When I received the above email I was a bit surprised that a devout Mayo RCC wife and mother had a son in Dublin that sent his Mammy screenshots from the gay app Grindr.
How many young men from rural Ireland send their conservative Church going mammies Grindr screenshot?
That level of KOOLNESS is surely rare in rural Ireland – even in the 21 st century?
O”CONNELL’S POSITION
The O’Connell situation should never have reached where it has.
Henry should have known he was not suitable to celibacy and should not have sought priesthood.
What was his thinking?
Those concerned with his training should not have progressed him.
But it suited their agenda.
They may have been gay themselves – and indeed “used” Henry in some ways?
It’s another crisis caused by the actively gay cabal.
BISHOP PAT BUCKLEY 
131 replies on “WAS FATHER HENRY / CIARAN O’CONNELL EXPOSED BY A MAYO HOUSEWIFE OR A FELLOW CLERIC WITH AN AGENDA?”
Pat, you need to explain what you mean that this priests ordination nsy have suited their agenda…Are you in some mode of imagination or fanciful fantasy? Many a man duscoveted within a few tears that irdinatiin was nit for them. Two in ny class left after 4 and 5 years. It was the right decision for them. No one spent days or months analysing the reasons. We wished them well and thankfully they both did exceptionally well in their lives. Why are you subjecting this man to your analysis? If all our life’s decision are meant to be super perfect from the beginning, we’d rarely make any important decisions. Surely you know that as the rest of us do…
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If you spent a few years training as, say, an accountant, you would be in a good position well within that time to know that it wasn’t for you.
For example if you couldn’t count.
If you spend many more years becoming a priest then within a few years ‘discover’ you can’t count there is either something wrong with the formation or with you.
For example if you ‘discover’ you can’t keep it in your pants this will have been the case all along.
Stop making excuses.
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8.08: I’m not making any excuses for anyone’s decisions re: leaving priesthood after just a few short years. I think the full reality of living a celibate life often only impacts when you begin working in ministry. Six or seven years should in some way give us the awareness of expectations and realities but only the “lived” daily reality of priesthood impacts over time. I recall after just six years having great doubts, uncertainties and personal challenges and managed to renew, reevaluate and discern with the guidance of a wonderful spiritual director. That was a great awakening and enlightenment for me. I dislike your cynicism and disdainful judgment. I know lots of people who, after 3/4// years studying for particular professions opted out and found new interests and opportunities other than what they were preparing for. You lack deep insights of human psychology to argue in this very simplistic analysis. You lack understanding of the dynamics of human interactions, intimacy, sexuality and connections to dialogue meaningfully. May God bless Henry in his future endeavours. A little kindness goes a long way…
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8:08am Not necessarily true! If you grew up orthodox there was not homosexuality but simply the sin of homosexual thoughts and actions.
If Henry grew up thus, he may have been tempted in these ways but he will have said his prayers and devoutly and piously followed his faith. He will have expected that clerics and fellow seminarians would do the same and would have been scandalised on discovery that this was very often not the case. The claim someone is immature is a bit rich when The Church expects that you will enter seminary etc in this mindset, which is immature to the ways of the world but instead of accomodating The World it defends itself from it’s snare by prayer and piety. The cognitive dissonance for many leaves them extremely vulnerable to manipulation. If for some reason they are favoured and not kicked out, the onslaught on their beliefs and piety continues and leaves them without armour and protection and the void is filled by the new culture. Perhaps Henry joined the Oratorians hoping to restore his lost innocence and prayer life? Perhaps he was used and abused by them also? Or perhaps it was that there is no return to innocence. That he could not return to the pious young man he had been and that the support within the church for him to process all this and become the healed and wholesome integrated adult just does not exist because firstly they would have to admit the wholesale infiltration of a predatory homosexual culture within the church and the damage it does and had done to Henry. That he may have tried to cover up this massive hurt with drink and drugs should be no great surprise, trouble is, as many of us addicts discover, it ultimately makes things worse and now Henry looks like the bad guy when I suspect there are many others in this who bear a far greater blame. Henry now seems to be trying to come to terms wit things but I fear just throwing yourself into “Whatever The Other Life Brings” will not bring the happiness he seeks. Sex may well be now part of the addiction. It’s his poor heart that needs love….a love that The World and The RCC respectively cannot and are currently incapable as an institution, to provide. I hope he finds all the support he needs. I suppose it’s possible I’m wrong and he’s just been a hedonistic egotist all his life, but I think the scenario I paint may have more truth in it.
