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I was angered and disgusted by this priest, wearing Tridentine vestments basically preaching hate.
His diatribe was a display of absolute ignorance and intolerance.
Mass goers should not be subject to hate like this.
The problem, of course, is that Egan, the bishop of that diocese, has taken on so many weirdo priests from all kinds of places.
And, he fast tracked John Paul Lyttle to ordination and the disaster he has become.
IMPORTING FOREIGN PRIESTS
Importing foreign priests brings its own problems with it.
Sometimes, their English is not good, or they have very heavy accents that make it difficult to hear what they are saying.
If they come from places like Africa, they bring with them cultural baggage about things like sexual orientation and gender.
Occasionally, because of a background in poverty, they desire to build up wealth quickly and not always in appropriate ways. There have been instances of foreign priests setting up car sales businesses in church carparks, etc.
I think bishops in the West would be far better looking for new ways of involving people in ministry – permanent deacons, etc.
And if we want to kick-start vocations again, we are going to have to address what is putting people off becoming priests.
BISHOP PAT BUCKLEY 
110 replies on “DISGRACEFUL PULPIT LANGUAGE AND IGNORANCE.”
What can Portsmouth clergy tell us about Egan?
Wasn’t he at Oscott?
One’s senses a whiff or even a pungent aroma of repressed homosexuality about him and his diocese.
It’s the rule of the closet they who protest too much are hiding something- invariably their own repressed and frustrated homosexuality.
What do the other bishops think of Egan?
Egan has a PhD so he’s down as a clever clogs – like Wilson but both have low EQ and I suspect are both good friends of Dorothy.
Every other parish in Birmingham is run by an African, Indian or Asian priest – money on checks/balances on the parish cheque book poor and a disaster waiting to happen.
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Egan has forced priests out of Portsmouth. I hope Rome is watching.
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You are as ignorant as they come. Either take your faith and God seriously by “LEARNING IT” or take your nothing but idocracy trash somewhere else. You speak clearly on your feelings which thank God we don’t follow or we would all be goingto hell. You seriously need to learn the faith and quit listening to these so called bishops that are leading many flocks to hell. You will never be lead astray by the doctors of the church unless you don’t want to know your faith and would rather live in ignorance ti fot your lifestyle.
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Importing priests from afar to Ireland Pat is ok. I have nothing against them but all I would say is what are we taking on?
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‘His diatribe was a display of absolute ignorance and intolerance. Mass goers should not be subject to hate like this.’
If you look at the comments on the YouTube page for this video they overwhelmingly praise his ‘bravery’.
Did I say mass goers go to mass for the ignorance, intolerance and hate?
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It was in the main a denunciation of the cult of transgenderism, where young children are brainwashed by insane parents or teachers, or forced, to dress in a way other than their biological sex. A portion of these often depressed children will fall prey to butchers such as the incompetent and callous Dr Sidhbh Treasa Gallagher. It is a cult which sees mediocre male athletes mildly feminise and enjoy women’s competitions, trouncing the opposition and in the dressing room these men will make no efforts to conceal their genitals. Lia Thomas is a notable example. Now if Fr started raging about gay people in general like the Patriarch Cigarette or Fifty Hats aka Kirill of Moscow, after I finished watching, there is possibly a closeted gay man protesting against himself to his congregation, but the present cult of transgenderism is wicked. Speaking against that is reasonable.
I will say whatever he said, he said it quite well. A good many priests are veritably plotting to put Catholics into boredom comas. A seminarian who cannot preach should be ‘washed out’ as the Americans might say, even if he sees his future as diocesan vicar general, not someone to ‘feed My sheep.’
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At least Fr. John Paul Lyttle wouldn’t preach this type of stuff…..he wouldn’t be bashing people because of their orientation.
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I’m from the Portsmouth Diocese. +Philip is a good man, definitely on the spectrum mind. The priests in Gosport, from where your video hails are Franciscan Friars of Mary Immaculate. They also serve the Cathedral’s weekly 1962 Mass. Anyway, +Philip made a mistake ordaining JP Lyttle. I hear he may be laicised though as he’s a very naughty boy. What’s the latest gos Pat?
