“Dear Bishop Pat,
Since O tober 2022, Bishop Philip Egan has been rolling out a fundraising campaign called CLOSER TO CHRIST with the aim of raising 13 million pounds.
The campaign is nearing its end.
There were three reasons for raising the money:
1. 1/3 for training and support of students for the priesthood.
2. 1/3 to support the ongoing formation for active clergy.
3. 1/3 for Retired Priests.
So, a third of this was to be given to the Priest Retirement Fund,p that’s what donors were told.
Not a penny has been paid into the Priest Retirement Fund!
Instead, all the money raised has been used to pay off office debt, which has built up in the central bank account, accrued mostly, due to the obscene salaries eing paid to diocesan employees.
Having been tackled about this, the spin is: “we’re holding on to the money until the confusion surrounding the PRF charity is clarified” ( as you know, Egan and Hauschild are trying to gain control over the fund).
Bishop Philip and HeatherHauschild are holding the donations ransom until they get their way!
The diocesan debt is increasing, and they’ve just had to beg for a 6 million pound loan from the bank to tide them over.
Of course, the ultimate plan is to merge parishes, sell off real estate and pay off the debts, but that takes time, and we don’t have much of that left at present.
The donors to the fundraising campaign do not realise that their money is being misused in this way, but furthermore, the dwindling number of Sunday punters do not realise that their weekly contributions given during the offertory collection is being used, not for the parish, but to fund Hayschild and her minions. Thus is scandalous!
Please do update your readers of this development.
ANOTHER PORTSMOUTH PRIEST WRITES
“You have them rattled in Portsmouth Bishop Pat.
Here is a message from the Chief Operating Officer, shown here exactly as it was shared via Bishop Philip’s Ad Clerum:
“Confidentiality
Over the past 12 months, concerns have been raised about possible lapses in confidentiality, such as personal details and records of clergy and employees inappropriately shared. It is good practice to remind everyone that there are laws with serious penalties governing the disclosure of personal information. Occasionally, data is shared accidentally, for example, through forwarding emails. It is good practice to report this so that help can be given towards damage limitation and what safeguards might be put in place to minimise the risk of recurrence. Please seek advice as soon as possible if you think this has happened. If the breach of confidentiality is serious, we may need to report it to the Information Commissioners Office (ICO) and advise them of actions taken. An even more serious matter is the deliberate sharing of personal information. The law changed in 2018. Section 170 of the Data Protection Act (DPA) 2018 creates criminal offences relating to the use of personal data. It is an offence for a person “knowingly or recklessly to obtain or disclose personal data without the consent of the controller.” Criminal investigations and prosecutions for the misuse of personal information are hugely damaging, and so we ask for your increased diligence. Karena Fulford, Head of Administrative Support, is responsible for this area.
This shows that they are determined not to hear what people are saying or to recognise the hurt and irreversible damage being done to people and the diocese. Their response is to steamroll their way onwards. They know better.
The suggested threats fired from Hauschild is a perfect example of her passive aggression and abuse of her position, enabled, of course, by a spineless bishop who has no idea what he is doing.
PAT SAYS
Thank you, Fathers, for your concern for the People of God and your diocese.
It is vital that parishioners know exactly what their money is being spent on.
If you or they have concerns, don’t hesitate to contact the police or Charity Commissioners.
The RCC has always tried to silence its whistleblowers. Stand up to them.
If they threaten you with laws or seek to hide behind laws – call it out.
In this time, of the economic collapse, no diocese should be paying anyone £ 100,000 per annum.
Let there be redundancies, volunteers, and a good accountant.
Who does Egan think he is? The chairman of M&S ?
And remember, financial abuse is as much abuse as sexual abuse !
BISHOP PAT BUCKLEY 
160 replies on “PORTSMOUTH PRIEST RETIREMENT FUND UPDATE.”
It’s very interesting that Egan and Portsmouth will send out a ‘confidentiality’ e-mail like this. When did they ever send out such an e-mail or communication about going to the police or appropriate authority when you know about the wrongdoing of clergy or abuse ? I’ve never seen anything so direct or clear about that as this e-mail about ‘confidentiality’. It shows where their priorities lie. They don’t like it when anybody says anything about them and what they are up to, but when we know about what their bishops and priests are up to then they are very happy for us to be quiet. I guess the intent of this ‘confidentiality’ e-mail is to try and intimidate + Pat and what he is saying about Portsmouth and its bishop and priests and CEO. Well, I think + Pat has seen off bigger beats than this, and I would be very surprised if they have the balls to take him on. Because they will loose. This is just an attempt at intimidation, which is as reprehensible and sick as whatever else they are up to. Treat it with the contempt that it deserves, + Pat !
