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FR AIDAN MC CANN – ANOTHER PERSPECTIVE FROM HIS NATIVE COOKSTOWN?

People close to Aidan McCann’s family and friends in his native Cookstown are suggesting a different perspective to the shopping centre incident.

They are saying that the incident in question took place in unisex changing rooms in the shopping centre ???

According to this scenario, Aidan, dressed in clericals, went in to buy a new pair of trousers and was trying them on when a lady pulled back the cubicle curtain and caught Aidan in between trousers ?

This version of events suggests that the lady, and not Aidan, was the person wielding the camera ?

There is also a suggestion that the many mirrors in the changing area back up this second story ?

A MAYNOOTH SEMINARIAN PERSPECTIVE

“Given the most recent crisis to hit the Armagh diocese with the Aidan McCann saga, I think if you had the time and the connections, there is a common denominator.

McCann, Ciaran O’Connell (former Dub student, Oratorian now, whatever they are), Martin McFadden (ex Raphoe student) to name but a few, have all been friends with a then student, now priest, Brendan Kealy, Dublin diocese.

BRENDAN KEALY

He only ever associates with younger men, much younger. He must be easily 60 at this stage, and yet the only students he hung around with in Maynooth were young philosophy students. We wouldn’t mix with the older, more mature theology students. In a similar pattern, he does not mix with any or many of the priests of the Dublin diocese.

The above named are still part of his circle of friends. They live very high flying lives, food and drink wise.

274 replies on “FR AIDAN MC CANN – ANOTHER PERSPECTIVE FROM HIS NATIVE COOKSTOWN?”

If this is true, how on earth did it end up in court. Surely it could have been clarified at the scene when the police arrived. Why has this been going in and out of court for almost one year now. Something is rotten in the state of cooks town. Fr McCann should do the taxpayer a favour and purchase his kegs online next time they wear out.

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Precisely. The police are not such idiots, neither the prosecutors. If there was simply no likelihood of this being rooted in reality they would not have gone forward with charging and prosecution. The very fact that they did suggests there was credible evidence that some malfeasance took place. I’ll go with that rather than some counterfactual account by affiliated family and friends, and it suggests to me that something happened that was worthy of investigation, charge and prosecution. The fact that it didn’t end up in conviction is probably down to what was presented in court not reaching the very high threshold for conviction that is required in our courts. I think Fr McCann was up to some silliness that day, and he does still have some questions to answer about his behaviour, persuasions, predilections etc. That role now falls to + Amy as he does a Church investigation. I have no doubt it will get buried and Fr McCann will reappear at some stage, because it’s just easier that way. And priests help out their priest friends, don’t they, as we already know ?!

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That woman from changing was well incentivised to allow McCanns rich possey to get their own way in court. Another well funded propaganda exercise and another timely reminder that there is no justice for victims of priests and their cohorts.

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All police are idiots. Anyone with any intelligence becomes a Lawyer. Those who can’t become police.

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You are so so wrong. My grandfather worked as a builder and wore overalls. He went into a shop to buy cigarettes. He opened his overalls to get hi money. The lady behind the counter called the RUC, he was charged. I kid you not, he never got over it, put on the sex offenders register. He died of cancer 2 years later, rarely left the house. It is entirely possible.

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8:53 Archbishop Martin will do the right thing and Fr McCann can go his own way as a free man. It’s best for all concerned and the only sensible solution in the circumstances. Bishops are making things much worse by covering up for these disrespect, abusive priest types.

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@ 10:05am
There is certainly no justice for priests either, not with people like you about. That bitch who made the allegation should be charged with wasting Police time and made to pay compensation to her victim.

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No, I don’t think that would be fair.
The poor woman showed not inconsiderable courage in making her accusation against this priest. She should be congratulated on being a model for women sexually abused by men like him. She certainly has my admiration. Well done!

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10:36 don’t stress yourself out Father.
You should be pleased with the result.
You always get by with much more than a little help from your friends.

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You have to laugh at all these arm chair would-be detectives and judges reaching their own conclusions.

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I’m not laughing, 10.55. There is such a thing as the court of public opinion, and I’m afraid that it has judged Mr McCann and found him guilty as charged.

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Stand with Victims & Survivors of financial & sexual abuse from clergy and their members.says:

10:36am
Priests are protected by the wealthiest organisation in the world.
Take your pity party elsewhere Padres & Co.

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10:36 Ah, now, don’t be like that, all you need is a little patience and it all comes right in the end. Go away nie and have a nice Sunday pint for yer self.

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10:36 it’s the church that paid her off and perverted the course of justice once again that should be charged with wasting police time.

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Fr Aidan McCann is yet another protected deviant priest. His Superiors know this, it’ll do for their day. The likes of McCann will keep the show on the road for another while. The more money you give to the RCC the longer it will survive. The choice is yours.

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Ohh you really are disgruntled 1.30pm. Don’t you like what you hear? Put your purse away, your money isn’t needed.

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Pat, I was with the Redemptorists, firstly in Galway and then in Dublin. There were persistent incidences of voyeurism on the corridors, picking locks of bedrooms, stealing of jocks in the laundry area, grooming and inappropriate relationships with senior students and ordained priests. I was targeted by messed up priests who were on sabbatical attending the pastoral centre. Two of these men received sentences in the US for sexual abuse. “Particular friendships” were discouraged but “academic” friendships went unnoticed. Kimmage Manor (theology) was a cesspit, to be continued

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Some of the students in Galway were known for cruising areas around Renmore and Dominic Street. When we transferred to Dublin, the cruising carried on in Harolds Cross, and saunas such as The Horse and Carriage, the Gym, and the tennis club in Rathgar. The “biblical bitches” who congregated in Kimmage Manor were loose canons. A love for biblical text and gay sex.

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Did you know the Redemptorist student from Enniskillen who was in Galway around 1986/87? I think the surname is Murphy. Used to spend a lot of time with Mgr Sean Cahill in the Parochial House in Enniskillen. His excuse/explanation for being there constantly was that he was putting Sean’s Furrow collection in date order. That job seemed to take months, lol.

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I remember one redemptorist queen in Galway who used to dress as a woman, and another student giving a blowjob in Monroe’s pub in Galway. Saturday afternoons were always good fun playing football in Cluain Mhuire.

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What about the academic who hangs out with young guys? Apparently, nothing sexual. He likes hanging out with younger guys. Fatherly crisis, paternal instincts or predatory bias!

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Some didn’t have to go far to cruise! I remember one of the guys was big into the renmore rentboy!!

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Hey mate, this is common in seminaries, monasteries and novitiates. Nothing to report here mate. Move on!

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The Redemptorist that joined Galway Diocese is a case in point. He is protected by a wealthy cabal. His behaviour is a mirror of what went for formation with the Redemptorists. He is a deviant who hides behind a cloak of faux piety.

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Bishop Pat, please say a prayer for me. I am 52 and have just sent off my blood sample for HIV testing. I’ve been sexually active for many years and have had numerous partners – and it’s been a constant worry as to whether I may have the virus, but I have never dared to be tested. I have been sexually active since seminary, and the thought of being diagnosed with HIV and the stigma has prevented me from doing the right thing.

