PAT SAYS
There is a massive difference, morally, between sexual intimacy in the context of a love filled committed relationship and what people have come to call “recreational sex”.
As Andrew Lloyd Webber has written: LOVE CHANGES EVERYTHING.
And, as a recent German bishop very wisely pointed out – sexual intimacy based on attraction and love making is not an abberation.
Bible thumpers and right wing RC dogmatists, whether they like it or not, are from the Fred Flintstone School of Theology and as Father Faber once pointed out – magnify God’s strictness with a zeal He (God) would not own.
The Bible is many things but it is NOT a manual of science, medicine and psychology.
The Bible is the Word of God written in the words of men.
A golden thread of the TRUTH AND WISDOM OF GOD runs right through the Bible.
It is a book of poetry, parable and myth – in the true deeper meaning of the word myth.
It is NOT to be read or taken literally.
It is a dangerous book in the hands of literalists, bigots, fanatics and religious nuts.
And may God Himself preserve us from foaming mouthed Protestants and rabid Roman Catholics.
BISHOP PAT BUCKLEY 
136 replies on “THE TRIUMPH OF LOVE OVER IGNORANCE, BIGOTRY AND RELIGIOUS FANATICISM.”
The truth has set Ukrik and Kiram free to live their lives. Wishing them every blessing and they will make wonderful parents God willing.
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Don’t you mean the Triumph of Lust which is very different from love.
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Lust and love are buddies, lust explodes into love, and love is fed by lust.
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What an inspiring story Pat. You have been such a help to so many people over a long time. I hope you realise that.
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1:12 Absolutely, if the Roman Catholic Church had more good honest clergy like Bishop Patrick Buckley, they’d still be fit for purpose instead of the current and widely acknowledged fact that they are all cover up merchants in the church.
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As long as you know
Who you are and what
Makes you happy, it
Doesn’t matter how
Others see you.
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3:26 So true ♥️
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Sometimes it only takes
One person to hold your
Hand to remind you that
Everything is going
To be okay.
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I will not judge monogamous homosexual couples, but I do expose gay bishops and priests who harass, abuse, and discriminate against straight clergy like Anthony Gorgia, Timothy Passow, and many others I have come to know over the past few years. I’m open to discussing this matter in a rational and honest manner. Gene
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I am glad they have found love and peace with each other. Long May it continue.
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I’m usually nit attracted to Indians but he is cute as a button isn’t he.
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When I was young, in the seventies, it was still “illegal”, but that never stopped anyone, not in the slightest. Guys who became serious about each other or fell in love used to call their relationship an “affair”. I met quite a few couples who were involved in affairs, but generally, they never lasted more than five years. They were never monogamous. Mind you, I made a point of never involving myself sexually with anyone who had an affair going on.
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“It” is still proscribed for Catholic priests and bishops, but that has never stopped any of them, not in the slightest. They’re still “at it” 24/7.
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Terminal liars they are.
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Such attitudes are common in Denmark.
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It’s a Lutheran country. Goes with the territory.
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10:57 what territory would that be trespasser….
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8:42 xenophobia is rife in the Roman Catholic communities.
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8:40 Something is rotten in the State of Denmark
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3:34 thou shalt not covet thou neighbours wife either, Father…..
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Yet another horrific social services abuse case, reported in today’s Observer.
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2022/nov/20/woman-groomed-and-abused-in-care-gets-apology-after-30-years?utm_term=Autofeed&CMP=twt_gu&utm_medium&utm_source=Twitter#Echobox=1668929104
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Yeah you can only expect them to sin because they’re not divinely founded and inspired, can’t you?
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No, it’s how I expect them to behave.
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10:59 Good. Because you won’t get anything else from priests.
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it’s not funny.
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@ 1.36. You’re right: it’s not funny.
This troll geezer regularly takes every opportunity to bash anything to do with social work.
Like all professions, social work has its misfits and incompetent. But the work done , often with the most challenging and difficult clientele, (often inarticulate poorly educated and unable to gain much public sympathy) is perennially hampered with insufficient resources, both staffing wise, and facilities wise; Foster carers, children’s homes, residential care homes etc, etc. Combined with relatively low salaries, and the opprobrium fostered by the right wing media, it’s no wonder staff morale is so low that the increasing pressures cause many able committed staff to quit.
But all this scenario is neither of any interest nor comprehended by small minded trolls of low intelligence such as this one regularly spouting off here.
I think we should just ignore his future sw diversionary comment. I will.
