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PHONSIE BULLIED FR RICHARD GEOGHEGAN OUT OF THE PRIESTHOOD.

PHONSIE THE BULLY
RICHARD IN PRESBYTERY AFTER FIRE

Bully Phonsie Cullinan bullied Father Richard Geoghegan out of the priesthood!

And to this day, Fr Richard feels deeply hurt at how he was ill-treated.

He loved being a priest and, to this day, misses being a priest.

Richard was ordained in 1993.

The people in every parish Richard served loved him. He was renowned for his gentleness, his compassion, and his availability to the people.

His own obvious humanity made him so easy to approach.

Phonsie obviously disapproved of Richard’s appearance on RTE. It was a programme about a trip to Vietnem and on the party night Richard dressed up as Shirley and sang one of her songs.

It’s hardly a mortal sin – especially when you see what many priests get up to. It was hardly sex on an altar !!!

Every time Phonsie met Richard, he brought up the incident by saying: “And you wore a dress.”

Finally, Richard said to him: “Wouldn’t it be a lot worse if you were hauling me in for sexually abusing children”?

Phonsie lost the plot.

Phonsie started sending for Richard at night time after dark.

Phonsie would be angry with Richard in the dark bishops house and then send Richard back out into the dark, very upset.

Attempted suicide:

Phonsie sent Richard to a small rural parish. The presbytery was completely isolated. Richard became very depressed and attempted suicide.

Phonsie kept throwing his suicide attempt at him.

Father Tim Hazelwood once overheard Phonsie bringing up the suicide attempt.

TIM HAZELWOOD

Richard likes to be called Richard. We all have a preference as to how we are addressed. I like to be called Pat.

In spite of Richard telling Phonsie he liked Richard, Phonsie kept calling him “Richie.” This was more bullying.

After the suicide attempt, Phonsie wanted to send Richard to a centre in the USA that deals with paedophile priests.

Richard refused, saying he was not a paedophile. Phonsie grunted back: “They do more than paedophilia there.“

Richard is quite clear that Phonsie never liked him from the beginning and was just waiting for his chance to hurt him.

Richard had no problems with the previous bishop Willie Lee who used to go and watch Richard perform in the Christmas pantos in his parish.

WILLIE LEE

What a laugh it is that the bishops have recently made Phonsie their head of vocations – when he is throwing good priests out of the priesthood.

I have the full measure of Phonise, and I strongly suspect that he is a sadist who gets pleasure out of hurting others – especially those weaker than himself.

In God’s own time, Cullinan will get his comeuppance.

Mark my words!

166 replies on “PHONSIE BULLIED FR RICHARD GEOGHEGAN OUT OF THE PRIESTHOOD.”

11:23pm the quieter sneakier clericals and their cohorts do serious damage in all kinds of ways under the radar. In one sense, what you see is what you get with Bishop Cullinan. It might not be right, we might not like it but what you see is what you get with Bishop Phonsie. A much closer focus is required on some of his back stabber Brother bishops in the RC.

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What you see is what you get is no justification for bullying and unchristian behaviour.

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10:57
What does ‘what you see is what you get’ actually mean in practice?
Can you unpack the statement in the context of the role of an Episcopal leader.

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It’s a Bishops job to put the overall financial and other interests of the RC first all the time and every time. Bishop Phonsie is very jealous of and very angry with Fr Geoghegan and clearly has engaged in various actions maliciously calculated to undermine Fr Geoghegans mental and physical health because Bishop Cullinan and his complicit colleagues who also failed to support Fr Geoghegan in a Christian way were hoping instead to send Fr Geoghegan totally over the edge into dead silence. That’s how the RC like victims, survivors and whistleblowers, their friends & supporters = dead silent with zero hope of doing a Lazarus.

