A WOMAN who claimed she suffered clerical sexual abuse as a child over 40 years ago is to receive £150,000 damages.
The pay-out forms part of a settlement reached in cases taken against the Catholic Church.
Now in her late fifties, the woman sued over her alleged treatment as an 11-year-old child in Banbridge, Co Down during the 1970s, according to her lawyer.
Proceedings were issued against both the Diocese of Dromore and priest Aidan Hamill.
In the High Court on Wednesday, counsel for the woman, Patrick Lyttle QC, announced that both actions have been resolved, with judgment against both defendants.
Mr Justice McAlinden then declared: “The action is now settled in the sum of £150,000 damages.”
The defendants are also to pay the plaintiff’s legal costs, the judge added.
Outside court the woman’s solicitor described her as “a survivor of historical clerical child abuse”.
Claire McKeegan said: “Our client is relieved that this ordeal has been concluded in her favour.
“This settlement today is further vindication for her.”
AND IN THE USA
DOG IS GOD SPELLED BACKWARDS
BISHOP PAT BUCKLEY 
158 replies on “AMY MARTIN AGREES TO £ 150,000 DAMAGES AND COSTS AGAINST DROMORE DIOCESE AND MONSIGNOR AIDAN HAMILL.”
I have hard evidence suggesting that a number of clergy from Portsmouth, Clifton and Plymouth are neo nazis, who attend meetings dressed in SS uniforms and other nazi uniforms, seig heil one another and toast the Fuhrer. These same clergy are also infatuated with French Royalty and long for a time when European facism was acceptable.
I have photos. I have videos. I have texts and emails.
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@12.18pm Don’t just talk and fantasise about it man, let us see your evidence if you are to be taken seriously.
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@10.42 am
I agree with you.
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12:18 Doesn’t surprise me in the least. Remember the fascist Franco and the RCC in Spain? https://www.spainthenandnow.com/spanish-history/civil-war-and-the-catholic-church
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That’s interesting. It must have been good practice for the Stukas.
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You mean the guy that saved nuns from being raped by communists and stopped the killings of the Leftist death squads (75,000 deaths all together with at least 6,000 of them being clergy), how naughty of him and how naughty of people to express gratitude for stopping it.
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Put up or shut up. You need to be outed. You cannot make these serious criminal allegations behind the guise of anonymity. Such matters can suggest a terrorist organisation. There have been a few cases recently in the UK.
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Can we have proof 12.18am of what you state in your comment – photos, videos, texts, e-mails. 🤔
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This child-sexual-abuse seems to have happened in the nineteen-seventies, and hopefully there’s a lot less of it today.
When we rightly censure the RCC clergy for Grindr and drug-addiction we should remember that that there are worse vices.
One big cause of the RCC’s problems is the Celibacy Rule.
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Old Joe, how do you explain rampant abuse in Protestant ecclesial communities and in social services children’s homes, where there is no celibacy requirement, or the far higher rates in families compared with Catholic clergy? The Australian Royal Commission on abuse found that rates were higher among Protestant institutions than in Catholic ones.
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I did say that the Celibacy Rule was ONE big cause of the RCC’s problems.
God,through Saint Paul in his letter to Titus, stipulates that men in authority in the Church should be ‘above reproach, the husband of one wife, and his children are believers’.
Religious Leadership roles do attract psychopaths – https://www.forbes.com/sites/kellyclay/2013/01/05/the-top-10-jobs-that-attract-psychopaths/?sh=1cec496b4d80
So yes, there are problems with Protestant clergy too,but generally not to the extent that there are with RCC priests.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-w3SJ3n35QI&t=13s
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Not true, Joe.
https://stopabusecampaign.org/2018/01/08/is-there-more-sexual-abuse-in-the-protestant-churches-than-the-catholic-church/
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Evangelicals worse on abuse than Catholics.
https://www.christiancentury.org/article/2013-10/evangelicals-worse-catholics-sexual-abuse
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I;m surprised to hear that. But it might depend on what you class as Protestant. Do you have a link to a web-page supporting your assertion?
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Joseph Lollard
I disagree with you regarding celibacy being the cause of abuse. I think the main reason for the abuse crisis is that so many psychosexually and emotionally immature men have been ordained to the priesthood. Homosexuality is demonised in our society and gay men enter the priesthood as a way of concealing and dealing with their sexuality. This creates a toxic culture of secrecy and blackmail.