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@1141 – get the HIV test. You can even get one that is sent to your home, you do yourself, and get the result in 10 minutes. Boots and various chemists do them online. Simple. But, you will feel so much better once you know. I think the fact that you have been sexually active for a long period, and yet outwardly have kept well, suggests you will be okay. If not then you have ways forward for very effective treatment. Most importantly, it will give you certainty either way and you can move on in your life without fear.

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Yes, I ordered a free testing kit which needs to be sent back for analysis. If I am negative, they will text me; if reactive, they call me. It took ages to get the blood from my fingertip. I just need to go and post it today, and that causes me some anxiety.

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Scottish priests and seminarians who are… well, let’s just say, “at it” can get it for free from their GP in complete confidence.

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I tested positive before Xmas and now that I’ve educated myself I no longer fear the virus. I am already undetectable.

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9:43 undetectable
You’re in good company Father
And even when ye are detected, your friends in high places sort it all out for ye.

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11.41
You delayed testing (For how long? Years?) just because you were afraid of having the HIV virus and the associated social stigma? Were you still having sex during this time? If you were, and had that virus, you may have infected your partners. If so, THAT was hardly the “right thing”, was it?

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10:10 don’t be silly

Since when were priests and their types concerned about the health and well being of others.

Might one remind you that these types and without exception are expert abusers, facilitators and enablers.

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They were all anonymous one-off encounters where they never asked, and neither did I. Very few involved anal sex. I’ve been well, apart from a few episodes of bronchitis, but I used to get that before I became sexually active.

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10.38
You are being evasive. You feared that you MIGHT be infected, and, yet, you remained sexually active, in the full knowledge that you could infect any one of your numerous partners.
That you say none of them asked about your HIV status is neither here nor there. You believed that you might be infected; you knew, therefore, that you could infect them in return. All of which means that you ought to have told them your concerns. You behaved recklessly and selfishly

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10:38 The anonymous world of a Roman Catholic Priest and their cohorts & complicit enablers is indeed a most vile location.

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10.55 idiots like you with their judgemental attitudes and talk of recklessness and culpability put people off from getting tested. He didn’t say he could be positive anymore than he didn’t say he could be negative. The fact that he is getting tested should be welcomed.

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11.35
I cannot believe your defence of this man’s playing Russian roulette with other people’s health, unless, of course, you’ve done the same.
Judgemental? What else did you expect? If this man tests positive, there is a good chance that, through his reckless selfishness, he may have infected his ‘numerous’ partners, who, in turn, may have infected others, including wives and mothers.
Yes, I do welcome his getting tested, even though he is doing so from self-concern rather than concern for anyone else. But I would have welcomed more strongly his getting tested when his concerns about his own health first arose.

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@ 10:51am
I’m not stressed at all Mickey, neither am I a priest. You’re probably the one stressed out because like all the other gobshites on here you didn’t get the verdict you wanted😏

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Very unjust. No one wanted Mr McCann convicted for its own sake. Everyone wanted to see justice done. Alas, it appears that justice was UNDONE in this case.

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So, you’ve bought into this new angle. More fool you.
How come we’ve never heard any of this before? I don’t believe a word of it. In fact, it convinces me that McCann was guilty.

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Barbiconi in Rome has gone for unisex changing rooms now. Nuns trying on their polyester veils and Birkenstock sandals can easily cop an eye of young priests in their Calvin’s slipping into a soutane.

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The secular portion of Aquinism is more exhilarating than the “rationalising” sophistry that ensues from trying to reduce any of God’s sacraments to the scheme. It would be a shame if Father McCann gets spat out by authorities themselves in the forefront of this untenable dichotomy.

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True, but whence the divergence from priestly tradition on canonical probity?
I think you failed to weigh, in the balance of intellectual credulity, both aspects of this argument. Yes, there is room for sophism, and its disavowal, but countering this is the infallibility of Modernism, and its seminal influence on rationality. This is the configuration that you appear to have ignored in your studied estimation.

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Maureens story recounts her meagre possessions being stripped from her, thrown into forced labour, not allowed to speak, barely fed, often going without water, viciously beaten by nuns and hidden by nuns in a tunnel when government inspectors came to the brutal Magdalene laundries and her desperate fight for freedom and justice is told in her book published by Irish Academic Press in April 2023.
Title: Girl in the tunnel.

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Maureen Sullivan - forthcoming book on her personal story of abuse by nuns in Irish Mother & Baby Homes.says:

10:08 I agree, an inspirational and ground breaking woman in the area of highlighting church institutional abuse of women and children.

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Fr “Henry” Ciaran O’Connell, the Grindr priest you exposed Pat, is living with Fr. Brendan Kealy in his presbytery in North William Street.
Ciaran works for the Dublin Archdiocese now.

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Is any abuse
Psychological, emotional, verbal, financial, physical and or sexual control
Using the assumed authority of God
To lend the abuser legitimacy
And disempower their victims.

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Agatha Christie’s brilliant ‘They Do It With Mirrors’ highlights how mirrors can often catch one out. Many stores now such as Primark outlets offer unisex changing rooms. This is to cater for those who identify as non binary, transgender and everyday male/female punters.

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Straight from ‘Henry’s’ linkedin:
People orientated, self-starter with a passion for personal growth and performance. I have spent most of my adult life, to date, in active ministry. I am moving into the world of business, and I’m genuinely excited by the prospect of this change. Much of what I learned in my education, practice, and formation as a priest will, I hope, benefit me well in delivering excellence for your organisation and deliver value for your clients.
What a joke.

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After Christ, the priest is everything. We should always excuse priests, they are our link to heaven. Without the priest, there is only damnation.

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I disagree, at 10.45.
I’m with Bishop Robert Barron on this one: there is reasonable hope that Hell is empty of souls.
Anyways, why would God, who loves us, send any soul to Hell? Makes no sense.
Yes, I believe that we are all predestined for Heaven. Hell is redundant.☺

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Extract ‘They live very high flying lives, food and drink wise.’
Parishioners at the pews should be informed of this👆. Cos we are contributing to their high living lifestyles.
Its a question of should they continue contribute their hard earned cash to rcc or not🤷‍♀️.
Cos dioceses have millions in their bank accounts classed as ‘charity’ of course. Also tax free as well. Why did rcc continue to collect cash on weekly basis even though they have millions in their bank accounts. They didn’t tell church goers to stop it, wouldn’t they 🤔
Rcc is ‘organised church’. Just like mafia in organised crime.
I suspect that jesus didn’t plan to set up an organised church. Organised church implies set of rules and procedures, finances as well dictating from top down. I’m not sure if that was that jesus intention to set rcc as organised church. I think he was laying down principles for Christian living, ten commandments et al as opposed to setting a new religion.

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9:42 stop repeatedly targeting Deaf Guy, Fathers & Co. Your types just cannot resist abusing vulnerable persons in any context.

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Anon at 9.42pm

First off, I don’t live in Northern Ireland.

Secondly I know nothing at all whatsoever.

