A very pleasant, elderly, daily blog reader from Munster telephoned me the other day and asked if I could forgive RICHARD PURCELL and let him get on with his life?
He also said that RP was doing great work in Mount Mellerary, resonating the buildings, developing Declans pilgrim path, and inviting choirs to sing at the monastery.
MY FORGIVENESS
Richard Purcell does not need my forgiveness. He never wronged me personally, and I’ve never met him.
If he has done the things he’s accused of, he needs God’s forgiveness, the forgiveness of anyone he has hurt, and the forgiveness of his Cistercian brethren whom he has betrayed.
REPENTANCE – PREREQUISITE FOR FORGIVENESS
Richard Purcell has never issued a statement, much less an apology for his actions.
In my opinion, his silence is an arrogant silence.
His resignation for “personal reasons” rang and rings hollow.
In allowing this, the OCSOs have sullied the reputation of the whole order.
I used to admire and believe in the Cistercians. I now regard them as another corrupt lot.
When the contemplatives are shagging each other in the monasteries what hope is there for the seculars?
CHANGED?
Has Purcell changed? Have we seen signs of change.
All I see recently is a man “ensconced in Zion” – appearing in the media often in designer clothes
For now, I think Purcell is exercising caution and lying low.
I detect no sign of sackcloth and ashes and no ripping of garments.
My dad Jim, God rest him, used to say:
“If you’re used to wearing shoes, it’s hard to go in your bare feet.”
If Richard has become accustomed to the “gay fles pots,” can he seriously return to “conversion of life?”
My guess is NO.
GLASGOW UNDERTAKERS DOMESTIC CASE RESUMES TODAY IN GLASGOW
Pat,
As you know, Desmond Maguire will appear in court for a 4th and possible final time tomorrow (Tuesday 21st.
The trial was continued to allow The Crown more time to gather evidence from its witnesses. These included 3 of the Maguuress 5 children – NOT the middle child as she has special needs and NOT the youngest.
Desmond has asked his friend Bishop / MR Keenan as well as Glasgow’s Vicar General and Glasgow’s Chancellor of the Mgr Murray, and Glasgow’s Director of Catholic Education, Canon Anthony Gallagher with whom Desmond is residing, for character references.
Mgr Hugh Bradley is publicly and vocally supporting Desmond.
BISHOP PAT BUCKLEY 
100 replies on ““BISHOP, CAN YOU NOT FORGIVE RICHARD PURCELL”?”
They genuinely don’t have a clue do they? We all know how well it would go if they were ever presented with actual evidence a child was abused by a priest.
But of course ‘forgive’ is church speak and here translates as ‘shut up about’ Purcell so that they can all forget his unfortunate sexual predilections and carry on pretending.
Fools.
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11.40: Exactly: you most definitely need to ‘shut up’. I do not know Richard Purcell but I do know I do not have any right or authority to continually slam any sinner into the ground. I do not have any power, civil or otherwise to imprison anyone in their past. Forgiveness lies at the heart of the JESUS story and as Christians – perhaps you don’t subscribe to such imperatives – then we must put the gospel into action, which is not a condoning of any sin or wrongdoing. Remember when JEsus told the woman: NEITHER DO I CONDEMN YOU after the cowards walked away, he then said:::GO AND SIN MO MORE..Like the lynch mobsters on this blog, you do not know if Richard has heard these words. It is not your role to adjudicate his future.
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10:14 Ah, one of the many ‘arguments’ used to cover up kiddy fiddling priests.
Worked out well for you, that approach, hasn’t it. 😂
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10.31
When you resort to raising. the issue of the crime of the sexual abuse of children and introducing it into a non-related subject such as the one being discussed, namely, consentual sexual relations between adults, blog readers know your have run out of argument.
The implication is that you care nothing for the victims of CSA.
