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WHY ARE MODERN PRIESTS SO SEXUALLY ACTIVE?

I have the very strong impression that Catholic priests are much more sexually active than in the past.

I know clerics were sexually active in antique and medieval times.

But nowadays we hear if new clerical sexual scandals every single day.

If its not priests abusing children it’s priests showing their genitalia on the internet and looking for sexual “action”.

Or priests masturbating in public!

And perhaps it’s the world wide internet and the ever present media that is letting us know more about these things?

I attended daily Mass from the age of 4. I knew and met an awful of priests.

I cannot imagine the good priests I knew being sexually active – priests like Fr John Hyde SJ; Canon John Pierce and Fr Joe Collins – Ballygall parish, Dublin and Monsignor John Shine, Waterford.

What’s causing the recent and present glut of clerical scandals

1. Priests having less morals than in previous generations?

2. The failure of priestly formation?

3. The influence of the secular, materialistic and permissive society?

4. The Internet and international media?

5. Celibacy no longer being accepted by priests?

6. The work of Satan?

I’d like to readers views on this.

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175 replies on “WHY ARE MODERN PRIESTS SO SEXUALLY ACTIVE?”

What happens in the church is far more influenced by the society surrounding it (in some ways) than it likes to think. For example in parts of the world where church attendance has collapsed it has collapsed for all churches.
The increased sexual activity could be explained by increased opportunities for sex presented by apps like Grindr so numbers 3 and 4 of your choices, although I’m sure many a priest clocked up huge numbers of partners in cottages and bathhouses years ago.

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Haven’t you seen in Lumen Gentium where it says ‘Have sex instead of going to mass?’ 🤣
11:56 is a troll.

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8:18 The fact that you are in here making silly comments proves that “the laugh is on you”, Padre!!

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Patsy whats up with ya? I’m still laughing here at that utter nutter @8:18am and you never printed my reply.🤣🤣🤣 I hope you’re not being partial again!

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Don’t get me wrong, I’d be very happy indeed to see the whole Catholic church use the old mass and all the dressing up like Widow Twankey and prancing about it involves.
Just to see how it improves mass attendance 🤣

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Possibly, if you read V2 as meaning an aggressively Modernist reading, the called Spirit of Vatican 2. Pope Francis or people around him (a priest handling abuse claims saw his promotion, tho not his role in a dicastery cancelled when Francis or Roche, bankrupter of Leeds heard he used to offer TLM). Radical smashing up of sanctuaries, removing altar rails which weren’t just apostolic but recalled the Temple, smashing up altars and not just moving them forward (it’s meant to be one not a High Altar and separate Table per SC), seminaries which were sinking pre-V2 (Paul Shanley and Brendan Smyth are two notorious pre V2 paedo priests) turned really gay or at least toxic, liturgical chaos etc.
Anyhow if that is taken as a shorthand for unwise interpretations and tendencies, then perhaps V2 could be given as an answer. Card. Montini of Milan spoke clearly in Latin at V2 for the conservative position of Latin ordinary but translated propers and Pater noster, yet went radical as Pope.

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Bishop,
It is not just in the church. It is everywhere and it’s probably the internet. Everyone has a phone, everyone has access to porn. Younger people are so far advanced nowadays compared to us. But it is not just in the church. They are products of their times.

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@ 4:29pm

Well considering that was the way it was for hundreds of years with packed Churches and no one considered that the clergy were dressing up. Now when they dress down and prance about in the dreaded polyester and perform to empty churches Mass attendance has plummeted that should answer your question.😉

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7:30 You’re wrong in every way. The slightest grasp of history would stop you making such a wrong comment.

You are exactly what is meant by the ahistorical nature of the so called trad movement. It’s purely cosplay with nothing behind it, and so are you.

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New kind of Church??😅 That’s a nice way of saying ‘dying as we speak’ Church.

Delusion: The Sequel.

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Priests are not more sexually active. Celibacy has never worked. Many peers were known to be steady with their housekeepers. A % were child abusers. A few were homosexuals but too afraid to admit it.
Nowadays why hide with a housekeeper when ye can be happier together elsewhere. The child abusers are gone(ish) but the homosexuals are admitting what they are, and in a generation will follow the example of priests & housekeepers who can be happier elsewhere.
How this is happening is dysfunctional because Maynooth and many other seminaries fail to form the men properly- but the formators are all trained in the same place in the US…. hence the similarity of failure

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Armagh has just sent a straight seminarian to Maynooth, their first straight seminarian in many years. He will be eaten alive. The new entrants (all four of them) started on Saturday.

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87 entered in my first year in Maynooth (1986) and all the other Irish seminaries were also open and received first years of their own that year too.