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7:09
Social workers intervene in the lives of some of the most vulnerable citizens in our communities. To suggest abuse corruption and coverup in social work is due to misfits incompetence and lack of resources is total complete and utter disingenuous nonsense. Blaming clients lack of educational attainments right wing media or insufficient resources is no excuse for abuse unethical professional practice or coverup of abuse.
The social work profession like the RCC need to take responsibility rather than making excuses. Maybe social workers are another bunch on a ‘learning curve’. These secular do gooders can be extremely unethical as numerous reports into abusive social work practice illustrates. As a so called ‘profession’ it is riddled with contradictions.
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Fred is, of course, MMM. He denies and explains away social worker abuse.
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Pat, for finding Eduardo change things for the best for you? Kiram seems happy despite his family issues.
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Very Sincere blog on the Feast of Christ the King as we go towards Advent and the ultimate Love Christmas.
I wonder what the LMB think of “recreational Love” when they take part in it but are in great denial just like Thomas was.
The Greatest gift is Love and Our Lord gives unconditional LOVE
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The NOB stars of the blog, who want to have it all, are in denial. They need to come out of the shadows and come out, and come out of priesthood.
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10:56 the NOB stars of this blog & their cohorts only use the blog to try to discover who is telling the truth about them so they can organise their forces to harrass, intimidate, slander them & their families in efforts to shut them up. Zero repentance.
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@ 9:32am
Here’s you know who on with her usual false sanctimonious claptrap, on about sincerity which she know’s nothing about. The feast of Christ The King was the last Sunday of October in the real Calendar not what the NOB’s hold. We don’t need to wonder what you lot think about “recreational love” you’re at it non stop, except for, you know who. Whom nobody would touch with a bardge pole, poor COW!.
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Robert in his crusade is trying to promote the rite of confession.
is it true that the once retail giant Ben Dunne also went on a crusade in Florida telling sex workers to confess and telling them about the Catholic church.
Did Charlie Haughey with pius platitudes tell us to tighten our belts while he bought expensive french shirts and Ben kindly gave him a load of money because Charlie was poor in money .In the same week that Ben was promoting confession the U2 rock band was also promoting confession by asking fans to confess to a video camera and the confessions were then screened during the concert for all to see . It sounds unreal.
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U2 are a New Movement.
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I have had to stop going to mass because Fr refuses to put the heat on for us and the church is absolutely baltic. I have wrote to the Bishop but have not received acknowledgment of my complaint yet.
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Yet the parochial house is like a hot oven. All you hear in mass is the shivering and clattering of peoples teeth.
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9:57 that’s their dentures not actual teeth. Few young enough to still have their own teeth dare go in church.
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Have you not read Laudato Si? Francis deplores aircon and central heating.
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10:24 my neighbour went off foreign for new teeth, it’s all gone wrong and now he expects the NHS to sort it for him. They filed all his original teeth and it’s beyond belief, he’s nothing left underneath.
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9:57 how do you know how hot it is inside the parochial house??
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9:42. Bishop has more serious matters to attend to. If it’s too cold for you, watch mass in bed. There is a cost of living crisis, cut your cloth.
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People are too soft now. Our forebears huddled round Mass rocks, in rags, outside in the depths of winter, with an ear out for Protestant priesthunters and British troops. No heating for them.
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2:34 time for you to go off and join them, they are lonely without you. Ye can share war stories.
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I very much doubt that 9:42am goes to any Mass, either in winter or summer.
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It would seem Robert Nugents Men Against Masturbation group was a success in Derry. Who would have thought so many men would be against a simple pleasure in life?
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If I was out shopping in Derry and seen banners with this groups name on it I would have battered them. Dirty gits have nothing better to do
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Why is this happily married straight man, holding rallies in a country he doesn’t even live in, about people that he knows nothing about?
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12:50 Robert reminds one of Prince Andrew who gave twelve million quid to someone he never met for something he never did.
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It takes Paddy Devlin 45minites to get from Belfast to Derry
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9.43: What lies and utter cynicism…you gombeen. Robert’s gathering focused on The Rosary, Eucharistic Devotion, Confession and Mass..He is to be admired for following up on a promise he made some months ago. And – what an amazing success – 1000 men..May God guide and bless his ministry of evangelizing among men. Who else would have this incredible response? God is at work through him.
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It was organised by the Derry Cursillo Movement not Robert Nugent.
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What a lovely story of homosexual love rather than they typical tale of lust and passion.
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Sounds like Kiram is better off without his birth family. I found i was better off without my cathbot family berating me for not going to mass.
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A court has ordered that the archdiocese of Baltimore’s attempts to cover up abuse must be made public. This isn’t ending any time soon.
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9:55 all the other Courts must follow suit on all these cover ups.
