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WHAT IS THE NEW BISHOP OF ARDAGH AND CLONMACNOISE LIKE?

PAUL CONNELL

Armagh and Clonmacnoise is close to my heart. We Buckleys are from that diocese – Pullough in Co. Offaly. Other close relations – the Dunicans live in Shannonbridge – right beside Clonmacnoise. I spent all my childhood holidays in those places and recall them as quite idilyc.

My immediate thoughts are two:

1. As Chancellor of Meath diocese he has been complicit on the ongoing injustice against Dom Andersen of Silverstream

That makes me question his integrity and morals immediately.

2. He has spent 40 years behind a desk defending Catholic schools.

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He is also a classmate of Kerry Anthropocene, Ray Brown, and the Tuam Neanderthal Francis Duffy.

I think he will be an unthinking, unquestioning, non reflective RC automaton.

That’s what Rome likes. That’s what the other Irish bishops like. That’s what the old ba bas like.

Another Titanic like captain – heading, not for an iceberg but a black hole.

Thank God I have nothing to do with except expose them for what they are and for what they are not.

I’d like to hear the views of priests and others on this appointment.

HOLY THURSDAY

A beautiful poem by Mallcome Guite.

Maundy Thursday

Here is the source of every sacrament,
The all-transforming presence of the Lord,
Replenishing our every element
Remaking us in his creative Word.
For here the earth herself gives bread and wine,
The air delights to bear his Spirit’s speech,
The fire dances where the candles shine,
The waters cleanse us with His gentle touch.
And here He shows the full extent of love
To us whose love is always incomplete,
In vain we search the heavens high above,
The God of love is kneeling at our feet.
Though we betray Him, though it is the night.
He meets us here and loves us into light.

125 replies on “WHAT IS THE NEW BISHOP OF ARDAGH AND CLONMACNOISE LIKE?”

Forty years as a priest mean he’s remained in the cult all through the revelations of what’s been going on behind the scenes.
At this stage there is no such thing as a good RC priest.

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Connell has no issues with how his two faced wealthy benefactors get their money as long as they share it with the RCC.
Meanwhile Vulnerable and elderly Victims of RCC related abuse, corruption and criminality are thrown in the bear pit by the wolves in sheep’s clothing.

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Approach to Inclusion in this Report:
The Office of the Attorney General has included in this Report every current or former Catholic clergy member, seminarian, deacon, member of a Catholic religious order, or other employee of the Archdiocese who has been the subject of credible allegations of child sexual abuse in Maryland known to this Office.
In deciding whether to include an alleged abuser, the Office of the Attorney General relied upon records received in response to its Grand Jury subpoena to the Archdiocese of Baltimore, statements of victims and witnesses who wished to be interviewed, and materials already in the public record.
In some instances, the only evidence available was the 2
records provided by the Archdiocese. The report includes persons never assigned to the Archdiocese of Baltimore but the focus is on those priests, deacons, sisters and non-clerical employees for whom the Archdiocese of Baltimore had some oversight or simply had records related to their abuse.
The Report is comprehensive with regard to members of the clergy, and also includes a number of non-clerical abusers like John Merzbacher to demonstrate that the secrecy and cover-up was not limited to clergy.
Based on our review of this evidence, we have included 156 abusers determined to have been the subject of credible allegations of abuse.
We have also included at the end of the report a list of priests and other personnel who served in some capacity or resided within the Archdiocese of Baltimore but were listed as credibly accused in connection with child sexual abuse outside of Maryland. We have indicated, to the extent we can ascertain, when and where the abuse took place, and the diocese and/or order that has listed them as credibly accused.
This Report details decades of criminal conduct. The individuals and institutions documented in this Report preyed upon and harmed vulnerable children. This Report does not, however, constitute a criminal indictment.
Choice of Language:
The children who have been sexually abused are not named even in instances where they have spoken publicly about the abuse. This Report uses the term “victim” rather than “survivor” in order to highlight the criminal acts of those who hurt them. Although the definition of rape and sexual abuse changed over the period covered in this Report, any penetration of a child that involves the genitals of the abuser or the victim is described as rape. Throughout this Report, references to the Archdiocese or other entity making mandatory reports or disclosures indicates compliance with Maryland’s reporting requirements.
Overview of the Archdiocese of Baltimore:
The Diocese of Baltimore has enjoyed a special prominence in the history of the Roman Catholic Church in America. The City of Baltimore was the first seat of the United States Catholics.

