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WHY ARE ALTARS BEING DESCREATED.

MONASTERY ALTAR DESCREATED.MONASTERY ALTAR DESCREATED.

On Thursday afternoon, January 5, 2023, sometime between 3:00 pm – 4:00 pm, a gentleman entered our Abbey Church and proceeded to desecrate our main altar. Through the use of a regular hammer and sledgehammer/axe, he destroyed the top of the altar and broke open the mensa stones containing the relics of our altar. He stole our two reliquaries in the mensa stones, both of which contained three relics. He had apparently then moved to the tabernacle, removed the cross on top, removed the tabernacle veil, and then was interrupted. Thankfully, the Blessed Sacrament and the Tabernacle were not damaged. When some guests notified us of the damage, the Logan County Sheriff was called and they came to investigate. By piecing together the testimony from multiple witness who had seen a strange man on campus earlier, we were fairly confident that we had seen him previously in our Church. Out of an abundance of caution, our Academy students were locked down while the investigation proceeded. Ironically, after the deputies had left, the gentlemen in question decided to return to the Church. The Logan County deputies were called and they quickly returned. One of our monks spoke to the gentleman and it became clear he was the one who had done the damage. He was arrested, his vehicle towed, and further investigations are ongoing. One of the reliquaries was found in his truck containing three of the relics, along with the hammer and sledgehammer/axe with marble dust still on them. Throughout this, our monks continued with our regularly communal prayers. Now that the gentleman has been caught and justice will proceed, may we also offer a prayer for him.

Due to the desecration of the altar, Abbot Elijah and the monastic community will undertake the “Public Prayer after the Desecration of a Church.” In accordance with the prescriptions, the altar of the church has been stripped bare and all customary signs of joy and gladness have been put away. Due to the extensive damage to the main altar, the monks will use a portable altar until necessary provisions are made for the repairs.

PAT SAYS

Catholic church altars are being descreated by;

1. Priests having sex on them.

2. People with mental health issues

3. People who are angry with the RCC over abuse and corruption

We can not blame mentally ill people for attacks on churches and altars.

It is UNDERSTABDABLE that those hurt by the RCC lash out. But violence is not the answer. Victims and survivors must find more clever and legal ways to make the RCC pay.

Priests having sex on altars totally blows my mind.

I can not understand how any priest could do such evil.

128 replies on “WHY ARE ALTARS BEING DESCREATED.”

10:37 why not, surely faithful parishioners wouldn’t begrudge their priest a few indulgences to line their egg nest now and then.

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8:51 priests privately squirrelling away cash for a rainy day, unlike other jobs, they have no freedom to choose their lifestyle in retirement, most summoned to assist in parishes until they literally drop dead whether they like it or not. Vocations crisis escalated by selfish formators and superiors in seminaries who couldn’t keep it in their pants & leave the young seminarians alone thus driving them out or turning them into damaged and compromised individuals unable to hack it as a priest in the longer term even if they make it to ordination.

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The position of the Roman Catholic Church is untenable whilst day after day more crime, corruption & criminality is revealed, families are denied documentation when trying to trace family members who were controlled & institutionalised by nuns & priests to profit the Roman Catholic Church, priests are openly facilitating anti social and deliberate endangerment in church financial interests, stalking the public and invading their legal rights to dignity & privacy etc. It is essential that those abused by church follow legally defined route to resolve any outstanding business with this abusuve criminal Mafia.

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10.00am: What a load of overstated hyperbolic nonsense. What a gargantuan imagination! You’d think the clerics were patrolling the streets with armour of all kinds…Crazy fantastical narratives. Crazy. Lies.

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Calm yerself, Father. Have a slug or two of that fortified wine you believe turns to human blood when you raise it at the altar.
You know Father, you could make a fortune if you lived in the good ole US of A. They pay for blood donations there, don’t they. Donate some of that transubstantiated wine, and let them transfuse that into all the sick people. It would be a good way of showing the world that your claims about wine to blood are true. And you’d get filthy rich!

