In the pastoral letter published on 29th January Archbishop McMahon said this:
Finally, I offer a word to my fellow priests in this Diocese. I will be meeting you all soon and look forward to listening to you and hearing from you. I know that you the priests of the diocese are suffering along with your people. But I urge you to stand up for what is right even if that may bring painful consequences.
This meeting will take place as follows:
Archbishop Malcolm McMahon would like to meet with priests on Thursday 9th February. The meeting will be held at the Mercure George Washington Hotel, Stone Cellar Road, High Usworth, Washington, NE37 1PH.
Lunch will be served at 12.30pm followed by the meeting at 2.00 pm until 5.00 pm (latest).
Archbishop Malcolm has offered to meet with priests on a one-to-one basis on the afternoon of Friday 10th February at St Hilda’s. If you would like to meet with Archbishop Malcolm please contact his Private Secretary, Fr John Poland, on abpsec@rcaol.org.uk or telephone him at Archbishop’s House on 0151 494 0686 to arrange a time.
PAT SAYS
One of Byrne’s biggest cock up in H&N was his total contempt for the priests of the diocese.
He ran the diocese like a bull on a China shop and thought he did not need any help, guidance, or advice from anyone.
He even ignored and trampled on vital issues like safeguarding.
For a start, he wanted to bring a convicted paedophile priest to live with him in bishops house!
I hope the priests let Archbishop Mc Mahon know the full extent of Byrne’s disastrous reign of foolishness and terror.
BISHOP PAT BUCKLEY 
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From the Twitter of Michael Kelly (@MichaelKellyIC)
Very sorry to hear of the death of the wonderful Fr Michael Geoffrey Nevin in Dublin. A humble and holy pastor, fearless preacher and compassionate carer of souls. May he rest in peace.
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What did he do?
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He protected the interests of the Roman Catholic Church. That was his job and he was a faithful servant.
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@11:41pm
Unlike a lot of priests we hear about on this blog daily, this exceptional priest stayed true to his vocation. He served his people as he should. May his soul and the souls of all the faithful departed rest in peace.
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8:46 Evil prospers when good men do nothing.
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May Fr indeed Rest In Peace. Fr Nevin usually said the 8am morning (Low) Mass until recently in St Kevin’s church, Harrington Street. Fr Nevin was a cultured and learned preacher able to make apt literary contrasts between the great French writers or draw together the Gospel and current happenings in a clear, useful way. He indeed ‘fought the good fight, finished the course, and kept the faith.’ 2 Timothy 4:7-8
https://rip.ie/death-notice/reverendj-michael-geoffrey-nevin-dublin-8-dublin/525561
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More importantly for the priests meeting with Archbishop McMahon is to be open, honest and transparent about all issues affecting the Church and priesthood and to be absolutely upfront about all challenges, morally, spiritually and pastorally. All priests and Bishops need to urgently establish a TRUTH Forum to discuss everything, especially relating to all abuse victims and survivors. We can only hope and pray for a positive, constructive new dialogue and way of renewal. I’m sure the Archbishop is aware of Bishop Byrne’s ruinous reign, so let him deal with that himself and try to renew his mission with the Catholic community and that of the priests whom he will meet.
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1 . Holy Scripture says both:
i – “whatsoever is not of faith is sin”, and
ii – that there will sometimes come times when “let he who is married (including partnerships), go to bed as though he is not married”
2 . It’s up to each believer – by free and equal private conversation with believing friends – to discern what the virtue of situational chastity will look like at any time.
3 . Looking to scoreboard keepers to tick our boxes for us in adulthood never did work, though it looked like it did; now it doesn’t look like it either.
4 . Marriage was never a church sacrament; ordination never God’s, but He permits it; communion recently became much less of either until further notice due to functional (rather than overt) denial of Real Presence since about 1946. Confession without intrusion is beneficial. Common baptism for Trinitarian churches doesn’t belong to the “Eternal” City.
5 . This is the context in which each of us should intercede with Jesus that our church elders will awaken to teaching inspired truths to help everyone cope with this eschaton that began around 1,990 years ago at Ascension. And to beg His mercy on those church leaders already passed on who didn’t do well in this. II Chr 7:14 and Dan 9:3-21 apply. If you’re not good at rosaries, string together Our Fathers & Glory Be’s! The Psalter is of great value, also benedictions if you aren’t superstitious. Don’t wait till you can afford to drop pennies in the collection.
