I’m HOLY WEEK we Christians, among other very important things, are celebrating the defeat of Satan and Evil by God and the forces of Good.
When I was growing up, ALL the Church and clergy talked about was the Devil, hell and sin.
Now you hardly ever hear these things talked about.
I believe in the existence of Satan, who is the spiritual personification of all that is EVIL – just as God is the spiritual personification of all that is GOOD.
Do I believe in the creature with the horns, fork, and hooved feet?
No. That is a caricature.
But Satan, being a spirit, can appear in all forms – but generally acts through others – others often unwittingly.
In my 70 years, I have had 3 personal and physical encounters with Satan.
1. At the grotto in Lourdes circa 1981.
2. During my ordination retreat at Glencomeragh in June 1976.
3. In a presbytery in Ossory diocese circa 1978.
Every day in my work and ministry on this blog, I see more and more evidence that Satan has infiltrated the RC institution, episcopate, and priesthood.
When priests have sex on altars, Satan is in charge 😞
GOOD FRIDAY. THE ORATORY. 2023.
BISHOP PAT BUCKLEY 
94 replies on “WHAT ABOUT SATAN – THE DEVIL?”
Jesus looks remarkably chipper in that picture…for a guy who supposedly self-harmed, by fasting, for a lengthy period in a desert.
Presumably, Satan waited until Jesus was at his lowest ebb, physically and mentally, before coming along to put a boot (or should this be ‘cloven hoof’?) into the starving, emaciated figure. It would have made his temptations all the more … tempting, and all the harder to resist. Satan’s no dose, you know.
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Hate to point it out to you, Pat, but Christian artists have a long history of caricaturing Satan, and of glamourising Jesus, like the image of him in that painting. Contrast the two: Satan is black and ugly (a whiff of racism?), and Jesus looks as though he just stepped out of a high-class salon after a hair fix, and manicure, but not before a good feed in a first-century Palestine inn. It’s all nonsense, of course, and it says more about the mindsets of Christian artists than it does about the historical Christ. None wanted to look on a physically weakened Jesus: made him feel insecure.
Symbolic art? Phooey! It’s projection psychology in oils.
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Jesus was white, I tell you, and furthermore he was American!
Incidentally his grave is in Japan and there’s a guy in Kenya who claims to be Jesus come back from the dead. He certainly does attract some nutters.
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1:59 Anon. “Projection psychology in oils”. An excellent comment.
‘Snake oil salesman ‘ springs to mind
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You referred to the Lourdes experience, Pat, some time ago, but I ‘ve never read anything by you on the other two. Can you elaborate on both?
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Today’s blog-“GREAT”.
Tomorrow afternoon- “Here Comes The Sun -The Beatles”.
Monday morning – Mott The Hoople- “Roll Away The Stone”.
“Briarwood” to remain in OCSO.
“I’ve known for YEARS”. (name change).
Easter Blessings!!!
DIVINE MERCY
DIVINE MERCY SUNDAY-BANG A DRUM.
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The Oratory is looking beautiful Pat. As mentioned before, I like the modern design.
Fr. Paul Connell should be embarrassed by his erroneous episcopal appointment. What satisfaction is to be gained from being rewarded a mitre for collusion and corruption? Is it damaging for his soul? Should close family and friends encourage Fr. Paul Connell to decline the mitre?
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If a friend of mine were in that position I would certainly consider it my duty to discourage him.
However if I found that someone in my friendship circle was offered a see in the RC cult I would defriend him abruptly.
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Remember, the gene pool from which bishops are chosen is very, very shallow and limited these days. And it will be even more so in the future if you consider the quality and character of the seminarians who are the next generation of priests from which bishops will be drawn. They used to say that ‘those who can’t teach, those who can do something else’. Well, nowadays it is ‘those who can’t go to seminary, those who can do something else’. So, do not expect quality from the bishops who are being chosen these days (they are the questionable survivors of their generation of priests, the majority of whom have left, gone MIA, are in prison, or suspended), and do not expect anything better from the future. Simples !
