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Pope says he won’t quit because the Petrine office is for life

FROM CATHOLIC HERALD

The existence of the letter, which was given to Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone, ”does not at all mean that resigning popes should become, let’s say, ‘the fashion,’ a normal thing”, the Pope said.

“Benedict had the courage to do it because he did not feel like going on because of his health. I for the moment do not have that on my agenda,” he said.

“Think that the ministry of the great patriarchs is always for life,” the Pope added. “And the historical tradition is important.”

Resignation, he said, “hasn’t crossed my mind”.

PAT SAYS

I do think that Francis’ current ministry of challenging Vatican II Deniers is important and that he should keep going.

However, I think Benedict undermined the Papacy is for life theory by resigning.

It led to the situation whereby we had two popes – a reigning pope and an emeritus pope.

I think there is nothing wrong with a pope resigning.

But he should not bear the title “pope emeritus”.

He should return to being a cardinal and be known as Cardinal ******** Bishop emeritus of Rome.

Nor should he live in Rome.

Benedict should have retired to his native Germany with his husband George

The pope is the Bishop of Rome.

A retired pope is no longer a pope and should simply be a bishop emeritus.

The Church is led by the Bishop of Rome and in communion with the world’s bishops, expressing and teaching the sens

Sensus fidei (sense of the faith), also called sensus fidelium (sense of the faithful) is, according to the Catechism of the Catholic Church, “the supernatural appreciation of faith on the part of the whole people, when, from the bishops to the last of the faithful, they manifest a universal consent in matters of faith and morals.”

And this really means something that popes, bishops and priests often forget…..

That the Holy Spirit speaks through all God’s people.

167 replies on “Pope says he won’t quit because the Petrine office is for life”

He left another letter with someone saying that thinking the Holy Spirit speaks through all God’s people shouldn’t become a general fashion.

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This blog is a far more powerful medium for holding bishops and cohorts accountable than writing private letters to Cardinals and the Holy See?

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I think it’s a more powerful medium for revealing what is going on and ruffling feathers. Only courts seem to be able to force bishops to do what is right, though.

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Episcopal bullies must be held to account. The bishop of Rome and ++Eamon have been very silent on Fr. Tom Deenihan’s ongoing persecution of Dom Benedict Andersen. Coraggio! They must have the courage to rebuke Fr. Tom Deenihan. Bullies target vulnerable people.

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Good afternoon Seamusviii.
I admire your resilience in keeping the subject of the ongoing abuse and defamation of Dom Benedict Andersen by Bishop Tom Deenihan on Bishop Buckley’s Blog agenda that kindly facilitates daily support for victims, survivors, friends and family of any category of church related abuse.
Indeed, as we all know Bullies do clearly demonstrate that they appear to be attracted to lay and clerical roles in the RCC.
Your observation that the RCC attracts the antisocial bullying types is entirely accurate and on the nail.
The RCC doesn’t appear to qualify as an attractive option for normal, well balanced people of good will any more.
Pick up any newspaper in any country and the reason is self-evident.
Keep fighting the good fight Seamus. No surrender! 💪 🙏💪

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It wasn’t all bad, the Chateauneuf neuf du Pape flowed. No cost of living crisis discernible, a whole different world within the powerful corridors of the wealthy Roman Catholic Church.

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10.18
Not correct.
1. 1305-1377 the pope lived in Avignon (7 in total).
2. 1378-1417 a pope (4 in all) in Rome and another in Avignon (2 in all with 3 others continuing until the 1430’s in a minimal capacity).
3. 1409-1417 a third pope (2 in all) elected in Pisa.
4. 1417 division effectively ended during the Council of Constance with the death of Gregory XII (Rome) the deposition of Benedict XIII (Avignon) and the resignation of John XXIII (Pisa).

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My goodness! Never knew the Holy Spirit could lose the run of himself. And in such a ‘two, three, or even four for the price of one’ way. Really does affirm your belief that it’s the Spirit who chooses popes, and not the cardinals in conclave. 🙄

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The Great Schism lasted 40 years but the church survived and wisely ended it with a General Council. Benedict XVI should have remembered this history when he paraded around the Vatican in papal clothes calling himself pope emeritus. He was dangerously close to fomenting schism. He should have gone back to being an ordinary bishop, in Germany.

