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ARCHBISHOP MC MAHON ADDRESSES TGE PRIESTS OF HEXHAM AND NEWCASTLE IN THE WAKE OF THE BISHOP BOBBY BYRNE SCANDAL.

Video of letter being read by Archbishop McMahon

ARCHBISHOP’S LETTER TO PRIESTS AND RELIGIOUS

RESPONSE TO THE SUNDAY TIMES

PAT SAYS

To date. Archbishop McMahon has handled the Byrne Scandal well.

He has involved the police, the Charity Commissioners, the National Safeguarding Agency, and the Vatican.

He has written to the priests and people of the diocese.

He sent me a very reassuring letter after my complaint to the Papal Nuncio.

And it’s good that the national media have picked it up.

This week. I had calls from journalists from the national newspapers, the BBC, and the North of England media.

I think the story will run, and I expect more embarrassing details to emerge.

The media has also discovered the name of the priest who is allegedly the victim of the sexual assault by Robert Byrne.

I have known that priest’s name from the beginning, but as he is a victim, I decided not to name him.

I did tell the Nuncio the name.

113 replies on “ARCHBISHOP MC MAHON ADDRESSES TGE PRIESTS OF HEXHAM AND NEWCASTLE IN THE WAKE OF THE BISHOP BOBBY BYRNE SCANDAL.”

Well Done Bishop Pat – keep shining the light on these matters. You got the ball rolling and now the media are obviously extremely interested and will also keep digging. Safeguarding is paramount but if the RCC won’t do it themselves the onus is on every decent citizen to do it for them for the greater good and safety of society.

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Nothing happens unless Pat intervenes, eg the Summer of Love, Roscrea, this case and many others. Issues are ignored and swept under the carpet because bishops and seminary staff won’t do anything unless they are shamed into action by Pat’s blog. Pat should be made the Chief Operating Officer/Sageguarding Officer/General Secretary of each of the episcopal conferences of Britain and Ireland!

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There is so much on this blog about LGBTQ and the Church. Can someone explain how Bishop Byrne allowed the Diocese to openly and regularly have a LGBTQ group meeting in St Andrews Church Newcastle where mass is celebrated once a month for the group on a Tues evening? This church is only a mile from the Cathedral and Gay bar area of the city.

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You don’t seem to mention the young girl stabbed to death in Hexham. I suppose your priorities lay elsewhere.

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Disgraceful of poster @ 2:50AM to cynically and maliciously use the tragic death of a young girl when her murder occurred AFTER the entirely unrelated letter, subject of today’s blog was written.
The corrupt and toxic “clergy & their faithfuls” seriously show themselves up as evil through and through when they panic when they see that there is no more hiding from the TRUTH about their toxic wheels of ongoing crime, corruption and abuse.
May this young lady rest in Peace. Amen.

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2:50 clergy quick enough to keep stum when their own pals engage in criminal activity and spring into action with their cronies to smooth their paths and to hell with the victims and their families.

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That’s what I was thinking, 8:01. In fact the blog title should really be,
Archbishop McMahon Makes a Point of Appearing to Say the Right Things to Ensure the Shit Which is Hitting the Fan Hits Byrns and Not Him

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11:37 Spot on. McMahon is conducting the classic butt covering exercise, clergy well versed in this practice when it suits.

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Well, here’s an example of the RC’s trying to get it right for once. However, no doubt we’ll have the moronic hate-filled Calvinists who infest this blog, replying with their repeating sex-starved donkey eructations that the Catholic church is fundamentally evil and can do no right. These people worship a God which creates one group of humans to go to heaven, and one to be tortured in hell. If God is truly like that, I would rather be in hell. Atheism is preferable. Hitler proclaimed one race to deserve paradise, and one to go to the gas chambers. What’s the difference? Calvinism is fundamentally hate-filled, hence fundamentally evil. Now wave your hands about in a blur and shout some more, you bibliolatrous idiots.

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8.58

The RC’s trying to get it right… ‘for once’? You hold up that single, solitary, lonely instance as though it were a winning trophy.

Is your name ‘Pollyanna’?

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Hey, you at 8.58! Didn’t the Catholic Church once have as it’s signature catchphrase, courtesy of the bigot Cyprian, ‘extra ecclesiam nulla salus’ (‘outside the church there is no salvation’)?

You know, a god who lumps all the saved into the Catholic Church, and shuts the doors of salvation on everyone else, no matter how loving, kind, and good?