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11:40 Looks like you’ve scored a direct hit. 🎯
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10.31: You, gombeen, keep repeating the same soundbyte. Are you thick? I said nothing about defending child abuse. I merely referred to the duplicitous behaviour of the monk which I disapprove of but I have no right to cinfine him to a past. None and neither do you. The woman caught in adultery would be stoned by you even in the sight of Jesus.
Try to find a logical brain. Try.
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Idiot! The woman caught in adultery was crawling on the ground, tearful, REPENTANT. Purcell? 😅😅😅😅😅😅😅
More sentimentality than sense, you.😕
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How old is Dom Richard? He looks very young in these pictures. Can’t believe that he was the abbot.
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He was 41 when elected abbot of Mount Melleray in 2017.
https://mountmellerayabbey.org/news/story/new-abbot-elected
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He’ a good looking guy – Dom Richard that is, not Paddy Walsh!!!!!
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That horrible Paddy Walsh is in full possession of his faculties. Evil old bastard. He will never show remorse for what was done to poor Fr Paddy McCafferty. Walsh is toxic, even now causing trouble and strife in nursing home. It beggars belief what self entitled, arrogant clerics and their colleagues are permitted to get away with.
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How do you know that Bishop Walsh is ‘in full possession of his faculties’ ?
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Those who know “know”.
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8:35 You can tell because the cathbots were casting doubt on his faculties, in the hope of getting sympathy for the monster, in the comments yesterday.
Compare in the nineties when the Vatican said JP2 didn’t have Parkinson’s and he was shaking and dribbling like anything.
Did I mention that the cult is in the habit of lying, like any other criminals?
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Sooo… neither of you knows. Figures.🙄
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It seems that Abbot Richard Purcell’s highly compromised cohorts in the Munster region have now resorted to having pensioners telephone you to plead his case! Rawhide will drag several more carcasses down with him if you keep highlighting more and more caca.
That elderly person is a well known dedicated Pro-lifer who would never in a million years report a kiddy fiddler priest, you know the types.
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Why is Dom BB Dick Purcell out and about in lay attire? Easy for him to trek off to the boiler house for some action afterwards? He should be restricted to the monastery and, when outside forced to wear his religious habit and chaperoned.
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That’s not lay attire. After due consideration the general chapter voted to change the order’s habit to this:
https://scontent.fbhx6-1.fna.fbcdn.net/v/t1.6435-9/117257642_144956417244915_6509489794529175849_n.jpg?stp=cp0_dst-jpg_e15_fr_q65&_nc_cat=104&ccb=1-7&_nc_sid=8024bb&efg=eyJpIjoidCJ9&_nc_ohc=M8cMAxRqsx4AX8VdkQw&_nc_ht=scontent.fbhx6-1.fna&oh=00_AfDGWUjrnvhBTGF33PllEh2Tta3VkkWmaIkPOpxKgDCg8w&oe=6440D016
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“They want you, they want you
They want you as a new recruit” 😘
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Many of the Irish clerics are bullies and egotistical types irretrievably consumed by power and their own sense of self importance.
It is not surprising to see these highly compromised individuals reaching out for assistance from their “protectors” in an attempt to deflect the spotlight before more unsavoury truths emerge.
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Senior clerics conduct systematic character assassination on anyone who supports victims and survivors of abuse.
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Interesting to note that Desmond is living with the Canon. Birds of a feather certainly do flock together.
More on this later when I get back from work.
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Would Abbot Richard Purcell’s clerical and lay colleagues not do him a real favour and advise him to leave the clerical state?
His position is completely untenable.
These people are not Richards friends. They are trying to save their own skin.
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Before Bishop Phonsie Cullinan celebrated the installation for Fr Richard Purcell, a highly reliable person spoke to Bishop Phonsie and told him about Richard Purcelll’s sexual misconduct at Roscrea.
This Blog has also been told that Bishop Phonsie placed the person who gave him this information under an oath of silence telling them to never repeat this information again to another human being.
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Obviously, he did repeat the info, though.
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Has Richard Purcell repented and made amends for his participation in the sham visitation of Silverstream Priory?
