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Here we have another 20 months ordained priest falling by the wayside.
Obviously gay.
Conservative.
Tridentine Mass.
Tridentine vestments.
Another very sad occurance.
Sexuality in general and homosexuality in particular are creating a massive scandal for the RCC.
They condemn homosexuality as disordered and sinful and yet many, if not most, bishops and priests are gay and sexually active!
This situation is absolutely dysfunctional and also absolutely inauthentic.
I hope Fr Henry sorts himself out quickly.
But the RCC will never sort itself out until forced to.
264 replies on “HAS MAYO CURATE – ORDAINED SEPTEMBER 2020 – DISAPPEARED AMID RUMOURS OF GRINDR AND DRUG USE?”
It appears that Fr Henry was trying to change his “life direction”. Perhaps it would have been better had he gotten his laicisation papers in before putting his face all over a gay dating app.
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There is nothing to suggest that he has applied for laicisation?
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Correct; meant to say that if he desires a “changed life” he should have done the honest thing and applied to be laicised.
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Patsy I would like to point out that the picture of the degenerate O’Connell in the Barr Convent Chapel was not traditional. He is standing in front of a Cranmer table, not an Altar. He did have on a decent chasuble but no maniple so he was ‘performing’ a novus ordo not celebrating a Tridentine Mass. You forgot to mention all the modern liberal elite’s who more than outnumber trads in that lifestyle like Ledwith, McCamely,McCarrick,Burrell,Sheheen Sodano,Cocopalmario etc.etc. all of them Ultra modernists.
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It is not a dating app, it’s for sex
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10:15am Sex and Money, Money and Sex appear to be the only Gods of Worship in RCC today
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What is the connection between Westport and York?
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He was ordained for the Oratorians in York in August 2021 but straightaway shipped over Ireland.
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2020.
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No connection, excep that the COs wanted rid of Henry and Henry/Ciaran wanted a posting to a pretty seaside town in which to undertake his self-discovery. The wants, needs and preferences of the parishoners did not come into it.
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Of all orders out there it is The Oratorian’s that raise my eye brow the most… and send a shiver down my spine. I’d rather spend an evening with a Norbertine than an Oratorian… and that says a lot.
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Dear parishioner, what you are to do is face the reality that the church you belong to is pretend and you are being fleeced. After the child abuse did you seriously think anything else was as it’s pretended to be?
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I thought candidates were rigorously screened by religious formators and independent clinical psychological practitioners? How do these blokes pass the interviews? They lie, I assume.
The Catholic Church’s ‘don’t-ask-don’t-tell’ culture encourages men to live double-lives. The Church will not accept
this, even though it is obvious to everyone else.
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The Mickey Mouse outfit in Manchester carries out our psychological screening. It’s been going on for 15 years now and yet repeated failures—time to close the place down and hand the task to professionals.
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People tell lies to formators and during the psychological assessments.
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+ Pat. Surely the major issue here isn’t that Henry O’Connell is a homosexual but that he is the style of homosexual who uses Grindr, and is reportedly a cocaine user (which to me indicates that he also has an alcohol problem) – you can see why the Oratorians offloaded him to Eire.
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It does sound like an offloading doesn’t it, but so quickly after ordination sounds like a quid pro quo or possibly just a threat if he wasn’t ordained. I wonder what else is going on in the York oratory 😂
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Just been out to visit a very sick parishioner and looked at the blog. Now I’m sick(ened.). But I won’t write this priest off in this evidence alone. He has discovered a new direction to give his life. I agree that he should have waited some time after he was laicised or left the priesthood before engaging with grinder. He seems to have changed his appearance and demeanour to look more physically attractive. I hope he seeks some counselling to help him deal with the fall out of this reality for himself. His predicament asks questions yet again about celibacy, gay men in priesthood and sexuality in general. I pray this priest will find his contentment through a committed relationship and that he avoids any potential scandal. God bless his family and all who are concerned for him. I am loathe to cast stones but he heeds urgently to make transparent and responsible decision about his “new life”. May God guide him wisely.
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I agree. Serious questions need to be asked about celibacy, priesthood, sexuality, and also seminary formation. Surely seminary is the place to discern ones life direction? I think too much credence is given to psychological assessments. What is going on in seminaries that formators seem unaware of the unsuitability of so many candidates to Priesthood?
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And many formators are also sexually using seminarians.
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Oh for Gods sake!
Is seminary now a glorified brothel with ordination as a form of payment for services rendered?
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Yes, Oscott has a problem with this.
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Now that the formators, bishops and vocations directors are gay, why would they turn away a gay candidate? They would think that discriminatory (and they would also be attracted to the candidate and that attraction will influence their thinking.
Full blown, ocean-going gays such as Alex Balzanella of Westminster and Chris Butler (the civil partnership man, Leeds) get ordained no problem. Almost all the recent departures have discovered in their late 20s and early 30s that they are, in fact, gay.
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I agree with you NO one should be written off as I believe in a God of LOVE.
What I disagree with is the amount of clergy who are not sticking to their vows and frightened Bishops who do not take action.
I suppose this blog applauds Father Henry O’ Connor for moving on if that was only the case they do not resign and want paid so the Bishop then needs to take a Canonical trial which is very expensive for a Dioceses no matter the size of the dioceses.
Ger and Jerry another two know surely they cannot go to a parish and yet Killaloe still has to give them their salary.
It is NOT the Dioceses or the Bishop that has to provide and pay their salary and accommodation it is the LAITY that pays.
Maybe he will end up in one of the Latin Mass Brigade organisations.
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@ 10:15am
There is no way he’ll end up in a traditional Order, he should be dismissed immediately and if not he’s more likely to join with his cohort the disgusting James Martin. I’m sure they’ll get on very well.
