Joe Biden is the president of a country and the leader of a political party that presides over ONE MILLION abortions a year.
The ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH has made abortion and assisting abortion, one of the biggest, if not the biggest sin a Catholic can commit.
And, yet, this week, the RCC in Ireland closed down its biggest shrine and cancelled all Masses to give Joe an escorted tour of Knock – with the escort being none other than the parish priest!
Was this not a golden opportunity for the RCC to send a massive message to the world- especially with the international media present.
The message being – that the president of a party and a country that kills ONE MILLION babies in the womb every year is NOT WELCOME at the Irish National Catholic Shrine to the Virgin Mary – the symbol of purity, chastity and the woman who had God in her womb?
But of course, that is not how the RCC thinks.
Biden was useful to put Knock on the international map.
His visit will bring more American tourists to Knock and, more importantly, their US DOLLARS.
Biden brings attention and human prestige to Knock, the Irish RCC and its clerics.
And Biden”s visit might even get Fr Bennett Gibbons the mitre he seeks.
Oh, and by the way, did Bennett Gibbons suggest to Biden that he might visit the Tuam Baby sight and have a moment of silence there and whisper a prayer there for the 800 dead babies placed in a septic tank there by the saintly nuns?
I bet not.
The RCC is interested in
Prestige.
Power.
Control.
Self-protection at any cost.
They are a vital part of the international corrupt establishment.
They have hijacked Christ and Christianity for their own evil purposes.
They say they are the champion of babies on the womb.
They took a break from that championing this week to roll out the red carpet for Joe.
And when babies are out of the womb:
Priests can rape them.
Nuns can bury them like Coke bottles.
And it’s all covered up.
In the RCC, it seems the only safe for babies is in the womb.
BISHOP PAT BUCKLEY 
178 replies on “KNOCK WELCOMES PRESIDENT WHO PRESIDES OVER ONE MILLION ABORTIONS A YEAR.”
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So true, Bishop Pat. The hypocrisy and double standards of his visit to Knock convinced me that the whole thing was a sham.
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It’s only like the rest of the Catholic church then.
Hadn’t you noticed people don’t have those massive families any more? Did you think they’d stopped having sex?
And hadn’t you noticed the priests aren’t exactly what you’d call celibate or that the entire episcopate facilitated child abuse?
Next you’ll be telling me you think any of this crowd believe in God.
IT’S ABOUT THE GRIFT, and the fake religion is a front.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R_mPBhc4tFc
Dan Fogelberg – Aireshire Lament ~ The Last To Know
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What’s this Bennett-Gibbons thing Pat?
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Very powerful post, Pat. I also don’t understand why the cathedral in Ballina was tricked out as the stage set for Joe Biden and that other abortion advocate, Mary Robinson. I’m surprised Mary McAleese or Brian D’Arcy didn’t try to muscle in as well.
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Former Irish President Mary McAleese and Fr Brian D’Arcy have both been strategically silenced, it’s on occasions such as this US visit evidence of same rears its ugly head.
Church & State, State & Church.
They will never forgive President McAleese for being a woman.
They will definitely never forgive President McAleese for standing up for her brothers rights when it emerged he was abused by RCC entities.
Fr Brian D’Arcy is hanging on by the skin of his teeth as punishment for speaking the truth about his treatment at the hands of RCC entities.
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@ 11:22am
Thanks be to God, those two attention seekers were kept out of it. The Guards must have locked them up, because as we know that pair would turn up for the opening of an envelope.😏
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12:03 Give my regards to Alan. Dinners for one are now the order of the day. Time and tide wait for no one.
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12:03 Don’t think the Guards lock up priests or presidents just for being media hungry!
Doesn’t look like it anyway in Ireland.
Not yet anyway.
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Mary was at Leinster House for the speech but got no attention. She was also at the feed in the castle along with Armagh Amy.
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@11:40pm
An other once beautiful Cathedral ruined by the mandatory reordering of the sanctuary by the poly’s. It’s a wonder they hadn’t stripped it back to the bricks, sleepy Joe’s great Granda had supplied.
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Sleepy Joe and Richard Gibbons were using each other. Joe was thinking of the images to be shared with Irish-American Dems, and Richard seized the opportunity for free advertsing, as you point out. A ridiculously idealised view of Ireland was conjured up and it was noticable that the “New Irish” were kept well out of view during the visit.
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11:44 plenty interesting & church related background on some of the “old Irish” that appeared at the various shenanigans for President Biden.