6 . Holy Scripture always was addressed more directly to the churches (with emphasis on their leaders) than to the wider public who could be helped by successful believing example. God helps those in the churches that experience our God (believe He exists) as person(s).
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Justice Clarke is proposing a change in the law to reverse the process In Ireland whereby at present church wealth is placed in “trusts” to put it beyond the reach of claimants in abuse claims.
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This does not include an estimated doubling of that figure if more victims now decide to come forward as a high percentage of victims have yet to come forward and some have committed suicide as a direct consequence of clerical abuse.
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Senior Counsel Cathy Smith highlighted how the Roman Catholic Church immorally manipulates the legal system to deny justice and compensation for victims of church related abuse and wrong doing.
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11:01 these property trusts in the church are one big scam. It’s a system to ring fence their assets to avoid settling claims.
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*Mr Clarke – he’s retired as a judge so he goes back to being styled as a Senior Counsel (SC)
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Such a measure should be approached with great caution. Judges (and SCs) are well paid political appointees or people benefit from state spending, people who always support measures that increase taxation on others. If such a measure passed members of the business community or professionals farmers would find the efforts of their hard work grabbed (or they would try) to feed the insatiable appetite of the HSE (if not the worst health service, certainly the most inefficient in Europe) and the rest of the state which presently concerns itself with housing and feeding foreign nationals while the homeless Irish shiver in the streets.
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Frank is very focussed and committed to this long awaited positive development that will enable and finally empower victims, survivors and families.
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What a disappointing menu
Click to access autumn-lunch-menu-inhouse-sept-2022-(4)-2-1667909718.pdf
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I’m sure someone struggling with high energy costs or a homeless person would be very grateful for a free meal from this menu, Father.
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I wouldn’t say no to some pulled pork.
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What! at 6:04am, you must have the constitution of an Ox, Father!
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One reviewer, Wayne, on Tripadvisor describes the restaurant service. “This is where it all went wrong. I could not have done or put up with, what the staff had to. There was no direction from management. Beer had run out. The staff were running round in circles with a look of fear on their faces. Orders were taking ages to process, wrong orders being given to other tables. No wonder some of the staff were looking to leave the following week. I asked for a bowl of chips with a bun. What I got was 30 cold chips served in a tin cup, and was charged £4. No bun either. We did express our disappointment to a server called Amanda (I believe), she couldn’t do anymore for us.”
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Another reviewer, Gnomio, sounds more promising for attendees tomorrow: “What will be cock up be this week?”
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Hey, it’s a Mercure, just one up from Ibis Budget, and the Carter and Fitch is just one notch up on a Happy Eater. Classy ! I don’t think the clergy of D & C would be happy with the location and facilities.
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8:52am the British clergy are far less spoiled than the clergy in Ireland who enjoy a much higher standard of living than their counterparts across the Irish Sea.
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What on earth is Pollo Kyiv? why would you mix Italian and Ukrainian? Kurka Kyiv is correct. Although I am still using its official name and the name it was known for centuries – The Kiev. It would be like the Welsh or Scottish mandating the use of Cymru or Alba.
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Detective Chief Inspector Vera Stanhope needs to look into this. The dean’s death with a drag queen would make a great episode.
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She’d certainly be onto Bunter. I can see her shire blue landrover pulling up outside his hideaway now.
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Hope some of the clergy present feedback to Boshop Pat and we get the inside track kinda like being a fly on the wall.
I personally wouldn’t trust McMahon as far as I could throw him – Byrne was a bull in China shop so I’d McMahon.
Let’s see if the clergy let rip and let the dirty washing hang out.
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They should do it as a group. The offer of one to one meeting should be avoided if at all possible as it is usually used to single out the so called trouble makers.
It’s a divide and conquer method well tried and tested by organisations with the front that we want to listen to your grievances but we’re more interested in rooting out dissenters.
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The Roman Catholic Church reminds the world every day through its actions that it has no remorse or intention to deliver truth and justice to abuse victims.
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Who would have thought that little Bobby Byrne was a Bull in a China shop. A wicked inveterate gossip, afraid of hard work and lazy needing lots of sleep for sure but a man who ideally would stab you in the back and a screaming homosexual- what his orientation is a surprise – I’d say virtually a requirement to be a bishop these days.
