In a sharp and monumental departure from Catholic Church teaching, the Vatican celebrated “testimonies” of child adoption by homosexual couples as well as homosexuality itself.
The Synod on Synodality website, overseen by the General Secretariat of the Synod of Bishops, on Friday highlighted as praiseworthy three stories of homosexual adoption that were shared by Noelle Therese Thompson, the synod leader of Immaculate Conception Parish in Hendersonville, North Carolina.
The first, titled “Parker’s pro-life story,” tells how a woman who was on the verge of having an abortion decided to give her child up for adoption when she saw that a friend of hers, who was in a same-sex relationship, wanted a child. The story credits the homosexual relationship for being responsible for saving the child’s life, concluding, “Today, Parker is an eight-year-old boy with two loving parents, Karl and Diego, whose relationship saved this child from abortion.”
The second, titled “The story of a sexuality that gives life,” shares how a “married” homosexual couple adopted local teenagers with mental disabilities. It is noteworthy, considering that it is impossible for a gravely disordered sexuality to “give life” that the website page itself makes clear regarding the stories, “The titles are our own.”
The last story tells how a man who teaches at a Catholic school and his “married” partner “decide to foster, love and adopt young children internationally and, in doing so, lift them out of extreme poverty.”
The teacher’s “greatest sadness is that he has to hide his sexuality in order to keep his job in a church institution and that he does not feel welcome in the Catholic Church precisely because of his sexuality which he considers God-given, and this despite his attempt to love the poor and destitute through his pro-life decision to adopt,” the story concludes.
The Congregation of the Doctrine of the Faith (CDF) has stated, according to then-CDF prefect Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger, “Allowing children to be adopted by persons living in [same-sex] unions would actually mean doing violence to these children” by placing them “in an environment that is not conducive to their full human development.”
PAT SAYS
For the Christian, the great test of everything is LOVE.
God is LOVE.
Wherever there is Love their is God.
Too often on the Blog we see lust, permissiveness, abuse, using etc.
But people must never forget that there are.many homosexual couples are not motivated just by sex. These couples love each other. And that Iove is acceptable to the Loving God and pleasing to God.
For many heterosexual and homosexual couples sex is vitally important at the beginning and for a long time.
But many couples find, that as sex decreases in their relationship love and companionship grows
That is the essential difference between lust and love. Lust decreases. True love increases.
The Church cannot write off love in any form.
And if they do, they are writing off, at least one aspect of God.
THE CHALLENGE
In these days the Church is being challenged to rethink some of its traditional and unenlightened approaches to human sexuality.
It’s not a matter of abandoning everything. It’s a matter of allowing things to evolve through the guidance of the Holy Spirit, which is also reflected in human and scientific progress.
As Jesus said – the wise merchant brings put from his wares things both new and old.
I am sometimes uncomfortable by strident gays insisting on calling their partners husbands or wives.
Are these not terms associated traditionally with heterosexual marriage?
Same sex marriage is a new phenomenon.
Can we not find new terms?
I always introduce my “other half” as my partner.
Neither he or I see ourselves as husbands or wives.
I don’t think we can expect the RCC soon to regard same sex marriage as traditional marriage.
But the RCC must recognise where love is and and find ways to celebrate that love.
Next week, as I’ve done before, I will celebrate a full legally recognised same sex marriage for two Catholic men who are in love.
By agreement that marriage will take place in the context of the Mass.
I fully believe that what we will be doing will be fully pleasing to Almighty God.
LAST NIGHT AT THE KURSALON
BISHOP PAT BUCKLEY 
228 replies on “Vatican synod website celebrates homosexuality and child adoption by same-sex couples.”
Wow, what a fascinating piece Pat. I wish the world was like this do you not? You would have been an amazing Dad.
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Since when did you become a fan of Pat? Hypocrite
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I guess God will get back to you on what is pleasing and what is not. Hubris, thy name is Pat.
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Oh God will.
Actually she was just telling Marie Stopes how she loves it when I tell the Catholics down here they’re in purgatory!
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As long as Marie Stopes is kept away from Black people. She didn’t like them and thought that there should be far fewer of them.
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Another cathbot who hasn’t read in Holy Scripture what heaven is like, at 12:54.
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Pat do you do funerals? I think I would like you to do my parents if you do?
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Yes I do.
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Too often we see lust, using, permissiveness and abuse on this blog, so you say Pat. True. BUT – you very often lead the language of abuse, snerring, contempt, vengeance, effeminising, denigrating and abusing so many clerics. It’s a total contradictions of your declaration that GOD IS LOVE and that we are each CALLED TO GRASP AND LIVE THIS LOVE…..so frequently you do the complete opposite. Very confusing and conflicting.