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Pat,
His name is Ciaran O’Connell. He was a Dublin seminarian in the past. He was kicked from Maynooth for alcoholism and homosexual behaviour. He changed his name to Henry O’Connell in the oratory. A trad priest who strongly dislikes women being involved in Church. The York Oratory wanted rid of him and Tuam took him. The guy has always been troubled. A very disturbed individual who is bitchy, self righteous and who thinks very highly of himself. It does not surprise me that this scandal happened.
The Archdiocese of Dublin, Maynooth, The York Oratory and the Archdiocese of Tuam are responsible for this!
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What years was he in Maynooth?
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I think between 2010/2012. The class of Fr. Chris Derwin, Fr. Brendan Kealy, Fr. Seamus McEntee (All Dublin).
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He has done no harm. He’s a young man exploring his sexuality and experimenting with drugs. He aspired to be celibate and that is not working out for him. He should go and train as a psychotherapist. I suggest he chats with Tony Rice, psychotherapist who at one stage was a redemptorist priest and former Vocations director.
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I imagine that he firstly needs to engage in psychotherapy as a client. If he does this seriously it will the making of him.
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I wouldn’t recommend Tony Lite. He requires good counsel, how about Fr Pat Collins, CM?
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Is Collins not an exorcist now?
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Tony Rice, now he is a Redemptorist that has had them all. He could write a book about that lot. Kiss and tell
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He is a exemplary Grindr user in that the presents himself so openly and attractively. I agree he has done no wrong. Give him and everyone else in similar situations a generous and understanding break, I say.
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Fr Pat Collins is truly bonkers, why do the Reds attract this type of character?
Most of them don’t live like they should and love luxurious holidays and expensive goods.
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Fr Pat Collins, is a Vincentian priest..
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10.09
He’s a Vincentian.
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Collins received his professional grounding for exorcism in the Roman Catholic Church, they have survived so long because they are trained to hunt down whistleblowers & make them disappear, witches & wizards.
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I haven’t about Tony Rite in years. I was with him college .
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Tony got his way, biggest problem is he gets in his own way. I wouldn’t send my cat to him for counselling
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I robbed his jocks when we were in ‘formation’ .
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The same Tony who got the msc weasel to join and leaves us with a curative casualty
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4:12am Bitchy, self-righteous and thinks very highly of himself – you could be speaking about our pp but then you could be speaking about the vast majority of these cult queens & their ahem! Volunteers! Few of them resign willingly & most are “entertained” by Bishops because they “know too much” and “they’re all in it together”. Ciaran or Henry or whatever he’s calling himself these days is addicted to the gravy train so won’t go off payroll. No doubt & knowing the modus operandi of RCC Mafia Institution, him changing his Christian name is linked to evasion of some description. Yet another danger to society in collar & skirt.
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Is it possible to find out if this deviant is still on the payroll?
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Why would Oratorians take a religious name? They don’t belong to a religious order.
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Henry is a nice religious name (referring to John Henry Newman). Do any other Oratorians have religious names?
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10.15
Yes. Gavin’s brotherz
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Why did Tuam want to take him on?
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9:26am since when did anything to do with Tuam make sense!
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@11.18
Pope Francis has given a powerful endorsement of Fr James Martin SJ’s ministry to gay Catholics in what is a significant step
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@ 12:54pm
Exactly and that say’s it all. Fanny’s away with the fairies altogether.🤣🤣🤣
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My granny used always say ‘It’s the pious craw thumpers you have to watch.” These guys who love Tridentine frillies and dressing up in birettas and capes are usually pastoral drones with no ability to connect with real people and their real life struggles.
They wear this paraphernalia as a kind of comfort blanket, preach tough dogmatic homilies laying down the law for mere lay folk and are of little use to anybody.
Sadly this conservative veneer had proven in several cases to be just that – a veneer. Beneath is often a conflicted soul with its own real life struggles hidden from view. This struggle often centers on sexual immaturity and unresolved sexual identity. The tridentine frillies have a strange appeal to these men.
Life based on these things endure and when the make-up is off, so-to-speak, lusty nature has its way and scandal follows. I use grindr all the time but only for my coffee beans in the morning.
Personally I blame the screening process that allows these guys forward for ordination when they are patently unsuitable. Dublin has a handful of these bods.
I bet every diocese in the country has a few.
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It makes a change to see a tradionally attired priest on the blog. The usual blogs stars (Rory, McCamley, ex-PP of Pomeroy, the Beach Boy) are firmly in the Novus Ordo, floaty katftan chasuble camp.
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Jollie the Nonce liked to kiddie fiddle and wore fiddle-back vestments.
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9.25
Ao you’d have readers believe. But you’re not convincing or persuasive.
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I see one of his preferred Grindr tribes is leather. I don’t think there is a lace, smells and bells tribe but, given the amount of trad Catholic priests, there should be.
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2018 clean shaven Biretta 2022 beard teenage boy haircut. The English Oratories are not traditional they are conservative and committed to the Novus Ordo but with a choir and Roman Vestments, there will be one Low Mass on Sunday but that’s more of a concession than anything else
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He went for that new look at his diaconate ordination. Here he is with Chavasse, the former postulator for the old queen, Cardinal Newman. Chavasse had to resign as provost of the Birmingham oratory over an infatuation with a young man.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/middlesbroughdiocese/48239791406/in/photostream/
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6.16
http://latinmassmiddlesbrough.blogspot.com/2020/08/father-henry-oconnell.html
Your attempt to distance this scenario from Tridentinism has failed.