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Do gay men in contemporary society need to hide their sexuality by becoming catholic priests ?
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6.37
In the third world, particularly Africa, gays are still persecuted. Consequently, African Catholic men will be drawn to the priesthood.
I am young, and I know a lot of gen z and millennial Catholics. Yes, even in contemporary society, there still exists young men who are not comfortable coming out and becoming a preist is a a way of dealing with their sexuality. I have met them, several of them.
In 2000, I was 10 years old. You will remember the reprehensible ‘Keep the Clause campaign’ which was led by the homophobic Cardinal Winning. Only two decades ago, the situation in Glasgow for gays was very different to what it is now. I have met Glaswegian gays who have waited years to come out, sometimes in their 30s. Where I grew up (England) it was common to come out in sixth form. These days, kids come out at secondary school. In spite of being politically more left wing than the English, the Scots are a homophobic bunch in comparison. It’s the main reason I dislike West of Scotland Catholicism. Glasgow got +Winning and Westminster got +Hulme. I think the former has caused a lot of harm for gay Catholics in Scotland and he is the cause of the culture of homophobia in the Church in the West of Scotland.
There exists not one pastoral Mass or group for LGBT Catholics in Scotland. However, there are several gay conversion therapy groups, the Courage apostolate.
The Catholic Church still treats its gay children like crap. I am a convert, but I would be a lot more fucked up than I already am had I grown up Catholic. God bless Father Jim Martin SJ.
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Here in London Gay men and women have been quite open about their sexuality, and felt no need to enter any clergy. So what makes these young gay clergy different?
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6.25
You’re obviously a clueless metro liberal bloke stuck in your Islington bubble. These closeted Catholic gays are from the west of Scotland which is an oppressive shit hole for gay and gender non-conforming folk. We’re about 20 years behind London in terms of social attitudes, in spite of our SNP government. Its a tough place to grow up gay here. Football is compulsory. Not liking football is considered effeminate. You probably think I am exaggerating but I assure you, I am not. Just ask any man who has grown up in the West of Scotland.
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The Diocese of Fréjus-Toulon in Southeastern France has been ordered to halt this year’s priestly ordinations after a Vatican “visitation” raised concerns over its seminary program
Bishop Dominique Rey. The Vatican suspended the ordination of new priests in the diocese of Fréjus-Toulon on Thursday 2 June.
Bishop Dominique Rey, who has led the diocese since 2000, was to ordain four priests and six deacons and priests on June 26.
The ceremony was to be especially significant this year, coinciding with the 100th anniversary of the diocesan seminary of Castille, a place that has produced numerous priestly vocations.
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I was wondering when this would appear on here. Let’s not forget how Alcuin Reid went to Rome and had an arbitrary bishop offer to ordain him anonymously in secret 😂
It should really be the diocese of Clochemerle.
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1.22
There’s lots of speculation about who theordaining prelate of Scott Reid is. Reid himself has been suspended. Amore serious fate could be instore for the prelate. Murder will out.
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Yeah it’s being taken far more seriously than torturing children ever has.
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And yet Amy can ordain Wilson…
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1.23 Maybe he is a Trojan horse for Fort Eamon.
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The rise of reactionary bishops is terrifying. Pope Fracis is doing the right thing. He recently removed a Puerto Rican bishop from episcopal ministry. Young reactionary seminarians have emotional issues, but they seem to be the only men applying to the priesthood these days. All the normal men have left the Church already.
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“Queer” man as expert on normal men. Lol
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2.39
You’re homophobic yet you comment regularly on the blog of an out gay man.
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His name is Archbishop Eamon Martin. It’s the height of rudeness and it is very insulting to refer to another human being by a name which isn’t their own.
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4.08am (🥃) No condemnation of Hamill, just condemnation of Pat for saying Amy. You have strange priorities.
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4.08 His name is Eamon Martin. His ‘rank’ is Archbishop. A human being is entitled to their name and its proper use.
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His name is Amy. He acts like a wet drip and is named accordingly.
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His own clergy started calling him Amy so if you want to have a pop then have a go at them. Btw keep off the gargle at 4.08am in the morning padre.
