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WILLIE PURCELL’S GOLFING FOR VOCATIONS

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WILLIE PURCELL, the national vocations co-ordinator is organising a PLAY FOR VOCATIONS golf gig this coming Wednesday.

Tickets are € 60 each.

I am wondering how well off guys getting together to play golf can encourage vocations?

Maybe part of the € 60 a head is going towards the vocations fund?

It’s taking place in Kilkenny so I imagine the apostolic administrator of Ossory – Big Denis Nulty might be teeing off?

NULTY

Nulty still hasn’t taken any action against the gay orgies in his diocese being attended by a number of priests.

Mind you, Big Denis, was admired by many a hink when was PP of Drogheda.

THE BOY DIRECTOR OF VOCATIONS

SHANE O’NEILL

SHANE O’NEILL the curate of Tramore and Phonsie’s former master of ceremonies is being sent to Maynooth as a director of formation!

This a sad appointment.

Poor Shane is painfully shy.

If you justook at Shane he blushes and looks as if he wants the group to swallow him up.

The cynical clerics and seminarians in Maynooth will run rings around poor Shane.

He was ordained in 2015 but was in Maynooth with all the famous actors of the 2016 Summer of Love.

In my opinion his extreme shyness could very well be a strong sign that Shane has not come to terms with who he is.

Shane goes to Maynooth like the legendary lamb among wolves.

I have never heard anything negative about Shane.

If Shane is one of the good ones, and he may very well be Maynooth will be his undoing 😞

289 replies on “WILLIE PURCELL’S GOLFING FOR VOCATIONS”

Yes, with this hot weather, he could have a Rudolph Giuliani moment with the dye pouring down the side of his face.

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Pat, I knew many guys who were shy and reticent as students and who were very good students in many ways. As priests they are very kind and caring, no doubt struggling to make sense of “where we’re at” as all of us are doing! I never noticed anything untoward because of their shy demeanour and thank God they continue to minister with dedication. It’s wrong to interpret a shyness as hiding truths about someone. To suggest that his shyness is a sign that he hasn’t come to terms with who he is is an absurd observation and a little menacing. It’s simply wrong. Now I suspect you’re hoping for scandals. Nothing wrong either in having a golf tournament for vocations. However, it wouldn’t be my idea..but I have no criticism of the event. I wish the organisers every success and also wish Fr. Shane God’s blessings.

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I agree. Not related to what Pat’s saying but there’s also a tendency to assume diocesan priests have to be incredible extroverts and performers, who preferably play the guitar and football, and it’s losing sight of the simple fact that not everyone is the same.

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The outgoing, guitar playing, footballer sems were always highly prized by the Maynooth deans, but unfortunately those lads tended to leave when female lay students got their hooks into them.

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10.04 Our Fr Ger was a great man for playing the guitar and the banjo, we still miss him and we have no one to bless all the little pussies & doggos.

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12:14 Fr. Ger is a player alright. Do not despair. I am sure that he is still blessing pussies in Limerick.

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Are the Stab City pussies not very street wise? They would spot a wanna be bus driver 5 miles away.

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@6.41 don’t underestimate the Ennis pussies, some also well known as being more than handy in that department. Blood on their hands.

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9:14 Limerick pussies vs. Clare pussies
Who will come out on top?

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Shane hasn’t been a priest long enough to be in a position to form candidates for the priesthood. He has only been a curate, and has done that for only 7 years. And he obviously kept his mouth shut about the strange goings on in Maynooth when he was there. If Pat hadn’t exposed them, they would have continued and got worse.

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Yes, I was thinking that if he went through the summer of love he’s either wilfully blind or has kept silent.
Who knows, this could even be the reward!

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Being wilfully blind or keeping silent are not promising characteristics for a director of formation.

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How the hell will playing golf help the vocations crisis? Perhaps a raffle in the club house to fund the flight of an African or Indian priest?

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How typical of ‘Polyesterdom’ that they think golf will help with vocations! That lot waste too much time now with all their clergy Golf Tournaments and other things! we wont mention. Than doing the work they were ordained for🙄

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Yeah definitely a lace making circle. Now that’ll have manly vocations flocking in. 😂

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Shane O’Neill is one of the good guys. Don’t be so harsh on him. You don’t even know him, do you? He is a good friend of the Vice Rector of the Irish College. That should tell you something. Dr Cullinan (no relation to Phonsy) is a saintly priest and a good judge of character.

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What does the vice rector of the Irish College do all day? I thought that it was shut and has no sems in it.

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11.11pm: Maisie, he’ll be only good until the destroyers on this blog – butchers – get their knives into him. What a horrible blog…nastyims at its absolutist finest!! We’ll keep this priest in our prayers. God be with him.

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9.56

Wrong way round . Your prayer should have been: ‘May he be with God.’

God is always with us.

But priests are very rarely with Him.

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You know what, I have to agree with your comment. This blog needs a good shake-up.

Bishop Pat I do not condone any form of abuse carried out by Religious,it is very wrong and I commend you for highlighting same on your blog.
However, on a daily basis many lies ,defamattion of character, harassment, bullying, name calling, false allegations etc. are being made against all religious and, from what I can see, whenever proof or evidence, where relevant, is asked for, nothing has been shown.
The Clergy in Ireland, Northern Ireland and the whole world are being torn to shreds on your blog and you allow it. Some commenters rub salt into the wounds by displaying their vulgar,sick nasty repulsive language and gloat in making a skit of clergy at every opportunity possible.
Pat many of the stalwarts of your blog have left – you should ask yourself why?
There are daily commenters who grace the blog with l(a) long-winded headings,which,might I add, has only been happening in recent times and (b) under numerous pseudonyms.These commenters think they are not being recognised!! how wrong you are. There are some who even reply to their own comment(s) which is laughable. Also,we get several one-liners which are thrown in here and there regularly and are of no relevance but more often than not, its to target our clergy once again
Can we please pray for Clergy worlldwide,now that things are beginning to get back to normal and the money from the weekly basket collections is, thank God, ncreasing.
Stay safe everyone. H.A.N.D.
A book worth reading in this beautiful summer sunshine if people are interested, is
“Awaken Your Power Within – written by Gerry Hussey.