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His colleagues appear more than self satisfied with their mitres. Very proud of them indeed.
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Connell has a hide like a rhinoceros- same as Tom Deenihan & other Irish Bishops.
Zero embarrassment from that cabal and their cohorts.
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BIG MICK LOMASANEY was deeply influenced by SATAN,as are other priest’s he associated with.
Alarm bells were ringing on the very eve of his ordination, Brendon wrixon was the vocations director for cloyne, a few months later Wrixon would begin abusing a teen who was trying to discern his vocation, for this wrixon was convicted in a court of law, this case was one of the reasons the cloyne inquiry was established, and this case also brought down Magee as bishop of Cloyne for telling two versions of Wrixons admission.
Yes the devil is at work in the RCC
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I remember Michael Lomasney from my time at Maynooth. A little, innoffensive-looking fellow with a mop of curlyish dark hair, and a few years ahead of me.
God have mercy on him.
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It’s always the quiet ones…….
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Who did he have sex with on the altar? If it was unprotected did he unwittingly give them HIV?
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2:40
If anyone outside the inner circle knew the answer, it’d be plastered all over this blog.
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2:40pm
That’s been done before.
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Unusually, I disagree completely with what you say about Satan infiltrating the church.
The ongoing criminal and/or unethical behaviour by RC clergy is one of the factors bringing the steady decline in Europe and the Americas of the institution which is rotten to the core.
Not being devil’s advocate….
But how can that be Satanic? That can only be good. They are in the position described in one of the letters, that God gives them to their own wickedness.
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Although they claimed to be wise, they became fools 23 and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images made to look like a mortal human being and birds and animals and reptiles.
24 Therefore God gave them over in the sinful desires of their hearts to sexual impurity for the degrading of their bodies with one another. 25 They exchanged the truth about God for a lie, and worshiped and served created things rather than the Creator—who is forever praised. Amen.
26 Because of this, God gave them over to shameful lusts. Even their women exchanged natural sexual relations for unnatural ones. 27 In the same way the men also abandoned natural relations with women and were inflamed with lust for one another. Men committed shameful acts with other men, and received in themselves the due penalty for their error.
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Decades of unresolved abuse by the RCC now means not so many believe the fiction of the Bible so it’s not so easy for the Holy Ones to sell the snake oil “every one for themselves get rich quick capitalistic greed” instead of cooperative, social endeavors where “a rising tide, lifts all boats.“
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When intrusive body theology combines with world dominionism, trashing of consciences, and possessiveness about conversions and baptisms, Satan has been allowed to indirectly take over to a serious extent through whom or where this is pushed. It’s important to explain the human route and allow for degrees of dishonesty or codependency in not critiquing the package deal. Otherwise the core animators will divert blame inappropriately onto grandiose generic metaphors such as “The Fall”.
New movements and the CCC impute sexual impurity to everybody in the context of compulsory “eucharist”, as a pretext for operatives to undermine morale and to implicate members by notifying them of “miracles”, influential back channels, and the like. They also falsely take credit for genuine blessings in the lives of members. This was the modus operandi in which JP II specialised.
Bad money and bad morale always ensue from bad theology, even if it’s not illegal (salami slicing of mischief making under different auspices, inter-oceanic reverse money laundering in aid of low calibre missions . . .) Popes and their proxies have tried to dominate before, but it’s an especial danger now.
When or if Holy Mother Church discovers the real meaning of the “kingdom” or “household” of “heaven” or “God”, then it will be possible to teach about the value of situational chastity at own discretion, in relation to providential spiritual gifts in ordinary pew sitters.
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9:22. Devious clerics & co. don’t need snake oil, they are already slippery as eels.
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The Oratory looks beautiful +Pat.
Happy Easter.
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9.24: The Chapel is like a Buddha’s bath house. Dreadful. Match stuck crosses. No imagination.
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Merry Easter to ya too Marcel!
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“Surely he took up our pain and bore our suffering, yet we considered him punished by God, stricken by him, and afflicted. But he was pierced for our transgressions, he was crushed for our iniquities; the punishment that brought us peace was on him, and by his wounds we are healed.”