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12.11: That’s the enigma of Pat. Very confusing at times, very judgmental of others. He usually judges all against himself. This is dangerous. It must always be CHRIST we are to follow and emulate, not a scribe from The Oratory. Christ be with all clerics, even with those condemned by this blog where mercy or kindness are rarely found.
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8:15am Christ be with all victims & survivors worldwide of the inhumane Roman Catholic Church. Amen 🙏
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8:15am Which one of the Killaloe Priests threw the homeless man out of Ennis Cathedral? Was it Carey or Fitzgerald or another one???
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10.28am. Have you taken the homeless man into your house? Put your money where your mouth is.
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10:30am I am housing vulnerable persons – why are there so many empty parochial houses & church building in parishes all over Ireland at the moment, Father??
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8.15 “Martin ” your comment too has a contradiction….don’t forget the Christian Church instills guilt for a reason…. so that ” It” can forgive it!! The keys!!! All to be ascertained in your prayer for ” all clerics.”
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@10:28 if I’m not mistaken it was Fr Tom Ryan
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@ 12:11am
What is utterly confusing, conflicting and contradictory is the governance of the Church, i.e. the hierarchy and clerics, covering up worldwide systemic abuse of children and vulnerable adults in order for the governance of the Church to ‘appear good’ – the complete antithesis of the message of Jesus Christ. Clerics and hierarchs are NOT victims.
” You reap what you sow.” ( Galatians 6:7)
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10.28: How am I suppose to know the answer to that question? Don’t live at all near Ennis? What’s the relevance of it?
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10.28 Do you have any verifiable details about that occurrence ?
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11.46: Recently in the Dublin Diocese land and property were identified as being surplus to requirements and were offered to the various City and County Councils.The council’s and local community groups objected and overruled the acceptabce of such by the Diocese. Why? Because political and conservation activists didn’t want such lands to be built in the identified areas. It was argued that any housing developments would destroy their ambient sensitivities. The lands offered were substantial. It would be useful if people had all truthful facts at hands before creating lying narratives.
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12:16 it was Peter, Polish homeless guy in Ennis – best friend of Josef Pavelka also homeless & found dead on Ennis street previously – reported in County Clare newspapers at the time. Think Yvonne helps him now.
Clare Echo interviewed Peter about January 2019 – it was a very cold month. Fr Tom Ryan allegedly told him to “Disappear”. 🥲🥲
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Bp Pat, you don’t have a nuncio in every capital. The City State is up to something where you are not. i think it’s intrinsically disordered of the Vatican corporation and all its proxies to make our faith into their wholly owned subsidiary. Their feel good stories are a decoy. We can do that through any agency these days and through an independent denomination such as yourself. Rome’s “look at us” cartel crushes humanity.
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The Vatican is your faith. Hadn’t you noticed that your faith is in a tinpot micro state and its international scams?
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10:20
Whya you mention Sicily? Whata do you a knowa? Whoa de snitch?
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10:20 Scammers Incorporated – anyone mixed up in Roman Church management is gaining financially in some way, shape or form – how fitting it’s all managed by Frankie in Roma. Bet he has a nice holiday gaff in Sicily.
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11.49 It is more relevant to the Nazarene and His message that most things that appear here ( if it happened). It is why the RCC is dying in the Western World. The last person to issue a decent utterance on ” the poor ” was Lord Eames ( no socialist and I was never an admirer). No RCC prelate on this island has opened a page of the New Testament on the second Gospel imperative of Jesus Christ in a very long time…. Denis Faul and Des Wilson had it…. so too Pat Buckley and Peter Birch.rte
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And by proxies I DON’T include a minority of out of the way junior suffragan dioceses that groan under the puzzling behaviours of top heavy metropolitans, quangoes, pretend orders, invisible prelatures, knights, animators, laics . . .
1.20, seriously though, I hadn’t noticed, till alarmingly recently.
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Absolutely disgusting Pat, no offence
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Pat, you are very naive in terms of gay sex. Your comments are like the RC Church.
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Gay sex is sheer lust
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Ignorant comment.
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8:11am tell that to your local Roman Catholic clergy if you can find any of them this afternoon, they start disappearing about this time of day until mass time tomorrow night- Jaysus some of them must be confused & think they Muslims when it suits! 🤣
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Ireland’s Brooke Scullion has failed to qualify for the final of the Eurovision Song Contest. Maybe they should give Fr Ray Kelly a chance next year, Bp Pat.
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He’d probably try and represent the UK. He went on Britain’s 🇬🇧 Got Talent despite being an Irishman living in Ireland. 🇮🇪
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Hopefully, Bp Pat will put a good word in for him.
