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WHY HAS “INNOCENT” KIRBY NOT BEEN REINSTATED AS PRIOR OF SILVERSTREAM?

If, as the monks of Silverstream would have us believe, the Priory got a clean bill of health from the civil authorities, why has Mark Kirby not been restored to his position as prior?

If NOBODY in Silverstream has done ANY WRONG why is a humble brother, Elijah, still the prior and the Great Seer Kirby, still on chains at the suspect Priory?

If Kirby was cleared of misbehaviour by both the church and civil authorities why has ne not been reappointed?

The truth is, that on spite of all protestations, the church authorities KNOW that Kirby was guilty of what Dom Benedict accused him of.

Dom B did not accuse Kirby of physical sexual assault.

He accused him of sexual harassment.

He also accused him of entering monks cells late at night.

He accused him of inappropriately touching semi naked monks while they were in bed.

He accused him of forcing monks to listen to the gorey details of his own sexual as a child at the hands of his two uncles.

This behaviour in a monastery is gross misconduct.

This behaviour by a religious superior towards his community is even more unforgivable.

A CULT

Robert Nugent, formerly close to Silverstream and Mark Kirby, and also a former oblate of the monastery after examine the facts has reached the conclusion that:

1. Silverstream is a cult.

2. Dom Benedict has suffered a great injustice that should be put right.

3. Kirby should leave Silverstream.

4. A group of properly formed Benedictines should be brought to Silverstream to reform it.

Robert is correct. Silvetstream is a cult and Kirby a cult leader.

The monls there have not received a proper Benedictine formation.

They are not Benedictines. They are Kirbyites.

THE DEENIHAN ENIGMA

Tom Deenihan the incumbent of Meath, has tolerated all that has gone on in Silverstream and continues to tolerate it

This is a serious question:

Is Tom Deenihan compromised in any way that makes him tolerant of Kirby’s antics?

This question needs to be addressed.

And will be addressed by this blog.

202 replies on “WHY HAS “INNOCENT” KIRBY NOT BEEN REINSTATED AS PRIOR OF SILVERSTREAM?”

Sure isn’t everyone innocent until proven guilt in American, Irish mentality… everyone is guilty until proven innocent, that’s the difference…

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What is exactly the Canon Law of Sexual abuse and sexual assault…
The one created by Mossoli to protect the Catholicism and at the same time make Vatican Partner in WW2 in their genocide and crime against humanity especially against Jewish!!!
Expand your knowledge and choose your right path in life, because the world do not hold any grudges against gay people…

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We have real concerns about Silverstream after recent happenings. Isn’t there a support group in Ireland for families and concerned individuals who are worried about cults where people who belong feel unable to get out or who feel trapped? My heart goes out to the monks who may have a genuine calling for monastic life. I do not think the nasty, horrible commentary accompanied by sexualized and caricaturing imagery and logos, is good for the majority of the monks. I truly believe it’s a miracle that they are holding together but I am worried about their mental, emotional and spiritual welfare. This on-going analysis must be a source of deep pain, darkness and uncertainty for them. Whatever about Dom Kirby, I worry for these other good men. Can we pray that God’s spirit come upon them and spur them to making necessary decisions. Is it fair or kind or helpful to make fun of these men? Something has gone wrong but can we try to hold back on the cruel mockery and judgment being flung at these men.

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I’ve found a religious order which advertises for ‘real men’ although it still has a usual upper age limit of 35.
They say they don’t want effeminates, deviants or eccentric and candidates must be what is described as normal.
Perhaps this explains why there isn’t a single photo on their site showing more than 4 of them. And you would think going into so much detail about the habit would be a mistake….
https://catholicism.org/the-brothers

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Take my advice and choose a different path… Give yourself a better opportunity to earn your living with more dignity and honour and morals!!!

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FFS. who do they think they are kidding ?! All that slave stuff, that Marian stuff, the traditionalist stuff, the masculine stuff. We know what it all means. Underneath it all they are just big Dorothys who are trying to deny it. You couldn’t make it up !

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‘they have found no cause of action against either Dom Mark or Silverstream Priory.
Subsequently, an independent external canonical investigation found no canonical case to answer.’
The first thing you see are those carefully phrased words which can cover the present situation where Kirby has to a backseat driver, where it would not be possible to say he is innocent of charges. Kirby probably put his draw of cash to good use, and probably has a file of useful information in case anyone proves to be awkward. The post itself suggested that +Deenihan might be ‘compromised’ in such a way.