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5:27 to describe Bishops and their cohorts as gossips trivialises the consequences on victims and survivors of their premeditated and malicious intent to destroy legitimate complainants including children and vulnerable persons. They are a dangerous criminal entity headed up by Fraudulent Frankie in the Vatican City in close proximity to the gay priest saunas and bars. It all represents a cynical mockery of God whom they use as a front to bring in the money from the sheep. Obtaining money by deception.
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Bill Kenney was a Bull in a China Shop – what is it about Birmingham and rubbish auxiliaries.
A dangerous diocese – lots of bishops with Brum connections:
Byrne
Stock
Conry
Oakley
Egan
Hollis
Kevin Dunn former H&N bishop – his girlfriend went with him and was his housekeeper. Poor man didn’t last long and died in office. Very unsettling for H&N clergy.
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I don’t think Hollis or Egan have Brum connections. The rest, yes. But, by and large, they all have feet of clay and have things about them that hobble them. Looking more widely, there really don’t appear to be any outstanding bishops in E&W who make you think quality. Men in their 50s and 60s who should be the next leaders are very uninspiring. Look a generation or two further back, those who you would expect to be leaders in 20 years’ time, and the situation is even worse. In part because of the vocations crisis which isn’t just a crisis of numbers but also a crisis of quality, Young men for decades have opted with their feet not to offer themselves for ordination, and those who have are of dubious quality with antiquarian predilections. I don’t see anybody who is going to inspire and lead where the Church needs to go.
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9.31 Hollis was an Auxiliary of Birmingham. Egan taught at Oscott
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Not forgetting McKinney in Nottingham. He’s pretty dire.
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Kevin McDonald could be added to that list although he took early retirement. I am surprised they never made the Phantom an auxiliary way back after doing a good job at St Chef’s cathedral.
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Your description of Byrne is a perfect description of PHILP EGAN. EGAN’S contempt for the clergy is played out through the Chief Operating Officer. It’s just a matter of time before the wheels come off in PORTSMOUTH. We’ve had enough.
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He is too late, that meeting ought to have occurred as a matter of urgency immediately after the circumstances of resignation were known. The priests clearly are not a priority.
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They live conflicted lives ranging from being sexually to financially conflicted in their daily operations.
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Here, Here ! Well said that young man. Every day in every parish by every priest there is dodgy dealing of one kind or another going on. It’s built in to the system. As well as in every Bishop’s /Archbishop’s house. Dodgy to the core.
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12.44: Ever day on this blog little weasel liars and plonkers like you surface. Your lying is typical of those who practice nastyism on this blog. Heartless thugs, you lot are!!
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Let’s hope that the priests of H&N turn up and have the balls to tell it as it is / was. So many of them will be still playing the game of calculating the advantage and disadvantage to them from McMahon and incoming administration, such is the personalised, feudal, medieval nature of the relationship between priests, bishop and diocese. Put a foot wrong, say the wrong thing, and the consequences can be significant for you, with no means of redress. So, I doubt if McMahon will get the whole truth. He will get a sifted version, and significant elements will be unsaid in an attempt to protect arses. I’m sure there will be some sort of idiotic canonical threat about excommunication or something like that if anything is revealed about what is said, but I encourage clergy who are there to leak liberally so that McMahon and co know that they can’t keep this all tidy and close and do what the do best – cover up !
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8:58 it’s yet another cynical cover up exercise to protect the church interests, nothing more and nothing less.
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You could be right !
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@ 9:12am
You’re too cynical Cynthia no matter what happens it will never be enough for the likes of you.
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9:12 exactly, same old, same old.
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Yes leak liberally that’s how the truth gets out and don’t be fooled by McMahon he’s a Bull in a China Shop too and think of him ordaining Matthew Jolly and prancing around Liverpool wearing the Cappa Magna.
He’s compliant now (responding to Bishop Pat) but that’s because the spotlight is on him.
He’s exhortation to do the right thing regardless of the consequences was pathetic – as if he’s got principles or does the right thing.
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Yes, there never really was any accounting as to why Matthew Jolly was not sussed at Oscott or why McMahon ordained him. Strange. I’m sure a forensic investigation would show that there were signs of trouble with Jolly in his years at Oscott. Somebody will have suspected something. Otherwise, what are they supposed to be doing ? I guess Jolly is out of prison now. Wonder what is happening to him ?
