FROM ME TO ARNIE
16.10.22. 6.13 pm
Fr Arnold Rosney PP VF Shannon
Dear Arnie,
I have been contacted by several of your parishioners.
Is it true that you had an affair with a woman who is now reconciled with her husband and moved to Dubai?
Is it true that you are now involved with a new woman?
Is Fintan aware of all this?
+ Pat Buckley
FROM ME TO FINTAN
18.10.22. 12:18 pm
Dear Fintan,
I have received representations from the parish of Shannon informing me that Fr Arnold Rosney:
1. Had a relationship with a married woman that led to the breakdown of her marriage.
Apparently that woman is now reconciled with her husband and they now reside in Dubai.
2. That Fr Rosney is now in a second relationship with another woman.
These matters suggest a pattern in Killaloe – a pattern that you tolerate and preside over.
Maybe more time at your desk and less time running around making amateur movies?
+ Pat
FROM ME TO ARNIE
16.10.22. 19.59 pm
Arnie,
I intend to blog about your situation.
I am giving you the opportunity to deny or comment
+ Pat Buckley
FROM ARNIE AND FINTAN
PAT SAYS
If anyone wrote to me asking me if I had done something wrong I would not ignore the letter / email.
After all. This is someone giving me the opportunity to DENY the assertions.
If what they were asking was untrue I would deny the assertions vigorously and threaten legal action
I would not be threatening legal action simply as a ruse. I would mean it.
I personally have taken a number of legal actions down the years – and I have succeeded in each – once in court and twice by way of an apology and damages.
Of course, TRUTH, is the PERFECT DEFENCE to libel.
I really wish Fintan would clarify these matters, especially for the sake of the Catholic laity of Killaloe.
THE FR AIDAN MC CANN – ARMAGH – TRIAL?
Any news from Friday’s Court case in which Mc Cann faced voyeurism charges?
BISHOP PAT BUCKLEY 
178 replies on “KILLALOE”
Woman paid off to restore silence. Silence is Golden
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Fr Aidan McCann
If this were the case it would not have called on the charges sheet for Craigavon Magistrates Court on Friday.
If you are in Northern Ireland you can request the Court link if you are interested in the case.
The case is continued to trial for Aidan Patrick McCann.
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Where did you get that from?
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@ 10:16am
She got it from Google, its you know who the expert in law trying as usual to show she knows all. When in fact she knows fuck all.😏
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OMG! Patsy you’re in good form today, the fact that in their eyes you have the audacity to address them using their Christian names will have them aghast altogether. As usual I’m sure they wont deign to answer your legitimate questions. When O when will these useless Bishops act as they should and deal with these scandals. Silence is not golden as regards these allegations they must respond, but I fear they will not.
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Shannon Parish is in Limerick is it not?
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No. Killaloe
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12.23. Shannon Parish is most definitely in Diocese of Killaloe. The newest town in Irish Republic, developed on outskirts of employment hubs at Shannon Airport & Industrial Estate, Shannon town has a Very large population of people of Northern Irish Catholics who had to flee British army & British paramilitary violence in the early 1970s. I wouldn’t be messing with their wives Randy Rosney unless you are able to run very fast!
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They were fleeing a Protestant progrom.
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Meant pogrom.
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Not surprised Killaloe made no response +Patsy. Gossipy clergy & their inner circles go very silent in our Diocese as well when it suits their own agenda, but they’ve been lying & gossiping for years to divert public attention from the truth about all their various secrets. It’s the same all over the Irish church. Our Bishop sings like a canary when it suits his own purposes. Mad for the aul media as well same as Killaloe Bishop.
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I can not understand why the irish bishops did not explain to their flock about maynooth 2016 and what they knew about Eamon Casey. Now the internet is covering a documentary about a missing 15 year old and a mafia boss being buried in a vatican graveyard . The programme shows the vatican similar to a royal palace and i sense power but not the loving christian love of Jesus. They just seem to play a big act so we keep supplying the vatican with money.
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Generally speaking if it gets to court we know why.
If faught in court it concerns the ability to challenge evidence…. evidence which crown prosecution believes to be sufficient to justify the expense of a trial.
Has Amy restricted Aidan from carrying a smart phone? It would seem a legitimate sanction in the situation.