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Kweram is much better off without his crazy family, he has found a better family anyway and will be a dad soon anyway.
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The bishops of Italy claim to have sent all their credible complaints of clerical abuse to the Vatican, 613 since 2001.
WHAT HAPPENED TO ALL THE OTHERS?
A Vatican insider estimated earlier this year that a million children could have been abused by priests in Italy.https://apnews.com/article/europe-religion-sexual-abuse-by-clergy-italy-00f4694f9b902ed1d095b62190660cf9https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/a-million-children-abused-by-italian-priests-and-it-barely-makes-the-news-83gwjm6c9
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Gone are the days you would leave a pot of stew at the front door of the poor priest, sure they are all morbidly obese and rich
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10:11 A beef and Guinness stew is welcome anytime.
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10:26 a dash of Hennessy in it is the bees knees.
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10:11 their hidden partners cook for them & fill their every need or some prefer casual encounters at venues such as the priest sex saunas, Dublin based Boiler House, Saunas in Rome etc.
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11:22 Good woman yourself Darina, you tell it how it is.
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I hear a bag of chips and a batter burger is fierce popular in Killaloo.
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You cant beat a Killaloo batter sausage and chip out of a van.
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8:41 Battered Burgers?? Wasn’t it sausages they were battering in Killaloe Diocese??
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10:11 it’s a different sort of pot some of the priests are into these days.
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Pat are you abandoning the Qatar World Cup in solidarity with your fellow lgbt brother and sisters? Or do you love football too much to not follow it?
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I have no interest on football generally.
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Do you still play squash? I reckon you would clean the floor with Treanor
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No
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Although the RCC claims to believe in a God who transcends time and space, there are those who proclaim that the Zoom Eucharist is invalid.
When the words of the Eucharist are proclaimed it is God who acts. Believe that and you can accept that God can act whenever and wherever. And can bless them whoever. In the presence of a priest or not – God is God.
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Do you heat the oratory or have your turned your heating off also?
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I heat it
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Good it’s important to keep warm, look at that poor child in the news that died because of the mould.
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Leo Varadkar is of Indian descent also, he is also a homosexual and his parents abandoned him when he came out.
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The Indians seem like a very homophobic sub cultural group. They are very misogynistic and the rate of rape in the country is rife.
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10:42 the focus of this blog is on rape & emotional & financial abuse & corruption exercised by Roman Catholics clergy & their cohorts. There are many forums dealing with aspects of wrongdoing in India.
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India Hicks @ 11.30am
Generally speaking, you are correct about this blog. However this particular post is not about the RCC. It is mainly about an INDIAN family rejecting a son/brother for his relationship. Please remove your Orange tinted spectacles and read the post again.
Your bigotry knows no bounds.
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I was in the RVH as a patient last week, and the entire nursing staff were Indian. I don’t think there are any left in India itself. But I must say they were absolutely fantastic.
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12:43 take a look at yourself. It is You that reveals yourself to be clearly well versed in bigotry, not India.
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Stop talking nonsense, they did not!
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10.35. That is a total lie . Leo’s sister when interviewed by the Independent in 2018 said that hís parents were fine with it. Their only worry was that he might be alone in life but now that he has Matt they are happy.By the way his father is an Indian doctor and his mother is an Irish former nurse
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I am glad some of your readers only have to worry about their church being kept warm. I can not afford my mortgage, heat, electric and food. All because that stupid woman Liz Truss crashed the economy within 4 weeks of getting the top job, if I ever get my hands on her or Kwasi Modo
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We are paying the price of locking down the economy for two years. People will just have to suck it up. They demanded lockdown, now they must pay for it.
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11:03 Who demanded lockdown..?
People didn’t demand lockdown. It was foisted on the country by the government.
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Jeremy Hunt used his Autumn Statement to really put the boot into British taxpayers on Thursday. At almost every turn, the chancellor found a way to hike taxes while pushing spending even higher before the next election. From council tax, to income thresholds, to the cost of government crisis, it was grim news. Brits will be under the fiscal cosh for years to come.
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It’s being said that the Tories recognise they’ll lose the next election, so have little motivation to “cure” Britain’s problems. Leave them for Labour to suck up.
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10:53 Kevin you are a narrow minded thug. Go to confession. Threatening women and members of our ethnic community is so last century, dinosaur. Mind you the RCC is the closest example of Jurassic Park on the planet.
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Kevin speaks the truth, because of the actions of that woman and man – many people will be homeless and a lot poorer
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Kevin go and stay in the presbytery with your local Pp, let’s see how charitable they all are with their parishioners when they have them all moving in with him
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12:46pm you are joking, if they won’t come to mass, they’ll hardly be knocking on the door to shack up with the pp.