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Supposedly Dom Kirby resigned “for health reasons”. That is about as convincing an explanation as Dom Richard Purcell resigning his abbacy for “personal reasons”.

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NCR were told in 2020 that DMK “has suffered from long-standing health issues and has tendered his resignation as Prior of Silverstream on the basis of his poor health. His resignation has been accepted and it is expected that Dom Mark will return to Silverstream Priory as a member of the community in due course.”
Some people have questioned if poor health had an influence on the DPP decision. Unlikely DMK can be reinstalled as Prior if that is the case.

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Pat – I really think it’s time you shine some light on these you tube videos (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0TknSHDgO_Y). Immaculata have been promoting Silverstream rosaries to equip one to battle the devil in several prior posts. The speaker (preached at Lug’s ordination as bishop) is charismatic but is completely loosing his marbles promoting Putin. Putin + Silverstream rosaries = WTF

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Well, you know how it all ends for Cults. The founder, when rumbled, usually attempts to take the whole house down.

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As Mark Kirby seems to be no wilting wallflower, the fact that he is staying quiet and not forcing the issue to be reinstated proves that he is in the wrong and does not have a leg to stand on. No one is shocked anymore, least of all themselves, it’s a case of cover up and carry on regardless.

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To err is human. To forgive is divine.
“Dom Benedict is being looked after by his family and at their expense and has little income and no access to the proper health care.”
Some people are asking for forgiveness and prayers for DMK. +TD and DMK have facilitated the exclusion of DBA. The persecution of DBA continues. Can DMK ask for forgiveness while he continues to persecute his victim?
+TD has blatantly protected someone credibly accused of harassment and has thrown the victim under a bus. Dom Benedict Andersen must be properly supported without delay.

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FYI. Pat is quoting me in the blog. I stand over that quote. Dom Mark Kirby is a good man, but he needs help and support now. I mean that in the sincerest way. Dom Benedict has been treated in the most appalling way. Maybe Dom Mark can’t see this.
Silverstream could have reached out to me 2 years ago when I was drawn into this. I understand how the monks are well intentioned and want to help Dom Mark who is 70. But they are blind to the impact on Dom Benedict, leaving him to suffer.
This is the saddest saga I’ve seen, it is harrowing to follow, esp how I was blinded to the impact on Dom Benedict.
I have no criticism of the Bishop of Meath, he has been left to clean up the mess he didn’t cause. There needs to be closure and support for these men.
I would just caution those commenting on this to please consider the mental health impact on for the all the men involved. Dom Benedict needs support to move forward.

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Robert, I think it is very inaccurate to say that Mark Kirby is a good man.

Good men and priests do not gain young monks trust and secrets and then weaponise that information against them.

Kirby is a victim of childhood sexual abuse and is a very repressed homosexual who has never been able to accept himself and has had to invent an alter ego – a holy man to whom God speaks directly.

Mark is a very damaged man who has spent many years damaging others.

I agree he needs help. Having him in Silverstream is unbelievably irresponsible.

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Ok But he must be accepted with respect, compassion, and sensitivity. Every sign of unjust discrimination in his regard should be avoided. He is called to fulfill God’s will in his life and, and to unite to the sacrifice of the Lord’s Cross the difficulties and past he has suffered. He is 70, so I beg people to be compassionate. We have to be the bigger men now who help. And Dom Benedict needs closure asap!!

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9.36 am @Bishop Pat
“A damaged man who has caused damage to others” as in the abused became the abuser. Sad all round.

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This ping pong messaging Pat between you and Nugent on the blog is highly suspect! You said you were in close contact so why not use a text message. This replying to each other on the blog is I believe false and manafactured to try and show people you disagree.

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Totally untrue. RN and I do co.municate by text. His responses on the Blog are totally spontaneous and I have no knowledge of when he is going to comment.

Don’t be so cynical.

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9.54 it’s actually Connecticut, Oklahoma and apparently Canada that have been manipulating for 50 years and since then got Meath in on the act.
Kirby was presumably told to join an order in his formative years to expiate the sin his abusers told him he’d committed, and those stuck up elements never lifted a finger to help him in all these years and when they don’t get the blame they snigger at the rest of the monks and the airport potboiler purchasers and the accountants.
Of course Kirby should know better and walk out into the void, as Robert and others did every time they dropped out of all those movements.
Kirby is replicating the models that were given him by Holy Madre.

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ROBERT you want to move straight onto forgiveness, redemption and restoration of Mark Kirby, and skip past safety, justice, admission, repentance, and reparation. It doesn’t work like that, and is a very irresponsible misunderstanding/misapplication of the Gospel message and very damaging to the victims and Kirby.