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@9:52am mothers and orphans were also human beings & the seminarians who didn’t expect to be sexually harassed & physically assaulted with bones broken and raped followed by mass cult victimisation by clergy & their vile sheep in the interests of covering up for the RCC Mafia Cult of Bastards, Bitches, Crooks & Thieves.
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@ 6:16
What happened?
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Amy has bigger problems in the ranks other than a moniker.
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Amy was at a Platinum Jubilee service in Armagh – here seen with a leading Shinner.
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The excuse by Amy for not attending the Queen’s thanksgiving service in London yesterday ….. wait for this one …. he was confirming in Armagh!!! What the fck has idle Amy got an idle auxiliary for? It becomes even more laughable that neither have turned up to confirm in some parishes in the last few weeks, leaving it instead to PP’s. The RC hirearchy in England, Scotland and Wales were represented – the question was not so much, “Where’s Wally”? It was, “Where’s Amy”? Is he losing the plot or has now becone disheartened in his role? I am not surprised he looks so worried in the above photograph. Perhaps not getting a bit of scarlet has pissed him off.
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1.09
What a crude tirade. You criticise him for not appearing and for appearing in Armagh yesterday. God help your spouse!
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They all have pet names in these circles. Look at Elsie, for instance, or Annie Walker in Edinburgh.
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1.00pm and 1.09 That lovely red in I think its Lord Eames apparel is really taking the eye out of Eamon Martin. Red red wine as the song goes. God save the Queen this jubilee day. At least Eames had a few housing ideas in his time.
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4.08
Incorrect. His name is Eamon Martin.
Archbishop is a title, not his name.
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2.17 Conor Murphy, now theres a bag of tricks.
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How many young clergy are “vocation directors’ pups” !!!
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9.08: You speak the language of a dirty scrubber…Low life. Grow up.
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9.08 You seem unaware of it ; you are a bully. Sad and very dangerous to be unaware of it.
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6:51am they spoil their “pups” to the point where pups turn rampant & it all turns sour when they lose the run of themselves & are arrested for wanking in public places and hitting on vulnerable parishioners for financial gain.
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2.19 I think Eames must be tickling his palm, that smile/laughter is 100% sincere, seriously.
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Bishops;
How many more historic cases of abuse remain covered up, concealed and hidden?
People have no idea of the burden, suffering and pain victims/survivors carry; the existential
problems created; the suffering involved in living a normal life, while trying to come to terms with what happened. Continuing to cover up historic cases is outrageous highlighting the hollowness of Papal or Hierarchical apologies. The annual symbolic candle lighting in Diocesan Cathedrals farce does not cut the mustard while cases of abuse remain covered up.
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PRAYERS FOR BISHOP EAMON AND MONSIGNOR HAMILL
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Prayers for all the victims of clerical abuse! Who gives a toss about those two?
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Prayers you say. The cult is only paying because it got caught and forced to pay compensation through the courts.
If you praying this morning, pray for the 000’s of victims of abuse perpetrated by the cult you blindly support.
You may mean well, but what type of Christian in their statement concerning abuse, would forget to mention or acknowledge the heinous crimes committed by the RCC and more importantly, the victims of this sickening institution.
I went to St. Columb’s College with Eamon Martin. I must say that his inaction and weak will to deal with the criminal element within the institution he heads, is truly shocking.
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10.28: I say prayers for all people, including for you. It’s the imperative of Jesus’s gospel. Our primacy of care MUST be for all victims/survivors of abuse which is MY focus. Your cynicism, I doubt has healed anyone.
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Grainne
Are you serious?
This must be a joke.
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Here’s a biblical prayer for them
May their sins always remain before(W) the Lord,
that he may blot out their name(X) from the earth.
16 For he never thought of doing a kindness,
but hounded to death the poor
and the needy(Y) and the brokenhearted.(Z)
17 He loved to pronounce a curse—
may it come back on him.(AA)
He found no pleasure in blessing—
may it be far from him.
18 He wore cursing(AB) as his garment;
it entered into his body like water,(AC)
into his bones like oil.
19 May it be like a cloak wrapped(AD) about him,
like a belt tied forever around him.
20 May this be the Lord’s payment(AE) to my accusers,
to those who speak evil(AF) of me.
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1.19
It’s a pity that Psalm has been removed from the church’s liturgy.