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Rubbish, Tom. This is the twenty first century.
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8.08
Quite a judgemental attitude. Ordained ministry is one of those life choices where the difference between pre and post ordination is massive. Don’t talk so dogmatically about something you don’t know about.
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11.24
Tom Wood, one of the few to post under his own name, makes thoughtful and considered points and the best you can up with is “Rubbish”. Any chance you could say in what way Tom is wrong?
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In relation to pre-ordination and post-ordination difference, if young men are cooped up for six or seven years in what can be considered a homosocial soul asylum indoctrinated in a particular World view, expect many to exit at ordination psychologically, emotionally and psychosexually developmentally arrested.
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Yes. The only people on the face of the earth uninfluenced by the modern conception of sexual orientation are that tribe that killed a missionary the other year. To pretend otherwise is…. rubbish.
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1:18 The name doesn’t affect the quality of the comments. What a tit, anonymous. 🤣
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4.04
Yet another knee-jerk and unscientific reaction. Of course the provenance of a comment affects how it will be i terpreted. It’s an elementary first principle in historical criticism. For example, if Magna Carta were the source of a comment readers would know how to interpret it, differently from say, if Jimmy Saville had claimed it. It’s a wonder you didn’t include a reference to CSA with which to confront the commenter. It’s the only weapon (used advisedly) in your ad hominem arsenal.
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Pat I think you have hit the nail on the head. There appears to be a thread of gay priests, mostly under 40, across Ireland using Grindr. Their bishops are aware and oftentimes deflect the responsibility.
In my diocese in Northern Ireland it is scandal after scandal to the point where it becomes laughable. The order of our young priests’ day is: 1. Christening at 10am, 2. Mass at 12noon, 3. Last Rites for the Sick, 4. Hit the bar after 8pm and get completely pissed, and round the priestly day off with a good old Grindr hookup.
Our Lord and Blessed Mother look on in pity.
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Time for a priest or two in the North to seek laicisation I think…
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The list of those is a v long arm – too many are unsuited and most would be barely employable in any walk of life – the gay cabal however dominates the priesthood – and gay bishops dominate the episcopate.
The deeper question is why?
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What’s going on with seminary formation? Who forms the formators? Are they ordaining men ‘made in their own image and likeness’? This nonsense is not sustainable on several levels including the cost implications- it’s a highly expensive protracted journey to discover unsuitability -post ordination!! Lets have openness transparency and debate on formation.
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The seminary formation period is much too long. They study philosophy for two years and then theology for three/four years but don’t use any of that in their homilies, which are of the banal “let us be nice” type. Waste of money doing all that study and never sharing it.
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@11.42 pm
The reason is firstly heterosexual men would like to marry and have children. For gay men marrying a woman and having children is not an option.
Secondly even if heterosexual men enter seminary, they soon realise that they are the minority and the gays soon drive them out.
The priesthood is a gay profession with rules made for gays by gays. Heterosexual men are not wanted.
Simple as.
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Unlikely it was a mother, more likely to be a spiteful lay volunteer or a priest Fr Henry/Ciaran O’Connell ended a relationship with or spurned their advances. Why has he got 2 Christian names? It’s not like it’s something handy to say such as Mickey Joe or PJ!!
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The Vatican fund which paid for the risky London property deal also bought shares in the manufacturer of an abortifacient emergency contraception pill. Did I mention that the whole thing is pretend?
https://religionnews.com/2022/06/06/vatican-knew-about-risks-of-london-deal-says-financier-who-brokered-it/
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The Vatican bank has donations from the faithful to help the poor. The donations are to be used in building homes schools for God’s family so we can all live in a world of his love. The funds used in the right way would have helped people in crisis pregnancies to keep their babies and not take the dreadful sad path of abortion.Now it appears that the Vatican money people made investments in the company that makes money from the morning after pill which causes abortion. This is dreadful
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10:00 I do understand that it is distressing but that is because you have believed the lies which are the church’s front for its multiple deals and scams internationally. It is always better to assume that what the church is telling you isn’t true, just like dealing with any other criminal organization.
There is a reason RICO laws intended to prosecute the mafia have had to be used against the church in the US….