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Bill, are you raging that you didn’t get yourself a soft number in Australia, as Eamonn Conway’s doing?

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Dear Pat,
It is important to acknowledge that never before have people lived in such a sexualised society. This includes priests. However, this does not excuse say, a former young priest of Dungannon offering a family member sex in a Dungannon public park. Nor does it excuse the same cleric’s extremely promiscuous behaviour with young gentlemen in the Dungannon area, some of which has made very uncomfortable reading on this blog. It is interesting how the suspect in question has been afforded education in a European university to facilitate accreditation with a PhD; perhaps to pursue a career in academia, draining the coffers of the faithful. Eamon Martin had, it appears, been aware of this priest’s problems for quite some time.
Meanwhile why are schools in Tyrone developing links with this man, and who within the schools is initiating this? What is being hidden? Are gay relationships at play here with school professionals?
Pharmaceuticals, midnight forest adventures, Grindr mishaps… this is the HOR D’OUVRES, Pat.
“Never mistake arrogance for intellect.”
A strong understanding has developed that few among the Armagh clergy are disappointed to see his downfall. It appears he has ‘milked’ the calling for all its worth.

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Never before have people lived in such a sexualised society? I think the Greco-Roman world could gives ours a run for its money, with virtues like pederasty a rite of passage for young men.

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The ancient Romans were coomers, while nowadays more and more just settle for the phone or computer screen. The phallus was an almost generic good luck ornament and brothels were ubiquitous, altho in Papal Rome they were common enough and one reason why 18C young bucks on the Grand Tour might hire a couch to speed through the sites and then settle down in one of the higher class bordellos or drinking establishments.

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10.05 Oh, but I did…you just don’t know yet and it’s in a denser state ( thought you might like the use of that word). It’s mine in the next academic year if I accept…nothing whatsoever ever to do with the Slut of Satan.

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The Slut of Satan is a good payer, as you have found. You had no objections when the Armagh cheque book appeared.

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What exactly are you qualified to teach in a university setting? I realise academia is in a sorry state but is Shit Stirring now a recognised course of studies?

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Smartphones have played a big part in the exposure of these 2 faced undisciplined and self entitled clergy and their nasty agenda ridden scurrilous buddies.

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8.20: You’ve posted this comment several times. You, sir, should be the brave one! Are you of moral probity?

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Priests have far too much time – devil makes work for idle hands. Surrounded by volunteers & addicted to mobile phone dating apps, gossiping and generally being a nightmare & making headaches for the Bishops.

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The priests that play together – the non penetrative group – are worse than the average priest sleeping with lay people.
The group of them laugh behind the backs of clergy with two fingers up.

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Hi Pat,
there are a number of reasons for this but you have to frame in the context of modern times and social mores, which are now reflected on the church rather than the church dictating anything.
Humans are sexual creatures; we love a bit of it and modernity has simply allowed that to run free. Inhibitions have been thrown aside. Conservative commentators like to blame the media but the media in the west runs with the hare and chases with the hound; it is not the hunter. TV channels like MTV etc have certainly accelerated the sexualization of society but they are simply tapping a well bursting at the seams. I’m in my 50s and even I will choose the local news channel with the nicest ladies; its eye candy and bear in mind I am long past my prime. To see this in action all you need do is visit a large town in Ireland on weekend night; the clothes and social mores are unthinkable from 30 years ago, and that is because the church has been defeated and nature has taken over, as it always does eventually. Women have been liberalized and have no qualms about looking for what they want; LGBTQ society is now largely accepted by all except a few cavemen and the elderly. Ireland was always horny; the priests put a wet blanket on it but now that’s gone. And it is great.
All systems work in equilibrium and the pressure from outside has made the church a good deal hornier, frankly. The issue for the church and priests is that novices are now exposed to more allurements than at any time previously; their heads are turned long before they join the seminary. Homosexuality is still a bit of a titter and joke in the less cultured parts of the country e.g. Kerry so a lot of closet gays are still going to deny their reality and join the priesthood to try bury their urges. Of course they join many other gays in the priesthood – so you have an explosive mix of horny young men all together and therefore there is going to be a lot of sex. Unfortunately for the church it also attracts deviants and paedophiles looking for easy access to children and the vulnerable. But all these urges are external; they are not inherently the churches fault, it is simply nature (in the case of paedos a faulty frontal lobe, apparently). There is no Satan involved.

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So, really, there is no such thing as vocation to the priesthood? It’s all a myth put about by these men, because God himself would not have permitted any such configuration?

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There is no scope or provision anywhere in the Bible for a priesthood, full stop. Make of that what you will.