Peace be with you all. 😇 😎🌞

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They just can’t help themselves at 2:38 can they, they have to control everything and tell everyone else what to do. 🤣

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2.38
You are something else; you truly are. And at the risk of those remarks going over your head, they are far from complmentary.
You’re a priest? Of course you are. It’s so easy to tell these days, especially in print.
The priest begin his post perfunctorily, with the now obligatory and ritual condemnation of child rape by Catholic priests and religious, just to reassure readers that he knows where his heart and conscience are, and that he actually ‘gets’ it. And then he moves swiftly on (and with an eagerness that surpasses a virgin’s on the first night of honeymoon) to his real purpose, his major bugbear: a very, very longwinded, self-interested, self-pitying whine about how shockingly romanist clerics are treated on this blog.
Who gives a ….?!

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2:38
Sounds like ‘the gripper’ on one of his good days.I reckon his problem is he’s all shook up.
Does he realise some of the abuse committed by Religious was not only wrong but criminal.
Maybe he is still on a learning curve; the longest learning curve in the history of both curves and learning.

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Literally only a cathbot or any other grifter would judge a person’s qualities by who they’re friends with.

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This is what I’m talking about —- having read my comment, you straight away presumed I’m a priest because of my comment @ 2.38pm. I have news for you sir/madame you are wrong and very wrong, I am NOT a priest or a member of any religious. I am an ordinary citizen who, like yourself, reads pat’s blog and makes a comment when I feel the need to. My “remarks” as you say, were not meant to be complimentary I was just making a point but obviously you dont give a ….? Perhaps my comment has hit a nerve 😂
Be kind to people it costs nothing. Shalom.

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An SSPX priest once said to me he’s not one of these diocesan priests playing golf at his golf club, but instead eats sardines to make what they have go further. Fr might exaggerate, but not having too much can be character building.
Given the foolishness that +Pat has posted above we are set soon to have either few to no priests, and many more utter failures of formation, men who should never have been priests or have roles that involve interacting with vulnerable members of the public.

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How in God and his Blessed Mother’s name does a round of golf help vocations? Willie Purcell, what a wanker.

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I’m irresistibly prompted to comment that probably having a wank would bring more vocations, at least of the sort who feature here.
Sorry.
Not sorry.

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A mystery of faith. This golfing for God might raise a bit of money, and Fr Purcell will enjoy it. It’s more foolish seeming than scandalous, so if it doesn’t lose money, it won’t be so bad. There’s worse in that corner of the world.

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Yes, a terrible appointment for Shane O’ Neill after just 7 years of priesthood. There’s lots of guys in their fifties, ordained 25+ years who could have become Dean of Maynooth, men not associated with the recent Maynooth years. Shane will have a difficult time there.

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The wisdom of appointing a young priest in his early 30s (if that) to the role of Director of Formation defies levelheadedness. You need a person of experience of priestly life, a track record of varied pastoral/educational engagement/know how and the savvy that comes with this combination. Putting a man into this position is unfair on him and, more importantly, unfair on the seminarians who need depthful and experienced insight/wisdom/acumen. It’s a sad state of affairs.

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Has JP McManus Pro Am fever gripped the clergy – that’s them – follow the money! Shane looks about 15 years old, God keep him safe in Gaynooth.

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Kilkenny Clerical Golfgate – Jolly courtesy of the gooseberry fool shepple – Fr Shane as Caddie prior to departure to Gaynooth formation role or will that be roll, time will inform.

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Honestly you’d need the patience of a Saint & the tenacity of a very big dog with a very meaty bone to keep after all these out of control priesty fellas and their tarts and lady boys. Fair Play to you Bishop Patsy, we are in awe of you. They should be ashamed of themselves that they have made this blog essential in the interests of public safety. God Bless.

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Maynooth deans shouldn’t be shy and they certainly weren’t in my day. They should be able to chat socially with the students and get to know what they are really like. He should also be a model for diocesan priesthood. Diocesan priests are not monks. They should be chatty, outgoing people able to relate easily to all types of people. Being shy and inscrutable can be selfish because it makes the other person do all the work. Is he going to sit in his rooms all day reading back issues of the Irish Catholic?

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10:15
‘Diocesan priests should be able to talk to all sorts of people so should only be one sort of person ‘.
🤣

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11.23 – Are you a shy priest, the type that people dread bumping into because you are so hard to talk to and make people feel uncomfortable around you? Like that character in Fr Ted. Ronan Drury called such types “armchair priests”.

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11:55 I don’t feel the need to answer such an impertinent question, especially as you haven’t called me Father.

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Niall Ahern used to read ‘Ireland’s Own’ and the ‘People’s Friend’ in his well-appointed rooms in Middle New House.

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The clergy love their golf and bridge and all that. I don’t see any Rory McElroy types agreeing to fit a dog collar. It’s worth a go I suppose & it’ll make a handy few quid & a chance for them to gossip & socialise, making up for Covid.

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Has anyone noticed what Armagh naughty priests must be advised when they are exposed … GROW A BEARD QUICKLY. The under 40s clerics have went some way in doing so. Maybe it’s how their leader wants them 👨‍❤️‍👨🏳️‍🌈👨‍❤️‍👨🏳️‍🌈💋💋💋💋

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Early morning coffee 6.05 Monday. Not a time for any healthy young man to begin study for RC priesthood. Its also the time for good men like Father Paul Murphy ( Armagh) and his kind to leave the RC priesthood before spending too much of the best of themselves for what is not worthy of them. I have stated these before, publicly saying in church about not being the time for any healthy young man to enter any seminary. I met that priest advertising this Vocations golf thing at Father Tom Carrigans funeral in Kilkenny. He seemed like a very decent fellow, surprised he is in the middle of such misadventure. WM

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The Archdiocese of Seattle has also paid out millions to settle sexual abuse cases over the last 21 years including closing churches. Common enough across the Atlantic.