Thirdly, I found out the death via this blog. Nothing more or less.

PSNI are better re their treatment of persons with disabilities than the gardai themselves in my view. I only met PSNI(ruc back then) just once during the troubles. That view remains up to this day.

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DG or should I say FDS or Francis De Salles. You say “we are contributing.” How come? You stated some time ago that you had stopped giving. You are talking in riddles.

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Tomas at 11.05am
DG also used other names in other blogs. He talks in riddles. He keeps telling us he is on sabbatical. We wish!!!
I used to think he was a vulnerable individual with a hearing disability. Not anymore. He keeps contradicting himself on different posts.

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11:28. I still don’t understand your beef with DG?
What is it exactly about what he says that piques you so much?

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Anon at 10.04am
I should say or don’t have an edit function here, it should be said, the parishioners are STILL contributing to rcc Sunday cash collection. Just to clarifyit, that’s all.
The reason I’m not contributing was and is that that contribution will go to rcc /diocese coffers that will support priests high living and double lifestyles. It’s called ‘ACCESSORY TO SIN’.
Ever hear of an accessory to crimes mentioned in courts. Same thing applies here re accessory to sin such as rcc crimes, paying rent boys, buying a house to be used to hide priests sexual lifestyles, paying their legal fees and supported morally bankrupt bishops or priests or those of influence and power as well. That Sunday is NOT intended for that, thus its OPEN TO misuse of financial monies.
My question to you, does any of your parishioners know all of these mentioned above nor read this blog.
By the way, on a different tack or topic, that Armagh seminarian who had sex with deceased fr Lomansey, can I ask you a question, is he STILL a seminarian in diocese of Armagh or already ordained as a priest?
Cos my interest was that deceased was a drinking buddies with my brother, both were alcoholics as the locals sort of knew it.

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7:46 The so called fools in the pews are no fools
Check them out, the majority have family working in organisations connected to the church or have businesses that gain favour for contracts etc.
They are Freemasons with the Irish Bishops at the helm.

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Anon at 10.12pm

A lot of them at the pews are elderly. They were malleable and also gullible as well. They could be brainwashed easily cos of their fragile or delicate nature of health.

Rcc is targeting these cohort of elderly people cos of their wills – assets or property or cash. One golden rule I would envisage is to ban priests visiting them in their houses ALONE. Cos they could be brainwashed and amend their wills in favour of that visitor priest et all. It was quite common back then, I sort of suspect re Fr Molloy case as well but no proof.

I have seen it as a young tot when rich parents came to visit school for deaf boys. Nuns in particular were targeting them especially 💰💰, which isn’t surprising nowadays. But they were astute back then even they were nuns in wealth of asset rich though.

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https://bishoppatbuckley.blog/2020/09/03/catholic-priest-says-he-was-silenced-by-the-church-for-apeaking-out-on-abuse/
https://bishoppatbuckley.blog/2019/03/01/polish-nun-silenced-for-speaking-out-on-nun-abuse/
DG 7:46, why are there people in some quarters who want people silenced? Some people are asking Pat to silence me because Fr. Tom Deenihan continues his persecution of Dom Benedict Andersen, the true Prior of Silverstream. Why do these people not concern themselves with the matter that Fr. Tom Deenihan must stop this immoral persecution?

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Nobody is asking Pat to silence you. We asked YOU to directly contact Tom Deenihan. Have you done that?

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Get a grip and contact bishop deenihan and dom Benedict directly yourself. Bishop deenihan is the one being persecuted (nagged) every day on this blog by YOU. Go and have a lie down, put the lights out and keep taking the tablets. You are obsessed with this.

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11:02 it’s all about the money Seamus, exposure of the truth alerts more members of the public who close their wallets and walk away in disgust. First they try to silence one, then they slander them and discredit them and their families and friends, access their personal data, infiltrate their networks, it’s not called the Mafia for no reason.

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12:37 and 2:02, there are people reading this blog today who are in the possession of scandalous information that will smoke Fr. Tom Deenihan out of his episcopal office. These people need to find that small bit of courage to bring this information forward to Pat.
They can discreetly email Pat: bishopbuckley1@outlook.com
Fr. Tom Deenihan will be sent back to Cork with his tail between his legs, faster than he can say: “I should have listened and responded to Bishop Pat”!

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Seamus at 11.02

Its rcc MO who wanted to silence people. Yes especially you cos incessant pleas re TD whose descipable treatment on DBA told the picture of who TD might be like.

Remember ‘peep corner’ in NYC diocese.

Its quite a nasty piece of work done by TD. It’s also shocking to see the lengths that rcc via td will go far to cover themselves by deflection or diverting the blame back to DBA.

I couldn’t understand why DBA didn’t bring his legal action to correct his name 🤷‍♀️.

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“In September 2020, a spokesman for the Irish bishops’ conference told the National Catholic Reporter that sexual misconduct allegations were made against Kirby, but they did not pertain to the visitation, and were made by a monk no longer in residence at the monastery.
Andersen was that monk, and his allegations did prompt the monastery visitation, correspondence from Deenihan confirmed. Further, Andersen was no longer in residence at the monastery because, while still a member of the monastery, he was not yet permitted to return. His departure was not a singularly voluntary decision, Andersen insisted — he hadn’t asked to be forced out, he said.”
This is very revealing DG. Dom Benedict was forced out of Silverstream. Deenihan’s den of deception were then trying to minimise the scandalous sexual misconduct allegations because Andersen was no longer in residence.
Not all is rosy in Deenihan’s garden of deception. When the leaks start to appear, the dam will burst.
Everyone who does evil hates the light, and will not come into the light for fear that their deeds will be exposed.

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5:31
It’s not surprising the Irish Catholic Church is in terminal decline.
Some of these mitred thickos will never learn. Dom Benedict ought to sue the mitre off Deenihan, the Meath diocese and the Irish Catholic Church.
Are the bishops conference colluding with this shameful farce?

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@ 11:03am

Ah! ya poor soul, if hell is empty of souls, it wouldn’t be there. Hope you don’t find you’re wrong, which you are. If Barron is spreading that message he should be dismissed, it is not the teaching of The Church.

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But that’s my point. Hell isn’t there, because God wouldn’t send souls away from him. God loves souls, ergo all souls are in Heaven. See?

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3.23: Seamus you’ve been telling us about the scandalous information for too long. Show us your courage and speak. You’re the greatest shit piece on this blog. Keep huffing and puffing…coward.

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6:41
There’s no need to be abusive in your obsessive huffing and puffing towards Seamus. The Dom Benedict Andersen/Silverstream Priory scandal is a matter of public concern.

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7:46 during Covid priests set up online payment systems, they don’t even care whether the digital sheep turn up at mass anymore as long as they’ve got their dosh! 🤣

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@8:47
The Irish Government did a big shout out for large vacant buildings a few weeks ago to house refugees.
They have not had one definitive offer to date.
Yet government continue to pay energy grants and other grants to the ultra wealthy Roman Catholic Church in Ireland.