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10:04 That’s a Roman Catholic priest for you, they always follow the big money fish. No jingo patriotism for the clergy of today. Obsessed with media of all kinds, tv show appearances, Twitter, Facebook, Grindr – all these media give them access to their first 2 Gods in order – money & sex without strings.
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Disappointed to read your second half, some will wonder who is the First half.
God is Love not a nasty Judge.
Hopefully the Synod will he’ll us on that Journey so long live Pope Francis in his forward thinking ” who am I to Judge”
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@ 607:am
There will be no hope for anyone who follows his humbleness on his ‘synodal’ journey. Where he will be judged for leading people to perdition.
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‘ Synodal pathway, my arse!’
‘ The outcomes known in Rome but they just want rubber stamping.’
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8.02
He’s doing much more good than you, Brla Lugosi Govan. If those here who claim to know you are right, you have your own gay trysts.
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11:39
Is Bela a friend of Dorothy?
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6.07am. We’ll all find out what sort of judge we’ll face, when our time comes. Keep your lamp lit.
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The definitive schism with the eastern Church came just before advances in technology and notions of doing something for Jerusalem, in which the eastern Church would have been a steadying hand.
The definitive schism with anything spiritual, led by Montini, Teilhard SJ, Rahner SJ, and colleagues, came just before notions of projecting a big, famous image.
When children in my generation were in need, where was the big famous Church? Not on its knees for us and not attending to wrongs in Ireland or the confessional, but focussed on belittling us by abolishing the new liturgy (facing the congregation) it had only just brought in (and ever since it makes out liturgy is all-important).
Personal matters were never meant by God to be owned by a corporation.
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Well said Alvin
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@ 6:10am
If only they had abolished the ‘new liturgy’ that was foisted on us unwanted in the first place by Montini et al.
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In my region we got a better one in between (divide in order to confuse). the one you & I are complaining about is the same one.
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The Tory government is wrong to ban Gay conversion therapy. It worked for me.
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I find that very difficult to believe.
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If you struggle to believe it, maybe we could meet for a chat? You, my wife and I? I reside in the Lisburn area.
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I would very much like to hear your story.
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Utter nonsense, it would be interesting to hear how many children you have.
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The man has a right to his say
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Pat he won’t have his say. Why do you believe the nonsense spewed over your blog on a daily basis and are apparently unable to see when people take the piss? You will never meet this guy, promise.
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10.26am is right. It’s a spoofer, Pat.
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Let’s see
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As long as children are provided with love and care who cares who brings them up?
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9:03am Who gave a reference to the foster father sentenced today for raping his foster child over 1,000 times, Father Cover Up Merchant?? The close relationship between foster carers/adopters who are otherwise unemployable & their local clergy & domineering catlicks gives everyone the creeps. Another Roman church racket now that the Magdalene Laundries & the like have been sussed by the world.
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That’s social services for you. They arevin charge of fostering and the vetting and supervision of foster parents.
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I have a bf and it’s never been about sex. Which is just as well as he has never had a sex drive. We are more companions and friends with an occasional tumble. Gay sex is not about lust. Sex brings people closer together and is one basis of forming love.
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Son you go on about this every day on this blog, put up with your sexless boyfriend or shut up and blog off.
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The BF doesn’t exist. This is another fantasist/stalker who enjoys posting the same crap over and over again.
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Where are our Ukrainians?
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9:19am Why, what do you want to know for, Father??
Are you actually “serving”!! 🤣?? In a parish or are you MIA??
The Ukrainians have had more than enough trauma, leave them alone. We see what ye do to people worldwide – proven and documented and plenty more to be exposed no doubt. Shower of conmen and women addicted to their toxic & abusive existence as we see from the venom clergy & catlicks post on this blog daily. A cornered rat is at its most dangerous. 🤮
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Where are our politicians we elected last week?
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9:19am. sadly, they not tanning their arses in Malaga courtesy of full salary & perks from Diocese of Killaloe like Fr Jerry Carey & his pal Fr Ger Fitzgerald – chip shops out there must be doing a roaring trade since those 2 clerical retrobates landed in sunnier climes.
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Is Ger Fitz abroad?
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No, but likes the broads
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Lol Pat😀
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The “Ukrainians” are making their way from Africa and Pakistan as we speak.
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So that you can put them to work cleaning your house and walking your dogs?
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12:54 the toffs at the gym recommend Brazilians actually. Very versatile & discreet.
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Christian
Homosexuals
Rising
In
Solidarity
Together
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Jesus really did love feminine John. I think Jesus was the butch one in the relationship and that’s a bold statement.