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The Parish Priest of Mell, an exceptionally good man, I don’t know him very well but he is a cousin of Rory Mc Elroy, I wonder what he makes of this Golf Outing. I don’t think too many of the priests ordained in the last two decades spent too much time on a golf course or any sort of pitch. A classmate of mine is a brilliant golfer and the finest of human beings; Michael Whitaker PP, I think Enfield. He was at a parish council meeting many years ago and the fuddy duddies were waxing on vacuosly about what pastoral plan they should come up with for young people, Michael suggested the best one might be “F..K the young people.” He meant that they should be left alone by the fuddy dudies around the table. ( to the ignorant ones who read here please do not mangle the expletive he used in any other way than what I have stated clearly.)

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@ WM – “ The Parish Priest of Mell, an exceptionally good man, I don’t know him very well but …….”
Now, just how do you make a statement about ANY person WITHOUT knowing him very well?

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7.13 Its a ladys prerogative to do so Cyberpunk.Ever heard of “by repute and reputation.” Why do you call yourself Cyberpunk?”

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Golf is fading as a clerical pastime because all the priests ordained in the last 20 years are gay and gay men don’t play golf.

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1.31 That is sad. He was and is a good man. Nothing to the contrary has ever been said or printed.

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How typical that ‘Polyesterdom’ thinks that golf will help with vocations. After all they spend more time playing clergy Golf Tournaments as well as other things! better not mentioned than doing their job.🙄

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Actually we polyesters don’t play golf because it’s not relevant to the young people. A folk music circle is more our style.

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10:09
So are the golfing for vocations set going to bang banjos tambourines and bongos in bunkers to stimulate a vocation boom!

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Update the said: Fr Michael Whittaker, has been recently appointed Parish Priest of Rahan Co.Offaly. He was one of three clerical changes by Bishop Tom Dennihan, this year, Fr. Michael Whittaker s, move from Enfield was quite A surprise and upset A lot of his parishioners. On another matter Fr Barry White s ordination to priesthood yesterday was A great occasion. I noticed after the ceremony under the shadow of The Cathederal of Christ The King, Mullingar, out the back were, Very Rev Joe Gallagher, VG. Very Rev Declan Hurley VG. And Fr. Paul Connell. Chancellor, and Diocesean Secretary to Bishop Tom. All Three were in A serious conversation with four members of The Silverstream community who attended yesterday Ordination.

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5.21 I suspect then that Michael gave Deehihan whats what about himself ( Deenihan) and Deenihan took vengenge on him That means Deenihans fall is closer than it was. I may well knock his door, the fucker! WM Okolo must be shiting his designer underwear on this one.

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A few bunkers a few birdies a few boogies followed by the 19th green will solve the vocation crisis. Oh ye, of little faith…🙃

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@ 10:09am
Actually you’re wrong folk music is not relevant to the polyesters of today. That was the 60’s, now they are too busy organizing trips to the Boilerhouse and the other places of ill-repute that they love s much.😏

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10:39 Not as wrong as you. The boiler house crowd are young. We used to fuck where we wanted….

And still do. 🥳

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Bill.
Archbishop Jude Okolo is Ireland’s yesterdays man he has moved on the new Papal Nuncio will need to pick this up.
Ireland is in a Sorry state and they must be struggling for a New Papal Nuncio as no one has been appointed yet and usually it is one in one out.

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5.28 Something tells me they will send an Irishman to Navan Rd this time ? Maybe, maybe not…somebody really in the know.

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@ 7.06
It is you who is outwith the Holy Mother Church.
I will always be Faithful Through and Through as they say
we will never walk alone.
You will get your dream when the daisy chain undertaker looks after you 🙂

Why Bishop Pat allows you to keep posting hatred really says something !!!

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@ 8:48pm
Youv’e never been faithful to anything in your life apart from your own created fantsy world where you imagine yourself to be University educated 🤣 and you speak four languages🤣 studying for the permanent Diaconate 🤣 the late lamented Magna asked you many times was ‘English your first language’ how right he was. Patsy himself finally identified your first language as GIBBERISH🤣 I’ve always wondered myself why dear Patsy prints your erroneous crap, I suppose its for a laugh. I sincerely hope your next visit to Hawkhill is permanent.🤣

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@ 7.06
bloggers must struggle to see that you are an SSPX admirer and yet you swear and show great hatred.
But jealousy is the route of Evil.

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@ 8:50pm
Bloggers don’t struggle to see that you are a false sanctimonious bollox who know’s SFA but still continue to sin your crap. Get thee behind me Satan🙄

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8.36
Your lies again I have NEVER said I speak four languages as that is my only regret so I only speak English and yes I went to University for Business Studies and hospitality as I am 38 years in Hospitality.

As for visits to hawkhill it is impossible living in the West End so have No need apart to go and say the Holy Rosary at Anniversary time, Birthdays or Christmas.

Father Walls and Father Robert Brucciani said I should ignore you as when I copy and paste your statements they are shocked I have just coped yesterdays and todays and will be emailed over.

As for being gibberish I would rather be gibberish than have filthy words like you all use and I wonder if Pat’s partner allows people to use that filth in his amazing Restuarant with great reveiws somehow I doubt it.