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Abbot Purcell is yet another cohort of the disgraced Prior Mark Kirby of Silverstream, Ireland whilst Bishop Tom Deenihan of Meath continues to hang Silverstream whistleblower Dom Benedict Andersen out to dry with the blessings of Bishop of Waterford & Lismore Phonsie Cullinan, Bishop Fintan Monahan of Killaloe and Abbot Brendan Coffey of Glenstal Abbey, Limerick. The Irish situation is a ticking time bomb, they are others complicit and deeply compromised.
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Clearly not
No surrender from the Irish clerical bad boys and their Mafia networks.
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Dom Cuthbert Brogan’s behaviour was communicated to Crispian Hollis who still ordained him priest.
The only wonder is how anyone ever gets refused for ordination because most bishops seem like the episcopus vagans.
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Abbot Richard Purcell counts amongst his closest allies some of the most powerful pure evil lay & clerical liars including parishioners young and old buying into sexual crimes and sacred misconduct of others for the same purpose.
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There is currently a whole gay fetish and porn scene about Roman Catholic priests and their cohorts in Ireland.
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When the story broke in September 2020, the Abbot General arrived back in Ireland for a reason.
It was a Cistercians matter to be resolved by the Cistercians. Why did it take 14 months? Only the Cistercians can explain.
But that does NOT excuse Bishop Phonsie Cullinan installing Fr Purcell AFTER a sincere and reliable source told Bishop Phonsie of Fr Purcell’s lifestyle.
In performing the installation moral crusader Bishop Phonsie effectively approved the Boilerhouse priest sauna lifestyle of Fr Richard Purcell and others on the Irish clerical scene.
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+Pat, I am pleased that you continue to feature Richard Purcell on your blog. And you should continue to highlight the many issues that surround Purcell until he publicly denies these allegations of sexual misconduct.
When they first emerged, Richard Purcell did not have his faculties suspended; he was permitted to vanish like a thief in the night from Mount Melleray Abbey, (clearly with access to funds); he was allowed to return and resume objectively what appears to be a monastic life without a care in the world. Objectively this is one of the most brazen examples of institutional hypocrisy I have observed in a very long period of time.
This should concern every cleric in Ireland because it eloquently illustrates unfathomable duplicity and institutional hypocrisy. It further illustrates that the “elect”, the individuals who wear the accretions of the pectoral cross and the episcopal/abbatial ring can do what they like with impunity. Conversely a simple cleric would feel the full force of the church’s penal code if a similar transgression came into the public domain.
Do bear in mind if Purcell had been parish priest/curate, he would have had his faculties suspended by his bishop. He might have had his stipend cut by anything up to 75 per cent, be forced to leave his diocesan accommodation and seek accommodation with family members/friends, borrow money to cover basic living costs — the list is endless, but you get the picture. This is sadly the reality for quite a number of clerics in Ireland today. However, the former Lord Abbot of Mount Melleray Abbey is in a completely different category. Why?
If Richard Purcell was sincere about living an authentic monastic life, he would go to a small struggling monastic community in an impoverished part of the world.
Before your readers start spewing out invective about you not giving Purcell a chance — they should direct their ire towards the entrenched injustices that many clerics in Ireland are dealing with on a daily basis. They should ask the legitimate questions — who allowed Purcell to act with impunity — whose agenda was served — and why was Purcell not publicly disciplined?
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Purcell and his inner circle of supporters have very influential associates. Far more to all of this than initially meets the naked eye. These thieves certainly cannot afford to fall out and Purcell is in possession of priceless collateral, if he goes down, he isn’t going alone and those who know know.