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11:16 the commenter @ 10am clearly triggered your nerve somehow – you mentioned armour they did not.

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11:54 But that would mean having the alleged blood tested to find out what group it was and they’ve refused to have their ‘changed’ elements tested.
It’s almost like they believe they are but they’re not really.

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11:16 Haven’t you come across the biblical injunction to put on the whole armour of God?

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11.54
You are confusing what scholastic theology calls the res (body, blood, soul and divinity) and sacramentum (bread and wine).

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@11:16. Welcome to +Pat’s blog. I take it you ARE a new visitor?
Regular readers have been following the widespread RCC clerical abuses Anon @ 10.00 refers to: moral, financial, in fact every conceivable form of abusive behaviour possible.
But YOU clearly know nothing about that. So welcome indeed. Stick around and be educated.
Oh, by the way, have a look at Matthew Ch13 verses 9-16.
MMM

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On the afternoon of Thursday, January 5, 2023, an intoxicated man pummeled the Italian-imported marble altar of Subiaco Abbey Church in Arkansas with a standard hammer and a sledgehammer.
“The altar itself had a very large hole in the middle of the slab that went all of the way through the altar and the altar had large cracks and chips,” the Logan County Sheriff’s Office said on Facebook. “This is an act of desecration to the altar.”
Inside the altar were two reliquaries, or brass boxes, containing over 1,500-year-old relics that were sealed into the altar on March 31, 1959., the day Bishop Albert L. Fletcher from the Diocese of Little Rock consecrated the altar and church. Then, the vandal headed to the Tabernacle where the Holy Eucharist is housed. He removed the crucifix on top and took off the Tabernacle veil. Then … he had a (perhaps miraculous) change of heart.
“The Sheriff reported that the man had wanted to break into the tabernacle but had looked up at the statue of Mary and decided he couldn’t do that to her,” Subiaco Abbey said in a post on Facebook.
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Some of the damage done to Subiaco Abbey Church’s altar.
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Visitors interrupted the man’s desecration of the altar and reported it to the abbey and the police were called. Logan County deputies arrived, but the man was gone — and so were the two reliquaries.
Father Elijah Owens, OSB, the abbot of the monastery, told Catholic News Agency each reliquary contained relics of 3 saints each, dating back to 500 A.D. One contained relics of St. Boniface, St. Tiberius, and St. Benedict of Nursia. The other held relics of St. Tiberius, St. Marcellus, and St. Justina.
According to Catholic News Agency, Subiaco Academy, the nearby school of boys in grades 7 — 12 run by the abbey, was locked down as the investigation proceeded.
After police did an investigation of the crime scene, they left. Then, the vandal returned to the scene of the crime. In a statement on the Subiaco Abbey website, they said, “One of the monks spoke to the gentleman and it became clear he was the one who had done the damage.”
Jerrid Farnam, 31, of Subiaco, Arkansas was arrested Thursday afternoon. Inside his truck, police found one of the reliquaries holding three relics and a hammer and sledgehammer coated in marble dust.
Throughout the ordeal, the Benedictine monks who call Subiaco Abbey home, continued with their daily prayers.
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The Subiaco altar before it was vandalized.
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Now that the gentleman has been caught and justice will proceed, may we also offer a prayer for him,” the abbey said.
Abbot Elijah Owens and the monks at the monastery will undertake the “Public Prayer after the Desecration of a Church.” The abbey said, “In accordance with the prescriptions, the altar of the curch has been stripped bare and all customary signs of job and gladness have been put away. Due to the extensive damage to the main altar, the monks will use a portable altar until necessary provisions are made for the repairs. UIOGD!”
For those wondering, UIOGD is an acronym of the Latin phrase, “Ut In Omnibus Glorificetur Deus,” which translates as, “That in all things God may be glorified.”
Yesterday, Subiaco Abbey announced on Facebook, the other reliquary and three relics have been recovered and returned to the monastery.