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Mr Mulvihill, you’ve obviously had no luck at finding gainful employment since you abandoned the priesthood, hence your incessant comments on this illustrious blog at all hours. I suppose there aren’t many openings for ex-clerics with your history?
I hear Louth Coco will soon be looking for domestic refuse operatives, might keep you occupied! I know a parish priest who could put in a good word with the county manager

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A refuse collector would be a more honest and fulfilling job than that an RC priest. At least everyone would not assume you were a nonce!

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Frankly, prostitute would be at this point. I’m always impressed by the moral sense of sex workers and have NEVER been impressed by the moral sense of any priest.

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Domestic refuse operative is honorable honest work carried out by real men, unlike many ordained into… ..the hood. Many of the hoodies couldn’t do a days work in a pink fit.

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7.54 Might take you up on that. Not many contributing between 6.00am and 8.00 am….thats just before people with real employment start working !!!!

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7.54 Bloggers when someone puts in Mr before the name of an x priest, it is a blatant display of passive aggression. Completely superfluous to need. WM

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Trust me there are things I’d rather put in front of any priest’s name but Pat doesn’t publish them .

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7.54 I get my coffee beans from 3fe and my flour and vegetables from Fallon and Byrne. Where do you buy yours ?

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11.10 Call me whatever the fuck you like. I do not feel what you attempt to inflict, because your kind are irrelevant to the Empathetic.

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11.10 Get thee to a STD clinic….if you are an Aussie priest, its as natural as breathing. Never been to one myself !

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7.54: While I don’t think its fair to constantly harrass Bill with judgment, but my God, he seems to have no gainful employment or interests of any relevance since leaving the priesthood. His pouring out of pseudo crap at times is very revealing of him. He has latched on 24/7 to this blog for meaningful connections…Very weird and concerning. I wonder where he gets finances from? Social welfare from my taxes??

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10.22 The RCC and so many of its clergy have one talent in spades: Malice. Your pitiful comment is proof of yours.

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I see that the makeshift oratory in the Columba Centre, Maynooth, where Fr Purcell was filmed, doubles as a book/stationery storage room. Shows you what they really think of the Real Presence.

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I see that Fr Hoban, of the ACP (Association of Catholic Parasites), is whinging to the Press about believers who don’t financially contribute to the Church, but who expect delivery of its services (er, sacraments) at critical moments. A mortal sin in these financially strapped times for the Church through dwindling congregations. There’s even been talk of drawing up a list of ‘enhanced’ charges for these shameless freeloaders … to help ‘Father’ make ends comfortably meet, you understand.

Speaking of charges, how is a fund-raising golf tournament going to facilitate an increase in so-called ‘vocations’ to the priesthood?

Through bribes to potential dupes?

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Leaving Hoban 😞 aside. I do think that people who can afford it, should contribute when using a church building.

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If I use a church building and I do. In that case, I’m happy to contribute. Still, it troubles me that our priest drives a better car than I do – plays golf almost daily, something I can’t afford- has two or three holidays a year, again something I can’t afford and is regularly to be seen dining at a local hotel. He also claims he drinks a very expensive single malt every evening.
No doubt, I sound jealous; honestly, I’m not. He strikes me as a decent sort but I cannot pretend that he lives a life that my wife and I and our two teenage boys simply can’t afford and this means I think more than I should do about what and when I contribute.

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In the Presbyterians, you only get a token to allow you to partake at the infrequent Comminion service if your attendance record, tithes and standing with the Minister and elders is in good order.

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10.40: Ask Pat about drinks: he loves the vintage whiskies, armagnacs, wines etc…..and loves fine dining. He even has a chef partner to do the fineries.. I wish I had Pat’s privileges…I keep a circumspection about my life when I see my sisters and brothers and their children struggling….theirs is the true sacrifice and example of living for others…

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I don’t drink whiskey or armagnac. Our Sunday lunch yesterday was sharing some frying steak and chips. Our wine was £ 7.99.

But on occasion I do appreciate fine dining.

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11:30
The Pharisee stood by himself and prayed: ‘God, I thank you that I am not like other people—robbers, evildoers, adulterers—or even like this tax collector.

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@ 3:24pm
That’ s correct I’ve agreed with Patsy on a few occasions and will when I feel he’s right. Such as when identified your fourth language as GIBBERISH he was spot on PSMSL. But there is one eejit I never agree with that’s you Nettie, Uriah,Jim S. or whatever name you’re calling yourself today, now fuck off and do wan.😏

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Pat should do a blog about the German Church Tax. Many German RCs are opting out of the tax, and in response the RCC denies them the sacraments and a church funeral. Simony, pure and simple. Why doesn’t the uber-liberal German Church amend that? Too much 💶 at stake, that’s why.

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@ 3:55
Give up your aul latin and lace. Start reading scripture. Your tongue has gone to pot.

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10.21
Do not listen to the ACP as they are in a dream World as they think people like Ger and Jerry alongside other c/o’s should be given a second chance so the Catholic Church will not take lessons from the ACP.
The Sacrements will always be FREE also funerals.
People spend theousands on their Wedding receptions and yet do not see the main part of their Wedding is them exchanging their vows and the Sacrement of marriage and they think it should be free and Clergy get embarrassed when they have to say about a donation for the parish.
It maybe a surprise to some but Churches do not get everything for free like gas, electric, docor and have to pay rates on the pastoral centres.

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@ 11:37am

OMG! Patsy the begrudgers are out in force today, at our age having worked all our lives and paid for everything and still are we deserve it. I like fine dinning and a lovely bottle of Barrola followed by a digestive fra angelica with my Lavazza and Courvoisier Cheers!