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Just a point of information. In Northern Ireland, it is the Public Prosecution Service (PPS) that decides whether or not to pursue cases in court.
The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) operates only in England and Wales.
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The case was probably just adjourned. Most of the day in magistrate’s courts is taken up with adjourning cases, for a variety of reasons. Most of the cases that are heard on the day are simple motoring offences or bail breaches.
These courts usually only have 1-2 contests a day (ie cases where the prosecution and defence argue out the case in front of the district judge in the sort of exchanges you see in court room dramas on the telly). Aidan will probably be back in court in six weeks’ time.
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@10.06, Thank you, I live and I learn.
@11.08, it is like that in the Republic too. Hence why it is significant that the prosecutor was willing to take the case all the way to a chock-a-block Court schedule. The evidence must be compelling.
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You’re right, HG. Cases usually only end up in the magistrate’s court where the person is bang to rights eg no car insurance, speeding. Where the evidence is shaky or likely to be contested (eg assault, theft) the public prosecutors will usually only take it to court if there is strong evidence, to keep costs down and the wheels of justice turning. The conviction rate in the magistrate’s court is high, mainly because prosecutors only bring cases that are strong from the prosecution point of view.
I worked in Newtownards Court, where a district judge (the newish fancy title for the RMs of old) would dispose of 70-80 cases a day, spending only a couple of minutes on each, and then they did an hour or two on the contests. The system is badly clogged up with adjournments. It is very frustrating for everyone involved and hard on witnesses who psych themselves up only to be told to come back on another date.
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12.35
Don’t be ridiculous. A bishop has no say on whether or what kind of phone a priest uses. Are you daft?
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These Killaloe priests are mad for the married women, Pat! Sounds like this Fr Arnie didn’t take long to replace one married woman with another. Busy man, no wonder these priests require so many volunteers. Mind you, what “exactly” they might one to volunteer for could be open to more scrutiny after this latest revelation on Fintans patch.
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Pat maybe contact the Lativan and Romanian Embassies in Dublin to check how many women are missing or traifficed to Ennis or Limerick.
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1.11 more brothels in Ennis than you could shake a stick at – some of them still operating since they opened during the Celtic Tiger property boom. Mainly Romanians, Algerians, Moroccans running them now & the big wigs are more careful these days than they were back in the day when they first opened these places. Different scene these days, moving girls about all over the country, pitiful exploitation & so much covered up, big money in Vice & drugs scene buys the best of legal representation & hush money a big incentive. Sick & twisted human misery & exploitation of the most vulnerable in society.
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Lol, Randy Rosney was Killaloe’s delegate to the World Meeting of Families.
https://catholicnews.ie/bishop-fintan-monahan-appoints-father-arnold-rosney-as-diocesan-delegate-for-the-world-meeting-of-families-2018/
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Fintan gave Arnie Schwarzenegger a ‘reward’ for all his hard work.
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There would have been plenty of married Catholic women at that event, susceptible to priestly wooing.
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11.10 the Randy priests just love those well heeled menopausal aul dolls mostly on early retirement pensions & big pay outs from the public sector or the professions that throw caution to the wind including their knickers & money for hotels & slap up meals much to the delight of Padre. Priests have no qualms about breaking up marriages or children’s lives and well being. This Killaloe priest is yet again another clear example of totally selfish and unethical clerics not only in Killaloe but in other places including my own diocese in the midlands area but I have family in Shannon & we enjoy the GAA Wolfe Tones Club House when we can get down. Good people in Shannon, shame about clergy messing about again, last parish priest was very bossy by all accounts but acknowledged to have blind eye when it suited his own clique & church interests.
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The menopause makes some women very randy and they are stuck at home with clapped out husbands, probably impotent, who have let themselves go and show no affection or even regard for their wives. Along comes the likes of Ger and Rosney, with tgeir supposed listening skills and they push at an open door. These priests abuse their access to vulnerable people.
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9.38 Killaloe Diocesan Pilgrimage not recommended, safer to go with the Ennis Franciscans, speaking from personal experience.
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3.10 you must be gone wrong in the head, I’m 75 & from what I’ve read on here, Fr Ger Fitzgerald would be no use whatsoever to my wife same age as me. These nice young looking women are daft looking at priests to make them happy. They’d meet someone nice in pubs or hotels around Ennis if they looking not to be drawing miserable no good priests into their lives.