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Blasphemy at the highest level will be met with the greatest burning in hell. Shame on you.
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I often wonder what it must be like to have two parents of the same sex. Having two off different sex offers different perspectives.
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Because obviously all men and all women have the same perspective, obviously.
Your daily reminder that these idiots can vote. 🥺
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Jesus would be turning in his tomb only he rose from the dead, at this nonsense.
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So much for dying for us. If you don’t stay dead you haven’t died.
Incidentally Jesus’s tomb is in Japan.
Did you say something about nonsense?
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Pat would you have liked children yourself? It’s never too late just look at Elton and David
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I wonder who actually is the biological father of them boys.
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No. I do not have the vocation to be a parent.
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It will be interesting to hear William Mulvihills opinion on this today.
To see if he will back track on comments he made before regarding gay couples having children.
He thinks, because he is a gay man, he has the right to comment that it is wrong for gay couples to have children.
Maybe his opinion has evolved or he has mellowed, like his liberal stance on abortion.
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9.56 Phew….so scary. Perhaps some evolution for yourself…..at some stage in life one comes to realise surely that one cannot presume on what somebody else thinks….I presume you are subscribed to or employed by a certain prelate!!!!! If not….you should be. An excellent computer….or good recall….I go for the aptitude of your computer or notes!!!! But thanks for remembering…..interesting.
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9.56 No backtrack…none at all. Lets wait twenty or thirty years.
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Forget gays adopting children I wish our priest would trim his damn nose hair. Has a cheek to shave his head bald and yet there is a jungle growing from both nostrils.
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@9:58 here’s an important significant comment you’d do well to consider.
God makes those nose hairs grow. They’re all part of his wonderful plan, and we weak humans should not arrogantly question His Wisdom.
So don’t criticise your humble priest for being an agent of the Almighty’s Plan.👍👍👍
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🙊🙊🙊
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9:58am. Padre has his reasons, MYOB & go do some overtime at work – basket takings were down last few weeks 🐑😇
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@10.21 am
Aren’t basket takings down every week since Covid?
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9:58am yes, people have been letting themselves go since Covid lockdowns and all that – if they had somewhere to go of an evening they might make the effort to smarten themselves up. Our parish team have conjured a hive of activity, we have regular bingo sessions, waltzing with free soft drinks, tea & biscuits. As they’d say in Moyross “it’s the Bomb”. Going like the hammers of hell it is. Fantastic.
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I know of a lesbian couple rearing two sons, they are doing a great job and I have never seen more pleasant or masculine teenagers in all my years teaching.
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10.10 rating masculinity…not a good practice….and no barometer in reality . If it’s about testosterone….that can only be determined by invasive testing. Adronoginy is a balance!!! Very rare.
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The Vatican is moving with the times, wow.
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10:01 Sure!! If Hitler hadn’t been overpowered, no doubt he’d have formally legalised concentration camps & incinerators for anyone he took a dislike to. Fraudulent Frankie another Hell on Earth facilitator – United Nations has confirmed Roman Catholic Church as a inhumane organisation referencing its dismal record in failing to be kind and Christian to its abuse victims instead joining forces & ganging up on vulnerable victims & further retraumatising them at every opportunity. Vile organisation – a danger to society from top to bottom.
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Praying for the day they realize pro choice is pro life.
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That wont happen because it’s not. Pro-choice is pro-death
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‘pro-life’ is performative nonsense which can only lead to famine. Y’all know that.
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There is no such thing as “pro-choice”. You are either pro-life or pro-abortion. No one would ever say, “I’m personally against slavery/sexual assault/torture but I support a person’s right to enslave/assault/torture.”
If you support a choice for evil, you’re complicit in it.
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Are contraceptives pro death?
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9.56 and 10.01 Vacuous Vatican. Intrinsic disorder their teaching !!!! Hard to get the head around the Blog piece today….Intrinsic disorder and their spurious utterances …..”synod” the most interesting of words….and the RCC has never had a real one for at least three centuries and a bit!!!
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Sin nodality – sin nickel?
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10:01
“A house divided against itself can’t stand” (Mk 3:25)
https://www.renewalministries.net/a-church-in-crisis-where-do-we-stand/
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11.39
It would be a major misinterpretation to think everyone should have the same view.
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Pat I have admired you for a long time. I love how you lead your authentic life as a gay man. Not like these phoney priests that sneak around with lay men and each other. Or swan off on holiday 4 times a year as sex tourists. Have sex parties masqueraded under religious pretences.
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MBE and Fr Black are in Portugal at the minute. They really are a wonderful duo, like Ant and Dec. Andrew would be tall Ant of course, MBE would be round and small Dec.