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11.37 Bishop Pat Buckley is the one of only two clergymen to extend hospitality to me since I quit in August 2018. His hosting me at a Dublin venue was kindness entirely. I listened to a priest from the Lourdes Church in Drogheda yesterday talking about hospitality, never once did I enjoy his. He also thanked God for all the Mary’s male and female in the world ( do not know wheter he got the name wrong or not…I suspect quite deliberate), His every word was like spewing up nails and I would say his congregation knew it too. Pat Buckley was so hospitable to me in the absence of any care from The Fucker and I did pay for his two coffees and a cake at the Clayton Airport Hotel in March 2019. Bill Mulvihill

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Bill. You offered me hospitality at the parochial house in Monasterboice and at Drogheda just before you left.

It was the only parochial house that afforded me hospitality in the last 4 decades.

You are a generous man.

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11.31 Why don’t you do the decent thing, for the next 12 months give them whats in your wallet at months end you envious Git !!!

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Hoban is barking mad!
“Many parishes of the Catholic world are now in danger of running out of money, Fr Hoban warned”.
Well, redistribute the church’s wealth. It’s one of the wealthiest institutions with assets of over 30 Billion!
“He recalled a prelate proclaiming some years ago that “the church can’t be run on Hail Marys.”
That was Archbishop Marcinkus – God’s banker and corrupt! Perhaps the church would be less putrid if it were run on prayer.

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@11.34am If you know anythng about financial reserves, and you do not, the idea that money to that amount is available is nonsense. Accounting rules place reserves in a special category, outside of the standard rubrics. This means that the notion of a reserve means little or nothing. Your misunderstanding also means that you should not comment on this blog or elsewhere if you do not understand what you write about.

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3.10 Thank you Pat. I am sorry it was not more often But I can say this; over the next few years the hospitality I offered you will be matched by lemniscate. I gave up my own bed to you as I frequently did, in my new residence the guest rooms will have better beds than my own ( my mattress has always been like a plank of wood, the way I like it). Thank you Pat for the compliment. You are not unfamiliar with the environs which God has given me !!! Though I shall not need to give you the bus fare !!!! Bill

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At the time was astonished that you gave up your bed so that I could have the most comfortable bed and an en suite.

That is simply a proof if your generosity.

If is 50 years since your former neighbour paid my bus fare every Friday to visit him.

I shall visit you in style 😀

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11.34
The reserves will be the Real estate and some have not been valued for years.
There is NO big pots of Gold sitting in any Dioceses at this time.

Retired Clergy and Clergy who are sick is draining the resourses and they are entitled to every penny they need sadly the c/o’s and MIA drain the resourses and Bishops need to address them.

It is the day to day parish money that is in short sipply as the laity have not returned and it is worse now post covid as many changes were needed pre covid.

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3.30 Indeed you will. God is sometimes good, pity he is not more equal in distributing the goodness.

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10.24

I agree that priests must be funded by their congregations, but only those in full-time ministry. In my experience, the majority of priests do not fall into this category and should at least be in part-time salaried employment.

The cardinal rule must never be forgotten: there must be no charge for God’s grace, since this is freely given to all.

Charging for grace (e. g. the Mass) is even worse than simony, and a very grave sin, in my opinion. Yet, this was historically routine in the Roman Catholic Church, and it remains an abuse to this day. It was a legitimate grievance on the eve of the Protestant Reformation, and, despite the revolutionary religious and social consequences of that upheaval, it remains unresolved. Any priest who accepts a so-called ‘donation’ for a Mass is making a charge for grace, regardless of how euphemistically and self-deceivingly he cares to explain it.

The German and Austrian Catholic churches continue to charge for grace absolutely wholesale, a morally indefensible and repugnant position in the 21st century, and a strong reason for dwindling congregations in those countries.

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Just wondering if it is too late for me to apply for priesthood. I am 50.
Ballyhaunis priest not keen on vocations. He wants church to close down. I wonder is William aware of this…

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Is the PP of Ballyhaunis the ex-dean of Maynooth who invited the local imam to do the Islamic call to prayer from the ambo of the Catholic parish church?

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Yes and he has a brother in the gig too. Aunt a nun, it is a family run business. Duffy appointed him recently.

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11.37: Pat so taken you into the Oratory. Why don’t you pay for candidacy? Why? Pat woukd renew everyine and everything if he had priests!! We’re waiting for over 45 years…

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4.40 I shall tell the story of his address to Middle House before the Christmas Dinner when he was a monitor in Niall Ahern s Middle Division. Not a lot to it but indicative of a priestly thug. Let me dwell on what else I might attach ( not about Stephen or his hunky brother…also a priest.) WM

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Come on down – all are welcome. A great craic, especially if you’ve made no pension provision. Hopefully, by the time you’re ready to be ordained, they’ll get 20 years of service out of you, which is far more than the young ones do. Most don’t get beyond ten years.

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Reading the post with the comments today, wouldn’t it be better to do something to restore the church’s reputation among the many who now have nothing but utter contempt for the church and priests?

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I get knocked down, but I get up again
You are never gonna keep me down
I get knocked down, but I get up again
You are never gonna keep me down
I get knocked down, but I get up again
You are never gonna keep me down
I get knocked down, but I get up again
You are never gonna keep me down
He drinks a Whiskey drink, he drinks a Vodka drink
He drinks a Lager drink, he drinks a Cider drink
He sings the songs that remind him of the good times
He sings the songs that remind him of the better times
(Oh Danny Boy, Danny Boy, Danny Boy)

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1.19 Ryan, and I rejoice that he does, has plenty of money behind him to handle the fuckers in the RCC. That is to say nothing of culpability on what is intimated here on this Blog, I still find it incredulous. WM

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Please see below details announced by Bishop John Fleming, Bishop of Killala, regarding the 2022 clerical changes and appointments for the Diocese of Killala:
Ballina Pastoral Team: Father Aidan O’Boyle (Moderator), Father Kieran Holmes and Father Anthony Gillespie.
Belmullet: Father Eddie Rogan to be Parish Priest of Belmullet. Father Tom Doherty, Father Tony Cavanagh SSP, to be assistant priests serving the three parishes, Belmullet, Kilcommon Erris and Kilmore Erris.
Kilmore-Erris: Father Kevin Hegarty to be Parish Priest of Kilmore-Erris.
Backs: Father Michael Reilly to Co-Pastor Backs with Father Michael Flynn.
Ballycastle: Father John Loftus, Parish Priest Ballycastle.
Dromore West: Father Joseph Hogan to be Parish Priest, Easkey and Parish Priest Dromore West.