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Don’t forget all the women in the USA
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Bishops & clergy couldn’t care less about laity. Just Read their mocking comments on here every day & observe them & their cabal in your local parish. Some like Bishop of Meath too busy indulging themselves with interior design, property speculation, others on hook ups with married women because they view them as a safe bet also having much to lose if rumbled or the gay clergy on Grindr hookups & saunas or the swinger priests sometimes mentioned.
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There are extremely serious questions to be answered on the apparent non-reporting on Fr Aidan McCann voyeurism case that was due for Hearing/Verdict on Friday 21st October 2022. Church controlling Irish media again? What does this tell victims?
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At least you are reporting, a shining light
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1:58
The Church doesn’t give a toss for victims regardless of apologies pious platitudes or gospel imperatives. They couldn’t careless for justice to victims of abusive clergy. They seem an arrogant law unto themselves.
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Bishop Fintan “the Gaslighter” Monahan gave orders to completely ignore anything to do with this blog a long time ago. Priests cannot respond to you even if they wanted to now.
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What?! So you’re telling us that his priests are all obedient little puppies and stay away from this blog?
A-hah, hah, hah, hah 🤣🤣🤣🤣
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10.10 it’s obvious from the daily comments that bishops, priests & their coverup merchants carefully monitor this blog, some just because they are nosey & the rest because they are up to their neck in all kinds of shite much of it yet to be revealed. Evil lot they are. Steer well clear.
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‘Priests cannot respond’
Cannot?
Really?
Like the way they cannot have sex and abuse children? Cannot?
😢
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This blog is a downright nuisance, I was looking forward to the 9 day Novena & hoping to meet Bishop Monahan who is described in this weeks newsletter as having a vast array of interests. You have been in the North too long Pat & really have no idea of what we have to do around here to entertain ourselves. Show some mercy for Gods sake.
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Just popped outside courtesy of the re entry pass for €5, bargain at twice the price! At least we not breaking up marriages & families so stop giving out on this blog about those of us who enjoy Boiler House.
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This is a new low for Fintan Monaghan,
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3.57 Fintan couldn’t care less but gets very annoyed when these things go public about his members. He’s a very private man but only when it suits his own agenda.
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4.17 Fintan deserves a boot out of Westbourne’s door. How many more people need to get hurt on Fintan’s watch?
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Now I know why Fr Arnie rushes through the Mass.
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They all rush through mass these days, I have my stop watch at the ready for 11am…..
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Mass here at The Oratory on a Sunday lasts between 45 and 65 minutes.
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That’s awful long Pat, I would fall asleep at my age.
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Not here you wouldn’t
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He rushes through the Mass because it means nothing to him. Awful cretin Arnie is but I hear he favors widows. He cares not about God and its a good day when people realise this.
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11.58 Even the people closest to him have been talking behind his back about this latest dalliance with a woman who conveniently lives close to the presbytery. How many others were there before her?
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11.58 Fr Randy Rosney is a very busy bee, fast mass man. Now we know a bit more about his extra curricular activities.
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Our parish priest is regularly seen on Grindr, when a gay man is in mass, his GPS says he is 20 metres away from ‘Discretion’
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Regularly seen by you? 🤔
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The Irish government has just announced that Ukrainian refugees will have to sleep in the street as there is no accommodation for them, yet, parochial houses across the land remain vacant or unoccupied, tell me this, will the real ‘Fathers’ please stand up!
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Hey, 8.37am, how many have YOU taken in?
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Poor planning by the Irish Government.
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8.37 well the Ukrainian refugees cannot slept in parochial houses, who wants to wake up in middle of night & find the PP in ones bed, they’d be safer staying at home taking their chances with Putin.
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Pat, AR is close with Fintan, he will protect him at all costs.
Fintan sympathises with any Clerical man experiencing difficulties with sexual relationships.
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Oh! So, Fintan’s concern for these priests is roused only if they are having difficulties in their sexual relationships, not by the fact that these ‘celibate’ men are IN such relationships?
Hmm 🤔
Run that past me again, would you? 🙄
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8.47 Fintan was Bishop during the time when Arnie’s alleged affair with the married woman took place. Fintan is still Bishop. Why does he turn a blind eye?
