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AN ANSWER TO THOSE DEFENDING FR DAVID TAYLOR – THE H&N ABUSING PRIEST.

DAVID TAYLOR

THE ORIGINAL COMMENT

“Everyone who knows and worked with Fr David (Taylor) in youth work, is 99% certain he is innocent and certainly never showed any deviant behaviour with the 1000s of young people he worked with in their presence but 2 young men accused him and got good pay offs from the Diocese. In court the dates and information they gave were incorrect and could be proved.

Bishop Pat,

You asked was there any doubt over Taylor’s guilt. I hope this helps to clarify. I’m happy for you to use it your blog

I’m very concerned that doubt about the guilt of David Taylor is being made by a recent contributor.

In 2009, when his first case came to court, it’s worth noting that Taylor admitted his guilt (eventually), and the Diocesan Safeguarding Priest said after the trial that there may be more cases. The evidence against Taylor was not so flimsy that the witness statement of another priest would have have ‘saved’ him.  I also think the victim blaming by your contributor is abhorrent. Their assertion that ‘everyone that knew and worked with Taylor is 99% certain of his innocence’ is both impossible to prove and arrogantly disturbing.

Here is a report on that first case.

https://bra01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.bishop-accountability.org%2Fnews2009%2F05_06%2F2009_05_19_Mckay_FatherDavid.htm&data=05%7C01%7C%7C9f2bd07be3f24e2638a608db513debca%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C638193098632391604%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=JVdQJAOrn4CKFch7qZeyiSAWyk7CbVOGFFAsf%2FGHthw%3D&reserved=0

A number of further cases have been brought against Taylor, all upheld. However the most recent case (2022) led again to him being found guilty and a 13 year sentence.

https://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/news/north-east-news/beast-priest-northumberland-clergyman-abused-25731020

I knew Taylor from the 80’s, worked as a volunteer at Holy Island Camp where he was a regular chaplain, was even a parishioner of his at his last parish.  In all that time I had no suspicion of his offending, I was as shocked as everyone else, found it hard to believe and when he was sentenced found it such a betrayal.  

However, to suggest Taylor is not a sexual predator who deserves to be in prison, is frankly ignoring the evidence of many victims and several juries. 

I hope your previous correspondent, who continues to assert Taylor’s innocence and criticises the priest who refused to offer a positive witness statement, considers the many victims experiences of Taylor’s offending and believe them  – several juries at several trials did.

Regards,

Angel of the North

PAT SAYS

When a priest, or anyone, stands accused, we must regard them as innocent until proven guilty.

But when they have been through the court, and especially a jury trial, and have been found guilty, then we have to accept the verdict.

Of course, there can be miscarriages of justice. There have been some spectacular ones.

In Fr Taylors case, I think that the truth came out and justice was done.

Those who loved / liked him will be disappointed.

And, if we have family or friends who have done bad things, it does not mean we stop loving them or caring for them.

We can love our family member or friend, but not love what they did.

268 replies on “AN ANSWER TO THOSE DEFENDING FR DAVID TAYLOR – THE H&N ABUSING PRIEST.”

I would very much agree with this, except too many people appear to think that not letting them away with their crime is the same as never allowing them to forget the crime and crucifying them for it at every opportunity.

How Christian or loving is that?

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It’s just as Christian and loving as it is ito victim blame, slander, discredit, villify and slander victims and survivors of any kind of abuse being the normal modus operandi of clergy and religious and their self interested cohorts.

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How did priests, parishioners and wider community not know of Fr.
David Taylor’s track record? Is this case another example of clerical ‘protection racketeering’?

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Oh they’ll have known, alright. Protecting abusers and other criminals is what they do best.
Did I mention that the crime is the real point of the ‘churcb’, that the ‘religion’ is a cover story and purely incidental, and anyone who really believes otherwise has been deceived?
The best proof of this is not the incidence of crime, which could happen anywhere, it’s the defence of crime, moving criminals to protect them, minimising crime, etc.