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The numerous reported cases of various abuses including sexual abuse and/or harassment of seminarians is detrimental to the recruitment process. In addition, lack of support and actual re traumatising of legitimate complainants in comparison to the proactive protection of their abusers by the RCC is seriously off-putting.
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12:06
Don’t forget cover-up by the hierarchy. There’s also abuse and rape of women
religious by clerics as well as stealing of monies by some clerics and some of those
working for the church.(see Les Cochran’s book; ‘Thievery-Catholic Church Exposed’).
Why would any young man want to become a priest knowing of the corrupt underbelly and
toxic clerical culture within the institutional church. God can be served in numerous ways other than priesthood. What else is covered up by the ‘do as I say not as I do brigade’?
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Wonderful preaching. I have never heard anything like this. Where does this priest minister? I would be prepared to travel a fair distance to attend his parish Mass.
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Thank you for pointing me to a priest preaching Catholic Christianity.
Yesterday you claimed to always ask your self “What would Jesus do?”
Would he condemn the teaching of this priest as a diatribe of ignorance and hate?
What’s the matter with you? The start of your blog today brings immediately to mind.
“Blessed are ye, when men shall revile you, and persecute you, and shall say all manner of evil against you falsely, for my sake.”
The “ye” is certainly not you.
Shame on you.
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Jesus would never be a homophobe or be cruel to transgender people.
You’ve obviously swallowed a hard cover copy of the Catholic Catechism.
As a result you produce caca 😃
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Here we go ‘The Anything Goes Brigade’ screaming their tits off at being reminded of anything authentically Catholic. They’ve been so used to all the woke caca they’ve been fed for years, that a return to reality is too much for them poor things. But the truth that anything does not go, will not go down well with them.
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10.34 and 12.10: All the new age modernists, liberalists and progressive elites despise others who think differently, many of them being atheistic, lapsed, agnostic or non religious – certainly not GOSPEL lovers – yet want us to listen 100% to their erroneous teachings. God doesn’t exist for most of them except for them to claim un outrage – “God makes us as we are” or “Jesus wouldn’t be a homophobe”. Jesus certainly didnt approve of wayward, perverse or un-Godly ways. Neither did Jesus ask us to meet hatred with hatred or abuse with abuse, as is happening to this priest. I guess some would love to bring him somewhere to muzzle him…and inflict harm on him. This priest deserves to be admonished for his hurtful views and apologise but the uncontrolled hate anger against him is just as bad and needs to be named for what it is: racist, bigoted, offensive and as likely to evoke a violence against him. This African priest is dpijen abiut tiday on this blog as if he is “dirt” and unwanted on British or Irish soil. Morally disgusting and harmful thinking.
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Hi Patricia. You and the Traddies would travel line lemmings
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@ 11:47am
Hi Kitty, you and the rest of the liberal lemmings jumped over the cliff years ago. Just stay where you landed and give us peace.😏
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12:10 I’m sure someone on here could arrange a one way ticket to his Sermons for you!! 👿
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I would be tempted to accept!
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Scots lass – there are enough Homo(phobes) preaching hypocrisy from their pulpits – but not affecting their own lives – in your own land. Am sure Bishop Pat could furnish you with a full list of ‘churches’….
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What surprised me most about this sermon was not so much its content, even its unapologetic homophobia and the appeal to the god-thug of the OT (who, apparently, grants everyone free will, and then threatens him or her with dire punishment if each dares to exercise it 😅), but the fact that the congregation actually, really, sat through a protracted, repititious, tedious and tiresome moral harangue by a man associated with a priesthood which, like the institution it bows down before, absolutely reeks of moral corruption
The priest appealed to personal penance as one measure of spiritual armour, while the irony of his penitentially long sermon for the congregation seemed to escape him.