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11.02: You, Pat, and your corgi poodle are being totally disingenuous with your readers. Let Robert be a MAN and not a child seeking your permission or you seeking his. You are both behaving like children. Grow uo the pair of you. Christians, my a**e!

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9.52: What took you so long RN to come to this revelation? This request was made by a few people last week and more recently but you offered no such empathy. Instead you went on to call the Silverstream “a fraud..” only having hailed Dom Mark as a mystic….and spouting uncontrolled outrage and crying over DB because you realised you were a contributory factor in his having to leave the monastery. Facts are facts. Please try to be very careful in your expressions and narratives. We are confused.

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11.02: The threads of on-going communication between Pat and RN is becoming weirder. They are both very protective of one another. Wonder why? Imagine posting at 5.06am on Silverstream as RN did! There’s now a fixation by Robert suggesting a mixture of guilt, remorse and regret that he ever got involved in this drama.

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5.06: Robert, with all due respect, what games are you playing? You are on a constant changing merry go round of opinions, judgment, narratives and analysis. I simply do not know where you stand any longer and find your views today very disingenuous. You are now obsessed with the saga of which you were part of in your treatment of DB. For a few days I asked you did you approve of the ugly, sexualized, ridiculing and cruel manner of commentary alongside horrible, dehumanizing imagery and logos . I also asked that all of us should be conscious of the emotional, mental and spiritual well being of all monks, including MK. This is not in any way to condone any wrongful or abusive behaviour. It has taken you, Robert, a week to express any such concern. Let’s all be honest here. You are in daily communication with Pat as obviously you give him “permission” to quote you. How wonderful!! Now that you’ve settled well into this arena, why don’t you spontaneously forward your OWN opinions. You did not properly answer the questions put to you yesterday as you said you don’t have time!!! Robert, forget about the questions I put to you yesterday. Answer these questions: How can you countenance the continuance of “variations on a theme” as presented today in literally shredding these men to pieces? How do we reconcile the imperatives of Jesus today in the gospel vis a vis the awful, jeering treatment of these monks – “Love your enemies, pray for those who treat you badly, bless those who curse you …Do not judge; do not condemn; give graciously; pardon (others) and you will be pardoned; be compassionate as your heavenly Father is compassionate.. ” Do you approve of the denigration and mocking of MK and the monks as in today’s blog? I am just in from celebrating two masses and four baptisms and have two funerals for this coming week. I have just read the comments so far. I am imagining these monks – for whom I do not speak – at dinner. Just visualise the scene. I would think they must be very fearful, uncertain, despairing, in a dark place and feeling very frightened. From a human empathy perspective. Do you Robert, really care for their welfare? And I don’t want the response of a “tough love” soundbyte. I am appalled at your changed attitude of mind and heart. I know Pat is immovable but is at least consistent but you need to be more discerning. May I advise you pay attention to your own words – ” I would just caution that those commenting on this to please consider the mental health impact for all the men involved.. Dom Benedict.needs support to move forward.” All your words Robert. Very amazing. Try to practise them.

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2.37: An excellent piece of commentary. All those questions need answering by RN. And since this is the inly forum for exchange of views, he should respond. We are all in abhorrence of abuses of any kind but should any vulgar, sexual, mental and spiritual abuse in commentary targeted at these monks be tolerated? This approach is a long, long way to living the idealism given by Jesus today in our gospel. Perhaps the critics here are the new Pharisees.

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“I have no criticism of the Bishop of Meath, he has been left to clean up the mess he didn’t cause. There needs to be closure and support for these men.”
Robert, concentrate. You ought to criticise the bishop because he has withheld the letter. The message from him to the rest of the monks is they are stuck if they want to “step out of line” i.e tell it the way it is. Please stop mouthing ambiguous colloquial Canadian platitudes. Use some logic or did the Legions steal your brain? “Positive” you found it, having your brain stolen by them and having your brain stolen by Deenihan’s vanity project. And the Vatican extraterritorial power has abolished rule of law.

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Why is a “Most Holy Sacrament of the Altar” sometimes being called a “Cenacle”? Are they just recycling generic jargon?

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3.30: Rememver 5.06 is undeed Robert!! What strange names we assume and even stranger when we traduce ourselves by our own words as 5.06 has done. A perfect public confession. Strange. Strange..