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Unfortunately Irish RCC is not like the Tories. No Dominic Raab moment here the Phonz is accountable to nobody.. not even God.. he can carry on bullying like +Fintan and +Tom Deenihan.. you are right, Bishop Pat about his irrational hatred of a priest in drag.. it is something deeply repressed in him.. something that his Opus Dei whipping hasn’t been able to satisfy..

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Fr Richard can appeal his laicisation. After all, he is a priest. Laicisation merely removes his licence to minister as one. It should be possible to restore it with the stroke of a pen. If he believed there was any element of external pressure, regardless of who may have exerted it, his freedom would have been compromised. And that would be grounds for appeal.

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Did Phonsie not make it public on W&L website Fr. Richard was given the heave-ho from priesthood without contextualizing or providing further information? In the context of clerical CSA was this not unfair and was Phonsie creating a new precedent in publicly naming a ‘cancelled’ priest?

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Of course it is. We’re talking about a body of men who collectively covered up and colluded in child rape. What other behaviour would you expect of them?
The only time human ‘life’ matters to the RC ‘church’is when it’s a collection of cells without a heartbeat.

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I recall Richard’s appearance as Shirley and thought it was a big mistake because it was used by RTE to gain traction for Brennan’s nonsensical ways. However, Richard was the star of that series in every way. He was vulnerable, kind, funny, authentic, good humoured and everyone in that series loved him. Parishioners everywhere loved him for his human kindness and Godly gentleness. He did not deserve to be treated so horribly by Bishop Cullinan. I am sorry for Richard that he was driven to such despair and darkness. I hope he is taking good care of himself. Pat, one thing bothers me about your comments. You speak about the Bishop bullying Richard to the point of being suicidal. That’s absolutely reprehensible. But, some of your commentary about some clerics has been horrendously cutting, harsh merciless and has led some to the point of self harm. That I know for certain in one case. Don’t you think there’s quite a contradiction and double standards at play here? I appreciate your concern for Richard but I believe you must also be aware of the effect which negative rhetoric can have on people – as all of us must do. Our words can kill and destroy too! God bless Richard.

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‘vulnerable, kind, funny, authentic, good humoured’
All the characteristics which equate to not having what’s required for priesthood. Look at the way the unholy ones bully a former seminarians on here (even when they’re not even talking to him).

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Correct on every point. Pots and kettles spring to mind. God bless and protect fr. Richard and all the people who have been baited on this blog.
Who are we to judge?

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Pat, may I ask if Richard is aware of the blogs focus on him? Has he given permission for very personal information to be shared? I think it’s relevant to know before he is discussed in every which way. I’m certain that some people will not be kind which may be upsetting for him. We must truly care for someone like Richard who may be very fragile at this juncture in his life.

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“Michael” just wants to brush the truth under the carpet. Feigning fake concern forms part of the discrediting and censorship of legitimate complainants on RC related abuse, corruption & criminality.

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11.09: No sir, I didn’t want to brush anything under the carpet. That’s typical of an unlearned, contrarian and unempathetic mind. I have every concern for Richard’s well being. I believe Richard deserves kindness and compassion, much of which he gave to many while in ministry. His treatment by the Bishop is unforgiveable. My point is: when people, like Richard, are in difficult, personal and vulnerable circumstances, kindness should be our response. There are some who will try to humiliate Richard further. I should hope you’re not of this type? The Bishop deserves harsh criticism, not Michael. I don’t believe in crycifying any person for their failings, sins or imperfections. Egregious, criminal and calculated abuse of any kind deserves the full rigour of civil law. Now, I trust you are a little wiser. Thanks to Pat for clarifying in the affirmative to my question.

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I get the distinct impression 11:09 is attributing to ‘Michael’ what
11:09 wants to do…’just wants to brush the truth under the carpet’…etc…

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Michael, or whatever your calling yourself today, it may have been “wise” to have treated others as you’d wish to be treated yourself and so you wouldn’t have to spend so much focus on this blog and other outlets.