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Exactly. When you take the New Testament’s provisions alone what you get is a variety of gifts and ministry, only one of which is being a pastor, and congregational polity.

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Society today is hyper-sexualised, and Holy Mother Church is permeable. Like you Pat, I have fond memories of many holy priests from my years as a novice and scholastic and I just can’t imagine that they would have been sexually active. I have memories of some elderly priests in our order who – in my opinion at the time – were just completely oblivious to everything with regards to sex and women etc, such was the norm at the time. These are chaps who would have been through the mill in the 30s and 40s.
As a novice I had a sexual relationship with a novice sister over a period of two years. I don’t think it did me any harm. I can say that I have been faithful to celibacy ever since – 30+ years. A quick google tells me that she is still a nun in the UK, which tells me that she mustn’t have any issues either.

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Neither of you had a vocation. Both of you should have left. You wanted it all, at the expense of the faithful.

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9.57: As said by 10.32: Absolute rubbish. I concur. That bith peoole continued in their respective vocations is wonderful, probably enriched by their reciprocal love for one another. Don’t be such a cruel, judgmental prude. Wonder what your “love life” is like, even with God?

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You all go on about these priests having sex – who are they having sex with? Name and shame them all!
No offence but I’ve yet to see a nice looking priest, hottest would be Fr Derek Ryan and even he is piling on the pounds lately.

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You answered this yourself, Pat, some time ago, and more than once: many priests don’t pray anymore.
They don’t pray, or pray very little, because they no longer feel that they need God. They have cast themselves adrift from him and from his protections, becoming easy prey for their appetites, especially carnal ones.
When a man loses his need for God, the next thing to go is his moral self-discipline. He tells himself: why bother trying any longer? And he let’s himself go. Except it isn’t a letting-go: it’s a falling. And the damage to self, and others, is great, but it is rarely acknowledged by him, because he has become spiritually blind.

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Pat will you allow us today to throw out names of priests we suspect are in sexual relationships, they are of course more than welcome to defend themselves on your good blog.

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8:23am. You chat this shit every week. Set up your own blog and name and shame to your heart’s content. Ffs.

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What about the priest that lives in my street in his boyfriends house – miles from the presbytery. Nephew and uncle my arse!

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We should all be allowed to have a healthy and legal sex life. Fair play to the priests getting their leg over.

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I thought that’s why these men become Priests, because they are sexually inadequate. Yet you are telling us they are all at it like rabbits? Hypocrites

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This is only the tip of the iceberg our Pat. Look at the cross dressing priest in Tyrone that freely walks about the town with tights on under his trousers.

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Lord have mercy on any Priest that ever baptised a child of mine with hands that have been all over other men.

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Cathy, the Lord won’t have mercy on that priest: he doesn’t care what the priest does, for the simple reason he doesn’t exist.

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It may seem as though priests of the past were more observant and sexually continent. However, I think it has to do with the lack of means, ways and opportunities of observation and uncovering back in those days. Life was so local and contained. News did not get out and about, and could be silenced very easily. The last 30 years have seen an explosion of means and ways of communicating, and this has seen us able to peer in to the recesses of the clerical carcass and to see what is really going on. So, no, I do not think priests of the past were holier or more observant, rather just unknown about. Priests of today carry on in exactly the same ways, but now we know about it. Just as well. When I see a priest I ask myself what they really are up to when they think that nobody is looking ? What is the flip side of the persona they portray in public ? You might think that is unduly cynical, but remember that the clergy have brought this on themselves and have themselves undermined any trust we could have in them by their egregiously scandalous, evil and criminal behaviour. They have lied to us, they have hoodwinked us, they have used us. Why should I not look twice and question what this priest before me is really about and up to ? And, there is usually something……. !

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I think in the past priests were prevented in some ways, for example some religious wearing the habit, which would make them instantly recognisable.

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9.15 It is perhaps even more simple; mass communication, everything is brought into the light…well sort of…Lol

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The fake natural law of the church is plainly wrong. When you leave humans to follow their nature we have multiple partners and make alliances in tribes rather than couples. When left to our nature we also create ways to prevent pregnancy and transmission of disease.
When you observe our true nature it is apparent that sex is actually about pleasure and relationships, and the biological imperative to reproduce is only part of it – we’re not beasts.
We have to stop reaching for an unattainable human nature which is suppose to have existed before a notional fall. The Roman church wants us to reproduce as if we were cattle.

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9.18, our ‘true’ nature is not about appetites or inclinations, but about making right choices among them.

We are not our appetites or inclinations, but we can become them, if we choose. It’s called ‘addiction to the wrong things,.

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How can nature be about a choice? 🤣
Luckily humanity has abandoned your superstition and ignorance.