Can someone remind the Bishop to get off his high horse and deal with his VAT return or is all the paperwork with The Raven again. 😒
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Of course the Democrats and the US trade unions historically were pro-slavery, anti-African Americans, seeing them as rivals for the low-paid jobs done by Democrat voters. The Dems only became liberal in recent decades, though they’ve kept their pork barrel politics intact.
Sleepy Joe’s main function was to be all folksy and to attract the rustbelt and Irish American vote in the election against Trump. The metropolitan, identity politics-obsessed, urban elite Dems knew that their preferred candidate, Hillary Clinton, was very unpopular in those constituencies so Joe was the front man in the fight against Trump.
The plan was that Joe would retire after a year, with the second preferred candidate, Kamala Harris succeeding, unelected, to the top job. However Joe, egged on by “Dr” Jill, quite likes being President, even though he’s senile, and Kamala has been a disappointment, so Joe is back on the folksy Irish-American campaign trail once more. The gombeen Paddy Irishman antics in Dublin, Knock and Ballina were just stops on the campaign trail.
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Is Richard pointing to the temporary exhibition laid on in Joe’s honour by the Mullagh Museum of Male Underwear?
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It should go on a national tour and be put on in selected presbyteries in every diocese.
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Give us a rub of the relic will yeas
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10:05 Just as Toddy says:
Durty feckers the lot of them.
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Durty feckers or dirty feckers
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We wish they’d put all the underwear strewn on the side of the road near the woods in a museum.
Do they think we have nothing better to do.
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Dick is telling Joe; ‘I’ll stop any Adversity with my hand’! Joe is thinking, ‘Unreal’!
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Roman Catholic clergy and their cohorts continue to engage in multiple methods of harassment, silencing, slandering & censorship of victims, survivors and those who call out the ongoing abusive conduct of clergy and their so called faithful being a group largely consisting of blatantly compromised and self serving individuals.
it is right that they be held to account for their inappropriate behaviour.
This ongoing conduct throughout the Roman Catholic Church is another stark reminder of how the wealthy & powerful can use their positions of privilege & power to benefit themselves at the expense of others, a thread that remains all too common in Church & State.
Instead of denouncing priests such as Fr/Dr Rory Coyle and many of his Irish & UK colleagues behaviour as “irresponsible and deliberate endangerment”, hierarchy including Archbishop Eamon Martin are spending hundreds and thousands of pounds/euros funding long term expensive holidays packaged to the church donors that fund them as “priest sabbaticals” when in fact deviant priests are off indulging their personal interests at no expense to themselves personally and being fully funded & accommodated by RCC despite the fact that their previous conduct is directly contrary and in conflict with the vows they made at ordination.
In the few cases where lip service and verbal apologies are made by RC hierarchy they do not ring true as ongoing deviant actions speak volumes of the ongoing defiance, deliberate and criminal obstruction culminating in proof of them real lack of commitment to justice by Roman Catholic Church & their self serving cohorts.
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Not another red cent…
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Who is this new person whose favourite word is “cohorts”, usually used wrongly?
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Might be someone who knows too much about YOUR cohorts!
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10:17 Who might you be?
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In the Oratory Society would you refuse communion to
Hugh Connolly
Ger Fitz
Gorgeous
Ya man down in Tralee?
The other regular names here
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No.
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You are a good Christian pastor, +Pat.
Happy Sunday to you and yours on this wonderful bright morning.
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Would you deny Communion to Biden?
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No.
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Would you deny Communion to anyone?
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Pat is an adherant of the clericalist notion that it’s up to each priest to decide, rather than it being the decision of the Church and not an individual matter for priests, as if they personally own the Sacrament and dispense at their discretion.
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Pat, if I were you, I’d consider banning Petrus after your experience with Swiss Guards in Vatican City.
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Many Catholics and clerics have made abortion into the watermark of who is a good Catholic and who is not.
This is very narrow thinking.
Morality is a great big, complex sphere and cannot be reduced down to one issue.
Christians cannot be one issue moralists.
And abortion itself is a very complex moral issue and those who reduce it to a simple black and white issue are either stupid or malevolent.
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“Rape/slavery/racism/murder itself is a very complex moral issue and those who reduce it to a simple black and white issue are either stupid or malevolent.”
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9.45
The difference is each of the vices you enumerate is intrinsically evil, by definition. Abortion, on the other hand, while a serious action is not. There are occasions when it is permissible to Christians and required. The ban on abortion is not a moral absolute.
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You are stupid or malevolent.
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11.38
No actually. That’s mainstream Catholic teaching. It’s more nuanced than you appear to think.
Educate yourself if you want to represent church teaching accurately.
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11.38
Try to focus on attacking the argument instead of savaging the person.
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1:38, has arguement so….