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One of the most momentous events of recent history is unfolding in Ukraine and Russia. My own feeling is that much of this has to be with little man / little willie syndrome on the part of Putin, now trying to push his weight around and threaten his neighbours. Classic stuff. And, rightly, western countries / alliances are standing up to him. If war does come, which I think it will, it will be absolutely catastrophic in terms of life, liberty and the peaceful future not just of Europe but of the world. In the meantime, I am wondering what the Russian Orthodox Church is saying about all this, if anything ? I suspect that they have long since made a pact with the devil / Putin / the autocratic, authoritarian, kleptocratic regime in Russia, and will not say anything out of place. The Russian Orthodox Church also lives under some inflated illusion of its destiny within Mother Russia and has very grand ideas about its place and importance. In reality it is just a propaganda puppet in the hands of the Russian government.

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It is better to get focused on your own life rather than Putin’s…
At Putin is a free man, is leading by his free will…
You should expand your knowledge in Soviet Union countries and Centre Europe from the WW2… before jumping into the conclusion and irrational judgement…

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Oh, get real ! Putin’s got a small dick and he’s trying to divert attention from that impediment by waving about everything else he can. The man’s nuts. And so are you if you think he is a ‘free man….leading by his free will…’ I’m not sure he could lead by his willy, it’s too insignificant. And therein lies the problem. I suppose you will send the FSB / KGB to knock me off now, won’t you ? Or maybe + Pat’s blog will be subject to an. internet attack ? Because you don’t like the truth.

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Oh, and good catholic, Biden, acts with clean hands in all this? What about his son’s murky dealings with gas companies in Ukraine. Of course, if Nordstream opens up, Ukraine, and his son’s gas interests, will be irrelevant.

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‘Whenever any conflict is mentioned, divert to your own favourite pet hate and tell everyone else to look to themselves’. – Jesus

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Yes, and all very convenient for Johnson to deflect from his problems at home. And Ukraine is a democratic country; say that to the LGBT community! Conservative nationalist groups in the largely Eastern Orthodox Christian country oppose LGBT rights, and members of far-right organisations regularly attack groups and events linked to the LGBT community. LGBT rights groups say Ukrainian police often ignore homophobic or transphobic motives of the attacks, classifying them as hooliganism. Poland and Hungary both EU members, are to have funds withheld for their return to anti-democratic ways including repression of LGBT rights and violations of the Rule of Law. The reality is that many Eastern European countries want the benefits of EU membership and NATO without subscribing to core values.

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If ethic Russians in the Donetsk region in the very south west of Ukraine want to be part of Russia, and the vast majority of people in the region do, what happened the principle of self determination? Ukraine has no right to impose their country on them. Russia is right to threaten to go in and protect them if the far right Neo Nazi Azov militia units of Ukraine start slaughtering them. It’s not different to nationalists in the six counties wanting to be part of the Republic, and the Brits and their loyalist threating to slaughter them. The West are just as big a hypocrites as Putin.

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Tommy is a company man. A career priest and I doubt he has any faith. He certainly displayed a lack of manners every time I dined out with him. What would he have been without the church?

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@9.26
+Pat, you given him too much credit. Can you not see that he has spent his whole life backing loosers.

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Well that would have to be Smith who used frequent Cork due to relatives on the South side of the city. But Buckley must have supported it too.

Smith ordained anybody and everybody.
Buckley let Deenihan run the diocese for almost 10 years while Buckley sat back.

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Yesterday, Pat printed the gospel for today which I suggested was very timely for all of us. It’s a gospel which simply asks us to reflect God’s gracious love and mercy, however difficult it may be. We are given a template for living in God’s expectation of us, to imitate Christ in all things. What a challenge and an ideal!! Jesus puts the task about caring for the welfare of our enemy to the fore of our behaviour. Difficult. Absolutely. He’s asking us to be stubbornly gracious, to not pay back violence with violence, to not completely write people off, to not be deliberately cruel in our treatment of others. Jesus puts the absolute command of LOVE before us. He’s not asking us to forget wrongful and abusive deeds carried out. He is, I believe , asking us to keep the welfare of our perceived “enemies” to the forefront, whereby, with the heart and mind of Jesus, we always seek the betterment of LOVE over the ugliness of vieolence, ridicule, mockery, tauntung and condemning. Jesus showed us true forgiveness when on the cross: “Father, forgive them, for they do not know what they are doing……And to the thief….This day, you will be with ne in paradise. “. Only true love as lived by Jesus (even for great sinners and those who fail frequently) can create a force for real goodness which, being of GOD, will effect the change and renewal we seek for ourselves and others. Constant love. It prevents us from continually putting a sharp sword through the hearts of those already condemned. To live this true “authentic” love is the litmus test for all who live in Christ. Can we cease the continuum of lampooning and mockery against our “enemies”?. God bless all the monks and all of us and help us absorb this great gospel blueprint given today.