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1.54, you call that a serious question?
If not about choices, then about what? A form of determinism in which we have no will (no ability to choose) what is done? No choice but to hit out and injure or kill when provoked? No choice but to be greedy and allow others to starve?
You’re a troll.

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I am good catholic woman, I forgive husband for affair with Priest but struggle to forgive father for his immoral sin

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Reply to; Claresays:
Sep 6, 2022 at 9:28 am
Odd! How women betrayed, always can forgive their partner, husband, boyfriend for playing away or, for batting for the other side, but are unable to, or, unwilling to forgive the other participant in the tryst, whether in a straight or gay relationship. Is it possible they are fooling themselves? Some men and women are bisexual and, after all, if adults are involved, “it takes two to tango”.

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Bisexuality was the cause of the spread of HIV and AIDS in the 80’s.
Studies by Fred Thaun proved in the 90s that bisexual people who participate in active activity were more than 50 times sufferers from severe mental health issues such as Bipolar Disorder, Schizophrenia, Clinical Depression and a range of personality disorders.

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The usual lack of analysis driven by bigotry and inability to think at 2:05. 🤣

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The great Chinese philosopher Pei Wei Chi once observed, ‘man who satisfy one needs will be happy, man who abstain from one’s own happiness, will drive himself insane’.

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Roman Catholic Church is a dark world of abusive, corrupt and criminal ordained & lay members all in cohoots & totally unrepentant but completely invested in discrediting & silencing victims. Expect nothing and you will not be disappointed.

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Much has been written about priesthood, celibacy and sexuality. Much has been written about the levels of deviant, criminal behaviour among clergy. The question of “why” so much deviant sexual behaviour among clergy is a very necessary question but difficult to answer. All of the reasons given constitute a big part of the problem. I can recall some wonderful priests and religious who inspired greatly. Their lives seemed busy and very ordered and structured. The seminary I trained in gave us a similar training and I felt there were standards and ideals I had to adhere to. Boundaries were absolutely important. There were aberrations but nothing that shocked us in ways that unearthed scandals would subsequently do. It would appear that in more recent decades sexual/celibacy behavioural scandals became more widespread. We continue to understand why this is so. All scandals revealed in recent decades point to the absolute necessity to redefine, change and renew the concepts of being a Church community gathered around Christ, ministry, service, discipleship, priesthood. One of the realities we overlook is that there is little accountability to anyone in priesthood. Once ordained, you literally chart a way that’s either noble, worthy and honourable – nourished by the Eucharist, prayer, scripture – and which is of CHRIST or we settle for less. Rarely are we accountable at the level of the quality and fruits of our work. Rarely are we accountable about our psychological or spiritual well being. Rarely are we assessed about our levels of administration, pastoral and outreach responsibilities. Unless we have a strong inner strength and resilience to what we commit to at ordination, we can just drift and do our own thing. Many of us have a sense of duty and endeavour to be faithful to what is expected of us. We are in very changed times with much to do.

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9.42 There was a Limerick PP….he is dead….he sold his extensive library to the University of Limerick ( Those who know that will recognise him) for a very considerable amount of money. That priest disclosed to his much younger lover….x bank and now owns a Dublin off-licence…that when he was a student on Maynooth, there were only two fellows in his class that he did not have some “adolescent sexual encounter ” with. More detail if necessary. Things are not so changed….mass communication….the internet and of course Pat Buckley Blog!!!!!

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Didn’t happen. As if a university library would pay for the old books of a PP. Even Maynooth doesn’t accept dead PP’s libraries, even when offered free.

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10.00: The issues Pat raises for today ask for necessary dialogue and debate. What are the explanations for so many cases of deviant, unacceptable, egregious, criminal behaviour and sexual abuses by clergy? Therefore, shouldn’t we engage specifically in the questions we need to ask and find some explanations in ways that are helpful, enlightening and constructive, in ways that lay bare the diagnosis and then define a framework of practical and enforceable solutions. This is a profound issue and is vital for an entire syntheses to be understood and implemented. Before any solutions we must name the entire reality of priesthood and celibacy, leadership and clerical sexual abuses. Why? How? What must we do? Naming wrongdoing and wrongdoers is essential and has happened. This blog has done this, sometimes cruelly and nastily, yet necessary. We know now have sufficient information and revelations to warrant urgent action. I’m not sure that your daily contributions are conducive to this dialogue and debate. Are your allegations and innuendos and implied judgments conducive to constructive debate? As the day unfolds you generally contribute many irrelevant and disconnected comments, often responding to yourself and correcting grammar and spellings! Can you be constructively critical by offering “solutions”? Today’s issues are crying out for answers and solutions not a jigsaw of verbiage. I hope Pat will moderate the blog today, unlike yesterday when, by afternoon to evening, it was transformed into a horrow show!! And some people must have grieved with hurt and humiliation!

