Dear Bishop Pat,
Thank you for beginning to shed some light on the unsavoury goings on in Portsmouth diocese.
I was a diocesan employee for many years.
Around 3 years ago, it was decided that the diocese needed a “chief operating officer,” and one was appointed.
The COO is paid £100,000 anualy and is given free reign. There is no supervision of her at all, and she fires all the shots. I found her to be bullying, and with her, everything’s a drama.
Her son will soon be ordained a priest for the diocese. He has appeared on your blog before.
The COO is Heather Hauschild, and I resigned over her.
I was also unhappy with wat I saw as the incompetence of the moderator of the Curia Canon Michael Dennehy – who incidentally was JOHN PAUL LYTTLE’S PP in Reading when the policeman alleged assault took place.
I also believed I was seeing too much corruption and mishandling.
Bishop Egan is a dictator. He holds grudges and treats people very badly. If you cross him, he will come after you.
I remember him dismissing Angela McGrory, the then head of safeguarding, because she challenged him on his handling of an alleged abuse case involving Cardinal Murphy O’ Connor – investigated during te IICSA enquiry.
Since the arrival of the COO there has been a huge turnover of diocesan employees.
The relationship between the COO and the clergy couldn’t be worse. She treats the priests of the diocese disrespectfully and undermines them.
I had to get out!
There is so much to be uncovered in Portsmouth, and I sincerely hope you keep digging and that priests will be courageous enough to speak out.
CANON P J SMITH
Until September 2022, was Cathedral Dean. He is now out of parish ministery completely and is living in a parish presbytery and being funded by the diocese. What happened?
There is talk of financial issues and something about a local undertaker?
Smith is a close friend of Fr Michael Daly, the PP of Parsons Green in Westminster.
THE NEW BISHOP’S SECRETARY
FATHER ANTHONY FYK appeared to come out of nowhere. No one knows him, and he has no connections with Portsmouth.
Fr Fyk was a seminarian for a Canadian diocese ans half way through his training when he changed diocese and tomove halfway across the world to be ordained by Egan and lo live with his former seminar vice rector.
FATHER RAY LYONS AND FR SEAN TOBIN
These two priests have been business partners for many years and now live together.
They have also bought a holiday home in Spain together.
Fr Lyons is very wealthy and made his money in property before coming to the priesthood.
He was abused as a child by a priest.
Fr Tobin was a painter and decorator before becoming a priest.
Bishop Hollis suspended Fr Lyons from ministry, and Bishop Egan reinstated him. He went on to be a school chaplain in Westminster and was suspended a second time?
After being removed from ministry the second time, Fr Lyons moved in with Fr Tobin, who was PP in Fleet. Bishop Egan said Fr Lyons had to leave the presbytery.
This, I caused Fr Tobin to have a breakdown, and he has not been seen since.
Frs Tobin and Lyons ate reputed to be looking to buy a building in Fleet to open their own church there.
Bishop Egan is trying to laicise them.
EGANS 10 YEAR PLAN
Egan intends to reduce the dioceses parishes from 127 to 23.
There will be 23 parish priests and 23 parish bank accounts. All other priests will be assistan priests.
The parish finances will then be all governed by the COO !
The plan is to sell off dozens of parish churches diocesan debt. It costs £ 6 million a year to run the diocesan offices.
The diocese owns £ 400 million in property.
Bishop Egan as a personal secretary and personal assistant paid for by te diocese.
A communications officer paid £ 75,000, and the COO paid £ 100,000.
Bishop Egan inherited millions of pounds from Bishop Hollis from funds ring fenced for the LIVING OUR CHURCH projects. He has spent it all.
Egan has raided many diocesan accounts. On paper they look to have money in them but it’s all gone !
The parish levies have been set far too high, which is a burden on parishes.
Now Egan has set sight on the PRIEST’S RETIREMENT FUND.
The diocese is in freefall. It is a complete mess. The priests are reluctant to cooperate, and it will get worse.
Bishop Pat, if you keep the spotlight on Portsmouth, others will talk.
BISHOP PAT BUCKLEY 
240 replies on “PORTSMOUTH CONTINUED……..”
No wonder Phyliss looks red-faced, hot, and bothered with fr Fyk mincing around her. She’s a disgrace.
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… that, and dipping her face in the chip pan.
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Is that a euphemism for some weird sexual practise? 🤔
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Deaf Guy contact the PSNI if you have any information on any criminal activity. Keeping silent only makes it worse for the victims. You of all people should know this. You will be complicit.
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10:47 stop harassing Deaf Guy, Father Anonymous 🛑
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Money and property, property and money plus a penchant for expensive gnashers such as those on display on Fr Fyk.
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Unsavoury goings on in most Roman Catholic diocese worldwide. Mafia.
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All these pervert priests & the nasty vile serpents that lie & cover up for them are very dangerous individuals indeed. Priests plastered all over social media with their politicians & police & all the local elites, it’s a network of crooked from start to finish. They making a mockery out of mass goers.
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It is ridiculous and appalling that this woman is paid a salary of £100,000. Lets face it that job could be done by clerics for nothing, in their spare time of which they have plenty. It’s not as they are busy with sick calls, parish visitation etc. Perhaps if they were kept busy they wouldn’t have time to engage in all the other activities we hear about.
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I believe in hell, and am very frightened of ending up there… Largely because I don’t want to meet all the clergy. It must be set up for them like a gay sauna where some twink keeps walking round but rejects the priests again and again…
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12:07 agreed, clergy & their inner circles lead selfish & self indulgent lives, no wonder so many of them reflect that in their day to day lives.
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Shocking Bishop Egan has raided funds earmarked elsewhere.
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These priests really don’t like anyone but themselves having a say, do they.
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12:15 you know nothing – more on this later
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Your reminder that priests are vengeful poison dwarves.
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1:14 agreed they are toxic troublemakers
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The story in is very concerning because of the layers of nuance, emphasis, deceit, sneaky decision making and lack of proper accountability. There’s a recklessness about the Bishop that can only bring more and further scandals and problems. Sometimes when high profile lay people are brought in 8n h6ge salaries they automatically assume serious roles and some have begun bullying staff and clergy in parishes. Men and women now in positions once held by clerics are asserting their power and are demanding hugely hugh salaries. In the newly constructed dynamics and moves, something will give and the whole edifice will crumble. All these initiatives and projects lack a faith, prayer and spiritual foundation. Sadly. And those in power are pretending to listen.
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Egan intends to reduce the dioceses parishes from 127 to 23. What planet is he on ?How will that work out serving people in each local area ??
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Egan’s living on the planet where there are hardly any vocations and the number of active clergy and Mass going faithful keep dropping. If you believe the statistical projections in the current 10 year diocesan plan, there may be zero Mass goers by 2050. I doubt that it will be that bad, but it will not be good.