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Yes, I’m a bit confused about the time line here. Was he part of the York Oratory at some stage ? The silly getup and hat would suggest so. Isn’t that where the ex-Provost of Oxford ended up after his disappearance from the Oxford Oratory ? Daniel, who has miraculously reappeared doing cooking lessons and children’s’ activities, and making cringe inducing hyper active videos of same ? So, did this Henry chap leave York and then end up being ordained for an Irish diocese ? Then doing a runner / life change twenty months later ? Classic. A bit quick perhaps, but we know already that so many newly ordained don’t last the course past five years, don’t we ? Well, he’s had a bit of a free ride no doubt for the last number of years in seminary and training. Now he will discover the realities of life outside the cosseted world of the clergy. Like having to pay his own bills, and make a living. Good luck to him ! I don’t doubt he will find it hard, and perhaps come back with his tail between his legs !! I’m sure there will be a well heeled gay benefactor / partner that he can tap in the meantime. I think he’s taken himself and everybody else for a ride. What I am surprised at is that there isn’t a more discerning and wise eye in seminaries and dioceses looking out for guys who are patently playing a game and unsuitable for priesthood. I bet the signs were clearly there over the years he was in training. Why did nobody intervene ? Could have saved everybody a lot of trouble, time and money. Just saying…..
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Presumably, “Changed Life” is his Grindr name. He is attractive, but he shouldn’t have wasted everybody’s time going through becoming a priest. But what’s done is done; it’s no use crying over spilt milk. I just hope he gives back all his ordination gifts, including the cash ones. It’s the least he can do.
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6.33am (Up early toasting the Queen?). Do divorced people give back their wedding presents?
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He was a member of the new Oratory in formation in York but lived at the Oxford Oratory whilst studying at Blackfriars. His priestly formation was inadequate. Was he doing coke and casual gay sex whilst living with the Oxford fathers? Something went wrong because shortly after ordination, he left the Oratorians and headed back to his native Ireland. Was Billy Bunter Byrne the provost of Oxford when Henry lived there?
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How interesting. He’s gone hardcore from the lace to the leather tribe. Well done for leaving and coming out. Shame the others have the courage to walk. Must be some worried fathers fearful of him talking.
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Another scandal from the Trad world. Surprise! Surprise! Surprise! “Father” O’Connell with his acknowledged identification with the “leather tribe” eloquently illustrates the known rule of thumb that those who have a proclivity for wearing lace as they celebrate the Traditional Latin Mass in the private lives are often the most dysfunctional clerics.
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After he departed from Maynooth I believe he spent time with the Institute of Christ Sovereign Priest.
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I doubt it,they would have seen through him straight away
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All the English Oratories are hotbeds of homosexuality and house clerical misfits. Is it any surprise given their antecedence – Faber and Newman were both vicious old queens who despised each other.
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As no formal announcement has been made, it suggests that Fr Henry O’Connell is still on payroll. Bishop is being blatantly Disrespectful to parishioners that Bishop has made no announcement. Arrogant outfit.
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There aren’t usually any announcements by bishops when priests leave, though in the recent Waterford & Lismore clerical changes press release, Fonzie disgracefullly referred to Fr Richard Geoghegan’s liacisation request.
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9:30am that’s always a useful indicator to identify those being mollycoddled by Bishops & those outside circle are humiliated at every given opportunity in line with whatever happens to be the required Agenda of hiding truth behind what goes on. No wonder Fonzie & Rawhide Purcell etc., stick together like glue.
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Will Fonzie tell the faithful the current status of those MIA, those on early retirement (fit as fiddles) those gone but not forgotten such as the priest at the centre of a major AIDS scare controversy in Dungarvan in the mid 1990s. How many are the faithful still funding?
Can we have full accountability and transparency since a new precedent has been set.
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Phonsie had it in for Richard Geoghegan. There is a number of men in W&L who left the Priesthood while Michael Russell and William Lee were bishops and nothing was said. There is a few priests who were ordained by the same two men who are no longer working as priests and many people don’t even know if they are still priests or not. It appears from the W&L website that once a priest retires or is forced to step down for whatever reason, they are forgotten about. They are about the only diocese that do not list retired priests or even permanent deacons, telling people what parishes they work in. To some in the diocese it makes them look as if they are not wanted anymore.
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Church Of The FONZ!
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Why did Bishop Cullinan make any reference whatsoever to Fr. Richard Geoghegan. Was it virtue signalling to the Opus Dei brigade or a warning shot to priests of the diocese or both? It smacks of nastiness considering the Dom Dick diocesan scandal lasted over two years.
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This is the only time I’ve seen a laicisation mentioned in a clerical changes announcement. Phonsie is a shit.
https://waterfordlismore.ie/diocese-of-waterford-lismore-clerical-changes-2022/
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I am in shock I thought all Trads were in to lace and thrills never leather.
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I know a priest that is on Grindr, his profile now says offline but I can still get screenshots and send you them if you want? Everyone knows he is gay and it’s widely spoken off.
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Ok. Thank you.
bishopbuckley1@outlook.com
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Pat are you attending Stephen Wilson’s ordination Stag Party in the Galgorm SPA Resort. 🫂🛀
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I’m on Galgorm yesterday and today.
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Thanks Pat give my regards to Stephen Wilson 😀
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He is a disgrace and an embarrassment. Go and lead your authentic life Henry. It is not as a Priest.
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Some people come to authenticity early, some late, many never.
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Pat this is nothing new. Priests up and down the country are sleeping with each other and have arrangements in place from their time in Maynooth or other.