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11.02
Direct (or intentional) abortion is indeed an intrinsic evil, and the Church implicitly defines it so: ‘Since the first century the Church has affirmed the moral evil of EVERY procured abortion. This teaching has not changed and remains unchangeable.’ (CCC, para 2271)
If every such act is a moral evil, then, implicitly, such acts are intrinsically wrong, permitting no exceptions whatever, regardless of circumstance. The moral ban on this type of abortion is unquestionably a moral absolute.
Such is the intrinsic moral gravity of these acts that the Church ‘attaches the canonical penalty of excommunication “latae sententiae”(“by the very commission of the offence”) to this crime against human life.’
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The comment “stupid or malelovent” is a direct quote from the pro-abortion person at 3.43am.
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5.58
An abortion is morally required in the case of ectopic pregnancy.
The ban on abortion per se is therefore not absolute. Abortion is not an intrinsically moral evil.
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Reply to;
ABORTION AS THE WATERMARK.says:
Apr 16, 2023 at 3:43 am
Odd! How the Roman Catholic church clergy are so concerned about the unborn, yet so brutally cavalier with those children once born, brainwashing from the day of Baptism very soon after birth ,First Communion at the so called age of “reason” 7 years old, Confirmation at 11-12 years old.
I don’t believe at any of those stages of Catholicism, has a child any sense of the coercion, manipulation, indoctrination, rights of passage that is foisted on them, initiated long before the their age of reason, it has always being so, and so it will be, is the mantra by many Roman Catholics still.
That’s even before sexually abuse is inflicted on them.
“Give me a child till he is seven years old,’ said St Ignatius Loyola, ‘ and I will show you the man.’
Take religion/Catholicism off the school curriculum, leave all the teaching of Catholicism to the parents, wait for the result.
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Except the ones who made synodality into it i.e selling our souls to the disadvantageous spiritual scheme that was dictated in place of what we input and asked. They called our bluff and we gave it, and they don’t like it. A decent god wouldn’t back a disadvantageous spiritual scheme.
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The homosexual power brokers in the Vatican & elsewhere in RCC will support the homosexual cardinals and bishops who are soft on unborn baby killing.
They have to sow confusion, about what is right and wrong, to justify their own lifestyles and “choices”.
Salacious Susie Cupich in Chicago,
Malevolent McElroy in San Diego,
Indolent Dolan in NY,
His Eminence of Newark, “NIGHT NIGHT BABY I LOVE YOU” Tobin # “I was tweeting to ma sistah” yeah of course you were.
Wilting Cardinal Gregory in DC.
They are all rotten and corrupt through and through.
Their equally corrupt buddies in El Vaticano will back them to the hilt.
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3.47
Your comment is that of a US cultural warrior. A US export which is preferably left at home.
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Like Sleepy Joe?
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Exporting his one big gay disco
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Even the devil can quote Scripture for nefarious purposes.
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Being refused communion by a RC prelate who is double speak, double life, in the closet but practising, swindler, enriching and indulging himself on the widow’s purse, would be a badge of honour for me, for Joe Biden, a vote winner – it’s a win win for everybody.
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Canon Nener was defending during proceedings, was convicted at Liverpool Crown Court of the molestation of a child.
Is there more to come out about this lot in the news?
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httpss://www.lancashiretelegraph.co.uk/news/5840119.head-teacher-jailed-molesting-boy/
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Canon Nener was defending during proceedings, was convicted at Liverpool Crown Court of the molestation of a child.
Is there more to come out about this lot in the news?
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https://www.lancashiretelegraph.co.uk/news/5840119.head-teacher-jailed-molesting-boy/
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You certainly have your y-fronts in a twist over this. You have been commenting on this since 2021.
Firstly, Canon Nemer is an Anglican Vicar and was a referee in this particular case. The wording suggests he was convicted. Simply NOT TRUE.
Read the article again in the Lancashire Telegraph. The article is dated 2004. 19 years old .
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People have free will.
“And whosoever shall not receive you, nor hear your words, when ye depart out of that house or city, shake off the dust of your feet.”
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“Whoever receives this child in my name receives me, and whoever receives me receives him who sent me. For he who is least among you all is the one who is great.”
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Father Etienne
His instructions were coming from the Bishop and what a shocking way for a Bishop to inform the people of Blackpool.
https://www.blackpoolgazette.co.uk/news/politics/shutdown-blackpool-church-could-be-converted-to-homes-3233468
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At least the long-predicted conversion to a mosque, carpet showroom or carpark isn’t happening.
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9:47 Shame, the young fellas on our street were hoping for a local supply of free shoes on the doorstep.