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That is just awful. How on earth can this be allowed to go on. How is Fr Richard now? Bishop Phonsie seems to be yet another dictatorial big wig in the RCC.

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I can’t cope anymore I need to come out of the closet but it will distress my wife and she’s pregnant with our first child and I don’t know what to do

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Your closet = inner sanctum. Your coming “in”, self-reverently, and reverently towards all personalities. Not Razzi’s, nor the cattle hustler JP II’s, nor Kinsey / Klein’s (they weren’t spiritual dictators), nor any faction’s.

According to God, human beings are supposed to be human being attracted. Male and female were always meant to be above all a joint category. Take what’s “mammalian” in your stride (and humourously), and love the personalities – all of them.

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@4:55pm. Fr. Shane O’Neill a former curate in Tramore. Was ordained in 2016 by Phonsie. By all accords from those that know him he is a lovely fella and is said to have the makings of a good and holy priest.

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Numbers 6:24-26
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The Lord bless you and keep you;
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the Lord make his face to shine upon you and be gracious to you;
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the Lord lift up his countenance[a] upon you and give you peace.

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Bishops are controlling and prefer the limelight all to themselves. Bishop Phonsie appears to be jealous of the more popular Fr Geoghegan who should sue Phonsie for constructive and unfair dismissal as should Dom. Benedict Andersen sue Bishop Tom Deenihan in Meath. These 2 Bishops proactively support other clergy and members who have had credible complaints filed against them yet open victimise two good clergymen in plain sight. Not on.

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Dom Benedict Andersen may well be in a positon to legally challenge
Tom, the Diocese, other Dioceses, and The Irish Catholic Church. No doubt, strong legal representation could easily inform Dom Andersen.

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If s/he’s anything like the canon lawyer who came to his assistance he would be best giving up.

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3:16, it’s Tom Deenihan, Brendan Coffey, and Rawhide Purcell who made a mess of the case.

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1 Do not let your hearts be troubled. You trust in God, trust also in me.
2 In my Father’s house there are many places to live in; otherwise I would have told you.
(John 14: 1-2.)

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If true, why would Phonsie keep throwing Richard’s suicide attempt at him?
That is truly outrageous! Was Phonsie attempting to push Richard over
the edge, I wonder!

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7:33 Once the Roman Catholic lay and clerical Mafioso conclude that one is a threat to their interests, they want you dead. Obviously they can’t just pop out and murder you so they engage in various other methods of character assassination, libel, slander etc. etc……
Bishop Pat will publish full dossier with evidence at appropriate juncture.

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+Phonsie. An episcopal bully. Why did he constructively laicise Fr Geoghegan and support the wayward abbot?
Fr Tom Deenihan. An episcopal gangster and an episcopal bully. Why is he persecuting Dom Benedict Andersen?
Fr Paul Connell. A clerical gangster and a clerical bully. Why is he supporting Fr Tom Deenihan’s persecution of Dom Benedict Andersen? Why is Fr Paul Connell being rewarded a mitre when the evidence is that he will be an episcopal gangster and an episcopal bully?

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Your use of the word “gangster” is quite serious and not for the first time. Tone it down.
It is long overdue for you to get up off your backside and pay Dom Benedict a visit to see how he is. Let us hear from HIM.
You are moaning every day. Even toddy has pulled you up.

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10:43
Refrain from being so prescriptive, please. Have you nothing to say on the matter?

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10.43
A prophet is someone who speaks up. Many prophets meet reactions like yours. When they do, they ought to be happy they are on the right track.

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10.43: Seamus is most immoral and a huge coward. He won’t tell us what he’s actually done for Dom B nor will he answer his accusations about Fr. Connell. Seamus is one super big mouth. The proverbial shit stirrer…all talk, no action. He’s typical of his fellow priests who love to spew their repeat rhetoric on this blog but who remain silent behind a laptop in the face of all and every injustice committed by his church. A gangster of a different kind but still obnoxious.