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Didn’t Egan establish an odd Latinist Franciscan community?
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Poor +Phylis will not be pleased to be featured again, not after the popular power-bottom saga we enjoyed some time ago. However, it will be interesting to read today’s comments on her attempt to appropriate the Priest’s Retirement Fund.
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Thanks for more fascinating information on my diocese which I’m not going to get from the parish newsletter. Some clarification is needed on that massive diocesan fundraiser “Living our Faith” which was launched in 2009 under Bishop Crispin Hollis, long before Philip Egan arrived.
Living our Faith was controversial from the start. Its problems included:
1. Doubts about the honesty of its stated goals. There was a hugely significant legal case (Father Wilfred Baldwin – check it out) running at the time. One powerful suspicion was that the money from LOF was needed either to directly fund the potentially massive costs of the Wilfred Baldwin litigation or to plug the gaps in other funds sucked into that case. The diocese naturally flatly denied this.
2. LOF involved an American fundraising company which took a seven figure fee from the diocese before any money was raised.
3. At least one objective of the LOF appeal (funding clergy formation) was already amply covered by an existing fund.
4. The diocese at the time was running a £1 million a year surplus and apparently could have accumulated a capital reserve by other means – including the massive fees paid to the US company.
No wonder that one acid tongued senior priest referred to LOF as Fleecing The Flock. Or that some parishes, priests and laity flatly refused to cooperate.
Later reports on the use of LOF funds looked even more baffling. Instead of being used for big capital projects which individual parishes might struggle to fund, it was dispersed in many small grants, most of which could gave been fund raised by any enthusiastic parish.
As for Canon P J Smith, lately assigned to the Cathedral before quietly disappearing to Horndean……I sang at his ordination in 2007 and could only wonder how long it would be before his career hit the iceberg. Any more information?
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Northampton also ran one of those complicated findraising rackets, involving a professional fundraising company, with no discernible benefits.
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Egan’s living on the planet where there are hardly any vocations and the number of active clergy and Mass going faithful keep dropping. If you believe the statistical projections in the current 10 year diocesan plan, there may be zero Mass goers by 2050. I doubt that it will be that bad, but it will not be good.
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There were obvious benefits to the American fundraising consultants. They got a whopping seven figure fee before the diocese got a penny. They naturally quoted alleged examples of the huge sums they had helped American dioceses raise. The hard slog was done by clergy and laity, not the consultants.
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Lots of dioceses in England adopted it but the American Company benefited well for doing little work.
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In the case of Northampton diocese, there was lots of emotional blackmail to make pledges. Parishoners were asked to sign up other parishoners, which was potentially coercive.
Parishes had to send the money to a central pot, from which they would get a little back, and in the transaction various fees and expenses were extracted. It made no sense. Parishes should have kept the money they raised.
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5:43 Parish Newsletters are propaganda tools riddled with distortion of the TRUTH to suit the individual modus operandi of their lay & ordained authors promoting parish and diocesan under currents & self serving agendas.
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To be fair you can hardly compare Canon Smith to Fr Fyk it’s like two different planets
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I remember PJ Smith from my Allen Hall days. He was loud, brash and as camp as a row of tents. He was part of a real bitchy camp clique. Alice Hall would put Oscott, Maynooth and others to shame on how gay Seminarians were tolerated. How Smith became a Canon is a total mystery as his appointment as Episcopal Vicar of Education given that he knows nothing about Education. A smooth operator who manipulated Hollis and I care say he has done the same with Egan. It was Hollis, after all that saved his bacon from getting the chop from Chelsea – believe you me there is alot of bacon on his part.
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JP wanted to go to Allen Hall by choice but they knew it would be too much of a temptation for him there. It was a glorified gay sauna not that long ago and JP liked the idea of the knock three times policy. Sems just kept going back to him for more and more because he left them more than satisfied just saying.
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PJ Smith, Michael Daley, Fredrik Hansen and a few others in their gang all camped it up in Alice Hall together. Gossipy, bitchy vindictive and always on holidays and meals out together.
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So that’s why Hansen served as private secretary to the bishop of Oslo, later on in the diplomatic corps of the Holy See, and now serves as Assistant Professor of Pastoral Studies here at St. Mary’s Seminary & University?!
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The Roman Catholic Church is not alone in punishing and undermining those who report abuse and wrong doing.
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a trumpist on the loose here
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Hundreds of thousands of victims worldwide have never had redress nor a publicly written statement of apology from any of the members of the Roman Catholic Church responsible for ruining their lives. This is an international human rights issue that demands immediate attention and resolution. No more excuses whilst the money counters snigger all the way to the bank with the blood money of babies denied a Christian burial, vulnerable women and orphans who were trapped as slaves in church run sweat shop laundries & on the farms & businesses of abusive lay friends of clergy.
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The Scottish Bishops have no control over anything and are only interested in themselves. Cardinal Winning must be turning in his grave watching that lot doing diddly squat. Scottish Dioceses are dens of gay sex, porn, masturbation, clergy humping each other or in gay relationships, grinder, poppers and total double standards. Glasgow and Paisley are the worst, closely followed by Motherwell, St Andrews and Edinburgh and then the others. Plenty more for Taggart and co to expose.
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Portsmouth is no different to any other Roman Catholic Diocese – Money is their God. Kiddy and money fiddlers in most Roman Catholic diocese and protected by church lay and ordained hierarchy.
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Angela McGrory was sacked for highlighting the truth. TRUTH is not something the money and property hungry Roman Catholic Church are willing to accommodate. It is not in their overall interests as they display zero integrity on the methods they employ to accumulate wealth.
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Most Bishops are dictators are will come after anyone who draws any attention whatsoever to their multiple conflicts of interest.
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Canon, Father & the Undertaker is a love story replicated in many Roman Catholic diocese.
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Not another priest/undertaker story/scandal.
Seems these priests must have a fetish with others in black.
Portsmouth, Liverpool and Glasgow.
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There goes another one – and under the watch of none other than that scourge of deviance, Bishop Philip Egan of Portsmouth. How much longer must we put up with these charlatans? For me, a purely rhetorical question, as I now happily do my own thing – its’s called integrity. NB the phoney piety of the Day with Mary brigade – there is quite a list including old regulars from Westminster such as the Viper and poor pathetic fat Monty. JP’s PP also comes across, unsurprisingly, as a nasty piece of work.
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The Day with Mary brigade in Westminster is a total and utter racket. They should be investigated for the money they rake in from donations, collections and merchandise. They completely take over each Church they are allowed access to. A small few run this well oiled money making machine. I blame priests like Monty and other clergy who encourages them. Do they get a cut I wonder??
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I don’t know why you think Monty is involved with DWM. He was once heard saying that he’d only ever attended half a day when he was AP in Enfield and it wasn’t really his thing.