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Bishops and priests & their cohorts keep themselves very busy desecrating the Roman Catholic Church via their day to day vile antisocial & corrupt practices. Destroying church property is the act of a fool. Better it be sold in good order to settle the thousands of outstanding redress & abuse cases outstanding against the RCC.

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Correct.
This man desecrated an altar; RCC clerics desecrate Christ’s body every day through, and especially, their abuse of children, along with its concealment. Which is worse?
From the strength of public reaction to the vandalism of carved marble and the theft of alleged old bones of questionable provenance, one would think these children took second place. But, of course, I must be wrong.

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10:47 thanks for highlighting all of this including the total lies about the 1,500 old Catholic relic in the USA. This claim by this Roman Catholic Church in America is a cynical financial move by the Bishop designed to extract a massive insurance claim. No one like a financially savvy church office team to turn even a perceived misfortune into a money making opportunity by the RCC Mafia.

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St Valentine of course has about three complete bodies and several spare heads, all held by the church and available for public veneration.
And let’s not even start on the true cross and Jesus’s many foreskins.
It’s like a Las Vegas casino.

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It will be very interesting to discover details of what triggered this cry for help from this poor man. He or members of his family may have been wronged by the Roman Catholic Church. Sadly, that is a common occurrence. We pray for him.

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Where is Fr Michael Lomasney and his Bishop, William Crean now? Has there been a ceremony to reconsecrate the altar. What was the outcome of the Garda investigation? Did the Kilkenny boys get back in touch with you with any further photos or information? This incident was reported in the Irish media back in 2018 but all went mysteriously quiet after that.

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Violence is not THE answer? That’s assuming there is only one answer, and that it must be to your liking, Pat.

Do not underestimate the rage against the RCC institution. Against, popes, and the Papacy; against bishops, and the Episcopate; against priests, and the Priesthood.

There is no moral conscience in the RCC institution. There would have been no movement towards any kind of reform without public pressure on it. This pressure will have to be maintained in a state of ever-watchful vigilance, because, at its heart, the institution is evil. History has shown this, again and again. The Future will show it, too. The Present continues to do so.

Consider the manner in which the RCC institution publicly lionised the memory of PE Benedict XVII, while the world, poodle-like, paid tribute to this distinctly odious, and ‘weak, weak man’? Was it right that a man who had betrayed so many abused and vulnerable children throughout the world should be honoured? When the notorious paedophile, Fr Malachy Finnegan, was exposed, there was an outcry. Under public pressure, his photographs and tributes were removed from the school in which he had run, and preyed on little boys. And his headstone: wasn’t this vandalised, or removed? Something was done to it. So, why weren’t there protests against the memory of Benedict at or around his funeral? Why did the world allow the Vatican to rewrite this moral coward’s memory and legacy? To airbrush his abandonment of damaged children? Because this odious, and ‘weak, weak man’ served the institution, and the institution rewards its own… if the world allows it to.

Anger, even violence, against this institution shouldn’t surprise anyone, whether or not they think it appropriate.

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My first thought when I saw Benedict’s tomb was to think how he lived his life in such a way that, like Thatcher, he couldn’t have his grave out in an open graveyard because people would pee on it.

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Remembering Bessborough, Tuam & all denied a Christian burial by Roman Catholic Church & their cohorts.says:

10:59 my first thought was for the thousands of victims of Roman Catholic Church related abuse buried in unmarked graves all over the world and for the poor woman impregnated by a monk & conveniently found dead in a well. Homeless people are dying on the streets or crawling into dark corners to die out of sight in our world overwhelmed by the consequences of decades of unabated greed and corruption by the so called respectable collared classes.

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10.59: You represent low lifers at their worst. Seems your brain has been pissed on, you violent thug.