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3:37, why do Fr Tom Deenihan and Fr Paul Connell continue to persecute Dom Benedict Andersen?

The next three months “were absolute hell,” Andersen alleged.

Things came to a head on April 25, 2020. Kirby was sick in bed, and Andersen went to speak with him in his cell. He was there to tell him that things needed to change.

“I said, ‘I have to get out of here unless you can do something about this weird emotional thing. I feel like I’m in a weird emotional prison.’”

“I told him that ‘you’re the spiritual father of this monastic family, and we’re headed for a big disaster unless you renounce this.’ I said that I came to the monastery to be a monk, and you have never let me be a monk,” he recalled.

“I framed it in terms of spiritual warfare. I said ‘There’s something spiritual here that you have to renounce as the father of this monastery.’”

According to Andersen, Kirby’s reaction was unsettling.

He said the priest “jumped out of bed…and started reciting prayers really fast. The St. Michael prayer, really fast, and in a very weird way. And so I told him that things were a bit weird for me and I left his room. But he started texting me, saying ‘Where are you? Where are you?’ over and over. Like 15 or 20 times.’”

The Pillar reviewed the text messages described by Andersen.

“At one point he just texts the word ‘hospital.’ I don’t even know what that means. Then the word ‘Jesus.’ And I don’t know if he’s cursing, or if he’s calling on the name of Jesus, or what.”

“That night I was so afraid. I thought this guy is absolutely out of his mind. I mean everyone else is in bed at this point, and this guy is in his pajamas, going all over the monastery looking for me.”

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4:10, Silverstream Priory sounds like a dangerous cult and a haunt of demons. With the full support of Deenihan and Company. Sick, sick, sick. 🤮

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Why, Oh Why, did Kirby not have a tabernacle talk instead of running around like a jackass?

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Seamus have you done anything practical for Dom Andersen? Retelling what happened doesnt count

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Tim didn’t look after Richard’s interests during that fateful meeting in which Phonsie coerced Richard into applying for liacisation, against his
will. A proper union rep, or someone like Pat, would have said “hold on, Phonsie, we need time to reflect on this and will get back to you in a couple of days, having taken advice”, or, if Phonsie insisted on his signing it there and then, Richard should have been advised to sign it but put beside the signature a statement that he was signing it under duress. What realistically could Phonsie have done, had Richard done so?

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10:39
Well, correct me if I’m wrong butt can today’s blog protagonist be compared to Jesus? I mean to say, are we not comparing oranges
and apples, peaches and pairs or mango’s and bananas’?

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8.05 and 1.12
The priest you mention is made in the image and likeness of God. It’s legitimate to compare the master and the disciple.
However your apparently inocuous initial remark was designed to denigrate by associating the man in question with convicted criminals. And in your world, that would lead you to think you had rebutted anything he has said or will say.
Why the apostrophes?

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3:29
Why ask?
We are all made in the image and likeness of God. We are All Gods children. I’m a follower of the Master as a disciple. I asked a question in relation Fr. Hazelwood. I subsequently googled Fr. Hazelwood to discover a false allegation of CSA had been made against him. You chose to interpret my remark in a particular way. Your choice. My world and your world are very separate worlds.

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He wasn’t worth a ball of blue when representing Richard in his dealings with Phonsie. In fact he made things worse because his ACP connections would have been like a red rag to a bull. Tim was utterly ineffective as a union rep, which, together with promoting heterodoxy and, is supposed to be the point of the ACP.

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3.22
What makes you so sure it was Fr Hazelwood who accompanied Fr Geoghegan to meet Phonsie?