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Excellent. Combating heretics who refuse an ecumenical council is exactly what the papacy is for.
God bless Pope Francis. 🙏

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Speaking of resurrection, I think Francis should bring back the Papal Tribunal, a modified form of it (without the theatrics… torture ‘n’ stuff), to globetrot, judge, and condemn. Its the way to go.

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10:27 Nah, it’s the so-called ‘trads’ that want that kind of thing. Putting people to death for homosexuality, masturbation or owning a guitar would be bang up their street. As long as they get away with whatever they want themselves.

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The way it’s supposedly for life indicates the inflated importance given to the papacy.
Rubbish. Even if you consider these things a vocation it should have a retirement age. I used to work with a woman who worked into her seventies and she was well past it. People deserve a rest after a lifetime but need to step aside for others’ sake as well.

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Such people don’t want to step aside. They believe themselves unequalled, unique, and irreplaceable. Its a form of delusion. Look at JPII: he virtually fossilised in office. Probably didn’t know what planet he was on at times, God help him.

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God should not speak through the people, he has Holy Popes, Bishops, priests and their cohorts to do that for him.
If those “people” types are allowed to take over the “narrative”, there will be more and more of these stories about abuse of power, sexual and financial abuse and corruption and what not and that is not good for business.
It works quite well to say nothing and keep on saying it when the words church abuse and corruption rear their ugly heads.
Hopefully it’ll keep on working and our church will outlive the begrudgers and moaners who should take their medicine and leave the church out of their issues. Resilience is key.

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10:00am control freak and deeply compromised clerics and their self interested pals with benefits and influential networks work it all quite well until they go and shoot themselves in the foot and go hire wankers, bankers, dodgy civil servants, guys with food and alcohol disorders, kleptomaniacs, paedophiles, swingers, doggers, druggies, poppers, teachers who hate kids particularly those with special needs and the like and stick them in seminaries with even more sick and twisted formators. A right recipe for disaster. 5 years in ministry if lucky and enough people can be intimidated & silenced followed by decades of scandal and financial loss in compensatory claims – not a good return on an investment. Couldn’t run a commercial kitchen or a football club successfully to the RCC model.

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According to the disgruntled clerics who are forced to read this blog in case their antics appear here, the Holy Ghost does not speak through the faithful who don’t cough up generously.

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10:02 Spot On

Show us your penny or Shut up!

Money, Money, Money
It’s a Rich Mans World
In the Roman Catholic Church

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@10:37:
Idolising the Mammon is what it seems to be all about these days.
Constant sourcing of new avenues of hush money is a hierarchical headache.

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Reply to;Anonymoussays:
Feb 19, 2023 at 10:02 am
The truth of the matter is the Holy Ghost does not speak, indicate, give the nod, or give auditory signals or messages, to anyone!
Roman Catholic always blame the poor old Holy Ghost when thing get out of hand, and/or they either dare not or, cannot bring themselves to blame a living human. It is so airy-fairey, nonsensical, unbelievable, when all fruit fails with no reasonable explanation for any occurrence, bring in Himself, blame Him. No one can cross examine, or even inveigle Him to their persuasion, O.K. O.K. Maybe R.N. can as he appears to have some form of extraterrestrial form of “communication”.
What a great bloody cop-out, and what is even more concerning some actually believe it.

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You’re correct when you say ‘THE Church is led by the Bishop of Rome” and I would like to add ‘if you’re not in communion with the Bishop of Rome, you are outside of the church and outside of the Church is no salvation”.

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10:09 this privilege is also reserved for clerics who procure or attempt or succeed in coercing vulnerable women they have targeted into having abortions, see the Bishop Eamon Casey scenario as one of many examples. This fact makes a self-mockery of their Pro Life statements, once again providing a clear example of RCC failing to practice what it preaches. One rule for the hierarchy and another for the sheep they hoodwink and fleece on the self inflicted road to perdition.
They’d have more chance of being saved in the Boiler Room Saunas than on the altar in County Cork in Kildorrery that Bishop didn’t even bother to reconsecrate after the clergy and their pals used it for their sex parties and orgies in the dead of night.

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No, but all RC paedophile priests are in communion with the Bishop of Rome and as a result will be saved no matter how many kids they raped.

Paedophile priests in communion can be saved.

Priests, not in communion, no matter how good they are, cannot be saved ?

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What, officially, made a mockery of the pro-life position of the Church was its traditional support for taking human life both on the battlefield and on the gallows.