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Monty is doing a very good job of clearing out Northwood. Lots of old timers who keep the place going have gone. He’s ignorant, rude, authoritarian and dismissive of people. Won’t be long before Elsie hears about it and moves him out and on….but to where ?
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John Paul is a typical predator. Who invites a parishioner to stay the night? We all know what would have happened and that young man is lucky. JP should have never been ordained as his sordid behaviour and history is widely known.
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@1.26pm Check out YouTube were Fr Tom Montgomery is preaching at A Day with Mary. I shouldn’t believe all that Monty tells you.
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2.22pm But isn’t that the one time he took part in a DWM? It was in the parish where he was serving where all the clergy took part.
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@ 2.22pm I watched the Youtube as you suggested of Fr Montgomery preaching at the Day with Mary. It wasn’t so much the boring homily I noted but what was that ridiculous big gong he wore around his neck? I doubt it was a medal from the Queen.
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The order should have been closed down and its assets confiscated, Bp Pat. Vicent Brown at the time recommended the whole RCC should be put into liquidation in the republic.
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The Parish Priest sounds a nightmare to live with, I feel sorry for JP he’s caught up in some bad habits and they aren’t going to go away anytime soon
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Parish Priest will help cover up and protect the church – I know this because of how he behaved in Waterlooville
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JPL is an alcoholic, a bully, a nasty piece of work, in Waterlooville parish he completely divided the parish. Only interested in people who have a bit of money.
PE loves him will not have anything said against him PE very good friends of his parents.
JPL as you can tell I have no time for, will never call him a PP, I left my Waterlooville parish due to him. He set up a men’s club only drinking in the pub, yes I’m a man but never invited, but that has nothing to do with my compleat dislike for him.
One day a friend of mine was in the pub drunk and JPL was in there drinking and asked for confessions JPL said yes but he wasn’t even a Priest then only a Deacon.
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Safeguarding should focus on Fr Ray Lyons.
BIG scandal involving police, Fleet’s Parish Priest, a london secondary school AND Fr Lyttle.
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I knew “canon” Micheal Dennehy when he was a governor at Oakland 6th form in Waterlooville – he wasn’t the most pleasant and was a bully
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Well maybe he will be moved out of the parish? There is a vacancy for rector at Dundalk soon! Although he hasn’t had the experience of Rome yet! He would be better qualified if he had fouled the nest there and in his own parish. Then he would be first choice for the job!!!
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Pat, seriously you couldn’t make this up. For the umpteenth time, clergy are public figures and their ‘problems’ which may affect others should be public.
This is not like he’s having an appendix operation.
If there are any clergy reading this who maintain the fantasy of a private life, clear off right now.
And Pat, you should name the Dominican priest who masturbated a young man and the Redemptorist that is in a relationship with a Diocesan priest in Armagh. Is this why there will be a vacancy of rector shortly in Dundalk?
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The Rector in St Joseph’s Monastery was one of the 3 men offered the D&C Bishop position. But he refused it.
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Any diocesan priests been offered the Rectorship of St Joseph’s Monastery?
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Priesthood and religious life is a sexual free for all! In the lead are the secular clergy and the Dominicans and the Redemptorists.
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I bet the Rector of St. Joseph’s would take settle for anything now that his confreres have voted!!!
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Pat
It is my understanding that you have followed John Paul Lyttle for some time. Did you know this would happen?
He “wanks, watches porn and is constantly horny”. He can add “I like to get young men drunk and bed them” to that statement. Vile.
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John Paul Lyttle’s behaviour should not be given the benefit of the doubt. He is KNOWN for this. When he fell from the balcony many years ago, the men who were brought back to his parish flat said they did not know him. Alarm bells!
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John Paul tried to get me drink in Valladolid. I was 18 and he tried to pull me into his room. I pushed him away and ran.
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Gorgeous and John Paul were fierce rivals in Valladolid. Gorgeous was weary of John Paul Lyttle for some reason and he protected RDS from him.
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Gorgeous isn’t very gorgeous any more. How time changes things,,,
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He looks to be a handsome chap on his twitter. Maturing nicely I would say.
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Bishop Egan is hugely unpopular amongst most of his clergy .They view him as distant , not willing to to connect with them ,and authoritarian .” The Pope of Portsmouth .” His pastoral letters are seen as complicated , and going over the heads of the people in the pews .Many are looking at a way out , or to retire early to escape his dictatorship . Bishop Egan is seen as being far to conservative , and reversing the previous regime of Bishop Hollis who was hugely popular ,and loved by clergy and people alike .
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@ 10:27am
Here we go again Bishop Egan is far too conservative and reversing the previous regime of the woke Hollis who I’m sure was not as popular and loved by everyone as you say.
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That Crispian was loved by Clergy and People alike is no truth, inasmuch as Philip is hated by Clergy and People alike. We just need some transparency!
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Why with a Priest shortage in the parish has Bishop Egen got a full time Priest Secretary with him at Bishop ‘s house ? So a Parish goes without a Priest as Egan builds his empire around himself ?
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10:27 Dictators must continue build their Empires regardless of the cost to victims.
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Surely anybody could have seen this coming ? The alarm bells have been screaming around this young man JP for many years, and still nobody seems to have got the message that he has problems and is going to be trouble. No least his bishop of Portsmouth, who seems to have pushed through his ordination at all costs. The young man needs help, and let us hope he gets it, but his future in ministry is nil, and he will need to move on to other things. It is right that JP takes personal responsibility for his behaviour, but equally there should be some very serious questions asked of those who had oversight, direction, and formation of him over many years. Why was this man allowed to be ordained ? It is indicative of what we already know, that by and large the system of formation for priests is not fit for purpose and is dysfunctional. No other organisation would allow this to happen and would have a root and branch review of what it is doing, how it is doing it, and what it is producing. It’s shocking. I’m astounded. + Portsmouth and others have big questions to answer.
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Have John Paul’s antics been reported to Egan’s safe-guarding committee where they will be dealt with by none other than the Lord Abbot of Farnborough, who is an acknowledged expert in such matters?
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The blog is being diverted by the JPL saga which is already well known about and away from the topic of Bishop Egan and his incompetent decision making and clergy appointments.
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JPL is very relevant to Egan and Portsmouth
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It is astonishing that such behaviour by priests allegedly continues after so many expositions of inappropriate conduct: you would think not that the behaviour would stop, but that priests would now be much more circumspect about it.
That’s alcohol: it lowers inhibitions. But it does at least bring out a person’s true nature.
If what is alleged against JP Lyttle is reliable, then he ought never to have been ordained, like most other Romanists.
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10:29am. You should declare an interest.
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A priest once invited me to stay overnight with him, after having had a drink or two. Said he had a spare bedroom. Said also he was bisexual. Reading that stuff about Lyttle brought it all back.
I’m traumatised; I really am.