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Proof yet again that Satan funds work fir the idle and haters. Proof indeed. Inviting venom and horribleness – what a shameful hobby. Utterly reprehensible. Totally against the spirit of Holy Week. By Good Friday the new Bishop will be hung – and you’ll smile with delight. Get your sword ready to pierce the Bishop.

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So this week’s reason that nobody can criticise is that it’s against the spirit of holy week. Then it’ll be against the spirit of Easter, and ordinary time and probably not in the spirit of August, either.
But 11:17 y’all are supposed to be blessed when you’re persecuted had you forgotten? Heaven knows how you’d moan if you were actually being persecuted.

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9.13
But your comment at 9.54 p.m. isn’t criticism. It’s character assassination fuelled by only God knows what.

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9.13: Oh, they’d moan very loudly indeed if they were persecuted. It’s that ‘spirit of Holy Week: they just don’t possess it. What they call the ‘spirit of Holy Week’ is just a sentimental, abstract concept: shapeless, ultimately, until they can weaponise it to silence critics. Then it assumes whatever ideological form they prefer.

Heaven would have earache from listening to their perpetual, whining self-pity if ever they were truly persecuted. The proverbial stuck pig would not squeal so loudly.

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Here we go again, all the usual lot screaming about he’s very very conservative as if that’s a bad thing. It could be a lot worse he could be very very liberal and that lot are worst of all.

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10.36
If you mean there’s no difference between the argumentum ad hominem of character assassination and authentic and objective critique, then your moral compass needs to be adjusted.
But although that has been obvious for years, there’s been no observable spiritual progress with the passing of those years. My diagnosis would be something along the lines of a spiritual cul de sac.

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9:38 ‘If only you’d criticize in a way acceptable to me I might listen ‘.
Deflection 101.

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9.55
You’re old, and you still don’t get it.
Conservative? Liberal? What have these secular qualities to do with Christ?
You are obsessed with these ideological polar opposites! You want to pigeon-hole people so you can decide whether to like them, or to loathe them. That is not the example Jesus set.
It’s well past time that you grew up, and you are running out of time.

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11:17pm, is Fr. Tom Deenihan’s morally reprehensible and absolutely scandalous persecution of Dom Benedict Andersen with the support of Fr. Paul Connell in the spirit of Holy Week? Is appointing Fr. Paul Connell for that reason in the spirit of Holy Week?

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9.23: Seamus, is your daily detestation, disdain, contempt and crucifixion of Bishop Deenihan Christ-like? Did you invite Dom Benedict for a break to your presbytery considering your “concern” for his well being? Did you go personally to Bishop Deenihan and express your outrage? You’ve been hiding behind your laptop huffing and puffing, now have MORAL COURAGE. BI TU MISNEACH.

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9:48, Fr. Paul Connell cannot wash his hands of the persecution of Dom Benedict Andersen. Why do you turn a blind eye to this? Are you totally against the spirit of Holy Week?

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@ 10:38am
How dare you ya ageist bollox I don’t know your age and couldn’t care less all I know is you’re an ignorant gobshite who can’t stand anyone with contrary view to yours. You don’t know if time is running out for me age has nothing to do with it you could go today with a bit of luck.
May ya die roarin’. Since we’re the same age Patsy she must think time is running out for you too. Not very Christ like either and hasn’t a clue of any example that Our Lord set.