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Faith bereavement is not a loss of faith, it occurs when someone is forced out of church for reporting wrong doing and to escape negative reprisals. It is not necessarily a loss of faith. God does not go away.
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Jesus has changed His line of sight to us.
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The family and friends of Derek Linster regret to inform the blog that he passed away unexpectedly at home on Saturday 19th November 2022. We take comfort in knowing he is now at peace with his beloved wife, Carol. The fight will go on.
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Who is he?
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A Bethany Homes survivors campaigner.
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May he rest in peace. Deepest condolences to you all. He fought a long battle on behalf of himself and the Bethany Home Survivors Group. It is good that he lived long enough to issue legal proceedings against the Irish State, the Minister for Childten and the Attorney General.
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This is the true story of how love triumphs over ignorance, bigotry and religious fanaticism: The year is 1970. The setting is a rural village in West Clare. The main characters are a middle aged Irish gentleman farmer of Anglo Irish descent and a Roman Catholic woman born and raised in the local village. Back in the 1970s, interfaith marriage between Protestants and Catholics in rural Ireland was not very well received. In a heartfelt letter written by the gentleman farmer to his cousin, the farmer relates that he has spent over an hour discussing with Bishop Dr. Michael Harty his desire to marry the RC woman with whom he has fallen in love. Bishop Harty makes it clear that the only way the gentleman farmer can marry the RC woman is if he ‘signs away any children to the RCC’. The couple eventually marry in the RCC however after the birth of their firstborn, they decide to have the child baptised in the COI. The young mother feels tremendous guilt over the fact that she went against Bishop Harty so she goes to Confession, pours out her soul, and the PP responds by walking out of the Confessional. From that moment onwards, the young mother never went to Mass again and only went into the Church if there was a funeral on. The interfaith couple loved each other very much and lived in harmony for over twenty years. The gentleman farmer predeceased his wife and was buried in the local COI graveyard. The wife died many years later, was waked, had a RC funeral and was cremated. Her ashes were interred in the grave of her Protestant husband by a RC priest. The current PP in the village is a well respected man. He speaks very candidly from the pulpit and has asked this year’s Confirmation candidates to take a pledge against drugs and bullying. He also stated that it is ok to criticise the Church—kudos! The only way to bring about real change is to speak openly about what is going on in the RCC. Thank you to Bishop Pat for giving us a platform whereby we can do this.
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12:27 your parish priest must feel quite isolated in a diocese such as Killaloe. We will pray for him.
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2.47 Please do. He is getting on in years.
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Pat mate, me and you will head to Malone House some Sunday so you can see for yourself the scores of Priests that go cruising in plain day light. Popping into the bushes like utter creeps the lot of them.
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Have you ever had a run in with David Delargy? For the man has not a good word to say about you.
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A few run ins
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He is an ignoramus pig. Should stick to the day job of being a pathetic Priest, because he sounds like a choked pig when he sings
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Is he one of the Singing Priests? How many of them does Ireland need?
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To be fair to David Delargey, he does look embarrassed in this video by the excruciating high campery of the O’Hagan brothers.
https://youtu.be/_aJMRCvOVW8
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4:09 pm Fr Ray Kelly has submitted a song for Eurovision, he informed media earlier this week. Attempting a come back after getting booted off Dancing with the Stars in 2020.
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Presumably he’s representing the UK? He was on “Britain’s Got Talent”, after all.
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7:20pm Fr Ray Kelly has submitted his Eurovision application to represent IRELAND 🇮🇪
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The RCC in Ireland is officially dead. Starve them if finance and become humanists
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How many sexually active priests are there in D&C? Are they all gay?
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Fr Delia Neeson must be off on her holidays, she was boarding a flight to Malaga – and there was no sign of Aidan – the handcuffs are well and truly off
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Aidan is not the worst now come on, we can not give everyone a hard time just because they are a priest. He was instrumental in putting together a group in Poleglass helping the very many of people who suffer from addiction, and it has genuinely helped so many people. I guess it takes only an addict to know how to help fellow addicts.
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2:23 several Irish Priests have their own scene going on in Malaga
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Maybe Aidan is waiting at the airport for Fr Delia. He is still listed on D&C clergy list.
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Bishop Pat is the only priest I trust. Unfortunately the rest are a bit too inclined to play mind games and there’s a shifty aspect to them, and if you disagree with them they turn cold and shun, which is an emotionally immature attitude, I think.