Sounds a bit like that Calvanist god you were slating earlier.

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It gets worse, now your baptism, conversion and conscience (which for 2,000 years never belonged to Rome) will not get you anywhere with the Eternal City state.

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8:58 So far the only commenter to mention any of these things is you. 😂
I actually read this blog to be entertained by the cathbots.

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8.58
You raise the serious question of predestination. I believe there have been developments over the past generation on this thorny issue. Perhaps someone, a sister or brother from the Presbyterian Church in Ireland would update us here on contemporary understandings of predestination (not MC, please).

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Bobby Sands MP would be turning in his grave at this lot. He was very friendly with Fr Noel Fitzpatrick, one of the Ballymurphy Massacre victims, that was instrumental in his cause for equality for Catholics and Ireland alike.

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Wow! How far off topic can one go?

That’s the perennial problem with Irish republicans… everything must be about them, even when it isn’t.

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https://youtu.be/wcQe65btkls
May I nominate this priest as the campest in England and Wales? Camp, yes but one of the most pastoral and welcoming I have experienced. God bless him and his ministry in torquay. I believe Larry Grayson spent his retirement in the seaside town.

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@ 10:36am

Yes your right, I wouldn’t call it re-ordering but reckovation. It’s not until you see one of these ghastly Novus Ordo’s again you see how awful it is. The dreadful woman server passed the Tabernacle many times and not one genuflection proving they don’t believe in The Real Presence, no surprise there.

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10.57
You don’t believe in the ‘Real Presence’ either, because you dishonour it in everyone you dislike on this blog with expletive bile.
He who hates his brother hates God.

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No one is HATED more

Than they who speak the TRUTH

Prayers for all the victims and survivors, their families and friends and all affected in any way by Roman Catholic Church related crime, corruption and abuse including those censored by the Roman Catholic Mafia and its networks of powerful connections worldwide.

God Bless Bishop Pat Buckley for all that he does on behalf of those oppressed by such evil forces.

Amen.

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9.42: Your expression of admiration for this priest is nullified by your first questiin. You should stay away from the SACRED Mass with a shit brain like yours. You are a sleaze perve. Just stay away from the Holy Eucharist. This video of 2 years ago is totally irrelevant but your caca mind thinks differently. You’re trailer trash.

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@11:0,6am

Get a grip you cretin, the only bile is that emanating from yourself in your personal insults to me. I never used any expletive in my comment although I could think of plenty to use as regards you.

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You’ve just proved my point, and made another one: that you’re a liar. You have used the F-word, more than once.

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Bella once told me I reminded her of Divine. Strange, you would think a ‘trad’ cathbot who claims to be the only real cathbot in the entire universe, would have no knowledge of gay culture. I think there’s more here than meets the eye and it might be bot in a different sense. 🍑

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I’m sure hierarchs in Ireland and Great Britain are thrilled national and international media attention is on Bishop Pats blog which highlights abuse corruption and crime in the RCC nationally and internationally.

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@ 11:36am

Netty you’re babbling again since I’ve never met you the last word I’d use about you is divine. You have no shame even after being revealed for what you are, a convicted malicious letter writer you still can’t stop gibbering on with a lot of rubbish. I’ve never claimed to be the only Trad. I’m one of many, we already know there’s more to you than meets the eye,everyone knows your false piety and sanctimonious claptrap is exactly that, Claptrap!😏

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Ah ha! Definitely touched a nerve there. It’s alright, Bella, you can come out here, it’s a safe place x

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Why don’t you, then? I think the blog would attract advertisers, not least for its noteriety (in a good way).

A blog as colourful as this one draws the readers.

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About time Bishop Pat

Thank you for all that you do for victims and survivors and anyone affected by RC related abuse, crime and corruption around the world.

Shame on them and their associates for not only utterly failing mother and baby home survivors and families and all other victims of church related abuse but also for their daily abuse of privilege and character assassination of victims and survivors that continues. They will never learn. State governments should not be financing them in any way, by doing so they are complicit in church related abuse.

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Quiet enough on the blog on a Monday!
The holy ones are recovering from their weekend trips to the Priesty saunas.
They’ll be off in their motor homes before we know it.
Park rangers will have plenty to gossip about again during tea break.