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Stand with Victimised Whistleblower - Dom Benedict Andersen the true Prior of Silverstream, Ireland.says:

They pick and choose from the Bible in accordance with their own personal and business requirements in the Roman Catholic Church.
Scammers.
Silverstream Will liquidate and return to the USA and continue to support Mark Kirby & his porn addicted sidekick, Bro. Elijah and Dom. Benedict Andersen continues to be libelled by having his letter of good standing denied.
This Dom Benedict Andersen situation confirms that A reference letter from clergy these days is rock solid evidence that you’re hiring a crook or pervert of some kind.

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11.17
The spirit of Holy Week?! You wouldn’t recognise it if it jumped out from behind a bush and said ‘boo!’ to you.
You people HATE the spirit of Holy Week, because it represents everything you vile hypocrites are not.

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9.35: The spirit of Holy Week certainly is beyond your grasping. Learn truth, humility and charity. Quickly.

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9.35
If you addressed these words to representatives of another faith and put your name to them you’d be imprisoned for incitement to hatred crimes.

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9.55: Don’t you love it when these ‘Christians’ allow the pious-twee mask to slip and reveal the doctrinal moral ugliness behind it? The ugliness of dogmatism, authoritarianism, of intolerance, the dark threat of retaliation should you dare utter a word against them, and their totemic beliefs.
Where’s the much-vaunted charity? The love of neighbour, especially an enemy? It was never there in the first place. No room for Christ in this inn. Nowhere for him to lay his wearied head.
You people are fraudsters. Charlatans. I don’t doubt that were we living in different times, you would lay violent, murderous hands on your critics, and praise the Lord all the while.
You people are potentially dangerous, even now. The violently intolerant mindset is already there, and always was; just not the opportunity to express it as cruelly as you would wish and like. Thank whatever, then, for the restraining hand of Secularism! There is more heart goodness in it than in any religious fervour, especially yours.
Forget about Holy Week, because the seed of holiness isn’t in you.

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9.35: You and other are proving the very point made by 11.17. The one purpose of the blog about the Bishop elect is simply to invite the nastiest, ugliest and denigratory of criticism, invective and venom. The 9.53 – Magna Carta – is the personification of vile rhetoric, a rhetoric borne of dysfunctional behaviour since seminary. The Bishop elect deserves good wishes and prayers but this is contrary to the stated aims of this blog. Yes, indeed, he will be hung on Good Fruday by the lynch mobsters sipping their wines…..May God bless the new Bishop, which of course he will do.

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9:35 Judging by the replies they really don’t like the truth. But we must continue to speak it to them because it will set them free. 👍

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But 10:33 haven’t you read that classic of cathbot spirituality, the Imitation of Christ? Are you suggesting that you shouldn’t imitate Christ in your imaginary crucifixion?
Or are you going by that famous gospel passage where Jesus says, ‘No, no this isn’t fair, stop crucifying me, you’re all really dysfunctional ‘?

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10.33
I’m puzzled. Genuinely furrowing my brow in bewilderment.
Where, in either post at 9.35 and 9.53, is there even the remotest criticism, never mind denigration, of Paul Connell?
Are you man-enough to apologise?

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9:55. If you addressed these words to private citizens/victims, survivors, supporters, whistleblowers of church related sexual and financial abuse, gaslighting etc and put your name and the name of your Diocese you’d be imprisoned for incitement to hatred crimes, Bishop X, Fr X…….
The only reason clergy frequent this blog is to censor the TRUTH because they have no problem with abuse of any kind and those not doing it are covering up for it, that being the internationally recognised modus operandi of the Roman Catholic Church.

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1.42
Your’re not tesponsible gor the actions of another.
Your response to the charge of incitement to hatred: I’m not the only one.
Classic childish, immature, and failed attempt at deflection.
Luckily for all, yourself included, the seminary council took action before you could do damage as a minister of the gospel.

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9.51
Learn truth, humility and charity? Not, at any rate, from you, and your kind.

