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HANDBAGS AT DAWN – CARFIN GROTTO.

CHRISTOPHER MORRIS AND HOLY TOALY
CARFIN GROTTO

FROM OUR SCOTTISH PRIEST CORRESPONDENT

CHRISTOPHER MORRIS –

Despite his history and in the face of opposition from victims, priests, and people, Holy Toaly decided to ordain Christopher Morris.

After 3 parish priests refused to take him as their curatet, he was gladly accepted by the equally aggressive Fr Jim Grant at the National Marian Shrine of Carfin.

FATHER JIM GRANT

Well that didn’t last long…

Within weeks of his arrival parents and parishioners were so​ ​ concerned by Christopher’s behavior, attitude and language that they reported him to the Parish Priest and Diocese.​ ​

Only months after Frs Grant and Christopher moved in a young residential musical director, it seems there has been a “lovers tiff.” Clearly, Christopher doesn’t take no for an answer and will not share.

Fr Grant has ordered Christopher out of the Presbytery and informed Holy Toaly that he wants him moved on.​ ​ Holy Toaly is reluctant to move Christopher because it will look bad on him.​

Christopher is currently on leave and we await the next development

PATRICIA MCKEEVER AND CATHOLIC TRUTH SCOTLAND

PATRICIA MCKEEVER

Patricia McKeever of Catholic Truth Scotland has been campaigning about Christopher Morris and Bishop Toal’s decision to retain him as a seminarian and ordain him:

Editor shares extracts from two messages which dropped into her inbox earlier this week…
Diocese of Motherwell – Ordination of Christopher Morris takes place today… 

If you want to know how arrogant, deviant and dismissive the hierarchy are of the People of God just look at Motherwell Cathedral this Thursday [30 June, 2022] when Bishop Toal ordains Christopher Morris who is predatory and deviant. So much for victims and safeguarding.​

A man reported during his time in Rome for cruising, attending gay bars, psychologically, physically and sexually bullying numerous fellow seminarians – for which reason the staff threw him out in no small part thanks to Catholic Truth. 

Ed This is a reference to my approach to the seminary rector some years ago, when Morris attended the Scots College in Rome. Christopher phoned me at the time and assured me that he understood that his behaviour had to change; he presented himself as contrite. Thus, his name was omitted from our reports into the the extent of homosexuality within the Church in Scotland, at that time. My more recent attempts to contact him have failed.  All approaches have been ignored. Wherever did that sweet-talkin’ laddie go? Seems to have disappeared into the Motherwell Mist…  Never mind; I will be praying for him today – and for the faithful souls who will be placed into his [whatdyimacallit] pastoral care.  God help us all. 

Despite advice from Christopher’s numerous victims, seminary and diocesan staff and his presbyterate for some reason Bishop [Toal] is still ordaining him. There will be few diocesan clergy present but as many protestors and of course most diocesan clergy are refusing to welcome him into their parishes…  End of extracts. 

Another fine Scottish homosexual mess…….

FATHER JIM GRANT

Yesterday afternoon, in an effort to get an insight into Fr Grant, I watched this video.

I was impressed

117 replies on “HANDBAGS AT DAWN – CARFIN GROTTO.”

All these overdressed and over paid twats are arrogant, always have been but you can read all about them now on the internet so they cannot get away with lying up to the faces of the religious people that were previously taken in by them. I have a nice little altar in my sitting room now and I light a candle and say my own prayers.

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Good woman yerself Maggie, keep yer hand on your half pennies. We’ve often seen the Roman Mafia mock small contributions or no contributions on this blog and else where.

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To you @ 10:24 – show some respect for our Bishop for goodness sake. Fr Christopher Morris is a very nice young priest and you are nothing but a scandal monger. Do your prayers for Lent at least.

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Can we get anything sleazi about the catholic church under the guise of ‘ safe guarding ‘ . The type a stuff that would get a few calls to half a million a year Joe Duffy or the paper of ‘ record ‘ the Irish times 😂. Ud have ta fkn laugh. ‘ modern ‘ ‘ progressive ‘ ” caring ‘ Ireland .v

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I attended Philp Mogers’ ordination as auxiliary bishop last week. We all noted Bishop Egan’s absence and wondered if it had anything to do with his recent coverage here? Strange not to be there to support a brother bishop.