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Those outcomes are still predicted for the redundant town centre churches in Blackpool.
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Usually some local Muslims take over redundant churches. They don’t mind a leaking roof, mould, and no heating.
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Reply to;Anonymoussays:
Apr 16, 2023 at 9:47 am
Not this one, there will be others.
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The psychological and emotional brainwashing indoctrination of religious beliefs of childhood seems to induce an inability to make any objective analysis of the likelihood of the Christian belief system being true.
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@4:02. “The Christian belief system….”
A good description, for that’s all it is. It’s just another one of earth’s current belief systems, and there’s many, both currently and in the past. They all derive from humanity’s awareness of mortality and aspirations for some sort of continuation: immortality.
The psychological imperatives reinforcing such belief systems are powerful. And no belief system harnesses all means possible more deviously than the RCC, all for the benefit of its clerical purveyors.
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4:02 sounds very like Mourneful Mick.
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He’s the thinking man’s Joan Bakewell.
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Bla bla blabla bla-deh da deh da.
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Yea. He’s only half baked
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President Biden is one of the most powerful men on earth and the powerful men in Rome don’t want him upset.
The powerful look out for the powerful at the end of the day and to hell with morality and God’s commandments.
No wonder the Roman Catholic Church is riddled with corrupt clergy and their faithful enablers of sexual and financial corruption.
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We all think we live in a fair democracy, that protects our children, but we are not … it’s all a cover and big fat fraud orchestrated by church and state cynically protecting each other.
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4:46 True. Good post.
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Why does someone who was raped as a child in a national school not have the same right of audience at a State inquiry as someone who was raped as a child in a school operated by a religious order?
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In the same way that a child victim of Kincora or the many other social services establishments where abuse happens does not get compensation, even when the perpetrators are convicted.
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Very good point Justine
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Your friend Christy Moore summed it up well in the song about the airport up in Knock and NATO wanting it there.
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Yes Knock and Shannon runways are well used by the American military for refuelling and a leg stretch before going onwards.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RsJPW5kCZNo
Christy Moore – The Knock Song
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I didn’t know Christy sang a song about Knock and listened to it after a post on the blog today. He sums the whole thing up nicely as only he can. I am glad you saw him live in Dublin Pat because tickets get sold out very quickly. I thought he was unusually very kind to Fr Horan in the song but not so kind to the Yanks. If Christy likes you he will give you a small nod not in a direct way but he does it in a very subtle way.
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In response to rumors that Jesuit artist Father Marko Ivan Rupnik, accused of abusing several adult women, will be transferred outside of Rome, the Jesuit overseeing the inquiry into his conduct has said the case is still ongoing.
Jesuit artist Father Marko Ivan Rupnik, accused of abusing several adult women, will be transferred outside of Rome, the Jesuit overseeing the inquiry into his conduct has said the case is still ongoing.
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Earlier this month Bishop Jean-Marc Micas of Tarbes and Lourdes, where the famed Marian shrine of Lourdes is located, said he is pondering the removal of several large mosaics designed by Rupnik that adorn the façade of the of the shrine’s main Basilica of the Rosary due to the harm their presence might cause to victims who come to the shrine seeking healing.
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Rupnik is another dodgy friend of Frank.
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5.27
Not true. You would like it to be.
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Was Joe having an apparition of his own with Dick Gibbons ?
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On the way….
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If joe visited large would you have welcomed him …. Of course you would have. Take the the plank out you ham sanwich
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Who is Large?
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Was Joe Biden refused Holy Communion in Knock?
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Come off it, Seamus.
‘You CAN-NOT be serious.’
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Pat, I am confused with the double-barrelled name. I thought Richard Gibbons is the priest’s name, unsure why he is called Bennett?
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The old oily-rag Gibbons would only be interested in getting his Hale-and-Pace in the papers with the old tea-caddy from DC.
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Pat, would you have refused the US President entry into any Church were you an Adm? Would you refuse him Holy Communion? There are many politicians and various high profile people of every profession who support abortion but who attend churches of all denominations. Are we to refuse these abortion supporters access to our sacred places? Most of our government voted for abortion in repeal the 8th. Remember? The government along with American agents organised the trip and chosen places to visit. On the other hand, can you imagine the furore if President Biden was refused visits to the sacred shrine of Knock? AND – let’s be very honest – you, Pat, would have led the charge. The visit to Knock was justified. Fr. Gibbons can hold his head very high today. As for Tuam….a most awful tragedy and one which needs a more thorough, compassionate and just response by church authorities. But to use Tuam in this context of your displeasure at the President not “being invited” to go there is an abuse. Why has President Highins not visited is the more relevant questions.