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Pat, any idea what became of Joh Connolly – formerly of Armagh Diocese; he seems to have dropped off the radar? A onetime favourite of the last cardinal……….Is he one of the disappeared?

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2.39 Yes he is, but of his own integrity and volition. Eamon Martin bullied him on the back of outrageous opposition to his prudent decision making in his parish. I am close to moving the feminised form of that name, so well versed am I in his dirty tricks.

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I agree Bill. Martin cannot be described as a person.if “blameless life”. Bullies are brutes.

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2.58 We shall always disagree on that Pat. In terms of inappropriate sexual behaviour , Eamon Martin is of “blameless life.” Unlike you Pat, I do not have a bishops chair but if I did what I say would be “ex Cathedra.” There was a decency to Eamon Martin, good parents and good family but he sold his soul to The Great Slut.

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We have no knowledge of Eamon Martin’s sex life.

There is good reason to think it might all be in his head.

But hey! Even Homer nods.

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Well said Bill. John Connolly is indeed a man of high integrity and intelligence. I have no doubt that he will do well at whatever he does in the future. Not one person who entered Maynooth in 1987 for Armagh is to be found in ministry. All married and moved on with their lives, which I am sure John will do too.

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The last time they appointed a ypung priest, not long ordained, as a Maynooth dean, it was a disaster. Fr Cathal Ó Fearraí (now the PP of Ballyshannon) was ordained in 1974 and appointed Junior Dean in 1977. He hadn’t even served in a parish but had been doing further studies. Fr McGinnity was Senior Dean and discipline collapsed under both of them, leading to a crackdown in the 1980s when Ledwith was president and new deans were brought in.

One of the big problems with bringing in this shy curate, with the oil still wet on his hands, is that nowadays there is only one dean at a time in Maynooth. There used to be three in post at any one time and their personalities and priorities evened each other out. This new dean will be stand alone, so will be withoout the support, advice and wisdom of fellow deans.

All in all, it is a stupid appointment. It would be as crazy as appointing a young priest as the spiritual director.

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Appointing ANY priest to a position of authority seems to me utterly crazy and irresponsible.

There should be lay appointees in these positions, older, wiser, better psychologically adjusted than the vast majority of priests.

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PS Sometimes the sexually “pure” are the worst of all.

I once saw a vodka add which read:

SO PURE – ITS WICKED

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Anybody know why Liam Bergin, the sacked ex-rector of the Irish College, is working in a parish in Boston, instead of in his home diocese of Ossory, which has had very few vocations in recent decades? Why isn’t he helping out at home?

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What’s so special about Liam Bergin that he swans around Rome for years and then gets to live in America? Would he be wasted in Kilkenny?

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5.24 Despite Mary Mc Aleeses letter to the Vatican to make him a bishop, the man is a total liability to his organisation. His Bumbsioousness in NY has all the necessary.

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How’s Mary McAleeses bridge at Drogheda doing these days? Wide open for business I assume? Lol.

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The appointment of this young curate has less to do with him and his ability to “form” and more to do with Phoncie’s desire to have a deeper role – and contact – in the running of the National Seminary.

Few enough other bishops who have younger clergy would ever consider letting them leave the diocese to take on such a role, believing their diocesan needs come first. Phoncie has no such qualms. He appears to have calculated that with this appointment, he now has a direct line into seminary formation for the rest of the Irish Church. It is about his needs, no-one else’s.

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I suspected that too, 3.43pm. Sensible bishops would refuse to release a young priest for that work. The new dean is Phonsie’s proxy and Phonsie will pull the levers to get the dean to approve for ordination the type of priests that Phonsie wants for the Irish Church.

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A pity Phonsie wouldn’t send John Nally, once the youngest PP in the country, to do that job.

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Golf is a damn fine game, enjoyed by those of us educated in the fine and upstanding tradition of our Island of Saints & Scholars at Cistercians, Jesuits, Glenstal and other iconic producers of our finest politicians and professionals ruling our Emerald Isle this fine day.

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Pat at 4.56: You did much of that once. Didnt you? – in search of your man!!!! Not as pure as the driven snow…🤗😘🤗😅🤣😂😁🙏🙏🙏🙏..

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Can you point out to me even one occasion when I spoke of myself as pure as the driven snow?

Venue? Date?

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That director of formation would do well to interview with +Pat and show his qualities. He’ll be on the blog anyway, might as well be here

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4.35 Like any decent guy in their ranks ( Paul Murphy, Armagh), time now to jump, his appointment to Maynooth is a perfect parachute ( I know nothing of the man ). Jump young man and embrace life, do not get mangled with the dross coming forward to be priests. Give some credence to my years please. WM

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It’s a great lifestyle, Pat. Hardly any sems to deal with, summer off, no parishoners, and the very congenial Downton Abbey style living arrangements and meals and cellar enjoyed by the resident priest staff in Maynooth

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Maynooth will soon end up as an extravagant hotel. I give it ten years before they’re forced to sell.

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6.58: Your constant assessing of priests whom you judge by your “superior” lifestyle suggests were all filth. All are judged as less than you. Thank you for admitting to not being pure…Of course you’re not. You’re human.

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What nobody mentioned so far is that the phone number to call for bookings is in Phonsie’s diocesan office.

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17.20 Trying to decide which diocese I shall apply my merciless scrutiny…bishop or priest…Cashel I would love “to go” for…the C..T!

