Phonsie Cullinan has been the RC bishop of Waterford since 2015.
He is publicly opposed to young females being vaccinated against cervical cancer.
He is publicly opposed to yoga.
He is opposed to the Irish bishops document on the synodal path.
He is against same sex marriage
Association of Catholic Priests has condemned the way Phonsie treated Fr Richard Geoghegan
https://www.irishexaminer.com/news/munster/arid-40789482.htmlg
You would think that Phonsie was a consistent promoter of traditional Catholicism.
Yet he supports Richard Purcell in Mount Mellerary.
DRESSING LITTLE BOYS AS BISHOPS
Why does he only take “nice” dress up as bishop pics at Confirmation with boys and not girls?
BISHOP PAT BUCKLEY 
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Abbot Richard “Rawhide” Purcell is very well liked and continues to be supported by several members of the Irish clerical hierarchy. Similar support is also dispensed to several other clerical and lay unsavoury types and more serious level abusers within their circles.
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What do you mean by that?
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Does it really have to be spelled out, Earl?
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The Brat Pack
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No harm, but I agree with him on that Synod shite. Useless exercise
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The catering bills for these events are enormous. Nice bit of free grub though. Not to be sneezed at. Never thought I’d end up living alone in one of the most boring places God allegedly invented and without a cook or housekeeper.
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Fend for yourself, Father.
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Ours (in S.E England at the time) was at “night” and I suppose others hurried home like we did – “agapes” hadn’t come into fashion yet!
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@ 12:18am
I absolutely agree with yo on that!
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He objected to their inputting. Rome didn’t listen anyway and threw back something unrelated at them and us.
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12.18
What exactly is threatening you?
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Spiritual Abuse
Spiritual abuse includes:
• Psychological abuse and emotional abuse
• Physical abuse including physical injury (e.g., tatbir) and deprivation of sustenance.
• Sexual abuse
• Any act by deeds or words that shame or diminish the dignity of a person.
• Intimidation and the requirement to submit to a spiritual authority without any right to dissent.
• Unreasonable control of a person’s basic right to exercise freewill in spiritual or natural matters.
• False accusations and repeated criticism by labeling a person as, for example, disobedient, rebellious, lacking faith, demonized, apostate, an enemy of the church or of a deity.
• Isolationism, separation, disenfranchisement or estrangement from family and friends outside the group due to cult-religious or spiritual or indigenous beliefs.
• Esotericism, hidden agendas and requirements revealed to members only as they successfully advance through various stages of a faith.
• Enforced practice of spiritualism, mysticism, or other ideologies peculiar to members of that religion.
• Financial exploitation or enslavement of adherents.
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@ 3:17
EXCELLENT COMMENT.
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second from end – you mean JP II style compulsory “eucharist”, irregardless whether it might be the vatican state that’s out of communion
third from end – now you surely can’t mean one of those garden path thingys
fifth from end – shaming our God given baptism and our God given conversion
4 th 5 th and 6 th from top, presuming to shut down God’s good cafeteria
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Regarding priests on Grindr and Tinder, while at least they’re not out raping children and sexually assaulting vulnerable people, isn’t this breach of professional standards also creating unsafe spaces for us all to the extent that any claim to their privacy in this regard doesn’t apply.
What do you think about the question below: Do priests have a right to privacy?
To me, this is not the right question. The question should be, does the public have a right to know that priests are not faithful to their public promise of celibacy — understood as not engaging in sex with other people, especially in ways that overtly contradict the spirit of their promise. A milder way of saying this would be, does the public have a right to know that the priest is unfaithful.
Because the priest’s office is a public one, to me the maintenance of the priest’s privacy in this regard would be inappropriate. To me it seems the public has the right to this knowledge in a responsible and respectful way to safeguard them against the crossings of other professional boundaries by these priests. Otherwise, the hiding of the unfaithfulness is dishonesty and hypocrisy which creates an unsafe situation for us all. The ongoing exposure of widespread sexual dysfunction among Catholic clergy has helped create safer communities, no?
Further, those people who shame others for using sex hook-up apps like Grindr and Tinder, yet they use them themselves, should be called out, no?
Further, I don’t this topic should be a conservative/progressive Catholic debate. It is a question of safety and honesty in the community. If bishops had any credibility, they would simply remove priests from the priesthood for such infidelity, at least when it is the norm which it usually is. After all, aren’t they “married” to the Church? When bishops don’t act, then they are also to blame in my view.
Theologically, the Church’s recognition of the right to privacy for sinners is for the sins of private people. Priests are not private people. They have a right to the privacy of their personal information, but not to the right to hide their behaviour or identity in ways that deceive people about who they are.
Finally, aren’t attempts to separate the priest’s actions from the priest just a distinction without a difference, wordplay that doesn’t really fool anyone except try to excuse such shameful hypocrisy.
https://cathnews.co.nz/2023/04/20/do-priests-have-a-right-to-privacy/
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3.32
How would a public examination of the level of congruity between your public position and private practice fare?
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Elementary, Watson.
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The majority of victims of church related abuse are private citizens.
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8:55
Elucidate, Shylock.
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Again, you’re making a false comparison.
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3.32
A US cultural warrior couldn’t have expressed it better.
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9:26
No. An Irish cultural warrior.
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Please join Keep Kids Safe for a rally in support of positive change and lawmaker action to address prevention, healing and justice.
This rally will take place Wednesday, April 26th, in Washington, D.C, as members of the Keep Kids Safe Movement meet with individual lawmakers to introduce the National Blueprint to End Sexual Violence Against Children and Adolescents. If interested in participating, please complete the form below. Additional details with the exact date, time and location will be released soon. We welcome all survivors and advocates who would like to be a part of this uplifting rally of hope and action!