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‘When did they ever send out such an e-mail or communication about going to the police or appropriate authority when you know about the wrongdoing of clergy or abuse ?’
Exactly. Spot on.
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9:54 they feed their own self interested agenda crap to the police when it suits to control outcomes where at all possible. The financial interests of the RC church comes first all the time, every time without exception.
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+Pat, I tuned into The Brendan O’Connor Show on the radio today. I heard an exceptional interview with a middle-aged man who had joined a religious congregation and is gay. His name is Neil. I am impressed with his honesty, integrity, openness, and summary of the Catholic Church. He reminds me of you. The interview is availabe at:
https://www.rte.ie/radio/radio1/clips/22204908/
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God forbid
Say nothing and keep saying it
That’s what they do
Only open your mouth to villify, slander and deny
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Hello Pat. I also heard Niall Fox on the radio today, and I also read the article in the Irish Times last week. I think you and Niall would get on well. He comes across as a decent man.
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Fr John Paul Lyttle’s life could be a film
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The problem is that any prospective backers would object that the script is totally preposterous and incredible…..
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A dead boring one.
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Ha! Alan carr should play his part
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Hey, do you think they have a leg to stand on about confidentiality when it comes to PB JPL ? He’s his own worst enemy targeting mainly straight men after a few drinks ! Have a word with the likes of him firstly, and then threaten the rest of us if you dare, Phyllis ! Clean up your own house and people first.
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The mere fact of calling a fundraiser ‘Closer to Christ’ is rather letting the truth out about the ‘church’isn’t it? 😂
Gonna put this out there: if you give money to an organization notorious for its criminal activity you’re not really in a position to moan when they do what they like with it.
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“Closer to Christ” belongs to the same school of marketing as “Ploughman’s Lunch” and “Mass of Ages” it is symptomatic of how one of our many enemies, Mammon, has become the main priority of the Church Leadership we have come to deserve.
Mind you, ’twas always thus. At the time of Henry and his Daughter how many Bishops maintained their Faith?
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Anyone remember the Joy. Of the Gospel?
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Also know as
The buy your way into heaven
Tactic
Used by fundraising clerics on the old dears for centuries
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Thank goodness none of this going on in A and B
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1 . If they’ve already got a Head of Administrative Support, why do they need the big one as well?
2 . Who is being alleged (by all) to have caused the vaunted “confusion about” the PRF in the first place?
3 . Could the bp of Arundel act as coadjutor?
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11:54 Oh! Yes it is!
Bet you’re a Holocaust Denier as well!
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You’re right Pat. It is vital for trust and transparency that money collected for specific funds is allocated only to that purpose. Looking after retired, elderly and genuinely sick priests is an absolute for any Bishop. Sadly, in some Dioceses in Ireland the salaries of lay personnel is eating into funds. Some took less money during the pandemic, some took redundancy packages. Now we’re struggling with insufficient lay personnel to help with all kinds of initiatives. Priests are overwhelmed with the Synodal Pathways process. Documents are mounting high and we are overloaded with material. There is a shortage of income undoubtedly but no Bishop or priest must ever take from a fund designated for specific pastoral or charitable purposes. Financially we survive on our salary but just about on the low salary at present. There is hope that it will return to prepandemic status soon as parishes are giving support. It’s the underhand “doing what I decide” attitude of the Bishop that stinks.. Hope he’ll be challenged.
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11:55 priests are measured by their Bishops on their ability to keep the biggest benefactors sweet.
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Why do sick and retired priests need funding? Don’t they have state pensions? If they don’t, they should and could have arranged these while in ministry.
Personally, I wouldn’t donate last-month’s corned beef to any of these men. I would, however, give their scam a title: Carry on Sponging.
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1:48 The Church & the Vatican can well afford it & should pay retired clergy a pension from their own vast funds, the Church is never finished sponging off the tax payer, state pensions for so called self employed priests who have spent a lifetime receiving undeclared cash and property from doting parishioners amounts to daylight robbery, now they claiming Irish government aid with electricity bills, their professional volunteer teams of accountants, civil servants and the like enable Diocese to claim Leader and other Irish government, local authority and EC funding yet they always pleading for more at weekly masses etc. Greedy and yet obstinately victimising and failing to pay redress to victims and survivors of church related abuse and wrong doing. Conflicts of interests all over the place. Mafia.
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I’m the poster at 1.48.
I have a friend, a very devout and tradtional Catholic, but even she questions why these priests need funding in addition to their State pensions. She lives on a State pension, plus a pension from her long nursing career, and she rightly asks why these men should be given more money. They don’t fund-raise for me, she said. Why should I fund-raise for them?