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The bulletin said that he was going took after other parishes because the priest is sick.
To be honest, he hasn’t been around the parish much. Between long holidays and doing other stuff, he and Fr Grant have kept out each others way.

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What amazes and amuses me in equal measure is not the controversial ordination of Christopher Morris, but that anyone today is credulous enough to take these pantomime dames seriously. Just look at them: they are a preposterous and useless anachronism who love preening and parading themselves while falling into increasing and tedious irrelevance; the show is a massive flop, but they are too inebriated on self-importance to notice or care. Few give the proverbial about them; in fact, it’s death by a thousand sniggers. Quite literally, they have gone from the sublime to the irredeemably and risibly absurd.

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Anon@7:21. Well said, and so true.
I particularly like your phrase “death by a thousand sniggers.”
It’s noticeable how many commentators now speak of organised religion in derisory terms, and the RCC in particular. The internet and media exposure has increased individuals tendency to consider the extent to which the flimsy evidence for the practice of religion has any sound foundation or beneficial outcomes. When the manifest abuses of clerics are added, it’s no wonder many have abandoned formal religious practices to seek meaning to their lives elsewhere.

More power to you Maggie Kelley in finding your own expression of spirituality.
MMM

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The internet has heightened public consciousness of Social Work practitioners abuses incompetence and negligence including unethical practices with resultant cover ups often leading to State funded public inquiries.

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8:45 The Irish Roman Catholic Church and the Irish Child and Family Agency TUSLA work hand in hand. Safeguarding my arse!!

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You were impressed, Pat, with Grant’s video-pulpit prattle? It was dotted with clichés, evidence of poor preparation.
It’s clear that this man is more voluble than thoughtful, more a preacher than a practitioner.
He could imitate Frank Xavier in one practical way: by fasting. I mean what a porker is Grant!

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This story of Morris is very familiar. It chimes with the Portsmouth imbroglio about Power Bottom John Paul Lyttle. Their respective bishops ordained them in spite of all the alarm bells the were being rung and people telling the bishops not to ordain them. Which they characteristically and arrogantly dismissed and went ahead anyhow. Then a little while down the line the two newly ordained priests hit the buffers, sharing much of the same sexual predatory modus operandi and hitting on young men who do not welcome their advances. Morris will disappear for a while and a huge amount of money will be spent on supporting him and paying for whatever ‘treatment’ he embarks on. Then he will quietly reappear and after a short while the behaviour will repeat itself. It’s the PB JPL story repeated. You would do well, + Pat, to keep an eye on this situation and alert us to what is happening. It is only when people like you, us and this blog keep on pressure will arrogant and self-willed bishops do what is the obvious – show this guy the door !

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Your Correspondent is up to mischief again! The parish bulletin suggests otherwise:
‘Fr Christopher
Bishop Toal has asked Fr Morris to move to Airdrie to look after three parishes where the parish priest, Fr Bill Bergin, (formerly of St Teresa’s, Newarthill), is at present quite ill and unable to fulfil any duties. The parishes are Saint David’s Plains, St Mary’s, Caldercruix and St Dominic’s, Greengairs.
Fr Morris is away this weekend at an ordination in Salford when he returns, he will take up his new position in Airdrie.
We bid him farewell and thank him for all that he has done for us here in Carfin since he arrived last August and wish him every blessing in this new ministry. Carfin’s loss is Airdrie’s gain.’
And the resident organist was there before Fr Christopher moved in!

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Nancy, (I assume your surname is Boye)
In this day and age why are you naive, stupid or institutionalized enough not to recognize that you can’t believe the official announcements of dioceses on priests’ movements?
I suggest you have a look at the film Spotlight to learn what these announcements really mean.

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If its in the parish bulletin it must be true. The parish bulletin would never pull the wool over the parishioners. The priests smell like the sheep.

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10:42 that’s your trouble Fathers & Co, you “assume” far too much and that’s what lands you & your types in such boiling hot waters.
Go back to literacy lessons.
Assume
Ass-u-me
and so on and so on…….

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I believe the Scottish correspondent needs to be named. Is he/she suffering from sour grapes? Let’s be having you. You yellow belly, hiding behind anonymity.
I may not agree with everything PB and Patricia McKeever write but I respect their courage particularly Patricia.
Come out of the closet.