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Catholicism defines sacrilege as the action of defiling any sacred objects, places or people. A physical depreciation – having sex on an altar for instance is called a desecration. There were calls for an exorcism after the pictures of the sex orgy on kildorrey church altar emerged.

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The despicable offense of desecrating an Altar is first and foremost an offense against Almighty God. The excuse of mental health issues with the degenerates who commit these sacrilegious acts is a nonsense because of some perceived grievance against The Church. They should all be burnt at the Stake, no matter what woke excuse they give.

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Perceived grievance? How do you know it was perceived and not actual? Of course, you know nothing at all

Your anger is prompted by the vandalism of an altar. (I shan’t call it ‘desecration’, because this word should apply only to abused human beings, not to inanimate objects. I think you are moved more by such acts of destruction than you are by the destruction of people, especially children, at the hands of priests. It signals your obsession with liturgical form and dress rather than what really matters: people. You’ll find that God is a person in each of his manifestations, not a praxis or form.

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@ 11:04am
How do you know there was an actual grievance? Of course you know nothing at all, even if it was actual it does not give them an excuse to desecrate an Alter, The fact remains the desecration of the Altar was truly an offense against Almighty God. I disagree strongly with you describing the desecration of the Altar as being just an act of vandalism, which says more about you. If people have been abused by anyone they should go for the person who abused them not attacking Sacred Sanctuaries. The abuser no matter who they are will be dealt with at The Judgement Seat as will the the person who desecrated an Altar, they will both be toast and rightly so. You’ll find that God is Just.

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I agree. Seeing God in people is more important than seeing God of Love in abstract objects. When we see and understand that then and only then will the message of Jesus start showing fruit. Amen

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11.04: That’s right. Go off on tangents. Distort facts. Lie. Have a go at priests. It’s your 24 hour hobby and you offer nothing new to your stench. Same old. Same old. The abuse of a child or vulnerable person is a monstrous sacrilege. The deliberate destruction of human life by abortion is a monstrous sacrilege. The desecration of a Holy and SACRED Altar is a monstrous desecration. Evil and vile. Perpetrators ought to feel the full rigour of the law for sexual abuse and for desecration of a SACRED Altar. No equivocation.

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@2:33
If the abuse of a child or vulnerable person is a monstrous sacrilege why the cover-up and the continuance of cover-ups by bishops? Why were/are perpetrators protected?

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2:56 Excellent summary of the whacking great hole in their argument. They claim to think abuse of a child is terrible but it’s waaaay subordinate to their failed attempt to keep it in house and maintain the reputation of their scam.
This is why they want people to stop talking about it.

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Alex Jones has 2.3 million subscribers
He has commented on the case of Juan Carlos Cruz, a gay survivor of sexual abuse by a prominent Chilean priest. Alex Jones has described Pope Francis as a piranha, paedophile and creepazoid.

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I love the way the comments by cathbots repeat the ones they’re replying to. They’re not intelligent and discouraged from thinking independently so can only parrot what everyone else says. 🐏🐑🐚

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Is the young chap receiving a blow job on the altar from the late Big Mick Lomasney now a priest? Did he get tested for HIV as Mick died with it.

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Lovely priests, my arse!
There’s plenty of priests once considered lovely now doing porridge.

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4:42 The irony here is that you’re replying to ‘Birdie’ and doing bird is a euphemism for porridge.
Must be a priest out for the last bit of his sentence.

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Jim, don’t put the words priest and arse so close together. Wouldn’t want to risk exciting them.

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Didn’t know that Lomasney died with HIV.

I was at Maynooth when he was there. A little fella with dark curlyish hair. A few years ahead of me.

Never spoke to him once nor he to me. Boys-o-boys! How well do we know anyone? The ones you think are good are…

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‘The ones you think are good are…’
Hence the saying which we’ll keep repeating until you get it: there is no such thing as a good priest.
The number of priests who’ve actually done anything which might have affected their own career and comfort while the church holocaust of children has been going on, can be counted on one hand.