I thnk more and more older Catholics are awakening to the disgraceful scam that is the institutional church. They are angry that they have been conned by these mammon lovers. Most of all, they are angry with themselves for being so trusting and gullible.
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1.48pm. You are on PiP. Carry on sponging.
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3:40pm. The aul nurse says they don’t fundraise for her. No need to fundraise in her case as she dips into the taxpayers’ pocket twice. Once for her state pension and then another bite at the cherry, via her gold-plated public sector pension.
Massgoers have a choice about paying into church funds; taxpayers have no such choice when it comes to funding the bloated and unproductive state sector.
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What is loony tunes on about – what are lapses of confidentiality? Looks like they’re pretty rattled and Phyllis has her knickers in a twist. Well done Bishop Pat and keep up the good work.
Employees with total benefits over £60,000
£60k to £70k 3
£70k to £80k 1
£90k to £100k 1
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12:02 Nice work if you can get it
Don’t be such a begrudger
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3:12 hold on a minute, if priests self employed why have they been allowed to claim State pension when this payment has been denied to all other self employed persons?
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Priests pay their National Insurance Contributions.
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Every self-employed person gets the SP if they have paid National Insurance contributions.
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Maybe it’s different in the Free State, but in Northern Ireland and in the rest of the UK the self-employed are entitled to the State Retirement Pension on the same basis as an employee. This Government website confirms it.
https://www.moneyhelper.org.uk/en/pensions-and-retirement/pensions-basics/pensions-for-self-employed-people#:~:text=If%20you're%20self%2Demployed%2C%20you're%20entitled,on%20your%20National%20Insurance%20record.
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I see the editor of Irish Catholic Michael Kelly (ex Derry diocese) giving out about pornography… is he for real? A bit rich coming from him.. he had an ‘interesting’ time in Gaynooth. He seemed to enjoy life there very much before he left/ pushed..
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12.09
Tell us more. Was he a contemporary of Phonsie there?
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3:38 – 200 people protesting in Lismore today – not a peep from the very verbal Bishop Phonsie. These Bishops live in la la land in their spacious ivory towers indulging their hobbies.
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Bishop Pat, Fr Paddy McCafferty has been screaming blue murder against you and this blog since your reporting about him, Jim Donaghy, Paddy Walsh and Gemma Loughran. Shocking! Why does down and connor diocese not remove him.
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@12.11am The last time you said Fr Paddy gave out in his Mass about Bishop Pat I watched the Mass in question and there was no remarks about Patsy once. Stop making up stories ya gobshite.
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There are many who handle abuse well. It will not be known on this side of the second coming. There are many forms of abuse, including those who suffer because of abuse of power or someone’s standing. These people are often misunderstood. No one ought to be judged if they have been mistreated.
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12.11anm: What a loony bin gombeen you are and a liar. MYOB…you imbecilic plonk. Leave Fr. McCafferty alone. You are lying again.
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Bishop Buckley allows these anonymous clowns/“priests” to tell these lies and make mischief. Fr Pat has more courage in his wee finger than all of these anonymous and spineless creeps put together. It is also strongly suspected that a certain priest who featured recently in a newspaper is behind much if not all of it. Pure jealousy and spite.
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https://pbs.twimg.com/media/D7LyvUaW4AIWzp8?format=jpg&name=large
The COO’s son is a Mother Burke Fan
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Look at the two Mary’s guarding Mother Burke
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/D7LyvUaW4AIWzp8?format=jpg&name=large
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He was rebuked privately by Bishop Egan for referring, on traddy social media sites, to modern altars as “Cranmer tables”.
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@ 9:42am
Egan’s an ejit, that’s what they are Cranmer tables.
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Cranmer’s tables are quite beautiful. More in line with what Jesus and co. ate off at the last supper. And infiniteky better than the monstosities call ed high altars in the catholic church.
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3.31
It’s more likely Jesus and disciples reclined on the floor propped up on their elbows at the last supper.
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Looks like give Mary’s to me.
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@3:31pm
The Last Supper is not The Mass, which is not a meal served at a table. The Mass Is The Holy Sacrifice of Mount Calvary offered on an Altar. The arch-heretic Cranmer introduced these tables to take away the fact that there Communion services were not a sacrifice. Churches all over the world have been ruined by sticking these dreadful tables in front of magnificent altars.