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But, by and large, they all have feet of clay and have things about them that hobble them. Looking more widely, there really don’t appear to be any outstanding bishops in E&W who make you think quality. Men in their 50s and 60s who should be the next leaders are very uninspiring. Look a generation or two further back, those who you would expect to be leaders in 20 years’ time, and the situation is even worse. In part because of the vocations crisis which isn’t just a crisis of numbers but also a crisis of quality, Young men for decades have opted with their feet not to offer themselves for ordination, and those who have are of dubious quality with antiquarian predilections. I don’t see anybody who is going to inspire and lead where the Church needs to go.
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Love the idea of the word going out about leaks on threat of excommunication (so funny) and a flurry of leaks filling us all in – such fun.
I remember Stock was paranoid about leaks when he was Gen Sec – he described the leak as a mole – like a he was a government minister FFS. He vowed to find him or her or they but never did – he wouldn’t know how – deliciously the leaks kept coming and the mole went on her merry way. So sweet.
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McMahon might try to whack a mole.
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McMahon’s true colours were rumbled long ago, an assault charge will be the icing on the cake.
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I doubt if there is anything worth leaking that people would be the remotely interested in from the CBCEW. The Gen Sec who is there at the moment, Chris Thomas, is the biggest gossip out. Loves a chin wag with his clergy mates, who hang around tongues out for the slightest bit of titillating news. Poor souls. + Elsie rules the roost in the conference with her biting vicious tongue, and gets her way. It’s all a bit of a nonsense really, mediocre people in a tatty building thinking that they are so important and relevant. Mind you they get to live in London, and that has its advantages ! Better than being stuck in some provincial diocese with little to do.
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Chris Thomas is as wide as he is tall. Realy auld gossip.
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10.27
If Holy Mother Church, in her wisdom, saw fit to elevate him with the title of Canon, it behoves you to acknowledge that.
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Bp Pat, will you subsequently publish the minutes of the meeting? I wonder.
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If I get them
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I think you will be getting something quite detailed, + Pat. I’m sure there will be clergy there who understand that your blog at least is transparent and clear and is a way of getting the detail out unadorned. Anything that comes from McMahon will be heavily sanitised and redacted.
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9.42: Pat, you are a troubling, menacing, malicious interferer in affairs of another Church, one you left because you couldn’t get your selfish ways. Stay out of other people’s business, you shoddy piece.
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Pat at 9.42: Pat, it would be preferable to go and find the GOSPELS and pray them. Find CHRIST.
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12:13 you don’t practice what you preach, Fr & Co.
That’s why you feature on this blog.
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Why Eusibus? Have you and your lot lost them? Certainly sounds like 👍
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Well McMahon is right – H&N clergy do the right thing regardless of the consequences- contact Bishop Pat with the minutes and share the love, don’t hide it under a bushel – the truth will out.
What was Little Byrne really up to?
What havoc did he unleash?
My theory: he was promoted beyond his level of competence and his sexual orientation and proclivities overwhelmed him – he was like a toddler let loose on the sweetie jar.
But the clergy in Birmingham and H&N knew this – they only speak up when it hits the fan – and my o my has it hit the fan now.
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3.01: Your comment is silly. You have difficulty understanding English, I notice! Reread my comment again. I have the GOSPELS close to my heart….
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Eusebius. I see that recently Japanese schoolchildren complain about having to carry heavy schoolbooks.
Shure that bible thingy is a mighty and weighty tome, so just be careful now not to put too much strain carrying it around “close to your heart.”
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10.17am
Chris Thomas is an interesting one – chubby little bottom – not Elsie’s taste as he prefers his men lean and keen – but Billy Bunter Thomas has a PhD oh how Elsie lives a PhD!
Ah yes well they are all inveterate gossips aren’t they – lovely that the Gen Sec is one ha ha ha so funny – nothing sacred.
Mind you so is Elsie – his ears prick right up when tittle tattle comes his way.
Den of thieves and vipers.
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He’d have to pay, surely.
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10:36 the Devil makes work for idle hands of over privileged clergy and their cohorts with their top of the range homes and vehicles, several vacations per annum and cash tips. No wonder they turn into snakes and vipers when anyone mentions all those inconvenient truths about child sexual abuse and financial corruption.