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President Michael D Higgins has not visited Knock as he has far bigger fish to fry these days.
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Turning up since 1969, as he said himself.
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I think you might be a bit unfair to Joe on this, + Pat. I believe he walks a very narrow and tight line about abortion and the right to life, in which his personal attitude is probably more or less aligned with a right to life perspective, but as a politician with wide responsibilities of representation in a society in which there are numerous interpretations of this issue, he has to find a way that respects both his conscience and the rights, liberties and consciences of others who do not agree with him but whom he has to represent as their elected representative. That’s a difficult gig. As for the RCC, I do not believe that its opposition to abortion is as black and white as is portrayed. Yes, in a general sense it sees abortion as a moral negative, call it sin even, but recognises that as in most moral situations there are a whole variety of qualifying issues, such as intentionality, such as being confronted with a situation in which any action has compromises etc. As I recall, the principle of double effect can be applied in cases where abortion is necessary to save the life of the mother, the intention being to save a life which may necessitate terminating a pregnancy. So, I do think we need to be fair to the RCC about its teaching and see it in a more subtle and nuanced way. As to how it is applied in practice is another case, and might vary from country to country, culture to culture, person to person. Some of the more rigorous application of the principle of the right to life which we see in some places, for example in some US states go far beyond any teaching that you find in the RCC. I would have more reservations about the blatant politicking that Biden was involved in his visit to Ireland and trying to reach out to his Irish / American constituency, as well as the mock twee nonsense Irish caricatures that were flying about. It was a pantomime, in which Knock played a leading role, which is probably fitting given the theatrical invention that goes on there. More significant was the cold shoulder Biden gave to the DUP and the Brits over NI / Good Friday / Assembly / Brexit. The message was very clear, and that lot need to go off and reflect on their idiotic intransigence and colonial / imperial huffing and puffing, and the monumental strategic mistakes they have made, especially with Brexit and removing themselves from mainstream Europe in favour of some kind of go it alone so called world beating Britain ! Dream on !
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Hi Bishop Pat,
love your work but this is deeply unfair on Joe Biden.
Abortion in the US has always been a battle between local (state) and federal (national) law. The notion that Biden is happily standing over abortion is ridiculous. It has been around a long time in the US and has only been repealed recently in some backward, religious Red States. But what is true is that Biden rightly approves of abortion. It is a basic right of all women.
The anti-abortion crowd typically includes the following:
(1) RCC clergy – most of whom are gay and funnily enough their only interest in poonanie is to prevent women doing what they want with it. They have NO right to an opinion on this. None whatsoever. They need to toddle off back to Grindr and the Boilerhouse and their usual haunts where they spend all their time with MEN. Nasty men who don’t like women.
(2) Non-clergy religious fruitcakes like the Burkes, Bible bashers in the US, etc. Eff Off. If you dont approve of abortion then dont practice it yourself. What women do with their bodies is absolutely NONE OF THEIR BUSINESS.
(3) Opportunist Right-Wing Politicians. Big problem in the US but thankfully a fringe in Ireland. Most of them, and their supporters, can’t find the countries on a map whose immigrants they complain about.
All three groups thankfully have very limited influence in modern Ireland. Women are not factories for producing sprogs and are entitled to do WHATEVER they want without impediment from ANYONE.
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The Irish run profiteering on human misery orchestrated for decades by Roman Catholic institutions & the ongoing cover up for its clerical & lay predators are an evil and shameful fact in the fabric of Irish society.
Countless lives continue to be impacted by corruption enabled by church & state entities.
New Vocations are non existent and self interested and highly compromised laity are attracting unwanted interest from various authorities.
Intimidation of witnesses is not as straightforward as it used to be nor is air brushing the negative elements working.
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9.22: What fantastical leaps of imagination..so ridiculous and OTT and laughable…😁😁😁🤣🤣🤣😇😇😇🤣😄😄😄😆😜😜😜😜
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Is it really?
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3:29 protests too much, someone’s hit a central nerve!
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Fr Gibbons is doing a fantastic job at Knock. The church should make him a Cardinal. Long way he continue. Good to see the Irish media still embedded in the Democrat political camp.
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A cardinal? Raise your sights. Pope, surely? His old friend and frequent guest, the ex-nuncio to the RoI, will put in a good word for him.
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10.44
Why didn’t that nuncio act while he still could?
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Georgie porgie?
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11:11 he was too busy practicing the sean nos dancing
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He wants the white Pat.
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Our Seanie is finally showing his true colour’s.
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9.45, wise up! Knock, knock, Who’s there? No one.