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In civil law, a RC parish has no legal identity and all its assets (buildings, funds etc) are owned by the diocese as a registered charity. There’s a lot of confusion about this, but if a diocese wants to shut a parish down, sell the church and use parish funds to (e.g.) pay bonuses to curial staff, there’s nothing that the parishioners can do about it in civil law. The reason for this is that the RC church wants to prevent any parish from apostatising en masse. This is almost unheard of in England (however, look up Fr Richard O’Halloran, “PP” of Ealing who was excommunicated in 1914), but was a very serious problem in the USA in the 19th century. Look up the Polish National Catholic Church. I’ve heard recent rumours that this or that RC parish in England has been threatening to join the Anglicans or Orthodox, but that as soon as they are informed of the above reality then all such talk stops.
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I suspect given the subsequent history the residents of Ealing would have been better sticking with Fr O’halloran rather than going to the competing Benedictine mission.
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They can make hierarchical recourse to Rome if a bishop suppresses a parish
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They could, but if the number of Sunday communicants drops below 250 then they haven’t a hope. There was one case in north England that I heard a bit about on the grapevine, where the bishop appointed a new PP to one of those zombie parishes with a Coven instead of a Parish Council. He walked out after a fortnight, and when the bishop heard how he had been treated he refused to appoint a successor. Then the parishioners demanded the keys and the parish funds, the bishop said “no” -and they found that they had stuffed themselves. The really funny bit was, the diocese then tried to sell the church for redevelopment. However, it found that the freehold still belonged to the religious congregation which first set up the parish. So, the diocesan finance officer wrote to the superior saying “There’s a mistake, the property should have been transferred to the diocese under canon law, could you put this right?” The congregation said “Peepeepoopoo”, had their solicitor translate that into legalese and enjoyed their windfall.
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6:22 that is what the Roman Catholic Church do, it is a cult of highly experienced lay and ordained experts in coercive control.
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Dear Today at 6:22,
I know that you are right about the confusion in civil law but I believe that parishes are supported as a “juridic person” by Canon Law 1256. I remember ( maybe faultily ) that when a diocese was trying to remove some objects to “safety” from a parish church that they crumpled and backed off when asked what was a “juridic person”.
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Bring back the late Patrick O’Donoghue of Lancaster. He found that carry on when he arrived in the North and tackled it head on. He got rid of the leaches, sold the Bishops house to pay off debt and borrowed from parishes that had money rather than banks – and paid back his debts. He was a man before his time – but underestimated. RIP old chum.
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Bishop O Donoghue the one who ordained the quite useless Fr. Robert Billings.. ordained out of gaynooth..
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POD the useless. He was useless as Rector of Alice Hall useless as auxiliary and he only got Lancaster because CMOC couldn’t wait to get rid of the bumbling fool. By selling the Bishops house meant that Campbell came along after him and bought another one . He retired back to the bogs of Cork so good riddance.
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In fairness, after many many years not in a Parish, Fr is now overseeing 3. May God bless him as he starts his Parish ministry.
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@10.40 – many bishops appear to have been conned by Maynooth.
@11.01 – Campbell could have lived in Cathedral house, as POD did, but wasn’t humble enough. Alice Hall came after his time not during it.
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10:40 So much can be linked back to the stained doorsteps of Maynooth Seminary and Roscrea Cistercians amongst other places in Ireland.
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YES. As administrator of Westminster cathedral He helped to set up the passage day centre for the homeless. He sorted out Allen Hall when he was rector. He was a man who got things done.
Very welcoming figure at the cathedral door.
Greatly missed. R.I.P
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Sorry to burst your bubble but Allen Hall started to go down hill with O’ Donoghue, that’s when it started being Alice Hall you numpty. He sorted nothing out and let things slip big time. He started the rot ffs.
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POD the useless lol. I remember that great ugly big wooden crazier he klunked around with him. It’s true that Cormac couldn’t stand him. I remember the other auxiliary Guzelli having to be carried out one night because he got plastered.
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@ 11.07am
How wrong you are about Allen Hall. Monsignorr Coughlan was the rector before him when the rot set in. Look up monsignor Coughlin and see the criminal conviction. Bishop O’Donoghue was the man who cleaned it up
I note that you have not mentioned the passage day centre. Blinkered people can not separate fact from fiction.
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So your answer to the problem is to raise people from the dead and let them sort things out. You really do get a better class of wingnut on here.
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Bishop POD above all else was a prayerful and holy man. He loved visiting Parishes and his people. Perhaps rather than criticising him, followers could pray for the repose of his soul.
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Agree mostly – however he didn’t borrow money Parishes. Money was taken from our Parishes and never paid back.
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The POD fan club consisting of one that has several names is totally in denial. He should never have been let near Lancaster and left it in a mess. It was not helped by another Irish appointment who made even mote of a mess.