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I doubt he was ever celibate in the first place, Bp Pat, he’d just put on an act. Most of them do the same, I expect… well, maybe not Amy.
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You can rest assured of that… in both cases.
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Hello Pat, why don’t you contact Frankie in Tuam about this scandal?
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He trained for the Congregation of the Oratory who are known to be suppressed queens.
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This morning friend texted me from the sleaziest place in Thailand as he was shagging women. Then he sent me a photo of ladyboy with him. Look like a woman but not.
2 deaf fellas now in Thailand celebrating their birthdays as they waited for this for 2.5 years.
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Any ordainable?
Gaynooth badly needs vocations.
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You made me spit my coffee out 🤣
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9:09 are they not selling Gaynooth to a Vulture Fund?
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Ah! Deaf Guy, now look what you’ve started early on a Tuesday morning after the Bank Holiday!! There won’t be a prayer said for anyone dead or alive what with all them priests looking up flights & websites 🤣🤣🤣👍
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Thai green curry at 9.47am
To be honest with you, I didn’t expect priests as you mentioned there flights and websites. Maybe I’m naive as I don’t know the inner lives of priests.
Unfortunately WhatsApp message arrived in my box which I recognised it as Thai number. He’s texting hi and chatting about his holiday along with a photo of ladyboy whom I have heard it 3 years ago.
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An exotic Thai curry could easily be included on seminary menus as a special.
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Thai green curry at 9.47am
I get your point re after bank holidays on flights and websites. I didn’t realise this until now.
Ruby at 10.35am
In your pipe dreams re seminary menus, more likely its bacon and cabbage or irish stew et al.
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11:17
I’ve been watching Ready Steady Cook for years. 🥣
Thai curry ruby murray Irish stew bacon and cabbage chicken chow mien seminary chop suey fish and chips or batter burgers sausages spuds and beans.
We have gone cosmopolitan. Catholic in more ways than one, DG.🌶️🍔🍗
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I was once given an old computer by a friend, a solicitor, who had been given it in turn by her boss. She was busy telling me what a nice guy he was with a young family, and was slightly disturbed when I showed her that he was into bondage.
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Talking of food, I’ve just made a lunchtime egg banjo for me and her indoors.
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Thai green curry at 9.47am
Yeah right 🤣👍.
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My friend have a week and half left before he returns home to gaillimh.
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Hes having a whale of a time re drinking, shagging ladies, chatting up women and ladyboys in bar although with some bar time restrictions at night.
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He said flight to Thailand including the stops were very strict as he as a tourist must adhere to rules and Covid regulations. He produced 7 papers to prove its legit and matches Thai Covid regulations via Thai pass.
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His photo of a ladyboy that he sent me was a stunner. Hence my 1st mail in the morning.🤣🤣🤣.
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Nothing would surprise blog readers at this stage, all clericals appear to be well connected schemers with an agenda. the RTE camera focus lens on Jerry Carey’s replacement during Clare/Limerick match on Sunday sent a message loud & clear to Jerry Carey that he has long been replaced by Fr Tom Fitzpatrick in his old parish. Goodbye Jerry, Tom is here now.
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To the new Blogger sadly Bishop Pat is not part of the Irish Bishops Conference so all he could do is email it to the other Bishops attention however it is better if it comes from whoever has the information to Archbishop Francis Duffy direct at admin@tuamarchdiocese.org as really father Henry is needing his faculties removed even short term.
Archbishop Francis Duffey is no fool but as said before they always need evidence for canon law and father Henry it seems was incarnated into Dublin and yet appointed in Tuam at
St. Mary’s Presbytery, Westport, Co. Mayo.
So let the Archbishops sort it out.
Admin@tuamarchdiocese.org for Archbishop Francis Duffymary.irwin@dublindiocese.ie for Archbishop Farrell.
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I love the idea of him being incarnated into Dublin.
Even though my phone tried to change it to incarcerated, but that would be more like the oratory.
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People become incardinated at diaconate. For Henry, he was made a deacon at the York Oratory. I have ot seen any evidence that he been incardinated elsewhere.
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10.02 The Second Coming is upon us and its happened in Dublin!!!
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11:42: Who do you say he is?
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Bishop Pat.
The information of being incarnated into Dublin diocese was from a Nun at the York Oratory at 10am today.
However she did not know why he has ended up in Tuam.
So Dermott or Francis will need to sort this mess out.