I didn’t stay. 😀 Cos I knew what he was after.
Oh, for a good Romanist priest! But the buggers are as rare as hens’ teeth. 😨
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Fr. John Paul Lyttle is a prime example of someone who should have never been ordained.
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Phylis apart, fancy great big, rampant, full-blooded men like these trying to remain celibate. It’s impossible, Bp Pat, no wonder there are problems.
A rent-free house or flat in London or Brighton plus £25,000 a year is probably the only solution. Worked for Rory.
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I think this blog might now keep an eye on Father “Pip” Carroll. He declares a past of “wine, women and song”, which temptations might still be available. When I was in the seminary, no women were allowed in the rooms lest the lads forget themselves and turn straight.
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10:36 Toodle “Pip” Carroll & his pals are yet another can of worms.
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Rumours abound in Guernsey (JP Lyttle’s childhood home) that he has now be liasised and not before time many will venture to suggest. But where and what next for him as becoming or being a priest has been all he has known since his late teens.
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Canon 220 of the Code of Canon Law states: “No one is permitted to harm illegitimately the good reputation which a person possesses nor to injure the right of any person to protect his or her own privacy“.
It is a bishops moral duty to protect the good name his Priests, Deacons and Seminarians. Someone should inform Diarmuid Martin
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Wasn’t his ordination on a weekday evening? I’ve never heard of such a strange time for an ordination, even for a permanent deacon.
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If any of the allegations made against this degenerate character are true it’s not a sabbatical he should be on but dismissal with immediate effect. That’s the only update we need to hear.
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Did Egan or Lyttle spend a year with the Montfort Missionaries in Southampton. Alarm bells should have been ringing in bishop’s house after his fall. He displayed an immaturity and lack of prudence as a 28 year old seminarian in inviting three strangers he met in a pub back to the presbytery in which he was staying with his extremely close friend Fr Ray Lyons. That was how Fr Ray described himself in newspaper reports after the fall. All very strange.
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I don’t undertand why bishops take restless candidates who go for order to order, diocese to diocese. It rarely ends well.
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Say what you like about the bishop of Portsmouth he’s worked a LOT sooner than the Abbot General of the Cistercians or Abbot Father of Mount Mellary. Good riddance to hypocrites. If priesthood and religious life were “a free for all” many an ACTIVE gay man would join up and Maynooth, Roscrea and Mount Mellary would be packed to the rafters.
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There is no end to the greed of Bishops obsessed with money and wealth, exotic foreign travel, whimsical hobbies, interior design, fine wines and whiskies, shares in bloodstock, collecting antiques displaying zero regard for the sheep they purport to minister to but take the piss out of them and their problems behind their backs. Duplicitous hypocrites leading double lives.
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That is the challenge for ourselves this Christmas. Peace begins with each of us doing what we can and what our faith calls us to do.
There is at this time a real need for peacemakers, men and women prepared to work boldly and creatively to initiate processes of healing and renewed encounter. That is true amongst ourselves, our society and in our Church.” – A Christmas message from the Bishop of Meath, Tom Deenihan.
That is the challenge for Tom Deenihan this Christmas. Peace begins with Tom doing what he can and what his faith calls him to do. He must stop this morally reprehensible persecution of Dom Benedict.
There is at this time a real need for peacemakers, men and women prepared to work boldly and creatively to initiate processes of healing and renewed encounter. That is true amongst Tom Deenihan, our society and all in Church.
Tom must practice what he preaches. Why be a hypocrite? Why be unChristian?
The good clergymen and people of Meath will have sympathy for the Plight of Portsmouth. Episcopal leaders must lead with integrity.
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Look, the solution is simple. If you take a vow of celibacy or chastity as a priest or monk, you are really expected to do your best to keep it. If it is problematic for you, and it leads you in to cruising, saunas, alfresco sex, dishonest relationships, taking advantage of people, then you need to do the honest and straightforward thing and find another way of life that suits your predilections. Just living a lie is not healthy or good for you, for those around you, or for the Church. So, please, have a think and be honest with yourself and take the right steps. I would be the first to admire your integrity and honesty. Now, if you decide that you want to be celibate or chaste, then great, go for it. But, you can’t have it all ways.
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Little John is in the light again. What’s the problem here is it JP s alleged goings on, the Priesthood, both or something far deeper? In the new year will the hens cackle or put on the new doc martens and the alleged real versions of the fictitious bishop Brennan from craggy island a kick in thrash.
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James Donaghy is a dirty rotten scumbag
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Bishop Egan has a PhD he will think he’s the smartest and cleverest in the diocese – so so so clever.
Nursie has his Dominic why shouldn’t the Pope of Portsmouth have his eye candy or life long partner – ah bless.
Portsmouth had Worlock – what a treasure and so butch and a man’s man’s if ever there was one.
Not sure why but I reckon Egan loathes Elsie – is it not ever so bishops loathing each other.
A bishops conference divided will not stand.
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A PhD in Theology etc is about as useful as a PhD in Pokemon or Klingon.
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Does it not depend on the university issuing it ?
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As +Pat says a good university will means someone with a first, and therefore brains and nous, can go places.
I saw Fr Lyttle give some Marian talk on Youtube. Seemed pious with good delivery, but he’s a regular on this blog for his lusty ways with the young men. Nearly all the above have appeared before. Perhaps like in Ireland, +Pat mentioning someone ensures the Mafiosi protect a fellow made man. Perhaps if +Pat were to praise a scandal ridden priest, it might sooner result in a change.
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What’s the Mass going population of Portsmouth?
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There’s an unsavoury link between JPL and a Shrewsbury Deacon who’s a favourite of Mark Davies I just don’t understand why either of them want to be priests ?
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There is not going to be any apology from JPL or anybody else. He’s disappeared, moved on, albeit with continuing support from Portsmouth Diocese. He’s not going to come back to ministry. Too much dysfunction, too much history. JPL will end up getting his end away elsewhere and will fade in to some kind of homosexual cultural and sexual background. Maybe he will find some happiness and contentment there. I hope so. He’s not going to find it as a priest anymore. Sorry.
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A thing that has been wrong for a long time was to tell a man that he is a “priest” (of a specific priesthood) “forever” because that is never going to be within the meaning of Holy Scripture. When any alter JP isn’t in such priesthood, he needn’t be listed as one: simple. “Reduced” might mean “led back”, but it doesn’t have to mean smaller. If he has done his best in the role for a short time, fine. If someone else does their best in the role a longer time, fine. The RCC needs to discover the principle of principle.
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Many of todays seminarians and young priests are living out a fantasy and not a vocation – alternating between the altar where they are the Perfect Christ and the BDSM room where they are the “pig”. There is something dangerously psychotic about all of this and leads to all kinds of destruction.