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Who can H&N blame for leavin’ more ‘cats out of bags’?! I Know; lets blame Bishop Buckley or blame keyboard wizards or blame the weather,
or better still, blame the time of the month! Remember RCC motto; don’t blame us, we’ll blame you.

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What message is being sent to the victims of abuse through the scandalous Episcopal appointment of Fr Paul Connell? H&N is a warning. The likes of the disgraced Robert Byrne, the thundering disgrace Fr Tom Deenihan and the episcopal gangster-elect Fr Paul Connell should never have been appointed bishops.
I want to send a very clear message. People must refrain from blowing whistles and vuvuzelas during Fr Paul Connell’s Erroneous Episcopal Ordination. https://youtu.be/DS1z-KV_hgA

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For those reluctant to blow whistles or vuvuzelas during Fr. Paul Connell’s Erroneous Episcopal Ordination, instead blow trumpets, bang cymbals and bass drums. There are more than enough members of the Episcopal Brass Neck Brass Band. Episcopal gangster-elect Fr Paul Connell should never have been appointed bishops. His appointment must be reviewed.

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Re yesterday blog, a thought occurred to me that H and N diocese have something like 100m in their investment ACCOUNTS. I trust that poster yesterday, who mentioned 100m which sounded right over the years including boom and decline years over the last 50 years.
It would be reasonable to ask for 0.01 % (which is tiny) applied to their investment account be directed to pay towards retired priests funds every year. Per calculations, it would pay 1m a year if they applied a fixed rate of 0.01 per year instead of asking the laity to cough up MORE and MORE plus relief grants from UK govt as well.
I was wondering as to why they kept asking laity for more and more money. The only explanation that I could come up with was that bishops or top tier of rcc hierarchy think that laity are stupid and quite complaint or alternatively, sheer contempt towards the laity itself.

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Anon at 10.20am
LOLOL😉.
Its 0.01 of 100M re H and N diocese = 1M a year for retired priests fund, it’s a very tiny percentage rate, less than 1 precent.
You might need to brush up your maths, 😜 kidding.

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Deaf Guy at 8.32am – Get your maths right: 0.01% of £100million is only £10,000 – I would suggest 1.00% of £100million, which would be £1million to distribute to retired/sick priests each year!

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“Innocent until proven guilty”…unless Pat decides you are guilty on his blog.
“Guilty until proven innocent” more like.

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And even at that point innocence will never be accepted. Pat has yet to acknowledge (much less apologise for) the massive injustice that he perpetrated against me. Absence of humility.

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11:15 How can you possibly expect Bishop Pat Buckley to assess your comment requesting an apology if you fail to identify yourself!

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Catlicks always find an excuse for their abusive priests and members. It’s a Mafia. A consistent danger to public safety regardless of the lies of fake appeasement peddled on safeguarding, confidential use of data etc. Every hour of every day is spent safeguarding the interests of the RC, zero point in reporting anything to any priest, Bishop or safeguarding officer in any diocese, the information is dissected and circulated to form a defence in case legal proceedings follow. In the meantime, proactive discrediting of complainants is instigated along with a wide range of intimidation tactics all designed to deter victims from pursuing their legal and human rights on behalf of themselves and their families. White collar lay and clerical criminals run this business that uses God as a “front”.

