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Most Dublin parishes are dead. The energy of my fellow clergy is low. Few of us are hopeful of change. Now we are being pushed to get involved in a synod. Few of us care. There is still no leadership in Dublin it’s an exercise in managing a sinking ship. I can’t wait to retire. It’s been a mess for a while.

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3.05
It is a shame you cannot retire NOW are you are part of the sinking ship and happy to take the Gratitude and of course the salary then money out the retired Priests collections sadly that is what you are a hanger on.

The Synod is WORLD WIDE and completes in 2023 and hopefully Pope Francis will see his greatest idea flourish World Wide.

The HIGHLY salaried Irish Clergy should get their fingers out and do some work as elsewhere clergy are self employed in Ireland they are Highly Salaried.

For a Synodal Church Communion – Participation – Mission.

i guess “father” the bit you will not like is Participation in case your parishioners see what kind of priest you are dodging along till retirement.

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4.33: What educational Academyvdud you graduate from? Your english is horrendous, your ability to truly understand realities, non existent. You obviously do not work as a priest as you are clueless about the challenges faced by priests and parishes. Your contribution is utterly ridiculous, devoid of insight, truth and awareness. We have gone through two years of a pandemic which has changed the dynamics of parish life in ways unimagined. Have you any notion of the age profile of priests? Have you volunteered your time to your Parish? The Synodal documents to date are enough to fill a library. The content is mountainous, goals are almost unrealistic, the work required to implement initiatives is very challenging in the present climate. Many of us will do out utmost to participate in the project but it will be challenging. Sneering critics like you are rather fatuous and very out of touch with modern realities. Go and pray the Rosary! (A Catholic prayer to our Lady)…

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Oul Gossip Alert @ 4:33pm
Sadly, too use her favorite word Nettie, oul Fanny’s cheerleader is out waving her pom pom’s saying his “greatest idea” the synod will flourish world wide. Not a chance it will be the final nail in the coffin of this dreadful pontificate. No wonder the poor priest @ 3:05 can’t wait to retire, who can blame him.

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5.45
Sorry to upset you Father.
I am glad you are considering the Synod as it is a last chance salon for the Roman Catholic church.
What statists do you want what Dioceses as everyone is the same on a downward trend.
I most likely say the Rosary a lot more than you will.
Volunteer in the Church so for your benefit unpaid Sacristan, Reader, Eucharistic Minister, Server and during the pandemic part of the covid teams to make Our Churches safe for the people sadly clergy were scarce oh they were all self isolating.
I also do two nights with the homeless projects in the city centre.

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Oul Gossip Alert @ 6:18pm

Liar Liar pants on fire you’re fantasizing again. You wouldn’t be allowed to do any of those things not in a million. Not even in polyester land.🤣🤣🤣

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I notice that the Dublin Archdiocese no longer has a General Manager. Has Fr Gareth taken on this role? Is DLF slimming down Coddle’s old gang?

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As many admin kobs as possible in dioceses should be done by lay people – including lay chancellors.

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School teacher & a lecturer says it all… very weak they
are absolutely mediocre – all admin folk. Zero pastoral vision.

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4.27: Pat, you haven’t a clue. Keep your clueless nonsense to your Oratory. Since you’re an apostate, stay away.

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5:31 When the pope rescinds and apologises for Apostolicae Curae y’all will have some right to tell members of other churches not to interfere. 🤣

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4.07
Yes Father Gareth has taken on Office of the Moderator and there is no need for a General Manager
Every dioceses needs to cut the wage bills as they are to high and cutbacks needed.
The New Archdiocesan offices will be smaller as well.

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He’s got a Scottish side kick apparently-to advise him! In Mater Dei. Dublin’s a mess.

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It’s only a matter of time before 6 figure CEO’s in Westminster, Liverpool and Birmingham are shown the door – they can’t afford them as Mass attendance significantly down and unlikely to return to pre pandemic levels – they were appointed as a shield and having a lay person to blame is always convenient.
As for HR and Comms etc – extraordinary indulgent salaries occupied by staff vehemently opposed to Catholic life etc – masquerading as Comms specialists when it’s just money for old rope.
Imagine pensioner Mrs O’Murphy gives her widows mite to ensure a CEO receives the £100,000 and more salary he is accustomed to – you couldn’t make it up and it will end in tears!!

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Pat, Fr Joe O’Leary, the Cork and Ross priest who has not served in his home diocese since 1980 and who is the ACP’s man in Japan, is having a right old go at you in the comms box for the two videos by Robert Nugent that are sharply critical of you.