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Another sorry aspect of this was the poor representation and advice Fr Geoghegan got from Fr Hazelwood in the de-facto role of union rep. Like many workers have found trade unions are in the back pocket of employers, and the ACP plays this role of soft, squishy advocate of the worker but hardened ally of the bosses. Perhaps having an ACP rep angered Cullinan who as an Opus Dei sympathiser or member of some sort (Opus Dei and Holy Cross event frequenter since his student days) would believe he’s an inside, deeper, illumined understanding of what is orthodox or holy (but the way he was pushed into resigning against his interests when some deeply unwell characters are kept on as priests, suggests a stitch up).

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There’s some articles (I posted a few) on this but as of now, all there is are insinuations made by her brother which his clarifications made even more unclear (now it could just have been JP2 and some fellow Poles going on the tear, but it seems to mean something more, but what?). Quite close to +Pat’s topic JP2’s philosophising provided Cullinan with his thesis (https://www.worldcat.org/title/954837867). It sounds like a cure for insomnia. Apropros of the topic, the Pontifical Commission for the Protection of Minors sounds like an ineffective organisation which Pope Francis should attend to even in his failing health, if he cares for his legacy, which he patently does.

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Just to show the arrogance and complete hypocrisy of Phonsie, last Sunday he was principle celebrant in the Abbey Church at Mount Melleray for the Feast of Divine Mercy. Just like nothing had happened, Phonsie at the altar and Richard Purcell conducting the choir. Both as large as life and both sticking two fingers up at the world.

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Oh, so once again, Fr. Phonse of ‘The Holy Church’ gives Fr. Dick of
‘The Holy Church’ his public imprimatur. Now, there’s a quare one for yea!

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Phonsie needs to take note of what has happened to Dominic Raab. Behaviour eventually catches up with you. As you say, + Pat, Cullinane will get his cummupence.

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The monsters we so desired to eat us up (as sodality fodder or otherwise), spit some out even more unceremoniously than they eat us up. (Surreptitious does not equate to = ceremonious.) Reconstructing ourselves has to be a continual task.
JP II turned us into cattle and sabre toothed tigers. (The last few genuine suffragans didn’t ask for this situation when they got ordained.) The stealth goalpost shifters every six months have to be combatted by stealth pew sitting.

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I got out and am now in professional services and earning a good salary. However, after six years in seminary and ten in ministry, your subservience and cow-towing to authority never leave you. A couple of years ago, some senior staff were critical of me in emails and said some unpleasant things; they foolishly didn’t realise they were uploaded to our case management system where I could read them. I was hurt but said nothing out of fear, I guess, of authority and not wanting to create a fuss. Likewise, I don’t ask for pay raises, though I know the others get them, as I believe those in power would see me good. The psychological impact on you, having been raised in such a toxic culture, stays with you. I am 52 now.

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Well if Tony Bartlett does an Elvia impersonation then what is the difference between him and Richard doing a Shirley sketch? The difference is that one dressed as a man and one a woman.

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Pat as a recovered heroin addict I would like to extend my support and offer help to Eamon and anyone else out there who is suffering from addiction.

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I don’t want help and I don’t need support. I have a wonderful husband who does that for me, we all have our vices, he smokes 40 a day so he can hardly have a go at me for drinking every day.

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In The valley of the squinting windows…………….
Mildred, the church gossip, kept sticking her nose into other people’s business. Most church members did not approve of her constant interference but feared her enough to maintain their silence. One day she accused Frank, a new member, of being an alcoholic after she saw his old pickup parked in front of the town’s only bar. She told Frank that everyone seeing it there would know that he was drinking! Frank, a man of few words, just turned and walked away. Later that evening, Frank quietly parked his pickup in front of Mildred’s house … and walked home… leaving the truck there all night.
You gotta love Frank!