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Fr Michael Lomasaney was ordained on June 13 1982 in Castletownroche.
Fr Brendon Wrixon who would later be convicted for abusing a teenager , was vocations directors.

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11.37
What you mean is you will keep repeating it until you yourself get it. You haven’t yet got it despite having repeated your mantra ad infinitum. So, try another tack. Try a counsellor.

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@ 8:38pm
I don’t love the way you bampots think it’s all right for you lefty’s to babble on like a budgie about right thinking people. But scream your tits off when your challenged about your own foul lot.😏

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The marble altar steps in St Bartholomew’s Church Kildorrery where the desecration by Fr Lomanesey occurred in 2018 were erected, carpeted and sanctuary tiled by a parishioner, Patrick Clancy, in memory of his parents, Thomas & Julia, in 1918.

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The good people of killdorrery were rightly appalled over what happened, the fact is the altor was desecrated by their parish priest,then should they continue to attend services in this church ?

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If the said people were good in any meaningful way they wouldn’t go to that church again until it had been reconsecrated, and exert pressure on the bishop to do so.
If it’s business as usual it just reinforces the point that neither the clergy nor the laity have any morals, but then they belong to the holy church of child abusers so there’s no surprise there.

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Pat, how many priests do you know of who desecrated altars by having sex? I know of the one spoken of here last year but have never heard of any other incidents. People have agendas re: religious groupings, faith and Christianity in particular. In parts of Africa and the Middle East, Christians are continually attacked with their churches burned and religious sisters and priests killed. These seem politically motivated. Yes, there are some who will attack a church in anger at their hurt and that’s very understandable but to suggest that all desecration of churches is driven by the sexual abuse scandals is not factually correct. There are very demonic and evil people in our world who despise anything religious or of faith or of God. Extremists are everywhere. Look at the amount of school shootings in the USA…all carried out by brainwashed young radical fundamentalists. Desecration of Christian churches is miruvated by an intolerance and hatred of any rwlugii6s concept. There are some in the states who have burned churches in reaction to the white supremacist narratives. Any desecration of religious iconography out of hatred and prejudice is evil.

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There was the one also in the US of the priest with the dominatrixes on the altar.
I think the bishop burned that one.

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10.59
Your boat is floated more by desecration of religious property, iconography and the like, than by anything else, isn’t it?
Acts of this kind always call out the Pharisees in the Church, more worked up by damage to things than the destruction of human beings, including children, by priests.
Would that every temple to human vanity be bulldozed to the ground so that humankind could rediscover God!

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There’s something not right here: if the monks recognized the guy from attending the church before doing this he’s done more than just slip in during vespers to case the joint.
It sounds like he’s been attending at least several times if not regularly.
The other thing not right is the nonk walking up to the guy and saying, Did you vandalize our altar?
What the hell?
Anyone in their right mind would let him go but get his registration. He could well have been armed and this could have been a bloodbath.
It sounds like he’s a Catholic and at least slightly known by the monks, and the whole thing is bizarre.

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1:00 Absolutely. Your description of an age of no clergy, where people don’t give to religious scams and have free access to contraception and termination, as a new springtime, is spot on. 😂
Bring it on!

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And in the name of Vatican II, even though it didn’t mandate it, millions of altars round the world have been smashed to bits eg Armagh Cathedral, Lough Derg and other places too numerous to mention. There’s a huge thread on Archiseek. com about the destruction of Irish churches.

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3:45 By Roman Catholics.
Did you mean to say that RCs are the biggest desecrators of their own churches or are you just stupid?

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I’m fascinated by the advert for all you can eat catfish in the middle of that page. Don’t the whiskers get caught in your teeth,

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@4:58pm
No he’s not stupid the evidence is there for all to see. Just look at the before and after pictures of Churches all over Ireland and elsewhere to see it. One of the worst examples is Monaghan Cathedral, all done by the modernist polyesters who call it reordering but is in fact desecration.