Someone in the locality stated that in their opinion there is a “cunningness’ about AR…the same cunningness that this person claims they saw in another priest who was caught out.
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8:47 So is sex therapy provided or what…!
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Pat you should look into the ties Bishop Fintan has with Fr Eamon Kelly. They often holiday together.
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Don’t mention Mary’s meal’s
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Did Fintan cultivate a beard so he could look like Eamon lol
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In Ireland defamation cases cost a lot of money and people who would want to take a defamation case are prevented from doing so because they maybe they are pensioners or on social welfare . Only the wealthy can take a defamation case in Ireland.
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Reply to;
In Ireland only the money rich can take a defamation casesays:
Oct 23, 2022 at 9:24 am
Not so.
There are many no win no fee operating solicitors in Ireland, have a look at one.
The concept of ‘no win no fee’ also known as no foal no fee is common practice amongst solicitors in Ireland. This fee arrangement means that a solicitor will not charge for their service if a client’s case is unsuccessful — if you do not win your case, you do not have to pay your legal fees.
No Win No Fee Explained – Tracey Solicitorshttps://www.traceysolicitors.ie › knowledge › no-win-no-f…
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You cannot be serious. You aren’t, are you?
You mean… Arnie the priest… is STRAIGHT?! 😳
That’s a headline in itself these days. 🙄
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That photo of him makes him look prissy. Sorta queenie.
I’m surprised he’s a ladies’ man.
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Surely he’s a toilet man?
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What’s a toilet man?
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No! I was talking about Arnie, not Aidan.
Arnie looks quite queenie in that photo.
A ladies’ man? Arnie? Well, I never!
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Agree…..A picture of innocence. You’d think butter wouldn’t melt.
He doesn’t have the bold boy look. Do you ever know.?😁
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How were you able to afford legal actions, Pat? You must be far wealthier than you let on.
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“No foal no fee”. Ever heard of it.
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No. That’s a first for me.
What does “foal” mean?
If you had lost, would you have had to pay the other party damages, and his legal bill?
You must have had a rock-solid case.
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The lawyer says if you win we will take our fees out if your reward.
If you lose we will take the hit.
Lawyers are interested in more than money – ie getting an increased reputation for looking after well known clients
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Thanks.
A risky business, all the same.
Stressful, too, I should expect.
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Does any Irish priest keep his pecker in his pants? They seem to be constantly horny.
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There’s a priest that is always in the Sauna in belfast
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There’s a sauna in Belfast? You’re kidding me!
Where, precisely, in Belfast?
Is it costly?
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He is a liar. There are no saunas in Belfast. There used to be two – Pipeworks and Outdoor Sauna – but both are long closed. Not much demand in loyal Ulster and then covid killed them off. They were filthy, horrible, run down places with a dodgy clientele and are not missed.
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Another priest in killaloe diocese 🤦♀️.
Is Killaloe diocese worse than Armagh🤷♀️
What’s the point of celibacy which is a discipline in rcc since 11th C if priests continue to persist like that.
They had a retreat recently I think with well known nun originally from the north.
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It’s unholy like and not advocated by JC himself, therefore should be scrapped! Love and let live
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Ordain viri probati?
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I hate that term. Tested virile old men.
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Killaloe Diocese once again going for gold in the dirtiest diocese competition. if there was world cup for dodgy dioceses Killaloe would be Brazil.
To be fair to Ger Fitz this is worse than what he did. Karen is unhappily married and I am presuming his other ladies were all unmarried – what was the status with Fr Rosney’s first squeeze? And is this second woman also married? Shocking. Mind you at least the first one reconciled and cleared off to the Emirates. I think having an affair with a priest and living in Shannon would be pretty close to absolutely bleak. Dubai is five orders of magnitude better than Shannon, a place only a mother could love.
I daresay Fintan has doggie pics to take and couldn’t be bothered replying to your queries Pat.
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If it was the World Cup you mean killaloe would be Italy – not Brazil
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You mean occasionally failing to qualify or going up in smoke in the first round? No, not Killaloe, they’d be seeded. Like Germany or Brazil.