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What kind of man would apply for ministry in a denomination where the clergy are popularly equated with paedophilia?

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10:47 That is because the so-called ‘pro-life’ position is always a lie. The only natural conclusion of the church’s combined teaching on abortion and contraception is rampant starvation and, er, death.

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Women who are far from vulnerable have no problem killing their unborn child. I was horrified when a good friend of mine told me that she had an abortion some time ago and she thought nothing of it. I have in recent times scaled back my friendship with her. I am a catholic and have, and abide, by my catholic beliefs. My friend wasnt thinkin of church she was only thinkin of herself and getting rid of her unborn fetus. Its amazing what a few drinks can do, the truth and secrets comes out. So no, its not all about coercing “vulnerable” women madame and not all about the church either. Live and let “life” live.

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On the contrary, I was taught many moons ago that there is salvation outside the Roman Catholic church and it’s teaching which is backed up by Pius, non Roman Catholics do not have priority because of their faith.
I wonder if anyone learns about their religion any more from the Catechism today, or are thy even interested in knowing it.?
Pope Pius stated that even people who are ignorant to the faith can achieve eternal life, as long as they live moral lives and follow the natural law as set out by God. God will not condemn those who have not committed a deliberate sin.
Those who, through no fault of their own, do not know the Gospel of Christ or his Church, but who nevertheless seek God with a sincere heart, and, moved by grace, try in their actions to do his will as they know it through the dictates of their conscience – those too may achieve eternal salvation.
CCC 847 (Catechism of the Catholic Church)
Related; Salvation outside of the Church
Traditional and modern views

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Patsay you’re a bold boy for saying that Pope Emeritus Benedict had a husband. Saints preserve you from falling into these Proddy errors! 😏

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10:13 but Pope Benny did have a hubby and Fraudulent Frankie who has now set to work on avenging and contradicting and undermining Benny in death, threw out Bennys husband before poor old Pope Benny was cold in his tomb.

A fine example of Christian charity they are not from the top to the bottom of this corrupt cesspit of child abusers and money fiddlers worldwide.

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Get a grip, ya cretin! His Grace, Archbishop Ganswein, was Pope Emeritus Benedict’s valet, not his husband. Stop telling proddy lies.

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Frankie needs to lose some weight then his knees might work better. He’s an old donkey face. Needs to look after himself more if he wants to hang around any longer. He doesn’t need to be that chunky. A bit of self-discipline and some fresh air and exercise is what is needed. I know, he’s busy etc., but that is usually a lame excuse used by those who can’t be arsed. Or, “it’s genetics” !

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12:49 Post a photo of yourself Fr Twiggy!
G’wan, G’wan, G’wan
Shame on ya calling our lovely Holy Pope an old donkey face.
You are a right Hee, Haw so you are.

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Pat, we thought you were going to take a firmer line with the sectarian bigot at 10.43 am? He has slipped back into his verbally abusive ways.

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Anonymous @5.29pm

Baloney. Get a grip and get your orange tinted spectacles off. The only abuse is the comment “husband” about the late Pope. I see no abuse in 10.43’s comment but certainly in yours.

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11:09 Actually authorship is disputed. Some say Paul, and some say John, but I say George or Ringo.

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11.09

That’s right. Philemon was trans, which was why he ran away from his randy master. Changed his name to Philomena at one point, though the churches won’t change the name of that letter, Philemon, to Philomena.

There’s a discrimination case there, I’m sure of it.

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Reply to; Anonymoussays:
Feb 19, 2023 at 10:15 am
Oh no!! Not that again. That poor Spirit being drag into it again.

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…and what if he goes ga-ga ? Will he resign then, or be made to resign ? If bishops and priests have to resign at 75 and cardinals lose their voting rights in conclave at 80, why should a pope just go on and on ? I reckon something like 85 would be a good cut off point, go off in to some quiet corner for prayer and reflection, and just butt out and leave the new guy to get on with it. Why does it have to be such a big issue ? I frankly doubt if God bothers, he’s got much bigger issues to deal with. This is just self-important navel gazing by the Church / pope about something that should be self evident and simple to do.

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Popes are handpicked men by the Holy Ghost. What you are saying is that the Holy Ghost doesn’t know his own mind, gets confused. This is what you are saying if popes have to retire. Even a mad Pope is still a handpicked man and must be allowed to rule regardless. The Holy Ghost works in mysterious ways. We should never forget that. It’s the way things have always been and always should go on.