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At last! The Truth will out. More to be revealed.
All in all we parishioners, we faithful, dependable are NOT just ‘another brick in the Wall.’
How dare you ‘Church’. How dare you throughout the generations.
Along with the greed breed who are destroying the Planet.
We pray and wonder which will implode first?
God is watching. God is in it. Luke 11: 42-54.
Come on now – how many of us are enjoying ‘shocking The Pharisees.’…..
We are in the best of company…
.✝️🙏🙏🙏✝️

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CLYDEBANK: PRIEST GUILTY OF SEXUAL ABUSE CHARGES SERVED IN CLYDEBANK.
Tom Grant
27 January 2023.
“The Catholic Church in Glasgow has apologised to victims of a priest convicted of sexual abuse who spent time at a Clydebank parish.
Archbishop William Nolan was speaking after Father Neil McGarrity, 68, was convicted last week of sexually abusing four girls across two parishes in the east end of Glasgow.”
https://www.clydebankpost.co.uk/news/23280584.clydebank-priest-guilty-sexual-abuse-charges-served-clydebank/

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Malcolm is a man under intense scrutiny and is clearly saying and probably doing all the right things.
But don’t be deceived – he ordained Matthew Jolly, privately he’s a massive gossip and Pisa taker and he loves the lace and the cappa magna make no mistake.
English bishops are only sorry because Byrne got caught – and now they have to clean up his mess and firefight the reputation all damage.
Liverpool is a cauldron of scandal just bubbling under the surface – he’s 74 and will hang on into he’s 75 and be urging Francis to accept his resignation.
He doesn’t give a shite he just does when they get caught.

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Bishop Pat
Will you cover the story of Bishop Stika’s alleged pattern of trying to intimidate victim who alleges he was raped by a seminarian on another day please?
In a lawsuit, the victim, a former church employee, alleges that the Diocese of Knoxville tried to discredit him and did not properly investigate his sexual abuse allegations.
Bishop Richard Stika told a roomful of priests at a May 2021 meeting at the Cathedral of the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus that the victim had the whole story backward and falsely alleged that the victim bringing the lawsuit is the predator. The lawsuit relies on the evidence of a priest who was present.
The lawsuit victim alleges that the Roman Catholic Church is trying to intimidate victims.
Anyone reading your blog and other sources can see that this is a daily tactical occurrence by the Roman Catholic mafia and their lay teams worldwide.

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Reply to; Bishop Stika, Diocese of Knoxvillesays:
Jan 30, 2023 at 1:36 pm
There was an apostolic visitation the end of November 2022 I don’t know the result or, even if has been published, Strika sounds like another little Hitler, he sound utterly dangerous.
Why would Strika continue to protect the alleged sex abuser/rapist seminarian who apparently had being in at least two other Roman Catholic seminaries and was kicked out allegedly for sex abuse, he even took the said abuser into his home.
The seminarian is Polish as was Strika’s Mother, would that have a bearing on Strika’s behaviour?
What is the relationship between Strika and the seminarian?
I think Pat would do well to steer well clear of Strika.
1)Ex-church worker in Tennessee claims in lawsuit he was …https://www.nbcnews.com › news › us-news › ex-churc…
23 Feb 2022 — former Tennessee church organist claims in a lawsuit he was raped by seminarian Wojciech Sobczuk and Knoxville Bishop Rick Stika
2)After visitation, what’s next for Stika and Knoxville? And how long could it take?
After a pair of Virginia Roman Catholic bishops made an apostolic visitation to the troubled Diocese of Knoxville, what happens next?
JD FLYNN December 7, 2022 . 1:45 PM

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And what about Bishop Stila’s mentor, Cardinal Justin Rigali who has had enormous influence on the appointment – the Vatican alleges that the discredited process for nominating bishops is an ‘election’ while nothi g could be further from the truth.

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Mind, Keith O’Brien aka Cardinal Sin, freely admitted that he had… well, let’s just say, fondled and groped other homosexuals, feeling the size, length, and girth of a potential trick’s penis throughout his 50-year career as priest, archbishop and cardinal. He was even at it the day he was made a cardinal. He ended up being given a lovely house in a gentrified mining village in Northumberland

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According to Wikipedia, in 2015, “the Glasgow Herald reported allegations that in at least 40 cases young clerics were encouraged to let O’Brien hear their ‘confessions’, and the religious act was used for sexual grooming. There was allegedly reluctance to accept O’Brien’s actions as a sexual predator.” The dirty old bugger.

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Confess directly to Christ. Only Christ can forgive sin, not a Christ-betraying, sexually perverted Romanist priest.