Knock was a complete hoax, dreamed up by a culchie parish priest on the make for a bit of dough and celebrity in his backwoods parish. And he used a magic latern to achieve the magical effect.
It’s telling that the images he projected onto the gable wall of that crumbling old den of religious superstition, the church, never moved. Not once. None of the ‘seerers’ reported any such thing, and no wonder: they were stills, a tableau, from the new wonder the parish priest had indulged himself with by using the pennies from the poor. And, of course, the rustic Irish fell for it. They still do.
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Nor was the Virgin Mary, and the rest of them.
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Neither were you there!
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4:54 the Cult & their cute hoor spin doctors & smart arses in Ireland were peddling this line when Ireland was in financial shite in the 1980s.
Statues of Mary doing a jig in bog holes all over the shop,
My family didn’t mind, Dad drove a bus for a company that took people to Ballinspittle in Cork.
Other drivers told him there was a couple of fellas behind the grotto with wire & a torch of some kind!
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7.53
To my knowledge, the so-called ‘Marian apparition’ at Knock is the only one of all such apparitions that is entirely two-dimensional, the figures of which neither moved nor spoke a word. There was total inanimation, suggesting not living imagery, but, simply, a picture.
I cannot imagine that any of the Irish poor in the area had ever seen the kind of images that could be projected on to a flat surface by a magic lantern; this, therefore, must have been an arresting and understandable wonder to the ‘seerers’, especially for its religious significance. In fact, it’s possible that the ‘seerers’ had never before seen such a lantern in action, which would have made them more credulous and the picture more credible.
The images on the church gable wall were highly stylised, that is, they were the kind of conventional images one could find in almost any Irish Catholic home of the period, in print, or in statues.
No; the Knock ‘apparition’ was, on balance, an undoubted hoax. The surprising thing is that many people today still accept the claim about Knock without any scepticism at all. Perhaps at least some of them are too afraid to question the claim, for fear of incurring divine wrath.
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What happened to journalist George Neumayr?
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Sadly died of Malaria in Africa January 2023, He will be sorely missed. Requiescat in pace.
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Am I right in thinking his death was controversial in some Catholic media circles regarding causation?
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I heard Enda Kenny calling Fr. Richard a Monsignor at Dublin Castle event. Yes Gibbons has transformed knock but at the detriment of other churches. Attendance at knock is down in recent years so the cash is not coming in. The only ones going there now are immigrants into Ireland. The American Market is not there any more and most Americans don’t spend alot there! Yes Biden came home but what to? The most economically deprived and debt ridden country in the EU. Homelessness , deprivation, is on the increase. Knock is just a tourist trail in Mayo. Fr. Gibbous won’t be promoted because of his Liberal views..shall I go on…
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Knock, Knock
Who’s there
The Popes Monkey 🐒
The Monkey Gibbon
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Knock, Knock
Who’s there
Dick, Dick Who?
Dick Doin’ ‘The Funky Gibbon’
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10.19
What you mean is you will do your bit to keep him out in the hope that having one fewer worthy candidate may help your own unworthy ambition.
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Shall I go on? Do…
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@ 10:20am
I sincerely hope your right wev’e got more than enough liberal’s without tricky Dickie.🙄
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Pope Francis changed the rules regarding Chaplains of Honour in 2014 by ruling that Monsignors cannot be appointed until the age of 67 to prevent careerism. The only exceptions to the rule are officials in Nunciatures and Prefects in regions that are too small to be elevated to Vicariates Apostolic. Richard Gibbons will be waiting a while….
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Has April been designated the month of hypocrisy? Firstly there is the scandalous reward of a mitre to Fr Paul Connell for the persecution of Dom Benedict Andersen.
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It may also be the month of cowardice.
Have you contacted either Deenihan or Connell directly to air your concerns? No, you haven’t, have you?
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11:40, What good would that do? This blog is the most effective means of holding prelates and other clergy accountable.
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Monseigneur, communications may well be winging their way to various quarters, including Roma…
How do you know, Monseigneur?!
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10.20: The Easter Bonnet with pinkie curlers for 2023 must surely go to Shammy Boyo. Here we go again..faux outrage as it is for his fellow colleague, Dom B..The absolute boredom of repeat comments is incredulous since Shammy does nothing meaningful or constructive for his “friend”. Now he has chosen Fr. Connell to mouth his wrath against…Shammy, when you tell us you’ve been in touch with Dom B and invited him for a holiday, given him financial support and if you made personal contact with Bishop Deenihan, then we might believe your concern. Till then, you should shut up! You bore.
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3:24, honestly why do you care?