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How can Fr. Shane be taken from a diocese when there’s a shortage of vocations? It’s so unfair on the people. The diocese is on its knees!!!

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“The diocese is on its knees”. That’s a great position for gay anal sex but it’s usually referred to as “doggy style”. You need to keep up my dear.

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Fr Willie yells out ‘Made for More’ at the start of that video like a possessed banshee. Made for more sex, kinks, drugs, kids, booze, exotic holidays, cash, big cars…

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I traveled to Cork recently concerning the incumbent in Meath. I may well travel to Waterford, though Waterford I think is continent !!!! So boring as opposed to embracing his promises with integrity. Meath….phew !!!!

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Can you speak English, you gombeen.
Coming on here with your stupid claptrap and threats.
You’re nothing but a sick joke ,full of hot air with nothing in your life. Get help.

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6.29 Constitutionally speaking English is the poor relation, do you have an aptitude for the first language of the Nation ? Only asking..ochon ages ochon O ……Lol

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Bergin and Drumm ( Land Registry does not lie) or the Duchess of Leinster and Lady Balbriggan….Hobsons choice.

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Is Paul Byrne in his parish ( Termonfeckin) or not ? Is Clayton-Lea filling in the gaps ( as only that man can) ?

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Father Seamus O’ Brien, Scotts Valley, California left the Archdiocese of Dublin. There is nothing he does not know about where what is buried. A very interesting story .

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5.45 You missed the import….Lol….Lol….Lol…..ask Seamus…..unless you are one of the chaplains he appointed…..or to RE research in Dublin. There was only one requirement!!

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The S.M.A. fathers……for the next 100 years they will be paying out…..what a pack of ……..Why did Malachy Flanagan never return to Africa ?

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6.19: Bill, you’ll never match the incredible outreach the SMA’s have achieved. You are probably the most narcissistic looper to inhabit this blog…You ought to be very careful about your allegations. What a shoddy, lazy, shady life you live! Remember Down Under!!!!!

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6.50 Early morning. Very warm where I am. Was it not an incredible day ? On your comment, may I simply reply, I only have to close my eyes and Down Under still brings me incredible immense pleasure. I well remember. I don’t have a lazy bone in my body and quite the busy ones on remembering.

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What can Fergal Rooney( now Dr Rooney of St John Of Gods Stillorgan) in conscience tell the world about the Diocese of Raphoe ? Bill Mulvihill

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Gerard Brophy ( Chief Social Worker HSE), an old friend and classmate of mine has the most extraordinary story of his time as a student in Rome ( I still have the letters he wrote to me from there) and for his few years as a priest in Kildare to tell. Extraordinary. WM

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6.53: In What way is the SMA question valid? Because Mulvihill Inferred something..What do YOU, Pat surmise? YOU.

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10.07 At Bishop Buckleys assent to my request, when I have the documents together , they will be published here, spero. There was no deal.

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6.21 Fergal Rooney was the deacon at my ordination ( along with Gerry Campbell of Armagh, a very decent fellow) and we were classmates, I hope still friends but its a decade and more now. Some of my best holidays were in his company. Fergal is one of the most decent guys to ever have been ordained. He saw the light and has enjoyed great life success. I am glad to have had a friend such as him, a beautiful human being. An extremely attractive man too…still if youtube is dependable!!!! His work, such as it is would be so therapeutic for his patients/clients. The fondest of memories. His scriptural quote on his ordination card if I remember correctly was ” When I think of you, I pray with joy.” I do. Bill Mulvihill

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Who are all the begrudging nut jobs on this blog who question why priests work in non parochial roles? There’s no shortage of priests in Irish dioceses. Look around where are the faithful for them to minister to? They’re all gone or dead. To minister to people you need to believe they have souls and this is highly doubtful in most cases. Remember the wonderful line of Patrick Kavanagh about rural Monaghan: “pity the young priest, somewhat educated who has to believe these people have souls”. In over 25 years as a priest in Waterford this is my experience. Better to treat the priesthood as it is, a gift to be enjoyed. So I say, more power to Liam Bergin in Boston and Edmond Cullinan in Rome and all the others who have avoided the drudgery of parish life. This narrow minded begrudging insistence on priests being in parishes has driven all the talent out of the church. We’re left with semi literate gobdaw sycophants or sluts who use holy mother church to access their conquests.

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It pains me to have to come back from the dead to do this work on the blog. But our lord bishop, Alphonsus II, asked for my help in his prayers.
Did you know he has asked to be called Alphonsus II as he is the second holder of that name to sit on St Carthage’s cathedra. Richard Alphonsus Sheehan of glorious memory was the first.

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6:48
” Better to treat the priesthood as it is, a gift to be enjoyed.”
A gift to be enjoyed at the Faithfuls expense. The so called talent in the church covered up abuse corruption and criminality for decades. The cover ups continue to this day. Back to school with you.

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You nob head. You prove my point. Uneducated slapar salach. The reference to enjoying the priesthood is a take on Clement V who is supposed to have said “God has given us the papacy, let us now enjoy it”. You lot are so easy to wind up. Literal minded simpletons. Know your place or get lost and become Presyterians.

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6.48 that’s right Frank, to hell with the begrudgers. Our priest friends could teach the misery guts on here a thing or two or three even about the importance of having a good time & living in the moment.

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Well said, Grainne! Misery guts and literal minded sots. They should all go off and join Boyd Barrett or Paul Murphy. Then they can whine and infinitely about justice, equality, sefishness, misery, mediocrity and “me rights”.

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6:48 : Are you a priest? Do you believe in the teachings of the Catholic Church?
Your comment sounds very selfish. In fact it seems to me to exude selfishness.