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My God! How an act of desecration brings all the hate mongers out of the undergrowth. There are some sad twisted individuals posting here who are in need of psychiatric help. I’m glad Pat that they have such an incestuous forum in which to ventilate their poisonous venomous anger. I will pray for their healing. P.S. I am not a Roman Catholic but I am a Christian. I know mental illness well having worked in the field for over 30 years.

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11:48 Oh, so you’re not a Roman Catholic but you are a Christian. Well you sound like another gaslighting Christian. Having worked in ‘mental illness field’ is an irrelevancy. The ‘mental illness field’ is state sanctioned abusive quackery.

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The blog keeps a hyena troop of unpleasant mentalists and alkies occupied, and stops them getting up to even worse things.

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Luke 6:31, “And as ye would that men should do to you, do ye also to them likewise.” Perhaps the abused laity are taking lead from the abusive clergy.

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Why would anyone have sex on an altar? Apart from the sacrilege of it, would it not very uncomfortable? I can’t understand how it would be, in any way, passionate

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I’m glad to see Armagh have a new Vocations Director to “vet” the young men before entering Maynooth….. a familiar face one might say

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Barry Matthews, one the peripheries of the Summer of Love, though he didn’t get much action thanks to his appearance and personality. Only ordained a few years yet made Vocations Director.

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Surely it can’t be Barry Matthews!!! If true then I will eat my hat. If true then Armagh is in a very sorry state of affairs.

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Would you like seasoning with your hat?
Websites aren’t updated but the ArmaghPriest social media posts have his name as VD

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Just watching Amy Martin on Prime Time. He told Miriam that women cant be priests because of ”scripture and tradition”. You honestly couldnt make the RCC up

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Todd, you don’t go to Mass, so it’s none of your business. Anyway, you can’t disprove what the Archbishop says.

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5.29
Where does Scripture forbid women from becoming priests? (Ohoooo! This should be entertaing, cos the New Testament makes neither reference, nor even allusion, to Romanist priesthood.)

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Sorry but as long as the Irish taxpayer is on the hook for a single red cent given to the RCC it is my business and that of EVERYONE in Ireland.
Where does it say in scripture ‘no women priests’? Come to to think of it where does it mention priests FULL STOP? BTW you cant prove a negative – its a logical fallacy.

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The government don’t give taxpayers money to the Catholic Church. The faithful give the money through donations, not through tax…..

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Just as well they have lady clergy in Islam, Orthodox Judaism, Orthodoxy and Hinduism. Oh, wait…

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7.28:::Odious Toddius, you need to massage your toddy and calm down. Since you’re not an adherent, anything to do with the Catholic Church is none of your business. Get it. All priests pay their just tax liabilities. The kind people who give to their Church are exceptionally generous. You, begrudger, get lost, dumbo! Do something useful Todd the fool!

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The RTE presenters are still sycophantic RCs.
Why was Martin’s shite allowed to pass without a well-informed counter-argument? There is absolutely no mention of RC priesthood in the New Testament; all references are to LEVITICAL priesthood. Any association of priesthood with Jesus in the New Testament is purely figurative.
RTE simply don’t want to make the Catholic primate look the mysogynistic, scripturally pig-ignorant fool he actually is.

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In Jesus’ day the only priests were at the temple where people only went once a year (if that), not in every town. Hence an institution remote from life. Awareness of priesthood was chiefly in old writings for Jesus and His people. The late Empire was probably trying to subsume the roles of other religions also – where sodalities of priests performed social glue functions. Romans were notorious for regarding men and women as separate castes, hence St Paul urges husbands to actually talk with their wives. The caste system has come back in precisely because the big kinds of christianity abandoned prayer since and even before 1946.

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Sorry everyone to go off piste, but does anyone else think that Prince Harry could possibly be unwell. There seems to be no end to airing his feelings in public about his family. It does seem a bit odd, most people would sort matters out in private.