Why do sensible, intelligent people give authority to these men, parasitical, romanist priests? Because, obviously, they are neither sensible nor intelligent.
My deepest sympathy goes to the gay kids in the congregation (there must have been some), who had to shrink and shudder, while a pious-sounding, self-righteous, clerical parasite droned that they were effectively the Devil himself. What else could they have thought, when the parasite had already described their LGBT-inclusive teachers as ‘little devils’.
Why do these ‘duckers’ lack the empathy most others possess and which enables them to recognise the withering effect such moral and personal denunciation can cause?
But my utter contempt (apart from that for the priest) goes to the adult members of the congregation, who lacked the moral courage to call out this man, for the moral and psychological harm he was causing even their gay children, by quietly getting up, and walking out of that temple of ignorance and hate.
God was not present in that sermon; there was only the priest: his words, his thoughts, his betrayal of everyone present, especially the gay kids.
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Pat, there is no such thing as a Catholic school anymore. There is the odd rural religious school with a desperado ethos; but with closer examination of such, staff and leadership often leave a lot to be desired.
Also on a little aside: we hear a lot about school results and league tables in the Catholic sector; what the public don’t see is the loop holes leadership in those schools often use to either hide or discount poor grades. Never believe the 100% pass rate jargon.
As for your video, the Catholic Church really is wide-ranging and universal. I say this because I have witnessed a priest now say that the ‘Anything Goes’ approach is wrong, and I have been told of priests who preach the opposite. When are the traditionally stupid lay people of the Church going to wake up, and cut the financial piggy bank?
Priests should remember that we are made in God’s image and likeness. It is not their job to create a God for us from their idea of what they’d like.
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Catholic schools in England are run like a money making business and they will do and say anything to please Ofsted.The SLT running them are of the age where their own religious education was Weaving the Web they have not got a clue about the Catholic faith in any form but they take home very high salaries.The government has a list of topics to do with relationships and the protected characteristics which are statutory and schools are inspected by Ofsted to see these are delivered but each school has the freedom to present them as they chose which means there’s a huge divergence and conflicting messages in Catholic schools for example the John Fisher school wanted to tick two boxes at the same time with World Book week and a gay author of romantic comedy novels for eleven year olds while the Ursuline school in Wimbledon had a full on Gay History month with every assembly for the month on that theme and workshops, safe spaces, ‘liturgies’ etc. They are not going to have May the Month of Our Lady or silent retreats but they still want to be called Catholic schools because it’s good for business
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I agree about foreign priests and heavy accents being hard to understand. There are quite a few Irish priests in my diocese who I can’t understand at all.
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He’s literally a pulpit thumper. My name is Phyllis Egan, and I want to wear a skirt, and I am ontologically changed – just as barking.
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He’s so obviously a HUGE girl.
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@ 7:19am
Phyllis I think you should stay with trousers, I don’t think a skirt would suit you. You should know you can’t choose your gender. Almighty God has chosen that for you, and it’s not for you to change it, unless you’re truly barking!
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Beannachtaí na Féile Pádraig oraibh go léir!
Daniel O’Donnell – Hail Glorious St. Patrick (For all those missing the Donegalman due to his cruise ship commitments!) https://youtu.be/wM4BhvqKxME
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7:45am. Daniel is singing at the English Mass in Tenerife at 12 noon and performing live at The Hole in The Wall and The Fiddlers later.
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Wasn’t John Paul Little at Wonersh seminary. I seem to remember a blog some time ago on Wonersh.
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Briefly if I recollect right. But had done the rounds.
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Fr John Paul Lyttle preaches a fine Marian sermon (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B-1Vin3JA5I&t=94s) yet +Pat has posted on how he can be somewhat less holy, that he struggles with holy purity. Use a search engine (no 2 on Duckduckgo) as it’s astonishing.
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He will have to be banned from schools, presumably, in future.
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9:10am they should ALL be banned from schools, any clerical involvement is not a good fit given all the unresolved and outstanding business on abuse and coverup, the ongoing situation with the re traumatised and so on and so on….