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@9.57 Did it ever occur to you that maybe the first woman AR was allegedly involved with was unhappily married? Did it ever occur to you that she was ‘devastated’ by AR when he broke things off with her after Fr Tom Ryan moved to Ennis? Did it ever occur to you that she only went to Dubai with her husband because she had no other choice? Did it ever occur to you that women are wired differently than men?
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10.09
Did it ever occur to you that repeatedly expressing the word ‘occur’ in a comment is irritating?
It occurred to me to point this out in case it hadn’t occurred to you.
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10.43 Did it occur to you that I don’t give a damn?
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Calm yourself.
What has Tom Ryan got to do with it? Of course, none of these things occurred to me, they weren’t mentioned in the blog post. This is 2022 – she didn’t have to clear off to Dubai and put up with an unhappy marriage if she didn’t want to. Mind you if I had to choose between the UAE and Shannon town there isn’t much of decision.
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10.09 Fr Albert or Arnie or whatever he calls himself has a vow of celibacy & duty as parish priest to be a pastor & not to take advantage of parishioners particularly those who may be vulnerable in any way. Disgraceful, has he left Shannon now?
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11.41 You need to calm yourself down. You are patronising to women.
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12.10 Arnie has not left Shannon. Do you think Fintan will do anything? Nah.
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I’m starting to see bishops as property and investment managers with bank accounts worth millions.
Still they want the laity to continue paying or ‘donate’ into weekly Sunday cash collections allied with random cash appeals to the public at odd times such as trocaire. That bishop of killaloe is a chairman for trocaire.
Quite frankly, rcc is seen as business institution with bishops acting as diocesean business managers for the Vatican itself.(aka’ branch office managers’). Rcc is a charity with tax free exemption status.
Thats why Vatican is sometimes reliant on German and armerican Catholic bishops for monies.
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Deaf Guy
They are not Financial Directors for the Vatican.
There are Finacial Directors in their own patch and oversee the investments with their finance teams usually a Director.
Peter’s Pence is the only collection for the Vatican for the Pope’s charities.
90% of the dioceses have MILLIONS and that is the only reason they cannot amalgamate Dioceses it would lose a fortune so one Bishop will oversee two dioceses.
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Aidan McCann is a looker, isn’t he?
I could turn gay for him. For a moment, like. You understand? 🤔
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No wonder Father Arnie is always in jeans and runners even at Mass and at Shannon crematorium.
Fintan will cover this up once again and his weak leadership and he will need to watch as he will not get Cashel and Emly Archdicese
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10.21 the only thing Bishops like Fintan Monahan are interested in is covering up the truth, they & their clerical & lay teams of staff & volunteers are seriously lower than a snakes belly when it comes to shutting up whistleblowers that threaten all their cozy sexual & financial “arrangements” all over the place.
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10.45 Truth.
Two separate witness statements re Randy Rosney:
‘There have been several women, not just these two.’
‘He’s at it again.’
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@ 10:21am
Arnie in jeans and runners!, says it all.🙄
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Only yesterday, I thought it’s been a while since a new scandal or disgrace was reported on the blog. It couldn’t last.
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Start looking after the flock Fintan.
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10.38 the flock scattered long ago in interests of their own safety.
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All these micro Irish dioceses should be merged under a proper leader. Fintan goes about glad handing, like a Fianna Fail county councillor seeking relection. Buckeroo priests need a bishop who is a boss, not one who wants to be their friend. Armagh and Killaloe suffer from this lack of leadership.
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11.02 Bishop Fintan seems a very interesting & intelligent guy, writes books, keeps fit, very sociable, animal lover. I wonder is he registered with the Knock Marriage Bureau? I’m trying to get my daughter & my son to register, they very slow to move & always on their phones but damn all to show for it. Time waits for no man or woman.
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12.21 if your daughter & son still on shelf next September, book yourselves a month at The Lisdoonvarna match maker festival. Willy Daly is the matchmaker, a family business with lots of happy endings. He will sort ye out, even yourself if you a widow or widower. No need to be chancing your arms with the clergy, they not faithful.
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Further to my post at 10.14am
https://spiritandtruthonline.org/is-the-roman-catholic-church-a-church-or-an-organization/
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Neither, or it wouldn’t be continually in court on the one hand, and perpetually begging despite its massive wealth, on the other.
The only explanation which makes sense of everything that has happened is that it is an international criminal organization running a pretend church as a front for tax breaks.