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2:24
I don’t know who you think you are talking to, I wasn’t in Maynooth Seminary during the period to which you are referring.

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http://longfordparish.com/stmelstv.htm
Pat, at 48 minutes approx above at yesterday’s mass recorded, you will hear Connell thanking Deenihan for the very close friendship they had, now I learn from you that Duffy is a classmate, it all stinks cosy friendships, desk job priests with little or no pastoral experience getting appointed to neighboring dioceses. Let’s face it A & C could hardly be termed a taxing diocese. There was no sign of Connell being appointed to the vacant Dromore or D& C diocese. Connell may be an academic but he certainly hasn’t the pastoral ability to rejuvenate the church, a simple question has to be asked, how many vocations has ever come out of Finians during his very long tenure as president of the college, very few I hazard to guess. He has but 9 years before he turns 75, well isn’t that cosy, he survived over 40 years of priesthood having never served in a parish. Francis spoke of the shepherd needing to have the smell of the flock off him, how on earth could Francis stand over this appointment, it definitely reaks scraping the barrel? Farrell, Duffy, Deenihan and now Connell, all church desk men, is Francis really in charge or does he even know of Connell? I bet he doesn’t, but Duffy and Deenihan has done the good deed!!

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I would not like your job.
Diocesan Nurse.
Will you be advising the priests about all the things they might pick up in the Boiler House and such places over the Easter holidays.

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2.24: Anon at 1.42 has very personal issues. Thankfully, as you said, he was discharged, thrown out of seminary as it was obvious to many students, professors and lay staff, that a potential maniac was prevented from causing untold damage to many. He should be tagged. He was barred from this blog for his vile and sadistic behaviour. The same barring should come into immediate effect again.

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Very well said, 3.15!
This vile individual should consider himself fortunate that it is only Pat’s punitive hand that he is facing. Centuries ago, our Mother, the Church, woyld have dealt with him severely, and made sure he remained silent indefinitely.
It is time for you to step up to the moral mark once more, Pat. Do your duty and ban this creature from ever again breathing fire on your blog. We priests must stand together in the face of bile that challenges our divine authority as Ministers of the Gospel. Deo Gratias!

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I agree with the two previous commentators at 3.15 and 6.17. As a priest, I take deep offence at the blog rat who keeps attacking priests and priesthood as if he had authority from God to do so. This man is toxy to this blog and is destroying it all over again. You just do something Pat before it is too late. This Holy Week should inspire yoy to act against all the demonic voices that infect this good blog of yours. Do not permit them to crucify our Good Lord in his priests all over again. We priests demand thst you act.

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Bishop Paul Connell is the proverbial safe pair of hands.
He will protect the interests of the Roman Mafia all the time every time.
He will hang anyone who highlights the corrupt modus operandi of the RC out to dry just as he has played his part in the ongoing victimisation of Dom. Benedict Andersen.
Paul Connell appoint reconfirms that The Irish Roman Catholic Church is rotten to the core from the top down.

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Photographs taken on November 4, 2017 at Mount Melleray Abbey evidence that the Mass was attended by the now Archbishop of Cashel, Kieran O’Reilly SMA, previously the Bishop of Killaloe; the current Bishop of Killaloe, Fintan Monahan, and the bishop emeritus of the diocese, Bishop William Walsh.
It appears that these three (3) bishops attended despite outstanding allegations pertaining to Dom Richard Purcell, OCSO.

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O’Reilly was the Superior General of the SMA order based in Rome for many years before being given a diocese and later an archdiocese. He has influential friends in Rome….

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Not just any old Irish Diocese- it is significant to note he was transferred from Africa to Killaloe.

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The deal is between them and their god who or what that might be, to provide a minimal framework for us believers for what limited purposes we might want. It’s not between us and their earthly management. We’re not supposed to be in on any of their schemes. Keep it simple.

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Keep it simple indeed. The Holy Ones could Stop playing games with elderly victims and survivors of church related abuse and allow them to live out their final years in peace and dignity.
That’s clearly too much to ask from this greedy church.