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5.09: The comment by Joe O Leary along with others on Robert Nugent’s You Tube re: Pat, are spot on. Pat is not the person he wants to portray. He is a good person essentially but flawed to a serious degree. The “authority” and “power” he assumed in being a bishop (consecrated by an apostate) has been used to abuse many, to condemn many, to thrill in the ignominious fall and failings of others. Jesus Christ DID not chalk up people who sinned and failed. He brought redemption to them. Jesus Christ didn’t “blog” hatefully about sinners. He didn’t hound after sinners. He didn’t crush others. Pat, regrettably, while achieving much good, lives with vengeance and vindictiveness. Strangely, the only remedy to reforming sinners is mercy, understanding, truth spoken in charity and a spirit of insightful compassion. Just like Jesus….

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LOL I love the way you use the word apostate as if it isn’t something to aspire to….

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6.55
Such contradictions. The arrogance. Such patronisising judgement. Joe O Leary ….an associate of Paul Taylor…..I smell a fear of the Blog. But…..but….but……your sentence which begins ” Strangely….” tells it all……your messianic complex is full of the episcopal power and authority you allude to….you posit a remedy ( audacity) and call it strange……I wonder…to have to qualify compassion in any way is very dubious. I was not aware that we ask reform for our sins( if one is given to this context or concept), I understood we ask forgiveness ……

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The elements of praise here are not faint. The usage of highlighting the position of a select subordinate to obliquely point out anomalies in a superior is an ironic rhetoric that has its place. One will not have a victory (in the best of senses) every minute. The lockstep model of catholicism has always been poisonous, with all its unprecedented dangers today. The strange bale out will need further sniffing. Culture war and social justice war need higher intellectual and spiritual calibre (Another Comforter) than they’ve had foisted on them thus far. Our Fathers & Glory Be’s said include the true intentions around all this.

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The comments make fascinating reading – also a strange mixture of very sad and very funny. But the one you refer to is particularly interesting:
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Saints and Scholars
1 day ago
Very interesting Robert, as a former student of psychology mysrpf we need to understand too that the saints had different temperaments. Reading about St Padre Pio he could be quiet direct such that other confrere were shocked. I think we need to be mindful of our own behaviour but ultimately people who take their own lives, do so ultimately themselves. I know secular progressives who use the same argument of suicide and seek to silence others who may cause, what they consider offensive. It is as important to teach people that ultimately they are responsible for what they do, it doesnt exculpate others who might incite or prey on vulnerable people. As someone with suicidal ideation myself, i know ultimately, no matter the taunting, i am responsible for the actions i commit, no one else.
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Brian O’Neill
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An uplifting broadcast. Thank you!
Romans !4:19, Therefor let us follow after things that are of peace; and keep the things that are of edification towards one another.
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Varg Vargusson
7 hours ago
Thank you for speaking your mind Sir…. Its about time someone did. Thank you for standing up and speaking out about the awful changes that are taking place in our church… It because of you posts that I began to reclaim my faith… It maybe some time before I ever go back to Mass, in the form it’s in… But I’ve started to pray again thanks to you…. Please be careful though… Mr Buckley will turn his pen on you….
On the Way to the Garden
11 hours ago
I don’t know who Pat Buckley is but I agree that prayer is transformative and there is always hope in Christ.
We live in a culture that loves to gossip and tear people down and focus on everyone else’s sins rather than our own. Perhaps if we spent more time praying for those we think are in error, The Holy Spirit would be given room to move into the situation and do the work men alone cannot do.
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Saints and Scholars
1 day ago
Pat sounds quite mixed up, pray for him. I am a sinner too.
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Mary Sweeney
1 day ago
I never heard of Pat Buckley…but from your talk….I have a question..
A spiritual work of Mercy is to admonish the sinner….does anyone do this??
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Patrick Parsons
1 day ago
Given that Buckley has been an open heretic for much of his life and is now outside the Catholic Church (Palmerian heresy), it is clear that he has never repented of his sins and errors; and has never sought redemption or offered atonement. He is not worth discussing.
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Bill O’Reilly
6 hours ago
A man that gossips about a man behind his back is hardly transformed by Christ. Jesus said about your kind: Amen I say to you, that the publicans and the harlots shall go into the kingdom of God before you.
Joseph O’Leary
1 day ago
What do you mean by saying Buckley lacked ‘formation’? He is a product of a clerical formation and identifies with the Priesthood to a maximum degree. He lambasted one of his combox contributors for saying that Jesus did not institute the Priesthood (though the contributor had reams of matter from exegetes on his side) and the contributor left in high dudgeon. Indeed Pat is so enamored of his Priesthood that he demanded the ‘fulness of Priesthood’ by making himself a Bishop–the only Irish Priest to take this extraordinary step. The ruthlessness of his blog comes from a conviction of his Priestly and Episcopal authority.
(I note the commenter’s name is given without Fr so I’ll take your word he’s the JO’L you refer to)
Another very telling comment is:
Given that Buckley has been an open heretic for much of his life and is now outside the Catholic Church (Palmerian heresy), it is clear that he has never repented of his sins and errors; and has never sought redemption or offered atonement. He is not worth discussing.
Source: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ElSUJSv68vw