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Delighted that the victim received financial compensation for her suffering. Why isn’t Hamill in prison for his crime? On a different note 🎶, the Killaloe Music Festival is in full swing this weekend. I was at the opening night concert yesterday evening. I had the honour of sitting in the same pew with some monks from Glenstal and the new headmaster. If they read this blog (and I am sure they do), a big hello 👋 from Carole.
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P.S. I will be seeing all the good folk at Glenstal very soon when I avail of the free retreat I was offered courtesy of Bishop Fintan. I know that silence is the norm at Glenstal meals but will I still be able to read Pat’s blog on my phone?! 😝
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Great to see you well Carole. Hope you enjoy Glenstal and that the grub is better than in dodgy Limerick chippers visited by Ennis clergy. Stay classy Killaloe
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Lugs is paying for Carole’s visit.
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Thanks Todd. I have a very busy social life. Despite the prediction of certain Ger minions on this blog, I’ve been doing very well for myself with historical finds and my own personal growth. Going out for dinner & drinks with some of my friends tonight as it is my birthday. Another year older, another year wiser 😁. I’ll be having a belated birthday meal with Pat soon. Looking forward to that…
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10:54 Enjoy Glenstal Carole, we’ll deserved & we’d like to know what Fintan did for the public in Salthill subjected to the trauma of The Jerry Carey Exhibit?
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Carole, did you meet any Doms?
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Nope
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How many days will the retreat last?
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No limit was given as to how long I can stay. I assume it would be for two or three nights. Don’t think I could take much more than that 😁.
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8:23
Oh dear, Carole! If, prompted by the Holy Spirit you decide on another retreat, can I suggest a location: a week in Adare Manor, with its riverside demesne, luxury spa and fine dining in the Michelin star restaurant. There you can contemplate the beauty of creation, bountifulness of the Creator and joie de vie. I’m sure Luggers and Co., can facilitate this modest request.
Yours cordially,
Glenstale Fixer.
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8:59 Fintan won’t talk to me anymore because I went public on Pat’s blog so Glenstal it is 🤣.
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@10:46pm What do you mean, this Bishop Fintan refuses to speak to a Parishioner for speaking out on her negative experience with one of his runts?? You cannot be serious?? Not just any one of his old Runts either but this Fitzgerald fella with his large ahem army of followers & another lady had also reported him. What a biazzare Bishop he is. It seems these Irish Bishops do not give a toss what their members do to anyone but they still expect attendance and support to increase, talk about flogging a dead horse. Did he give you the retreat before he discovered that Bishop Pat had taken on your case?
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@11:27 Yes, Fintan promised me the retreat before I went on the blog. Since going on the blog, Fintan has blocked me on social media. I was also told that all communication from their end (Fintan and Cleo the safeguarding officer) is now over.
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@ 10:46pm
Carole, it saddens me to learn Luggers & Co., Ltd, are giving you the cold shoulder silent treatment. This is unbecoming, improper, infelicitous, unedifying behaviour. In my humble opinion, for you to experience and bear such inappropriate behaviour from Luggers & Co. Ltd, merits a second week retreat in Adare Manor. There you can contemplate the grandeur of creation, Jesus Christ our model of Love, and our Christian vocation, the call to be Saints, through loving union with Almighty God. “Come to Me all you who labour….”
Let us know how things go…
Virtually yours,
Glenstale Fixer.
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8:10 Thank you Glenstale Fixer 😊. Fintan & Co. will never send me to Adare Manor because, as far as they are concerned, I do not exist anymore. The closest I will get to Adare Manor is when I go to my Botox doctor who lives just down the road from the main gates. To be honest, I have no desire to seek Jesus anymore. The sins of the RCC and my experience with Ger & his ahem followers has left me in a spiritual oasis. Happy Shavuot/Pentecost to ye all.
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@8:10 Correction to previous comment: I meant to say “spiritual desert” not oasis! Too many porn star martinis last night 🤣. Time for another coffee.
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12:37 their lawyers and advisors will have informed them to shut you down in this unchristian manner. Move on and forget about them. It will be very interesting to discover the arrangements Killaloe Diocesan Management made for Fr Ger & Fr Jerry. Take care.
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9:56 am
Carole, I am genuinely so sorry to hear you are also having to endure spiritual abuse. As the commentator @ 11:28am pointed out it is likely their lawyers and advisors will have recommended to sever all contact with you. Please take small comfort from the fact you are not alone in dealing with spiritual abuse as a consequence of contact with catholic clergy. Can I recommend a website https://www.spiritualabuseresources.com/get-help/recovery-from-spiritual-abuse where you will find articles which you may find helpful.