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I saw Randy Rosney on YouTube. Unsurprisingly, he’s a lib, talking about “being Church” and the need for a “new model of Church”.
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I hate it when people talk that way. ‘Being church’? What’s that mean? Surely ‘church’ is more than an assembly. That’s what ‘church’ means, ‘assembly’.
As for models of church, erm, Christ? His love? His sacrifice?
If the RCC truly expressed these qualities, we wouldn’t need to speak of models.
Speaking this way is a sign that something vital is missing: Christ himself. And boy! Doesn’t it show?
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@ 11.02
The Church would lose a fortune if they amalgamated dioceses so it will be One Bishop and two Dioceses with Kildare and Ossory next.
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11.30
Being Church is trying to follow the Beatitues and more on people than buildings.
The RCC is about it’s people not buildings, lace or vestments and even the use of candles is being limited due to the envirorment.
Unlike Bishop Pat’s assesment of the LMB the RCC lay faithful are not stupid 100 candles in Asda for £3 and some clergy have 50 pence or 50 euro’s
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Christ wants the Church to teach the world.
Lib CINOs want the world to teach the Church.
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Frankly the only thing this proves is that Roman Catholics are not Christians. If you ask a Christian what the church is they’ll say ‘We are’.
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11.12 is Fr Randy Rosney in Shannon another YouTube fanatic like Robert Nugent & Bishop Monahan? At least they all have plenty in common, God love them. When I was a child the parish priest was mad for the hurling and the greyhounds. Simpler times.
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@ 2:38pm
Here we go again, the anti-lace Fanny devotee rabbiting on about the use of candles and talking about ‘Church’ instead of The Church. I’m sure even Patsy uses candles and not from Asda ya miserable bollox. We buy beeswax from Lalor for AMDG and never mind the cost,
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3.27
Your interventions are disgusting. You are blind to the contradictions at the heart of your miserable existence. When you use such revolting language about people and claim to be a devotee of Mass in Latin. Such inconsistencies mock God. As if God can’t see through your hypocrisy.
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Pat, can I watch your Sunday Mass today on Facebook?
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No. We only had Facebook Mass during the pandemic.
But you are welcome to attend anytime.
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I’d love to attend, but I live miles away. Sadly.
I’d say you have a lovely little community there. (I don’t mean “little” in a bad way.) What a real Christian community should be.
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We have. Some are 20 and 30 years coming.
There can be a lot of personal sharing at our Mass – be celebrants and community members.
Not to be shared on Internet.
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Why Pat do you not do a live Mass on FB or other social media outlets?
Surely this can only be good, you should have nothing to hide or be ashamed of.
Small can sometimes be better than big!
We the general public do not see the spiritual or pastoral side from you, we really only see a blog filled with bitterness and hatred towards your enemies which only destroys one’s in soul.
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@ 11:21am
Patsy I may be wrong but the use of her favourite word ‘sadly’ makes me think you may be being brown nosed again by you know who. Beware! she’d be worse than Big Delia.🙄
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Most of the laity in Clare don’t care what their priests do on their time off.
As long as they do their job and are good men, no one cares
Best of luck to this priest and Ger Fitz
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1.17 Who are you? Defending predator priests who target women parishioners, and wishing such ‘godly’ men good luck means that you are a nefarious person. You do not speak for most of the laity.
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4.14 that’s sticky beak Jo @ 1.17 – favourite defence mantra is “we are good people”. Dangerous & “so faithful”.
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@1.17 that’s right most of the laity in Clare don’t attend mass & they’re not going to take any crap from priests pretending to be something they are not either. Close up shop & get a job in the real world & make your own life instead of stirring shite to cover up for your current duplicitous lifestyles. Stop abusing vulnerable women & vulnerable families would be a good start.
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Some care enough to write to Bishop Pat. Just saying…..
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That was a genuine request. Not intended as offensive. So much stigma still that needs challenged. If you wouldn’t feel comfortable ignore and no offence intended.
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This could not have come out at a worse time for randy Arnie.
Novena Director from next Saturday for a week.
Likely continue as nothing is going on.
http://www.shannonparish.ie/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/October-23rd-2022-Newsletter-30th-Sunday-in-Ordinary-Time.pdf
Certainly Arnie in hiding today with his telephone going unanswered but maybe at Westbourne if only.