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@11.46
Every single penny he borrowed was exchanged for a credit note to be held in the parish sade until paid back. Where I was the note read about £32,000. It wasn’t immediately needed in the parish accounts and it meant the interest time bomb the diocese held could be stopped. That’s called team work. POD was good, prayerful, reflective and a people person. A few more like him and the church would be better. He listened, was flexible, was open to being wrong and not bulkheads and ignorant like many other bishops.
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Police Scotland is currently investigating £600,000 in donations promised to be “ringfenced” and kept exclusively for the next SNP independence campaign. Donors complained to the police after the “ringfenced” sum was discovered missing from the SNP published accounts.
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@ 9:42am
That will be a refreshing change for them instead of investigating malicious letter writers.😏
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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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Just in case he never got my message in the previous blog heading;
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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Bishop Pat is a professional journalist (columnist for NoW) and would never reveal or expose his sources which is why this blog is a real and existential danger because it provides a forum for exposure and scrutiny the one thing bishops fear more than anything else.
They pay these huge salaries because it buys compliance and they know that money oils the machine – every CEO is compromised money on that because every diocese has a dark underbelly.
In time the CEOs will fall by the wayside because the pandemic and pre pandemic falling Mass attendance is impacting revenues in a way they could not have anticipated.
Most dioceses today are in the game of flogging real estate and liquidating assets.
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Bitching about salaries of lay folk. Surely they should be paid the equivalent of their counterparts in the public/private/charity sectors. That’s the problem with the church, we always want stuff on the cheap. The problem is if you pay peanuts you get monkeys!
So if you want active lay leadership you need to give decent wages. They don’t get free accommodation and food like the priests. They have bills to pay.
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These are posts which are not needed. The church does not need to ape the corporate world with chief this and executive that. Their lawyers, Stone King, push all this nonsense with hourly fees of £400 plus vat. Why do they need to become a Charitable Incorporated Organisation, and how much will that cost? Lloyd bank are idiots lending them 6 million which they will burn through in months. Do they realise that Rome will have to be consulted and give consent on a fire sale of diocesan assets? I think Phyllis is out of her depth. Her red face will get redder.
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Yeah, one wonders what kind of bills that require a salary of £100,000 per annum to pay.
The Sheep just keep on giving to these spongers.
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The problem is – monkey 🙉 see monkey 🙈 do
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Pat
Do you have an update regarding the disgraced Assistant Chancellor of the Dublin – Fr. Paul Coyle?
Did AB Martin get to the BOTTOM of it? I wonder…
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Nothing except faithful believers is surprising about the Catholic Church in the UK.
It began to lose touch with its Founder when it managed to talk its way round/ignore direct commands of Jesus.
“You must call no man on earth your father, since you have only one father and he is in Heaven”.
“Render unto Caesar the things that are Caesar’s and to God the things that are God’s.”
The Church rendered itself unto Caesar when the dioceses first chose to become Charities and then Charitable Companies complete with that modern version of the “Abomination of Desolation”, a CEO.
This is the reason for the Humiliation of Hierarchs at the IICSA. How could the Holy Spirit support them with the right words when their minds were filled with lies and shame?
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The RCC in England hasn’t recovered from WW I yet. One half baked fad after another, such as compulsory eucharist.
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Dan Needle’s blog led to Zahawi’s scalp being taken this morning. Needle had top expensive London City lawyers threaten him with libel and court proceedings, which failed. The truth always outs no matter how hard you seek to suppress it. Bishop Pat unearthed all the events around + Billy Bunter, the Drag Queen and the Dean. He brought about the resignation of Abbot Dick BB Purcell and Dom Kitty ‘Whoopsie’ Kirby. He even shut down + Bishop Betty Turpin when her estate agent lawyer sent a ridiculous cease and desist letter. An email by an overpaid COO with a traddie seminarian son on confidentiality will not stop him from delving into the diocese’s financial situation or events around PB JPL.
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11:31 Abbot Brendan Coffey, Glenstal and Bishop Fintan Monahan will never forgive Bishop Pat Buckley for exposing Abbot Richard Purcell of Roscrea and Mount Mellary. They do not support those who seek justice.
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ref Nadir (one of them) lost his non-job whooppee. The archbishops of Ambrosden and Camberwick don’t query the commitment of those types yet we (and the decent priest at 11.55 p.m) get harassed about the state of our baptism, our conversion and our consciences.
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11.31 Are you Pat’s agent and what fee are you getting?
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I don’t think he needs an agent, but happy to oblige if required. My fee would be a non-binding obligation for remembrance in his prayers.