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Is there a thing called tough love or is it always permissive love?

Jesus practised very tough love with the Temple money changers, Pharisees and Herod.

Love is a decision not an emotion or pious platitude.

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What exactly do you know about Jesus… Because what the Catholic Hierarchy let us know is not the only and unique version…
In Vatican is hiding as well the completely different truth about Jesus Christ…
Without adding here Jewish version…
Life is what we choose to believe it is true…
Because mostly Roman catholic priests are gay, a part of those who are paedophile, would like to believe that Jesus was a single man…
Still that single man dedicated His life to the Faith not gay sexual relationship, because Jesus was straight!!! The only attraction was towards a woman called Mary Magdalena…
So you all Roman catholic priests, bishops Cardinals resigned or find your identity… Who you truly are…
And you first Pat who preach as Roman catholic priest (excommunicated) and be in an open gay relationship to your parish…
Who you truly are!!!

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I am a Catholic priest and bishop, not Roman Catholic.

How do you know that Jesus was “straight”?

Has he been speaking to you from the tabernacle too – and confirming his sexual orientation?

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I’m crying with laughter at Fr Br.
Where do you even start?
Jesus was not straight because nobody was gay or straight then.
Now you go away and think about that before you make a fool of yourself.

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9:48 Thieves get their hands chopped off in some other Religions. The RCC could save itself a lot of accusations by going hands free. 🤣

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9.52: Pat, I merely ask that we reflect on the true meaning of today’s gospel. You always use the image of Jesus in the temple to justify “tough love”. Jesus didn’t chase people down. His action challenged. He never threw people under an unstoppable, sharp edged bulldozer! I am.merely asking what is the true meaning of today’s gospel. It doesn’t condone any wrongdoing or abuse but it certainly challenges our attitude. Jesus, Son of David, have pity (mercy) upon us. I do believe that we must show love and mercy, however unpalatable and changing, to all in Silverstream. As Jesus displayed in his life on the cross – love and mercy reign supreme – and must! My God, if anyone one of us was thrashed so much as the monks are experiencing, we’d be dead physically and spiritually!! Lets genuiny oray for one another today in light of the powerful gospel for today.

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Do you believe that Richard Purcell could have been LOVED out of Mount Melleray?
Do you believe that the gay sex orgy of Maynooth 2016 could have been LOVED into a resolution?
Do you believe that Fr Brendan Smyth could have been LOVED out of abusing?
Do you believe that ex cardinal McCarrick could have been LOVED out abusing boys, seminarians and priests?
Exposing and bringing an end to all these things required tough love.

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I am sure Kitty believed he’s administering tough love on Dom Benedict, when really he’s been inflicting emotional sadism on his charges.

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Hey, true meaning at 10:16.
Love for Kirby here means he is removed from the clerical state, his vows dispensed and given that he probably has no resources, be given a pension by the diocese and put on a safeguarding plan.
Love for Anderson means he is given his letter of good standing so he can go to Clear Creek or wherever, and given money for the years of therapy he will need.
Love for the rest of Silverstream means the bishop stops them taking further novices for now and asks a sensible monastery to appoint a prior for a couple of years and then review.
Because love means stopping harm and making (I can’t believe I’m using this word) reparation.

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Spot on.

Except I don’t think DB needs therapy. He needs his letter and then move into an authentic future for himself. He never suffered depression before he went to Silverstream and has not suffered it since he left.

His depression was situational not clinical.

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Pat at 11:25 I think probably everyone involved could do with some therapy as a result of their involvement!

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I forgot one – love for Dom Kirby would mean getting him assessed by a psychiatrist to see if he needs medication for the voices. It’s not like he’s kept this secret….

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10:16 The RCC “says” that it does not condone wrongdoing or abuse but it repeatedly springs into action to destroy victims like it has done to Michael Deegan & Dom Benedict & countless others & “actions” speak louder than words. Over and Out at Midnight. 😴

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What happens in Silverstream is no different to what happens in other monastic communities. It has been widely discussed here about what happened when Richard Purcell was in Roscrea. Richard was replaced by another. Sex has been replaced by alcohol. I do not know of any monastery that is not highly dysfunctional. They are full of men with repressed feelings, all there for different reasons. They are not safe or healthy places. Monks enter for strange reasons, become institutionalised and then this manifests itself in strange and deviant behaviour.