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Unwell? He’s raking in millions from muck-raking his family back home, and from muck-raking his own life.
He isn’t unwell; he just has no respect for them, nor respect for himself.

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USA
Child’s toy being recalled because of sexual, drive by shooting material.
“How many Roman Catholic priests does it take to screw a lightbulb into a socket?” a recording asks. “Two. One to do the screwing, and one to hear the confession.”
1)RECALLED
Baby Toy Recalled for Recorded Jokes About Drive-By Shootings, Roman Catholic priest’s Sexual Abuse
Did you hear the one about the wildly-inappropriate remote control?
By Rachel Paula Abrahamson | TODAY • Published January 6, 2023

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Off topic msg to YD: I am sad to learn of Tommy’s death. If you or your friends are reading this, I am very sorry for your loss. You were good to him. Take comfort in the fact that he is no longer homeless and has an eternal home in heaven. May he rest in peace.

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You should like him, then. Just wait till you hear what Putin is like, you’ll love him, just like those priests do. 😍

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When they tear down statues of Catherine the Great, you know they are no more than fascist thugs.

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He is not a fascist. He is a Ukrainian Jewish hero. Ukraine has been subjected to the most evil actions by Russian thugs over the past 10 months ordered by Putin. You should look no further than Putin for fascists.
Russian priests in Ukraine need to be viewed with suspicion. Where are their loyalties? The Russian Patriarch has certainly made his loyalties clear.
The fact is, Russia invaded Ukraine. Not the other way about.
May God protect Ukraine.

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6.51 pm sounds like a typical response and echoes the suspicions towards Papist Roman priests in England and their loyalties after the Reformation.

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Agreed.
But more than that, Ukranian priests even suspected of supporting Russia should be summarily imprisoned, forthwith.

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Lovely ordination of a transitional deacon today in Down and Connor presided over by Archbishop Treanor, his last significant event before his leaves for Brussels. God bless Dawid, the new Polish-born deacon.

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DECADES-OLD ABUSE CLAIMS AGAINST PORTLAND DIOCESE,
ONCE BLOCKED, POUR IN AFTER STATE LAW CHANGE
More than a dozen people once barred by statutes of limitations are suing the Roman Catholic Diocese of Portland
The Portland Press Herald [Portland ME]
January 8, 2023
By Emily Allen and Eric Russell
“When the Rev. Lawrence Sabatino allegedly sexually abused a 6-year-old Ann Marie Burke at St. Peter Parish nearly 60 years ago, the Roman Catholic Diocese of Portland already was aware of at least one other girl Sabatino had reportedly abused at a different church in Lewiston several years earlier.” “Boston attorney Mitchell Garabedian, who has represented dozens of clients in sexual abuse cases against the Catholic Church, including those detailed in a groundbreaking Boston Globe report from 2002, said the Portland diocese’s challenge is not surprising. The diocese “is continuing its playbook of denying victims justice and causing additional pain,” he said. “The sexual abuse of a child is a crime, and the cover-up of the sexual abuse of a child is a crime,” he said.https://www.pressherald.com/2023/01/08/decades-old-abuse-claims-against-portland-diocese-once-blocked-pour-in-after-state-law-change/
Timeline of alleged abuse
The Portland Press Herald [Portland ME]
January 8, 2023
Thirteen lawsuits have been filed against the Roman Catholic Diocese of Portland so far this year, all alleging the church failed to stop priests and other employees from sexually abusing children. The complaints lay out a timeline of abuse, much of which the church has acknowledged, that spans decades.https://www.pressherald.com/2023/01/08/timeline-of-alleged-abuse/

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Many Christian churches have lost a sense of the sacred Those who have gone their own way find it hard to articulate thoughts faith and appropriate relationship with God. Bottom line I do not own my faith it is a relationship with God and others. Ownership is the work of the devil the sonso that he is

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