Isaiah 53:4-5
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I believe too in the existence of an evil force: we see its manifestations every day in our world, greed, violence, war, divisions, racism, bigotry, hatred, injustices. There are many darknesses in our world and we can see clearly this evil through the abuse of power, authority, privileges and of those in political autocratic regimes. Sadly too, the Church has had manifestations of evil behaviour. Whatever psychological or psychiatric or scientific formats used to diagnose people who behave demonically through some form of unnatural evil force, there is no doubting that some abusive and behavioural patterns are pure evil. I’ve never had such experiences of the “devil” as Pat had, but I’m quite clear I’ve witnessed very evil behaviour in others. That’s why I pray the Our Father frequently during the say : AND LEAD US NOT INTO TEMPTATION BUT DELIVER US FROM EVIL…”A pure heart create for me O God, put a steadfast spirit within me..”
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@ 9:49am
You recognize evil in others, perhaps you should look more closely at yourself. Because if you’re who I think you are, it’ll be a long time before you’ll have a pure heart. Quit the sanctimonious piety and get a grip.😏
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The Holy Ones are so obsessed with their own “perfection”.
It’s like priests blaming innocent little children for “tempting” them. 😒
Arrogant and self absorbed
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12.15
Once again, you resort to mentioning the horrendous crime of the sexual abuse of children as a means to an end. To do this in the manner you do, as a default position in every discussion is proof positive you care nothing for the innocent victims of these crimes.
An alert reader concludes you have run out of argument when it happens and deplores such a callous action.
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alert reader @ 2:27 sounds worried – another compromised cleric or similar stalking blog.
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By Will Grant
BBC Mexico correspondent
When Miguel Pantaleon was ordained into the Catholic church last month, it was the biggest day of his young life.
The 28-year-old trainee priest had spent almost a decade working towards joining the clergy. At a packed Mass in his dusty village of Rincon del Carmen in western Mexico, he was officially brought into the priesthood by the diocese bishop.
Watching in the front pew, his mother, Petra Florencio, beamed with pride. Miguel is the 11th of 13 children, and his vocation is a source of great prestige for his family.
However, Petra would also be forgiven for harbouring a few doubts: Miguel has joined the riskiest priesthood in the world.
More than 50 priests have been killed in Mexico since 2006, nine of them under the current administration alone. Some were killed for speaking out against cartel violence, others caught up in the crossfire of an unending conflict between rival criminal organisations.
Almost always, the murders go unpunished and unsolved – the authorities often carrying out only the most cursory of investigations. Many of the killings took place in the western region of Mexico called Tierra Caliente, where in recent years the Jalisco New Generation Cartel and the Familia Michoacana gangs have battled for territorial control.
“To me, becoming a priest here in Tierra Caliente signifies love,” Miguel told me after the service. “These are people who live with a lot of pain, hurt and suffering. So, when we respond to God’s call, it’s a sign of His love.”
Miguel studied at a seminary several hours drive into the heart of Tierra Caliente, outside the city of Ciudad Altamirano.
Every morning, as the 18 trainee priests at the seminary gather in the chapel for morning mass, they walk past a stark reminder of the dangers they’ll face as clergy: the grave of a murdered priest who taught at the seminary.
On a simple granite tombstone, a wrought-iron name plate reads: “Father Habacuc Hernández Benitez, 16 January 1970 – 13 June 2009.”
Father Habacuc – better known as Padre Cuco – is something of a local martyr, a symbol of the many murdered clergymen and seminarians in Mexico. The year Padre Cuco was killed marked a parting of the waves in the violence in this region,” recalls his friend, Father Marcelino Trujillo. “Before then, the drug cartels were more discrete, there was still a degree of governability.”
The story of Padre Cuco’s murder is still shocking, more than a decade on.
The 39-year-old priest was on his way to a youth event with two seminarians. Gunmen surrounded their car and forced the men out of their vehicle. Without a word, they were executed at the side of the road, shot multiple times in the backs.
