“MISTER KEENAN’S” CLOSEST FRIEND IN COURT OVER ALLEGED DOMESTIC ASSAULT !

I see D’Arcy is on the radio BBC R4 tomorrow morning doing the morning service. The usual trite, naff, saccharine stuff, although he does make a pitch for women’s ordination and ordination of a whole range of people, which is valid enough. But he does sound so precious and self-satisfied. Never mind, I’m sure he will be lauded by his loving followers telling him he’s as wonderful as ever ! I’d love to hear what his CP brothers will be saying around the lunch table today, mind you !

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I work in a parish in Scotland. Nominally I have c1500 parishioners. Last night at Vigil there were 16 at Mass.
To my surprise during a chat with some of them after Mass the subject of a recent ordination came up. The alleged reputation of the new priest was raised along with other matters which have featured in blogs by both yourself and Catholic Truth Scotland.
These diehard catholics said that these matters were scandalising the Faithful and these things are common knowledge among parishioners.
Today at Mass there was a congregation of 32 !!
If our hierarchy think these things aren’t affecting our people then they need to think again.
Having spoken to other clergy in the last week I’m convinced the rot in Scotland post O’Brien is now gathering pace.

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Pat’s review of the inadequacies of the Scottish hierarchy is spot on; a similar analysis would apply everywhere. I’m prompted then to throw a firecracker into the ring. I have been taken by the reflections and sermons available on YouTube by the American sedevacantist Bishop Donald J. Sanborn. NB I am most definitely not promoting his position. I confess to sympathy for the SSPX, but not even Bishop Williamson would go down the “no valid Pope” road. However, if you want to know what Catholics (used to ) believe, then Sanborn is illuminating. BTW I should love to hear from Pat an account of his conversation with Mgr Lefebvre.

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Sad day for Paisley. We were hoping to get rid of all of them!
They have simply created an office of yes people and anyone that isn’t on board is in for a hard time. Wasted collections on synod, staff (more are started every week) and not addressing issues that need solved. He will be bealing, glasgow was always in his sight. His priests can’t stand him but are afraid to speak as they will get moved to a lesser parish.
Praying the Nuncio moves him out of the road to Galloway. Suppose the priests of glasgow are glad they don’t have to resign for now.

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Betty Turpin was always a supporting character in The Rovers, a mere barmaid and never the landlady. She wasn’t destined for the responsibility of Glasgow.

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Only RC priests could be so conscienceless as to be primarily concerned that their own deeds will come out in a court case about a woman suffering domestic violence.
When they tell you they hate abuse and it’s changed, remember this: it’s only ever about the clergy.
It’s pro-cleric.

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Having read the entries on the blog about Mr Keenan and his mothers influence I can now understand a remark made by a priest yesterday on hearing of the new appointment. ‘At least decisions on diocese matters won’t be made in Maryhill’
It all fits now.

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What is it about clergy and undertakers? There is the case of Canon PJ Smith in Portsmouth and his older undertaker chum. I know of a case in of a priest and a married undertaker cruising together in the Thames Valley. Undertaker have their own fair share of queens too.

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The Gardaí are mostly untrustworthy idiots and lazy, back of the classroom types.. There are some good ones too though but I’d imagine the RCC is far too sharp for that lot for various reasons. You’ll need someone dependable to sort the church I’m afraid.

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All our stories touch on the same issues of unrestrained use of power and authority over the People of God (which these poor people most certainly were), and the arbitrary and unaccountable use of that power and authority by those who were part of the instiutuonalised and clericalised Church that we were talking about yesterday. Not only was the original sin of abuse allowed to flourish by the institution, but even when called out the institution did not / does not ask itself the fundamental systemic questions about why and how, and even more importantly what to do to ensure that there is healing and this never happens again. The initial response was to minimise, to deny, and then to cover up, thus leaving unchallenged and unchanged the underpinning theology, thinking, mindset and structures that were the foundations and framework on which abuse and clerical dysfunction flourished. I think that we are still at the stage. All we hear are the occasional formulaic words of concern (which Bishops now seem to learn by rote), the belated action to remove priests from ministry (whereas before they were just moved around the chessboard and facilitated in their ongoing abuse), and a requirement that such things are now reported to the secular authorities (belatedly imposed on the Church, kicking and screaming, and which is still frustrated by opposition to the removal of the statute of limitations, legal avenues, financial settlements etc.). All of this suggests to me that the institutionalised and clericalised Church is incapable of learning any lessons and of any fundamental change, so invested are they in the status quo and so ingrained are centuries of this culture and theology that they are likely incapable of change. This rotten culture is still being taught subliminally to the next generations of clerics in seminaries. So, it will be more of the same under that management. From where, then, will change come ? In the meantime, I have distanced myself from the Church I have described, physically and financially. I do not want to have anything to do with such a Church, which is toxic and dangerous to the health and wellbeing of me and so many others. I will find my spiritual sustenance elsewhere, until such time as I see the Church in to which I was born and raised take a serious and long look at itself and commit to fundamental change.