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I can’t be arse to trawl through and listen to the vile bile of hatred that his so called priest spouts. I’ll leave that to others. However, the thought does occur to me that he may well have contravened some laws in this country, even if they are done in church and what he hopes is the cover of ecclesiastical exemption. I do hope somebody makes a complaint to the police on the basis of hate speech against a particular group, and that the police take a good look at it and have a chat with him. And, perhaps charge him. Then he could be sent home. Where does he come from ? Let him try standing up in a pulpit in his own country and talk in this way about a particular tribe, or politician, or president, and he would end up being fodder for the chicken coop. Egan needs to get a grip. He still works on the ex opere operato model, so if the guy is a priest then he has to be good and what he does has to be good, so nothing else matters. Idiot.
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Very well said
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Wow!! I listened to the entire sermon on You Tube.
The moral gospel devoid of grace with its emphasis on punishment, fear and burden (the people must do more acts of piety – strikingly he doesn’t mention acts of charity) all wrapped around the notion that God is pissed off with everybody especially parents, teachers and Ofsted Inspectors.
I’d say – Latin Mass vestments, effeminate high pitch voice – sounding more like a Bitchy Queen whose having a shit day with a shed load of either repressed homosexuality or full on active homosexual but gets his kicks from the screaming and dazzling hypocrisy of condemning his own orientation and lifestyle.
Egan, me thinks, has a penchant for this kind of young priest and me thinks there is a veritable and active gay lobby down here in Portsmouth.
Mind you it has form – Worlock was a raging. repressed and deeply unhappy homosexual who was super high control
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@ 9:35am
Wow!! I don’t know where you get your information from, especially as regards Worlock who had not a traditional bone in his body. He was extremely liberal and left wing, he was hated by the traditionalists in Liverpool. The ugly Paddy’s Wigwam suited him right down to the ground ugh!
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Well, his English is pretty good, except he has the affectation of saying “axk” rather than “ask”. But, he does lack a lot of cop on, speaking like that about Catholic education and Catholic teachers. I doubt if he really knows much about education, and has just hobbled this ridiculous stuff together from some traddy pamphlet. What I am surprised at is that nobody in the congregation seems to stand up to him – either by telling him he is wrong, or by walking out. I would. There are times when you have to stand up and confront such evil nonsense being spouted by someone who patently has not got a clue. I do hope that Egan his bishop will have him in and give him the once over. Or show him the door.
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Firstly, he does not know how to preach. He reads from a script, which is poor. Yes, his homily is a disgrace. If the bishop does not take some sort of action to prevent this nasty preaching LGBT groups should attend his church and stand before the altar, just as you did, Pat, years ago.
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I’ve never given a homily but the temptation to bore or berate must be irresistible and it seems Father succumbed to both.
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A man who moralises is a hypocrite: a woman who does so is invariably plain.
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“Importing foreign priests brings its own problems with it.
Sometimes, their English is not good, or they have very heavy accents that make it difficult to hear what they are saying.”
Speaking as someone who lives in a town in England where there are three catholic parishes, the priests of which are Irish, Indian and Nigerian respectively, I endorse your comment wholeheartedly. There were a lot of problems in the past with Irish priests in England having a bad attitude towards the English. They also had cultural baggage that resulted in their approach to being a priest not being what the English would expect.
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I hope you are not anti Irish?
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I was brought up to be, but now I’m a Catholic I’m not.
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He’s yet another clerical full of self entitlement and prejudice. The future of the RCC is safe in the hands of the vile individuals they now seem to attract across the board including laity. Church is paying the price for the extreme lengths they go to in protecting all categories of church related abusers.
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Well said
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Happy St Patrick’s Day to Everyone ☘️
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Hail Glorious Saint Patrick, thy words were once strong. Against Satan’s wiles and a heretic throng. Not less is thy might where in heaven thou art. O come to our aid, in our battle take part.