No clear motive was ever established.
Marcelino was supposed to be with his fellow instructor that day, but a last-minute change of plans meant he didn’t leave the seminary. A twist of fate which surely saved his life.
It wasn’t the only time the tight-knit seminary has been thrust into mourning by drug cartel violence.
On Christmas Day 2014, Father Gregorio, a cousin of Cuco’s, met a similar fate. In an astonishingly brazen attack, he was taken from one of the rooms in the seminary, gang members tied him up and gagged him with gaffer tape.
“He asphyxiated,” explains Marcelino. “As far as we understand, they planned to demand a ransom for him but on finding they’d killed him, they just abandoned him in nearby scrubland.” Such stories might deter any local young men, no matter how devout, from joining the clergy in Ciudad Altamirano. But between classes, some of the seminarians told me the opposite is true, that the murdered priests are an inspiration, not a warning.
“They’ve been clear examples to us,” says 19-year-old Antonio Abelez. “Such unfair deaths, they serve us as examples of their bravery.”
The seminary rector, Antonio Reinoso, says they teach the young men to exhibit “prudence” as priests – to restrict themselves to preaching the gospel and to think carefully before denouncing criminal gangs or cartel leaders at the pulpit.
“Organised crime is a beast with a thousand heads,” he tells me. “They are not going to be able to solve the violence themselves. But, with faith, they can meet it head on.”
Still, the seminarians acknowledged they’ve sometimes questioned the wisdom of their decisions to join the church.
“We live surrounded by violence and death,” says Guillermo Cano, a student in his early 20s. “Given what people have been through, it intimidates us to think we could meet the same fate.” Back in Rincon del Carmen, most of the village has turned out to celebrate their newly ordained priest, Father Miguel Pantaleon. In a procession from the church, they follow him through the streets with song, fireworks and fiesta.
As Miguel celebrates with his family and friends, he insists he’s ready for whatever lies ahead.
“I know that one day I’ll have to come into contact with the cartels,” he says, “but not to confront them – rather, to show them the face of God’s mercy, because God is for them, too.”
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‘they teach the young men to exhibit “prudence” as priests – to restrict themselves to preaching the gospel and to think carefully before denouncing criminal gangs or cartel leaders at the pulpit.’
What this means is they’re not risking their lives at all and are being encouraged by one criminal cartel not to upset any other criminal cartel.
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No wonder the spoilt brat and strategically connected priests stick as close to the tit to where they were born as possible.
Use the Irish language version of their name when they blot their copy books.
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Why take risks Ruaraidh?
A dead hero is no use to anyone least of all himself.
Play to win Ruaraidh, play to win, you surely know the score by now, you’ve had enough practice.
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New Generation Cartel, is that what Sin * Nodal Garden Path 2021-23 (contraband in pirated souls) is going to be called post 2023?
{ * what is not of faith }
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+Pat have you watched “The Chosen” a series on the life of Jesus and the apostles? It is available on a special app or on YouTube. It is beautifully done and really brings the . Gospels to life. There is 3 series available and they are filming a 4th. And amazingly it is all crowdfunded. Jonathan Roumie the actor who plays Jesus brings out His humanity in a wonderful way.
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If one wants the gospels brought to life, avoid two things as though your soul’s survival depended on it: Christian art, and Christian history. The two together have conspired to damage the image of Jesus, his effectiveness, more than Satan could have conceived in his darkest evil.
Since the 19th century, scholars have quested to discover the historical Jesus, to rise above the dross about him in Christian art and history. They are still on that journey, but, nevertheless, have managed so far to draw a more human and sympathetic picture of him, more the man-God than the God-man.
Christian art and history have tended to paint Jesus as more divine than human, and less accessible to humanity in terms of spiritual aspiration: they have managed to distance Jesus from his people, the antithesis of his incarnate mission. Who filled the inevitable existential gap? Priests.
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11.11
One could make an argument against religious imagery, which iconoclasm, Judaism, Islam and Protestantism vere towards.