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The Associated Press has uncovered more details in the quagmire that is the preemptive bankruptcy filing by the Archdiocese of New Orleans. Once again, the Archdiocese has exerted concerted and consistent efforts to keep their history of clergy abuse and cover-up hidden from the public eye.
The latest twist in this case is that the judge who, according to the AP, “has consistently ruled in favor of the church” in the bankruptcy case, also appears to have chosen not to disclose the fact that he is a major donor to the Archdiocese of New Orleans. Judge Greg Guidry claims that he did not know he was donating tens of thousands of dollars annually to the Archdiocese, a statement that is at best difficult to believe. Following the widespread publication of his clear and obvious conflict of interest, the judge has now signaled that he mayrecuse himself from the case.
Recusal is the minimum that should happen. Any decision that Judge Guidry has made up to this point is now impossible to view as impartial, given the judge’s clearly close ties with one of the sides in the case he has been presiding over for months. It is notable that Judge Guidry donated more than $36,000 after the Archdiocese declared bankruptcy. It is difficult, if not impossible, to reconcile those donations with any notion of impartiality, given that the judge is making decisions over how at least some of those donations will be applied. We believe that Judge Guidry should recuse himself not only from this case, but from any case going forward that has even the slightest tie to the Catholic Church.
Ultimately, what is most enraging about this situation is that there are 500 survivors of clergy abuse whose fate and future is being decided by a court system that apparently is tied very deeply and closely to the institution that caused those 500 innocent victims grievous harm. It is unconscionable that, as these survivors wait in limbo to see what becomes of their attempt to seek accountability and justice, their stories and histories will be weighed by a judge who is deeply and personally devoted to the institution that covered up the crimes committed against them. These survivors deserve a fair and honest shot at justice. What they are receiving in New Orleans is far, far from it.
CONTACT: Mike McDonnell, SNAP Communications Manager (mmcdonnell@snapnetwork.org 267-261-0578) Zach Hiner, SNAP Executive Director (zhiner@snapnetwork.org, 517-974-9009) Shaun Dougherty, SNAP Board President (sdougherty@snapnetwork.org, 814-341-8386)
(SNAP, the Survivors Network, has been providing support for victims of sexual abuse in institutional settings for more than 35 years. We have more than 25,000 survivors and supporters in our network. Our website is SNAPnetwork.org)
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‘he did not know he was donating tens of thousands of dollars annually to the Archdiocese’
That’s a papal medal coming his way. 🤣
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3.40
Blog readers are well able to surf the net.
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3:40am Thank you for this source that is new to us. One can never have too much information in trying to deal with this awful dilemma we did nothing whatsoever to invite or deserve. Just awful position to be in, your information is much appreciated.
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Friends in high places, an essential bonus ball to counteract accountability and risk of exposure from calls for transparency.
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JJ, will continue in a moment….
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Reply to; US judge who ruled in favor of church in key sex abuse case donated to archdiocese
Despite Guidry donated nearly $50,000 to the Roman Catholic New Orleans Archdiocese, which he claim he “didn’t” know about it, he declared on the 22 April, he will not recuse from the bankruptcy case.
Which is very bad news for the sexually abused victims of Roman Catholic cleric’s in New Orleans.
Apparently in every case where he was Judge and where the Roman Catholic church was involved he has ALWAYS ruled in favour of his Roman Catholic church.
How dos he get away with it?
You couldn’t make this stuff up.
1)US judge who ruled in favor of Roman Catholic church in key abuse case donated to archdiocese
The Associated Press and Guardian staff Fri 21 Apr 2023 23.02 BST
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Tennessee hospital’s website drops name of former Maine priest working there as a chaplain
Anthony Cipolle, who has been a resident chaplain at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, was removed from the program’s website this week after the Press Herald reported on a woman’s allegation that he coerced her into a sexual relationship.
Anthony Cipolle was removed from the priesthood in Maine three years ago and has recently been working as a resident chaplain at Vanderbilt University Medical Center.
Vanderbilt University Medical Center has removed the name of a resident chaplain from its website after the Portland Press Herald published a story about the former Maine priest.
The story focused on a woman who sought Anthony Cipolle’s help when he was a priest, and who says he took advantage of her vulnerability, abused her trust and coerced her into a sexual relationship.
It was not clear Wednesday whether Cipolle still works for the medical center. Neither Cipolle nor the medical center responded to questions about his employment status.
Cipolle joined Vanderbilt’s Clinical Pastoral Education program as one of several resident chaplains in 2022. According to a program description online, resident chaplains work with theological students, health professionals and ministers from several faiths to aid patients in crisis.
The priest broke his vows, she says. She’s breaking the silence.
Before he was at Vanderbilt, Cipolle was a Catholic priest in Bangor who offered parishioners spiritual direction. Those he counseled include Melissa Kearns, who told the Press Herald that despite his vow of celibacy, Cipolle pushed her into a sexual relationship.
He took advantage of her vulnerability, she said, as someone dealing with major depressive disorder and post-traumatic stress disorder. Kearns said she shared her story because she was concerned Cipolle could be a danger to others who are vulnerable.
Weeks before he met Kearns in August 2018, Cipolle had been renting a house with another woman, Renee Henneberry Clark, whose estranged brother-in-law shot her to death following a physical fight with Cipolle that July.
Kearns said Cipolle told her that he had also had a sexual relationship with Henneberry Clark.
The Vanderbilt University Medical Center media relations office did not respond to several emails and calls asking why Cipolle’s profile was no longer on its website on Wednesday. The office has not responded to questions regarding Cipolle’s employment status and history or the allegations of inappropriate conduct toward those in his care while he was a priest in Maine.