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…..you say he has never sought redemption……When I was at secondary school, the Mormons and Born Again Christians were very active in Dundalk. The Born Agains were accosting students in the centre of the town and asking ” Do you want to be saved?.” A Father John Harrington who taught ‘ Commerce’ gave instruction in his classes; “if you are asked on the street do you want to be saved? The answer is I am saved.” My understanding is that according to the theology of the RCC, redemption is not sought….it has been given…..
A major difference with the reformed and scattered protestant teachings……

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7.35: William, you pick words to try to sygfest that I’m confused. Reforming our ways is an act of accepting forgiveness from God and others. I believe forgiveness and reforming are two sides of the one coin. When I truly receive forgiveness I usually being to reform my life anew. To forgive is “to let go…” and move into new beginnings or to be “reformed in God’s ways”.

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4.41::: MYOB – Nosey trouble maker. What a bloody useless hobby – chasing down clerics….a very dysfunctional behaviour.

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The usual wokery, except in one big respect. He sounds like he belongs with the Episcopalians. The big respect is that as CDF boss the moral quality of Benedict’s performance is uncertain. I don’t doubt that JP2 squashed any effort against Maciel, and Benedict did become frustrated with the restrictions that protected the ‘filth’ but to what extent were most of the bad decisions the result of allowing the JP2 pedo protection to shape his reactions?

Lesser details like the canonisation of Fr Escriva are respectable. Details might be added. Escriva poured so much effort into reviving an ancestral title, and had time only for the rich and connected. Escriva reacted to the New Order of Mass by considering defecting to Eastern Orthodoxy. He would not seek an indult from the Congregation of Divine Worship, but its head and man in charge of creating the NOM, the Vincentian Bugnini granted him one, part out of humanity, but also political sense for Opus Dei basically ruled Spain in the later part of Fraquist era. Escriva’s Opus Dei is called ‘far right’ but I think its sole ideology and charism is power, that is, more power to the Opus Dei cult. That I think weakened the Franco regime, more than the murder of Admiral Blanco. Opus Dei technocrats were efficient, but they failed to develop a narrative of power that gave what had become a managerial dictatorship legitimacy.

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It’s noticeable Bertone was Ratzinger’s official elbow jogger / saboteur / evil twin from about 1981 to 2013.

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We are talking here about the clergy, about priests and bishops. The fact it that they are a dying breed. That is understandable. Why would a young man offer himself for the priesthood ?
We know that once he is in seminary, he will be educated and formed (I am being generous in using those words to describe what happens in seminary !) in an atmosphere and culture which will encourage him to think of himself as something special and exceptional, which is a dangerous thing for a young man to think about himself, and which accounts for much of the dysfunctional behaviour and attitudes of so many priests who emerge from seminary. We know that the lifestyle that he will officially be encouraged to lead, namely a single and celibate life, will be observed as much in the breach as it is in the keeping, notwithstanding the fact that as a lifestyle that is imposed on a man it constitutes a way of life that is damaging and unhealthy. We know that in seminary the seeds of this duplicity are sown by the way in which seminarians largely do not observe the chastity which they officially aspire to. We know that the standard of formation is woefully lacking, delivered largely by a clerical staff that are inadequate and largely untrained in what they are supposed to deliver, as well as the fact that a good number of them are living a duplicitous and compromised clerical lifestyle themselves. We know that once a seminarian is ordained and takes on ministry, he is so badly formed and already compromised that he settles in to a clerical life that is lazy, indolent, lacking in professionalism, but which he is able to live because of the lack of clerical accountability.
Some seminarians recognise the severe compromises that they are being led in to and leave; some young priests do likewise and are able to get out and make another life before it is too late; too many priests only confront the reality of their situation too late and have few if any options, and so stay on and carry on with a life that is damaging to them and to those around them. Until priesthood is reformed, recreated, reimagined, then the situation will continue as it is. Sane, sensible, healthy and adjusted young men will be turned off becoming priests because of what I have described.