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3:24, Dom Benedict Andersen, the true Prior of Silverstream, is being persecuted day after day. Will Fr Paul Connell be inviting Vladimir Putin to his Episcopal Ordination?
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May to be designated clerical clown month or clowning in Rome month.
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I just want to say, never give up. I recently received a formal apology and compensation from both Church and State for the suffering I experienced at the hands of both of them, in Auckland Good Shepherd convent and whilst waiting at the Girls home until I turned fourteen.
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You’re not living in the country considered by many journalists RCC ground zero.
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@1:25pm
You only have too read this blog to see that’s not true, and hasn’t been for many years. Time those journalists coped on.
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7:21
Who do you think you’re kidding? You need to do your research or will we post chapter and verse for your edification. You’re obviously new to this blog.
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Congratulations Mary Kate, it took so long but you got there in the end.
You are inspirational.
Go, Girl.
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The Democrats abortion policy comes from the Devil. Trouble is the Republicans get their policies from the Devil on every other issue. In particular while abortion kills millions ignoring the overwhelming evidence of man-made climate change to support the oil industry will kill billions before too long.
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Spot On.
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Joe was clearly using Knock as a PR electioneering stunt. Knock was using Joe as a way of looking relevant. If Joe really did want to visit Knock for the right reasons (and whatever the reasons Knock thinks it has are all very flimsy, questionable and conveniently contrived), he should have gone quietly, privately and incommunicado – which would not have been without the wit of the Secret Service to achieve if they and Joe wanted to. No, both Joe and Knock were scratching each other’s back.
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1.27: The inanity and stupidity of these conspiracy theories are so outrageous as to be risible and embarrassing. The commenter is cracked.
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It’s not conspiracy. It’s reality. You need to research a bit more how politicians and churchmen function. Trust me, if its not a cock up, it is definitely well thought out. And this will have been well thought out by Joe and Knock.
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4:15 Is it not permissible to voice an alternative view? Gas-lighter.
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4:15 What would you expect from a bunch of amateurs. 🤣🤣
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The idea that the Catholic Church gives a shite about abortion is risible. Yes it’s a moral teaching but privately the hierarchy don’t give a damn – their only interest in children is when their out of the womb and for nefarious purposes but they embrace the moral high ground on abortion whenever it is politically expedient.
The abortion issue is a big con – the Catholic Church wouldn’t lift a finger to help a woman seeking an abortion other than to condemn her to hell if she did.
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6.30: When comments are intelligent, rational and truthful, then they’re worth reading. But the trashy conspiracy claptrap of 1.27 and 5.38 are figments of crazy imagination. KNOCK doesn’t require an American President to make it relevant. It had relevance long before any American came. You should visit for reflection.. your comment and that of others today are of the fiction genre and utterly silly. Fr. Gibbons is a great administrator and there’s nothing wrong in showcasing the beautiful, prayerful Knock Shrine.
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Is that Nikki Holland, Director of Investigations, NCA? @ 1.30 in the Youtube video below dated 2 July 2020?
She used to be at Merseyside Police.
Wasn’t she just in the Liverpool Echo?
LIVERPOOL ECHO 15 April 2023
“Misconduct probe of crime agency chief split into two enquiries
Nikki Holland, former Merseyside Police officer, faces allegations of data protection breaches, bullying and misuse of public funds.”
https://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/liverpool-news/misconduct-probe-crime-agency-chief-26689501
ENCROCHAT P2P (Point-to-Point) ENCRYPTION
OPERATION VENETIC: 746 ‘UNTOUCHABLE’ CRIMINALS ARRESTED AFTER POLICE INFILTRATE ENCRYPTED SYSTEM 2 July 2020
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NuSBJ2JtQS8
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Shipping containers are used primarily in the maritime industry.
Shipping containers are used to import and export goods from and to major international ports.
The maritime industry is governed mostly by Maritime Law. Maritime Law is a very niche area; and not all legal firms specialise in this complex area.
There are five major ports in the UK ….
1. Port of Felixstowe
2. Port of Southampton
3. Port of London
4. Port of Immingham
5. Port of Liverpool
The marine industry is governed mostly by maritime law, as mentioned above, which is mostly independent from criminal and civil law. However there are loopholes which see some proceedings held at local civil courts.
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Shipping containers are used primarily in maritime industry. They are used to import and export goods via distribution from and to major ports, internationally.
Maritime law is a very niche area and not all solicitors specialise in this area of law. It’s very different from criminal and Civil law; however there are loopholes which ensure proceedings can be heard in the civil court.
Doe anybody remember the news from 2020?
Dutch National Police Unit raid a warehouse after intel of torture containers. English Subtitles.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CzcylanTPNU
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There aren’t many law firms that have even heard of maritime law never mind specialise in it.