After the Press Herald first reached out to the medical center in March, Cipolle’s name was changed on its web page to “Anthony Thomas,” using his middle name as his last name. It’s unclear who made the change or whether it was in response to the Press Herald’s questions about Cipolle’s background.
“I am sorry, I do not have an answer,” wrote Media Relations Manager Jessica Pasley on Tuesday when asked about the name change.
The Press Herald also reached out to other resident chaplains and the program’s lead educator on Tuesday to discuss Cipolle and his work at the medical center, but received no response.
Cipolle did not respond to a call Wednesday or to a message sent to his email address at the medical center. He previously denied having taken advantage of Kearns or abusing his position as her priest, saying he considered her a friend and not a parishioner — despite admitting the two met at church and that Cipolle had offered her spiritual direction, a priestly service.
The Press Herald reviewed several texts and conducted interviews with people who observed Cipolle’s behavior with Kearns, all suggesting that the two had a sexual relationship.
Cipolle took a voluntary leave of absence from the Roman Catholic Diocese of Portland in late 2018. He told the Press Herald Saturday that he remains on a leave of absence while negotiating a voluntary departure from the diocese.
Bishop Robert Deeley announced in May 2020 that the diocese had expelled Cipolle, removing him from the priesthood in Maine. This was after the Maine judge who oversaw the murder trial of Philip Clark, Renee Henneberry Clark’s brother-in-law, stated during Clark’s sentencing that he believed Cipolle had “fanned the flames” of the conflict that led to Henneberry Clark’s death.
Cipolle told the Press Herald that he had successfully appealed the diocese’s decision with help from a canon lawyer.
A spokesperson for the diocese did not respond to emails seeking a response to the Press Herald’s reporting and further information on Cipolle’s status and any actions the diocese has taken to permanently remove him from the priesthood.
Cipolle has said that in preparation for his ordination in Maine, he participated in a clinical pastoral education program at Central Maine Medical Center that was similar to Vanderbilt’s program.
Even after Cipolle was expelled from the diocese in 2020, he continued his work with vulnerable populations in Massachusetts.
Spectrum Health Systems, which runs several Massachusetts clinics treating people with substance use disorder, confirmed in March that Cipolle was a care coordinator at one of its locations from October 2020 to December 2021. Spectrum declined to name the location where Cipolle worked or to say what his job entailed. Spectrum did not respond to an email Monday seeking reaction to the Press Herald’s reporting.
The priest broke his vows, she says. She’s breaking the silence.
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Always has an eye for the ladies.
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Slippery than an eel in holding onto lucrative positions even after they’ve been exposed for what they really are. Chameleon priests and their types that cover up for them.
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Their Media Relations Manager, Jessica Pasley stated “I’m sorry, I do not have an answer” when questioned about the name change from Fr Anthony Cipolle to Fr Anthony Thomas on the medical centre website.
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Central Maine Medical Centre and
Spectrum Health Systems that helps people with substance abuse issues in Massachusetts also continued to employ Fr Anthony Cipolle also presenting himself as Fr Anthony Thomas. Vanderbilt did remove the priests details from its website after media reports emerged.
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He could have married a man and taken his name? Women can do the same as can men?
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We can all cut and paste. No need to export your culture wars. We have enough of our own, especially in the six counties.
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Former Aquinas student sues former Nashville priest, Philadelphia archdiocese over abuse
LIAM ADAMS Nashville Tennessean
A former student at Nashville’s Aquinas College is suing the college’s former chaplain, Kevin B. McGoldrick, and the Archdiocese of Philadelphia for McGoldrick’s alleged sexual abuse of the former student.
The lawsuit expands on reporting by the London-based Catholic Herald in 2020 detailing the former Aquinas student’s allegations. The complaint, filed Monday in the Philadelphia County Court of Common Pleas, charges the Archdiocese of Philadelphia with negligence and recklessness for allegedly failing to report McGoldrick’s history of abuse when McGoldrick moved from Philadelphia to Nashville.
“The Archdiocese of Philadelphia transferred McGoldrick to Aquinas College while he was known and/or suspected to have engaged in inappropriate conduct with other individuals, including, but not limited to, sexually abusing young females,” said the complaint from plaintiff Jane Doe, a pseudonym for the former Aquinas student, represented by the Philadelphia-based law firm Laffey, Bucci & Kent, LLP.
Former Aquinas College priest: Catholic leaders in Nashville face scrutiny over handling of sexual assault allegation
The Philadelphia Archdiocese declined to comment on pending litigation. McGoldrick could not be reached for comment.
McGoldrick, who currently resides in Nashville, was a priest in Philadelphia from 2003-2013, according to the lawsuit. He then transferred to Nashville to work at Aquinas, working at both the college and at Overbrook School and St. Cecilia Academy, a Catholic K-6 and high schools that share a campus with Aquinas along West End Avenue.
In 2017, McGoldrick allegedly served Doe alcohol and sexually assaulted her, according to the lawsuit. She was a 22-year-old junior at Aquinas at the time.
The main entrance to Dominican campus, home to Aquinas College.
The main entrance to Dominican campus, home to Aquinas College.
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Doe reported the alleged assault to Nashville police and the Catholic Diocese of Nashville, leading to a series of disputes between Doe and the Nashville diocese and the Dominican Sisters of St. Cecilia, which owns and operates Aquinas College. The Nashville diocese does not have authority over the Dominican Sisters, who were technically McGoldrick’s employer, Nashville diocese spokesperson Rick Musacchio said in a statement Wednesday.
In May 2020, Doe settled with the Nashville diocese for $65,000 after Doe’s attorney threatened to sue. The Nashville diocese denied any liability, saying it forwarded on Doe’s report to the Dominican Sisters, whose responsibility it was to investigate Doe’s report.