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10:33 God doesn’t know his own mind. He designed the human penis with skin covering the end but keeps telling some of his chosen people to cut the skin off but not others. Sometimes he wants his people to eat pork and not others. He’s also supposedly pro life but killed c. 250,000,000 in the bible while revealing his love to us.
Having three or four popes at once seems like a normal day for him.

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10:33 Serious question, is a mad pope different from one who covers up kiddy fiddling and should they be allowed to rule regardless?

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God did those things, but only in the Bible to make a point. But the point is now made and he doesn’t have to do those things again. So it’s the case with the popes. God doesn’t need to have more than one at a time now.

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Yes a mad Pope is different from the Pope that covers up kiddy fiddling, unless he did the same which would make him no different except that the other one wasn’t mad. The popes are the men handpicked by the Holy Ghost, so must be allowed to rule regardless. The Holy Ghost works in mysterious ways, things we don’t understand that the popes do we just have to accept and say Jesus I trust in you. That’s all that can be did in the current circumstances.

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10:55 250,000,000 deaths is quite some way of making a point. 😂
Would you describe circumcision as making a point as well? 😉

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I’m not sure there were that many deaths. God only had a week to work in and rested at the end of it. Yes, circumcision was a point too, but it also had hygeine benefits, stopping the formation of Magna near tip, as this can sometimes cause skin cancer.

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Oh, please spare us the Holy Ghost narrative. Nonsense. It’s a bunch of old cardinals, politicking, making advantage, negotiating, compromising, in conclave that come up with a name. Holy Ghost my fanny aunt…..

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Reply to;Anonymoussays:
Feb 19, 2023 at 10:33 am
So when there is no reasonable explanation, we blame the Holy Spirit, and the only way it can be explained is He works in mysterious ways, I have never found that helpful or fulfilling and answer. I know the old adage “Have faith my child” That’s as dissatisfying as belief in the Holy Ghost.

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Popes are not hand-picked by the Holy Spirit. Ridiculous. Francis was the choice of notorious sinners and abuse enablers. Your theory would mean that bad popes, such as during the pornocracy, were chosen by the Holy Spirit.

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It’s amazing how many times I’ve heard from people such as 10:33am that they think that God directly chooses the pope. Just yesterday someone said that they refused to criticize the pope because he was given to the Church by the Holy Spirit. The Church does not teach that position. According to the laws of the Church, the Cardinals choose the pope while praying for the guidance of the Holy Spirit.
If you don’t believe me, just listen to a previous pope, Benedict XVI. While still Cardinal Ratzinger, he was asked by Bavarian television in 1997 if the Holy Spirit is responsible for the election of a pope. His answer:
“I would not say so, in the sense that the Holy Spirit picks out the Pope. . . . I would say that the Spirit does not exactly take control of the affair, but rather like a good educator, as it were, leaves us much space, much freedom, without entirely abandoning us. Thus the Spirit’s role should be understood in a much more elastic sense, not that he dictates the candidate for whom one must vote. Probably the only assurance he offers is that the thing cannot be totally ruined. . . . There are too many contrary instances of popes the Holy Spirit obviously would not have picked!”
Would we really want to ascribe all of the bad popes of history to the Holy Spirit?

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The person at 3.14 doesn’t understand. The Holy Ghost uses even the deceit and ambitions of men to choose HIS man at the concleves, just as God used the Emperor Augustus to move Joseph and Mary around the place so that Jesus would be born in Bethlem, and how God used Pilot to bring Jesus to the CROSS so that he could die up there and save the world. The Holy Ghost works in mysterious ways, ours ever to ponder.

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11:58 Thank you for the health advice. You would think that God would have thought of that detail when designing the organ and made it possible to retract the prepuce to clean behind it.
Oh, he did.
He must simply have decided he didn’t like the design.

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The person at 32. 9 is quite too wrong. The Holy Ghost does handpicked the next popes because Jesus handpicked the first one Peter and started the ball rolling, as Magnus Magnusdoon used to say “I’ve started, so I’ll finish”, Jesus did that same and so he hanpicks the popes through his Proxy, the Holy Ghost. When poor Pope Benedict said those things he wasn’t in good health and his mind was failing.