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8:02am The Irish Gaynooth Mafia priests are in several parishes around the country & Fr Ger Fitzgerald admitted to having gay experiences & he fed the press what the Bishops wanted communicated – no wonder Fitzgerald got away with so much for so long and still is. Loyalty to the cover up machine is well rewarded. Their victims are just cannon fodder to be quickly & quietly silenced, vilified & disposed of in the best interests of Fraudulent Frankies Empire.
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9:01 Spot on. The “canon fodder” who had the misfortune to be involved with Fitzgerald will NEVER be silenced and if deemed necessary will take further steps in order to ensure that his actions including alleged misappropriation of funds and preying on vulnerable individuals in order to satisfy his sexual, emotional and financial needs while still a PRIEST in Ministry and on “SABBATICAL” will be exposed to a wider audience outside of this blog for all to scrutinise. He messed with the wrong bitches. Have a nice day everyone.
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10:49am killaloe diocese appears to have multiple financial and sexual issues outstanding as well – are there any clean diocese in Ireland or is one dirtier than the next?
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As the commenter at 8.02 am remarks this is nothing new in this story. It is almost a cliche but it is accepted that younger clergy are sexually active/in relationships with fellow priests and are also sexually active whatever tickles their fancy utilising various online apps that facilitate that reality.
For these men the priesthood is nothing more than a form of cosplay. It gives them an excuse to dress up, it provides them with accommodation and an income which is actually quite generous as often their other overheads are underwritten by the parish. These men are parasites.
If Fr O’Connell has petitioned to be laicised then I commend his integrity because he is actually being honest with himself. If not he is just another duplicitous hypocrite who has been rightly exposed by Pat Buckley and his blog.
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If he has “changed direction”, why will he petition to be laicised? Indeed that still gives them some power over him, which he now refutes. If he is still in receipt of church funds, then that’s a different matter.
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Yes, the state of mind of these people is that their ordination was ‘a nothIng’. They soon abandon the faith, any notion of a stupid ontological change, and look back on their time with the church as an embarrassment. They will never engage in a process to seek laicisation as they walk away from it. Hence the procedure to dismiss them after five years of absence.
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8:57 You do realize that despite the ‘state of mind’ of those clerics they’ve recently got through the selection and formation process? And the problem is their state of mind?
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I know of a priest who takes crystal meth along with family members. It’s incredible that a man of almost 70 would be doing that.
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OMG, I know of that case too- it’s like something out of Breaking Bad.
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Drugs is such a big problem these days. I’m always so grateful that my late dad taught me right from wrong
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Does it improve his homilies?
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Homilies; Turn on, tune in, drop out!
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Sorry could you explain “along with family members”. Are you saying that this priest is using crystal meth socially, in the company of members of his own family? It probably isn’t important, but I don’t understand.
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I went on holiday to Rome about six years ago and used Grindr. I had left ministry but put up a picture of me with pope John Paul on my profile – and was bombarded with angry messages from men who were obviously priests. Hilarious.
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Birmingham is a diocese which has an old Queen saint (Newman), is led by an old Queen (Longley) and is full of young and old Queens (where to start?)
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Did we ever get to the bottom of the scandal at the Birmingham Oratory before Benedict XVI’s visit in 2010? There was talk of intense friendships and drunken ruts. Damian Thompson was agog at the time.
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Poor saintly Dermot Fenlon was banished.
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1:11 Surely that was the cat not the Fathers?
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Only Bp Pat could have got to the bottom of that scandal.
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Henry had quite the reputation as a seminarian, there are a few now hot at it also
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He is really cute though- he is much more gorgeous than Gorgeous.
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Balzanella of Westminster will follow before long.
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Pat have you ever taken any drugs
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Pat, I hope, presume and pray, that the answer to that question is no.
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He’s 33, the same age Our Lord died for our sins, and Henry chooses to embark on his sinful path. May God have mercy on his tormented soul.
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Henry should transfer to D&C, Noel Treanor is well known for protecting and supporting Gay Clergy. Lord knows, if he didn’t, he wouldn’t have any!
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9:10am most of them would protect him, some of them active themselves and or choose to overlook everything in the best interests of keeping the gravy train rolling courtesy of the sheep or mutual profiteers depending on what category they fall into.
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Hey, “daddy-o,” what’s cookin.”
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All these happenings almost make me dedpair of the world we live in today. My father’s people actually came from rural Mexico originally. I often dream of the simple uncomplicated life they had, back before drugs and grindr overcame society and the priesthood.
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I wonder how the many past commentators who derisively referred to ex-seminarians as “not good enough”, or “rejects” can explain how this fellow managed to ‘get through’ their supposedly stringent “formation & screening” processes? It can’t be very effective in determining the unsuitable if ‘O Connell can con it.
But maybe there are unspoken reasons operating in the selection process?
Personally I think many of those critics using terms like “rejects” are clerics demonstrating their insecurities inferring that having been ordained they are a superior class of “ontologically changed” paragons: though many might say PARASITES.
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Precisely, Kevin. They’re letting slip that it’s about being accepted into a circle. Like Draco Malfoy’s friends.
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Anon@ 10.09: Let’s see how many of these clerical paragons make any sort of coherent sensible reply to Kevin’s comment. Will be as rare as corncrake to quote a term sometimes seen here.
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10:09 that Bishop Fonzie fella has some front encouraging young lads to join priesthood on that St Joseph’s Young Priests website. No conscience on him at all & he knowing all that he does. No doubt he’ll be off to OZ to tan his own arse when he & the rest of the high flier pals visit Rawhide Purcell. Toxic Circle indeed.
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Kevin I would put money on it that you are a reject.
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Often they reject the good ones and keep the questionable
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Did anyone caution Fonzie to avoid the meadow…?