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The issue with Purcell has simply to do with INTEGRITY. He has shown his refusal to remain faithful to vows that he freely and publicly pronounced, not just by an occasional lapse, but by a constructed modus vivendi of an actively sexual gay life. The gulf between the two, between his professed priestly and monastic life and his active homosexuality, is self-evidently a living lie, and it is not sustainable for someone like Purcell to continue in his priesthood and monastic life etc if he does not opt clearly and honestly for the priestly and monastic life that he claims to live. You cannot trust a man who lives such duplicity. That’s the issue for me. If Purcell lives like a priest and a monk consistently, then fine, let him be. But if not, then he needs to called out. What’s it going to be, Dickie ? And, remember, we are no longer fools and we will know what you are up to, and if you try and fool us again, we will tell the world what you are up to.
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I’d say he will do a great job at Mt Melleray. Transform the place. Most of the priests there are in their 80’s an 90’s . It will be good for the Abbey. I would highly recommend that people stay there for a few days
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Absolutely howling. You have to love it when the rubes come on here and go ‘Look, I’ve been taken in by a scam,’ without even realizing they have. 😂
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May as well turn to a cat for spiritual guidance as turn to a Catholic priest. What would he personally know of God? (Not the cat. It has great knowledge.)
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Did you see that experiment where they got a cat to choose investments on the stock market? The cat’s choices performed as well as any fund manager’s. 😂
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Seanie, have you lost the plot? Transform the place into what? A gay disco! 🕺
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A hotel?
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10:36 I think university campus was mentioned as a possibility.
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With all the testosterone that comes with a uni.
Will Fonsie be Chancellor and Richard VICE Chancellor?
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The office hymn at Vespers:
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10:49 There was talk of Mercyhurst College in Erie Pennsylvania creating a campus or hub in Dungarvan/ West Waterford. Students from Erie have come to Dungarvan to study and use it as a base to explore the rest of Ireland and Europe. The aim was to establish Dungarvan as Mercyhurst European headquarters catering for students from America. Former Dungarvan Fine Gael TD John Deasy graduated from Mercyhurst.
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The parishioner whether out up to contacting you or not (goodness of heart) holds to the classic lay Catholic view that Father can do wrong and if he did let’s turn a blind eye.
The calling out of hypocrisy is bad form in most Catholic circles they like their religion and clerics to ‘appear’ whiter than white.
The Purcell case highlights the homosexualisation of the clerical state a secret, alongside child abuse, they have tried with all their might to suppress for centuries if not a millennia.
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The Abbot of Douie Abbey is a queer fish.
Wonder how he’s getting on – newly appointed and dear to Elsie as he has a Roman PhD (truly a STD)!!!!!
And a tongue on him that one – if he’s living a good and holy life Praise the Good Lord.
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Lay Catholics need to wake up and smell the coffee – Father is v likely a homosexual and v likely in the closet but practising both his predilection and the dark art of a double life.
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Many clerics are into the dark arts.
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Do the people in that photo with Purcell not know his seedy background? If they do, they are fools for thinking that a man like him could possibly give spiritual direction.
It amazes me that anyone today, with any sense, would turn to a Roman Catholic cleric for spiritual guidance. Incredible!
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In 2023 anyone who associates with a RC cleric is obviously unconcerned about their seedy life. They probably justify it in their own heads by thinking at least he’s not a kiddy fiddler.
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6:41 How is this shocking at this point? It’s not even surprising.
Of COURSE criminals back each other up, it’s what they do.
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When did renovating buildings, developing Declan pilgrim path and inviting choirs to sing at the monastery become central features of monastic life? Or maybe the powers that be are planning on selling Mt. Melleray in the not too distant future. The question is how many other bishops or religious superiors are compromised, leading duplicitous lives?
And, why did Phonise Cullinan turn a blind eye to scandal in his diocese?
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The building, maintenance and renovation of buildings has been part of monastic life for centuries. They want nice prominent buildings to assert their importance and want to be major employers because if you’re dependent on the abbey for your living you’re less likely to call the police.
St Benedict himself set up small monasteries of only twelve monks, and in his solitary days is recorded as being so completely solitary one year he didn’t even know it was Easter.
Read their actions in terms of money and power, not their words, and you will see their real motivation.