“The parties acknowledged the settlement agreement was not to be construed as an admission of validity or the merits of any claim or allegation made by the person making the report,” Musacchio said in a statement Wednesday about the diocese’s 2020 settlement with Doe. “Any and all liability was specifically denied.”
The Dominican Sisters apologized in 2020 for how it communicated to its campus about the report.
McGoldrick finished out his contract at Aquinas in 2019. The Nashville diocese has since stripped McGoldrick of his faculties and restricted him from serving in public ministry.
“A Nashville woman was sexually assaulted because the Archdiocese of Philadelphia, the Diocese of Nashville, and the Dominican Sisters of St. Cecilia failed to protect her,” Susan Vance, who leads the Tennessee chapter of Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests (SNAP), said in a statement Wednesday about Doe’s new lawsuit.
National SNAP leaders and Catholics4Change also issued statements on Doe’s suit..
Vance added in her statement, “This is blatant cover-up and wanton disregard for victims. SNAP denounces all parties who ignored McGoldrick’s sexual abuse history. We hope other victims will come forward for justice.”
New revelations
Doe’s suit includes previously revealed details from the Catholic Herald’s reporting in 2020, but also provides new details such as additional abuse allegations against McGoldrick and a timeline of when the Archdiocese of Philadelphia knew about McGoldrick’s history.
Specifically, the lawsuit alleges the Philadelphia archdiocese launched an investigation into McGoldrick in 2013, the same year McGoldrick was transferred to Nashville. Even before opening an investigation, the complaint alleges the Philadelphia archdiocese knew of assault allegations against McGoldrick during his time as priest there.
Ongoing case in Nashville diocese: Judge sentences former Catholic Sunday school teacher for abuse at Murfreesboro parish
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‘…You will see an incredible release of… et Spiritus Sanctus….’ Amen.
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This is but a wee summary of Phonsie, Pat.
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Why is +Phonsie so supportive of the wayward abbot and so unsupportive of Fr Geoghegan?
Why does Fr Paul Connell, through his position of influence, continue to inflict suffering on Dom Benedict Andersen? Does Fr Paul Connell have any shred of decency left? Will Fr Paul Connell decline his erroneous reward of a mitre after taking a moment of reflection?
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Seamus 7:46 I live in the Diocese of Waterford and Lismore and was invited to a private event last Summer. After a talk and a mass those present were served up a meal. There were three priests amongst about 60 people and they went around to the people at the start of the meal asking if everything was ok. All three came across as sincere and spoke to everyone. Nothing could be faulted with the event. In the middle of the meal Bishop Cullinan came in apologising for been late and went around to the tables meeting the people. At each table there were people from all over the country and many would not have known each other. Everyone sat and talked as they ate. There was 4 or 6 at each table. When the Bishop came to the table I was at, he asked if everything was ok and enquired where everyone was from. When I said I was from X Parish he moved on to the others at the table, speaking to them as they were from another Diocese in the West of Ireland. It was like as if he only wanted to speak to people that might know little or nothing about him, knowing that he is not popular in his own Diocese. While many lay people in the Diocese don’t take any notice of him, many of the priests who have contact with him certainly don’t like him, taking it upon himself to change the times of masses in some parishes without any consultation with the people in the parishes involved.
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10:50
Without divulging your identity or parish, why ‘a private event’?
Could this event be considered ’empire building’, as in making a name
for himself?
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Could it be that we’ve gone a whole day on the blog without an intervention from the Tom Deenihan gang, telling Seamus to
shut up?
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Daz Fonz is a cryin’ walkin’ sleepin’ talkin’ contradickion while Dom Dick is a cryin’ walkin’ sleepin’ talkin’ law unto himself.
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Bishop Phonsie & Abbot Purcell couldn’t care less what ye say about them on this blog or anywhere else. Pope Francis loves them and they love him.
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It’ll take more than a bit of confirmation money to replace that kitchen table that Abbot Purcell broke during The shenanigans in the refectory.
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There are limits to love.
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@10:35
They couldn’t careless so they couldn’t.
Pope Francis loves them and they love him.
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I’m missing a pair o’ troosers!
Phonsie?
PHONSIE!
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Pants snatching, even temporarily, is more common than people might think. I must admit, I do knot know the facts of de matter highlighted on yesterday’s blog…. but a few questions or observations immediately spring to mind….
Vonce again, I hasten to emphasize, this is purely conjecture on my part…but I vonder who has the bigger pants, waistline, and longer trouser legs?
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10.42
You’re just pretending to be Sigmund Jung, cos the guy never existed. You’re …Sigmund Freud! You can’t pull the wool over my eyes, so y’can’t. I wasn’t born yesterday, so I wasn’t. See?
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Stop with the Freudenschade, Carl!
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what! What!
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No big deal re taking trousers from icu. It’s petty trivia talk really unless if it carried wads of 💰💰💰🤷♀️.
Its unofficial war from owner of this blog on phonsie – bull in a China shop.
Let it commence here and now, do we 😃, 🤷♀️
That opus dei guy from diocese of Killaloe whose 1st name is bit unusual cos I don’t see many guys with that name nowadays.
Hes a throwback to 1950s re his views as we have moved on.
However he’s a hypocrite cos he’s supporting RP while at the same time, renouncing sex as sin, look up at his comments on inter alia same sex marriage etc.
He can’t have it on both ways – plain clear and simple. It’s called hypocrisy,full stop.
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8:28 Bishop Alphonsus Cullinan has great nostalgia for the good old days when everyone did as the clergy guided them. People ask too many questions these days and where does it get them. The church in Ireland remains an extremely powerful entity, it’s not a good idea to take it on, a recipe for personal disaster and destruction. Let bygones be bygones.