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“In more recent times, he undertook, within the Diocese, the role of Diocesan Chancellor. I very much appreciated his support, advice and work in that role and my congratulations are tinged with personal regret at his loss to the Diocese of Meath. I will very much miss his judgement, loyalty and commitment.”
Fr. Tom Deenihan, an episcopal gangster masquerading as the bishop of Meath, thanking Fr. Paul Connell for his support in persecuting Dom Benedict Andersen, the true Prior of Silverstream.

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In 2018, the Maryland Office of the Attorney General launched a Grand Jury investigation into the Archdiocese of Baltimore, examining criminal allegations of child sexual abuse by clergy, seminarians, deacons, and employees of the Archdiocese.

The Office of the Attorney General also set out to investigate efforts by the leadership of the Catholic Church to hide sexual abuse.

The Grand Jury of Baltimore City issued subpoenas to the Archdiocese, as well as to individual parishes, religious orders, and St. Mary’s Seminary. Hundreds of thousands of documents dating back to the 1940s were produced in response to the subpoenas, including treatment reports, personnel records, transfer reports, and policies and procedures.

Additionally, the Office of the Attorney General created an email address and telephone hotline for persons to report information about clergy abuse. Over three hundred people contacted the office, and Office of the Attorney General investigators reached out and interviewed hundreds of victims and witnesses. Many of those who came forward had told their story before; some came forward for the first time.
The incontrovertible history uncovered by this investigation is one of pervasive and persistent abuse by priests and other Archdiocese personnel.

It is also a history of repeated dismissal or cover up of that abuse by the Catholic Church hierarchy. While every victim’s story is unique, together they reveal themes and behaviors typical of adults who sexually abuse children, and of those who enable abuse by concealing it.

What was consistent throughout was the absolute authority and power these abusive priests and church leadership held over victims, their families, and their communities.

Abusers often singled out children who were especially isolated or vulnerable because of shyness, lack of confidence, or problems at home, and they presented themselves as protectors and friends of the children and their families.

Abusers preyed upon the children most devoted to the church: the altar servers and choir members, those who participated in church youth organizations and the Scout troops, and especially those who worked in the rectories answering telephones in the evening and on the weekends.

They groomed the victims with presents and special attention. They told their victims the abuse was “God’s will” and that no one would doubt the word of a priest. Some threatened that the victim or victim’s family would go to hell if they told anyone.

They attempted to normalize sexual behavior as “rough housing.” When confronted, they denied everything.

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3:32 Baltimore is a fascinating place: it’s where filmmaker John Waters made his films, which are fascinating documentaries about our holy mother the church. You should look them out and watch them.

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Very strange. In REAL agnosticism, one can believe as much as one likes (only if one likes) on the quiet. My dad used to say, “keep your religion private”: he meant, from the church. Dad was fully supportive of our sitting out from what got turned into the smarties queue most weeks. Dad had been in a nuisance movement before I was born though.

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What is the new bishop of Ardagh and Clonmacnoise like? Unless the Vaticano episcopal mould has been broken, like all the other ‘successors of the Apostles’. Useless.

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Bishop Paul Connell spent 40 years defending Roman Catholic schools.
That in itself speaks volumes.
As with the rest of the Irish Bishops, he is a property and finance manager protecting assets to the shameless detriment of those victims & survivors abused by priests & church colleagues & exploited in Church run slave camp Laundries etc.
It’ll do for their day.
Bishops protect their own interests in the Bank that utilises God as a front and a commodity.

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No input at all from the laity into this man’s episcopal appointment. Zilch! Not a sausage!

No one was asked. No ‘by your leave’. It was just ‘you’ ll take what you’re given and be grateful for it’. This is the high-handed hubris of the Roman Catholic Church. It foists upon the people Rome’s chosen man, not a saint but an oppressor, and expects the people to fund his oppression of them. The smoke of Satan thickens.