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Fr. Tom Deenihan’s diocesan office is a den of deception. Why do Fr. Declan Hurley, Fr. Joe Gallagher and Fr. Paul Connell continue to support this episcopal charlatan?
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4.13:::😈😈😈😈😈: You’re a feckin howl Seamie boyo. YOU ARE obsessed with Bishop Deenihan. Go see a psychiatrist. You obviously have a vested interest in Dom Benedict. But – have you gone out to see him, have you invited him for a holiday? Are you in regular contact with him? Do pray tell us the truth…Otherwise, shut up! Find a new cause.
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Seamus at 4.13: if you are a Meath priest, do you shout as much at meetings as you do on this blog? I bet your courage is in your knickers.
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7:03 and 7:05, why do you turn a blind eye to Fr. Tom Deenihan’s morally reprehensible mistreatment of Dom Benedict Andersen, the true Prior of Silverstream? Do indeed pray tell us the truth!
Pax.
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7:03 & 7:05
Why is your ‘knickers in such a twist’ over Seamus calling out Deenihans injustice ? Very curious! Less of the vulgar abusive language and gaslightliing, please. Are you a friend of Deenihans- your regular overreacting posts are a give away. I wonder if Dom Andersen has grounds to take legal action in a civil court?
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McMahoon is a clumsy Bafoon – he will be off when he’s 75 no mistake.
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10.26
Oh do tell!!
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Hi had not realised the Norbertines had abandoned Chelmsford for The old OFM friary at Peckham. The Quare young abbot has lost a ton of weight. They also left Storiington and Corpus Christi Basilica Manchester, now a curry house.
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Its a grand curry house even tho its vindaloo would rip the arse of ya. like many a Norbertine would too
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Pat how the hell can Putin get away with supplying the missile to Iran that downed a civilian flight over Ukraine going to Canada. This is unacceptable. Fr Andrei Shevchenko was on the flight, returning to ministry in Winnipeg. RIP Fr Andrei
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Well Hitler got away with the holocaust
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The cowardly uniball committed suicide, sums his up in a nut shell.
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The ongoing failure of the Roman Catholic Church to support victims and survivors has been unacceptable for decades.
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It is good that the H&N clergy are being called together, not least to push them out of their sense of self-satisfaction and to confront them, hopefully, with the brutal truth of what has been happening in their midst, amongst their number, and quietly allowed to happen by their quiescence. Many of them will know what rottenness takes place amongst their clerical ranks, who the individuals are, what is going on. How many of them have done something about it ? How many have spoken out ? It has taken this headline issue of Bobby Byrne to bring it to the fore. Now they cannot ignore it or deny it any longer. So, maybe accepting the reality and the truth, seeing what has gone wrong and why and by whom, they can then start to ask the serious questions about how they can rebuild the diocese and the Church. And don’t for a moment, Fathers, believe that you can go back to more of the same. Please !
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Byrne was a self-satisfying bully in his role during his stay in Newcastle I met the man several times and the Canon himself stated several times that he wasn’t happy in his own role reporting to him and look what happened to him?
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Completely agree with your lstatement and hope the few priests with integrity in H&N will report here on what is said . There are so many in H&N who are Yes men or have many skeletons in their own cupboards that they are terrified of what will be revealed about them . H&N has very few true men of God and sadly plenty who think they are God.
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What needs to be assessed is a survey similar to, the U.S in 2021 survey of American Catholic priests, by The Catholic Project, a research group at The Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C.
1036 Roman Catholic Priests submitted their results, anonymously, which showed low moral, a deep-seated distrust in their Bishops, burnout, and a fear of being falsely accused of sexual abuse.
How interesting to find the results of such a survey from Roman Catholic priests in the U.K & Ireland, I bet the result and, findings would be the same.
I’m not sure how this survey will help be used in the future.
1)
Introducing the 2021 Survey of American Catholic Priestshttps://papers.ssrn.com › sol3 › papers
by B Vermurlen · 2021
2)
Major survey of Catholic priests finds trust issues, burnout, fear …https://www.catholicnewsagency.com › news › major-s…
19 Oct 2022
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Will McMahon retire to a Dominican priory?
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1:55 McMahon and the entire RCC worldwide are taking victims and survivors for suckers as they laugh all the way to the sauna and the bank.