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The inconsequentiality of this story is its least troubling aspect. Of course, any preamble that counters the perspective would be parsed beyond agreeable recognition.
I have my own thoughts on this issue and keep my own council. I have never strayed beyond the more morbid tangentals of the perspective and would hope for a conciliatory outcome.
Dominus entendes.

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Silly. That was figurative language, not a real threat.
As I said, God loves us, so he would send no soul to Hell.☺

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4.40
It’s a parable, like the prodigal son or the rich man and Lazarus. Do try to familiarise yourself with important literary genres.

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A man is in a fitting room in a clothes shop and a woman opens what she believes is a vacant cubicle only to discover a man trying clothes on – and the crime is?
Evidence and facts get lost so easily in the early fog of the legal process.

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Twit at 10.14.
That’s the slant McCann’s supporters are taking to rehabilitate him and to villianise the woman.
Default position: If a Catholic priest is accused of a sexual crime, he’s presumed guilty until proved innocent.😊

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11.42
Actually it’s closer to church teaching than you may think. The church has never said that any single identifiable human being is in hell.

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10.21
Your antipathy and prejudice to a particular section of society has unbalanced your judgement. It sickens you that an innocent person has been vindicated because of who that person is. In other words, classic prejudice and bias.

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Can someone nearby go to that shopping centre & photograph the layout & signs that’s if the church haven’t already paid for this to be done to suit their agenda.

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It has been mentioned in court before but not in public until now. Many had concluded it was a female changing room and rushed to judgement.

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Some in the Archdiocese are less than impressed how Abp Eamon has hung Aidan out to dry. I would be very cautious relyng on any bishop to help younger priests in their care because too often they are busy covering their own backs. That’s the sad reality for younger clergy because those of us who are now too long in the tooth have seen successive bishops treat them like crap.

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The teachers, staff, students, parents and local residents disputing The Bishop of Killaloe ignoring the Last Will and Testament of Miss McNamara who stipulated the land be used for the expansion of the school would rightly disagree. Bishop Monahan is being extremely unreasonable to those outside his self interested circles. The school has been experiencing capacity issues for several years now.

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10.29 Shur Bishop Monahan is very thoughtful & caring to all his priests… That’s why he turned a blind eye to Randy Arnie’s shenanigans when he knew full well what was going on. Fintan has your back lads!

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10:29 never short of the price of a chip, batter sausage, and optional fizzy drink. 😉

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How the heck could the ‘many mirrors in the changing area back up the story’ that McCann was the victim here and not the woman? This all sounds like an act of desperation to me to exonerate McCann by making his accuser appear to be the villain. I don’t buy it. Remember we are talking about a roman Catholic priest here, and we know what they are like.

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Mirror, Mirror on the Wall
Who is the Fairest of them all?
It’s a game they play in the Boiler Rooms

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Mirror, Mirror on the Wall
Which is the strongest table of them all?
It’s said for health and safety reasons.

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Such a sad story about the three teenagers who died in the early hours of Saturday morning when the car they were in accidentally went into the water from Galway pier.

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Not sure you’d get a payout for curtain-twitching in the unisex changing room. A Marks and Spencer voucher maybe?

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10.52
Isn’t that a bit of shooting from your hip? A reckless accusation? There is no evidence that Fr McCann’s accuser was seeking compensation, just justice from the court. I fear she didn’t get it, though. Sad, really.

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Call me a silly old fag, but I cannot see the connection between Brendan Kealy and the unisex fitting room incident or how “the many mirrors in the changing area back up this second story”.

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Pat I am very glad you posted this blog entry. It is fair enough and the matter deserves a further look.
If Aidan McCann is innocent, then it should be acknowledged by all on this blog that it is the case. Almost everyone – myself included -has taken the piss out of him and the fact is he was acquitted. We can all moan about the RCC etc all we want but if this blog and all of us have been wrong then it needs to be stated clearly in the interests of fairness.
I dont know the ins and outs -does anyone on here have actual details of the case? I also find it very surprising that the DPP would have gone ahead with a scattery case having details out of sync.

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9:57 this case would never have reached the court room if there hasn’t been substance to it at the outset.
This verdict has opened up a case for a much closer forensic analysis of the “players” on McCanns Turf.

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Look at the stats. If he was a Protest cleric he wouldn’t have been brought to court.

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9:57
It’s a bit of a quare one, so it is, for on the one hand Silverstream Priory state on their website…..”An Garda Síochána, the Director of Public Prosecutions and the Charities Regulatory Authority have now completed their thorough investigations and they have found no cause of action against either Dom Mark or Silverstream Priory.” “Subsequently, an independent external canonical investigation found no canonical case
to answer.” “Dom Mark is a priest in good standing.”
Well, now, if everything is so kosher, so grand, so upright, honorable
and above board, where is Dom Mark and why has he not returned to Silverstream?

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The Clerical Mafia strike again.

Northern Ireland this week, Meath, Kerry, Cloyne, Waterford, Killaloe next? Watch this space for more revelations.

Fact is stranger than fiction in the Irish Roman Catholic Church.

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In fairness, McCann doesn’t sound and look like he would have a sexual interest in women. Something went wrong, and let’s hope lessons are learned. He deserves another chance, although it won’t be easy for him. He will be teased at clerical dinner parties for years. He needs to sit ot out. Our PP was convicted of cottaging around 2000.

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10:47. Celibacy is a rule for ALL priests in the Roman Catholic Church

No one will listen to clerics who don’t practice what they preach.

No one will listen to their lay paedophile protectors and enablers either after what continues to be done to victims, survivors and families of church related abuse.

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How are you even equating the allegations with paedophilia? Your comments are easily recognisable and full of hate as you feel a need to CAPITALISE the odd word every so often.

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10.59
Not correct. There are very many married R.C. priests. Sorry to disabuse of your absolutist myopia.

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Gregory Cormican was an avid and well experienced cottager who got away with it for years. Despite many warnings from the Police to a number of Bishops. This on top of a vow of celibacy is despicable. Yet Pat had to get involved in my case and to another 20 men, when we were all caught in a toilet over 20 years ago. Pat you saved my life and marriage that time, thank you.

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I recently read Leonard Sach was also… well, let’s just say, “at it”, and in January 1984, he was fined £75 for “importuning men for an immoral purpose” at Notting Hill Gate tube station. He was 75 at the time!

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Who was the priest who had porn on a memory stick which he showed by mistake at some public occasion instead of his actual presentation? Wasn’t he an Armagh priest?
There are so many of these it’s difficult to keep track. May I suggest an index page of clergy names and the reason they have appeared here?

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That was done by the current PP of Clogherhead, Co Louth, in Armagh diocese. By an amazing stroke of luck, his laptop was stolen and never recovered, just before the PSNI asked to see it.

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The public occasion was a meeting for parents of children preparing for First Holy Communion. They were disgusted, according to press reports at the time. Goodness knows what else the police would have found, except for the amazing coincidence of his laptop being stolen before it could be checked by the rozzers.