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11:24 Not always donations, they also sometimes negotiate payment, particularly if the collection is particularly rare.

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‘As if a university library would pay for the old books of a PP.’
There must be a university somewhere that has a use for a tatty breviary, a Denzinger that hasn’t been touched for decades and a complete run of Zipper?

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10am don’t academic libraries normally receive donations of books and materials? No doubt sheep paid for books Fr sold to University.

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Cahal “Cackle” Daly donated his books to Queen’s University, Belfast. They weren’t sure what to do with them, so they sent them to their short-lived outreach campus in Armagh. I visited the Armagh campus building one time and was given a tour by one of the academics. Cahal’s books were in a small, unvisited room and the don said that they were like the contents of a second hand book shop and were never consulted by the students, who were doing adult education course in community development and the like. I wonder where they are now?

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10.13: Yours is the kind of comment that’s utterly bankrupt. Empty, silly, vacuous. Try being constructive and add intelligently to the issues Pat raises today.

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11.24 The priest I am referring to was of very wealthy stock. He could have purchased the University!!! I M sure he gave more to the RCC than he ever received, like alot of clergy of those years.

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Thought I saw a gay parade when cardinals walking in two’s towards PF re new cardinals. They must be laughing at us, the world.
First time that I saw it re gay parade was documentary movie ‘mea maxima culpa’. Then a photo from Martel book and video clip from twitter I think damian Thompson.
Then a comment that I posted it to CTS re ‘ gay parade’ which wasn’t posted cos tad too sensitive for them.
Starting to think that he (jesus) didn’t started rcc.
Reasons :
Cardinal isn’t biblical. Started around 9th C.
Celibacy is a discipline. Started around 11th C to prevent woman claiming properties as such (from their husbands).
Marriage was there long before rcc. Look at a wedding in Cana re bible.
Baptism started with John the Baptist long before rcc.
Apostolic succession not possible cos there was a break in between plus schism with the orthodox church in 10?
Tradition which can be changed or altered over time by man which is Pope. Its a man made one.
Finally, too much legalism in rcc had me saying that isn’t coming from God. Cos no love.
I learned this from deceased Donegal Catholic healer, who said where is faith in rcc?
Bishops kicked him out to hotel conference rooms, halls, small rooms et al. He isn’t perfect but something he said re bishops and priests don’t preach the dangers to faith such new age therapies and healing etc. Spies for bishops didn’t like it when they heard him saying it. He used to work as a sacristan in a Catholic church in Belfast.

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This headline is like saying there were no gays back in the old days! I’m pretty certain priests were just as horny pricks and kiddy fiddlers back then and even more so as there was world wide web to relieve urges, and there was no WWW to speak of information, and God forbid a Newspaper or The Papyrus Times (would be a great name for a paper 😀) would publish any story anti-clergy as the printing houses burned to the ground and the editors sure murdered. To to say its different today, is absolute niave and the highest level!

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Anon at 10.26am

There were stories of abuses going back to early 1920’s in rcc. But in Cabra, I heard stories of it as well, going back up to 1930’s. But I would assume that it went back a lot further to 1700’s re rcc abuses.
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Its not just vat 2 re decline. Fr Smyth was ordained in pre vat 2 as he was first reported in Germany in 1965 by a certain Bruno Mulvhill. He went on and on until it caught up with him in North Ireland and ROI as well.

Lot of abusers like mc Carrick who was ordained in pre Vatican 2. It doesn’t end there cos it punched a massive hole in rcc and America where long term reputational damage are deeply felt. First it started with Boston then cardinal Law and then mc Carrick. When will it ever stop🤷‍♀️😉.
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In the same way, Bishop casey whose sexual prowess went wherever he went to. Bishop Casey punched a massive hole in RCC IRELAND and its reputational damage which was deeply felt in longer term and its consequences as well. Its like taking one brick off rcc house wall, which unstabilised the whole structure and fabric of rcc Ireland itself.

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I wonder bec jesus never said a word re sex or homosexuality in the bible nor did the Bible mention that jesus met people of same sex orientation. Was it omitted from the bible 🤷‍♀️🤷‍♀️🤷‍♀️.

Now its a full blown one, nearly everybody is doing it, not all of them though except for practising homosexuals even up to a rank of cardinals.

Bishops or cardinals have themselves to blame for cos

1. They allowed homosexual seminarians to be ordained.

2. With that knowledge, Bishops knew that homosexual seminarians turned into priests now will have sex somewhere in some places of their liking. So bishops knew it in the 1st place as they allowed it to flourish. They didn’t even try to stop it, just keep it within rcc walls as long as they behave etc.