Happy Saint Patrick’s Day to one and all.
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Poor Micheál Martin tested positive for Covid on the eve of meeting Joe Biden in the Oval Office. Talk about falling at the final hurdle! 🙈 It’ll be Leo’s turn next year! Poor Micheál. His one opportunity gone up in smoke like that. Not so much luck of the Irish for Mícheál! ☘️☹️
Galopin Des Champs fell at the final fence in Cheltenham. Congratulations to the very talented Rachael Blackmore for taking advantage! 🐴 Luck of the Irish for Rachael! ☘️🇮🇪🌟
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5:03 Plenty parking in Church carpark this week – smelt a bit better inside Chapel too. Shady Operator did Ok over there, one to watch.
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I understand that once upon a time, in a land long forgotten, a former Irish bishop of Portsmouth refused to accept any candidate for the priesthood who wasn’t Irish – that ms why Worlock was ordained in Westminster.
Coversly, Birmingham clergy have a tendency to be discriminatory towards Irish clergy, Canon Patrick Browne took early retirement because he had reached the end of his tether with the Snobbish, Bitchy Queens of Birmingham who loathe Irish clergy.
I’m afraid that snobbishness and racism are very much alive and kicking in Birmingham and v likely in every diocese.
Clergy prefer to preach than practice.
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The Birmingham Irish clergy were persecuted to an extent by the brummie natives but more so by the Cavan mafia. Their own treated them worse with piggy Gray just one example.
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I do wonder what the Birmingham clergy have to be snobby about ? I mean, it’s Birmingham, the Black Country, Coventry, Stoke on Trent, West Midlands etc. Not much to be snobby about there, I assure you. It’s even called Birmighstan these days. There won’t be a lardy whitey in sight in decades to come. Maybe the southern bit is slightly more classy, but remember it is still part of the Birmingham Archdiocese and is tainted by the association. Miserable frigging place. Just watch the disaster they will make in the summer of the Commonwealth Games. All the building of athletes accommodation, the road infrastructure, transport links – all not going to be ready. Why ? Because it’s being organised and run by Brummies. Lazy lot. Shake the dust from your feet. I feel sorry for Nursey being stuck there. He deserves better. Poor man. Vin couldn’t stand the place and was barely there so desperate was he to get out of the place. God knows what he would have done if he hadn’t got Westminster. Probably feigned illness and early retirement, I guess. ‘Tara-a-bit’, as they say in Brummie land.
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Happy St Patrick’s Day Pat. Will you celebrate in Larne? It’s not the most nationalist place to celebrate. Do they even do paddys day in Larne?
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I’m off to South Down to a session ☘️
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Have a good time Pat. Enjoy your day.
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I bet you are going to your regular haunt in Kilkeel.
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No. But not far from there 😀
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He should be banned from Catholic schools within the diocese. He preaches hate and intolerance. We don’t need his sort here.
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He doesn’t focus much on love, does he? I agree this particular cleric should be banned from schools and college campuses, because such outdated and harmful negativity is what makes people think quite differently to the Christian message of love, hope and charity. No wonder people don’t want to go to church anymore.
And then there’s tolerance and forgiveness – these are necessary in most cases in any modern, peaceful and informed society; even more so for the Christian in his or her living out their faith authentically x
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He’s just a plonker. Phyliss Egan should kick all these loons out of his diocese. He’s an abomination. I’d remove the diocese’s charitable status and report them to the charity commission.
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The Catholic Diocese of Portsmouth said: ‘We are investigating the matter and will consider what appropriate action is required.’
What sort of ‘appropriate action’ do you recommend in this case, Bp Pat?
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People should picket the church and demand his removal.
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Exactly….a sick disgrace, get rid of him back to whatever corrupt backwater or tribe he hails from.
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I would promote him to bishop of the next available diocese.
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3:35pm He could fill in for one of the MIA’s. What would Phonsie do with him, one wonders?!
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Ponsie would make him diocesan vocations director on condition he signs up for the mandatory one cold shower a dei.