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Reply to;Anonymoussays:
Jan 30, 2023 at 10:51 am
Jesus wept!! I think only Cardinals such as the Burke crone are allowed to wear red Cappa Magna, others apparently wear a purple one.
Has McMahon got idea above his station.
Each time I see one of those old farts wearing it I see red, its use was abolished in 1969, I wonder when McMahon wore this one?
I have to say I find it ridiculous, it serves no liturgical purpose, only to show off. I fancy the late Liberace would look flamboyant in that. Is it drag queen by the backdoor, one has to ask?
Instead of impressing, I would cringe seeing one of those silly blokes cavorting down the aisle in one of those, my mind would suddenly drift onto thoughts of very non religious drift.

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@ 2:15pm

Oh! Queenie take a chill pill and stop getting your knickers in a twist, all prelates wore the Cappa and no one thought anything about it. I cringe when I see your lot prancing about in those horrible polyester ponchos, its too sick making, not to mention common as muck.

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I noticed at least one image of Bishop Robert Burns, where he was wearing, what looked like, a very expensive chasuble, it hasn’t proved to be providential for him. Has it?
It’s not the garment, nor, material, nor the adornments, that are important, it’s who it hangs on.
“Fine feathers make fine birds” or so we are led to believe.

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Time for Newcastle and Hexam to get a visitation by Rawhide and Phonsie, will sort everything out like in Silverstream

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Bishop Monahan doesn’t care what you call him, he had a big crowd at his latest book launch and Fr Ryan’s crosses for St Bridgets day at €4 each are literally flying out the door.

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@2:24
Killaloe may send their more hardline skirts from their pro-life movement.
They dig deep to involve themselves in deflective practices.

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Am always amazed at how men who ostensibly never get laid feel it’s ok to tell women how to live their lives. It’s bad comedy

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Bishop Phonsie keeping stum these days, always watch out when Fraudulent Frankies Choirboys go quiet….

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5:03
Yea. Da Fonz & Bros are keeping dumb while Lugs & Co are lying low.
There must be something coming down the tracks…what could it be…

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5:48 The playing dumb brigades are lower than a snakes belly 😒

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If only William Nolan had it in him to banish the snakes out of Glasgow as McMahon is doing in Newcastle.
Maybe one day, but we fear he’s every bit as complicit as the others.

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Pat I hear Vladimir Putin threatened Boris before his resignation. I would not be surprised if Boris is in office again to fight the next election.

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Ty he wearing of the Cappa Magna (Burke, McMahon) is a code or signal of a repressed and flamboyant homo eroticism – the smirk of pleasure or was it a frisson on McMahons face says it all.

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@6.19pm And you believe the proven liar that is Boris Johnson coming out with this clap trap about Putin?

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@ 4:13pm

Nonsense, according to your reasoning the thousands of prelates who wore the Cappa for hundreds of years, with no word of it. Were all as you describe, utter nonsense I think the frisson was all yours and it gave you a thrill to say it.

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Seems like Bishop Pat doesn’t have all the good info from Scotland.

The vacant see of Galloway has been offered to someone who would have been good and with no skeletons in the closet but they’ve rejected the offer.

From the remaining two on the terna, one is potentially compromised and was a friend on the deceased Mike Regan… in fact he is fairly close to the altar in the Facebook pic.

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@ 4:21pm
Patsy’s not stupid he knows where and who’s giving him the gossip, which is not reliable from that quarter so he’ll check. Glasgunesis🤣 more like Ardeerensis🤣

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5:58 pm, is there any reason to believe that ++Eamon would have the bravery or basic moral fibre to stand up for a clerical victim of sexual abuse by his superior, and of continuing ecclesiastical abuse by his own ordinary, Tom Deenihan?

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5.58: The Bishopric obsessed crackpot who keeps mouthing repeat rants. Seamus, find something more worthwhile to do. Write to the TD’s; protest outside bishops house; invite Dom Anderson to stay with you…or visit him or write to local newspapers.You seem to have lots of free time. BY THESE KINDS OF ACTIONS WILL YOU BE PROVED TRULY CONCERNED NOT BY YOUR RAVINGS ON THIS BLOG.

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6:36 — The bishops fear this blog; ergo, Seamus is being very effective. Writing to a TD is a good idea; however, a protest outside bishops house will accomplish very little.