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I have been made aware, on the qt, of a group of priests in NI who meet for the purpose of masturbating together.
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Yes they are the non penetrative secret society and I could name you all 5 of them but Pat would refuse to publish without proof. Proof you want? Maybe send an email to Fr Delargy? The one that hated St Agnes’ so much he pleaded to leave. 🤔
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10.09: Such lies. You are a dangerous fantasist. You are a sick pervert. You should be castrated.
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Love is love, just ask Fr Smurf
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Or Fr Bambi
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Lust is strong sexual desire which is an important part of a loving relationship where the couple are “in love ” in a loving relationship.
The synod will not change anything only invovle lay people in parish work and give thanks to the wonderful work that women do in the unpaid maintenance of the church. No real change can occur as real change will bring into question former popes ruling and they are were never wrong. The popes are infallible.
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This time in 100 years the world will no longer exist. Lead the best life you can.
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More like 30. Once the floods and famines start, and infrastructure starts collapsing with global warming humans being what they are, will escalate violence towards each other.
You didn’t seriously think it would be a peaceful end, did you?
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11.56am. You should stop charging your phone and turning on your computer. They are adding to the climate emergency. Do your bit.
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I use solar power and will continue to challenge ****s on the internet.
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@10.28 am
And you think this because?
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It’s Friday ya all! That’s the Priestly night for a good old piss up and nosey on Grindr.
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@10.33am Everyday is a piss up for clergy. Why focus on only Friday? I miss the old couple who snoop on the clergy eating and drinking out. I like how the same clergy give them a torrent of abuse over it.
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I know of a priest that reads this blog religiously and yet hates you with a passion.
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I don’t hate him.
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Well given the lies that you have printed about him, I have to disagree and suggest that you do.
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What LIES have I printed about him?
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Plenty of them and you know it- though you are too dishonest to admit it.
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Pat you really do not like him, Fr Sheehan deserves to know what colleague of his sold him down the river to you. The priest that gave you false information about him should be named and shamed. Enjoy the rest of Vienna 🇦🇹 a beautiful city.
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@10.27 am
Who Pat?
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Pat you could not truly believe you do the Lords work?
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I do believe God wants me doing what I am doing.
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11.28: Now Pat, you’re totally delusional. God wants you – if you truly believe in him as revealed in Jesus Christ – to carry his love, mercy, compassion, truth, justice, kindness to all whom you meet in life, especially all who are excluded. To some extent you do this but what’s outrageous is the horrible, vindictive and vengeful way you heap ignominy upon ignominy on clerics who fail. You are right to name all abuses and wrong doing but you leave people on the roadside. Once you’ve got your “kill” or “victim”, you move on to the next one. Regrettably, you have pushed some of your victims to the edge of the cliff. I know of two clerics who were harrassed and targeted by you and your mob and who became psychologically and psychiatrically ill and hospitalised. You need to be aware that in your efforts to identify all wrongdoing, you leave your chosen targets very shattered, even though their abuses were/are egregious. As a supposed christian pastor, you should refind CHRIST’S WAY…(P.S: don’t quote the temple chord whipping or whited sepulchre references…) There can be no place in a Christians geart to act as a merciless judge…No place whatsoever.
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1:40
Gaslighting is the first line of attack by the ‘holier than thou brigade’.
What has the clerical/hierarchical mobsters done for generations? What do hierarchs continue to do to survivors who come forward ? How many lives shattered by clerical abuse? How many prematurely in their graves due to clerical cover ups?
Talk about leaving people on the roadside or pushing some victims to the edge of the cliff.
Tell your colleagues in the clerical fraternity to refind CHRIST’S WAY…
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I hope the weather in Vienna is better than it is here atm it’s atrocious
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It’s been beautiful all week.
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2.20: Yours is the typical reaction to any comment by clerics.. “Tell your colleagues…”. Thank God the majority of us seek to be Christ like and trust we do our utmost for all who come to us for help. God bless our priests. God touch the hearts of haters, like this poster.
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7:11 pm
Hatred is against my religion. Respectfully, take your head out of the sand. If the majority
of clerics seek to be Christ like, how come there is so much abuse corruption and crime flowing from Institutional Church? Contrary to the clerical mindset, God has NO favourites.
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But in the UK there is only one kind of marriage, legal marriage. So the terminology is correct, a husband is a male in a marital relationship.
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The marriage application forms I’ve been filling out for decades call both people parties .