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12.22: Utter nonsense. I suppose you’ll be on the next plane…get a grip. You should be outside the Russian Embassy instead.
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In Wales the Irish clergy persecuted the Irish.
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Agreed. It happened to me.
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The worst is not the 1st generation of Irish clergy in my experience. Watch the 2nd generation English Irish plastic paddy clergy who resent the auld fella and auld doll from Ireland. There is a study worth investigating.
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Oh here we go again- the old vindictive script never changes with you, does it?
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12:38pm Sorry to hear this – so, No sense of a “duty of care”, not even to their own colleagues posted to a foreign country. Are they never done inflicting misery even on each other.
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Clergy are no different than anybody else and as racist and snobbish and homophobic as anybody indeed because of the mask of masquerade I’d argue a lot worse than Joe or Josephine Public.
Snobbishness and class are big peccadillos for the clergy – floats Viinys boat what school or uni you went to and how wealthy are your parents – odd for a Crosby boy but prevalent among clergy of a certain type down there in Oxfordshire where there too posh to wash and their poo smells of lavender so I’m told.
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You’re no different from your own class, ‘the great unwashed’, with your inverted snobbery, this has always been prevalent in clergy of a certain type. The left wing Stalinist’s who for years have spread their misinformation and lies under the mask of liberality and as long as you agree with them you’ll be alright. However if you don’t, you’ll soon see how liberal they are. So don’t believe everything you’re told from that quarter.
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I’m shocked!
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Is this Catholic truth Scotland video 😉🤣
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@ 1:27pm
No DG it’s just Catholic truth, you should study it and learn. Instead of involving yourself in all that new age garbage that you entertained.
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Anon at 3.15pm
Yeah right re new age garbage but had no basic Catholic education to teach me right and wrong🤷♂️.
Is Catholic truth diluted and corrupted now as I’m just wondering with frankie spouting all that angered CTS, Traddies such as rorate caeli, well known die Hard usa Traddie on YouTube et al 🤔🤷♂️
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I think the tone, language, sentiments and thinking behind this priest’s sermon are contrary to a number of law in England. I think this sermon should be reviewed by the police. Why not send it to them, + Pat. I think they might be interested. If only because of incitement to hatred and denigration of people of difference.
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Will do
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@ 2:24pm
Patsy, don’t be a naughty bold boy.
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5.39
Bela Rob Govan Lugosi should be reported for his tedious lack of imagination.
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@ 5:00pm
DG Catholic truth has been diluted for years. It will do you no harm to read Rorate Caeli. unfortunately I can’t say the same about Bergo. Good luck to ya.
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Anon at 5.57pm
I read rorate caeli from time to time to get the other side of the story. There is always 2 sides to a story.
BTW wish you all a very happy St pats day which I had forgotten it in previous post.
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Oul Gossip Alert @9:35pm
I knew that would bring you out Nettie, Jim S, Uriah or whoever you tonight, you’re so predictable, get back to your net curtain spying on your poor neighbors in Ardeer God help them.
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Rorate Caeli has enraged a certain class of trad Putin bro for supporting the Ukrainian people in their sufferings, and particularly for calling out their mentally unwell idol Vigano.
https://rorate-caeli.blogspot.com/2022/03/carlo-maria-vigano-is-not-traditionalist.html
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10.19
Bela Rob Govan, you are delusional. Jim S. is your peer – both of you are barely literate. He is naive about hierarchs. You are boring and not the brightest star of the galaxy. I don’t know where Ardeer is. Not in my country.
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“Liverpool’s lost public toilets and what they are now.” • The Liverpool Echo • 16 March 2022 •
Many old public toilet buildings have been transformed into cafes, bars and even people’s homes>
“[They] were [also] renowned to be used as meeting places where sexual activity took place.” Inconceivable. These days..
.https://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/nostalgia/liverpools-lost-public-toilets-what-23394630
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2.18pm
Tone or sentiments aren’t within the remit of the police and the judiciary (thankfully) are only interested in the law and pretty sure you can’t be successfully prosecuted for either your tone or your sentiments.