Instead they go off preaching anti gay sermon to prove their credentials. KOB for one, freeman from diocese of Ossory et al.

3. No accountability, no responsibility so they can do whatever they like. Hence the exposure knowing that they will get away with it. Cos they will be protected by their bishops at all costs.

4. As young boy I didn’t understand the word ‘evil’ nor didn’t know that word until I was in my teens. I recognised that some nuns were evil in their actions even though I didn’t understand it at first until many years later. That led me to realise that there was NO OVERSIGHT at all whatsoever re evil actions done by rcc. Not even mc Quaid cos he hadn’t thought of it in the first place back in 1970.
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No oversight at bishops, cardinals and popes as well re their evil or sinful actions if any. That allowed them to get away umpteen times and still they are getting the monies from us on Sunday cash collection.

The day of reckoning will come when there is a ‘gay’ Pope. Its coming closer and closer cos we have gay cardinals then any one of them could be a Pope one day.

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Deaf Guy,
‘Its not just vat 2 re decline.’
Sssh, don’t tell them that, they might start to understand the difference between correlation and causation. Not that that understanding would help them to be intelligent about their situation. 😉

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Anon at 12.18pm

Correlation doesn’t imply causation as I learned some bit of economics here and there.
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If you want to add some science into it such as econometrics with p value to ascertain to see if it’s significant or not. But that doesn’t apply to a religious setting such as rcc cos its qualitative. But numbers re priests does fit in regards to quantitative aspect.

Trads might shout or roar about pre vat 2 and the decline right now. But it isn’t about pre vat2 per se. Its about loosing of their morals, authority, stopped talking about jesus et al which goes way back I guess. Although I could be wrong there. Decline of rcc has been quite glacial as it take centuries to undo them all. Now it’s gathering pace and getting a lot faster than we thought.

Implosion of rcc 🤔😉 with PF at helm 🤷‍♀️.

At end of the day, its all about loosing their morals, their authority questioned, they been living a lie or double lives.

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Deaf Guy at 11:44
They’ll be raging because they either won’t understand what you’re talking about or because it doesn’t fit their narrative.
I think since we’re talking correlation and causation we should make out the decline was caused by Marilyn Monroe’s death in 1962, since there is the same amount of evidence that both her death and Vatican 2 have caused their current ills.
Just don’t tell them the child rape had anything to do with it, they hate that. 😳

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11:00 While you’re obviously upset there should be a comment that isn’t all about you, if you follow the thread hierarchy up you will see my comment is connected to Deaf Guys original comment.
You don’t know how this works, do you?

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Anon at 11.59pm
Trads might scream or rant over vat2 Council re reasons for decline. Its called a distraction or diversion.
Decline of rcc goes way back a lot longer than we think. Nobody really knows it, to be honest with ya.
Is it Bugini and 1955 holy week? That’s where the cracks started to appear🤔🤦‍♀️
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Invention of technologies such as TV that brought it on re decline and loosing of morals et al. Blogs such as this or twitter of one certain Andrew Madden.
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child rape had been known for some time but it wasn’t exposed until Internet came in or books published such as Yallop, malachi Martin or Paddy Doyle. I heard stories of rape in Cabra as it goes back to 1930s even beatings as well. But it was shrouded in total secrecy. Hence rcc sheer addiction to secrecy cos of the pain of excommunication. Total secrecy by rcc was broken by leaks of their forbidden activities, it gotten more and more exposed as time went by. What I mean by forbidden activities aka fornication, double lives, nobody knows what’s inside the church walls after 6pm etc.
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Mass formation hypnosis by rcc (see pics of 1930s and 1940s, packed church or packed to rafters re outside Mass). Mass formation hypnosis broken by information technologies or something else that we don’t know.
I think although I could be wrong there, decline in rcc goes way back pre vat 2, way way back in much slower glacial pace before it went all boom via technology . Child rape was there around 1500s but no documentation etc. Cos of total obsession to their secrecy. Once their secrecy is broken, information starts to flow out.
Rcc started covering it up re their gaps or exposed to their flaws such as celibacy in 1100AD to ensue money was coming in and NOT out of their coffers. It was all about money was it? 🤷‍♀️🤷‍♀️🤷‍♀️

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11.59 The triumphalist Pope John knowing all the child rapes were going on couldn’t bring himself to ask for supplication for the Council (which God actually intended to help the world with the sexual revolution)

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We are “Hung” and need relief just like everyone else as we are only Human.
It is the norm just do not get caught and save grief for the Bishop.
Take the splinter out your own eye first 🙂

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Bill, your comment about mass information makes an interesting point.
Twice in history mass information has made a significant impact on the church of Rome.
The first was the invention of the printing press leading straight into the Reformation.
We are in the second today, when the internet has made it clear that actually the kiddy fiddling parish priest was not an aberration and actually the clergy are not celibate or even straight.
The fact that information is the enemy of the church is very striking – if they were honest, it wouldn’t be.