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Paul McEntire at 11.42am
Unlike the so called Scottish correspondent (with the yellow streak) I do not go in for character assassination.I
Are you the yellow belly? Your name is fictitious.

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I’m not yellow belly.
Are you chicken afraid of what might fall out of your closet?

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Hark at how the very hint of an investigative journalist so promptly rattles the Holy Ones!

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Is this a mistake I see before me? Praise for Patricia? WOW!
Anonymous, 27 Feb, 11.29 am… please identify yourself – you know where I am, you know I won’t hurt you, but if you don’t ID yourself now, I will hunt you down and … all will be well that ends well!
Thank you for being kind to me. I get SO much criticism, and so I appreciate your kindness. For all you know, after all, my middle name could be Megan…

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Fr. Grant comes across as a normal, balanced guy. The Bishop looks a little over coloured and rather buntyish!! Don’t we all come in a myriad of shapes, sizes and colour? I recall having to move out if a house I was sharing with a Cletus…he was j7st so eccentric and respected no not series. It was a crazy arrangement but luckily a house became free after the death of another priest, so I had the peace of it for 5 years…We worked better once we weren’t in the same space. We are a pot pourri of personalities!! Pat will understand this…

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Carfin is a tawdry tacky excuse of a national shrine: no surprise there would be tacky and tawdry behaviour going on there too!

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Well, the Fr Jim Grant video only goes so far. Yes, he makes a good point about the adaptability of FX in preaching the gospel in order to reach out to all people, but his only suggestion for applying that in our age is that we use the means of technology which we have access to. Strange. That’s simply a practical means of reaching out. What really reaches people is the attitudes and the message that is preached. I’d like to have heard him talk about the Church’s attitude to those it vilifies and excludes, even though its chief members itself – bishops and clergy – are clearly part of that group. He says nothing about women and their role in the Church and how they are the mainstay of any community. He says nothing about rooting out evils which have wounded the Church by a thousand cuts, mostly inflicted by bishops and clergy and their crimes. He says nothing about a Church mindset that obsesses itself with the intimacies of peoples’ lives and relationships. If he’s going to engage with a new evangelisation, then he could be usefully saying something about those things. But, he doesn’t. So, only as good as far as it goes. Could do better.

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Not another trolley dolly! These arrogant bishops will NEVER learn other than going through the expensive school of experience.

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9:39 why not, these holy ones have never paid their own bill for anything in their whole lives and are protected by the RCC even when rarely convicted in courts of law.

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Don’t suppose he’s given it up for Lent!
After all, none of them practice what they preach.
The “special” ones & their cohorts.

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Fr Jim Grant was foolish to accept the Bishops pet, Fr Christopher Morris, Bishop Holy Toaly has a soft spot for Morris and this does not bode well for Fr Grant in the longer term.

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It’s beginning to look as if there could be a very interesting back story on recent murder of Bishop David O’Connell in Los Angeles.

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Has anyone heard from those 2 young men sent to Hide out at Benedictine Priory Nazareth Tegelen with Dom Mark Kirby of Silverstream Priory, Ireland?
How is Silverstream whistleblower Dom Benedict Andersen and is he still being deliberately and maliciously being denied by the Irish Roman Catholic Church without the means to move on with his life?
Who is running Silverstream Priory now?
Where is Brother Ejihah in all of this and has the financial question about the cash store in the office of American born Dom Mark Kirbys office in Silverstream been addressed?

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There are more questions than answers. Let’s hope the new Papal Nuncio gets to the bottom of goings on at Silverstream Priory, fully, fairly and impartially.

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My family, close friends and I would never trust a priest or the kind of people they keep around them after all the awful things that have been coming out for years now. One never knows what these outwardly pious types have going on. The church have both the connections and the money to cover it all up. It’s all been done before and it’ll always be done again where they get the opportunity. Toxic haters of anyone who rightly shines a torch on their decades long abuse and corruption that has proved so very lucrative for them, a real money spinner, selling babies, making unpaid slaves of unmarried mothers often impregnated by rich employer friends & family of local priests & priests themselves and it all twisted to exploit the orphan and and mother. This blog is doing great work and honest people have seen for themselves for years now how the church tries to manipulate people anywhere that they can. No more, younger generations don’t care about these bad fakes pretending to be something they are not.

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I’ve said it before here and so have many others; the RCC should be removed from the charity list and put on the criminal organizations lists.