‘Thinking’ is definitely outside the realm of the police and judiciary (thank God) you can think absolutely anything you like without fear of involving the police or judiciary.
Language I grant you is the rub – but I’m pretty sure Father Rant didn’t use hate speech by any legal definition- as repellent as his sermon was.
Report it, get hot under the collar but one of the blessings of living in a free society is free speech and your not having a right to be offended.
I’ve listened to the video twice – let’s agree he can’t be arrested or investigated for thinking, tone or sentiments – as for language point me towards the languages he used which would fall under the category of hate speech?
I don’t agree with what he said but I’d defend his right to express his opinion.
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Imagine for a moment that you are a young man sat in the congregation. You’re at school and finding people of the same gender attractive. Your parents would not approve and now you’re hearing such anger from the pulpit. How awful.
You are told to live a life of loneliness. Friendship yes. Meaningful relatonships no.
I think Jesus is far more compassionate than this. If two people of the same sex love and support each other this is something to give thanks for. Love is God.
We can have cats blessed or a motor car. We cannot have a loving relationship blessed. Really?
Who is more Christ like? Bishop Egan who has turnt the heating off in the Cathedral to save money, allowing the elderly congregation to freeze, while he sits in the luxury of the Bishop’s Palace OR a man who paints his nails and calls himself Cindy while visiting elderly neighbours and feeding the homeless without making a show?
Wasn’t it the priest who passed by on the other side?
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@ 4:06pm
Daisey I hope you’ve not fell off the chain. You shouldn’t compare your compassion with that of Our Lord’s. Of course He will forgive the sinner but He say’s Go and sin no more. He does not give license to carry on sinning.
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“… better looking for new ways of involving people in ministry – permanent deacons, etc.”
The Vatican should ordain “viri probati”. Married men in their 60s. If they happen to be permanent deacons for an agreed number of years, it should be benefit a shorter transition to our priesthood.
“And if we want to kick-start vocations again, we are going to have to address what is putting people off becoming priests.”
Many of the brothers nephews are fine gentlemen. They all have lady wives however. It is such a pity that these gentlemen of good standing cannot also be clergymen of good standing.
Married candidates have many talents to offer. After raising a family, their full experiences can help our Christian communities.
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Irish Illegal Adoptions programme made grim viewing last night. Was there no which way the Catholic Church did not find to make money out of the misery caused by their systematic and calculated shaming of those whom they perceived as the lower classes who dared to get pregnant sometimes as a consequence of abuse or lack of sex education as let’s face it, the common classes were not allowed to speak about sex never mind have it unless they were procreating in line with the dogmatic Roman Catholic agenda. How dare these well educated clerical opportunists treat the poor and vulnerable like that and still harping on and on like cracked records defending the indefensible. Prayers for all living and deceased who have or are still suffering as a consequence of matters such as what we viewed on RTE programme. Shameful.
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Oh Daisy Cindy is far nearer the kingdom of heaven regardless of whether he paints his nails or prefers to be called Cindy than a Bishop who turns the heating off in his cold cavernous cathedral causing his elderly congregants to freeze but me thinks that the Bishop himself deep down would want to paint his nails too and be called Cindy given half the chance.
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https://www.bishop-accountability.org/2022/03/doris-reisinger-lucerne-speech-lost-faith/
I’ve lost all faith in the Catholic Church
LUCERNE (SWITZERLAND)
Catholic Media Center – Swiss Bishops’ Conference [Zürich, Switzerland]
March 13, 2022 By Doris Reisinger
Doris Reisinger received the Herbert Haag Prize.
“The illusion of the good and trustworthy church persists,” she criticized in Lucerne. “This crisis is bottomless. It doesn’t stop. It is the end of the Catholic Church.”
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@ 8:00pm
Many people have said that, but I think the hag Doris will be long gone before The Holy Church clutching her useless Herbert Haag prize as she descends to the bottomless pit.