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It takes a lot of courage for victims to come forward and they must be treated well although there is 1 -100 wrongly accused it makes no difference as they have all had the courage to come forward.
The big problem is the “boys” club and it is extremely difficult for Bishops and Safeguarding to crack the nut and to be fair to the bishops that get a lot of stick be assured there is NOT one Bishop in Ireland or the UK wants the horrendous Clergy as they have let themselves down badly and their fellow brothers.
Some clergy say they may have been told in the seal of the confessional but that is just a get out clause to protect their “friends”
Safeguarding is independent although paid for by the Church and it costs a fortune to administer and I have yet never heard a Bishop complaining about the cost of safeguarding as they want the best for the victims.
As Pat states a judge and Jury convicted this priest not the Bishop and fellow clergy.
One must also note that society has changed and they will not put up with anything that is wrong in parishes and they question every penny spent at Parish Finance Councils.
Safeguarding in Scotland is led by a Top Judge who is also a KC and will not tolerate wrongdoings and meets the victims not the Priest.
England and Wales has top independent legal people as well.
Ireland is well behind but catching up most dioceses are changing from vulnerable Children to vulnerable children and vulnerable Adults to which it should be.
Some Irish safeguard officer say it is only children however the Irish Bishops Conference has told them it is to be the same as the UK Children and vulnerable adults.

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‘it is extremely difficult for Bishops and Safeguarding’
No. Bishops are the centre of the biys’ club, as you call it, and church safeguarding is an pretence to make it look like they’ve learned abuse isn’t ok and keep the bishops out of jail.
Don’t be deceived.

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Many priests and religious remain in post thanks to their “respectable pillar of the community” type connections and also thanks to misguided or corrupt members of authority. Shame on all of them. They deserve to share the prison cell with the holy friends who think nothing of ruining other peoples lives.

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We can love our family member but not what they did but we also must not vent our rage against the justice system nor recruit figures of authority to harass or intimidate witnesses in revenge and retaliation. The justice system exists for very good reason and it’s objectives must be transparently upheld.

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Bishop’s contempt towards the laity was the first time I came across cos I didn’t think it was possible in the first place. First one arose when Crean and Kildorrey altar as his constant refusal to conscreate the defiled altar.
He belived the deceased priest more than the pleas of the laity which was quite telling. His attitude was the sheep aka laity is there to support him and prop him up. That is not happening anymore. We see him and other bishops as ‘them and us’.
Second one re contempt towards the laity was Byrne of Newcastle as he’s asking the laity to donate more and MORE while at the same time, he spend a spanking new house valued at 950k in sterling. He can’t have it in both ways. There was/is a huge disconnection between the catholic laity and their Bishop.
Best thing would be the next new Bishop of H AND N instruct the trustees to pay 0.01% payable of their 100m investment account towards retired priests funds on yearly basis cos it’s his duty to care and look after his priests. No point for young people to consider priesthood if they hear bishops treating their priests badly.
Its now becoming clear that bishops treated their diocese as their fiedfom, everything is maxed out for his benefit and nothing else for their priests or the laity. It’s called ’empire building’ where all resources and it’s finance is heavily stacked in the hands of 1 person thus increasing his power and control over people that he presided.
Examples of this is Egan and a Byrne.

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Get your maths right: 0.01% of £100 million is only £10,000 – I would suggest 1.00% of £100 million, which would be £1 million to distribute to retired/sick priests each year!

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As some of the comment about David Taylor indicate – and most of them will be from other clergy – there is a tendency, especially from other clergy, to minimise the crimes of their brothers, and to question the motives of those who make accusations – usually in pursuit of a payout. I bet the Aldo Tapparo of Birmingham is still convinced of the innocence of Bede Walsh and his claims that his accusers were only after money. The same reticence / refusal to embrace the victims and the veracity of their accusations were on full view in IICSA, especially in the appearances of Nichols and Longley. You had a sense that really, deep down, they were doubtful about the cases they had to deal with, and underpinning all of this was an enduring belief that many of the accusers were more interested in money and a payout than they were in justice being done and being vindicated. Interesting that you don’t see this when there is an accusation of rape, or when a kid makes an accusation about an adult who is not a priest. No, it’s a phenomenon of the clergy world and clergy abuse. It’s another element of coverup and denial. Yes, they will mouth the words of apology, and they will talk the talk of safeguarding, because they have to. But look behind the eyes and listen to them in private, and you know that they don’t really believe the enormity of it, and are still doubtful about the abuse and about the accusations. As well as doubtful about the motives of the accusers.