I agree with above I do not think it is some lads Mum however we will see if he contacts either Archbishop.
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10:02
Good morning, James.What’s the weather like in bonnie Scotland.
Archbishops… sort it out….what do you mean, Jim?
Do Archbishops not share responsibility for seminary training; it badly needs sorting out.
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11.00 It was announced on a comment that Henry has been incarnated into Dublin!! Its Henry!!!
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@ 10:02am
Sadly this paragon of knowledge and know it all can’t resist giving out addresses asking people to contact these useless prelates. You’ll be wasting your time if you expect an answer, as sadly you wont get one, just ask Patsy who will confirm.
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This person, who is known to me, hasn’t a clue how rgw RCC works.
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He’s incardinated into the York Oratory.
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The substantive issue here in the case of this Fr Henry is surely his unsuitability to be a priest under the present requirements for priestly life, particularly celibacy, chastity and sexual continence. We could engage on a debate about the good sense of the celibacy requirement, but for the sake of this case let us just assume it is the requirement and any man seeking ordination should be aware of that and committed to doing his very best to keep and respect a promise that he makes freely and publicly before God and the faithful..
So, the question is, as some have already suggested, how is it that a young man goes through five or six years of formation and still at the end of it seems to have little understanding of what is required of him as a priest ? There is surely something wrong with the formation process that this is the case. Henry himself should have had some self awareness of his interests and inclinations and of his lack of capacity, and evident unwillingness, to maintain celibacy.
More importantly, those who were responsible for his formation should have known this after five or six years of close scrutiny, perhaps even within the first years of his being in seminary. I worry about this aspect, because it reflects on the formation process in our seminaries and the woeful lack of professionalism and ability on the part of seminary formation staff. This could be because so many of the seminary staff have themselves problems / issues / inclinations that might make them incapable / unwilling to address such issues as Henry has. They may even encourage such behaviour. I lay the blame mostly with the formation system and staff that Henry was allowed to go on for so long and eventually reach ordination. His formation path seems to have been particularly changeable, moving from congregation to diocese to diocese. That instability should have raised red flags. Seminary reform, formation reform is clearly indicated. What sense does it make to form men for priesthood and ministry in a single sex, isolated, semi-monastic environment ? Surely there is a formation system and environment that would be more suited to this task and would ensure that men like Henry are not ordained because they are patently unsuitable to the requirements of priesthood as laid down by the Church ?
Henry is evidently immature and self-delusional with little self awareness, otherwise he too should have realised his unsuitability for ordination. However, his failings do not excuse the failings of the seminary formation he underwent, because it failed in its job to ensure that he was suitable for ordination. How many times do we see this ? Just thing of Jolly ex of Oscott and Liverpool, who within a year or two of ordination was engaging in very dysfunctional and criminal behaviour. I refuse to believe that there were not indications of his inclinations during his time in seminary. Who was turning a blind eye ? Who was being careless ? Who did not know what they were doing ? Perhaps seminaries might up ttheir game if a court somewhere decided that they had vicarious liability for the crimes of one of their seminarians that they have been responsible for over five years ? That might focus the mind !
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10.07 Well intentioned but that is what you are….and the well intentioned never brought many too far. Clearly you have not spoken with a married couple or one partner from a married couple….after 5, 10, 20, 30, 50 years of marriage. As a Parisian Priest once said to a set of couples at their group marriage ceremony ” you think you know what love is.” He then told them at the many junctures ahead they would get a sense of what it really is and then someday…………..
Formation does not exist in a mature reality, the intricate essentials of each individual cannot be suppressed. They blossom and further expose over time and it is in time they are laid bare.
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Oh get real, 1038 ! A young man entering a Catholic seminary will know from day one that celibacy is part of the package, and over a number of years should be able to work out whether he can live a celibate life. It’s not that hard to work that out, by behaviour, by desire, by action. I have no doubt that Henry et al work out their sexuality at seminary, and so should know what the position is. To go forward for ordination knowing that you are either incapable or simply don’t want to or have no intention of embracing celibacy, then the way of integrity and honesty to do is to leave. The life is not for you. Actually, integrity and honesty come in to it a great deal. And from my point of view, I’d say Henry can’t be trusted and will not live a life of integrity no matter what course he takes. I wouldn’t trust him an inch. He has shown himself to be untrustworthy, dishonest, delusional, self-serving and not fit to be a priest. So, I guess it is a good job that he has gone off to what he thinks are pastures green and new, a new direction. But, watch that space ! There will be trouble there too. I put money on it.