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Clerical pundits in Dublin are predicting the imminent appointment of two Auxiliary bishops to the diocese. One of the likely lads is Dr. Gareth Byrne, presently moderator of the diocesan curia and architect of the great “Polyanna” project known as Building hope. The project seeks to impose an upbeat and positive spin on the disintegration of the diocese at parish level. A couple of well paid ‘prophets’ based in Arran Quay produce the spin documents, that arrive by the bucketful into the inboxes of an increasingly overworked and disillusioned clergy. The fact that a tiny percentage of people engaged with the process in the parish ‘consultations’, the majority of which were 65+, doesn’t seem to have sounded any alarm bells that were heard in Ivory towers.
Priests in Dublin are feeling railroaded. The new Archbishop has not engaged with them directly for an in depth consultation on the future, instead things have been set in motion that they are expected to simply row in with, handed down from on high. They have been told that there is no alternative. Trouble is Dr. Byrne’s theories and projects might make a good subject for an academic assignment but pastorally are of dubious value. I doubt he has much hands-on experience of parish life.
The simmering discontent among Dublin clergy is starting to bubble, and the good will generated since the appointment of Dermot Farrell could well evaporate quickly if the railroading continues. An ageing clergy need to feel respected, and they need to feel ownership of any plan going forward. Archbishop Farrell needs to enroll in Servant Leadership 101.
(And not a class given by Dr. Byrne)

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‘Priests in Dublin are feeling railroaded.’
Good. Were you hoping to escape how your church makes its victims feel all your life?
Perhaps it will open your eyes to the reality.

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10.57: A very perceptive analysis of the Dublin clerics at this moment. Even the “laity” who are part of Parish Councils and Teams are beginning to see through the huge spin of shelf loads of documents arriving daily. It is absolutely incredulous to even believe that we are all together and in love with the Building Hope Dream!! Yes, future planning is necessary but the sub divisions of page after page with deadlines, initiatives, where we “should” be at by now (many haven’t even begun!!), attending meeting after meeting at Diocesan, Deanery, inter parishes and parish level are now the dominant entries in our diaries. Progress – very little. We are an ageing caste. The lay faithful are amazing but becoming tired and wearied. What are we to do with mostly one priest in a parish where you have 3/4 funerals a week, 4 schools to look after, visit many sick and housebound, administer a large parish and oversee 3 others as part of your responsibilities, who, when there are challenges, expect ready responses? I hate to seem hopeless but I am not being filled with hope or confidence that the “new” vision as given in beautiful, rainbow coloured pages will produce anything greater or productive than what our very committed Parish Council wasn’t already achieving in its commitment and without the burdens of headaches, sleepless night and anxiety!

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Bishops and desk priests like to come up with grand projects, visions for the future, meetings, gatherings, plans for the future, all with grandiose names. It’s just a cover to show or seem that they are doing something. Whereas the problem is very simple – engage with women in ministry, engage with married men in ministry, engage with diverse people in ministry, which means ordain them priests, full-time, part time, retired, for a period of their lives, paid, unpaid, you name it in whatever variety and version. Let them loose and then you will see a vibrant, lively Church doing what the Gospel asks them to do. Keeping it all within the clerical pack, coming up with initiatives, talking management talk, having endless meetings and reports, is not the Gospel. It’s just a way of keeping power, authority and influence to the clerical caste. It’s what priests and bishops and popes have been doing for centuries. Well, it ain’t working, so they better start thinking of new ways which are staring them in the face, not trying to find new reasons to keep it all within their clerical caste.

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11.55 and 1.16: Great posts and real expressions about the increased workload expected with fewer priests and the even greater difficulty in finding volunteers to take on roles. The ideas of 1.16 gave been voiced very frequently for about 30 years or more and the same response is given – we can’t go this way. Utter nonsense and blind foolishness. Sadly, we’re heading under water instead of above it!!

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11.55 and 1.16: Great posts and real expressions about the increased workload expected with fewer priests and the even greater difficulty in finding volunteers to take on roles. The ideas of 1.16 gave been voiced very frequently for about 30 years or more and the same response is given – we can’t go this way. Utter nonsense and blind foolishness. Sadly, we’re heading under water instead of above it!!