Veni Sancte Spiritus…, Carole.
Virtually yours,
Glenstale Fixer.
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Todah rabah (thank you) 🙏.
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The damages should be twice that sum….I hope it can be revisited. I suspect the settlement is well claused for ecclesiastical protection.
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Bishop Pat you will be rubbing your hands when the two ladies from Down and Connor are settled as they will be likely entitled to more.
As they say a servant is worth his keep and your reward will be great.
It was shameful that the two Ladies had to go to court and Thank God for their strangth and admiration to both.
Your reward will be great in Money not so sure on your heavenly rewards the way you treat the Bishops of the Church of Christ known as the Roman catholic Church under the guidance of Pope Francis and directed by the Holy Spirit.
Sadly you will not get anything from Yvonne or Caroline as they were just foolish to fall in love with a priest so no pay out their.
I hope this Lady and the two you looked after very well get some comfort but sadly money will never bring comfort so I pray for a peace of mind for them.
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Who are the two ladies from D&C. What is this all about?
Tell us more please.
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“Truly I tell you, whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers and sisters of mine, you did for me.”Matt 25:40.
Prayers Please for All Victims/Survivors of Catholic Clerical Abuse.
Please also remember in your prayers those victim/survivors of abuse in other denominations particularly Southern Baptist Church in America. The Southern Baptists received a warning in 2007 from Fr. Thomas Doyle, a priest who had spent years drawing attention to claims of clergy sex abuse in the Catholic Church. In a letter to the president of the Southern Baptist Convention, Fr. Doyle warned that the denomination was headed for a similar reckoning—unless it acted quickly. Inaction would lead to the same “incredible harm to your Church that the Catholic Church did not avoid.” The Southern Baptists time of reckoning has arrived.
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What price can be out on the shattering of a child’s sexual integrity and innocence?
I’d say the dignity of the human person and duty of care owed a child that the compensation is infinitesimal (1 million woukd be a start) and the punishment a millstone around the neck of the offending priest and obstructing bishop.
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11:20
Indeed. The perpetrators, concealers along with cheerleaders, have their reward, for now.
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Will you come to Ballymurphy and help us please
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Please please, pretty please
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Any recent reports of miraculous cures of chronically afflicted persons visiting Lourdes?
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Are people born paedophiles?
If they are should there be more open talk about it as a sickness and instead of condemnation that paedophiles were encouraged to seek help and councelling without fear. I beleive the people who covered up were /are evil and where this cover up lead to victims taking their lives it is a murder where the cover uppers had hired a gun man.
Jesus said without love you cannot understand the salvation of God. With love in your heart you would not like to see suffering in another human being and where the suffering was unavoidable the love in your heart would lead you to help ease the suffering. This is what i cannot understand if mother teresa had love in her heart why did she place the donated money in the vatican bank instead of using it to ease the suffering of the poor in calcutta. It doesnt make sense to me.
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Teresa was a JPII hag.
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Bollocks!! She and her community of nuns took lots of children off the streets. How many have you? You are living rent free at the expense of RC parishioners.
St Teresa is much revered in India. Jealousy will get you nowhere.
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12:10pm Nuns were abusive hags in our school, only nice to kids of their friends & relations. Good riddance to them. They put us through hell. Some of them smoked, you’d spot the odd burn hole.
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12.08
The most profound comment on today’s blog. That really is the question.
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Hmmm let’s distract into a discussion of whether paedophiles are born not made.
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8:59pm: Exactly. An attempt to deflect @ 7:26pm.
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8.59. 11.02
It’s strange a question about the causes of pedophilia is dismissed as a diversion from what is the real issue: weaponising CSA for one’s one own psychosexual indulgence.
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11:36 am
Such a silly comment. The real issue is historic clerical sexual abuse by a priest of the Dromore diocese. If you seek to understand the causes of pedophilic disorder and treatment options research the topic on an appropriate psychology -psychiatry website or read relevant research findings. I find your final remark ‘weaponizing CSA for one’s one own psychosexual indulgence’ of concern in relation to you.