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10.24 If he goes gaga then it’s too late for him to resign. Canon law allows a pope to resign saying
“If it happens that the Roman Pontiff resigns his office, it is required for validity that the resignation is made freely and properly manifested but not that it is accepted by anyone”.
That’s why Benedict said
“ . . . . . .For this reason, and well aware of the seriousness of this act, with full freedom I declare that I renounce the ministry of Bishop of Rome, Successor of Saint Peter . . . . . “
If the Pope is gaga he’s not making a free choice!

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It’s not about making free choice to resign from the papacy, it’s about following the designs of the Holy Ghost who works in mysterious ways. Pope Benedict only thought he was resinging, it was the Holy Ghost that made him do it.

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Pat, I am finding the pope’s words confusing again. One minute he is cursing those looking for justice, now he’s praising them. Tomorrow? I’m not sure who he is anymore, the same with all his heady supporters. Is he deliberately sending out mixed messages or is he really confused. I honestly don’t know. Is he on the run because of the legalities in the US and Australia. Something is not adding up.

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10.40: Where did Jesus mention Bishops, mitres, staff, rings, chains, fancy vestments – all of which you possess Pat. Try telling the TRUTH to yourself or at least let it bite you! And please, don’t equivocate or rewrite scripture to justify your own contradictions. Hope you took today’s CATHOLIC MASS gospel seriously today….READ IT AGAIN…

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Jesus made the office of Pope when he called Peter a rock and told him to build the church. Without a Pope, there is no church. We have to see this.

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So… during papal conclave there is no Church? 🤔

In those moments, one might well ask oneself where does the Church, like farts, go.

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Reply to; Anonymoussays:
Feb 19, 2023 at 10:39 am
Wrong!! Without the faithful there is no church.

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Very strange. Possibilities ? 1. robbery gone wrong 2. someone aggrieved 3. someone known to him 4 self-inflicted. There are multiple follow up questions to each of those, and other, possibilities. The police and archdiocese statements are very general and bland, which suggests that there is not a clear cut answer – yet – as to what happened and brought about his death. I think there will be a great deal to be unpacked with this incident. Watch Gomez. He is a wily character. A bit sinister even. Opus Dei. In the meantime, it’s evidently a great loss.

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Maybe not. He was big into ministry with immigrants and the poor.

Let’s pause before making a judgement

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The new auxiliary in Washington will cause them scandal. The nuncio didn’t vet him at all it seems.

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In its report on the killing of the bishop the Daily Mail manages to squeeze in some details about the bishop’s palace in LA:
“Authorities said they responded to David O’Connell’s four-bedroom, three-bathroom $1.07million home in the Hacienda Heights neighborhood.”

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I looked it up on Google Maps. It’s a large, swanky house in an upmarket neighbourhood.

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7.04

Now you didn’t expect it to be in some Latino shantytown, did you?

I know he was fond of the poor, but not that fond that to have wanted them on his own doorstep.

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11:45 it’s called “controlling the narrative”
A modus operandi of old. Handed down from one generation to the next.

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The Irish Church, the GAA, Civil Servants and bankers etc., quietly continue to profit from their participation in conflicts of interest in the Irish property boom.
Kilkenny hurling star DJ Carey and his accountant sister, Catriona who was featured on RTE Investigates and convicted for fraud for swindling vulnerable members of the public in an elaborate scam are a case in point. DJ Carey has had his €9.5 million debt to AIB Bank reduced to €60,000, 99.4% of his debt has been written off in an assumption of favour and because he is a person of influence according to David Hall, Chief of the Irish Mortgage Holders Association who has helped more than 24,000 homeowners deal with banks after they lost their jobs in Celtic Tiger property crash and couid no longer afford to pay mortgages on highly inflated mortgages.
It’s not what you know, it’s who you know in Roman Catholic network and their property land banking and related activities.
Their God is Money and Money is their God.
If you have zero regard for human rights, keep filling the coffers of the Roman Catholic Church and no doubt you and your families and upstanding members take pride in being such an integral cog in the wheels of an internationally recognised Mafia of money and kiddy fiddlers.

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YES, God bless Pope Francis who I believe is trying his utmost to be a pastorally good Bishop for all peoples. His health is not great and I do not want to see a repeat of Pope St. John Paul 11 dying in front of the world. That iconic time was amazing but upsetting for too long. In the end our death through incurable illness should be private. But those final days of Pope St. John Paul 11 will be remembered. Pope Benedict would have been better to have retired back to Germany or Castelgondolfo. Pope Francis may as yet have to make a decision re: his tenure because of his health. He’ll be much more discerning. I think your reference to Pioe Benedict and his “husband” is unnecessary. No need to be rude.