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11:48 Nothing. I’m happy to do it for this very worthy and underfunded cause of helping those censored by the Papal Bulls and their cows and cohorts.
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In addition to the cover up of abuse scandals and ongoing revelations about duplicitous and insincere lifestyles of clerics alleging to adhere to Vatican rules on celibacy etc., the actions of their clerical cronies in communities has also been instrumental in alienating Roman Catholics from their faith.
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When one examines the source of all cash and property donations to diocese throughout the world, the findings are very interesting and informative.
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Report now re that diocese to charity regulator and /or Police for misuse of funds especially Sunday cash collection.
No IF’S or BUT’S. Report that diocese if I were you.
Its quite frankly unacceptable in my view cos parishioners not know that their cash- voluntary donations being used for other purposes than its intended to be.
Also issue of corporate governance as well.
RPF deserves 1/3 of it, no question. It was rcc who recruited the priests in the 1st place. Therefore rcc must support priests at the end of their elderly lives as well.
If any diocese who refuses to support all elderly priests via PRF misused or re-directed for another purpose than its intended, then what’s the point of becoming a priest🤷♀️.
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Any updates on Christopher Stalford, DG?
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Look at the solid concrete evidence of the evil they’ve done and still continue to do with premeditated, vile and malicious intent to protect their financial schemes.
Don’t trust them
Keep away from them
Don’t feed the beast
Simples
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It’s about giving victims and survivors permission to feel, to accept themselves and to learn the skills and tools to find what’s good for them.
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On the subject of Allen Hall – which Rectors were gay and oversaw this shambles of a viscous gay network – can anyone out the rectors of old who have responsibility for what is now Alice Hall.
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Who on earth is John Paul Little? What an awful miserable place Oscott looks – and those grey men who look as if they are being treated for depression. I can only assume the queens were sent out on a shopping trip to Brum while the camera crew were there
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Just looking at the published photo of Egan.
I have no experience in medical matters but I would say that he looks very ill.
Blood pressure must be through the roof
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PB JPL brought back four gay men to the parish for an orgy party and he “fell” off the balcony. He is not so innocent.
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Will this establishment that calls itself a church ever follow the teachings of Christ. It truly is a cesspit of lies, corruption and abuse. No one in their right mind could ever even try and defend this church. It is a sick twisted anti christ establishment. Why aren’t all these predators, enablers in jail. Stuff their fancy robes and lace. Lock them up where they belong. This church is a danger to society. Truly it is a cesspit
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Watched Bishop Egan. Very long nails. Are they false? Maybe they get painted when he throws a party? In all seriousness though, the poor man doesn’t look well at all. God bless him. Somebody wash him
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Pat, who’s the priest wearing the leather jacket in belfast at funerals? I assume he’s local ? He looks quite hot……tell me more.
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I have never heard a Catholic priest talking about homosexuality or the sins of the flesh, this is a fantasy on your part. The only priest of whom I had personal knowledge and who was an abuser was Fr Jack McCabe of St Michael’s College Enniskillen and he was an arch-liberal, anything goes preacher and teacher.
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Sean Fagan was a heretic and an athiest.
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Ah! He could have been worse.
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Lies.
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Pat what ever happened to Tim Bartletts chances of being a bishop? Where did that go wrong?
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Time took me back to the good old days of the blog. The juicy maynooth days, can you give us a blog update on where there all are now. It would be nice to remember them in January
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Stay off the bottle ex Maynooth sem who was shunned by not only the seminary but the summer of love sems.
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Rory Coyle is not liberal? Has he spoken or acted sympathetically with regard to women, gays or divorcees in the Church. Has he supported marriage equality or changes in the abortion laws? The fact that he got himself ordained to represent an institution that regards homosexuals as intrinsically disordered was not the action of a liberal or progressive. He then led a life which was at odds with his declared public position; whether he favoured Latin or sported a biretta are beside the point.
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Pat, what became of Fr Chris Maxwell-Stewart, who is another major failure by Kieran Conry and CMOC?
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What’s this news about 2 nuns going to Africa and coming back pregnant ?
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My favourite porn star is Berke Banks. personally I feel pornography is an expression of the reality of our humanity. those who say that porn degrades the person lose sight of the fact it is undertaken with freedom and genuine benefit. sex is for procreation not recreation? this is nonsense. sex is for enjoyment. why did God create the male g-spot?
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Anal sex leads to piles, fissures, prolapsed rectum, etc. Why did God allow this if he wanted men to experience the so-called ‘G-spot’?
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Haven’t clerics been shitting all over the place destroying countless lives worldwide knowing they’d be protected?