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Jesus pat wha the hell is going on in Portsmouth diocese. Hasn’t Philip Egan got the balls to sort this shower of shites out. Why is Portsmouth diocese known as an ultra Catholic Diocese, yet we see priests such as JP and other gay men like the one in the cathedral? Jesus pat come on. It’s full of benders like. jesus almighty
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The same could be said about the diocese of Shrewsbury.
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Bishop Pat. I have rang the Parish today asking for a personal guarantee that my 19 year old son who attends Mass there will not be hit on by that man. I also asked that as a Parishioner, is my covenant envelope money funding WiFi at no.38 as that creep will logged on pulling his plonker watching porn all day. The Priest of Deacon who answered called me sad and hung up! I will be calling again tomorrow and every day until they respond.
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11:14 Troll comment, – few 19 year old boys attend mass these days, the youth of today have the benefit of instant technological access to all the well documented evidence of church related abuse & endangerment & have long since voted with their feet.
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Another C&P day on Pat Buckley’s blog
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He was also a Down and Connor seminarian and a victim of Father James Donaghy.
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Should we be surprised when Father Lyons continues to pull stunts like this? https://youtu.be/CteFr70k0VE
Father Lyons has no faculties and has been told not to present himself as a Catholic priest! What does he do? Goes on national TV as a priest at the Conservative Conference!
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Surgeons who hold the power of life and death over you on the operating table don’t undergo such psychological tests, and I can’t imagine that the job is without very real stresses and anxiety. There is something odd about the whole clerical psychological assessment. They say, surgeons think they are God, it’s priests that think they are.
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“Any priest who wants to be sexually active and retain credibility and authhenticity must do the following…”
All well said. In walks of life though people can find it difficult to talk to their parents, family, teachers, superiors and even their partners. Bishops and/or religious superiors should encourage an environment that facilitates an open door to those under their stewardship who wish to speak about something troubling them.
Ciaran Dallat is still running round with women
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My favourite thing on this blog is when the cathbots try to divert to other abusers and claim that bishop Buckley is being unfair by focusing on theit relentless abuse, corruption and crime.
They are obviously inspired by the gospel story where Jesus told Zaccheus what he’d been up to. Zaccheus replied, ‘But I’m not paying back fourfold until you’ve done everyone else who’s done what I’ve done because it ISN’T FAIR!’ And Jesus replied ‘Of course, Zacchaeus, that’s not a problem and would you like to be one of my apostles for the usual bribe?’
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Women’s rights groups want to outlaw prostitution but make abortion legal. What in their minds makes abortion a “body choice” but not consenting reasons?
There is civil law and the Christian way e.g. abortion. Abortion is not the Christian way. Coveting of others is not the Christian way. True committed love is beautiful. Everything else is a form of coveting no matter what way people want to dress it up.
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I remember when priests feared exposure by the News of the World. They were pussycats compared to this lot who appear to have deep pockets and time to reveal the filth at the heart of the RC Church. I guess in the hope of reform… Nat Meysenburg, a technologist at New America’s Open Technology Institute, said that experts had warned about something like this happening for years, and that it only took a particularly determined group of people with a very specific goal in mind and the time to work through the data. “The worry is that this gets replicated by all kinds of people for all kinds of reasons,” he said. “And now there’s a proof of concept out there.”
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Nobody seems to have asked why you need to have priests as General Secretaries of episcopal conferences. Clogher diocese seems to have priests to spare because it can afford to have Joe McGuinness doing the Gen Sec job for the Irish bishops. Why can’t a lay person do it, instead of having a desk priest?
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Because clerics are a club apart from the laity, and suspicious of it.
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Because the General Secretaries get on with running the place.
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This blog is about Bishop Egan. Too many comments have been made about other matters. Egan needs to be watched carefully. At his ordination he said that he hoped to be an ‘orthodox bishop’. Another Bishop (after the burial of a good freind of mine) told me that there was concern about this amongst his colleagues because Egan was as good as saying they were not orthodox. They didn’t like that, and rightly so. Remember, Egan was VG to Bishop Mark Davies, another ‘orthodox cleric’. Murphy O’Connor said that Davies’s name would have been jetisoned if he had been at the meeting considering him as a bishop. Watch Egan. He is a rigid thinker. I think the following sums him up. I am an Anglican. It happened that I dropped in on a mass (in London) Egan celebrated. There was a prayer for the conversion of Engand. I found it arrogant and very wrong. He doesn’t recognise Christian of other demoninations. If that is orthodox, it is very wrong. I think many priests in Portsmouth diocese must be dismayed and very unhappy.
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@ 11:12am
It’s very ineresting and telling to hear you say that the old lefty Murphy O’Conner of the St Gallen Mafia would have jetisoned Davies name if he had been there as he was considered orthodox! That tells you everything about that oul melt who never wanted anything orthodox. Thank God he’s gone, there was nothing wrong with Bishop Egan praying for the conversion of England it surely needs it. It is very refreshing to hear that there is at least one orthodox Bishop left.
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Hello Pat
You’ve commented that Angela Mc Grory is the FIRST and ONLY RCC safeguarding officer that has ever impressed yo,u, and you say that you regard safeguarding officers with the same level of suspicion as you regard social workers.
What makes Ms McClory different is that she was never “a social worker”. She first first became involved in this line of work thirty years ago when she was a police officer.
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He also spent a year with the Montfort Missionaries in Southampton.
Alarm bells should have been ringing in bishop’s house after his fall. He displayed an immaturity and lack of prudence as a 28 year old seminarian in inviting three strangers he met in a pub back to the presbytery in which he was staying with his extremely close friend Fr Ray Lyons. That was how Fr Ray described himself in newspaper reports after the fall.
All very strange.
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Oh, here we go again, Bp Pat, with JPL! At least Dickie and Kathy can have the day off from your relentless scrutiny and probing.
Of course, we have come to know “sabbatical” can also mean a £30K defagging programme in New York for the lucky few (Rory, for example), or just another way of saying, he’s gone and won’t be coming back.
I rather think £30K would be wasted on JPL.
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Francis should be impeached! This is a quid pro quo if ever there was one. You scratch my back and I’ll scratch yours.How can he preach righteousness, truth and justice to anyone if this is what he’s up to. The revelations of this organisation just keep getting worse. From the top to the bottom of this organisation stink. It is corrupt corrupt corrupt. Why is mainstream media not all over this? By their silence they are complicit. This isn’t just about abuse of power. It is about abuse of vulnerable people. Francis should hang his head in shame
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Why is the portly Canon Smith wearing a 25-inch collar around his 20-inch neck?
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A vain attempt to look slimmer than he is.
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The undercurrent with Egan and Davies is a frustrated or repressed homosexuality both their own and others.
Of course they all use orthodoxy as a cloak to hide behind and a weapon to beat people with.
The other undercurrent is money and their love of it.
With a property portfolio of £400 million Portsmouth won’t starve.