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10:32: I believe Doris Reisinger is a former religious sister who was raped by a priest who was working for the CDF. Was her rape by a priest Gods will, Bella?
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@11:32pm
You believe Doris is a former nun, do you know that for a fact? Of course is she was raped by a priest working for The Holy Office it was not Gods will. The priest responsible should brought before the courts and punished if found guilty. But we can’t rely on anything you say, you could be the Oul Gossip herself and we all know how unreliable you are.
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12:01 & 12:20 am
Bela, here’s a link to an article by Paddy Agnew with some background information on Dr. Wagner Reisingers case.
https://www.independent.ie/world-news/europe/vatican-official-came-into-my-room-and-raped-me-ex-nun-37777317.html
Below is a link to Dr. Wagner Reisingers website. You can purchase her memoir, “No longer Me.The true story of a young nun.” Dr. Reisinger points out dangerous dynamics within the Catholic Church saying there are so many stories like hers, stories of young idealistic people who experience spiritual abuse, exploitation, social isolation, control, and sexual assault in Catholic organizations, and their reporting complaints fall on deaf ears or inconsequential declarations of shock from church leaders.
https://en.doris-reisinger.de/
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Just googled Doris wouldn’t believe a word she say’s. Her allegation about the rape was dropped by an Austrian Court that she was having consensual sex with that ex priest. You’d believe anything against The Church and Doris is just yet an other ant-Catholic.
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Jesus is not against gay relationships. Think of Cosmas and Damian or St John Henry Newman and his “friend.”
Jesus does not denounce love.
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@ 7:14am
Cindy how do you know what Our Lord would do, your idea of’ ‘love’ would not be His.
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By the way Cindy Saints Cosmas and Damian were twin brothers, not as you say lovers!
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All we know is that they suffered Martyrdom. It is only reputed by tradition that they were twins. Probably a Roman cover up.
How about Sergius and Bacchus?
Jesus condemned violence, oppression, cold-heartedness, and social injustice. Never once did Jesus refer to what we call homosexuality as a sin.
Many priests have boyfriends. Obviously they must also have a more open approach to the Catechism!
Many theologians find it tough to believe Jesus would reject their relationships on the grounds that all same-sex love is necessarily abominable.
Sex is just for pro creation? What if I’m seedless? Perhaps homosexuality is God’s way of population control.
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You are mistaken. All that the Priest spoke is Truth, and all that he spoke has been taught and is Church teaching. The Truth is unchanging. Any form of sexual deviance is against God’s will. Sexual intimacy between a husband and a wife is Church teaching, and may not change. You ask, “Sex is just for pro creation?” Actually, “sex” is a biological fact that may be clear prior to birth, but is definitely clear once born. Sexual intimacy, according to Church teaching, is procreative and unitive. This is philosophically sound and incredibly profound. Rejoice for the Church calls all sinners to the Truth, and the Truth shall set us free!
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[…] (who is of Afro-Caribbean origin) is facing racial abuse from pro-LGBTQ+ Catholics — including a blogger who attacked foreign priests for their poor English and “very heavy […]
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This is a wonderful homily based on love and inclusion, Jesus does not want us to die in our sins and the good news is that Jesus has given us the power to overcome by His amazing grace. Friendship with Jesus is so amazing…
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Magnificent Priest with a Bishop ignorant of Church teaching. Additionally, the author accuses the Priest of hate and intolerance, and then goes on to show his disdain and lack of tolerance toward priests from the continent of Africa, “…they bring with them cultural baggage about things like sexual orientation and gender..Occasionally, because of a background in poverty…” My goodness, this magnificent Priest has no hate in him–he is feeding the sheep who are in need of one thing–Truth. Do not fall for the 60s lies. Truth is unchanging — preaching it from the pulpit is an act of love, mercy, and hope for all to turn from our sin, confess, repent, repair, and heal. God’s blessings upon all seeking Truth!
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