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Not on your Nellie.
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Good Morning, DG!
How are you chubby cheeks?
I’m reliably informed you are heading off to Cancun for the holidays.
I’ll meet up with you, DG.
Can you dance or are you two left legs?
We can do the Can Can or knees up Mother Brown or Shenanigans Ball!
Whatever tickles your fancy.
The bow bow is barking. I have to trot.
Talk later, DG.
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Leonie at 11.25am
LOLOL, long time no hear. Your info isn’t reliable.
I’m not going anywhere this year cos I need an operation.
News from my friend in Pattaya had me boiling cos I wanted go but cannot on doc orders 🙈.
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DG, Pattaya, Pattaya !
This is the first I heard of Pattaya.
Whats going on in Pattaya, DG.
My handbag is still a lethal clobbering weapon.
You’re lucky you saw a doctor.
Why do you need an operation?
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Rock on, Donny!
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I recall my confirmation aged 9. It was all a load of hyped-up nonsense. We had been led to believe, by teacher, that the HS would transform us all, like the disciples at Pentecost, into ecstatic, better versions of ourselves. Come the big day? Nothing. Zilch! What a massive let-down!
It should be absolutely illegal for religious ‘education’ to be taught in public schools. Supetstition and lies on impressionable ears is not education, but indoctrination, and it ought to be illegal.
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Anon at 9.38am
I spluttered it out with tea when I read yours saying confirmed at 9🤷♀️🤷♀️🤷♀️🤷♀️.
Are you telling me porkies 🤔
I was confirmed at 12. To be fair and honest with ya or others, I didn’t feel anything on that day.
I realised years later that HS wasnt working when they picked Benedict , that cardinal who sat on abuses files for years.
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@ 9:58am
Well were not surprised at that, you only get a feeling when you’re being conned by your new age muckers then you’re on a high. That’s why you feel nothing from the Paraclete.
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9.58
Yes,I was 9 when I was confirmed.
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@ 9:58am
I don’t agree with you about the HG not working as regards Benedict XVI but he was certainly not there when Fanny was elected, all that work came from Switzerland by the St Gallan mafia and look what we’ve been landed with!
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2:39
Yeah, You.
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2.39 from Arundel!
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I was 9 but was told only I was going to become a “soldier for Christ” and we sung about that at secular junior school assembly anyway (it meant, not abandoning hope and not neglecting sensible basic virtues along with optional religious beliefs). Note: NOT “for Holy Father”, NOT “for Holy Mother”. And obviously from what age I decided. But already, by repeating simple night prayers. And I wore school classroom clothes.
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8.38
Those responsible for your formation were at fault if they gave you the impression you would feel on a high after the ceremony.
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Phonsie’s not tall, is he? I always got the impression he was.
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Anon at 10.52am
New age therapies came 20 years later after my confirmation,NOT BEFORE.
I never said that I was on high but it seems to be you re drugs I could gather😉.
Its not possible to reach on high from New age therapies based on my experiences. There is certain one drug that can make you on high is Cocaine as I have heard it from friends.
I agree that I was conned by new age but the biggest problem was that priests in almost every parish never talked about it nor did they WARN us of the dangers re new age. Priests never spoke about it thus leading lot of Catholics into wrong alleys or blind alleys if you like. So Catholics thought it was OK to use new age therapies. The burden of that responsibility rests in priests, not us cos we didn’t KNOW IT, never heard etc etc. You kept your mouth SHUT and stum.
Thats why late John gillespie talked about this often which led him banned from the church, even his local church as well.
The real reason that Priests and bishops don’t want to know about it cos they didn’t want to scare their sheep out (baa baa) and keep THAT cash flow pumping and coming into their parish coffers for their own use without any accountability.
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@ 10:21am
Of course priest’s never talked about new age therepies why would they, cos as a Catholic you should have known they were wrong. Never mind complaining about the cash flow, it is our duty to support our parish and Pastors. No doubt you never complained about the Charlatans like Gillespie who charged for their healing’s etc. cos you were blind to that and they have no accountability to anyone.
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12.18
Rubbish! It’s not our duty to support priests. They should be supporting themselves.
I deliberately don’t donate now one red cent to the monthly stipend, nor to Peters Pence, nor even to the weekly collection, because I believe these freeloaders have their hands in the till.
I know that God supports my actions. There’s peace in my soul, not to mention more money in MY pocket. 😏
If the priests don’t want to work for a living, like the rest of us, then they can starve. That’s my philosophy on the matter.
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12:18
Excuse me sorry now for butting in but I was wondering if it is wrong
for a priest or an Abbot to bonker in a gay club or boiler-house. I’m an
old school catholic but not too old. Thanks in advance for answering.
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12:18
As if priests never charge. Priests have a duty not feign authenticity,
in other words, not to be Charlatans or wolves in sheep clothing, Father.
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Anon at 10.52am
Another possibility that occurred to me few mins ago was that i was abused at young age, ergo the possibility that I felt nothing from the HS-spiritual blockage. It may applies to the abused victims as well. Not everybody felt HS at day of confirmation.
Although I could be wrong there but that is another possibility why some people don’t feel hs.
I felt HS when I met late Fr Rookey and late Fr o Brien as well.
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An interesting observation, DG.
Abuse, trauma, exposure to familial problems such as alcoholism, freemasonry, witchcraft, etc, can and frequently does create spiritual difficulties, or as you say, spiritual blockages. Thanks for highlighting, DG.
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10.35
Are you saying that the sexual abuse of a child prevents him or her from receiving the holy spirit? Are you for real? You’re victimising abused children all over again with that cod remark. It’s a bit like abusing priests blaming their victims for being too pretty, and irresistible.