At the other end of the scale is a body of arguments in its favour, supported by Roman Catholicism, Eastern and Oriental Orthodoxy.
But you are not interested in the substance of argument, only in how you can perversely use arguments as means to an end. Your concluding remark shows you for what you are: an obsessive compulsive expelled from seminary in good time.
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The Irish gaeilge has a nice way of getting around the imagery mentioned at 1.59am. The devil is the fear dubh. Black people therefore can’t be named after the devil so they are fear gorm..
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5q9DcKjoHGE
Recent activity of the evil one in Ireland in 2010
patkiely2007
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That guy needs to prune his imagination.
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Totally crazy nonsense! Devils, God and the devil’s temptation being just equal, so as it is just the right strength for your particular willpower to be able to resist it! But if he God in any meaningful sense of being god he could banish it completely. He opens his sermon with us being overcome by Satan, who is lurking everywhere; then he closes it by telling us about the great wave or souls who are about to join us in the near future. Well, which is it. And the Irish bishops hiding tge abusive priests. Are they the devils he is talking about. This is have your cake and eat it Catholic stuff. If you met an ordinary guy in a pub – without the fancy dress or the endless quotes from some guys, we don’t knower who, or when, or where, we’d think he had taken one above the eight. He’s away with the fairies. Is this the best that the eight years in a seminary and forty years reading theology and ‘forgiving sins’ could produce, then we are in a bad way in Ireland.
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Like so much of the Bible: fabulous folklore tales for which there is extremely little separate independent reliable recorded history.
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You all may call the evil in the Roman Catholic church & it’s criminal clergy, the work of Satan, that’s your version and, how lucky you all are to have this imaginary fiend to blame for your own wrong doing.
I call it something different, criminality.
I thought most of us are imbued with free will, we make our own choices, at times they are the wrong choice, no point in blaming the Devil or, anyone else, however it is convenient to offset the blame, so when a heinous crime is committed by a Roman Catholic cleric, or lay person, to blame the Devil reduces the responsibility the offender has, smart move, just not smart enough.
Just tell a Judge at court you sexually abused a child, or killed another person, it’s not your fault, it was the Devil tempting you, instead of sending you to jail, he would sent you to the loony bin for treatment.
The Roman Catholic church is corrupt, why wouldn’t it attract corrupt individuals?
The sooner we all take responsibility for our own actions the better, instead of, blaming the imaginary collaborator, Lucifer.
Where does our purported innate morality come into this equation?
Of course! The Devil has “taken” it from us. Balderdash!!!
1) What, the Devil?
A new study reveals that Catholics are among the least likely to agree that Satan is a “living being.” September 8, 2017 Anne Hendershott
2)Pope Francis blames the DEVIL for sexual abuse crisis …
Daily Mail 8 Oct 2018
https://www.dailymail.co.uk › news › article-6252211
3)Readers’ Blog: Pope Francis blaming the Devil isn’t credible
Irish Examiner 13 Oct 2018 —
https://www.irishexaminer.com › arid-30875450
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When priests are shagging each other in monasteries that’s when the Devil is present
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Presumably when they get their penis’ pierced also
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Has the church altar at Kildorrery been reconsecrated yet?
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Email the Cloyne Bishop for clarification
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Has it even been washed?
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Reply to;Anonymoussays:
Apr 8, 2023 at 12:08 pm
The Devil is no more present than I was at that Roman Catholic monastery. I suggest those two homosexual Roman Catholic priests were the unfortunate ones to be caught in the act, so to speak, it has been going on in Roman Catholic monasteries and convents ad infinitum.
No devil present only two randy men, at least they had the good sense to use a kitchen table in the monastery kitchen, than the alter in the Roman Catholic church Abbey.
What a gay day eh!
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Sex in monastery was so much fun, the thrill of doing it where we knew we should not be made it extra special
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Broadcaster Seamus O Scanlain travelled to Ennis to meet with Bishop Monahan.
The broadcast will be available live online and to listen back afterwards at:
http://www.rte.ie/rnag
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His predecessor, Bishop Willie, was very kind to the travelling community in Ennis. They lived in the grounds of the Bishops Palace at one point.