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11.26 Thank you Blogger…and Latin was the precursor to the internet…if you had Latin a world was open to you as the internet today. I agree, the most radical change in all of human history was the Printing Press…only outflanked by the rediscovery of electricity which changed everything. It is all about to change again with the lack of it. Bill

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Actually William, yes, I hadn’t thought of Latin. So perhaps there is a third one – when Latin ceased to be necessary for any education in the twentieth century.

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kiddy fiddling… Pat has unearthed no instances of that, just adult gay behavior… But nice that you combine three kinds of prejudice in one comment.

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You know, I don’t care if priests are sexually active. As long as they are honest and open about it. However, given that they belong to an organisation that still requires them to be celibate, and they connive in that nonsense, then when they are sexually active they are being hypocritical and living a lie. That’s the problem. And that is why I cannot have any respect for them. If a priest is honest and says that he wants a sexual relationship, and does the right thing and gives up the priesthood, then I would give him major respect. As it stands, when I see a priest I know that what I am seeing is not the truth or reality and that what I am seeing is a living lie. How do you expect me to have respect for that ? Any priest who complains that he is being wrongly judged, then I say, it is now time for you to prove it. Because, we know that the likelihood is that you are living a lie and we have had to put up with your duplicity for too long. So, the onus is now on you to show us that you are honest, can be trusted, and your private life is the same as your public professed life. How many would be willing or able to do that ? Sign up for a life of celibacy, live a life of celibacy, and stop lying to us. Or get out. We are not fools.

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Noddy thought he could change the narrative by circulating messages to the masses. Naughty Noddy. Why couldn’t you keep it under your tight belt? For the same reason you couldn’t keep your nob under it? There are pills for impulse control Noddy. Ask the druggist. The self professed witch is on her broomstick now and flying high because of your blunder. There will be no happy ending in this story Noddy. Deal with it.

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Just as priest now = nonce in the popular perception, so now it equals liar for anyone who knows the reality as revealed on this blog.
Their very calling and clothing means they are celibate but we know the majority are not. This is how we know they’re all liars.
I agree with the comments above that the priest and nun should both have left.

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I have put aside 6 hours tomorrow to dig out and arrange thise documents I shall send Bishop Buckley for publication in October if he ok s them. They are even more ” exciting ” than the last raft. Unfortunately, I must leave signal area until evening…La mer…a bientot.

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Are you sure that’s wise, Bileen? You made a fool of yourself in part 1, in which Amy went from zero to hero.

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12.51 Is that so …..there are three words for Truth in Aborigines Australian Culture…you would always remain with the first!

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Please Bill. Please. You made such a colossal tit of yourself and managed to make Eamon Martin look decent in comparison. Continue to contribute here and shoot your own toes to pieces. Your foes couldn’t do a better job.

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2.05: That crackhesd Mulvihill is domineering the blog again..His machinations are disgusting and representative of a nasty personality. He’s an avid attention seeker and an untrustworthy kèeper of information given to him, probably confidentially. Neither can Bill answer legitimate and necessary questions put to him.

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2.05 I shall….great medical strides in metatarsal reconstruction these days…and as you know I have great Vhi.

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12.17: Bill, despite the advice given to you abiut documents, you still inly think of yourself. Inky you matter in your world. Every serious topic which Pat presents, you take over with your issues…same yesterday and the day before..Last time re: documents, as said by many, Archbishop Martin came out as the one with integrity and honour.

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2.15 Oh Martin you are tiresome. Ever heard of Plato’s cave, you are seeing the shadows and I am certainly not taking down the screen for the likes of you.

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12.17: Bill, it would serve you better to sit 6 hours planning to lift up the broken and all in need than to plot your venngefulness against an Archbishoo who was more than kind, generous and decent towards you. You’re a prize act clown.

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3.23 I have done more of that today than you have done or will do in your whole life, you priestly veneer!

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3.23 The clown is the most essential in the circus…and what you belong to is the biggest circus on the planet….it’s the hidden cages of the RCC that are the scariest.