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1:12 Are you telling us you don’t understand deaf Guy’s comment?
And incidentally this is your daily reminder that RCs don’t understand the effects or nature of abuse, or more likely in this case, are so little concerned about it that it’s a subject that is fair game to troll DG.
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Bull, 3.25! I understood his comment perfectly. He was denying abused kids God’s saving, healing grace, because they were sexually abused by perverted and criminal priests. Why would the HS hold that against the innocent, you utter fool?!
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Five foot nathin
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He’s growing down getting smaller by each passing day
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🎵Come Holy Ghost, Creator come
From thy bright heavenly throne
Come take possession of our souls
And make them all thine own. 🎵
Does this make y’all nostalgic? Or embarrassed that you believed any of this tripe?
Anyways, I thought it was only demons that took possession of souls.
A funny lot, those Catholics.
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8.47
The Latin original is more congenial. It speaks about visiting.
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Anon at 11.53am
I became aware for the first time when a priest with healing gift told me that I was cursed. Hence my prayers didn’t get anywhere cos it’s spiritually blocked. I felt that block at times but I couldn’t explain why. I just sensed it.
Then curse removed, health improved or got better, spiritually more open, addiction gone. But it’s not over yet as I have some work to remove other remaining bits.
For example, I could sense some residual of blockages there but not as big as curse one.
So i decided to try out freemasonry prayer cos i had no way of knowing it if my previous ancestor’s family line were involved or not. When I said that prayer as I started to have a fit of coughs which lasted some 20 secs then it’s gone.
Why am I doing all this is because I wanted to remove any residuals or remaining bits of spiritual blockages before I go down to last one where I was abused at young age.
It’s a matter of elimination of such spiritual blockages such as freemasonry or curse or forgiveness before I start on last one (close that door finally etc ).
It takes a lot of work and research re spiritual blockages then I decide if its worth trying it out. I bought a book by Chad rippenger – deliverance for the laity. Did try few ones in that book especially freemasonry prayer.
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1:20
Great, DG.
I’m aware of Fr. Rippenger’s work and publications.
Who prayed with you for removal of curses, hexes, spells.. etc?
You’re moving in the right direction.
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@ 1:20pm
Yar away wi the fairies altogether,stay well away from these devils the masons. Why don’t you try The Memorare if anybody can help you it’s Our Blessed Lady.
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2:59
Who asked you to butt in with an opinion?
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It’s a wonder Catholic parents bother with religious rites of passsge for their kids these days, given what we all know now about these pastors. I mean what’s the point? There’s nothing to be gained by them. It’s all a bit of street theatre, really. Passé.
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Social conditioning. No wonder the endless cycle of abuse continues.
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Are you not socially conditioned yourself?
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anon at 2.15pm
Glad to hear it that im moving to right direction. Are you a priest or ??
I met late Fr Bill from India when he visited Ireland. He was a powerful healer as he was a vincentian order priest. He told me that i must give testimony re abuse in order to receive healing which i did.
Then next morning i found my self heavily soaked in bed after the night before (he said to assistant tell me that my prayers answered but i didnt know which one). Hence soaked in bed which i think it was the HS.
His website is http://www.frbill.net
That was the start of finding out but he passed away. Then a decade later i met John Gillespie and bought his book. The concept of spiritual blockage came into my mind when i read his book cos it fits re prayers not answered for some reason or another or no progress made etc. Hence blockage etc.
Re prayers for removal, i used Fr Rossetti online monthly sessions which i watched it in the last 6 months to date.
Finally i would need a priest who would be willing to pray with me for removal of curses rather than online. Online monthly session isnt good enough but not 100% effective cos it would take many months of online sessions to do the job.
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2:45
Ok. I’d rather not say for the moment, DG.
I’m familiar with Fr. Bill and Fr. Rossetti work.
Did you ever come across ‘The Fuzz Factor- A Fools guide to Reality- by Jimmy Clair? In it he covers a wide range of topics. The second edition came out in 2017, published by Kolbe Ltd, Cork, Ireland. It’s a terrific read for anyone particularly Catholics.
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@ 3:30pm
Who asked you to butt in ya cretin!😏
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Alphonsus looks absolutely gorgeous in thon apparel. Red and gold suit him. They bring out the colour of his eyes. Sparkling!
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Do the country a favour and whisk Bishop Phonsie away to the Canaries or wherever your priest villa is located then. His eyes will look even better with the ocean as a backdrop.
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Do ye fancy De Fonzie ?
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Anon at 3.45pm
Fair enough as I accept that.
You seems to know more than I do despite me researching ways to get over it.
Thanks for your tip re fuzz factor as I will certainly look into it.
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DG, I mention ‘The Fuzz Factor’ as author, Jimmy Clair, makes reference to John Gillispsie in Chapter 7 (Exploring the Castle) section is The Key to Powerful Prayer. I’m a book worm, DG.
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Poor kids! Brainwashed by idiots. And all with parental consent.
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Anon at 4.50pm
Thanks for your further comment. I know now who is publishing that book as its located in Cork.
Also I have that little book on key to powerful prayers. It’s amazing cos it stopped my BP as doctor were baffled cos they were expecting HBP but saw it went down. They asked me what happened as I said nothing. It was that little book which was powerful prayers if said with faith.
Even Brian o hare author of John gillespie book, admitted to me it’s powerful cos some people rang him saying its working etc.
BTW, Jimmy Clair is from Clare as I just found out more info on that ‘fuzz’ book. It’s only available on 1st edition but not the 2nd edition.
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Ok. Interesting. I read Brian O Hare’s book on John Gillespie,’The Miracle Ship, sometime ago, DG. I didn’t know Jimmy Clair is a Clare man.