I’ve met Pat in real life and he came to see me in hospital when I couldn’t get a priest of D&C diocese to come, and he had helped me previously over the phone with a very difficult issue at a time when I was unwell mentally and morally.
His advice was very straightforward, challenging and surprisingly traditionally moral, all delivered kindly and in great humour. He changed the direction of my life for the better and that also helped people around me, especially at home. I came off the drink and I haven’t missed a day off work with sickness ever since and all my reckless behaviours stopped.
I subsequently worked through some other issues with a therapist, which also helped, but Pat was my great help and support at a low point and put me on the road to recovery, which thank God has been continuing for nearly four years now. Thank you, Pat!
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2.30 A very inspirational testimony. Well done to you. Bishop Pat is a friend to the friendless and by opening his heart and home to those who have been rejected by the RCC, he proves himself to be a true Christian.
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Thank you, I’m 2.30pm. I meant to add (and I hope I’m not misrepesenting Pat in my recolkection) that the chief takeaway message I took from Pat was to be honest with myself and others because the burden of lies was too much to bear and my behaviour and depression were in part at least a response to that burden and inner conflict. Lies also hurted others, who have their rights to hinesty and authentic relationships.
He told me that being honest would be difficult, perhaps even alarming for me because I wasn’t used to it and it would be uncomfortable to go through, but the prize at the other end would be worth it. The temptation is to stay in a disorded way of life (ie drinking and mindless, degrading promiscuity in my case) out of habit or as a comfort, or for fear of the outcome from being honest. It was important to get support during this process, he said.
He also advised me to be patient and gentle with myself, to laugh at the sometimes farcical and messy side of being human, start to feel emotions, however uncomfortable, and realise that people are a work in progress and will make mistakes, have regrets and guilt, will hurt others and be hurt, and life will still present challenges. Adding lies to the mix puts 24 hours a day pressure on a person, and being honest is something we can do something about, and will make life’s challenges easier to cope with.
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3.25 Sounds like very sound advice for anyone reading this blog. Thank you for sharing.
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Pat I am lonely. I don’t have any family and very few ‘friends’. I am grateful for your blog and it would be a dream of mine to meet your someday.
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3:16 Alan do not despair, you have more friends than you realise. All that glitters is not gold. Quality over quantity wins every time.
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I love my body and if I want to have an abortion I will. I am sick of you men and lesbian women telling me what we can do. Men you have been the greatest form of evil the world has ever seen. Lesbian women – I don’t tell you what to do with your tongue so go and live your own good life.
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Pat please delete this horrible post
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I was age 14 in the (secular) classroom when they tried to set us up to be predators. My brother’s class tore a strip off the teachers. Now the plod in Gwent are trying to normalise it (from small I knew Savile was a wrong ‘un). Were the big religions praying for the nations’ youth? No, the aggiornamento crafted by “Father” Ratzinger was going to be the substitute. Bowen was already VG by then. How many middle aged and old men prayed then? Too busy in the “knights”? The war against boys is the same war as the war against women.
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2:44 Monica, you have zero respect for yourself luv. You need professional help.
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Long and happy love to you both. I cannot understand how parents can reject their own children.
I couldn’t care if any of mine came to me announcing they are gay and they know that. I want them to be happy and be loved. My parents did the same for us.
If anyone I’d lucky to find love then go with it.
Lads best wishes to you both and I hope your dreams come through
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Good on Robert Nugent in getting 1,000 men to pray. So much of the modern Church is a largely male-free zone, eg this recent event in Clogher diocese, where there seem to be only three or four men present.
https://twitter.com/clogherdiocese/status/1594016371100221443?t=7Mf_oUSpIGttm3ty7TPQpQ&s=19
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Even in Maynooth it’s a case of “spot the man” lol
https://sppu.ie/news-events/2022/a-warm-welcome-to-first-year-students
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Do they really sit at wee tables like in a secondary school?
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The only men at the Clogher thing were clergy – the leader, La Flynn and the permanent deacon in Enniskillen.
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G’on ya boya “And may God Himself preserve us from foaming mouthed Protestants and rabid Roman Catholics.” Religion is our comfort blanket Whats God got to do with it. Protect the bubble!
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@: 6:57pm
Where is that fly swat when I need it?
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God Bless all who read, contribute and learn from this blog. And God Bless you Bishop Pat.
County Tyrone is grateful and will touch base soon.
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Bishop Pat, Some of the gals from Silverstream were in Mullingar for the opening of the cause of Fr. Willie Doyle S.J. I’m sure they had a good laugh with Tom D afterward about the ongoing victimisation of Fr. Benedict.
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Wishing Ukrikt and Koran every good wish for their future.
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