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5.04: Bill, I’m in no cave, thank you. I live in the real world of work and service. Since you reference Plato, this gem of wisdom from him is so applicable to you – “Wise men speak because they have SOMETHING to say: FOOLS because they have TO say something..”. Just a little frim Plato for your consideration. All the “raimeis” you spill out so frequently is not the elucidation from a “wise man”….so….!! The threads of your sentences are so disconnected, contorted and poorly constructed that you must shit at some of what you present. Get a ghost writer!. A little self knowledge is useful.

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Sure what else is there to do Pat, in times of crisis or worry I often ask myself, what would Marilyn Monroe do?

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2.24: Poor Eamon doesn’t know what century he lives in. How could he be with all that beer and whiskey shots. A foolish man if he’s on the drink. Can’t understand why Eamon thinks it’s such fun.

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I wonder if this news will dampen the ardour of you men?
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Bit of a sterotype that gay men dress up or ape female clothes. Surely there are some masculine gays?

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2:20 has managed to miss the point of the meme completely.
This is where the parochial school will get you, folks.

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It’s clearly saying that Benedict is clearly gay because of the way he’s dressed, which are described as women’s clothes. I don’t like that stereotype of what gay men look or dress like.

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7:31 I did say you didn’t get it, and repeating how you don’t understand it isn’t going to change my mind. 🤣

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You are best qualified to answer that question surely! Why we you sexually active as a priest and why are you still sexually active?

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By his admission, the late KOB was ‘at it’ throughout his adult life, so it is not a new phenomenon among priestly queers today. The disgraced former prior of Silverstream is another example, and, in more recent times, the disgraced former abbot of Mt Melleray was, as we all know, also hard ‘at it’.

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@4.41pm You have revealed yourself as a person with much prejudice. Why did you interpret Pat’s discussion as a reference to homosexuality? It is not. Heterosexual sex is as much a feature of priestly life. Your prejudice has drawn you express a very partial view – a prejudicial view. The problem is the changing relevance of celibacy for all priests, hetero and homosexual priests. Once hidden, sex is now more puiblic and that has led to less care about sexual relationships in which priests engage. Please research your ideas before exhibiting them here in such a prejudicial way. Think again and please refrain from spreading nonsense.

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What’s the story with John Wilson and all the queen’s that surround him seems you have to have a boyfriend to get a job in some of these Dioceses

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Pat honest question deserving an honest answer…. Were you sexual active while ministering to us in St Peter’s?
I do believe and very much knew you were gay back then and in different relationships. It was back then frowned upon to dare mention it, thankfully now no Priest has that grip or rein that was had back in the days!

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The comment you’re replying to indicates that priests clearly don’t expect priests to be celibate. It’s not even in the possible arena.

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7.19: Bill, Mahler wrote this symphony in 190I after proposing to Alma Schindler…I wonder will Mahler’s 5th Symphony inspire you to write something inspiring in your search for love? Wouldn’t that be a fruitful, happy and fulfilling project? There are other Mahler pieces which bring joy…Listen to them.

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9.02 Ye have such poverty…leave Mahler alone….everything does not have to be biographical you navel gazing twat.

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7.19 Will tune in. Thanks WM. ‘A symphony must be like the world. It must contain everything.’ Karen

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10.24 Shalom. Karen, I do hope we meet some day. I hope soon to visit the sourdough baker in Tel Aviv. His son lives near me in Wicklow; Fed

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As a general rule the more vociferous and hard line and seemingly orthodox bishops and clergy are about issues of sexuality (in fact about any sexual / moral issue), the less they are to be believed. KOB would bash anybody on the head with his crozier and bible over sexuality, and yet at the same time he was shagging around all the time. It’s a defence, a transference, a tactic to put people off the scent. But, we know better now. So, watch what you say, dear clergy ! We are on to your !

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Not always true. Bishop Kieron Conroy never preached on sexual morality but was at it like a rabbit.

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His brother bishops covered for his parallel career as a wrecker of marriages. It was desperate failure. A person can get why many unfairly regard priests and bishops as men of moral turpitude.

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I have very concrete reason this evening to blog the following: Bishop Buckley used the word at the Tansey funeral, I shall use it in a very different context; Conway, O’ Fiach, Daly, Brady , Martin, there has only been one bona fide Bastard in my time ; Eamon Martin. William Joseph Mulvihill

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I went to the funeral of Cardinal O Fiach in Armagh with my Alexian confrers. It was an amazing moment to touch his fore head.
He was a good man. The church is made up of many people and organisations it is global so can be difficult to keep tags on everything. The Internet is corrosive and destroying society. American corporations are making massive profits but destroying the soul. I rest my case.

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O’Fee was primate of all ireland and knew what was going on. Moved priests about like a chess piece

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Conor Cunningham, James (Jimmy) Walsh, Enda Glynn, Michael Carney no longer listed on the Galway Diocese website.

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