Where in Clare, DG? I spent sometime in Clare many moons ago.
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8.55: Better for the children to be taught about GOD’S LOVE, COMPASSION, MERCY and KINDNESS than the grubby, shabby, “do what I like” emptiness of your type. You perve.
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Where’s the Holy Spirit in that photo? Doesn’t he like having his picture taken?
What a load of religious old fanny!
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The Holy Spirit is in the person of the bishop. That’s why he wears that hat, supposedly.
I don’t believe this shit, I should say.
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So, basically you’re saying that Phonsie’s… full of it?
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9:49 Full of the spirit, you mean? 🍸
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10:01
What’s his tipple?
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Anon at 6.15pm
All I know that Jimmy was or is a Clareman but it doesn’t say nor indicated his whereabouts in Clare.
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Ok. Thank you, DG.
I wish you well.
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The HS is in the background on the head of the young woman to the
left of Bishop Cullinans shoulder. Just took of and landed on her head.
Have you no eyes to see?
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Why are those boys wearing rosettes? Were they at an equestrian event, or what? I’m confused.
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Anyone would think you’d never been to a first communion. The boys line up at the back of the church for the starting pistol, and race to the front for communion. They get rosettes according to their place.
This race is not to be confused with the times Cardinal Burk celecbrates mass, that’s a Drag Race.
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@ 9:01am
The cut of those poor boy’s dressed in jeans and jumpers to make their Confirmation! no wonder they don’t feel its a special occasion. As for that ejit Cullinan putting his Mitre on one and letting the other hold his crozier with no viminal. I’m with dear Patsy on on this wan but for different reasons he has no idea of the dignity of his office, he has to go pronto!
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10.09
You are the same age as Pat but you don’t have a fraction of his good sense, theological nous or powers of expression.
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Agreed, 10.16. He isn’t the sharpest knife in the drawer. 😏
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Him and a number of others. Pronto!
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10.09
Your not Catholic.
Red rosettes foe Confirmation – the Holy Spirit descending on disciples at Pentecost in forms of tongues of fire.
White for Communion – feasts of the Lord.
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3:25 Strange, I’m just thumbing through the Catechism of the Council of Trent and there is no mention of rosettes.
I love the way cathbots (the Irish are particularly bad at this) are unable to disentangle a particular cultural expression from their religion. It shows the narrowness of their world and an absence of catholicity.
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4.54
You’ve never studied theology. A degree in the subject diesn’t mean you know everything sbout the subject but it ought to guarantee you would know where to find what you needed. Now perusing the Tridentine catechism to find what is essentially an instance of national enculturation of Catholic liturgy is entirely the wrong place to look. It’s no wonder you can’t find it.
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Horses for courses. They’re thinking of the MONEY. Kids receive hundreds and sometimes thousands of euros in Ireland for First Holy Communion and Confirmation and it’s the topic of discussion in many schools for the week in class after the event.
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10:23 I don’t know why people say catechesis is currently ineffective: these kids have clearly internalized the core principles of the RC praxis. If they’re failing to parrot the cover story for the rest of their lives they have nonetheless taken in the essential bit. 🙏
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@ 10:16am
Well of course coming from the likes of you who have no sense at all. I only expected your usual ad hominum insults and vitriol. Patsy has already expressed what he thinks of you, and I fully concur. 😏
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12.09
The kids may suck it up now, but they’ll spit it out when they are older. 😀
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The blog’s resident Latinist showing exactly why the liturgy went into the vernacular at 12:29.
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Definitely, not Catholic.
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Bishop Cullinan is a wee tody man.
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@ 1:46pm
I’m sure it was really just for vulgar numpty’s like you, that the vulgar tongue was introduced.
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Wrong, Bishop Buckley. Bishop Cullinan is no longer opposed to the HPV vaccine. And that’s official.
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If it’s official you’ll be able to provide a link…
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Google it, ya cretin! Bishop Cullinan offered a public apology for his remarks.
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9:39 Link? My parents have blocked adult sites.
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9:39am…., sounds very rudely abrupt or curt. What is bugging you?
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5.15
Correct. It’s easy to spot Pat’s contemporary. Not of the same calibre as Pat though. Given to vulgar language.
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9:39
What class of creature is a ya-cretin, Father?
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9.39s whole tone and language is awful.
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Anon at 9.06am
Ahem, could you provide me an official statement on that?
Anyway, thought not.
BTW, Richard Geoghehan could claim it was duress from phonsie part that pushed his resignation.
Is there a case for legal remedy to be dealt, sorted out with 💣
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What? Official W&L doctrine or what?
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Anon at 12.03pm
Can you confirm that Phonsie no longer opposed to hpv vaccine by way of official statement or W&L itself.
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So yesterday we have the Fonz taking (only) the trousers of one of his priests who’d tried to kill himself and today we have 10:09 saying the boys aren’t dressed properly for their communion and the Fonz doesn’t know his episcopal dignity.
And you wonder why your religion has a reputation for being at best barmy and at worst dangerous?
Not every parent can afford a suit or whatever for a first communion, and I am completely certain that if one of those princess type communions was pictured you’d all be moaning about the expense.
When I got married it was in a register office with two old friends and our remaining parents. I wore a suit from a charity shop and my wife a summer frock ditto. We all had lunch in a pub. I add this detail because everything anyone ever says drives you all wild and my wedding is almost bound to.
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🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
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I hope you had good weather and no one run off with items of clothing or anything else belonging to your party.
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Next month will see the farewell of the Catholic Truth Scotland some will be glad and some will not but we do it Our way
Very sad the founder Patricia was barred from the Glasgow SSPX says more about them that it does Patricia at least we have never excluded anyone from our Chapels as Pope Francis has said who are we to do that.