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@11:50. Had I been a ‘reject’ I would be thanking my lucky stars now. Imagine being associated with that unholy institution, the RCC.
As it happens, I’m one who made the choice myself, with absolutely no pressure or suggestions ‘from above.’
And I consider myself most fortunate for having done so.
Are you one of those referred to in my last paragraph?
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11:59
Pat, I’ve heard it said before the best candidates often leave or are kicked out.
Why so, from your knowledge and experience? Do they have a hold over some of the questionable ones?
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Of course they do.
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8:41
Thanks, Pat.
Not surprising priesthood is such an unholy mess.
Seems like bishops have only themselves to blame in more ways than one.
Are other candidates perceived as a threat therefore shown the door?
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Every generation gets the clergy it deserves.
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9:29 Blame the sheeple
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11.59: Why then were you moved on? You were one of the “questionable” ones?
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Seminary formation is highly ” questionable “.
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Ciaran was a Fianna Fáil activist in Balllyfermit who had to be gotten rid of because he was worrying young men. While in Maynooth he went in his holidays to Rome to stay at the Irish College. Sadly had the misfortune to be robbed by a young man he met in a nearby bar who invited him to the Colosseum for a cuddle. A huge liability – and this was all well known to those who ordained him.
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Campidoglio was the place for late-night fun when I was a seminarian, but then Burlosconi had the park shut at night.
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10.17
An Irish Dominican got more than he bargained for there.
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Yes, the image is still in my mind of a lad on his knees pleasuring a young Father of the Archdiocese of Birmingham up there.
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9:31am The Roman Rent Boys are far more accomplished than the Irish at dealing with the clerical sheep worriers. Ciaran/Henry O’Connell should do himself & everyone he encounters a favour and apply to be laicised to get on with his own life. It speaks volumes that this hasn’t been initiated by RCC, they will ignore and cover up everything to this day despite the well documented harm cover ups have done to themselves & others.
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What do members of the St. Joseph Young Priests Society who financially support seminarians in Ireland think of the state of the priesthood in the Irish Church?
https://stjosephsyoungpriestssociety.ie/
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They probably think it’s wonderful. If you’re stupid enough to give to that shower your opinion can’t be worth much.
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No, wait, doesn’t Grindr offer ‘fiddleback’ as a choice of tribe?
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Using drugs isn’t new. One of our family members had been taking heroin, cannabis since 1980s. He survived that long to my surprise until early 2000sand dropped dead fast.
Its a common theme to me now that newly ordained priests taking drugs and alcohol at early years of their priesthood.
His face is obviously gay by the look of it as I’m no expert.
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I have met Henry a few times and he is a very pleasant young man. I do not think, appearing on this blog, is good for his mental health and would ask readers to be remindful and respectful of this.
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Sure let’s pussy foot round another shagging cleric who doesn’t give a shit about the obligations he has undertaken.
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And going on Grindr so soon after walking out on your priesthood and declaring to the world you’re into leather and versatile (gives and takes) is suitable for his mental health Fr Tony?
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Shush, 10:07 I’m sure Father has it in hand.
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I respect your advice Tony, but you and I both know that the redemptorist community are the people who have sexual ‘agreements’ in place with one another more than any other group
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9.57: After her silly comment. Of course none of us should push another over the edge with our unkindness and nastiness but this man, regrettably, has flown himself into a storm, all too soon and unwisely so soon after deciding against priesthood. He could have been more intelligently perceptive. I hope he’ll find new life and yes, he doesn’t deserve a hammering from hypocrites on this blog, whose lives, I’m sure are far from pure or virtuous!!
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9:57am Many Readers on here have experienced that priests are bad for their mental health for multiple reasons. On reading, it’s evident that Clergy access this blog only to defend the indefensible and the consistency of the non repentance in your tones only serve to firmly cement the validity of your indefensible positions on and off the altar.
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Excellent comment, 11:25
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The “Excellent commen @ 4.04 a.m.” at 4.05 a.m. is mags replying to herself once again.,
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I wouldn’t mind having Henry as a curate if he is free 😉
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Hi Pat, hope you have a nice Jubilee weekend, I have been on such a bender I think I need to detox. Enjoy your celebrations 🎉
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Eamon you need to sort yourself out love
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Absolutely howling at the various interests having a go at each other. Trying to identify the problem with a particular faction and making out the Institution of Christ the King is different.
Yet these things still happen. When are y’all going to learn that shagging, duplicity, greed and comfort are what the church is about?
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If this isn’t a wale up call to that arrogant fool Amy, ahead of her laying hands on Stephen Wilson, then nothing will convince her.
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10.14
Not just to Amy in Armagh but also yo Joe Toal Motherwell and that guy Chris being ordained soon.
Both disasters waiting to happen.
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I bet Bishop Pat has their blogs and biographies ready to go, just like the papers have the Queen’s obituary written. When the inevitable happens, he will just hit the publish button.
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10:41
You tease, now you’ve induced on all involved an almighty dose of the heebie-jeebies.
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This is truly shocking. This type of behaviour should automatically get him laicised.
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Where is Henry/Ciaran now though?
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According to Grindr he was in the Dublin 9 area yesterday
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Archbishops House?
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If Catholics are to truly believe God created us all, then he created Henry too and his orientation. I have no doubt God actually approves of his course of action. He is being himself and not a fake or a hypocrite. Well done Henry and best of luck in the future.
On the other hand we still have the chancers from the likes of Ennis still drawing a check. Shame on them.
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10:20am How on earth did Jerry Carey escape with a suspended sentence after what he did?