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7.08: You are so correct. This anonymous repetitive narrative (6.27 – for clarity) appears very frequently, almost verbatim. The usual. It’s repetitive and tiresome. No vision, no new ideas, nothing inspiring. Were this commenter to get a euro for his repeat narrative, he’d be a pretty rich man. Then he could go on a worldwide adventure in search of Nirvana!! 😁😁🤣🤣🤣😃😎…..and come back to bring us all to the promised land where we shall be saved!! If only…

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Howth Head is a peninsula. Killiney Hill is a hill. If ++Dermot climbs the Dublin Mountains and realises they are not mountains, it is a good sign. Only in Dublin would they try and make a hill out to be a mountain. 🗻🏔️
#notamountain
#nopax

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7.00pm

This Blog asked a question yesterday…..probably most priests and bishops ( not publically generally), this present pope too are in fact apostates….like as you say…..what is not to aspire to ? Most subscribing believers have rejected and repudiated many of the doctrines of The Deposit. ‘Passive’ Apostates if you like…apostates nevertheless…….

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William at 7.45 and Pat at 7.48, thank you both. I am sure you will agree they are also apostates in denial.

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7.45
Not so. Apostate literally means someone who stands away from or outside of. Our Holy Father Francis is rooted at the epicentre of the Christian community, leading from there. God bless him.

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Mr commane op is a Dominican in name only. He whole ‘religious life’ has been one of conflict and fighting. Yes he ownes two houses: one in kerry’, castlegregory and one in dublin. He lives alone, because in community he causes conflict and fighting. A few years back he moved into the student house and had to be moved out. He was abusive to students and other priests, i mean shouting at them. Hes obsessed with gay clergy: yet walked down the corridor of the student house wearing just a towel, when going to the shower.
Hes only ‘supporter’ in the Irish Dominican province is the adminstrator of st dominics parish tallaght, larry Collins op, the pedo enabler. Commane claims to know all the dirty secrets of the Dominican province and if challenged thretens to publish them. He hates the current provincial, so i suspect they are happy to leave him live alone and let nature take its course.

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Lets have an entire blog on Commane. He certainly deserves to have a few skeletons in his cupport laid bare. He has been washinh the Dominicans dirty laundry in public for years. For a change let them wash his dirty laundry in public. Sauce for the goose, sauce for the gander. There are probably parishioners in Rather who could share details of his idiosyncracies and foibles. Let the blog and the world and its mother know. Is Commane one of the White Socks? Does he say the Dominican Rite Mass? Or is that way off the mark. Maybe put him in charge of student formation. Then the pendulum would swing to the other side completely.

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9.06
What kind of Dominican dirty washing are you alleging he washes in public? White Jocks?

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It is sad when Bella Lugosi AKA as Robert Harkins of SSPX attacks JS because he thinks that is who it is so sad and to say it is a Parish Priest is a joke.

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10.13
Have you really identified Bela Lugosi or whatever he calls himself? Are you alleging he is a priest of SSPX? I doubt it. The Bela who comments here struggles with English literacy so it would be difficult to imagine he’s a priest saying Tridentine Mass. I thought Bela claimed to be living in Ireland.
On the other hand, Bela has used vulgar language about Pope Francis. I doubt an SSPX priest would do that.
Fascinating.

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Didanyone else see the small hostile crowd who cornered Archbishop Martin today at St Eugene’s Cathedral in Derry. He looked frightened out of his wits. I know feelings were a bit raw today and I was too far back to hear what the rigmaroll was all about. I see that BishopDonal McKeown did a runner. I have not heard what it was about, maybe others will know. It wasn’t reported in the media as there seemed to be no reporters present. Eamon McCann was among them and someone said it was a group of abuse survivors who berated the Archbishop. He was physically shaking.

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@9.38pm It was victims of historical abuse from Derry. They shouldn’t have hijacked the bloody sunday event. There is a time and a place. I’m glad the bishop got escorted away from them.

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They will be grand with a bit of money. Nothing like the smell of cash to sooth their upset. You can all get upset. But it’s always the truth. Once they get the money they calm down. Truth is terrible isn’t it.

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Ah, so Commane could have made a woman pregnant. The only thing missing from the Corapi parallel is drug use (well also TV appearances, and charisma, and definite talent, but anyhow).
Quote of a quote of a comment there: “A few years back Commane took a ‘leave of absence’ from his province. He went to Kerry (where he also owns a house in Castlegregory). It was said he entered into a relationship with a German lady, but ‘returned’ to the province after the relationship ended. His hatred for all things traditional is well known and he labels anyone who like traditional expression as gay. This led to the joke ‘why doesn’t Commanes’ girlfriend wear lace underwear? In case Michael thinks she’s Gay!”

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Pat is it true you won’t post a bad word against Paul Taylor. What has he on you? The man has destroyed Rathgar, Michael Commane and two female staff members and all to protect his organist. Why block the truth?

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