Wonder if Nursie will raid the Johnson Fund – there’s either 7 million or 14 million in that bad boy and the Trustees run it like the Gallen Mafia.
Tony Wilcox saw it as his personal fiefdom and I’m sure his grubby little hands are still all over it as he is a priest who loves the dolly lolly and positively salivates when talking about it.
Homosexuality and Money that’s at the core of everything with Catholic clergy and bishops!!
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Dark Mavis had a breakdown as a student at Ushaw. How did he become a bishop?
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Pope Francis cocked up Big Time with China – go figure the CCP (die hard atheists) can appoint their own bishops so why can’t anyone anywhere do the same – he sell his own mother and grease any palm to secure a juicy payment each year from China!
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On a separate note altogether. I see that bishop bling has given the go ahead for the purchase of the former Presbyterian church around the corner from his salubrious mansion for some of his cronies. This at a time when his churches are half empty.
On the above blog is it any surprise that the Latino would seek to protect his mates
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McQuaid was certainly an intellectual. However his interference in Irish politics lead to appropriate unease amongst northern unionists. The term Rome rule for the Irish republic is in a large part due to his interference. His interference instilled fear from both northern and southern Irish people alike. De Valera, the wannabe priest, was the perfect companion for him. Their handiwork in the framing of the Irish constitution led to untold misery and abuse amongst citizens. Because of them both, abusers were protected and the vulnerable were punished. The Roman Catholic Church has been exposed for what it is: nothing more than a Mafia organisation. The concept of justice does not feature in their thinking . It’s all about protecting the brand and the money making machine. Christ is only a cover story for them. I had high hopes for Pope Francis but he has let down the faithful, let down Christ and protected abusers. How he can be called a descendant of St Peter is beyond me. He is merely the head of a corrupt mafia masquerading as a servant of Christ. As others have said, his organisation is a cesspit
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@ 1:10pm
The Interference you talk about by Dr McQuaid is a nonsense he acted as an Archbishop of those day’s would. After years of the protestant ascendancy, no wonder he was feared when they saw that they were on the way out. They had ruled over the majority Catholic population and kept them down for generations, so naturally they were fearful of losing their position. Archbishop John Charles McQuaid was the greatest Prelate of the XXth century in Ireland. Just look at the present Hierarchy compared to him, says it all. He would be appalled to see the Ireland of today, thanks be to God he was spared it. How you had high hopes for the dictator Bergo I don’t know, from his first appearance on the Loggia I knew he would be the disaster he has turned out to be.
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What about Timothy Bartlett. He’s a hard worker and deserves a promotion.
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Picking up from a blog at the weekend. 3 men have now been approached outside D&C to become Auxiliary there. All 3 declined. Presuming they all have skeletons they want kept in the cupboard which is fine, but what about the background check by the Nuncio. Shouldn’t they have been ruled out before? An offer is being made this week to a 4th man – watch this space.
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Yeah, they’ve even asked me, and I’m a drag queen.
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1.14
There’s no nuncio. It would be highly unlikely that an auxiliary would be appointed when there is not a sitting bishop in the diocese.
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I am pleased to see that you are continuing to monitor Portsmouth Diocese and Bishop Egan. Egan’s thinking is very rigid and he lacks pastoral sensitivity, which is no surprise since he has little parish experience. Please keep monitoring the situation, Pat, and let’s see if it is possible to help Portsmouths’ priests, who feel badly let down.
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It’s clear some Portsmouth priests are hurting and feeling dejected and let down by their bishop. It’s no surprise they turn to Pat Buckley for a listening ear and to let of steam. It’s a lot more than they would get from Egan.
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The so called CofI also had mother and baby homes and they opened the first Magdalene laundry. In the UK unmarried mothers went to the workhouse or were sent against their will to lunatic asylums. The UK social services take babies off mothers at a higher rate than other European countries.
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Pro-tip: bringing up other denominations when caught out merely highlights that you would happily get away with it if you could.
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Pat you claim Fr Magill is a great priest but he never publicly criticised the ‘Quiet Man’, Noel Treanor, for spending so much parishoners’ donations on upgrading his offices and his home?
Or was Magill too busy thinking the likely consequences should he have done so?
There is only one priest in Ireland who risked all to speak out against ecclesial wrongdoing: yourself, Bishop Buckley. The others, when it comes to the moral crunch, keep their heads low.
I should not call these either good men or good priests (though Noel Treanor might, for showing him loyalty ahead of Christ).
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Fr James Good spoke out in his day on a significant moral issue and took the consequences
Fr Des Wilson spoke out in his day and took the consequences
Fr Michael Keane took an independent line, fell foul of his bishop and took the consequences.
Not many brave priests but Pat is not alone.
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Pat, were you aware that a few select D&C priests gathered recently to discuss you? The conclusions were not favourable.
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1.19: You’ve well bought into Pat’does, bias and prejudice. I consider myself and the vast majority of priests to be good within and who are far more full of integrity and dedication than your hero!!
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I’m no hero and never claimed to be. I know good priests.
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What a bizarre comment at 1:45. Most priests are better than Pat Buckley, shame about the child rape.
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Bishop is there any word from Mount Mellary (or its daughter house Roscrea) on this, the month’s mind of that great powerhouse in Waterford once revered but now unfortunately rocked to its very foundation by your revelation.
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Rosacea Roscrea is the skin condition Phyliss suffers from.
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Let’s face it and be honest here. You and the assorted ex-sems, alkies, lapsed Catholics, Evos, harpies, superannuated social workers, Tablet readers, athiests and old queens who read the blog haven’t been to Mass in years and wouldn’t listen to a priest if he was the holiest, most chaste man on earth.
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2.37. Wise up! Why, in the face of all the revelations concerning priestly misdemeanours, would ANYONE want to listen to ANY priest?
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This will serve as a timely reminder to those solicitors who advise the church.
https://www.lawgazette.co.uk/news/retired-solicitor-agrees-to-quit-roll-over-conflict-of-interest-in-defending-bishop/5114729.article
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Church of England (Anglican not RC)
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The SRA doesn’t care if you are Anglican or RC when ot strikes off
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When I was a seminarian I had such aspirations and dreams. I am just so glad to be out. My sex life is great (with active priests and lay people). My personal wealth is fantastic. Get out while you all can. I will help you all.
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2.40: Dies that include promiscuously sharing all your gay hook ups, thus endangering all?? You seem to have found a world of filth and trash!
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There were 10 seminaries, if you add the Irish College, Rome. Not forgetting all the religious order houses of formation that have closed in Ireland, such as those of the Reds and SJs.
Also, why is that Adm getting a three year desk job to set up pastoral councils/talking shops? Surely a lay person could do that?