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Truth never perishes
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Ms. Todd @ 10.20am you are making claims on this blog that priests or as you call them “chancers from the likes of Ennis” are still drawing a cheque – please provide genuine proof of this allegation once and for all plus genuine proof of all other allegations made by you on this blog about Ennis and the Diocese of Killaloe. Shame on YOU.
You Ms. are the talk of your county village and an absolute disgrace. You think you can get away with all your false accusations but dream on madame. You are some hypocrite.
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That’s all very nice but I’m male.
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@ 4:58pm Keep your wig on Percy, no point in spewing feathers & cop yourself on, no one in any village or town or in fact anywhere in Ireland gives a toss about any gossiping Catlicks given your dismal human rights track record as documented in Courts worldwide.
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Gretta
Ger and Jerry are still getting paid by the Diocese of Killaloe but this is 2022 and cheques are in the past it is BACS straight into their accounts.
Jerry thinks he should be appointed to a parish in this months appointments not in 2023 or if Bishop Fintan has his way never.
Ger think what he has done and been accused of is morally wrong and he also should be appointed to a parish again Bishop Fintan is saying NO.
So both cases will most likely end up in Rome.
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Gretta my ass. Is that your new drag Queen name Ger?
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4:58pm Well, GRETTA Are your Whytes whiter than white? Kev & Tom finding it’s hard work keeping TAN marks at bay.
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Bishop Pat – your readers, love this type of story – it’s going to be a 200 plus comments day. Any news on JP power bottom Lytle or the Glastonbury Queens?
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It is wonderful a brand new scandal has coincided with the Jubilee celebrations. It will keep the old ones going for days.
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6.50pm Liar – you are well known. – had a sex change did you?
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7:15 I don’t know about the rest of you, but I find it absolutely hilarious that Ger and his minions apparently are convinced that Fr. Todd Unctious is a woman from Sixmilebridge 🤣.
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6.50: Being male never stopped some men from being bitches and queens!! You, Todd Unctious being a prime example. How pinky is your knickers?
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Position as Versatile is that like Top and Bot at the same time?
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10:31pm Contact Ciaran or Henry or whatever he’s calling himself tonight on that Grinder yoke if you that desperate to know – this blog is not a clerical pick up joint or you could zip along to Boiler House for midweek offers. Away with ya!
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My friend from tribes gone to Thailand for few weeks as he needs shagging women. He haven’t been to mass for years aa his bro SNAP Rep back home.
Anyway at yesterday’s Post at 9.37pm
You said that Bishop was 3rd party as he obtained confidential information re you from a counsellor.
My questions :
1. Who is paying your counsellor?
2. Did you give him permission to access to info on you from counsellor.
3. Did you sign it re confidential agreement for example, a paper or a document.?
4. Did you counsellor inform you that he or she would speak to your bishop😉🤔
Thats it.
I haven’t seen frederic Martel videos on YouTube yet but I will look into it and see what he had to say.
His exposure into the Vatican and homosexuality is vital in order to understand the power and the power that they use (to a compromised person).
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DG, in answer to your questions;
Me.No.Yes.No.
It is a delicate situation. I’m considering options. I mentioned it to warn others.
Martels english is not great but there are interviews with him speaking in english on YT.
He links pedophilia, homosexuality, the Hierarchy and the Vatican closet.
Cheers,DG.
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Anon at 6.40pm
Re your answers, I think you have a case.👍
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The world has become a strange place- it certainly wasn’t like this when I was working as a young man.
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Don’t be bitter.
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Why be bitter when you can be “better”? Let’s be positive everyone. It’s a lovely day and almost Her Majesty’s jubilee.
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That’s a very corney one, Fish Dan. Frank Carson isn’t dead while you live. I’m off to play tennis now.
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+Pat, did you establish the identity of the person who sent you the information? I cannot help but wonder has he been “outed” by somebody with an axe to grind? But this is a situation of his own making.
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https://press.vatican.va/content/salastampa/it/bollettino/pubblico/2022/06/02/0421/00874.html
Pope Francis has sent good wishes to the Queen of England on her jubilee.
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11.39 I hope there is a suitable festive few days on The Falklands.
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Word on the street is that Ledwith-Farrell’s next auxiliary is a religious; names of an Oblate and an Augustinian flying around the rumor mill. Have you heard anything Pat?
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No.
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Maybe AB’s House will confirm if he sees this. Strange choices anyway, Oblates/Augustinians are hardly very well known on the church scene in Ireland
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11.43
Is Paul Coyle in the running?
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How come no Catholic clergy made the honours list this year?
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Because they’re all dishonorable scuzzers.
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11.46
True Roman Catholic Priests do not look for honours and very few get them usually in Northern Ireland if any.
I am shocked that Bishop Pat with 40 years service has never been nominated by many so maybe he will make the New Years Honours for the amount of Great work he does for religion and Charity.
Patrick Buckley MBE
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‘True etc’
Tell that to the ranks of canons and monsignori.
You do realize that what you’re doing is called the No true Scotsman fallacy, don’t you?
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Being a convicted criminal is likely an
Impediment
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Brian D’Arcy got his medal at Buck House.
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Fr Brian D’Arcy OBE has been bucking trends forever, bet he enjoyed his jaunt to Buck House. Daniel O Donnell received a MBE in 2002. Gertrude is taking bookings for his 2023 cruise May 28 to June 4.
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2.24 Ask Iggy the Augustinian how much of Shop Street in Drogheda is owned by his Order. Maybe Iggy is for Dublin…..
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2.17
That was back in 2013 and Bishop Pat does a lot of Good for all in Larne and even World Wide.
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4.30 Aul Charlie H. would not haven given him a medal….not since that time he fell over the balcony without finishing the sentence he had just started, Haughey was not easily startled.