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Finally a sensible comment at 1:08.
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‘Henry himself should have had some self awareness of his interests and inclinations and of his lack of capacity, and evident unwillingness, to maintain celibacy.
‘More importantly, those who were responsible for his formation should have known this after five or six years of close scrutiny, perhaps even within the first years of his being in seminary. I worry about this aspect, because it reflects on the formation process in our seminaries and the woeful lack of professionalism and ability’
I was beginning to despair of finding someone else who would reasonably expect a grown man to know his own sexual interests, have an insight into his own personality and spot that they were in direct opposition to the life he was going into.
Perhaps the problem is that formators are among those who don’t expect these things like the comments above?
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1.08 You have a real handle on the human race, don’t you?
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Jerry Carey is a lovely man😃
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so is King Puck aka Sean Jones
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@ 10:09am
Are you for real?🙄
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Is Jerry Carey the carpark wanker ?
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Yes he is and Jerry is big drinking buddies with Ger and Mick Collins
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Jerry is a non drinker. He was and is definitely the wanker in question. He is great buddies with mick Collins.
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@1.52
Chips Galore for the ladies so after Limerick win on Sunday, they probably had to buy the beers themselves, Tightwad Ger might be feeling the pinch whilst the investigation into his bank accounts are ongoing. Maybe Mick Collins broke the habit of a lifetime & stood a round.
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Yes, Fr Tom Fitzpatrick replaced him.
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Mickey Collins would buy a drink before Ger Fitzgerald any day. Ger is stingy.
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1:52 is that why Mick Collins wasn’t sent to take over Carey’s old parish in Doora Barefield? Much less temptation in Tom Fitzpatricks former parish perhaps?
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They are all Wankers but he is the Carpark Wanker allright, it was in the newspapers a while back,
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10:09 Carey & his circus, circle ⭕️!! long known & well known as an arrogant prick around Ennis.
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&10:09am he’s a legend 🤣🤣🤣
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Henry sailed through because of his good looks, and he played his hand well. The good looking seldom encounter problems and are praised by seminary formation staff. Their only problem is infatuations with them by potato head seminarians and the frequency with which their underpants are stolen from the laundry.
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He’s not good looking: the image he puts on looks totally stupid.
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Hi Pat. Will you please post Archdiocese Of Dublin Priests Appointments.? God Bless.
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2.06: Keep on chirping you nosey twit….all appointments have been well thought through and revealed to the relevant priests and parishes…Keep singing…
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@4.08pm what a charming Ambassador you are for the Irish Roman Catholic Church! NOT! 🎚
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Bishop Pat if that was a nasty dig towards me about not having a clue how the RCC works well I can tell you how the RCC works in 2022 not in 1962.
However up to date FACTS at 14.37 Henry / Ciaran O’Connell is NOT in the Archdioceses of Tuam for many months
However due to an administration error he is listed on Tuam website and that should be removed today.
Wrong information from the Nun he is not incarnated into Dublin either he is a York Oratorian and that is where he was back to a few months ago but it seems he is living in Dublin.
It is the Oratorian’s problem not a Diocesan problem.
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Who is feeding you information, Jim?
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@ 3:12pm
Nettie nobody is feeding her information she’ll have been on the phone interrogating some poor nun or priest, she’s infamous for it, and she still gets it wrong.
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@ 2:42pm
Has nobody told you the difference between incarnated and incardinated?
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@ 2:42pm
Has nobody told you the difference between incarnated and incardination ?
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Pat, I prefer females, do you not
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Dear + Pat what are you views on Priests who are freemasons ?
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3:16pm Priests/Freemasons??!! All Church Insiders are Freemasons.
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Grindr gets everywhere 🤣
https://twitter.com/HanchytheBanchy/status/1522600683815546880?t=PcFf5JZ4IFPaep1PWrd4mw&s=19
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What advice would you give to a Priest who was having restrictions placed on him for speaking out about what was wrong in the church ,and being told his future would be destroyed if he revealed this , or spoke out again ?
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Have a great trip to Wexford.
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Henry is the problem of the Catholic diocese of Middlesborough which is the diocese in which he’s incardinanted.
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Not the Congregation of the Oratory?