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Any priest having sex with a woman nowadays should be made a bishop. Eamon Martin pack your bags.
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Failure on the part of the seminary formators to let a straight man get ordained. I wonder if he pretended to be gay, in order to get through?
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@3:37 pm What utter tommy rot. Sexual desire remains throughout a priestly life, waining in old age. This means that temptations to engage in sex outlast any infuence a seminary education might offer. You expect seminary to what, rid a man of desire? Shallow, very shallow thinking there. There will be circumstances in which a priest finds himself, perhaps lonely, wanting an intimate encounter. It is very obvious that you do not understand the power of sex; the attraction of lust; or the extremity that is celibacy. How foolish.
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A priest in W&L diocese denied that he knew his lover when he dropped dead outside the front door. Said the man felt unwell and asked for a glass of water.
He was left everything in the will.
It was contested by the deceased man’s family.
FACT….
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3.56 the parish priest asked the Garda sergeant if there was any way the discovery of Fr Niall Molloy body on bedroom floor of Mr & Mrs Flynn could be “kept quiet”! Retired guard confirmed on RTE documentary recently aired.
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4.38: A very perceptive comment. True in every way. Thank you. Those who think that ordination suddenly vanishes and shells all sexual desire and the human need for intimacy are in cuckoo land!! Seminary training does not prepare any man for the reality of celibacy. Celibacy is so unnatural: few live its expectation or ideal. Fact.
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3:56
Who won? The relatives I imagine. Sad that a priest had to deny his partner – if what you say is true. Peter denied Jesus but made up for it.
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Fr Rosney looks and sounds a bit fey, for a ladies’ man.
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It is common knowledge in Shannon that Rosney and woman who went to Dubai were having an affair. It started out as a friendship and from there it snowballed. When Fr Ryan left, Arnie was given a warning and broke off the affair leaving the woman emotionally ‘devastated’. Now the priest is at it again. Wake up Fintan.
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4.46 why didn’t Fr Tom Ryan deal with. Fr Randy Rosney himself, he same as half the town knew about him. He was his parish priest.
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How sad I am to read of yet another Killaloe Priest today but yet again this brings up the subject of celibacy to our fore. Nothing or no one prepares you for the loneliness of priesthood and some men fall down in the presence of a pretty woman or a handsome man, whichever takes your fancy. Unfortunately, relations outside your clerical promises come at a cost, the main bring the scandal brought to your Bishop, diocese and parish and Killaloe has plenty of scandal on this blog which I dare say is a worry to His Grace in Westbourne.
Can I ask, what ever happened to having discretion? I have never wronged a priest for falling in love or having a lapse of a promise but after the priest must discern their life and choose accordingly. You cannot have your cake and eat it which this Fr Rosney thinks he can do. If you don’t want to be a priest and keep your promises leave, if you do stay, discern and speak openly to your Bishop. Do not end up with us discussing your sexlife on this blog.
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Agree.
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Arnie is a spokesperson for the Diocese on social media and a priest with notions and sexual urges it’s seems. The hypocrisy of it all is shocking and is very unnerving indeed.
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@ 5.03
Father Arnie is saying this is a witch hunt against him and not one bit of it is True and he will just ignore it.
Bishop Fintan’s hands will be tied again just like with Jerry and Ger unless the women come forward.
Maybe if Arnie dumps her she will go to Bishop Fintan.
The feeling in Killaloe is Pat Buckley has a blog to fill with his agenda and to ignore it however Killaloe clergy are watching again and the weak Leadership of Fintan
Novena starts next weekend in Shannon then Killaloe Clergy are on three days in house traning.
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I am happy to publish, unedited, Arnesby full response or denial.
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6.37 A witch hunt NOT. The woman in Dubai is contactable but why would she want to come forward after starting a new life?
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6.37 Of course Arnie will deny it. Just like fellow Killaloe priest Ger Fitzgerald denied his affair when confronted about it in Cloughleigh. Mark my words, the bad boys in Killaloe will keep getting busted.
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6.37 typical catlick response, well able to turn on the waterworks & play victim to stay on the Bishops payroll. What about all these poor women he’s been making a fool of. Having his cake & eating it just like Fr Carey & Fr Fitz.