It is beyond farce that an organization can continue to operate when it has such immediate safeguarding concerns today, never mind its appalling history of abuse, violence, thievery and corruption of government.

Young people simply don’t care – they are too busy trying to turn a copper to pay extortionate rent and mortgages while getting drunk and laid (the last two are perfectly normal). The RCC in general is hardly on 5% of young people’s minds.

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Great post, Mary.
Indeed the church has the connections and money to cover up.
Irish bishops conference has acknowledged a Reckoning on child sex abuse in RCC Ireland has to take place.This suggests plenty more scandals to emerge. Stay tuned….

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to distract from their cover ups watch the clergy shouting loud about female reproduction . To cover their asses they use manipulation to pick on the vulnerable female.

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Senator Paul Gavan speaking in the Seanad used the phrase ‘women and pregnant people’ so its not just females who reproduce.

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You’ll have to ask Mr. Gavan.
To the best of my knowledge people who identify as men can, and do, become pregnant and give birth, if they possess a uterus and ovaries.
Are they male or female?

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Very interesting Mary. You don’t care-allegedly- yet you come on here pontificating. Maybe try and work on some of that repressed anger?

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Father it’d be much More in your line to do something about all those poor men and women your priests and nuns have made mugs of when they tried to get help and justice. I am fully entitled to have my say anywhere I like, you know you are in the wrong because you won’t even say which priest you are. Worm.

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This is hilarious- ‘Mary O’Brien’ was the name of a well known and quite notorious seminarian in Clonliffe years ago, who eventually got the boot. ‘She’ comments on lots of religious blogs and forums. And I guarantee you ‘she’ is not from Terenure

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2:03 what’s your name Father?
I suppose you can’t tell us because you’re wanted for something bad somewhere.

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2:03
What’s wrong with ye at all at all at all. Sur there must be a small army of Mary O Brien’s in Terenure.

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True Miley, but THAT Mary O’Brien certainly isn’t!! “she” is well known by Clonliffe alumni, and every far right trade blog under the sun. I hope Pat to not taken in by “her’

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4:50
Well holy god what do ye mean at all at all. That Mary O Brien isn’t a what- a Mary- a Terenure Mary O Brien – or a Clonliffe Mary O Brien. Sur there must be another small army of Mary O Briens in Clonliffe. And how in the name of God can you tell one Mary O Brien from another on one blog or de other.

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5:57
Well holy god sur I never knew people were following each other around the blogs. And is Mary following you or you following Mary or were ye doing a line at one time since you know her style or are ye neighbours.

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Well, Miley, in Clonliffe “Mary” was wanting to do a line with everybody. That’s why “she” got the boot….among other reasons. ‘Twas a long way from Terence back then, m’dear.

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9:30
Now ye have me rightly addled. Sur nobody mentioned a Terence.
And who might Terence be or are ye now trying to addle us all.

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So Bishop Toal, who was the bishop with responsibility for safeguarding for 10 years is sending a newly ordained priest with a history of inappropriate sexual behaviour and bullying to cover three parishes by himself? Does he just sit down and draw up a list of the most unsafe safeguarding approach he can muster and then implement it?! It’s not the first time it’s happened in Airdrie and Fr Jim Grant was theactive enabler and intermediary that time as well.

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11:48 yet another cleric displaying his nonsensical arrogance and lack of concern for parishioner welfare in favour of his deviant cohorts.

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12:44
Never make assumptions silly. You display nonsensical ignorance. Do you make random anti-clerical comments for the sake of making anti-clerical comments. I’m not a cleric.

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1:52 Not a cleric? Don’t make me laugh. You’ve got the papal flag on your tongue.

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2:18
Seems very easy to make you laugh.
You’re wrong. I’m not a cleric or former cleric.
What flag is on your tongue?

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12:18 True, did you see how that anonymous priests or one of their types addressed Mary O’Brien here this morning? I suppose they pissed off about her having a nice peaceful altar in her house, to be fair, at least Mary knows that no priest has been doing strange things on her little altar, the poor parishioners in Cork cannot be so sure.

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12:33. The self entitled clergy imagine that they are only ones with the right to “go it alone”. 😒

Good on Mary O’Brien, she’s in the very best of company.