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When I was growing up my mother used to always remind us to never speak ill of the dead. The comments you make about Pope Benedict XVI with no facts whatsoever are outrageous. Then to add in Archbishop Georg Ganswein as well is pretty low.
I realise Pat that this blog is full of rumour, lies, half truths and only occasionally actual truth. I urge you Pat to put a little more thought into some of the comments you make especially when you ate defaming the dead with NO evidence whatsoever.
A bit of common decency and respect for the dead would go a long way. Not to mention you do a lot of self projection onto others. Your struggles Pat are not necessarily everyone else’s. However you make outlandish assumptions just because of your own lived experience and sexuality.
A little tolerance maybe Pat, if you have it in you. Maybe also time for another positive story rather than all doom, gloom and slander.

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You’re asking a lot there. I have asked for the same but the requests go unanswered and censorship reigns supreme

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12:27: members of parish communities do frequently speak ill of the dead and anyone else when it suits their overall agenda.
The last wishes of the deceased are also disrespected when it suits the RCC agenda.
Once again, the Roman Catholic membership does not practice what it preaches.

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Quote “The last wishes of the deaceased are also disrespected when it suits the RCC agenda”.
Can you provide us with proof and perhaps an example, that this is the case in the RCC.
Awaiting same.

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Why does the fraud make other bishops tender their resignation at 75, and make cardinals cease to be electors at 80, yet he thinks he can sail on forever?

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I find it rather peculiar that a straight man is obsessed with other men masturbating

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This case has been set up and maximised by this lot https://adfinternational.org/about-us/
Gough and the woman with him are just small pieces, being used.
He doesn’t realise it. Not the sharpest pencil. Oscott product. Says it all. But stupid enough to get himself as the poster boy for free speech.
It will all come tumbling down. I feel sorry for him.

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5.09: A ludicrous comment. Fr. Gough is quite a smart man. He stands on the side of the UNBORN CHILD. Such integrity and courage in a world that disposes of human life so easily…unborn and born. Babies diagnosed with any deformity or “abnormality” are considered a nuisance. Some of the most beautiful people I’ve met in life are people with so called disabilities. Their beauty radiates more clearly and purely than the nasty, ugly troop on this blog. Well done to Fr. Gough. God bless his ministry. Your attempts to smear his name are puerile and pathetic. Such immaturity!!

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5.09 and Queenie 2.52 p.m: Sleepers and plausible alibi members of new movements and attenders at Syn-nodality including bishops that didn’t ask for it, all are being set up, that is the jesuit (and the Polish bolshevik) mode since the 1540s.
Go back to just plain saying your prayers and read the Bible. Only do churchy things if the authorities – or anyone who brags about back channels to authorities – aren’t involved.

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If I were Pope (God save protect you all form such an occurrence) I would hang on as long a I could, to ensure that any changes I made were upheld and integrated solidly into Catholicism.
No doubt when the next Pope is ensconced in the Vatican, with different views and maybe a traditional outlook, he may overrule many of the changes Francis has made, Francis will be, only too well aware of this happening, so he keep the crown, which makes good sense, as long as he is able, it will be interesting to observe.
One small example, when Benedict restricted McCarrick’s ministry, Francis comes along and brazenly over-rules Benedicts sanctions, the rest is diabolical history for the Roman Catholic church, McCarrick, Benedict, & Francis.

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Love the idea that George was Benedict’s husband meaning Benny was wifey meaning George was the Top and Benny his Bottom.
Francis is a Peronist and highly manipulative- he’s a resign, don’t resign, one thing today, the opposite tomorrow.
Will they canonise Benny and Frankie – v likely and wouldn’t that be obscene two old frauds as saints.

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Nicola Bulley has been found dead in that shallow river after a month of searching, there is something sinister about this. Just because she was menopausal does not mean she was clumsy enough to trip over her dog and fall into the river while her husband joins tinder.

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There is something not right about this case. If she was black or trans the entire world would have been looking for her. But because she is as unfortunate enough to be born a normal white woman she is left to lie in a river a month.

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@3.25 pm

Sadly yes a body has been found. Unidentified but most likely to be her. Sinister I agree. I feel for her parents and two girls aged 6 years and 9 years old, her partner and Willow the dog.