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7 32: Seamus, you are becoming more of a thug bully by the day. Your utterances ate disgusting and unprovable. YOU ARE LYING. LYING. 8

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@10:27
What has your Episcopal collar in such a twist. Any regular follower of
+ Pat’s blog knows the full background narrative surrounding Dom Benedict Andersen’s plight following whistle blowing on Fr. Mark Kirby.
Fr. Paul Connell’s appointment is highly controversial. It is only right
and proper for Papal Nuncio Archbishop Luis Mariano Montemayor to thoroughly review all circumstances surrounding this highly controversial scandalous Episcopal appointment.

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If you haven’t seen them you mustn’t have been looking hard for these have been plenty

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Paddy McCafferty is like RN when it comes to social media. He won’t stay away long. Especially with local elections upcoming. Abortion this and abortion that

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He didn’t stay away for long. It’s his online pulpit, and he does so crave a submissive congregation. And boy! Are they submissive?! I don’t believe that I’ve come across one of them who challenged anything McCafferty said. And he’s said some peculiar things.

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When Fr Paddy was a curate in Poleglass, many years ago, he accidentally blew up the hairdryer and caused extensive damage to the parochial house. I am sure he doesn’t need to worry about hairdryers these days.

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I was reading the other day about poor Thomas Merton RIP and his experience with the hair dryer. Shocking altogether.

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Fr Kelly should represent the UK. He was on Britain’s Got Talent, after all.

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Not if you’re in it for the dinner invitations, gifts and opportunities to network.
Please don’t interrupt the clergy when they’re giving away what it’s actually about.

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Awaiting to be appointed a hospital chaplaincy which will only happen in some alternate reality. Unfortunately he will be appointed to a parish.

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Although EGAN has only 6 years left he is pushing a 10yr plan! It is almost identical to the previous plan presented by his predecessor, Crispian Hollis.
The Chapter Provost was instrumental in Crispian’s plan and seems to be only too happy to restart the engines under EGAN even though (as has already been said) he cannot stand him! Why? It’s a very strange situation

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Interesting that he doesn’t get as much opprobrium on here as HAUSCHILD, despite actually being in charge. This wouldn’t be in the slightest that she is a WOMAN. What’s the matter, ‘fathers’, frightened of women? 😂

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12:18
Of course many, ‘fathers’, are scared of real women but do enjoy being mothered.

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Beechwood Av is a backwater/ completely lifeless with tiny attendance. Will suit Lady Taylor.
He’s not known for his pastoral zeal.

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Is it just me or is Prince Harry getting on everyone else’s nerves as well? All that constant whining and moaning….

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Michael Commane makes no mention of it on his blog. I’m sure he won’t be happy going back to the Dominicans. A lot of his blog is taken up with pot shots at the Irish Province. Incidentally, is it true that he owns two houses?

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What about Commane’s property portfolio – at least two houses. Then he has four pensions. Plus he has a 750cc motorbike and a new car. How does a man with a vow of poverty have so much personal wealth. He needs to be brought back to living in a Dominican community. Why is he given such freedom especially when he continually shows such disrespect for and animosity towards his Dominican order. Time for the OPs to crack the whip. Its only in time that Three Patrons will appreciate how blessed they are to be rid of him. My sympathy lies with Paul Taylor.

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12:28
Fr Provincial Harris OP is in no position to possess a whip, much less to crack it.

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This strange announcement has been posted on the Rathgar parish website. How is this canonical language meant to be understood by parishoners?
New Appointment
This is to announce that the Very Reverend Andrew O’Sullivan, newly appointed Parish Priest, will assume the pastoral care of the Parish of Rathmines and the Parish of Rathgar. Father O’Sullivan has been dispensed from the normal means of assuming the pastoral care of the parishes.