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What do you say at the end of your wedding and civil partnership ceremonies, Bp Pat? For example, “I now pronounce you…. “
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I personally am glad I was brought up in the traditional way. Mummy – female And Daddy – male. Why do the gays want to change the world and normal practices
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My husband is bisexual and we have a very open and honest relationship, and I am sure what we have is a lot stronger than most straight couples have.
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Claire love you need to really evaluate what you get from your relationship
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11.12 Monogamy in my life experience of listening to men and women ( married) is an illusion…a societal fantasy for the purpose of cohesion…..as with celibacy in a more complex way…..I congratulate you for your honesty and togetherness in our culture of denial. I am reflecting cerebrally not biographically before they tear into me here!!!! Biographically, bisexual men who articulate it are very together usually.
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Bill are you forgetting that bisexual men created the Aids pandemic. They are also the least trust worthy of men.
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Is there evidence for this?
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Pat the people that comment on this blog are sheer bonkers like the clergy we have oddly enough
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And tell about as much truth. 🤣
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11:19 am Well, you know what they say…it takes one to know one.
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Boiler house bonkers, nut house bonkers or both?
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3.22 If you are referring to the driving transport from North to South and vice
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11.19am: You belong to the Z category of silly bonkers..(the lowest..). Your comment is rather shallow and nonsensical.
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3.22 That virus was created in a Petri Dish. No Doubt at all…….I like travel so I won’t name the country of origin. Enough blogged….
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YAOUNDÈ, Cameroon – A Catholic priest in Malawi is one of a dozen people convicted over the murder of a man living with albinism.
MacDonald Masambuka, 22, was brutally murdered in 2018.
In a judgment April 29, a High Court in Malawi concluded that the 12 people, including the priest (Masambuka’s brother), a hospital staff member, and a police officer plotted to kill Masambuka to extract his bones, hoping to benefit financially.
“MacDonald was betrayed by those he had trust in, namely the brother, the priest, the policeman, and the clinical officer. These are positions of trust,” said the country’s public prosecutions director Steve Kayuni.
ustice Dorothy NyaKaunda Kamanga, who issued the verdict, described the killing as “a violation of the right to human life and the greatest violation of the rights to life and integrity for persons with albinism.”
Since 2014, Malawi has witnessed a wave of assaults against people living with albinism, as their body parts are extracted and used for rituals with the belief that they could bring luck and wealth.
The Secretary General of the Episcopal Conference of Malawi, Father Henry Saindi, says the church was shocked at the involvement of a Catholic priest in the murder, and expressed hope that the killing of Masambuka “would help in establishing the underlying issues pertaining to the killings considering the cadre of personalities involved in the murder of MacDonald Masambuka, as besides the Catholic priest, a police officer and a medical officer were also involved.”
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Interesting fact about Malawi despite the depravity of what you describe…. It’s the only African country to make a success of independence. Most x-British colonies would have them back in the morning. British were ruthless but less so than their very own!!!
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2.37
Do you smoke nicotine, Pat?
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Have never smoked. Bringing some cigs home to my cleaning lady.
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Pat, there is a very rich chocolate liquor in Austria… I think Mozart is on the bottle…. I am sure you have tried it…. if not I hope you do…..Up over Innsbruck mid-summer you can by cable car hit the snow….or the Pub at Eng…..however long you have enjoy it all. If something is good….love or lust ( or together)
, more is better!!! Then there is the youthful Dublin cardiologist who suggests; Everything in moderation…particularly moderation!!!!! Lol
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I have discovered that both alcohol and tobacco attract a very low tax here. Cigarettes euro 6 a packet and wine from 2 euro
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Pat good for you and enjoy yourself. Are you planning to continue your celebrations?
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Pat you are a legend for Maynooth Survivors and their struggles for justice and redress. Pat a few of the survivors would like to meet you in a neutral location outside the Island of Ireland and no where near Hughie Connolly in Paris.
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2.54
Stalker alert who doesn’t care about any survivor and who hasn’t sorted his obsession. Everyone knows him.
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Berlin or Tokyo ?
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Why wouldn’t Patsy enjoy himself. I often confront Patsy but he does need a break. I am not going soft on Patsy.
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Why do Priests think they are celebrities? Repulse me the lot of them
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It’s all that having a crowd stand up when they walk in and deferring to their every word.
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3 funerals and 1 wedding this week already. 1 more wedding tomorrow and then baptisms on Sunday. Not a penny from any of the tight gits.
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What parish are you in? Try being in the slums like me, I got handed a packet of cigarettes the other week by the travelling community for baptising their child and I don’t even smoke.
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The Treavellers never off me fags !!!
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5:22pm Simply not true, the travelling community are proud family people and make good donations to clergy on the occasion of their sacraments. The Rathkeale travellers are so well regarded by the Roman Catholic priest that he performs First Holy Communion at Christmas for them.