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A detail has always escaped observation since the tech. display. One of the three observers stated that the men in the photograph were wearing ” bishops hats.” I posit that it was in fact a photograph and the individuals in the photograph were known to the PP in question. It was not porn by the official definition, it was a photograph of naked clerics wearing mitres. Much bigger scandal than a simple display of a porn image. However, it was all avoided because he destroyed everything. His panicked departure and then return is the key to the mystery of it all. You could not make it up. I would have a good guess as to who the Hollywood Bodies were, haha. Flaccid members makes it erotic but not porn. Has Pornaroy recovered ?

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Amy is perverted. She knows what happened on the altar of Kildorrey and proceeds regardless. The irony of having Wilson assisting the marriage tribunal – Rome should stand Amy down now,

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Let us not for get how the Bishops turned on Magee and said he should “do the right thing”. Little did they know that Magee would be the first of many…. however Magee had a defense the others often do not – magee was unaware that he appointed a VG to investigate their own cousin – because he was not native to Cloyne. Magee took the fall for the VG – and for not ensuring he was correctly informed about his own diocese. Amy should now “do the right thing” as well as Cream, Lugs, Waterford and a handful of others – not to mention Magee’s former VG who remained under the radar.

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The VG was Mgr Denis O’Callaghan, the liberal former Professor of Moral Theology in Maynooth. He should have recused himself from investigating his cousin.

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Mullaney is the only one who can identify me on this. Lets see if he reads the Blog.
Quite a number of years ago, about 22.50, I was leaving the IFI in Temple Bar, as I went though the hallway, Michael was standing in front of me with what looked to me as three Maynooth students. I quipped to him ” Michael, still corrupting the young!” He was fuming and enquired of me what film I had seen. I told him ” I am still here.” Quick as lightning and with a bucketful of glee he retorted ” How apt !!” I enjoyed his quick wit as much as he enjoyed spitting it at me. But thats for sure; he is still corrupting the young, most dangerously in mind.

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Irish Bishops don’t give a damn about laity re Sunday ordinations BUT they still want yours-laity monies 🤷‍♀️. You can’t have it in both ways.
Its the limelight that some of these bishops want. An ego trip if you like. Ignore them if you will to make them look irrelevant.
A thought came into my mind yesterday that rcc isn’t normal, dysfunctional and whose (bishops, cardinals et al) actions spoke of duplicitous @ hypocrisy re double lives.
Found Ryan mc aleer incident story more disturbing re assault. That’s not what priests do.
Psych assessment might be needed although I’m not an expert. Alternatively, process him via Laciasation canon law procedure just like phonsie did to a priest.

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Does this mean altars don’t have to be consecrated and does this mean Rome itself believes its own “communion ceremony” (the sole raison d’etre of priests) is not sacred? Is this confusing stance not of a piece with the Romans’ lack of prayer for the boys of the world in 1969? The war on boys is the same war as the war on women.

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A solicitor would usually advise someone facing the charge of a sexual offence to elect a trial by jury in the crown court as there is more chance of an acquitta

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Now that Aidan has had a traumatic maturing experience ( respectfully said I assure you), notwithstanding his outrageous behaviour and crime towards that particular woman, he should simply pack up and leave the clerical priestly world behind. That is what the universe is telling him. To stay with their system would be to further mangle the pathology that has caused this. Healing awaits Aidan if you disengage and reach for the pain of maturing which is not possible in the life you have so-far embraced. The camerawork outside the Irish College in Rome as you speak of your prayer life still sends a shiver through me, it was entirely false though you were not aware I am sure.

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Aidan has NO intention of leaving the Priesthood he wishes counselling if that is needed however he has said it is all a misunderstanding.
It will be up to the Archbishop what to do in the situation however if found guilty he will need to be dismissed from the clerical state.

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Older readers may remember Peter Wyngarde whose nickname was Petunia Winegum, although contrary to appearances he was an actor, not a priest. He had a ‘misunderstanding’ with a gentleman in a toilet in Gloucester. He’d used that excuse and when he got arrested for the same misunderstanding in Birmingham told police it was a ‘mental aberration’.
Persuading yourself it’s a misunderstanding is the easy bit. 😁

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Fr Aidan McCann misunderstood all right! He misunderstood that the public won’t tolerate any perverted or spiteful shit from priests & their catlicks any more. Those days are well gone. If he can’t take the heat, he needs to quit da kitchen. What Nasty and disrespectful clergy are left now in the bottom dregs of the Roman Church.

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10:58
Agreed, well said
They are dangerous and unfit to have access to public at vulnerable points in their lives, they are disrespectful and have zero moral compass, integrity or respect for human rights.

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So Aidan was guilty after all according to you. Judge Kelly is a highly respected judge. What are your legal qualifications that decides the man is guilty without hearing all the facts.

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@10:58am
What a Nasty disrespectful individual you are, you have found Fr McCann guilty without knowing the facts. There are a lot of spiteful women who make false allegations in the hope of compensation, they are the dregs and dross

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11.19
Now be fair. 10.58 has a point. Priests have only themselves to blame for the villification and suspicion they attract nowadays.
That poor woman got an awful deal in court. In my opinion Fr McCann got lucky that day, in one sense. In another, he wasn’t so lucky, because the public perception seems to be that he did the deed. A pity of them both. I think it would be best if Fr McCann left the priesthood, for all our sakes.

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11.19am Yes agreed and the fact she wasn’t Catholic makes it worse. The same troll hater makes their point repeatedly this morning, a guilty verdict passed without even one fact. The troll who claims to speak for all of us is best ignored.

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11.19: Sadly, you are right. Not just women but men too….they see €€€£££€€€ before their eyes and they all know that generally an accusation against a cleric will be believed. God strike dead these dregs of society. Satan pervades them.

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The usual return on investment for young priests is 5 years, ie they minister for five years before discovering themselves and leaving/going MIA. This is a poor return for 6 or 7 years of formation at a cost of around £300k. Can they not be encouraged to discover themselves before ordination and thus avoid all the heartache?

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Pat – quick question. A PP I know has reached age 75 and has offered his resignation as per Canon law, but made it clear he would like to continue as he is on very good health and has great help from the laity to run the Parish. The Archbishop of Glasgow came for a visit last week and said he doesn’t allow clergy to stay on past retirement, but has allowed him to remain as administrator until after Christmas. The man is upset and never expected this. Out of interest, is there any appeals process, or do you think a petition to Archbishop Nolan will help? It’s not as if we have a stock of Priests awaiting posting to a Parish. The PP in question is a good and holy man.

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Not really. Most of us don’t want to retire or die. We just don’t want to let go. The elderly priest should let go the burden of running a parish. He should step back, advise, and be a mentor to a younger priest. Help out, saying mass and administering the sacraments either in his current parish or other parishes.
In other words, a father figure.

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There is something fundamentally wrong about places like Cistercian college in Roscrea getting state funding and grants. This funding allows an abbot have a dirty affair with a priest in the school kitchen.

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11:32 many of the most influential families in Ireland were educated by the Cistercians so they’ll have their snouts in the government trough for a good while yet.

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This Blog is a bit like DYNO ROD. It sheds light into sewers and helps to unblock them.
If you and the institution you are aligned with wasn’t so full of caca this blog would be redundant.