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Priests of the Congregation of the Oratory are secular priests; that is, they do not profess religious vows yet they are incardinated in their Congregation. The Oratorian vocation is unique in the Church: secular priests living in community. Blessed John Henry Cardinal Newman, an Oratorian himself, called the Oratorian life a bridge between diocesan and religious life.
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.3.42
Pat, you are behind the times. Newman has been canonized.
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Bishop Terry Drainey would be most grateful if anyone could please submit to his Diocese any details of Fr. Henry / Ciaran O’Connell as soon as possible because if the allegations are true then he intends to remove his faculties so please assist as the RCC does not want clergy like this in our Building for the Future.
Henry / Ciaran is the responsibility of the Congregation of Jesus English province however Bishop Drainey ordained him so has responsibilities for him so can you please assist.
bishopsecretary@rcmidd.org.uk
His Faculties need suspended.
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Congregation of Jesus English Province?? Are you cracked?! Henry is cracked in a lot of ways, but he’s not identifying as a woman religious in the Congregation of Jesus!
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I don’t think Henry/Ciaran wants faculties at this stage.
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No sounds like he’d prefer a leather cap, collar, riding whip and KY jelly
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4.24
Jim S. is from the north of Ireland.
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Bishop Pat do the honourable thing and contact Bishop Drainey with the information or concerns you have after all it is not fair on the Lay Faithful.
@ 4.10 Bishop Drainey understands henry / Ciaran to be at the York Oratory.
bishopsecretay@rcmidd.org.uk
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@ 4:28pm
FFS Patsy she never gives up.🙄
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5.30
Give up your vendetta, Lugosi Govan!
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When did fairness to the lay faithful matter? Are you on a kick back, Jim.
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@6:54pm
Not in a million Ardeer Nettie😏😏😏
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https://cruxnow.com/church-in-europe/2022/06/church-convicts-catholic-ex-priest-of-abusing-boy-for-years-in-germany
Church convicts Catholic ex-priest of abusing boy for years in Germany
By Associated Press, Jun 7, 2022.
‘BERLIN — A Catholic diocese in Germany said Tuesday that a former priest has been convicted in a church trial of sexually abusing a minor over several years almost three decades ago.The man, who wasn’t identified, was ordered to pay 10 percent of his income to a charitable organization that helps victims of abuse, the diocese of Limburg said.While financial payouts have been included in confidential settlements between the church and victims of abuse, the announcement of a financial penalty against a priest as a result of a canonical investigation is unusual.’
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The desperation to try and invent a scandal is ridiculous. Ciaran was not exposed by anyone. He publicly published his profile for anyone to see. He has left active priestly ministry behind him. He is not attempting to conceal anything. Enough of this self righteous, pearl clutching bull crap, so frequently found on this ‘angry old woman’ space.
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4.51 pm
Your moral compass is set low. How is this not a scandal? Within a couple of weeks of saying his last mass, he advertises to the world he is sexually versatile and into leather-clad men. These things don’t happen overnight, and there is a high probability that he acted out sexually whilst In active ministry. Remember the origin of the word scandal – a stumbling block – to many people, this sort of behaviour makes them question the integrity of all priests.
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Come on, Ciaran, use Pat’s offer of a right to reply which he gives to those who appear on the blog.
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@5:28
Zero moral compass more like!
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Henry, you are not fooling anybody by writing about yourself in the third person. The harm which you have done to the People of God and to the Priesthood is a cause of grave scandal. A scandal so grave that one worries for your soul. As a brother priest and a fellow spiritual son of Saint Philip, I implore you to seek whatever psychological help which you need. Whatever path your life takes you on, please strive not to selfishly and narcissistically use other people in the same way which you have used the Archdiocese of Dublin, the Institute of Christ the King, the Oratory and the Archdiocese of Tuam. Your actions are not wholly and exclusively just about “you”. Even though you might like to think it, the world does not revolve around you. Your actions have real and lasting effects on the faith lives of many other people, particularly the people in the parishes in which you have served. They are scandalised. The parishioners of the York Oratory are scandalised. The sisters at the Bar Convent are scandalised. I am sure that the People of God in the parish in Westport are scandalised and that their faith has been shaken by your conduct and grossly imprudent decisions. Decisions which you made in a spirit of sheer narcissistic selfishness, without a care in the world for the impact your conduct had on other people and upon the Church.