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If he doesn’t present as someone wearing sackcloth and ashes and rending his (designer) clothes, how do you think he should present himself?
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In his habit and out of the media?
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I think they actually should make a media statement to say that he’s back after a time of reflection and is sorry for any scandal he has caused. And then stay out of media.
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I would consider that a good start but I have a feeling that watever the man does – you and your supporters will not be happy until you’ve extracted your pound of flesh.
While I would genrally be supportive of the blog, I think it lacks compassion at times. Certain individual are constantly pilloried.
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Your daily reminder at 11:29 that cult members habitually assume outsiders are lying.
Remember, every accusation is a confession.
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Media statements, my arse!
Do you want endless media statements!!
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Mr Keenan does not use the hot tub any more
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https://dommichael.demotoday.info/rejected/peter-biddlecombe/
Peter Biddlecombe: ” Vocations are dangerously low. Religious orders are desperate for new members. But I’ve just been thrown out of Mount Mellery, which once famously included a Buddhist monk as a member of its community. “
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Why does Phonsie not chastise Purcell for not wearing a collar at least?
Purcell has a better social life than myself.
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Phonsie is too busy taking cold showers while Dick appears to be a freelance monk. 😄
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11.28: Stop, think, reflect and read again what you’ve written. Is this the mind of an adult or of a wee pervert, prebubescent girlie! The latter I suspect. Grow up, fool.
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12:24
Phonsie is a member of Opus Dei. Members of Opus Dei take at least
one cold shower a day. Dick seems to spend more time out and about than in monastic enclosure-always a bad sign! Are you projecting prepubescent perverted girlie tendencies? Stop, think, and reflect on clerical duplicitous inauthentic hypocrisy, plus thirty-five years of abuse cover ups. There’s a massive hierarchical clerical credibility issue.
Phonsie and Dick are part of the problematic issue. Get real!
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Whoever is writing from Scotland is misinformed again…
The Maguires don’t have a special needs child.
No one has given a character reference.
Desmond is not living in a chapel house.
Pat, why do you publish stuff which isn’t true ? The first statement concerning the child is not right, you should be ashamed of yourselves. There’s nothing wrong with being special needs but you shouldn’t be labelling folk.
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Tom, can’t and won’t comment about the witnesses, but he definitely is living in a chapel house.
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He’s in a chapel house in holy Toaly’s diocese
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He is living in a chapel house in East Kilbride
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12.30 Why is he living in a chapel house ? Is that some tacit approval of his alleged behaviour ? Were it an accused cleric he’d be locked away somewhere !
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1.10: Grow up little girlie. Get a grip on your stupidity.
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3:55
Will you get a grip on your projections, your denial regarding RC mess
and a half, and do try to avoid ad hominem attacks like a good man.
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10.55pm
I suspect your problem isn’t unsuitable to be a monk but unsuitable for a homosexual community- they like their men to be of a particular sexual orientation and I suspect you fell at that hurdle and now ye know too much.
Hard but he did you a favour better off out.
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11:49 You’re so close but so wrong. Did you imagine that heterosexual men who are clean, solvent and able to maintain a conversation would be attracted to a ‘celibate’ life?
It’s in the design, not a problem with 10:55.
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Clerics aren’t into anyone who can “maintain a conversation”.
The ones that go in the sex saunas prefer a butt protruding from between the curtains by all accounts.
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12.32pm
I can live with all monks are homosexual but sometimes nature throws up anomalies so can’t be beyond realm of possibility that occasionally a heterosexual man signs up.
Plus I imagine most monastic communities are Queens at War and nothing as viscous as a clerical Queen – I should know Birmingham is full of them – vitriolic and cruel so they are.
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This Purcell guy should be ‘outed’ by the media. Why is he getting away with so much evil, is it because he has ‘abbott’ status and can rule like a bishop in his community!. I wonder why he even thinks he has a vocation at all. Is he been coerced or paid hush money, because clearly the locals and tourist interests want this Abbey to remain open and viable. The young monks are not coming and probably never. Religious life is clearly over in Europe. His superior should be written to as he clearly is having the time of his life..