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Frequently recurring text at 1:16pm alert. That manifesto has been implemented in full by the Anglicans and even their strongest admirers would not describe the CofE as a “vibrant, lively Church”.

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3:26 But don’t forget the Catholic Church is indefectible. Therefore it can’t fail.
Didn’t you know that?
Doing what any other denomination does will not have the same results because they’re not the same thing.

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3.26
Anglicans preach the Gospel.
Anglicanism is not vibrant.
So, don’t preach the Gospel.
Frequent logical fallacy alert.

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Reply to;Anonymoussays:
Apr 22, 2023 at 11:56 am
You have another option, jump ship. Let the church find someone else to feather it’s nest, and fill its coffers, that’s what most of us do in secular life.

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Is their a possibility that some churches in Archdiocese Of Dublin will close?
Will Parish Mergers become the norm?
Does the Priests and People have no confidence in Dermot Farrel Leadership?
Who are possible Candidates for the role of Auxiliaries in the Archdiocese and will they be from within or from outside the Archdiocese?

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I doubt whether any but a few Romanist priests would rather go to prison than report to police an offending paedophile. This would require moral courage, and selflessness. And priests aren’t known for either, never mind both.

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Priest dressing up as a woman on National TV. Following week he is saying mass , visiting sick people and doing funerals. Can kinda see where the Bishop might be coming from.

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Seanie what do you make of clerics bonking on altars? Any comment, Seanie? What of clerics saying Mass following a Boiler Hse bonking session? Any comment, Seanie? Get real, man.

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It’s not one or the other. Priests hold responsible positions in society. They need to behave appropriately.

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2.07
You understand that admission says as much about you as about the priest or the bishop.
Clothes are conventions which vary from culture to culture and from one era to the next.

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What is Bishop Cullinans position on same sex attraction, expression and relationships? We know his position on yoga. His position on yoda was made known publicly in newspapers.

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The Roman Catholic Priest and the Roman Catholic Bishop at ordination.
Bishop, Do your promise me and my successors respect and obedience?
Priest, On the day of my priestly ordination, I promised my Bishop respect and obedience. hierarchical communion willed By Jesus, Eternal High Priest, in the relationship of the Roman Catholic priest with his own Roman Catholic Bishop.
Surely! It’s NO SURPRISE if its downhill all the way, if a Roman Catholic priest on the day of ordination lets go of his freedom and, has to submit right from the start to his Bishop, his opinion will never supersede the Bishops.
Do they really understand at that time, what is being lost for the rest of their live?
They go into an underpaid form of employment.
Where they have no responsibility for providing a roof over their heads, and many other liabilities those of us in secular life have to provide for ourselves.
The Roman Catholic church keeps it’s clergy in an infantile state, dependent on it for so many commodities, others have work for and acquire from earning a salary.
In no other occupation outside religious organisation, would any employee have to give a promise of obedience, “hierarchical communion willed By Jesus”, surely an intelligent person, as one would like to believe Roman Catholic priests are, would question that sentence, or are they so inculcated by the time they get ordination over the many years spent in seminary, being treated like children, being controlled, being manages and being influenced that they lose the ability to think for themselves.
Is this loss of control part of the cult’s management, as is dependency on a superior, and the fear, if he steps out of line you are he will be banished.
No wonder some go off the rails, as its the only option left to try and take some control of themselves.
I think Richard Geoghan will live to see the day, where he will be thankful he was laicized at a young age and, had the time to be able to build, take charge of his life, away from those controlling Bas—ds.

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I totally agree with what you say but the reality is they go into it with no real intention to obey, or at the most some theologised rationale that means minimal obedience.
Very much of a par with the way they approach celibacy.

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On Tuesday, April 25, a one day conference on evangelisation and vocations, hosted by the National Vocations Office will take place in Maynooth. Bishop A. Cullinan is chair of the Council for Vocations.
The day will include video testimonies on vocations commissioned by the National Vocations Office and produced by the religious congregation, Servant Sisters – Home of the Mother.