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When Deenihan was named to Meath, a senior priest of Cloyne told me he was corrupt, extremely dangerous, and *never* to be trusted. Almost everything we have seen from him since then has proven to be correct. Deenihan, equal parts depraved and stupid, is running a once thriving diocese into the ground. It will only get worse.
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Masturbation is not a sign of immaturity or maturity. Men of all ages masturbate whether they are married or single makes no difference they would laugh at anyone who thinks it’s a phase you go through or a sin that has to be confessed. You have to masturbate to a certain degree during intercourse anyway. It’s shocking how ignorant some people are in the Church about the facts of life.
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What criteria are used to determine the suitability or unsuitability of a man seeking ordaination to the catholic priesthood?
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He also spent a year with the Montfort Missionaries in Southampton.
Alarm bells should have been ringing in bishop’s house after his fall. He displayed an immaturity and lack of prudence as a 28 year old seminarian in inviting three strangers he met in a pub back to the presbytery in which he was staying with his extremely close friend Fr Ray Lyons. That was how Fr Ray described himself in newspaper reports after the fall.
All very strange.
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The permanent deacon in Enniskillen wears elaborate copes to do baptisms. He decks himself out in finer style than any of the Clogher bishops and priests.
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Remember when Noel and the other bishops used to make pointless “white man’s burden” trips to Africa on photo opportunities for Trocaire? Their huge travel and subsistence costs for those junkets should have been sent to Africa instead.
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Why has Fr Pat Madden been granted a sabbatical by Egan to return to his native Galway? Canon Smith was always great at courting them old nuns on the IOW and near Reading also. They mollycoddled him, he is only init for what he can get.
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Treanor has been missing for years so D&C will hardly know he’s gone. Left behind is a diocese in dis array. A diocese which was relieved of 4 million to fund Treanors lavish palace and his decadent lifestyle. O’hagan will be gutted in case he now has to do some work. These two clowns represent everything that is wrong with the RCC. Cover up merchants with no back bone who have allowed the diocese to crumble under their tenure whilst allowing their priests to do whatever they want and live whichever way they choose as long as the coffers keep getting filled. Lisbreen has simply become mafia headquarters for the diocese. Christ is nowhere to be seen in this. And where is Treanor? Spain again?
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Generally a retiring bishop will not want a whizz-kid successor who would show him up and might even see one or two things in the books which he would prefer were not seen. On that reasoning, would Treanor welcome McGuckian’s return?
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Guess who’ll foot the bill for Mr Treanor’s lavish (no expense spared) booze-up in a posh hotel?
🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑
This is where your hard-earned money is going, you stupid baa-baas: to wine and dine a bunch of useless, freeloading, clerical parasites.
Will Eugene, Martin, and David warble at the event? You betcha!
Nowt but the best for Mr Treanor. And all paid for by the forelock-tugging laity. 🤣
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2.49: Ignorant, hate inciting, low life comment. Full of the usual begrudgery and lies…☻😈☻👺👹👿…you originate from Satan.
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Are you seriously suggesting or incredibly evidencing that Joe really has a role in D & C as a priest ?
Pat, please explain in plain English as my heart is pumping at thought of such low depths
Joe Is a lovely fella – just not suited for celibate priesthood
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Paddy Walsh has an awful lot to answer for. And we won’t get answers
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Ok, other Paddy
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+Pat, the reason they are having a go at you is because you are valiantly making people aware of the possible issues and dangers which lurk in Babylon: people have a right to know.
Jesus spoke truth, and stood, for others, and look how they reacted to Him.
You are doing exceptional work, and my mother has you to thank for my still being here today.
+Pat, last year things really where that bad.
God bless you and don’t ever be put off from doing the Lord’s work.
Your faithful servant in Christ Jesus
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I am a parishioner of St. Agnes. I have not found Father Raymond approachable. I and others are entitled to the services of the parish we pay for and I do contribute weekly etc. We have all lost dearly loved members of our family and had to return to work the day after the funeral.
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Dear Pat, you’ve got all my colleagues in
D&C all worked up as only you can. Do you not know that these are very special men. If it takes an ordinary human being three months to get over surgery it takes them a year poor souls. Having worked among them for many years with a few exceptions, they are some shower!
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I was collecting baptism certificate today for my fiancé and the house the priest lived in was absolutely disgusting. He has no excuse not to have the place clean as he has barely anything to do all day.
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Clean it for him, but make sure he’s out
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Sounds like that old dirty unkempt foul rude vicar in that programme, ‘The Larkins’.
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Father Paul Taylor purchased an apartment in The Canary Islands from Tricks the Dublin priest who sold a house in a lovely county years ago for a modest sum and it was offloaded at Drumcondras direction because it had a Sauna in the days when most Irish thought that that sort of stuff hung in the garage.
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Ah poor Tricks, lol He was an awful fool, and he has the none of the grace of his friend Martin Harte
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Congratulations to Conor Gannon. Shame on Ciaran O’Carroll and Diarmuid Martin for their silence and unchristian behaviour. You failed the seminarians that were entrusted to YOUR care. You allowed false accusations to be levelled at YOUR seminarians and stood back and done nothing; all to protect yourselves and your own interests.
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Any word on Fr. Peter Littleton in London, or “Fr. Littleprick” as he’s often referred to here……even though he’s anything but “little”!!!!!
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Oh, I’d been wondering about him. As to his tackle, I have no information. I guess whatever accoutrements he straps around it, it will be lace and of liturgical seasonal colour. A kind of or penis maniple !
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History is repeating itself with Tim Barlett. Niall Coll was MIA for years, then gets a parish job in his 60s and then is elected Bishop. Sound familiar?
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North Belfast priests led by O’Neill do not like a spotlight being shone on them by this blog!! They’re not happy
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Hughie Connolly created a cult of leadership. Fear, suppression of truth and most of all protection of the gay sex network. Pat who started the gay cult in Maynooth. Paul Prior broke ranks and was exiled from the network. Ledwith did groom and molested Hugh Connolly and Michael Mullaney. Both were indoctrinated into the Cult. Hugh had a fetish for leather wear , where as Mullaney liked to play with Dolls.
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Fr Gary Donegan C.P needs to be very careful about the present skeletons in his cupboard before going on the airwaves (yet again) today. This time he is dictating to families of relatives who have died through suicide. Big Gary wants their funerals conducted the way he wants and not how the family and friends want. Best look at how you lead your own life than pontificating to people in Holy Cross. Too busy blowing his own trumpet this morning on the wireless that they were late for the news slot.
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Pat, breaking news! Fanny Mullaney has been named as the new Bishop of Kildorrery embargoed until tomorrow at 11:00am. As we speak, the sweet vales and hills of Kildorrery resound with the music of Church bells tinkling and the skies are red with beacon fires. The priests are so happy they are on top of the altars …..
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3.49
Beacon fires or bacon fries?