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5 properties. Worth about 35 million
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A lot for Larne and world wide? Do elaborate please
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D’Arcy would go to the opening of an envelope his Superiors gave him too much license. When he should have been scrubbing corridors in the Grann, instead of swanning about in swanky cars and begging Gaybo for yet another spot on The Late Late.
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2.44
William, why have you stopped commenting under your own name?
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My brother is a priest and is an avid user of Grindr for social reasons only. He insists he does not meet anyone of it for sexual reasons.
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Yeah, right.
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2.17 One of those was crucified with another such on each side of him. Convicted by the same band of blagards with two millennia separation.
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3.28 and 2.17 It was a total setup…..not uncommon….another going on at the moment ( Not Clergy). Power speaks to Power and good men get “crucified.”
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My sister actually uses Grindr also but says it’s not great for lesbians and that there isn’t really an app for them.
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@ 12:22 what’s wrong with the dance and a soft drink route or is bro a right techno whizz altogether?
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12.22: How fantastic! You plonker. We didn’t come down in the last shower of rain…as if anyone would tell a family member!!
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Anyone an idea of the number who left within 5 years following ordination? (UK and/or Ireland).
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40% Fewer make it to 10 years.
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There is no scandal as such. Ciaran/ Henry has left the ministry. He is getting on with his life as a layman, who is now in a position to be open about his sexual orientation. I imagine he has petitioned for dispensation from the obligations of the clerical state. As he is not a priest of the diocese of Tuam, it will have to be processed by the institute he is incardinated into, the oratory of St Philip Neri. Yes he was ordained to the priesthood last August, arriving in Tuam last October.
It is for the best
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Oratorians are secular priests and so it will be Bishop Drainey of Middlesbrough who ordained him.
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2.10pm What an apt surname for a bishop.
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1.18 pm, you must live in a parallel universe to claim there is no scandal. Many of us are dismayed by the formation system that ordained a man like this, especially given the warning signs. Of course, we are expected to foot the bill for all this.
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You only get to make that comment if you contribute financially to the church. If not it is none of your business.
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I have contributed financially to the Church for over sixty plus years. At a time when the cost of living is going through the roof the laity are expected to continue funding their local parish and diocese. How can the formation system be financially sustainable when so many young men leave the priesthood so soon after ordination. A root and branch examination of formation is badly needed. What are the cost implications of educating a seminarian to ordination?
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2:27pm Everyone on this Blog has now heard it from the horses mouth, only people with money are entitled to have any say in the Roman Catholic Church. That cuts both ways, people who do not attend Mass are none of your business either so why are you so irrationally obsessed with them or is it the “reason” they left Church you are concerned will be revealed, Father? Whether you like it or not, Free Speech and the right to defend oneself from abusive authoritarian forces or indeed anyone abusive is the right of all persons across the world.
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10.46
You miss the valid point being made by 2.27 and your attempt deliberately to misinterpret him/her as a diversionary tactic cuts no ice. It is inconvruous for a non-benefactor to dictate how resources should be spent. It lends authenticity and integrity whensome who invests in a venture expresses a view on the object of their generosity.
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10.46
No!
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Why are you all so stupid?
Even if he has applied for laicization the fact he is advertising his sexual services on Grindr means he doesn’t hold a Catholic view of sexuality. What does that say about a man in ministry and particularly in a set up like the oratory?
What does it say about his personal integrity?
What does it say about his attitude to the orders he received in a church which says the gay lifestyle is wrong and men with enduring homosexual orientation should not be ordained?
Now you’re all going to be really kind and try to minimize all these things to wriggle out of this problem, and thus confirm the point I’m making.
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@2.52
I think there is room for kindness.
He probably assented to the Church’s teaching on sexuality during his formation. The problem is that he did not come to terms with his sexuality before his priestly studies. Consequently, he has had a crisis of faith and sexuality after his ordination.
His formators have set him up to fail. They should only accept men who know who they are, have accepted their sexuality, and who are at peace in themselves. If the Church continues to ordain psychosexually immature men, then it is inevitable that priests will have crises of sexuality in their 20s and 30s or even older.
The solution is to be nice to gay people. Gay people grow up as social pariahs. If the world were kinder to them, then they would be less mentally fucked up and less of them would bring their emotional baggage with them into the priesthood. The Church is to blame for this on account of their ‘don’t-ask-don’t-tell’ attitude to homosexuality.
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3.55 Is that Keith O’ Brien come back from the dead ?
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2.52
Your first error is to assume there is a ‘catholic view of sexuality’ like a monolithic phenomenon. There are as many views on sexuality among Catholic theologians as there are among the wider community.
Secondly, sexual moral theology is developing at a pace with developments in psychology, biological ethics and philosophy.
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The views of theologians, especially heterodox ones, are not magisterial.
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10.30
Magisterial is an artificial non-biblical category.
Ever heard of the sensus fidelium?
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10.46pm – how wrong you are – 2.27 is no more a priest that I am but one guess who is trying to make trouble again – targeting the RCC. Give your tiny brain a rest and do what you love doing best. layla tov.
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11:41 Are you referring to me? If yes, you are mistaken. You are a pathetic lot. Boker tov to everyone except Gru and his minions.
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Would there be many priests in Ireland who wear Tridentine vestments. In nearly 50 years I have seen ONE priest celebrate mass in them and that was a priest who was possibly in his 80’s at the time and is dead now about 10 years or more. From photo’s I’ve seen on your blog Pat many of the younger priests are wearing them. They surly are not seeing priests they know growing up wearing them. Is it someone in the seminaries in Maynooth or maybe more over in Rome that are getting these men to wear them.