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It’s honestly fascinating how furious the cathbots are at the idea of removing state funding from things they run.
It’s almost as if the interest isn’t doing good! 😂

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The church of Rome is not the Catholic church because it doesn’t carry the four marks of the church.
People put themselves through the mental gymnastics of trying to justify its relentless corruption and crime because its told them it’s the only church and the others are fake.
It’s all a con.

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As long as the churches and cathedrals are not for God, or about God, when we all do know that it was never a Call from Above… what are doing still there Roman Catholic priests, who have some principles, morals, dignity, and values… Just to have a free flat and paid bills? Is your worth that cheap?

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Pat. I acknowledge much of what you say about theRCC failures. But on the matter of “baptism?” Here I question what customarily is thought of as baptism, that is, the necessity for some quaint ritual pouring/sprinkling of water as an absolute requirement for admission into the selected 🤔 Such a requirement seems not only quaint, but distinctly odd.
The expression “pouring one’s heart out” perhaps captures the essence of a person’s intellectual and emotional “baptismal” change and commitment to following Christian teachings. And that requires no water pouring, from granny or A N Other, clerical or otherwise.

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¹something does not add up with these charges. Why would any reasonable person risk so much going to a store, cameras everywhere, to maybe catch a glimpse of a women at best in underwear, when they could drive out to the coast and catch a few in bikinis!!! Coincidentally I did see the Salthill priest this week and he is looking well albeit walking around in obvious shame, not shamless.

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1:57 Jerry is shameless, always was, always will be, why not, he is fully supported by all of his colleagues and Bishop of Killaloe.
Jerry’s favourite quip:
“If you’ve got it, flaunt it”.

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@1:57 well he looked like a broken man that turned up and a very public event this week knowing he would meet 100’s of people he knew and media too. He didn’t have to and kept to himself. It was courageous imo. He has been around thousands of children all his life and nothing untoward has ever been reported, except for a lonely day in a car alone. He was very wrong, but has paid the penultimate price. People like you would im sure take pleasure in driving him further.

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Anyone who can’t control their sexual urges does not belong in any position or at any capacity that involves the vulnerable within the church or any organisation. This defence that he only did it on a lonely day……I would see it as its the only time he was caught and caught by the passing public. Jerry Carey deserves no place in the church, we owe that much to all the previous victims of abuse to keep predators out. Let him find a new career, away from the church.

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I looked at the livestream of the main Sunday Mass from Liverpool Catholic Cathedral. There can’t have been more than 150 in the congregation, all bunched together in a couple of the blocks of pews round the circular sanctuary. Liverpool had been a strongly Catholic city up until Vatican II worked its wonders.
And before the “causation, not correlation” moron pipes up, there was a much larger congregation at Liverpool Anglican Cathedral.

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What a tediously longwinded piece of self-righteous, self-vindicating shite!
No, your church isn’t flawed because it comprises flawed members, especially such priests as you: it’s flawed principally because the institution of priesthood was obviated by Christ’s death and resurrection, but which your church restored, thereby denying the efficacy of Jesus’ accomplisments; in fact, denying his very incarnate mission. And you, priest, promised obedience to that aberration.
I noticed, too, that you couldn’t resist a sly dig at Pat’s ministry, while pretending to respect it: How many baptisms did you perform, Pat, of those who turned away from my church?

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11.56
Strangely then, you wanted to incease their number by one. Luckily, those in authority saw what was coming down the track. Now you are a lapsed Catholic in the north of Ireland. And no happier, if your comments here are anything to go on.

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This is a blog that Bishop Pat Buckley had to set up to help those victimised by the Roman Catholic Church. Hang your head in shame, Father & Co. We cannot even publish our real names on here because of the reprisals you have publicity executed against those who have allowed their true identities to be published on blog. The language, abuse and invasion of rights directed by anonymous clergy and members of the Roman Catholic Church on this blog and elsewhere toward those persons speaks volumes.

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11.57
No one needs to read your version of why Pat set up the blog. It’s always preferable to go directly to the author rather than to have his intentions interpreted through a twisted mind set.
You used a pseudonym for long enough. But you needn’t have bothered. Your obsessive style and prejudice are obvious for all to read. Your outpourings give you away.

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2:51 👏 quite true!! Must be going on for the last year at least with the same rhetoric, style with multiple usernames and annons, email addresses, different social media accounts and twitter handles, probably an onlyfans at this stage!! NOTthe first or last to bombard blogs for an Unfounded agenda.

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Apart from individual experiences that friends, families and neighbours are subjected to by what is essentially an authoritarian regime utilising the image of Christ to peddle its wares to the ordinary & what they hope will be the gullible or vulnerable Joe & Annie, it is clear from the well documented and publicised scandals that have emerged to date that clergy & their types possess nothing but contempt for anyone other than their wealthy and influential inner circles. As can be clearly read from their contributions on this blog and elsewhere, when any mention of their finances is made, they are violently defensive. However, when it comes to abusing and exploiting vulnerable children and adults in schools and hospitals & similar institutions by their members, some of them clearly communicate that even if not personally culpable that nevertheless they actually enjoy & find this “amusing” on a voyeuristic level at the minimum and in other deeds & actions at the maximum.

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The truth on numbers abused by Roman Catholic members will explode even higher once all these very bright up and coming journalists in those regions truly find their feet 👣. The online sex trade between clericals and impoverished rent boys in these locations hasn’t been investigated. These individuals carry out jobs for their paying clerics including online harrassment and stalking etc.

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No one is obsessed with the Catholic Church, but people ARE rightly concerned about, and watchful of, this filthy, depraved, Christ-UNobsessed institution, and its complicit supporters.

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My paternal grandfathers brother, my uncle John from Jamaica. He use to ring us everyday, trying to get us on holiday. He baptised all his own children and grandchildren and was an independent catholic and all his ones have done really well for themselves.
Pat your analysis is so correct, and as you are an independent Catholic, you will know more than anyone.
I applaud you for being independent and showing the world that difference should be recognised and celebrated, you are no sheep and my uncle John was not either.

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The church can all stick together but legally the country is moving on, gone are the days when I would have been shunned as a single mother or having back street abortions. Us women can have as many children as we like to how many men we want or have as many abortions as we want, at least the law recognises that as the Catholics don’t. Independence all the way.

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12:02 why would you resort to a back street abortion?
I read somewhere that abortion has been legalised in Ireland since a young Indian woman was left to die by Roman Catholic medics in an Irish Hospital.
They informed her “Ireland is a Catholic Country” as they left her to die of sepsis following an ectopic pregnancy.

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Pat probably got elocution in Clonliffe College. Don’t think Latin was taught then. In my time after Pat departed for Waterford, we learned to read the Latin texts which I found easy as I studied Latin for leaving cert. Latin is a beautiful language when read properly. The De La Salle Brother who taught me was a brilliant Latin scholar and a fluent speaker of the language as well as being a fluent Italian, french and Irish speaker. His classes were super. Pity we’ve lost the Latin texts!!

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That’s because it’s a blog about the Catholic™️ church, so it won’t be about God. If that institution struck you with its holiness nobody could help but say it.