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There are priests and laity on this blog. There are seminarians and ex seminarians. There are probably even a few bishops and, believe it or not, there are even some who are PRETENDING to be priests on Buck’s blog. 😉
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See the Pp has his priorities in place, been pumping some iron out in the gym all afternoon and shopping the reduced aisle in M&S after
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I’m a whistleblower in the public sector and I know all too well of how difficult it is, especially as I’m also a heavy smoker
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Tom Deenihan. A total reject of a human being. I stopped eating out with him given how rude he used be to waiting staff. He has no class, no intelligence and no wit.
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Fr Padraig Murphy and Canon Eugene Sweeney are cousins, but no love lost really.
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Wheels within wheels. Shane O’Neill, the new Dean of Maynooth, is a classmate of Chris Derwin, Aidan McCann and Robert McGivney.
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Tom, do you know Lorenzo Baldisseri ? I hope to meet him again over the summer months. He is keeping well now.
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Eugene Sweeney has never been at a meeting between Ryan McAleer and Eamon Martin.
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Eugene Sweeney should have been made President of Maynooth when Hugh Connolly left. It would have been transformed, and probably kindly done. He had all the credentials.
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Eamon Martin always deputised Eugene Sweeney to conduct the choir in his absence in Maynooth. He is now his V.G. Plus ca change….
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7.34
You are being deliberately mischievous. I doubt that Eugene Sweeney was in the choir. He is a many of many talents.
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Wilson comprised Eugene in Scholar’s lounge in Rome. Wilson got pissed and made an inappropriate advance on the lips of Eugene. The poor man couldn’t push Wilson off before it was too late.
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Surely Eugene Sweeney should have told that to Amy.
Attempting to kiss 💋 a VG on the lips must be against must be against canon law?
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Rory is happy in Soho London. Pat this gets more messed up, Rory is in a relationship with the ex Dublin Seminarian John Harney.
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Rory is not, Rorys long term boyfriend and sex partner is a Meath priest. They used to get each other to speak at things, sick.
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I think you should put the bottle away Father as your
continuous rantings about Sweeney are making you appear really foolish. Take some strong coffee and sleep it off.
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Rory Coyle is a total Shit
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Bishop Fleming, Killalla will remember Paul Fleming, Declan Mc Crystal, Noel Stanton and the others involved in that friendship circle. He was Vice Rector Staff, at that time. Had a few conversations with all concerned. Some had to leave. Some stayed.
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Niall Coll is intelligent . He also has honour and integrity. I also knew two students of St. Mary’s from a parish I was once on appointment to, they had nothing but good things to say about him. Maybe he wanted out of St. Mary’s Belfast, if not I cannot understand why he is now a PP in Donegal. But I can understand how he was chosen for Bishop. He would have been the best clergyman on the staff. They would never like the noise he made if he saw what was not right or proper, as his time in Rome when Brady reigned. I was present at Dublin Airport when Ledwith invited the three of us for coffee, Niall used the occasion to advise him how to run Maynooth.
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He is so camp though, I am sure there are skeletons in his closet, him and his friends are certainly not!
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Off topic comment: I said goodbye to Tommy from Ennis today at the Shannon Crematorium. I estimate that less than 50 people in total came to pay their final respects to him. No priests that I could see. A humanist woman minister led the service which lasted around 20 minutes in total. Some of Tommy’s favourite music was played. I’m having a wine spritzer now. Here’s to you Tommy 🥂
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50 is a good turnout.
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Enjoy
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Why would you think priests would or should attend a humanist service? I’m curious as you imply they should have been there.
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10.56 I did not think that a priest should have been there because one of them had Tommy arrested. Should a priest have had the decency to be at the service to pay respects to Tommy after having him arrested? I’ll leave that to you to decide.
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4:36 Rest in peace and we thank the Cross Funerals Directrs Limerick City to taking care of our good friend who lived many years in Ennis.
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Pat, does that Canadian blow in Fr Fyk and the new Bishop of East Anglia go to the same dentist with their gnashers?
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😀
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5.31: Like Pat, they go to Budapest. It’s cheaper….
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That young York oratory priest on Grindr and the Voyeur priest McCann are lace and Latin
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@6:54pm
It could be worse they could be into polyester, UGH!!!
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The effeminate and homosexuality are the problems per se.
One can even understand the situation of a priest in a private and discreet loving relationship with another individual.
But the current tsunami of gay promiscuous sex, saunas, orgies, drugs etc is reminiscent of the First Roman Empire.
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I agree with you. Priests in loving, sexually continent relationships, even with other priests, are most emphatically NOT breaching their ordination promises or vows. On the contrary, I believe that these relationships can shore up such comittments.
Thank you for bringing this to my attention.
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Pat, do you’ve any experience/knowledge of the Catholic Chaplaincy on Queen’s campus?
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What a mess Dominic made of that, if he would focus more on role than dissing Fr O’Neill on here, he would be set for papacy
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Emlyn McGinn had a well known ‘fling’ with a prominent Redemptorist in the day. He is an active gay priest; but I do not think he is capable of sexual assault, he is too friendly.
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Plenty of booze 🥃 was involved……Emlyn was lucky to pull someone like him
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Eamon Martin must have regular emergency meetings due to the carry on of Rory, Ryan, Emlyn and newly ordained Stephen Wilson. Sadly Wilson continues to back stab Eamon Martin to the highest levels. 😢
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The cherry popper
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Emlyn gets around the pest
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Jesus Christ Armagh is a cesspit. I wish to say I believe Archbishop Eamonn Martin , himself, is blameless. I suspect he does not know where to turn as these unconscionable individuals try to smear all around them.
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Hi Pat, thank you for your encouragement to be independent Roman Catholics. On Sunday past, we and another family got together and baptised our children on the Lagan Tow Path. It was a great celebration. Thank
You for your inspiration
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I really hope the rumors about Kevin heery are not true. If they are, well all I can say is you are a two-faced hypocrite. GTF out of the priesthood.
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Your book is a good read, Pat. Well-written, almost captivating.
Wish you’d finish that book on your supernatural experiences and get it orf to the publishers. Looking forward to its sale.
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Thought I was reading about paisley diocese there. It’s a similar mess financially. I’d never put money in the plate again.
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Is there something in the water where young McAleer is from in Tyrone where a young CC had hanky panky with a married man and had to leave the parish as a result and sent to a quiet Co. Armagh parish.
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Before Eamon Martin went to Armagh and was Administrator of Derry Diocese he was told directly to sort out the scandal of a PP in Derry Diocese and a relationship with a woman. The result was he did sweet f.a. and the relationship continues.
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Pat investigate the Clogher seminarian and his past sexual behaviour. A man that good looking should not be vowing celibacy.
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Pat why are you such a cheeky naught hur lol – I love it
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Cardinal Pell has died, aged 81. RIP.
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Pell is dead!
81
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