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Roman Vestments = predatory homosexual
Full Gothic Vestments = the nice guys
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@ 4:28pm
Full Gothic Vestments=the nice guys, are you for real? McCarrick,Sodano,McCamley,Cocopalmerio,Burrell and many more, all Gothic freaks and predatory homosexuals.
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@ 2:54pm
No it’s not from Rome or seminaries who have been the epitome of bad taste for years. It’s just that some younger clerics do have taste, so much better than those horrible zipped polyester albs and stoles most of them wear now ugh.
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5.26
I don’t know what you’re on about. Of all the factions in the Church, the trads probably have the worst taste of all. In my experience, trads are not intellectually, culturally, or aesthetically sophisticated people. As a university graduate, I found it very difficult to get along with trads. They were just so stupid and uncouth. I don’t miss their gaudy hammer-horror cosplay liturgies.
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Is Dafty the bitter gay ex-trad in Scotland?
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The late Monsignor Corish ex president Maynooth always said ‘never ordain a pious fool because what are you left with if he loses his faith ‘…
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Old buckets ( corish) was a wise man.
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3.03 The Wisest and the Kindest, don’t make em like that anymore.
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Ger & Jerry will be publicly renounced as free men shortly so put dat in yar big pipes & smoke.
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No they won’t 🤣🤣🤣
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4.30
The only way that will happen if they resign and be assured they have NO intention of resigning and continue to challenge Bishop Fintan.
They are still on the pay roll and have their hand out for the clergy collections that gets taken up this weekend.
It will only be a Canonical trial that will remove Ger and Jerry.
Killaloe appointments will be due out soon.
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7:59pm You cannot be serious! Are Ger & Jerry still part of the Paw Out Brigade in Killaloe? Honestly, that shower down there would take the eye from your head & come back for the eyebrow. Two well educated men & wouldn’t you think they’d get off their butts & get new jobs. Surely they realised they’d be caught out at some stage, where was their B plan? Are they after the rest of the Cash for Ash money. It’s a wonder Big Tom hasn’t made them disappear for Fintan.
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£150k settlement, plus costs, awarded to victim of Fr Aidan Hamill.
https://www.irishnews.com/news/northernirelandnews/2022/06/02/news/woman-who-claimed-she-suffered-clerical-abuse-as-a-child-to-receive-150-000-damages-2730726/
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Fr Hamill must be a nice and a good holy man after all he wears the Pioneer pin. Another load of shite to fool the sheep.
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Bishop Pat,
This revelation brings us back to the Grindr priest in ARMAGH earlier this year. There appears to be more to this…
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5.22: There appears to be more to this you say!! Tell us what you know but make sure you can validate your allegations or suspicions. Or more preferably and appropriately: confront your own closeted skeletons.
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7.03pm
Where to begin. There is no need to use the word “suspicion”. Typical of the uneducated Catholic in Northern Ireland today is what you have indicated you would have happen: turn a blind eye to clerics, but whistleblowers should be punished. Shame on you; go find a moral compass. And then go back under the rock from where you crawled.
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7.51: Where to begin!! Indeed. I’m not from N. Ireland. I simply asked you to tell us what you know and to ensure you can validate what you know with evidence – not hearsay, gossip or suspicions. Many a person has been harmed by such, as I’m sure you well know, but probably couldn’t care. So, unless you can provide TRUTH, you ought to keep your mouth shut. I think CHAOS is in your mind!!! P.S. Whistle blowers should not be punished.
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9.12pm No prizes for guessing the country of residence for you then 😂
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I’ve just saw Fr walking down alongside a 4 lane road, carrying a bag full of wine, not dressed in his attire and wearing a tight skin T-shirt, wonder where he is off to?
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The Valley of the Squinting Windows
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Sounds like a business meeting in Boris Johnson’s house, but knowing it’s a priest it’s probably an orgy.
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Co. Fermanagh?
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7:21pm I hope and pray he will be ok. Fr Henry, if you read this, take care! There are many of us who are both expressively embodied in our gay sexuality and genuinely spiritual / priestly too. There is a future beyond this. Many like +Pat have done so and are seeking to do so. Please don’t destroy yourself. x
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12.57 You mean jurisdiction for starters. I abhor that error.
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Pat it is so warm tonighy it’s very hard to stay cool. Especially reading your blog today, has got my blood boiling.
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I lent a family £30 a few weeks ago and still haven’t seen it, never trust lay people.
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https://www.bishop-accountability.org/2022/06/join-us-this-saturday-june-4-a-conference-marking-20-years-of-confronting-clergy-sex-abuse/
A Conference Marking 20 Years of Confronting Clergy Sex Abuse
Please join us on June 4,2022.
Registration required for ZOOM (free) attendees.
TO REGISTER
Just email Ruth at mooreruth01@gmail.com
Zoom attendees will be emailed log-in info Thursday evening and again on Friday night
Speakers include: Fr. Tom Doyle, renowned whistleblower.
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Good turn out of comments – you can’t beat a young priest, and the Grindr scandal
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9.02
Closeted gay Catholic men love to shame other closeted gay Catholic men.
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10:38 Bitchy Catlicks they are, they need to come out, so much pent up rage evident in the Catlicks posts on here.
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Young effete and trad priest Quirke was in Westport too.
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God bless us! Does the scandal know no end!
Has fr Henry been contacted for comment?
Or his superiors / bishop?
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Meanwhile yet another scandal looms. CM of Motherwell, whose bishop is hell bent on ordaining as a priest at all costs, despite CM’s well known exploits, was dressed up with lace galore and birettas, with the campest floral vestments you’ve ever seen at the ordination of a Birmingham oratorian the other day.
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