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Well, I know a priest (religious Order man) who had a gambling addiction, stole money from the parish he was in, got found out, something seems to have been ‘arranged’, no prosecution, and then a few years later his Order elected him Provincial ! And, some years still later he’s been given a second bite of the cherry as Provincial. So, how does that figure ?! I guess if it has been me or you, laypeople, the Police would have been involved, there would have been public accounting, and in all likelihood serious consequences like a conviction, prison, and most certainly loss of job. What is good for the Goose is surely good for the Gander ? No ? So, it seems to me that this Fr (and he’s lucky he’s still able to call himself Father !) should count himself fortunate and let sleeping dogs lie and stop drawing attention to himself. It can only turn our worse for him, I think, having this name dragged all over the press and internet again, and forcing his Bishop to discipline him. He’s asking for trouble. Silly man. And silly people encouraging him to put his head above the parapet.

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The problem is the number of clerics who were wolves in sheep’s clothing, who devoured many lambs in their care, were then protected by their bishops, and moved to different pastures, wreaking more havoc on the innocent and their unsuspecting parents.
Catholic bishops, priests and the faithful should be on their knees in repentance for the abominations committed by the institutional church.

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Down and Connor are minted. How many millions are they getting for the land that St Pats boys home was on? Their chief executive (an accountant) has been instructed to sell sell sell. They can smell the money. They are all complete gobshite living off the backs of the faithful. Mind you they probably need a few quid for his expensive wine collection. People need to wise up and stop putting money on the plates. Treanor got a healthy per cent age of everything to run his empire and keep him living in splendour. Give them nothing

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I suspect that homosexuality is not of itself the problem, but rather the most conspicuous and damaging manifestation of the cognitive dissonance which is at the heart and root of the clergy. The Church is in crisis because of a clerical establishment no longer fit for purpose. But the Church is bigger than the clergy, and the kingdom of God bigger than the Church. The old order changes: is that such a bad thing? Even Andrew Sullivan could not resist finding priests who are still “heroes”. We don’t need saints or knights in shining armour, just men and women of integrity.

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I simply assume that the majority of priests I meet or know are gay. That’s my default position. I am rarely wrong !
In my own life, many decades ago I decided that celibacy was an intolerable and impossible imposition on my priesthood, undertaken in part coercively and unknowingly, and so I did not after some consideration feel that it was something I was necessarily bound to. That did not mean that I threw it completely overboard, and was always careful to have a respect for my sexuality and the dignity of others, certainly physically. But, in terms of emotional and affective involvement, I made sure that I had very deep and intense relationships with other men, and eventually with a partner, so that I could live a life that was reasonably happy, stable, emotionally grounded and at the same time a life of ministry. For me it has worked.
Through all of this, I simply allowed whatever current agendas in the Church about homosexuals and who we are and what we get up to, to slip off my back. I simply didn’t listen. Why should I, when most of the awful stuff coming out of the mouths of those who condemned me and other gay priests, was most likely transferred self-hatred and loathing on the part of the those who spouted hatred and negativism about gays ?
I have refused to listen to and to be affected by negative voices within the Church about my sexuality. For me, it is a matter between me and God, and between me and those I love.
So, Benedict, Francis, bishops, right wing militant traditionalist groups – butt out ! What you think and what you say is irrelevant to me. I will make my own decisions about how I live my life and live my priesthood. You have shown yourselves in so many way unworthy of being believed or listened to. Say what you want, it will have no effect on me. I am here to stay. And so are thousands more gay priests, who keep the Church running. Get used to it. Get over it.

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I am amazed to find out that a drug now exists to prevent transmission of HIV – Prep. Did you know about this Pat? You can even buy it online and it’s not even that dear.

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I hear that another Scottish Bishop is seriously considering resigning and cannot cope with the burden of office. If true, who can blame him? Please pray for the Bishops of Scotland who do a good job under hugely difficult circumstances. Should Scotland streamline and reduce the number of Diocese?

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