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6:36 : Ara give up your rantings ravings and gaslighting of Seamus.It’s not up to you to determine what actions prove concern. Deenihan needs to write a letter. Why did he victimise Dom Benedict, a whistleblower? The appropriate Vatican Discastery needs to be informed since no one in the Irish church has the bottle to deal with the matter. But whats new.

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I totally agree. Seamus should write to Bishop Deenihan. he is not going to get anywhere on this blog. it is simply a boring obsession he has with Dom Anderson.
The more he goes on about Dom Anderson the more it makes me wonder what his relationship is to him.
Are there tings that we have not been told about Dom Anderson? Please do tell.

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7:31’s attempt at intimidating and defaming a victim whistleblower by innuendo is noted. ✅

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Pat, no offence to you, and I have gay friends but the sexual things they/you do are grotesque. I know you say heterosexual couples have anal sex but that’s a minority by all regards.

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Michael McCoy was a VEC contemporary of Archbishop Longley, Bishop Arnold, Bishop Stock, Bishop Hudson, Canon Stephen Shield(convicted Lancaster diocesan priest), Thomas Wood(convicted Liverpool priest), Kevin Haggerty(Wonersh seminary rector and now Somerset chimney sweep)Derek Jennings(court jester to Princess Margaret), David Manson( former VG at Brentwood), John Nelson(former VG at Portsmouth), Michael Raiswell(Shrewsbury priest who committed suicide) etc etc.

Many of these clerical players exemplify the dysfunction within seminaries and the types of people that are produced after 6 years “formation”

Seminaries like diocese’ and Religious Orders/Congregations take on a familiar psych pathology- it is like an exercise in dot to dot. Join the dots up and distinct patterns start emerging.

Does anyone know more about the Provost of the Birmingham Oratory- Ignatius Harrison? I suspect there may well be more to him.

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It was frightening that 3 out of 11 were paedophiles, and they try to tell us it’s no more than the general population.

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The gay formation staff at Oscott need replacing. The priests they are turning out are going to ruin the church. One faculty member was notorious for the Roman gay saunas.

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POPE ACCEPTS RESIGNATION OF POWERFUL CANADIAN CARDINAL ACCUSED BY TWO WOMEN – Response from BishopAccountability.org
VATICAN CITY (VATICAN CITY)
BishopAccountability.org [Waltham MA]
January 30, 2023.
By Anne Barrett Doyle
“Pope Francis has accepted the resignation of Cardinal Marc Ouellet from his powerful position as prefect of the Dicastery for Bishops.
This sudden event occurs less than two weeks after a French Catholic publication revealed that a second woman has accused the cardinal of sexual abuse. The timing is suggestive, and it raises troubling questions about the Pope’s possible complicity. Now would be a good time for Francis to practice the transparency he recently espoused. He should account for his seemingly reckless disregard of two women’s allegations. He should also tell us why the cardinal is stepping down now. Was Ouellet subject to a Vos Estis investigation? Is his departure from office a sanction?…”https://www.bishop-accountability.org/2023/01/pope-accepts-resignation-of-powerful-canadian-cardinal-accused-by-two-women-response-from-bishopaccountability-org/

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Who will be the next Bishop of H&N will be the question. It will have to be someone already a Bishop due to the current issues as a first appointment would struggle. When you look at the E&W Bishop’s Conference in terms of age, diocese size, service length, current responsibilities etc… only 3 names come up as being potential candidates. Swarbrick, Hudson and McKinney. In an ideal world Swarbrick would be the best option. He is a Northman so understands the local culture, he can reform the legacy of a predecessor as already shown, he has predominantly pastoral experience and finally he is an affable approachable prelate who has no interest in dressing up or the latin mass. H&N needs that style of a Bishop not Byrne’s type…

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Why would Lancaster or Nottingham change diocese? Makes no sense. And why you even suggest Hudson is laughable. Are you just plucking names from the air?

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The factors to take into account are very much referenced in my reasoning if you actually took the time to read the full comment I left. Pay attention like a good boy or you will be given lines to do lol….

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H&N clergy won’t trust yet another outsider. They didn’t want Byrne and my goodness, have they been vindicated.

The H&N pool is not huge to fish and contains some near the top who must be automatically excluded – the one time VICE rector of the Beda who has quite a history going back to his Ushaw days and ever since. While Portsmouth don’t like Egan, they got him a a second choice to the H&N candidate and they are lucky in getting Egan.

Probably the only suitable internal is the VG who may not be liked by all but he is that rare thing, a man of integrity but of course, he may not want the job, after all, who would?

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