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Pat, the photo of Bergoglio that illustrates today’s blog, captures very well his dark soul and nasty, cruel personality.

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When does Robert Nugent sleep? He was up last night at 4am. Does he work from home? That man is going to take a catholic breakdown

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Pat, you have spoken for a ling number of years re: the corruption in the Church. I know you seem to call all priests “ci-abusers” or “enablers” which us an injustice. That aside you are right to constantly monitor all happenings, decisions and promises. I do that in my own life. I condemn all abuse and have done so. My voice has been heard and I will continue to do so. Despite the awful shame I feel for the monstrous failings – in some cases – criminal – I get on with my work and responsibilities. Sometimes I feel affirmed in my efforts, other times I wonder about it all. Yet, because I have a deep conviction about priesthood in my life and because if deep faith, I know I can still do the right, just and acceptable thing in my own ministry for the people in the parish where I work. I see the parush as thecspecial.vibeyard given to my care a ling with wonderfully good parishioners. Tigether we trybto make it a very caring, Christian community. After that we ensure the needs if vulnerable people are looked after sensitively and caringly. But as always, I must first change, renew and transform my life more into Christ. Otherwise I am a noisy gong…

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Poor Pope Francis! The guy couldn’t be more confused had he a form of dementia. (Perhaps he has but, like the slabbering Polish fathead, does not want to concede papal power.) Francis thanks the media for exposing the huge feet of clay in his church, but then goes on to caution, implicitly, against such exposure, since behind it all is Satan, the ‘Great Accuser’. 😅 C’mon, Francie boy: make up your confused Latino mind. Is it good to expose the moral filth in your lying church, or not? You do realise that your very argument (about the great eschatological bogeyman, Satan) is one of the arguments your filty, corrupt, and lying confreres used for generations, ‘for the good of the Church’. You, Francie boyo, are actually endorsing what those confreres did, and for the reasons they did it. You silly, mixed up Latino!😆

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One’s authority in the Jesus Movement comes from actually expressing what Jesus taught, and adhering to it. The Romanists have a pretty poor track record here.

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By the way, who was the priest caught in a toilet menage a trois (or more !) in NI recently ? That seems to have gone quiet. I suppose he will be sent away for a while and then given a little parish somewhere in the country where there are no public toilets !

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Did Benny jump or was he given the old heave-ho by the St. Gallen brigade? There were reports of hassle between Frankie and George
over Benny’s estate which is reported to be considerable.

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I stabbed my wife to death 17 years ago and did my time. I know god and she forgive me and I have regretted that every day since the day I done it.

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You all talk about us pedophiles as though we can not be rehabilitated and that’s not the case at all. I am doing well back in the community and volunteer for a local charity

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Reply to 3:52…
Quote “The last wishes of the deaceased are also disrespected when it suits the RCC agenda”.
Can you provide us with proof and perhaps an example, that this is the case in the RCC.
Awaiting same.

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Pat do you believe Adolf Hitler brainwashed all them Germans or do you believe them to be all intrinsically evil?

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He didn’t have a uniball as a child, but acquired on in action on the Western Front during WWI.

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From the person who does the smallest job in the parish to the pope-we are all servants. Nobody owns the church All are instruments of God’s Grace

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DEATH OF HIGH RANKING BISHOP, DAVID O CONNELL, BEING INVESTIGATED AS MURDER
By KCAL-NEWS STAFF
UPDATED ON:
FEBRUARY 19, 2023 / 11:44 AM / KCAL NEWS
“The fatal shooting of high-ranking bishop, David O’Connell, was being investigated as a murder, officials said Sunday.
O’Connell was shot around 1 p.m. Saturday in the 1500 block of Janlu Avenue in Hacienda Heights. There, deputies responded and located O’Connell who had been suffering from a gunshot wound. Paramedics pronounced him dead at the scene. “We learned early this morning from the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s office that they have determined that the death of Auxiliary Bishop David O’Connell yesterday was a homicide. We are deeply disturbed and saddened by this news,” said Archbishop José H. Gomez.”https://www.cbsnews.com/losangeles/news/death-of-high-ranking-bishop-david-oconnell-being-investigated-as-a-murder/

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Belgium is shaping up nicely. Brussels will be home to Bishop Noel Treanor and his secretary-in-waiting Fr Ryan McAleer. May God Bless them both.

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