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2.13: The conspiratorial nature of your comments is incredulous, laughable and the work of a fantasist. Richard P has not done anything evil – he just behaved in a morally, reckless manner, contrary to his monastic vows. That public duplicity and the spiritual shaming and humiliating of him must be affecting him. Surely, he has a right to rebuild his life without a mobster like you calling for his head. As for the media? Even more laughable…Oh, how the arrogant, pure and self righteous know how to be cruel and nasty. No JESUS in your hearts. ZILCH.
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Is JESUS in the hearts of bishops and priests who collude in covering
up abuse….
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Tom Wood is wrong on a number of accounts. He is / was living in a church house.
A number of clergy HAVE provided references. He was boasting about it in the business lounge at Parkhead!
Wiser clergy declined fearful ( with justification) that certain proclivities and activities they indulged in or still indulge in might come out in open court.
None of those references will have any bearing on the verdict but may be taken into consideration when sentence is handed down.
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Noticed it as ‘fr’ Richard instead of Abbot on paper (photo👆).
His face had a chastened ‘look’ when photo was taken with people of Dungarvan. But that look would be gone sooner or later.
Don’t think he hasnt changed much although I could be wrong there. His new clothes, another sign or virtue signalling that he’s is adopting new emperor clothes.
Interesting bit came from mentioned poster above was Phonsie was told of Purcell’s sexual activity. Anyway he went ahead and ordained him which suggests to ourselves that phonsie approved or acknowledged it to some degree.
Here we have a Bishop who approved a monk with sexual activities with his full knowledge and approval. He doesn’t care I think due to number of photos being with him in various places after ordination. A brass neck Bishop to boot for one, I think.
Kirby is far worse than Purcell in my reckoning but I would be forced to eat my words if Purcell is worse than kirby.
My question, regarding vows of chastity, does it apply to monk or a certain order cos I don’t have a clue due smattering nature of various religious orders with different vows etc.
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“asked if I could forgive… and let him get on with his life?”
Can the wayward abbot help Dom Benedict Andersen, the true Prior of Silverstream, get his letter of good standing?
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Doubtful. Whistleblowing is the unforgivable sin.
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Seamus viii at 4.59pm
That ‘wayward’ priest ex Abbot was part of visitation team to silverstream, was other members of that visitation team compromised in any way such as Coffey, Dullea and other name I can’t recall.
One thing was clear to me was Phonsie has a brass neck and sheer arrogance to speak of that he think he’s above the law, nothing will touch him, his ‘them v us’ attitude towards Catholics. That’s opus dei style par excellence. He thinks he’s above untouchable as his bishopric actions re ordination of RP defined him as such. Knowing that he would get away with murder. What’s he saying to all of us ‘ up yours’.
To be honest with you, I dont think Bishop of Meath TD will ever, give DBA, a letter of good standing. Its not possible cos it had gone too far, beyond repair.
Only way I think for DBA is to go towards the legal /court route to get his good name cleared once and for all.
The reason as I see it from my perspective was that TD has no genuine intention of giving DBA a letter of good standing.
Thats core problem re some bishops such as TD and phonsie and other bishops around the world thinking they are above the law, nothing that would remove them from their lifetime jobs.
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4.09: What a truly boring and crappy comment, D.G!!
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I’m puzzled by your response. What’s in the post to lead you assume that this person is in the cult? Furthermore where does it suggest that outsiders are lying?
For the record , I believe Purcell should do penance. His egregious behaviour, given his position, deserves as much. However, like the original poster I’d like to know what form that penance would take, how would we judge it as authentic repentance and from which point can we wish Richard Purcell well and welcome back into the fold.
It’s a valid question and one which the owner of the blog and his supporters don’t appear to want to engage with.
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Penance for Purcell? My eye! Boot him out of the priesthood!