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12.10: Saint Mothere Theresa inspired millions throughout the world to engage in acts of love, kindness and compassion. She wasn’t perfect: she lived a hard, spiritual life. Yet she received the highest honours from all Indian denominations (and from atheists!!) and was given a state funeral. Her idealism still inspires millions, unlike “hags” elsewhere! Pat, in your 40 years of self determination, you’ve achieved much good but you should not so rudely dismiss recognised people of gospel love and care, even when imperfect!
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12.10: How terrible a slur on our great Mother Theresa. She was goid to all people’s, mostly non Catholics. She is our saint. We love her in India. She is our great saint.
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India- more fool you. Baaaa baaaa !!
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12.57: In India we love Saint Theresa. She helped millions of street children dropped in the gutters. She was extraordinarily holy. We thank God for Mother. We pray to her for your soul.
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In India we’re Hindu mostly, actually.
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I can confirm that I have Anjezë Gonxhe Bojaxhiu and Josef Mengele taking turns practicing their medical skills on each other. Sometimes if he’s particularly evil we have Mengele have a go at pronouncing her name.
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All dioceses on the Island of Ireland need to be independently investigated.
Safeguarding MUST be completely independent of the Church.
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1:17pm True. Some Individuals involved in safeguarding have stinking rotten skeletons in their cupboards that aren’t locked away half the time.
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6:33pm : Correct, Deirdre. The Establishment Protects the Establishment.
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Recent 3 part Sky documentary on Mother Teresa revealed:
The money given to alleviate poverty didn’t reach the poor but was banked at the Vatican
and most of it used to set up convents around the world.
Michael Keating and Baby Doc donated as tax avoidance device and Keating was jailed for fraud.
Mother Teresa wrote a character reference for her confessor and retreat giver who was prolific child rapist – this priest was later jailed but went into abuse.
Why did PJPIi remove the Devils Advocate?
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Because canonisations are money spinners and it made them easier.
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2:04 In fact anyone with any moral sense has left. The ONLY moral reaction to 20,000 victims and ruthless cover up in one country alone is revulsion.
This is not a few rotten apples, this is what the church is about.
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2.24
And some without a moral sense have left: those who weaponise the sexual abuse of childre, not by working for its total elimination in society, but for their own perverted reasons.
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Nice try, 5:02. I love the way you keep making my point for me.
Here’s your daily reminder folks that the church not only haven’t learned anything from the ongoing abuse scandal but also don’t care!
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5.43
It’s precisely you who don’t care. You use the abominal crime of the sexual abuse of children not to eradicate it from society but for your own psychosexual reasons. That is a monstrous irony. Only you can take the first step of seeking help.
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6:58
This is a blog about the Roman Catholic church. We all know you would love it to be about anything else, ‘father’.
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8.56
This blog is about what Pat says, and not what you say it is about.
It is the blog’s moderator and not you who will decide whether a comment falls within its remit.
Mine is the priesthood of the baptized. Wrong again.
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8.56
A feeble attempt to derail and evade the subject under consideration, i.e. the supreme irony of someone’s weaponising the abhorrent crime of the sexual abuse of children for their own perverted psychosexual purposes.
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Pat is Jimmy Savile in heaven?
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Only God knows that
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3.28 And Sodano……..
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Actually she’s not the only one but she won’t let me tell you.
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6.58: A superb response to 5.43: He spouts his hatred all too 8ften. He is abusing iver and iver all who have been abused by “weaponising” their trauma in his empty, faux indignation. He is an abuser.
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Strange how all the cathbot outrage is against Amy’s nickname and comments here. Almost like their priorities are wrong….
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Savile was dropped on the head as a baby and the resulting neurological trauma was probably the cause of (or a contributing factor of) his severe and dangerous personality disorders. God knows this and is merciful. So, he has a chance of going to heaven.
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Good afternoon, hope you are all having a lovely day and nobody more so than Pat.
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Thank you
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Thanks Eamon, and the same to yourself. Hope you’re enjoying your usual wee glass in the sunshine. Bottoms up!
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Eamon must have plenty of money
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7.06: Plenty of cash probably, but sadly, zero intelligence. Eamon, heal thyself.
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Jesus has been abused in victims of clerical abuse.The Hierarchy issue correspondence with religious platitudes hoping Christ Jesus be victims consolation.Have these Bishops any idea of SPIRITUAL ABUSE accompanying abuse perpetuated by clergy?