Our Lord is kind, merciful and full of compassion, however, he does give a dire warning to his disciples and his priests:
‘But he that shall scandalize one of these little ones that believe in me, it were better for him that a millstone should be hanged about his neck, and that he should be drowned in the depth of the sea.’ (Mt 18:6)
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Oratorians talking about the ‘People of God’ not the Faithful?
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Superficial arguments: this is what formators and the Vatican actually want of seminarians. What you really mean is clergy and parishioners ought to oppose Rome altogether. Our Lord did n ot intend Rome to use His words.
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I too am sceptical about this comment by “Oratorian Priest”. I don’t think a CO would use the quintessentially 1970s term, “the People of God”.
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Seminary staff know all about the penchant ms. secrets and dubious behaviour of their students.
They knew about Jolly and Penny
Bede Walsh and Taylor et al – it’s not the knowing that’s the issue – it’s the doing nothing, turning a blind eye and for those who are actively homosexual inducting them to the Rules of the Closet.
Oscott is especially adept at this and invite a lot more scrutiny and spotlight.
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Oscott has a gay staff member who was sexually active as a seminarian – of course; they turn a blind eye. I hope he doesn’t become the new vice-rector.
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@ 6:19pm
You’re right that would never happen.
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No more scandal from Amy Martin’s young priests?
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Sheesh re mother Burke coming to Ireland next month as its a liturgical conference same as before in 2019 where I went into a church not knowing that he was inside.
I better avoid it this time this July just kidding 🤣🤣 or alternatively, a trip to Thai on same week😜
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@ 6:50pm
I think you should avoid Thai you might get a bigger fright their than you did from seeing His Eminence Leo Cardinal Burke in his magnificent Cappa Magna😏
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Frankie’s pal, the nonce bishop, is already busted out of gaol to a private clinic https://cruxnow.com/church-in-the-americas/2022/06/jailed-bishop-close-to-pope-francis-released-to-private-clinic-for-treatment
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Oh yes, dirty Peronist Frankie,puts on the blinkers when it comes to his cronies.
Hes nothing more than a cover up merchant like them all and is accelerating the end of the cult.
Roll on🥳
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7.22 Crooks & Criminals International 😏
Financial & Sexual deviancy rampant worldwide in RCC.
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It might be of interest to you priests after I had seen the news of mother Burke visit to Ireland on 3rd July – info from trad site rorate caeli.
Ordinations 2022 in 10 Days!
Bishop Tissier will be ordaining 6 priests (5 from the US, 1 from Mexico) and 2 Deacons (1 US, 1 Irish) on June 17 in a ceremony
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There should be some sort of banning order on people like Burke prohibiting their movement in and out of Ireland, or within a specific area, except under licence.
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@ 9:34pm
There should be an order banning people like you anywhere.
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@ 9:18pm
Wonderful Deo Gratias, His Eminence Leo Cardinal Burke will be ordaining 15 new priests for the ICKSP in Florence at the end of this month. I hope to be their.
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Wonder who the new Irish deacon for the SSPX is? Does Jim S. know? 70 priests were ordained in Mexico the other day.
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To be their what …..
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9.54
Lol, Pat!
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@ 9:45pm
Patsy you naughty bold boy, I hope to be present at the Ordinations as well you knew what I meant. Like your visit to Vienna for your 70th I’m going to Italy for mine.
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@10.09 pm
Is it your birthday soon Bella?
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@ 11:02pm
Yes
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10.09
But dear Willy from Govan, someone who knows you informed us readers you were a regular on the Glasgow gay scene, if a little discreetly. Won’t you miss the chance of a liaison if you’re out of the country in Italy. There you’ll find they’re watching their backs if you dare to appear.
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@11:22pm
Nettie you’re talking gibberish again, you should not class everybody like yourself. You wouldn’t get a liaison anywhere. When they see you appearing everybody gets off their mark screaming the Beast!🤣😂😂
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The cheek of Big Mac giving a talk about Irish Martyrs (though she probably sees herself as a martyr).
https://www.irishcatholic.com/mary-mcaleese-to-speak-on-the-17-irish-martyrs/
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@ 10:13pm
I agree Mary Mac. does think she’s a martyr but a martyr for what!
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https://fsspx.ie/en/news-events/news/major-minor-ordinations-virginia-47307
Maybe this is the Irishman, from Fermanagh who will be ordained a deacon in Florence.
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