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4.38: Cyberpunk. You make very valid points and ask relevant questions. None of us who have a different opinion do not condone in any way the egregious, duplicitous behaviour of R. Purcell. But is it acceptable to hound after someone as is happening on this blog? And I’m certain that many commenters are not as pure as snow in their lives to allow them their smug arrogance and self righteousness as evidenced on this blog. Pat does not have any moral or spiritual authority from God to dismiss anyone as useless or beyond redemption. The sin is condemned but we do not, in Jesus’s vision, condemn the sinner to death. If we all had out mistakes, sins and private predeliction splattered day after day on a blog, we’d be on the cliff edge. None of us has any right to push any sinner or wrongdoer to the edge. If wrongdoing is criminal, the courts of the land deal with such wrongs and crimes, not a bunch of keyboard warriors.
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Absolutely howling.
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The only authentic thing that Purcell can do is to leave the monastery and the priesthood and take up another secular way of life. Only in that way could we have any confidence in his state of life and what he is doing. If he continues in the monastery and the priesthood, I for one will have no confidence in his integrity or his honesty. If he wants us to trust him and believe him, then he has got to make the decision to leave the religious and priestly state. The same goes for Rory, JPL and the litany of others we have heard about on these pages.
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I agree. So undermining of trust is the behaviour of Purcell, Rory and Lyttle, the only way to re-establish trust and respect is for them to leave (since they have shown themselves to be consistentlyhypocritical and dishonest). Only in that way can we have any trust and faith restored, in them, and in the priesthood. Covering up, giving unlimited chances, being more careful in order not to get caught out, continuing to live a lie – those are not an option, and will only further degrade trust and integrity. Any solution has to be radical, even if it seems harsh. Actually, they will probably be happier and more settled when they leave. At the moment, as they continue to live a lie, they must be very conflicted.
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In the 6th Century the Irish gifted the church with its Penitentials (St Finnian) and homosexuality was top of the list – Jesus they weren’t busy enough – but clerical homosexuality was definitely off the menu lads and punishable with a sharp exit from the clerical state – nowadays it’s a badge of honour, a gay cleric isn’t an oxymoron it’s a rite of passage (oh Mrs)
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‘IT CRUCIFIES YOU EVERY TIME ’: THE ‘CRUSHING’ NEW TACTIC THE CHURCH USES TO BLOCK CLAIMS BY ABUSE SURVIVORS
Exclusive: Strategy used to deny compensation is a ‘stark example’ of Catholic clergy prioritising the advice of lawyers over moral leadership
How the church is blocking survivor compensation claims
by Christopher Knaus
21/3/23
“In the small workshop behind his home in the Victorian country town of Broadford, Craig Waters was huddled on the floor, rocking back and forth. He’d been back there for hours, crying and alone, trapped anew in childhood nightmares. Waters was trying to process what the Catholic church had just told him: it was threatening to thwart his attempt to receive justice for the horrors he says he experienced as an eight-year-old boy at St Brendan’s Catholic primary school in western Sydney.”
“Most abuse victims cannot speak about the abuse until decades later
Jeremy Roche, lawyer.”
https://www.theguardian.com/law/2023/mar/22/it-crucifies-you-every-time-the-twisted-tactic-the-church-uses-to-block-claims-by-abuse-survivors
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Pat have you any thoughts on the church millitant article about Calvin Robinson and the oridnariate. It would be good to hear your perspective.
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Spanish news site Religion Digit reporting that Pope Francis is expected to name longtime Benedict XVI secretary Archbishop Georg Gänswein as the next apostolic nuncio to Costa Rica.
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Ooohhh, nice place Costa Rica. Thongs and sarongs sort of place. Just up Gayorg’s street.
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What on earth is Purcell up to ?
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I’m fairly sure the intended effect of that phone call wasn’t yet another day about Purcell on the blog. 😂
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Tom Deenihan has Kevin Connolly on a tight leash. Yes Kevin the secret keeper continues his subversive activities.
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