Yes some will say we have barred Father Stephen Dunn but that is NOT accurate as His Grace has suspended him from saying Mass for many reasons and not just because he is part of the LMB network.
Patricia was very upset when Martin Blackshaw SSPX withdrew from speaking at the conference likely due to pressure from the SSPX or his holiday bf B (you know who he is).
So all direct debits and standing orders to CTS has to be stopped with grateful thanks.
Patricia like Patrick runs a good race however we won the fight with CTS.
Maybe Patrick will take over as spokesperson for Scotland.
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When did Christ Jesus initiate barring orders against people participation in the Gospels?
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19 When Jesus had finished saying these things, he left Galilee and went into the region of Judea to the other side of the Jordan. 2 Large crowds followed him, and he told them if they didn’t stop he would take out a restraining order.
…
13 Then people brought little children to Jesus for him to place his hands on them and pray for them. But the disciples rebuked them.
14 Jesus said, “Stop the little children coming to me, and hinder them, for the kingdom of heaven doesn’t belong to such as these.” 15 When he had placed his hands on them, he went on from there.
The Rich and the Kingdom of God
16 Just then a man came up to Jesus and asked, “Teacher, what good thing must I do to get eternal life?”
17 “Google it, ya cretin!” Jesus replied.
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5:01
What version of scripture do you recommend, Father?
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5.23
He’s not ordained. His level of written English precludes him. He’s Pat’s contemporary but without Pat’s panache. He’s a gay Scot who has regular trysts. His nemesis is the awful Jim S. who keeps the Royal Mail and An Post in business.
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8:23
Thanks for the tip off.
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8:23 My absolutely favourite thing is when readers, out of a huge international readership, identify comments as being by one of the several people they’re most obsessed with and get it wrong.
I particularly love that some commenters have started aping others’ style to make you do this more frequently. 🤣
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9.23
Easy to ape your style: prevaricate, denigrate, obsess, generalise, feign, divert and bluff.
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As Karl Lagerfeld said, “If you don’t want to be celibate, join a monastery or a priory.”
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To wit:
https://www.cenacleosb.org
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Was he in a monastery when he said it?
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Maybe the blog monk might enlighten us all?
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To the Scottish tune of ‘Donald where’s your trusers”
Oh the wind blows high and the wind blows low
off to Mass in ma jocks I go
I would have the people know
Fonsie has ma trusers.
ba dum ba dum
He crept in at dead of night
woke me with a massive fright,
grabbed my britiches mighty tight
Fonsie has ma trusers.
ba dum ba dum
Fonsie is a strange wee man
seems to have a master plan
steals the kacks of every man,
Fonsie has ma trusers.
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I’ve been singing this. It’s hilarious. Priests will be humming it when he comes on episcopal visitations and locking up their kecks.
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Why, o why, is Phonsie laying his hands on the shoulders of two young boys?
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spiritual imparting
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Were I their parent, I’d be … suspicious, to say the least. Angry, at most.
Hey, you filthy Romanists!! Keep your ducking hands off our kids!
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7.14
That’s all very well, but what about your early experience of abuse? That had nothing to do with ministerial priesthood.
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I see Littleton made an appearance against yesterday. Chasubles, maniples, venial sin separating us from God, etc. etc. Used to be called Littletwink when visiting Matthew Jolly at Oscott. Now that caught my attention ! No, I am not the stalker of last year. Just interested in what someone so precious as Littleton is doing connected with Jolly. What is the connection ? Littleton wasn’t at Oscott at anytime, was he ? So how is he mates with Jolly ? Strange connection. I encourage all Oscott correspondents pat and present to let us know the inside story. Jolly, I imagine, is now out of prison. What’s that young man going to do with is life ?
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6.08
Guilt by association is your angle.
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Worried, ‘father’?
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8.12
I don’t need to be personally invested in order to eschew the principle of guilt by association. Calvary is the place to look in order to find an end to such a disteputable principle.
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8:28 You don’t need to be but you are. And pompous, oh, how pompous.
Of all the other criticisms you could more sensibly have made of 6:08’s comment, that is the only one you made.
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9.20
And you know this how?
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Guilty by association ? Maybe. But, if Littletwink was pally with Jolly, I think it’s a good question to ask. How well did they know each other. What did they do when they palled around together ? Simple questions, to which there should be simple answers. Other than that, Littleton’s style, personal and liturgical, does seem to piss people off. He does have something of the irritating jerk about him. Dunno ?
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Where did Littletwink study? He seems weird.
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I think he went through a variety of seminaries, and seems to have taken forever to do his studies and get ordained. I reckon there were questions about him at a couple of seminaries until he found a seminary rector ready to give him the nod. Where was that ? Oscott ? Figures !!
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Latin Mass Association
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Killaloe Bishop is just as bad. MIAs all over the place, no accountability at all. What is the outcome of the Ger case?
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Killaloo is not known as the wild west, for nathin
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Is Killaloe next port of call for the Pat-Mobile…?
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Ger Fitzgerald – gone or not?
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I see;
Priest sitting at a desk pen pushing.
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Phonsie appears to be wearing a Cartier Tank gold wristwatch.
Minimum five grand and in big demand and short supply.
Nice work if you can get it.
Up da fonz😃😝
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Yea, and a hot ring on his right hand
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Just to know, the ‘Holy Goat’ is pretendening to criticise the system, WHEN he is part of it.
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What’s noteworthy about that? He’s in a good position to do so. What’s your point?
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Is Bishop Phonsie…a poof?
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Bishop Pat, who, in your view, is the worse bishop, Phonsie or Tom Deenihan?
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