The clergy don’t like being challenged particularly by an intelligent, assertive, strong lesbian women.
Get used to it lads.
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Pat, didn’t you once give communion to a hare?
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Yes
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Pat at 2.54. I am shocked at that answer. You must have a good explanation. Please share it with us.
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4.52
Excuse me. You’re shocked at that answer? At least, a hare didn’t rape a child, but the Catholic Church has been giving communion, for generations, to criminally paedophile/ephebophile priests and to their protectors.
I think that Jesus would have preferred the hare as his receptacle.
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I see D’arcy’s mate Donegan (another headline grabbing seeker) has the Shinners praising him today. At a funeral at Holy Cross he called drug dealers parasites and the scourge of his community. He’s perfectly correct in what he says is our Gary. If he’s worried about the folks of Holy Cross then why in the name of God is he living out in leafy Crossgar with our wee Brian?
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Priests would know all about parasites.
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@3:34pm
So would Father’s BFF’s Brigade of parasites feeding off the vulnerable.
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You need to check your facts.
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4:52
I was staying in a cottage in Kilmore East in Wexford and decided to do an all day lone retreat on the uninhabited Saltee Islands. A fishing boat dropped me off early am and picked me up late pm. I brought a Mass kit with me.
I was astounded with the variety of wildlife and marine life.
I spread a blanket abd sat on it to celebrate Mass.
As I started Mass there was a rustle in the Heather and a large hare emerged at sat at the corner of the blanket. I assume he had never met a human before.
He stayed staring at me for the whole Mass.
At Communion time he became especially interested. I placed a small piece of the consecrated host at the corner of the blanket. He came, took ot in his mouth, swallowed it and returned to sit and stare at me.
He left when I stood up.
I was very transfixed by the whole experience. It was a mystical experience.
Was the hare a presence of God or an angel?
Hares have had great spiritual meaning in Irish spirituality and in celtic spirituality.
In any event I had shared the Body of Christ with a creature who had never sinned amd would never sin.
This story only makes sense at the mystical level. I do no regret it in any way, even though cynics will, as usual, use it against me.
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A truly beautiful story. Inspiring.
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Thanks Pat for answering my question. Great story. The Lord works in mysterious ways
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What an amazing experience. Hares are beautiful creatures. ❤️🙏❤️
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Pat, I wonder what all the Mass-going Irish Catholics who voted for abortion feel about today’s news that 6,666 Irish babies were aborted in the last year (10% of pregnancies in the country)?
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I hope they feel fine about it. The World Health Organization estimates 73,000,000 (the population of Ireland is about 5,000,000) induced abortions are carried out internationally every year. Unsafe abortion is a leading cause of maternal death, mainly in developing countries. If you followed the church’s teaching and didn’t abort them or use contraception the result would very soon be widespread famine and death. Unsafe abortion is a leading cause of maternal death, mainly in developing countries.
This is why the RC church’s teaching on abortion/contraception is a lie and very far from ‘pro-life’.https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/abortion
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Pat, I would love to make a comment on this blog. But if I put my name to it I’d be called in. And yes, it is 14:18 and I am drunk. Before those people ask.
Drunk as a skunk. I love skunks.
Pat’s blog does give light to many good discussions.
I love Pat Buckley. A good man.
God bless him and save him.
Jesus Mary and Joseph. I give you my heart and my soul.
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2.18pm Eamon we know who you are we know you are a drunk sponging off your diocese and we know you are best buddies with Buckley.
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3.34 Is that diocese Northampton by any chance?
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2.18: The “love alcoholism” creepy advocate is back; the fool who knows he’s on his last days because of his disease continues to float iver his drinking illness. I sincerely hope you luve alone. Who could keep company with you apart from your first love – booze! In your own words, you are a skunk. A total fool. I feel no sorrow for your illness. You can change but please stop gloating about a killer illness.
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Has anyone sent you the details of the Irish priests flying to gay villages in the UK? Well known in the Irish communities here in Manchester and Birmingham.
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Homosexuality will always be a sin. Anyone who partakes in it shall be damned to hell.
Filthy priest vermin prostitutes
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Best looking
1. Michael Byrne (Gorgeous)
2. Kevin McElroy (Horny Andy)
3. John Acton
4. Stephen Wilson (kildorrery)
Worst looking
1. Brendan Marshall
2. Sean Jones (King Puck)
3. Barry Matthews
4. Mark Moriarty
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2.35 You sound a very shallow and sad individual. I bet you are an alcoholic.
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2.35: You pathetic piece of crap. Grow up you gombeen.