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Dumbbella gave us more of her uninformed meanderings yesterday when she claimed G. Pell wasn’t a TLM devotee. The TLM so-called Fota Liturgical Conference near Cobh, Co. Cork, Ireland was frequently patronised by GP, (in every sense).
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Anon at 2pm
Interesting re GP and fota liturgical conference which I didn’t know it.
Any chance of Mother Burke attending liturgical conference 2023 this year with all his finery cappa magna *wink*😉, just kidding 🤣.
Frankie the peronist re rumours going around that he is issuing a further clampdown on TLM sometime around Easter.
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@ 3:15pm
I do hope His Eminence Cardinal Burke does attend the conference and wears that magnificent vestment the Cappa Magna just for you. It wont matter what oul Fanny does nobody’s listening to that oul melt. Now don’t get to stressed if you see the Cappa, just take another of your famous sabbaticals.😏
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3:15, Mother B almost always attends, with her ICKSP gals, and puts on a show to shame RuPaul herself.
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The usual social media panic cycle grifters claim Pope Francis will issue some sort of restriction, but wait and see. PF’s health makes that a bit unlikely.
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@ 2:00pm
Do tell Dumbnetty where you gleaned that bit of gossip probably trawling through google as you usually do. If he was a TLM devotee I’m delighted to hear it and he has gone even higher in my estimation, Lord rest him.
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Anon at 4.57pm and 5.07pm,
LOL 👀, 👍.
Symmachus at 6.04pm
Rumours going around in some sites especially Trad ones. It remains to be seen unless proven otherwise.
Link here : Robert moynihan site
https://insidethevatican.com/news/newsflash/letter-23-2023-wed-jan-18-no-secrets/
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How many bishops out there similar to Byrne who have no moral compass whatsoever 🤷♀️
What jumped out at me re Byrne, no common sense, no sense of morality, his disdain, his cockiness et al.
Thought of one word which amplified it was his total sheer reckless, speeding headlong into lmdisasters during his reign.
I’m not in a position to judge him cos I don’t have all the facts herein except for this blog.
Thought he should be laciased, given no sense of his morality, no compunction, free for all, is that Oscutt’s characteristic trait 🤷♀️
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2.00: Deaf Guy: where’s your moral compass with all the lies you tell here every time you appear? You have a gargantuan imagination and quite a fantasy mind.
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Anon at 4.02pm
Are you trying to wind me up🤷♀️.
Friends say I’m big stickler for morality and also truth as WELL. you might ask why?
Its because I spent 15 years in institutions, which taught me lessons re morality such as right and wrong. It was that force that drove me along as I searched for the truth as to what happened to me personally. It was rcc people who were playing loose and fast rules as regards to their morality in my eyes.
For instance, Saw a CBS brother fondling a nurse in back room as I was only a teenager that time. He was then ex principal and also ex superior of Cabra school as well. It really opened my eyes cos they didn’t take Catholic morals/ethics to their heart. Its just they were playing quite loose and fast. They didn’t give a fig about it. That tells us about their moral compass per se. Byrne is one of them based on this blog re stories and comments.
I seek one thing which is the truth and honesty. There was a woman in TV drama series made in Sweden that caught my attention, sister defending her other sister by saying to a doc that celibacy isn’t her thing. At least she was honest as I like that, cos it saves time as you know where she was coming from etc.
But in rcc, honesty isn’t their biggest trait, all they do is cover, cover and COVER UP.
WHY 🤷♀️
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Deaf guy in Ireland not weaning of the blog
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Leave Deaf Guy alone.
You clearly left your moral compass in the Seminary if you ever had one in first place.
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Why was a sum of money in excess of $9 million sent from the Vatican to Australia?
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It was for the feeding of the holy kangaroos of NSW
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2:12 cheap at twice the price, imagine the fallout if the AUS$9,000,000+ hadn’t made its way Down Under.
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5:27 it’s a Mafia using God as a front, that’s what it is Deaf Guy, I’m telling ya. Crooks and criminals international, not long now until that nasty piece alleges anti-clericalism as a futile Defence mechanism in complete contradiction of all available evidence to the contrary.
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With fewer opportunities for delivering actual physical and sexual abuse, clerics and their members now engage in physical and online stalking, trolling, libelling and slandering victims, survivors, whistleblowers and their families.