Were the Sheep not sheep, they’d be angry at the ill manners of Rome, and refuse to acknowledge this man as any kind of leader. But the Sheep ARE sheep. So, hell slap it into them! They get the kind of useless, burdensome, parasitical, clerical bastardos they thoroughly deserve.

Rome would not be Rome, could not be Rome, were it not for the Sheep.

The Sheep, not Rome, are the measure of the Catholic Church’s catholicity. It is the Sheep who betray Christ, by allowing Rome to have its narcissistic way.

Until the Sheep turn collectively on Rome and drive it out of the pasture, this evil will continue to thrive.

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A significant consideration is that the appointment of the world’s bishops by the Roman curia is largely a twentieth-century development. During Benedict XV’s pontificate only one-sixth of the world’s bishops were appointed by Rome. The centralization arose subsequently and the candidates are rubberstamped by the pope.
It’s time to offset that particular imbalance. It’s an obvious implication of synodality that bisops would be appointed locally with a consultative voice retained for the curia/pope.

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Richard Cole the Anglican vicar said in his column in the Times that institutions are demonic and reluctantly I agree with him.
They have an underbelly, an underlying corruption at their core – primarily it is financial but uniquely with the Catholic Church its dark roots reach down to reveal homosexuality, dizzying hypocrisy and a penchant for industrial strength sexual child abuse.
A bishop is merely a clog in this wheel of corruption- he is the holder of deep dark secrets and is chosen on his ability to conceal and obstruct scrutiny.

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Hey, spare a thought for the poor Nuncio. He’s having to find bishops from a very shallow and increasingly meagre gene pool of able men to do these jobs. Where are the outstanding characters who can properly do these jobs ? Gone. Never there. Not there anymore. Not joining up to a toxic, dysfunctional priesthood. So, no wonder he has to pull someone from behind a desk where he has been hiding for 40 years, at the age of almost 70 and make him bishop. Yes, he will just hold the fort and nod at what he needs to nod at. Don’t expect much.

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9.57am
He wasn’t advocating leaving merely observing the demonic nature of every institution.
The church’s demons are of a particular strain a Legion if you will of repressed homosexuality, the cult of celibacy, hypocrisy and child abuse and an expertise at concealment and obstruction.

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Pat, starting to doubt your Scottish Priest/informer. Is he false or maybe just not as well informed as you thought. Paisley in crisis, Bishop Keenan enforced a few Curial changes this week and there were a few notable absences from the Chrismal Mass.

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I love the comments here saying this or that diocese is in crisis. How is one less nancy boy at the chrism mass in any meaningful sense a crisis? 😂 The only impact of clerical crises is on other clerics in providing them with drama.

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Who is the Italian man he frequents Turkey with a few times a year? How did they meet? Where did they meet? Can he even speak italain?

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He speaks Latin, Portuguese, English and Italian. Presumably he met him in Rome? With all the cats hoking around the dirty bins that inundate the dirty city. The Vatican is run by a notorious gay mafia, it sounds awfully dramatic, but you know it’s true.

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I’m going to open Pandora’s Box. What is the ‘spirt of Holy Week’ y’all keep mentioning? Have you even a clue?

Get ready for multiple, diverse answers. 😂

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10:47 A god who would expect his only son to be sacrificed to himself to save the people he’s created from a punishment which can only originate with him because he created everything, will not noticeably have followers who are very stable. In fact in their ranting and raving that nothing is fair I would say they’re imitating him to a T.
But imitating the narrative of their saviour’s crucifixion? Nah.

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11.03: Did you lose your brain somewhere in this rambling, incoherent piece of blabber? Most inarticulate. Ipso facto – a piece of meaningless mumbo jumbo.

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11:23, So the spirit of Holy Week is insulting other commenters here because they disagree with your opinion. Have I got this right? And yet the comment that kicked this off said talking about the new bishop was against the spirit of holy week. I’m confused.