Maritime law is both a fascinating and complex area to become involved. But there are experts out there.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hYXMXc6oaV8
This port of Liverpool is the most centrally placed port in all the United Kingdom. That gives it diversity in handling various types of cargo ranging from agribulks, containers, automotive, dry bulk, forest products, energy products, metals, Ro-Ro, liquid bulks and project cargo.
The port has a massive $400 million shipping terminal which welcomes mega vessels to the port. But the port is also a tourist attraction site in its own right. It is home to some of the country’s timeless classic buildings, known as the three graces of Liverpool. They line the waterfront and stand in Edwardian Baroque architectural splendor.
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Mgr Horan would turn in his grave seeing Knock exploited in such a way. Obscene the whole thing.
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2.56: Utter nonsense as a comment. Monsignor Horan would have been delighted. Stop this anti Joe Biden nonsense: remember it was the money from IRISH AMERICANS who helped build Knock. Are you so, so embarrasingly ignorant?
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‘Monsignor Horan would have been delighted’
So you’re speaking on behalf of the dead?!
Native Irish built knock, not just contributions from American Irish.
What’s your agenda?
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The American Administration built Knock runway for their own selfish war agenda.
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Yesterday on the blog we had the spectacle of a lapsed Catholic turned unionist singing the praises of the black and tans. He’s probably commented negatively on Ratzinger’s spell in Hitler Youth with the least blush of irony or inconsistency.
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5.22: Are you for real, leprechaun? The wonderful Monsignor would indeed have been delighted. He sought support from everywhere, all for the good and well being of the West. Get a reality check…
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Knock is a joke of an airport. Mr O’ Leary loves it for its cheap landing slots. Who else goes there? We know who lands there usually under the cover of darkness and not being a noise risk to any neighbours. We know in Mayo who pays for that runway and it ain’t Ryanair or the government. It’s used as an airport but the runway is only a cover for the existence of the airport.
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6.04: Now some crackpots are really losing the run of themselves…the runway is just about long enough for a safe take off!! You idiot. What other conspiratorial opinions have you?
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It was long enough for sleepy Joe’s two planes
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If I want to have an abortion I will, it’s my damn body
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It’s not your body that’s being aborted.
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Just right Shannon, so if a man wants to use his Willy inside you against your will, well sure that’s his body he can do what he wants right?
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When the Holy Mother Church Triumphal was looking without any prayer to its facelift, HM trained teachers were legitimating the expectation of predation by asking boys of 14 leading questions about “should there be sex outside marriage”. We knew it was the affair of those involved, their families and chosen friends: it was wrong of authorities to cast doubt on good morals that belonged to most young, while prelates were cosying to Savile instead of counting beads. Now look at Highgate School, Winchester College. (The teacher that organised sessions, previously supervisor of Christian Union, left after carrying on with a boy.)
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Well when you have Post Traumatic Stress in the years after this barbaric act, we’ll be here
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Pat, I hope you have a cake for Friday 21st April. It’s the 10th anniversary of the episcopal ordination of Most Rev. Eamon Martin.
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On the occasion of her tin jubilee, a blog, one of your fabulous blogs, on the life and time of the archbishop would be of interest to the reader, I am sure.
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3:58. I’m available to pop out of the cake
😇 🎂💃 🕺 🎂 😇
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tP3zBAMD_Is
Mary Hopkin Eurovision 1970 “Knock Knock, Who’s There”
(NFe2 remake re-sync’d) Record Label-Apple!!!
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Ms Gibbons does a grand wee tour of Knock Pat, she does Pat.
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Pat would you conduct a tour of Knock? They say Gibbons has banned you from the sanctuary grounds
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Didn’t know Fr Gibbons spoke Bengali and Tagalog.
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I have had 3 abortions in my twenties and I really regret them all
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6:58 An honest real life experience comment.
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Did you never hear of contraception Mari?
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6:50 MYOB.
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I’m allergic to rubber and don’t like invasive procedures
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Contraception murders life as it denies a soul and life to form . Abortion and contraception are both destroyers of human life.
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9.27
Are you reflective? Look back at your first sentence. It’s illogical. Are you saying life is prevented from forming? Or that life has formed and is ended?
A soul and life? By definition, soul is life.
The overwhelming majority of Catholics have refused reception to the relevant sections of Humanae vitae prohibiting general artificial contraception. Without such reception, the sensus fidelium, the articles of the encyclical are not authoritative.
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I’m loving the comments today.
This blog has done second most to cause the current decline of the cathbot cult in Ireland.
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