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12:22 So, what?
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You should learn from Bishop Fintan, he values his privacy hence radio transmission.
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Ya don’t say. Isn’t he great.
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One witnesses evil – the deliberate hurt, abuse, harm and vile acts caused to people which leave them scarred for life or fatally injured. When we see others take delight in their deeds of violence, ugly, personalised, continuing harrassment and intimidation of others – this is a clear case of evil, satanically motivated.
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Lourdes can be a bit of a knocking shop where the vulnerable can be taken advantage of and the shytehawks-not just priests can target them.
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As a consequence of serious and ongoing ill treatment by RCC we no longer participate but our faith world is not a finished project…it is a continuum of discovery, thank God and we believe in a God of surprises each day.
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What’s hate speech?
It’s so loose a phrase that its meaning (if it has one) seems entirely, and shiftingly, arbitrary, a posh way of saying that words should mean what we opportunistically want them to mean.
No more; no less. Why, just like Humpty Dumpty!
So, does criticism constitute hate speech? For some it appears to.
Isn’t this why members of Trocaire, along with ‘Antifa’, protested outside the Irish Parliament in recent years?
To have statutorily restricted the public’s ability on freedom of speech?
Whenever I hear or read someone’s mentioning ‘hate speech’, I can’t help thinking of the 1930s, the decade of facism in Europe,
Or the year 2022/23, the time of ‘Putinism’, and its heavy-handed reaction to street protests against the murderous tyranny of Russia on plucky Ukraine.
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2.12
Incitement to hatred is:
1. when words are directed at the person making an argument rather than the argument itself (argumentum ad hominem);
2. when words belittle, attack or denigrate another human being.
It’s a very important part of statuory legislation in a democracy.
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It is said that there are certain doors in Maynooth Seminary locked due to ouiji board use, suicides…
I’m not referring to the blood stained floor in Rhetoric House.
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Is that actually true, do you or another know?
And what building exactly!?
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Pat I don’t want to denigrate your experience at Lourdes. I wonder if you were in a state of sleep paralysis, which is a very fighting experience. I have had it myself, your description of the heaviness usually on chest, being unable to move, awake for long hours prior to ? nodding off, and the devil many time comes into it, those who remember this part of sleep, which incidentally we all go through, although many never remember it, It is horrifying, once I understood this phenonium when it happens again, even In my sleep, I could rationalize to myself, there was nothing to fear.
1)Sleep Paralysis Written by Beth Roybal
Medically Reviewed by Jennifer Robinson, MD on November 17, 2022
2)Sleep Demon UPDATED MARCH 17, 2023
Written by Rob Newsom, Staff Writer
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I was 100 % awake
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Pat at 3.05: Some time back you told us about your field retreat alone in Tipperary, I think, saying mass and that you gave a “rabbit” the most sacred host.
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You got the county and the animal wrong.
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Pat at 5:18, paying attention to what anyone else is saying isn’t these people’s strong suit.
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Pat, thank you for sharing your experience of the demonic. I read the link to your previous post about what happened in Lourdes. Would you be willing to share any details of the other 2 encounters you had? Thank you and God bless x
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I did not have sex with that table! I do not eat chocolate!
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I did not have sex with that chocolate but I did eat that table!!!!!!!!!
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A lot of shock and horror around Big Mick Lomasney giving oral sex to a seminarian on the altar whilst someone photographed it. Yes, that was sinful and shameful, but so is the violation of thousands of children’s bodies by RC priests – Jesus promised such violators that their punishment would be great.
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Poor Mick was demonised, we all make mistakes so he should be forgiven by us and judged by God
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Ciaran Dallat is up to old tricks again
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Maybe finding it more difficult to attract the “younger tricks”!
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4.07 Ciaran is not the only one up to their old tricks, some of them never stopped.
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Not again, hopefully he has had the snip
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Some contributors to this blog continue to maintain that the Bible is complete fiction, that Jesus never existed and God does not exist either. So why do they continue to read this blog? They must have something to worry about!