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Thank you @ 11.03. You’ve nicely summed up the craziness in the Christian Canon.

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Good question. Watched a bit of the Chrism Mass yesterday from Belfast. No bloody wonder people are turned off. Ritual and more ritual which means absolutely nothing to most people today. How can the church expect to be taken seriously by young people today? By the cut of the concelebrants there won’t be too many left in ten years time. Maybe that’s for the best until at least another prophet emerges to challenge the life styles of our clergy, the irrelevance of the message and the ridiculousness of our liturges …
My question: Where is the wandering Aramaean?

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11:15 it’s only the naughty bishops and their colleagues who get a mention on this blog.
It’s like the naughty step.
They love it really. 😇
Where else would they get so much attention these days apart from in the boiler rooms and let’s face it, that place not open every day and they do have to hang around the parish some days to keep the little baa bas coughing up.
Pensioners can be quite demanding you know, age does that……..

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Just catching up on the blog from yesterday. Why on earth is a bare backing monk, have his penis pierced and tattoos of tinker bell on his ankle?

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Because either he or other interested parties leave troll comments here to discredit the blog and Pat publishes them.
That said I did know someone who had been an Oratorian at Oxford in the nineties who had tattoos and had previously had a PA, reflective of his previous lifestyle before joining.

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Jesus Mary and St Joseph, is this true or is it a joke? How can any priest be taken seriously with a Prince Albert and Disney tattoos?

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No joke, although he didn’t get as far as ordination and they weren’t actually Disney tattoos lol.

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In a rare appearance of the blog subject in the comments I can tell you exactly what the new bishop is like.
If he has been appointed a bishop, hasn’t been a PP, and Pat Buckley hasn’t heard of him he will be a company man to the tips of his fingers. He will have been chosen for his ‘safeness’.
The only problem with this plan is that all the bishops who dealt with abuse in house because John XXIII told them to, with the results we now know, were also company men to the tips of their fingers.

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Great bews fir St. Muirdeachs Catgedral next week. President Biden is to make a speech from there. Fantastic for the Cathedral.

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Pat at 1.46: At the Chrism/Mass of the Lord’s Supper, will your “priests” be renewing any vows and what is the format of wording? Was at wonderfully uplifting Chrism Mass this morning. Will be celebrating Mass of Lord’s Supper later. Every good wish.

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The true salvation of the Church is in the resurrection. The RCC must die in order to be reborn… because the messengers are not worthy to carry the message. Bishop after Bishop makes the mind boggle and the heart sink.
May the readers see the truth in the message and know that God loves them utterly no matter what nonsense falls from the tongue of these Bishops. They are Shepherds who feast on Lambs.

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1.27: Holy Goat: way OTT re: Bishops. You’re forever writing the negatives and I’m certain you don’t know all Bishops so personally that you find all of them so “useless”. Perhaps your biased perceptions need correcting. You want us believe that only evil emanates from all clerics. That’s very misleading, lies and most unfair.

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I can remember pulling up to Lisburn to make a turn in the grounds and he came out and was screaming at me in a different language, sounded like French to me. A very angry individual

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Appointment of new Bishop is sickening due to his involvement with DBA and silverstream.

A company man, a desk priest with no pastoral skills. That tells us all and everything about rcc.

Don’t want to have anything to do with rcc.

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5.08: Deaf Guy: you must be very sick – everything seems to sicken you. Get a grip on your sensitivities.

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Seamus viii at 9.02pm
That hand slapper frankie is sending the wrong message this week especially holy week.
Hes only doing rubber stamping some bishops that he doesn’t know nor does his homework.
Damian Thompson despises him with a huge passion although he has a very good point though.
Influence of Meath diocese may have swayed the Vatican curia re appointment. It doesn’t look good for rcc Church in Ireland cos some comments re him were aired and expanded. Thus we got the impression that’s he a lover of red wines, pompous ass who loved to pontificate where there is an audience etc etc.
It reminds me of Billy bunter of Newcastle although I could be wrong there.