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It is only organised religion which wants that pastoral image (of shepherd and sheep) to have universal and definitive currency, because such religion is largely about episcopal control of others.

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Wholeheartedly agree with your stance Pat. Institutionalism leads to power struggles and corrupts the very message that is supposed to be at the core of the institution. What would Jesus do? A beautiful motto to live ones life by. To all those hiding abusers or taking part in any wrongdoing ask yourselves on this Sunday “what would Jesus do”?

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If one of those bishops were to submit a comment I don’t doubt that Pat would publish it unedited. But they don’t. They have the opportunity to defend their life and reputation and could but don’t. Why? Because they would be letting down the old boys club and at risk of recriminations in the institution. Just like all the priests who comment on here that they protest the culture of silence and cover up in the church. Just give the link for one public example who has not found himself redeployed to hell’s kitchen.
There isn’t one.
You all are kidding yourselves. You can’t claim to be protesting the institution and also live off it.
If any priest is going to claim to be doing that, sign your comment with your name, diocese and bishop, then I’ll believe you.
But you won’t, will you.

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12;57 Exactly- Very well put.
Priests and their colleagues only come onto this blog to protect the interests of their corrupt church by identifying and slandering victims, survivors and whistleblowers. Vile persons. Beneath contempt, they need to talk a long long one way walk on their self created road to perdition. Ugh.

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So what great demands are made on you…a few masses at a stated time.
Maybe a funeral or 2
The odd baptism
First communion and first confession.
If you a cannon u might get to do confirmation…bishops far too busy for this…living it up
Free house, no rates, free to cook whatever you desire…some few parishioners running after your every whim.
Get a grip man…some of us have had to turn up for work every day and stay after we should be away home
And the wages were dismal…but the craic was good..a lifetime caring for others…and I mean physically.
You have no idea of the real world..u don’t even have to

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Yes, ‘what would Jesus do’ is a better, higher, and more reliable mantra than ‘what would Rome do’.
Yesterday afternoon, I watched again the dramatisation of events that led to the conviction of paedophile priest, Brendan Smith. As appalling as his crimes were, they were closely followed by the inaction, and indifference, of men like Cardinal Cahal Daly, who tawdridly hid behind Canon Law to avoid intervening against Smith’s bolt-hole from justice in Northern Ireland, Kilnacrott Abbey, and the Irish Government’s repeated bureaucratic nit-picking over extradition warrants for Smith, in order to avoid having to hand him over to the RUC.
None of these asked ‘what would Jesus do’, but, rather, ‘what would Rome do’ or, ‘what is required by sectarian ideology?’

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You haven’t walked away completely Pat. That’s interesting to read. It’s a well known fact that Murphy in Cardiff was a complete tyrant. I’ve always thought that if you were handled properly Pat, particularly by Cahal B, we would not be in this position. Now that I’m getting on in life I understand that more and more. I wish you well in whatever you do. You might have always thought I was never on your side but I always quietly gave you the benefit of the doubt.

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That’s easy to say from behind a cloak of anonymity- but you don’t even give me your name so how can I know?

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Bullying is rife because of control issues. Nobody should expose the old boy’s club and nobody should make life difficult for bishops.
Conform or be controlled. Once you think of the church as a mafia you will understand.

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Jesus had little time for palaces and grand temples, yet he chose to be born in a humble dwelling. The origin of The Larne Oratory building is a meme in itself. To research the entirety of Pat’s blog back issues would be indeed onerous and I am sure, interesting, however, you would also find that Pat has, in the two years I’ve been following, shared his own creedal thoughts. I think the community at Larne should use a liturgy that inspires them whether that be one of their own devise or extant. I believe all religious / spiritual traditions have both truth and taint and only by cross comparison, prayer and meditation can one in humility (from humus, earth, grounded) hope to perceive the All In All.

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I fear you are deluded. We do not need permission from Romanists to call ourselves catholic. They do not own the term. Indeed what is a catholic? My understanding is that it is an understanding of and continuity of faith of early Christianity. That being the case, romanists are NOT catholic. They follow traditions of their church not of early Christianity. They are caught up in mafia practices Not early Christianity. Go and give your head a shake

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You could be a man instead of a wimp and stand up for the gospel. I have in the past left an organisation (which paid my wages) because I did not believe in its practices. Yes it was difficult as I had children to feed and a mortgage to pay but I couldn’t live a lie and watch what was going on around me. The choice is yours my friend. Hide or speak out.

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If a priest can be released from his vows and marry than surely thus man’s wife deserves the freedom to remarry a man who will love her in all senses?

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I’m sure early Christianity wasn’t based on neither power nor greed nor abuse. I’m sure it wasn’t based on lies, corruption. Or mind control. I’m sure that it wasn’t based on cover ups, self preservation nor evil. Sorry u haven’t shook ur head enough

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Will the young lady in the Fr McCann court case be speaking to the press or have Irish Church placed a gagging order on her?

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1:41 She’s in Northern Ireland, they may be more interested in the local aspect but then again might shy away from church related stories.

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Fr Patrick Ryan aged 49 from Doon, Co Limerick was found dead in a motel room in Odessa, Texas on 21 December 1981 located 80 miles from where he worked in the small Texan town of Denver City. Fr Ryan was a Pallottine priest and his death made headlines in the USA & Ireland. A 24 year old Apache Indian was wrongly convicted of the murder, he was released thanks to the efforts of the Innocence Project in 2012 and the hunt for the real killer continues amid recently discovered new evidence.

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2:29 why not, all his outwardly pious colleagues are on these Apps and other outlets.

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Pat it is a very sad day for me. I joined a football club in January as part of a New Years resolution and after the abuse I have had to endure today after 6 weeks of training and football matches, I have decided to quit. Homophobic abuse regarding my penetrative choice – which is all speculation. Jokes about me having aids. All the usual jokes which are neither original or intelligent. It’s important to raise these issues and also report them to the PSNI. At first I didnt mind the banter but it became abusive early on, only thing I will miss from my time there will be the showers afterwards.

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No harm to him, but Fr McCann doesn’t look like he’d have much interest in women. The complainant must be raging that she now cannot launch a compo claim against the archdiocese.

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2;25pm she is not raging at all, the case qualified for a court hearing, it was deferred a few times over the past 11 months. It’s the police who have had their time wasted. She’s laughing all the way to the bank and the Padre is sorted until next time he f**** up & loses the run of himself. Doubtful we’ve heard the last of yet another of Brendans twinks.

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Bp Pat, since I opened my eyes and see clearly what religion was really about and then developed my own spiritual path I have both improved my conscious with God and gained great peace of mind……at no financial cost.

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You are very mistaken Dame Bella does not speak for the Church and to be honest if Bella was the laity would be leaving in droves.
If you see the hatred that Bella spout daily and constantly attacks Dame Magna then you see something is wrong in the mind of Bella as referring to Magna and the people of God is so sick to say the least.
Remember Bella stated that He / She is grateful to Pope emeritus Benedict who has created place for them.
Thankfully Pope Francis is just ignoring them and not willing to welcome them unless they accept the Church and it’s 1.2 Billion Catholics.
Think of the Love the Church spends think of Mother Teresa and here in Ireland the work that Brother Kevin and many others do as most True Catholic would NEVER write or speak like Dame Bella at least magna speaks about facts.
Yes sadly the Church is constantly under attack due to horrible clergy and unfaithful clergy to which Pope Francis has constantly apologised and so has most Bishops.
+ Pat do not block Dame Bella let him / her spout of everyday as it just shows what like pre Vatican two people are like.