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Russian Orthodox Church has a very long , and sorry
history of K.G.B infiltration with agents posing as Clergy ,
and being close to the state .Case in point both
Patriarch Kyrill and Putin former K.G.B agents .
An invasion of the Ukraine would presumably enforce
the Moscow Patriarchate on people of the Ukraine , an offense in
itself when they have made the choice to be autocephalous .

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The Eastern Orthodox church in Ukraine has backed far-right nationalist organisations that beat up and oppress LGBT rights, so please stop the assault on the Russian Orthodox Church. Patriarch Filaret the head of Ukrainian Orthodox Church said coronavirus was God’s punishment for Same-sex marriage. He himself tested positive for Covid-19!

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Pat you seem a bit ratty today in your replies. Did you get out on the wrong side or do you have stuff on your mind?

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Well, I keep having a dream of Biden by the border of Russia holding an eikon of our Lady of Kazan who shouts out, “ Back, You Ruskies! “ ( Thrice)
Alas, I haven’t heard any locutions from the tabernacle.

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I’m sure Brendan Coffey thinks and talks about this blog all the time, as it’s exposed his modus operandi. His involvement has brought his entire community into (further) disrepute.

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Justin Welby announced today that his faith helped him overcome his depression, well he clearly was not clinically depressed or nowhere near it or he would know that faith would not help you out if this. He was probably down for a few days. I am sick of people playing the mental health card when they have no idea what having ill mental health is like.

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11:42 it’s a well oiled excuse that abusers use to get away with wrong doing. Look at all the priests retired on health grounds after revelations. Unlike their victims, they are well looked after in the best of accommodation whilst those they abused are thrown to the wolves.

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12.15: Another big lie. ALL the priests…give us the numbers, please or shut up lying.

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11.42: A very dismissive comment. If you have experienced any form of mental illness I hope you are well as of this moment. I feel you wouldn’t say this of a family member or friend or working colleague but I feel the fact that Justin Selby is a cleric and a Christian that you l”et go” so rudely with such disdain. No one person has a monopoly of suffering: we can each experience suffering, pain and hurt for all kinds of reasons, either temporarily or long term. Either way, depression in any form is a debilitating illness. It’s not an illness that should be minimised in any way, ever. I’ve been through depression and because of attitudes like what you’ve expressed, I kept it hidden for fear of dismissive, unempathetic attitudes from others. Thankfully I found a great counsellor. My FAITH was very essential in the pathway to healing as I was enabled to see the gospel of Jesus with more enlightened insights. Sir/Madam, do not get foolishly mad at anyone with mental or emotional illnesses. They can be a crucifixion.

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well said @ 1.54pm mental illness is nothing to be scoffed at. I have come through abuse and with the help of some very understanding people and a counsellor I have at last learned to get on with my life as best I can. We can all be victims of abuse so please don’t use the story of being thrown to the wolves (@12.15pm) as an excuse, that is nonsense. There is help out there for everyone if they look for it.

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He’s some craic Welby . . . the Archbishop of Canterbury, the most Senior Bishop the COE who also famously announced that God does not exist . . some faith . . . ROLF

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When you see all the various groups of victims of RCC abuse over the decades whether it be rape or sexual harrassment in seminaries, slavery and financial exploitation in mother and baby homes to name but a few outstanding issues they refuse to take responsibility for & resolve – the one overriding factor is that the Church continually shows that it is only interested in further undermining its victims with its cult like complicity in deceit and coverup & their vengeful, long term punishment against anyone who complains. Dom Benedict continues to be controlled and abused by denying him his letter whilst his abuser Kirby is being cosseted by the Cult.

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Have not been on the blog for a while. Silverstream seems interesting to put it diplomatically.
What’s Fr Ger Fitz at these days? Or who is he at.

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The singing plonkers and Stephen MBE are all holding a vigil for HRM Queen Elizabeth after the announcement that she has Covid. MBE Stephen, who was at Lisbreen Palaces joint birthday/Xmas party hosted by and for Noel Treanor was the first from the party to catch Covid afterwards for a second time in 6 months.

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I really feel sorry for Fr Fox being stuck up in that big old house with all the old folk around him. Surely he would like his own parish to get his teeth stuck into.

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Britain will throw a party if the people of the North ever voted for unity. What an utter drain on British resources we are. Civil war would break out and Troubles II would erupt.

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Civil war led by Stephen McBrearty, Brian D’arcy, Eugene and Martin OHagan, David Delargy and Kevin Mullan on the front line supported by MBE wannabe Eugene O’Neill who just has to be in everything but the Krib

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Was a great laugh to see the loyalist prods turn on Sammy Wilson DUPer at the Markethill protocol rally. See how these mob turn on each other. I have my popcorn at the ready. Who needs soap operas when you can watch these clowns tearing themselves apart.