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6.37 Fr Arnie Rosney qualified as a Canon lawyer at the Gregorian University in Rome plus also has a Masters degree in law from University of Limerick. Surely he is highly employable & can now head off to make his own life & have a family of his own. The truth will release him now.
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6.37pm Is Mrs Focker the sex therapist flying over from California for the 3 day in house training?
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10.11 Howling 🤣🤣🤣
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6.37 I think you are full of it. How could Fintan’s hands be tied again in regards to Fr Jerry ‘Quickhand’ Carey? Trying to deflect…the usual Cathbot methodology.
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Bishop Pat, do you ever hear from Bill Mulvihill?
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Not of late, thank God.
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5.27: All we can do now is pray and hooe BM is minding himself or receiving professional help. It’s very sad that his life unravelled so fast. Life can turn out disastrous for some. God help him but you, Pat, were very kind to him.
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There are some people you can’t help Bileen being one of them. Whatever happens to him, will be the price of him.
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https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-stoke-staffordshire-63326718
Child sex abuse victim calls for confessional reporting by Catholic church
BBC West Midlands.
“A victim of child sexual abuse while he was an altar boy says children are still at risk and the Catholic church must do more to protect them.
The individual was abused by Father John Tolkien, a priest in charge of a church in Stoke-on-Trent.”
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Any relation to the writer J R Tolkien?
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Anon at 6.24pm
Its his son.
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/apr/28/jrr-tolkiens-son-claims-sexually-abuse-fathers-friend
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-birmingham-46555436
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Fr Arnie is not the first randy priest in Shannon and one of the two ordained priests from Shannon left the priesthood for a woman. Something on the Shannon water 💧 🤔
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Weren’t Arnold Rosney, Iggy McCormack and Lorcan Kenny all from Birr. They were 3 diploma students in Maynooth and didn’t do a degree in Arts and the three of them were ordained the same year and celebrated their 25th this year. All 3 were diocese of Killaloe.
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Iggy and Lorcan did the BA. Lorcan now looks wild and wonderful, with rainbow outfits and hair down his back.
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Bishop, are we ever going to learn the identities of those included in your recent email to the bishop of Meath?
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NEVER, NEVER, NEVER
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Our local priest wears hoodies and trainers, never a coat or decent smart shoes.
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Now that you have turned your sights on Killaloe diocese hope you will keep going to the east of the diocese and Roscrea parish. The curious case of the mia Co-pps Michael Harding and Pat Treacey and the new pp John Molloy. If you think what is happening in Shannon is troubling it is nothing on Roscrea.
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8.37 is that Fr John Molloy from Tuam Archdiocese?
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Sleepy Joe falls asleep mid-interview.
https://twitter.com/MonicaCrowley/status/1583670155917217793?t=7mH_cG_Y8WufychvABMxKw&s=19
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He’s forever falling asleep.
https://twitter.com/AlexHingham/status/1583808455353065473?t=UG7Zqt1ZyevmJ19JkVMGsQ&s=19
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Mind, I like the gay scandals best, Bp Pat.
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BREAKING – Boris Johnson pulls out of Tory leadership contest.
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A miracle. Boris has finally mastered the art of pulling out, several unplanned pregnancies later.
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Fergal O Neill was the ordained priest from Shannon who left the priesthood for a widow. A man of integrity 👏 👌 in Killaloe, who knew????
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Celibacy as an obligation is not working. How much more effective and happy all would be if those who choose celibacy were encouraged to live it and those priests who need intimacy with a man or woman could. God willing, may God hasten the day.,
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They shouldn’t have entered seminary if they could not manage or cope with chastity/celibacy. It would be like a pacifist joining the Army and then acting all hard done by if sent into battle.
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11.55
No. Celibacy as a requirement for orders is a relatively recent phenomenon which arguably never worked and is clearly not working now. The proof of such a claim is the number of those with a call to ministerial service who don’t have a call to celibacy.
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So this is where those without sin hang out, those who are entitled to cast the first stone. I have had the pleasure of knowing Fr Arnie for many years. I have encountered him in some difficult and challenging situations in my life. I have always found him to be supportive, caring and helpful. Going beyond what was required of his priestly ministry. We should be praying for and supporting all our priests. Not condemning or judging them. We will all have to face the judgment seat some day.
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