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Is God gender neutral?
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Pat, would you blog about the huge sum of money that was sent to Australia from the Vatican? Was the money, or some if it, for Cardinal Pell’s legal fees?
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3.43
It is alleged that the money went to Australia to ensure Pell was convicted.
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2.57: This is a most ludicrous statement. Can you validate your assertions beyond it being a typical troll anti clerical comment? Provide evidence. I bet you can’t!!
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Becciu was involved in that, if it was real. Some claimed it (€700,000) was to support to the effort to prosecute Pell as his efforts to clean up Vatican finances made him enemies. Actual proof of this hasn’t appeared beyond Italian media claims.
https://www.dw.com/en/australia-police-probe-alleged-becciu-bribe-in-pell-trial/a-55344435#:~:text=The%20investigation%20was%20announced%20after,evidence%20to%20back%20their%20claims.
Perhaps after or during the Becciu trial, some details might come to light, altho it might be on the level of trying to prove a negative. Yet there is a certain level of plausibility to Becciu sending money where he shouldn’t have done.
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4pm Paranoid Padre Alert!
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Eternal rest grant unto Fr Nevin, O Lord, and let Your perpetual light shine upon him.
Our sympathy to Very Reverend Father Gerard Deighan & the Community at the Dublin Oratory in Formation, Saint Kevin’s, Harrington Street;
to his fellow priests of the Archdiocese of Dublin;
and, to the Benedictines of Fontgombault.
We thank God for his life as a Priest, and for Offering the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass in Latin,
for his great fidelity to the Latin Mass, for his learned & scholarly intelligence, for his wonderful kindnesses & splendid hospitality at his gracious ‘piano nobile’ apartments in the Presbytery, Harrington St, for his enriching & wonderfully uplifting conversation – we are most grateful.
In paradísum deducant te Angeli: in tuo adventu suscipiant te Mártyres, et perducant te in civitátem sanctam Jerúsalem.
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Any priest may preside at the Eucharist in any language, including Latin. Rev Nevin said the Tridentine Mass.
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7.13. Could you name one priest in Ireland who does so publically?
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Agatha, the Pro-cathedral in Dublin has a Mass in Latin as its main Sunday Mass.
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I hope that safeguarding is also in the line of fire in the investigation as they were incompetent in the whole debacle from day 1 and tried to shift blame by leaking stories to the press and bending the truth when dealing with victims and their families whilst claiming to be victims of the Church themselves!!!! You couldn’t make it up.
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Fact is indeed stranger than fiction in the RCC.
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8:05 No, you could not make it up.
But sadly it’s all there in black and white and more much more on the way.
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H&N safeguarding department definitely needs investigating not just through Bishop Byrne’s reign but going back many years. It showed compassion to no one, gave no pastoral care and was out to destroy any priest once a whiff of an issue was heard. It acted rashly and unfairly.
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It shows in the tattered reputation of H&N safeguarding department and the hasty retreat of its members of staff the whole setup a house of cards once under scrutiny.
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The problems in H&N were NOT the fault of its safeguarding department.
Byrne worked against them.
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H&N safeguarding described themselves as a toothless tiger holding people to account but accepting no responsibility for their own actions I believe the investigation into Byrne will run its course Fr McCoy nearly 2 years dead is guilty of offering the Cathedral cleaners a glass of wine during Covid the crime of the century and akin to a gay sex party 🤷🏼♂️ there’s some very very bitter people commenting on this whole affair and as Micky is 6 feet under any indiscretions he made during life are irrelevant to him anymore the individuals needing to feed off the whole sorry saga I offer my prayers for
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Protect us from all evil.
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Parasites and their clerical cohorts with notions on their well deserved road to perdition.
We pray for all victims and survivors of church related abuse and cover ups.
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Pat safeguarding are culpable here they allow priests to take up posts in all Dioceses with documented instances of misappropriation whether thats physical,sexual or financial.In any institution it doesn’t have to be a criminal act to disbar you from any held position especially in a teaching or clerical enviroment when there is documentation to support unsuitability that is the right thing to do.It seems that this wasn’t done in H&N so safeguarding do bear a burden of blame,if Byrne obstructed them then they have avenues to report it.Its clear to everyone that you have received confidential information from them but given the purpose of your blog exposing corruption then impartiality is a necessity ?
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