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Why are we importing African priests? The Vatican’s statistical office noted an “obvious imbalance” in the ratio of Catholics per priest in different regions. Globally there is one priest for every 3,314 Catholics in the world. But the balance is one priest for 1,746 Catholics in Europe, 2,086 Catholics per priest in the Americas and 5,089 Catholics per Priest in Africa. Indeed European and US Bishops need to stop bringing them over.

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It’s the same with doctors, nurses etc. why are we spoiled westerners importing as many as we can from countries that need them far more badly? Crazy. Also unlike Priests plenty more young Irish people are willing, able and capable to be Doctors and Nurses if only given the proper education and enough college places. The fact is the existing consultants and the Irish Medial Association want to keep it a nice small lucrative closed shop.

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Lol Kevin Heery has stopped going to Sliverstream and stopped buying Calvin Klein Underwear for Kevin Connolly 🤣 don’t drop the soap 🙄

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He is absolutely gorgeous, why do men like him and Fr Rory Sheehan take a vow of celibacy?

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Ask ‘Reverend’ Mark Daniel Kirby who Thomas Yeardly was back in his homeland and watch the pervert squirm

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Yeardly was silenced by the equivalent of a NDA and is therefore forbidden to speak of the injustice he suffered at the hands of this Satan representative.

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Dom Mark Kirby had a dream
One day he founded Silverstream
Male and under 30 was the theme
Where he tried to seduce them for some cream

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It would be nice of you to do a piece someday that featured or mentioned gay clergy. It’s been so long Pat…….

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Shannon’s electric must be cut off for the yap hasn’t been on in days complaining about the rise of living costs being Clergy fault

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Christopher Stalford DUP MLA has died at 39 today. Total homophobic man. Married with four children. In the closet and people need to realise that just because you are married and have children prooves nothing. There are many in the DUP who are homophobic yet gay. You probably don’t know that Pat.

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Pat I also thought he was gay, maybe this was the reason behind his suicide? In 2022 this is very regrettable though.

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Pat @ 4.33pm Pat I have no doubt you know about gay DUP representatives and members. They tend to be very kinky indeed. Just look at your ex DUP man David in Upper Bann who had it off with a woman. Iris Robinson had it off with a young cafe lad whilst preaching gay conversion therapy.

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He was not homophobic, I had many dealings with him, he helped me get a house, dla and take my neighbours to court. He was a real gentleman.

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Let’s just say the media and the DUP central office at Dundela will deny it’s suicide.

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The similarities between the Roscrea monastery and Silverstream is very evident. Silverstream is not the only monastery with missing donations.

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If Putin invades Ukraine Kyrill will have blood on his hands for not
instructing Putin to stop .But then not only are they former K.G.B agents
Putin finances the humble Kyriill’s lavish life style .

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Oh go away. The Eastern Orthodox Church in Ukraine is corrupt and backed by far-right homophobic nationalists. Go away Ukrainian bot.

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@’4:42 Patriarch Kyrill will never consider instructing the head of state. The Russian Orthodox has since at least the time of Peter the Great always operated as a subordinate, no Church and State as two swords. Anyhow there will be no war, barring the usual low level hybrid stuff.

@5:17 the Ukrainian EO means more than one body, the Muscovite and the new Ukrainian Orthodox (which received a tomos from the Patriarch of Constantinople). The new Ukrainian Orthodox Church has been attacked for not attacking gays in fierce terms like Kirill does. Otherwise, think of it like maths, where there is the same value on both sides of an equation, it is discounted from consideration. Neither are keen on gays, with Moscow saying gay marriage is Nazism etc., responsible for ISIS (the CIA front not the goddess).

Random factoids, the Virgin Mary in the new super austere military cathedral is modelled on Putin’s mistress, Kabayeva. Kirill, KGB agent Michailov, has 55 hats ranging in value from $5000 to $27000. Hitler’s cap is there as a sort of relic, well it’s there. While he really doesn’t like the gays in theory and as a matter of public policy, he does not entirely loathe tender male caresses, monks as usual (standard stuff). Orthodoxy is barely practised in Russia, while Islam is. Chechnya has Europe’s biggest mosque, or so they say.

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Lazarenko, corrupt former Ukrainian PM given refuge in the U.S., has resisted returning to the country. He still faces accusations for $200,000,000 looted by him during 1996–1997 from the government of Ukraine. If the U.S. were serious about democracy in Ukraine, they would deport him to face justice.