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12:03
He doesn’t, but only conditionally:
‘Therefore God gave them over in the lusts of their hearts to impurity, so that their bodies would be dishonored among them. For they exchanged the truth of God for a lie, and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever. Amen’ Rom 1:24-7

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There are new voices
Yet to be heard voices
Voices we didn’t get to hear
Remember, every ribbon you tie on a church fence or door shows solidarity with a victim and will mean the whole world to them in dealing with the daily indifference, resistance, libel and slander dished out to them by Roman Catholic members including clergy and hierarchy.
Be FAITHFUL to the weak & oppressed victims and survivors of Roman Catholic Church abuse.

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Omg? Did you hear the latest about Bishop Phonsie? He took to the streets to distribute ashes on Ash Wednesday from after his Mass until early evening.
I suppose you could say he was just making his mark.😅

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12:28
Seriously? Seems to be a virtue signalling competition going on between members of the hierarchy. Is there a vacancy on the horizon?

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What a dork. Why did he do that? His priests could have administered them at truck stops and public lavatories too.

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Carfin is like the defunct Mr Blobby World with a pastiche of replicas of international Marian shrines. It was like the old Tunnel of Love at Alton Towers where a boat would whisk take you past historical cities and landmarks.

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Interesting that Jim Grant has fallen out with his curate , he seems to have a habit of falling out with folk. Not so long ago since he sacked the two plonkers from Sancta Famillia. Mind you, he was right to do that, Mallon is an aggressive, nutter who loves to present himself as a victim. He apparently provoked Grant to the point of fisticuffs, never mind handcuffs.

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Sancta Familia have now resorted to covering funerals and anything involving John Keenan to scrape a living after Jim Grant had enough. They are two devout young chaps who are very traditionalist in approach and their devotion is quite uncharacteristic for lay men their age. They did a bit of freelance work for Tom Deenihan as well. Be interesting if Pat could do a blog on them….

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8.34 is right – rich pickings there – with all their TLM & daisy chain connections

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WHAT HAVE THE JESUITS DONE ABOUT RUPNIK? A TIMELINE
(ITALY)
Catholic News Agency
Rome Newsroom,
February 26, 2023
By Hannah Brockhaus
“The Society of Jesus said Feb. 21 it had received 15 credible accusations of abuse against Father Marko Rupnik and would be taking steps to begin an internal procedure against the Jesuit priest and artist. The process could result in disciplinary actions up to and including the 68-year-old Rupniks expulsion from the Jesuit order. In the Feb. 21 declaration, Rupniks superior, Father Johan Verschueren, said, “I feel it is my duty to deal seriously with this case and others like it that have arisen and are arising, out of respect for, and in protection of, truth and justice for all parties involved.”
https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/253736/what-have-the-jesuits-done-about-rupnik-a-timeline

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It certainly was disturbing, the usual paper or priest shuffling, with no urgency about removing the abuser, a noted and talented artist. It’s like the Nobertines were sending Brendan Smyth for ECT, but reinstating him every time or continually giving the perpetrator stern and ineffectual warnings.

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Catholic Diocese of Portsmouth
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SUNDAY 26TH FEBRUARY
FIRST SUNDAY OF LENT (Psalter Week 1)
National Prayer Cycle: Candidates for the Sacraments
Diocesan Prayer: Priests no longer in active ministry

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Quite a few of the priests in D &C should never have been ordained . But I guess the bishop didn’t care who he got to fleece the sheep

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The Scottish clerics appear a tad over nourished and some ridiculously overdressed in heavy curtain material.

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Don’t forget there’s also the Morris and JB (ex Paisley Priest) connection, surprised your ‘Scottish Correspondent’ hasn’t clued you in with the gory details. For all his faults at least JK dealt with JB.

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Never understand why you provide a platform to Pat McKeever and the Catholic Truth Scotland.
Years ago, one of my protestant workmates was going through a really tough time with cancer.
His family was very mixed so he was delighted when his CofS parish decided to participate in a joint service with the local Catholic families, also going through cancer treatment.
They had a lovely joint service for all those affected by, or suffering from, cancer in the community.
John Keenan kindly agreed to host the joint service down in Paisley, it was a beautiful day and of great comfort to those affected by cancer.
This was the first time I ever heard of Catholic Truth Scotland because they spoke out against it. You can read Peter Mackin’s blog post about it here
https://catholictruthscotland.com/2017/04/05/bishop-john-keenan-enemy-of-the-faith/

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