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Noel Treanor was lunching in Deanes in Belfast CC today. No expense spared, yet he hasn’t taken one Ukrainian in.
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Yes. I was out with my late wife’s brother and saw him. Unfortunately he spotted our notebook and was seated behind a palm tree as a result.
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Arlene Foster now dines at Deanes at Queens. Not my words but hers on twitter.
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My understanding is that Noel Treanor does often dine out.
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Pat do you know the identity of the Knight of Columbanus who did all of Noel’s palace renovations?
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Yes. A Moneyglass man, I believe.
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He priced my driveway but didn’t get the job.
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4.28 Florence…Italy….a favourite spot. Lol….Lol……Lol…..an erstwhile overlap maybe with His Disgrace….Alfa Romeo in a leather Blico!!! Pat, have you ever sent anything in one of those ??? Bill Lol Lol Deadly serious comment.
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I would like to order four if you could tell me where to get them? I don’t have a very large farm but I’m getting on in years and could do with the help.
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Men make better parents it’s a fact. So two men raising a child is better than one. Women are too emotional and unstable and worry too much about nothing. I would rather have two daddies than two mummies. Even from the perspective – when you see a gay male couple, they tend to look after themselves better and take pride in their appearance and look clean. When you see a gay female couple they tend to be heavier or with harsh haircuts and rough.
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The fact you want two daddies is irrelevant Fr Tim!
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Complete nonsense, Tim. Find a new fact checker.
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It’s true though, I can vouch for it. My sister is a lesbian. Her and her partner are singing. I wouldn’t let anyone say a word about them, of course but family is family and I have been honest with them myself. They need to have a word with themselves and ditch the dungarees and shaggy hair.
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Sorry. Spelling mistake. I meant stinking!!!
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Good people make nice parents, no gender out does another. Sorry to burst your bubble Tim.
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4.04 Seldom if ever has such nonsense been published here. Respectfully .
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4.04 pm
Silly man so you are.
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This is such good news. The Catholics have tried to be so kind to the Latin and lace brigade, and got nothing but abuse back. High time they stopped it. When Cardinal Tagle is pope the trajectory of the true church will be fully implemented and the so called traddies can go to the SSPX where they should be anyway.
They’ve been accomodated in their rejection of an ecumenical council far too long.
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Why do women have so many children when they can’t even get themselves dressed in the morning? Running round the streets in pyjamas
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And you never see their husbands, where are they?
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They don’t have husbands, would you marry someone that walked up the aisle in a pair of slippers. They are all multiplication mothers these days also. A girl round the corner from me is a 4×4. 4 children to 4 different men. You wouldn’t have saw that 50 years ago.
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6.12pm. You wouldn’t have seen it, either.
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6:12pm Get your facts right, she is fostering 2 of those kids, extra money for luxuries. Why not, it’s a win win for all 4 kids. Priests aren’t the only ones that need a little holiday now and then.
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There will be a massive shake up of D&C in next few months. Retiring priests, priests off on sick leave, gay ones leaving for their boyfriends.
There is an influx of black priests coming from Africa to help Noel out but this will not solve all the problems.
Corpus Christi want rid of their priest and who would seriously take on that gig it’s a poisoned chalice.
Tony the Tank has been pleading for a Pp role so that may open the door for him.
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Don’t forget if the two priests who are in a relationship are exposed then they are gone to
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God help any black priest coming here to try and understand these people. The other week there was a lad running round with his face painted black shouting “where is my sandwich” and the parents were standing round in stitches.
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Dream on and wishful thinking
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I really can not face these communions tomorrow. My patience is wearing thin and I can barely force a smile for the photographs with these people. Yet I still am a long way off retirement.
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Keep the heid, one day of falsity over however many years of good works. You’ll get through it!!
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My Uncle Will and Poddy are in a civil partnership and have twin girls and they want for nothing. Spoilt but they are being brought up better than kids with straight parents.
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I think we should all have children as the bible teaches
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With the increasing amount of autistic children in modern society it’s time we set up an area in church to put these children so as not to distract other parishioners. There’s this one child, sounds pure animal, that screams continuously and it’s very distracting.
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Well stop it then.
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6:29pm would that be next to the special areas in masses reserved for paedophiles, Father?? 😜😎
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OMG I find that post appalling. So the child will make a little noise. That’s what children do. Relax, God has great hearing and will still hear your prayers.🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏
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@6.29 pm
Well I don’t know about an increasing amount of autistic children in modern society, but the best way to deal with a noisy child is to quietly take them outside.
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6.29 Closer to God than you are…for certain Troglodyte.