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A Russian court has jailed for 21 years a former Orthodox priest, said to have adopted 70 children, for a string of child abuse offences.

Nikolai Stremsky was convicted of raping several children and other violent acts in his parish in the Urals in south-west Russia.

Stremsky was reputed to have Russia’s largest family and was decorated with a national Order of Parental Glory.

Barred from the priesthood he has also been stripped of his honour.

As an abbot in the town of Saraktash, Stremsky and his wife ran a foster home from the early 1990s, adopting children from orphanages in the region. Most of the 70 they adopted have since grown up.

He was arrested in 2019 and investigated for offences against seven minors, He condemned the allegations against him as slander.

Last year, one of his grown-up adoptive children and her husband were given suspended sentences for illegally restricting children of their liberty.

Sentencing Stremsky to prison in a penal colony, the court in Saraktash on Friday banned him from working with children for 20 years and removed his national parenting honour.

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Bishop Pat, regarding the sudden unexpected death of Chris Stalford at 39, just wait for the flourish of empty, false and two faced platitudes on the news from faceless politicians. I I wont name them yet. They hated him and are on copied record now as falsely giving sympathy. The same ones who are having crocodile tears.

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Yes the crocodile tears are well and truly emerging from all politicians over Chrisopher Stalford RIP. He loved a pastie and a fish supper on the Shankill Pat. The majority who couldn’t give a shit about him came from within is own party and not the Shinners. An enemy comes from within its own household Fr Pat as the bible said.

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On cue . . .
Sinn Féin’s Vice-President Michelle O’Neill called news of Mr Stalford’s death “desperately sad”.
“His friends and colleagues throughout the world of politics will miss his political contribution, and his constituents his local efforts and leadership across south Belfast,” she added.
SDLP leader Colum Eastwood announced the party’s spring conference, scheduled for Sunday evening, would be postponed as a mark of respect for Mr Stalford.
“Christopher and I knew each other for more than 20 years and this news has come as such a shock,” he said.

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@6.05pm Colum Eastwood is a total joke. He deselected candidates in Derry because they were too Catholic and anti abortion. Does this idiot realise what his party was founded on? He rants.

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6:24 the SDLP and SF despise actual Catholics. Neo Marxism is the new power now throughout the Western World if you want to be successful.

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It looks like a poster for Broke Back Mountainhttps://www.independent.ie/irish-news/a-perilous-pilgrimage-that-is-so-much-more-than-a-walk-35979194.html

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One of the very best films in the last forty years. Perhaps it will become an Epic. Ang Lee broke a few glass ceilings with this one…..hauntingly beautiful as a story of love and pain. It represents the complexity of what is yet a long way from our collective understanding. The actors were superb. I remember hearing Heath Ledger give an interview from the USA. In it he was questioned about the ‘war in Iraq.” He openly and honestly said his opinion was that it was all about oil. I said to the company I was in ” they will kill him” and they did…..Heath Ledger was a hero, onscreen and off it…..too good for this world. Broke Back Mountain should be prescribed cinema for anyone who says anything in the public space about relationships….of any crude category that unfortunately societies are stuck with…..a few contributors on this Blog would get a good emotional workout bt being open to a change of mind. Pat is right….it is very sad….but then as Shadowlands very poignantly captured ( quoting C.S. Lewis); the pain now is part of the happiness then.

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Bill I am disappointed you think this was one of the best in the last 40 years. I much prefer Holding the Man for a gay love story, loosely based on the truth and one of the actors (character John) is gay in his personal life.

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What a stupid blog today, mainly full of silly, inane, crappy comments, including ones from Pat himself. Empty cacaheads!!

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6:03 – What an erudite intellectual and intelligent comment. What else did you expect here Mr Fancy Pants?

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7.53: Erudite, intellectual and intelligent…All in one sentence!! Amazing. What school did you go to? Think you need to return!!

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8:31 Are you also one of those people who conflates being qualified with being educated?

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Of course, it is regrettable, such a shame, really, but you have no option, Bp Pat, but to shine your searchlight on +Tom Deenihan. I look forward to the blog(s) in due course.

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8:05 Agreed – Bishop Tom Deenihans lack of input on Kirby & Silverstream needs to be examined. Surely he could help Dom Benedict with the letter situation at least??

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Oh Deenihan and the one night trip in Leeds that had the entire campus talking about it back in Hull

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Tom Surlis and Fanny have joined forces to find out who is supplying the blog with daily intelligence reports. 🤔

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