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Pat, I often think, one of the saddest part of this awful saga, is the hurt and, shame foisted on families, especially parents, especially if they live in a small gossipy community, when any of their children take the wrong road, irrespective of what misdemeanor has landed them in court, but, the stigma of any semblance of sexual abuse, or voyeurism, must be enormously painful and difficult to understand.
I can only imagine the pride of the good Roman Catholic parents at the ordination of their son to the priesthood, only a few short years later to have their lives turned upside down when their child turns feral, is it any wonder they would accept any other explanation, apart from it was a deliberate shameful act, carried out by their child, they, the innocent bystanders standing by hopeless and utterly depressed, dejected, definitely filled with shame.
I am not a person who prays, but if you could and, the bloggers who do, could they keep in mind, families who have to undergo such pain, that they may be given the strength to bear this heavy cross.

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4.36: Queenievenus, I have made such a plea frequently on this blog but the request fell on deaf ears. While we all accept there must be truth and transparency about all criminal, sexual abuse cases, the commentary on this blog has crossed the boundaries of human decency and even justice itself. The level of vicious, nasty and ugly judgment against Fr. McCann was disturbing. He was viciously crucified by mobsters. When the blog focused on Michael B (Gorgeous), I requested restraint with comments. I knew his parents and asked this blog to be mindful of their feelings. Likewise when Fr. Lomansey featured, the harsh, crucifying attacks were morally reprehensible. How far should we go in tearing strips off people? I pray for the chosen individuals who are stripped to bits by this blog. I would not want censorship but there must be a boundary beyond which we do not go in condemning wrongdoers!! As you say Queenie, there are parents, family and relatives who are deeply hurt and shamed undeservingly as collateral damage. And, as we witness, the mickery and rudicuke levelled against Fr. McCann continues…it’s disgusting.

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6:20 clergy and their networks incite hatred against victims, survivors and whistleblowers on this blog and elsewhere. Relentless and dangerous criminals they are one and all.

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6:20 shame the RC doesn’t get so riled up about closing their outstanding business with the thousands of victims and survivors and families that continue to be severely impacted by the vile conduct of your colleagues and networks . 😒

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So, according to 6:20 pm ‘we all accept there must be truth and transparency about all criminal, sexual abuse cases’. Utter rubbish.
That’s precisely what the hierarchy don’t want acknowledged-
truth and transparency about all criminal abuse or sexual abuse cases.
What about the parents, family and relatives of victims, deeply hurt with
many alienated from church as collateral damage of clerical abuse.
Most had contributed financially for years in supporting their priests.
Or those prematurely in their graves as a direct consequence of clerical abuse.The hierarchy acknowledged ‘a reckoning’ has STILL to take place in RCC Ireland after 30 plus years of drip drip drip of abuse cases. What is totally completely and utterly disgusting is the continuance of covering-
up by hierarchs. RCC Ireland is rapidly heading towards moral bankruptcy.

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The family in this case have nothing to be ashamed about because he did not commit a crime in the eyes of the law.

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4:45 Ask the police who attended the scene and forwarded to matter to the CPS who approved it for the court hearing……. Not trivial stuff……

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8.24 and 8.34: Read correctly my comments. You twist everything. It is perfectly legitimate to ask you lot to restrain your hatred and vicious nastiness. You dint like other people’s TRUTH. Ain’t my problem. Yours and yours alone.

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So basically the level of proof of guilt on here is he’s a priest therefore he’s guilty. Is that how it works. Thankfully the legal system works slightly differently.

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Reply to;
Anonymoussays:
Feb 12, 2023 at 4:47 pm
One huge drawback with the legal system is, its not always right, it is by no means foolproof. How many people have been found guilty of murder, just to find with identification through DNA, the wrong person was imprisoned for umpteen years, who had been convicted by a jury.
So let’s be aware the legal system is not infallible, if it was, there would be no need for discussion here today.

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4:47. There you are again twisting the truth from the clerical perspective. 😒

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7:36pm you’d know much more about that than I would, Father. I’m just an ordinary Joe looking out for my friends and family, Father.

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Anyone considering any contact with the Roman Catholic Church should read how priests, their staff, volunteers and their close personal friends and business and professional associates mock, ridicule, harass and intimidate victims and survivors in the interests of protecting their corrupt gravy train. Beneath contempt.

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I paid a visit to Armagh Cathedral today.

On the noticeboard, I noticed a business card for Sexaholics Anonymous – an organisation dedicated to helping with sex and porn addictions.

I’ll just leave that here….

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My friend @ 6.12pm – it is not a lie. It is on the noticeboard in the hall beside the Cathedral shop. It’s at the top left, held on with one drawing pin.
I guarantee some cathbot will have it removed to make a liar of me, but IT IS THERE!
I know you may have a very closed mind or live in a fantasy world, but these things actually happen in the real world.

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Would you like to put your finger in the side of the card Doubting Thomas?
That sort of thing isn’t unusual to be advertised on church noticeboards. And in today’s world, it’s needed more than ever!

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I had a lovely time. No priests of course – that would involve them attending outside of Mass time or even praying!

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Shortscreen – RTE 2 TV
Monday February 13 – 11:45pm
A young Irish woman fights the ancient forces of church and state in a bid to find out who she is and where she came from.

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WAVE OF CHILD SEX ABUSE CLAIMS COULD BANKRUPT SAN DIEGO DIOCESE
Hundreds of lawsuits alleging abuse by priests and others in the diocese have come to light after California lifted statute of limitation
The Guardian-Staff
February 12, 2023.
“The Roman Catholic Diocese of San Diego has said it may declare bankruptcy in the coming months as it faces “staggering” legal costs in dealing with some 400 lawsuits alleging priests and others in the diocese sexually abused children. In a letter that was expected to be shared with parishioners this weekend, Bishop Robert McElroy said the cases were filed after California lifted a statute of limitations on childhood sexual abuse claims.”
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/feb/10/child-sex-abuse-claims-san-diego-catholic-church

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6.26 it would appear you live in the fantasy world. If you saw that card you probably saw the full colour photo of the Archbishop of Canterbury waving a tricolour and singing irelands call and the advertising for the Jewish Chronicle and the quiz night they have every week to raise funds for their poor downtrodden Catholic friends. Just to the left of that the full colour spread of Bishop Pat wearing nothing but his Calvin’s. Really surprised you just mentioned the card. God Armagh is an awful place altogether. Its a wonder it doesn’t get more coverage on this blog.

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Has the sectarian aspect been considered? The complainant is a a Protestant and there are lots of bitter loyalist/Free P types in the Portadown area, eg Drumcree and the Gervaghy Road.

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