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Citing D Thompson of scandalous public record of corner cutting and conflicts of interest is a sure fire way of undermining any credibility in yourself.

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9.02: Seamus, get your guns or swords out: you’re in such condemnatory disposition for months. You have yourself all wound up about your pal, Dom B. Have you invited Dom Benedict for a break yet? Do you financially support him? Are you in communication with him? If you answer in the affirmative, I’ll accept your bona fide concern and compassion!!

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9.22: Deafie Gob, you just can’t be quiet. You are condemning every one day and night. Ask God for help.

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Numbers 6:24-26 NKJV
“The LORD bless you and keep you; The LORD make His face shine upon you And be gracious to you; The LORD lift up His countenance upon you And give you peace.”

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Anon at 9.57pm
What scandalous public record were you referring to.
Conflict of interest, could you spit it out what exactly 🤷‍♀️
Damian Thompson pet hate is that hand slapper clothed in all white. I understand where he was coming from as I don’t really know him well apart from his twitters, that’s it.
By the way, DG at 9.50pm isnt coming from me, you should be more clearer whom your post is directed at.

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Anon at 6.59pm
Rcc is a very sick church with all its problems ranging from bishops duplicitous lives or priests double lives to lying via their teeth or treating certain priests or monks with absolute contempt especially a whistleblower for one, DBA.
Ur comments is rcc speak spoken just like one of them.
BTW there is a priest now working in Dublin diocese, a closeted homosexual who used to work for deaf chaplaincy long ago as I was told by someone with the sensitivity of a gaydar. Never met him but I have heard of his name before.

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8.29: Your some piece of nasty work, Deaf Guy. A dangerous gossip and a nosey intrusive idiot. Go live the life you have.

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8.50
Simple answer: when Eamon Martin has dealt with the aftermath of the child sexual abuse cases which landed on his desk from the diocese. One would not wish it on one’s worst enemy.

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DEAF GUY

ROBERT HOURIGAN does not use other names.

Who is the ROBERT MC CAMBRIDGE you seem to know.

How do you know him?

Where is he from?

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Pat at 9.35pm

His name seems to be bit familiar as I can’t place him. Think he was on this blog previously somewhere.

I don’t know him but you should address it directly at poster anon at 9.02pm as it was he who brought it up that very name.

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Clearly Irish sees must now be filled by English episcopal appointments- Arnold, Stock, Egan, Byrne, Conroy, Collins and Father Hugh David Renwick Turnbull Allan, O. Praem. of the Malvinas Apostolic Administration come to mind…..
Aside from my facetiousness I now strongly suspect that the Congregation for Bishops has massive challenges in filling vacant sees with men who are actually worthy of such an appointment.
I suspect Connell was the 3rd or 4th individual to be asked to accept the see and this is what we get- the 3rd and 4th best in terms of spirituality. If the bishop is not above all a man of prayer he is nothing at all.

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Wouldn’t it be great if another missionary came home from Africa to be Bishop of Down and Connor or Dromore after the example of Archbishop Ciaran O Reilly who was Superior General of the Society of African Missions (SMA).

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I opened this today and had to check that you didn’t post it on April 1st.
My niece was one of the first female students in St Finian’s many years ago and her cohort didn’t have the best experience with the new bishop. An intelligent man, a scholar, but pastoral care and leadership not strong points back then.

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I was a student at Finian’s where he was Principle and I can honestly say that he was extremely creepy and odd. You wouldn’t feel comfortable being in the same room as him alone. Even after all these years, I still wouldn’t. I can assure you that most former students would agree with me that there was something off about him. He was all for the rich folk, didn’t care about ordinary people, and was always sucking up to Smith for years, believing that he would be his successor in Meath. He was so jealous and bitter of Nulty (who was a former Chaplin in Finian’s) when he was appointed to Kildare.

I could give you accounts about this gobshite because Clonmacnoise will soon learn that he is nothing less of a clown.

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