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So you prefer priests who are so exhausted from running from a to b all the time that they have nothing to offer, nothing of depth to say, old clashing gongs of vacuity. You haven’t heard the parable of Martha and Mary have you? All this activism and quantification of everything is the ruination of God’s gift to us his priests and his holy bride the Church.
Our wonderful bishop here in Waterford & Lismore understands these things. Bishop Alphonsus II is such a fan of Fr Mulvihill too.

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I forgot to ask, does Bishop Alphonsus II know he is such a fan of Fr Mulvihill ? And does Fr. Bill Mulvihill know Bishop Alphonsus II is such a fan, if he is a fan?

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9:49
Bishop Alphonsus II is so fortunate to have you to intercede to on his behalf whoever it is on high who listens to you. I didn’t know Alphonsus II is the second holder of that name to sit on St Carthage’s cathedra. There is quite a difference between the papacy, a mere curate or parish priest. You mention the parable of Martha and Mary, activism, and quantification. Martha and Mary were present to the Lord. They were not trying to jet set, climb the corporate ladder, or carve a career for themselves at the expense of the sheeple. It is interesting to learn your wonderful Bishop in Waterford & Lismore, Bishop Alphonsus II is such a fan of Fr Mulvihill.

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6.50pm Going riding for the remainder of the evening. Unable to reply now!! Hope you have as much fun as I do… the temperature helps! Me anyway!!!! Lol

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Oh Ferghal, mind your language dear but I concur with the sentiment. How’s Michael Carney doing? Playing his organ still?

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@6.51pm. Master William of BlackRock is the star of this blog. Such an intelligent, interesting and cultured man. I’m not surprised so many of the simple literal minded dunces on here can’t keep up with his erudition, lateral thinking and multi layered comments. Keep it up Master William. You brighten our days.

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11.45 Thank you Edward Cornelis. Thank you very much, for your scholarship and wisdom, also the kindness of your comment. Bill Mulvihill

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6.51: Mr. Kinky: do us all a favour and ride off into the sunset or preferably fall of your mount!!!

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6.56 When I was learning to Kite surf, my instructor who was French told me I was the only student he ever had that never crashed the Kite on the beach. I have never fallen of the mount, whatever I might have been straddling. I like vanilla ice cream best, plain food cooked well is the sure sign of a good cook or Chef. No favours for you.

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Shane O Neill is much cuter now. You should see him out of black and the new haircut makes him quite a ride. Watch out Gaynooth!

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Saw the high number of comments. Thought there would be a lot of them from Bonkers Bill M. Quick scroll showed me I was right. So won’t make the effort to go through the comments. Sorry Pat.

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7.50pm Sure you already did, you scrolled, nobody naked you read them. But you did put in the effort: Good Man. WM

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Bill, you’re not going to tell all about meself and Laurence Boyle naked in the Irish College pool at midnight, are you?

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7.52 You did write among the many exotic things of Rome which you wrote of, to me on the fields of Kildare, that the taps did not run with water but with Gin and that was 1986!!!!! They were the days of Hanley and the daily squeezes that went with his prayer ( spelling error) life.

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He’s another Director of Formation who has left the priesthood – in his case in December 2021. Elphin got 13 years out of him post-ordination, albeit only a couple of those were actually in Elphin – the rest were further studies, followed by a short spell as a curate, then a college chaplain, then DoF in the Irish College and, lastly, vice rector in the Irish College. He is now a student at Georgetown, the SJ university in Washington DC.

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He was a priest for only 6 years when he was made director of formation in Rome. Another stupid appointment by Kevin Doran, wanting to put his finger in the Irish College pie. He is now studying “intersectional theology”, whatever that is.

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10.16
I can only think maybe temporary assistant as I have never heard that T.A. before

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At least he didn’t run off for a woman. That’s definitely never going to happen. He got a right old spin out of the Church, gaining three degrees, several years in Rome and he managed to dodge parish work successfully. Well done!

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This site posted the Voris nonsense about that American Carmel. Various former novices tell their story refuting an unstable monastery hopper’s dubious claims. Everything on that Opus Dei operation Church Militant is dubious. If they said water was wet, I’d run a tap just to check. Endless calumny on it.

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Yet strangely they were all rejected. I don’t think I’ve ever seen so much suppressed homosexuality in my life.

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I can’t help but feel that the bishops should only accept men of 50 or over as seminarians. After ordination they could do maybe 20 years in a parish. The young ones only do 5 years on average before coming out of the closet and leaving (with a very rare hetero exception). Sometimes they leave within a year of two of ordination. You’d get a better return on investment from the older men.

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Ironically older seminarians would be more likely to have the resources to leave more easily if they want – a house and profession to go back to, say.
Aren’t people funny.

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10.41, that’s true, but they tend not to leave, either because their options are fewer or because they have already “found themselves” before entering, know who they are and don’t use formation and the priesthood as a long, expensive journey of self-discovery.
I really do think that accepting young men into seminary nowadays is an expensive farce, given that they all leave not long after ordination.

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@10.58 Can you not drag yourself into 2022 and think outside the Tridentine box? Who needs seminaries? They don’t work and are an unhealthy relic. The church got on fine for 1500 years without them. Talk about fiddling while Rome burns. There’s as much imagination among some of you as in my cat’s ass crevice.

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The Church was fine lol. Tell that to Luther and the other reformers. Seminaries were part of Trent’s response to the problems of clerical vice, absenteeism, ignorance and simony, all of which we have with us again now that discipline has collapsed again.

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10.59 No it has not. Remember before the 90,s, not a whimper about the sexual crimes of RC priests. Its still like that with the subject you are addressing. The silence is temporary….now that could be 20 years but it will happen. The great thing about this Blog: it is a public record.

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10.15: And your cat woukd appear to be more clever and imaginative than you, philistine!! Maiow, maiow, maiow..🐺🐺🐺🐺🐺🐺🦊🦊🦊🦊🦊🦊…

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