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From 3:43
Error… perpetrated by clergy.
….Bishops perpetuate abuse with pius sounding platitudes.
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The response of representatives of the Church to victims of abuse in written communications is; ‘May Christ Jesus be your consolation’.
When did the Hamill case first come to the attention of the Bishop of Dromore?
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Bishop John McAreavey was told in August 2014 and Adrian Hamill stood down from active ministry then but he is still registered as a priest of Dromore.
Bishop John McAreavey resigned in February 2018 and was accepted by Pope Francis on1st March 2018 and Archbishop Eamon Martin is the current Apostolic Administrator.
let us hope Archbishop Eamon Martin has now applied to laicise Adrian Hamill.
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You would expect there to be some kind of statement on the website….
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The Glenstal Flasher is in Court 21st June.
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6.23
Do you know who the Glenstal Flasher is it could be any of them.
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Backstory, please…
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Pat, what is your key to a successful relationship? I’m struggling at the minute.
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Don’t struggle, move on
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NEVER date a priest. They will utterly ruin you and your confidence.
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We all have responsibility for ourselves and our own confidence. If mine is destroyed, I can blame nobody but myself.
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Thank you for the words of wisdom Aldi Text
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Another comment demonstrating total ignorance of the effect of abuse.
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8.32
I just hope you are not a parent or a teacher. Self-worth depends on how much we were loved as infants. I can’t believe you don’t know this.
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8:42 Completely wrong.
9:28 Fool.
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9:28 I’m a parent and a teacher in my role as a consultant psychiatrist.
I’d change from A level psychology if I were you, you’re obviously studying it for the wrong reasons and it won’t help.
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Never date a married man, whether you are a woman or a man. You get very badly hurt if you do.
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9.03pm Advice to men, never ever date or have anything to do with a married woman. run a mile or you will live to regret it.
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8:05pm speak for yourself Tony. We happy as Larry! 🤣🪶
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Does Church teaching include the belief those ordained to the priesthood are superior christians and/or humans vis-a-vis ordination/ontological change…etc…?
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8.31
No, the Church does not teach this and it is obvious that the Church doesn’t teach this.
Our Lady is the firstborn of all creation, the greatest of all God’s creatures and the most loved. And yet she lacks the character of sacramental priesthood.
Likewise, St Francis of Assisi is probably the greatest of all the medieval saints. He was a lowly deacon, and not a preist.
Clericalism has always existed but Our Lord is clear that the first will be last and the last will be first. God is the great equaliser.
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‘Our Lady is the firstborn of all creation, the greatest of all God’s creatures and the most loved. And yet she lacks the character of sacramental priesthood.’
Stupid comment. The question was not do you have to be a priest to be above most humans in the heavenly hierarchy.
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Why ever not? She bore Christ. Even the bad cult operatives said we are invited to bear Christ, whether we are clergy or not.
They made a pretence of pointing us to the CCC (to stay in good books) but by that time I had seen through it already.
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8.31: That’s nonsense. We are changed insofar as we truly become CHRIST in all things. Grace builds on nature and we, as priests, are to strive to be Christ always. Ordination does not automatically confer perfect geace in us. Living a life of CHRIST LIKENESS each moment is the only way. Prayer is absolutely essential in this goal. I fail daily as I suspect most priest do and others, if totally honest. I last heard the word “ontological” in college in the 70’s. Life’s experiences teaches the greatest truths.
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You weren’t paying much attention to JP2 re ontological change.
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8:45: Is it Church teaching? Is it included in canon law?
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Catechism of the Catholic church:
1552 The ministerial priesthood has the task not only of representing Christ – Head of the Church – before the assembly of the faithful, …
Now you know why they think they’re so special.
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9.55
To adhere strictly to the text: it’s true. But, so has every member of Christ’s mystical body. Including you. Have you not been aware of your privilege and your responsibility?
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The troll comments are really going to ramp up in the run up to Wilson’s ordination 😛
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Bp Pat, will you be having, or at least joining, in the spirit of the Jubilee Lunch tomorrow?
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Can someone enlighten me as to whether the Armagh Diocesan Adviser to Primary Education has left the priesthood? Amy Martin has apparently worked wonders for that one.
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Coming to a university near you soon 🙃
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My nephew was abused in Armagh. You can guess the response.
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