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Pat have you got your £600 voucher yet? I’m still waiting on mine
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Got it on Thursday : – )
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Good old British Government. It’s great to be in the UK!
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+Elsie will be looking forward to her invitation to the coronation. +Amy, too, I expect.
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For example:
The Lord Chamberlain is
commanded by His Majesty to invite
Miss Elsie Nichols
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10.56 makes the claim that CEO’s should be paid the same as their counterparts. First of all, the church shouldn’t be employing them, secondly PORTSMOUTH isn’t paying peanuts but definitely do have a monkey! Why EGAN is allowing his CEO to do his job for him is beyond me.
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Just another ruse to squeeze money out of the gullible sheep. Not only is the RCC a business, it is a criminal enterprise.
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Imagine, the CEO in Portsmouth is paid a monthly wage that is the equivalent of the average annual wage of a part time parish secretary. She is paid each month the same amount they are paid for a year’s work! I cannot get my head around it. Plus all the benefits. Why aren’t the clergy and laity up in arms about this? What does the lady actually do? They seem to have a department and manager for everything.
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I get she nets about 6k a month after tax. Probably gets pension and Bupa too.
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Many diocese these days have CEOs, and the going rate is probably about 100,000 sterling. That’s the market. Many of them come from the charity sector and even there salaries are at that level. That is the market. Now, whether the dioceses should be paying that amount is another matter. But bear in mind that many bishops will be living a lifestyle at that kind of level when you take in all the things that are necessary to help them to do their role, and to live. I bet it costs 100 k to keep +Elsie in Ambrosden Avenue, and even though he will tell everyone the he earns very little, in fact it costs that much for him to be there and to do what he does.
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The bishop is the CEO, COO and CIO. Other European dioceses don’t have this nonsense.
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Money for this. Money for that.
Money spins the world, and the world of institutional Catholicism is no exception.
Money to send sick (or, wink-wink, SICK?) priests for fast-track, highly expensive and highly privileged private treatment in far-off countries, on other people’s money, while the rest of us have to join ever-lengthening queues in a failing NHS.
Money for retired (How does one retire from a life of genteel leisure?) priests, who expect lay Catholics to keep funding lifestyles more indolent than those they left behind.
These pampered, pretentious, prissy, impious freeloaders in no way reflect the values of Jesus. Why can’t lay Catholics see this? What blinds them to the truth about these social parasites?
When this generstion of compliant Catholics dies off, there will be far fewer to replace them. There will be less and less revenue to fill the pockets of priests. I cannot wait for this day. It is surely coming.
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It’s a long way off
You simply have no idea of the wealth they hold and the small demographic of Rich List equivalents that keep a very low profile whilst bankrolling them in return for ongoing services. Don’t kid yourself into thinking that they are working for the sheep’s pennies, that’s all just a front. This Mafia won’t be going anywhere any time soon. Ask the hundreds of thousands of abuse victims awaiting redress, oh no, you can’t, most of them are dead already.
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Don’t mention the NHS!!!!!!! The CEO of Portsmouth played a part in the mess the NHS finds itself in today, too! (Her former role) She’s doing her best to implement her (wink-wink) stregies in the church now.
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John Paul Lyttle often covers for Fr Sheehan when he is on holiday
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He shouldn’t be ministering at all. He is a danger. He is going to cause significant problems for Phyliss.
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How does he know Fr Sheehan anyway?
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Where is Mark Kirby? Who supervises him? Does he have access to Impressionable young men?
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Is he with Fr Jerry Carey?
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Have you ever met Brian Kennedy? He’s a lovely man. I bumped into him today and even though he wasn’t a bit well he still had a small conversation with us.
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3.58: Thanjs f8r the link to the interview on Brendan O Connors show today. Neil is a most kind, compassionate, caring, decent person. What an inspiring interview. There was no aggression, no judgment about priests or others, no condemnation. He possesses a wonderful empathy and sensitivity and came across as a very thoughtful, reflective and goid person. He still is Catholic and his faith is important. What a difference it is to listen to someone like him compared to the horrible nastiness and viciousness aimed towards so many on this blog. Thank you Neil. May God bless you.
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Thank you for a thoughtful comment illustrating how the ‘church’could get away with prolific crime and the ‘faithful’ keep giving.
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What’s the story with Mgr Peter Fleetwood of the Archdiocese of Liverpool?
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How do you mean? He never really settles in parishes in the Liverpool Archdiocese, been like that for years. He’s currently in Denmark/Faroe Islands.
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Pat, have you seen the video by Archbishop McMahon about the Hexham & Newcastle scandals?
https://fb.watch/imNeaWaDfU/
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