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5:08 they are all either paedophiles or paedophile protectors. Keep safe by keeping that in mind.

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Oh, and did you not recently highlight controversy attached to Glencomergh Hse in W&L Diocese?

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Bishop Pat at 5:08
Do you mean the founder of the Servant Sisters Home of the Mother? I see you use the past tense. I’ve looked him up and apparently hes still alive and I couldn’t find any allegations mentioned online.
Although with their mission of conquering youth it does sound like a paedophile playground.

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Shane 5:23pm. Hasn’t Phonsie stopped sending seminarians to Maynooth. Anybody coming forward in Waterford & Lismore to the best of my knowledge is sent to Rome.

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Don’t forget that the Government is sending an alarm message to everyone’s mobile tomorrow at 3pm. I wanted to remind blog readers in case their hearts went sideways tomorrow when their phone suddenly starts going mad.

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What is the difficulty with wearing clothes normally worn by the other sex, in the context of a show, drama or pantomime?
In Shakespeare’s time women’s parts were more usually played by boys and young men. It’s part of the fun of Twelfth Night where a lady, played by a male dresses up as a male.
No one but a barbarian would be offended by such entertainment. Certainly not the God of Christianity. Anyone who sees an offence is unlikely to present as a wholesome balanced human being.

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What a waste of a spiritual person Pat. Would Richard consider joining your ministry. From what I hear he was very generous with his time for people

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Fr Geoghegan should not have had to undergo any conversation with Bishop Cullinan without a third party of the priest’s choice being present. It would be very revealing to see a verbatim account of such verbal exchanges.
In situations with an unequal power dynamic, there could be a temptation on the part of the person with the greater power to exceed what might be appropriate. The chances of that happening in the presence of a third party would be much reduced.

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Bishop Pat did you get an invite to the celebration for Archbishop Martin’s 10 years as Bishop in Armagh Cathedral tomorrow. I thought you would be joining with your fellow Bishops.

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IN THE CATHOLIC CHURCH’S ABUSE CRISIS, THE PAPACY IS NOW ON TRIAL
VATICAN CITY (VATICAN CITY)
La Croix International [France]
April 20, 2023
By Massimo Faggioli
“The latest insinuations against John Paul II are not only about him
One of the most ancient axioms to define the See of Peter’s role in the Church reads: “prima sedes a nemine iudicatur” — the first see can be judged by no one. Centuries before papal primacy was defined at Vatican Council I in 1870, the Bishop of Rome already enjoyed a type of immunity in both the religious and the political-secular spheres. Today we have a more pope-centered Church, where five of the eight popes who served in the 20th century have been beatified or canonized, and a Vatican City State where the pope is the absolute monarch.
The Emanuela Orlandi case
But this theological, political, and legal order protective of the papacy is now under pressure because of the sex abuse crisis. We have seen this with recent insinuations against John Paul II that were made after the Vatican reopened investigations into the 1983 disappearance of Emanuela Orlandi,…”
https://www.bishop-accountability.org/2023/04/in-the-catholic-churchs-abuse-crisis-the-papacy-is-now-on-trial/

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After the house fire, Phonsie didn’t pick up the phone to ask Richard how he was……
Some shepherd he is……
All of Richard’s family were theatre people.
His late mother was on stage for all of her life.
His uncle was a very talented actor.
I hope Richard never names all of the gay priests in W&L
He’s too much of a gentleman to do that.

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Richard should name all the gay priests in W&L. There will be a lot of nervous priests, but none more so than Phonsie. Richard was bullied and humiliated by Phonsie for years on a regular basis. He is a dangerous control freak and his behaviour towards Richard shows this.
Richard is a good man. He was a fantastic priest who cared for all people and treated everyone with respect and dignity at all times. It’s shocking what has happened to him at the hands of a so called Bishop. Shame on you Phonsie.

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