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Agreed.
Militant atheism is a self-hoax: its proponents aren’t out to proselytize others; it’s themselves they are trying to convince. 😅
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Tell us you don’t understand the meaning of the words militant or atheism. 😂 And, at 4:16, show your complete lack of understanding of the many motivations which could bring people to read this blog.
Once again the experts in humanity show that their expertise is limited to their own little world.
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4:16. None of your business
Instead ask yourself why YOU keep reading this blog , Fr.
Of course, you’ll deny you’re a Fr or their Mafia types!
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6.09
The so-called expert in priest detection. Were your forebears priest hunters in the employ of penal law regimes?
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The Gospel of Mark was written a few decades after the crucifixion. The Letters of Paul were written before the Gospel attributed to Mark. The baptism and crucifixion are accepted by the majority of scholars.
Theists should not be concerned by atheists. An atheist trying to convince a theist who knows of the afterlife is like someone trying to convince someone that the Earth is flat.
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Good post, Seamus.
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Pat, you were asked a couple of times today to give more detail about your two other supernatural experiences. You already told us about Lourdes, but not about those other places. Are you holding back because you’re keeping that info for your forthcoming book? Understood if this is the case.
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Will write about them soon
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God does not exist and when the RCC crumbles in the future you will all see it for what it is, maintaining celibacy based on a fantasy book, honestly, I’m not a Dr, but there is something wrong with you lot
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5.41: Just as well you’re nit a doctor: you’d kill everyone. Idiot.
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Satan is everywhere, just look at our political system
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Has anyone seen the film with Peter Cooke and Dudley Moore in which Cooke plays the Devil, and Moore his PR man on Earth? The title evades me. At one point in the film, Moore tells some people that the Devil really isn’t that bad; he’s ‘just misunderstood’.
Who believes there may be at least some truth in this? Anyone? Let’s face it, Jesus has won the propaganda battle against the Devil; the media big guns of the day, of any day (especially the Bible) have always very largely been on Jesus’ side.
Devil me if the Devil hasn’t been held ransom to peoples fears and prejudices! And yet, so far as I know, no one has ever sat him down, offered a cup of tea in best Parian, along with a good biscuit, and had a ‘I want to get to know you’ chat.
Many of these fears and prejudices are visible in Christian art: in how it depicts the Devil and, particularly, in how it contrasts him with Jesus. And these have proved seminal for Christians the world over.
Jesus has had an easy ride, winning virtually by default. The other guy? Is this fair? No wonder he’s said to be ‘prowling round like a roaring lion looking for someone eat’. Wouldn’t you, if you were he? A sense of injustice burns even in Hell.
Maybe it’s time to look again at the old religious furniture and furnishings. You know, the official, core representations of the Devil, and the trappings we add ourselves through those fears and prejudices, and through our tendency to the superstitious. And maybe buy something more up-to-date. Less medieval, and more modern, like?
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Bedazzled is a 2000 fantasy romantic comedy film directed by Harold Ramis and starring Brendan Fraser and Elizabeth Hurley. It is a remake of the 1967 British film of the same name, written by Peter Cook and Dudley Moore, which was itself a comic retelling of the Faust legend.
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Father Pat Collins said: ”And I remember going to pray for a Protestant lady, and her pastor was there and other people from the church where there.
And as soon as we started praying for her she just went crazy. And physically crazy and throffing at the mouth and leaping all over the floor.”
— Do’ya reckon the lady might have been Ulster Protestant Orange, Bishop Pat? Lol
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Things seem to be at a stand still with Government and getting answers almost impossible.
We are still hoping for a day in September for a commemoration in Sean Ross mother and and baby home Roscrea co Tipperary Ireland in September dates to be decided.
As it is now fully up and running as a business we have to work with the owner on date suits all –
Owners has never stopped anyone but please be aware that living accommodation is out of bounds but the rest is free to visit.
There is a meeting in May with the Tipperary County Council going forward and will update along with statement to hand.
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