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The great Chinese philosopher, Pei Wei Shi, once said,
“Man lie man, no good come, hell wait time”
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@6.32 pm
Oh know not Pei Wei Shi again
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Pat do you ever get homophobic attacked in Larne? I was walking through Markethill and I assume because I had pink converse on, a van pulled up beside me and he called me really offensive names and it’s deeply upset me.
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Pat congratulations on a successful partnership with the lovely Eduardo. Many years ago all the gays were rushing into them civil things and it was only for fashionable reasons, but you have stood the test of time.
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Fr Crossey is a lovely priest. Very well mannered and orderly.
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Pat who is minding Tara and Tom while you are away on holiday? I hope they are being cared for due diligently.
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Hmm Westport parish Fr. Henry O’Connell leaving the priesthood, view from 32 minutes.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=-ySUwvCPq00
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It always seemed strange that an Oratorian had moved to be CC in an Irish parish.
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Henry was ordained as recently as August 2020. Why do so many young priests get ordained and then leave a few years later?
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@9:16. Some would say that it’s because they hadn’t the balls to quit thinking all doubts would be resolved after ordination. So effectively they allowed themselves to drift into ordination. I’d suspect many of them harboured doubts long before ordination.
And after the ontological change magic failed to live up to expectations and the con job intolerable reality of priesthood dawned, as the song goes …………”and another one bites the dust……”
I’m just thankful I quit before ordination, tho’ I do admit it was not easy at the time, in mid ’60’s long before the scandals broke and aul Mother Church was still highly regarded.
MMM
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He is listed in the latest York Oratory bulletin, so he must have still been an Oratorian. Didn’t he start off in Maynooth as a sem for Dublin diocese?
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I have just recognised a priest going into my neighbours house and he has been there for over an hour and my neighbour is a gay man. I have never seen him go in there before. Interesting……
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The Valley of the Squinting Windows
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Irish Independent
Parents ‘requested’ to pay €60 for child to make confirmation in south Dublin parish
A parent has complained that they have been “requested” to pay up to €60 for their child to make their confirmation in a south Dublin parish.
A woman, who was not named, contacted RTÉ’s Liveline programme regarding a letter which she received from the Sandyford Parish.
“It’s a new one for me, you have to give money to the catholic church to make your confirmation,” the woman said.
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How much will she and parents like her be paying for the bouncy castles?
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9.28pm: Seamus, bouncy castles is only the beginning.. I worked in a parish where some children were taken to New York and London to shop for their outfits. Outrageous. The “woman” was very misleading…and disingenuous.
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7.29pm: Sadly, the headlines by way of promotion by Joe Duffy were completely (deliberately) misleading. This story crops up every year! Parishes run support programmes by way of preparation for young people and families – FAITH FRIENDS or other similar support programmes. Most of the candidates sign up with permission of their parents. What is 60€ for? The training of parent volunters who act as “FAITH FRIENDS for the young people over a 4/5 week period. The leaders are trained under supervision of a facilitator. At the end of every night the classes receive soft drinks and “goodies”. There is much printing for work sheets for leaders candidates. Also, at end of programme a disco is held and often a trip is organised for all. I have never in 16 years have had any complaints from parents to pay 30/40 for the programme. It is not compulsory and if any parent cannot afford the cost, there is no issue. Also, children who attend Educate Together Schools and whose parents request sacraments are prepared outside school hours. This requires the help of one or two professional catechists, thus they must be paid. No one objects. I wish Joe Duffy would have these facts at hand. All he need do is phone the Parish Priest of Sandyford for information. It’s a non issue for 99.9% of parents. We get this item every year ariund sacramental celebrations. Usually the ones who make an issue are those who’ll pay €100’s for bouncy castles, fancy cars or horse drawn carriages!! Says a lot about their values. No child is ever refused 1st Communior or Confirmation on financial grounds. Never. Let’s not be creating misleading narratives and lying.
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I saw Eugene O’Neill passing St Brigids at Derryvolgie late last night
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Say a prayer for all the homosexuals that went before us to pave the way for all the rights we have now.
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7.59. Amen. Thank you Mark Daniels. History, Religion and Law have been so cruel and inhuman …Art, Literature and Culture gave respite.
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There’s a priest in Derry has got a woman pregnant in the bog side.
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@8.22 pm
Bog side sounds an awful name.
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Me waters are telling me a blog featuring Fonzie is on the way.
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No Montreal or Toronto for Bergoglio. Tells the observer everything about the RCC in Canada. Back-foot in the Western World…..the End.
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I have a feeling Pat is not yet finished with the exploits of some in Armagh.
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True.
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