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For anyone who is interested in current church affairs and also like travel, Macau is known for its heritage, its casinos and its food and it does not disappoints in either of these three areas. There are also more fascinating facts about Macau which you can read about here. The Eight Macau opened in 2007 and has held the three stars since 2014. It is the only Chinese cuisine restaurant in Macau to have been awarded the highest standard. Although I went there for lunch, the restaurant also offers a more affordable and casual dim sum lunch menu which seems to be very popular. I went for dinner and enjoyed their main menu.
For an insightful travel guide to Macau, read here. I have also written a foodie guide on what to eat in Macau and where to find it, a quick one day travel guide to Macau and how to get to the best beaches in Macau.

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Parish Chaplain is often used to a priest who has fewer obligations to a parish than a curate. Someone with a weekly or daily mass, for example.

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Why would religious orders take up parishes ? They have barely any men who can walk. They are ageing and dying out themselves. Although, they do have access to theirThird World provinces and so could import foreign priests from abroad. But, is that the solution ? No, the only way is for the Church to re-imagine priesthood and ministry. Since they won’t, it will just be more and more decline in to decrepitude.

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There’s a very disgruntled diocesan priest commenting today. Probably got turned down for religious life and had to settle for the diocese. 😂

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Every seminary I’ve been in has been sexually charged. Paul Prior, who later was senior dean of Maynooth, used to put on display on his duvet his extensive underwear collection. This would happen unannounced if you called to his room for tea. He expected you to comment.
Later there was an Armagh deacon who would knock on bedroom doors in Marys late at night seeking sex. A Cloyne sem beat him up over that.
Then I went to the Irish College.
There was a sem there who used to leave a crate of empty wine bottles outside his room.
I once stumbled upon a circle jerk in a bedroom in the Irish College and was even more surprised to see it involved straight porn.

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Unfortunately, in Ireland, a guilty plea does not mean someone is guilty. There are cases where lawyers for the defence have recommended a guilty plea even when the defendant is innocent in order to secure a lighter sentence. Their logic: because of some high profile clergy/religious cases here it’s difficult for a defendant to get a fair trial.

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Our daily reminder that the main contribution to society by the RCC is in paying solicitors, mainly criminal defense solicitors.
And, incidentally, the comment about fair trials just means they think everyone else goes about things the way they do, by calling in favours, manipulation, intimidation, etc.

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I wondered how long it would take for the naysayers to attach Archbishop Farrell. Seems like the season has opened. Compared to the vast majority of Irish Bishops his CV qualifies him eminently for the post. He has a proven track record in the world of academia and in pastoral life. His style is ‘no-nonsense’ and to the point. He respects priests who are workers, and has no time for those swinging the lead. He is not afraid to make decisions.
The rubbish about the religious provincials reacting negatively is pure nonsense. The orders are in trouble because of ageing members and a lack of vocations. Naturally their first rationalisation will mean jettisoning parishes, since these were never part of their original charism anyway. So save the nonsense for the gullible.
He is doing a good job in very difficult times and i’m sure is untroubled by the crazy ruminations of the demented souls who populate this blogs comments.
You may huff Pat, You may Puff Pat, but the Lord’s House you will never blow down!
You should be preparing your soul for judgment day instead of rabble rousing.
Dermot Farrell will account for himself before the Almighty.

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12.26
Yes, the Lord’s house will never be blown down, but the Romanist institution is clearly self-destructing, like.

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The importance given to the cult is one of the characteristics of a cult:
‘The group is elitist, claiming a special, exalted status for itself, its leader(s), and members (for example: the leader is considered the Messiah or an avatar; the group and/or the leader has a special mission to save humanity).’
https://drsteveeichel.com/about-cults

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Pat, my name is John and I read your blog from Canada. Very distressing news emerging from here, Pat. According to one national heritage group, over the next ten years, 9,000 churches and other faith-owned buildings in Canada will be shutting down. National Trust for Canada regeneration project leader Robert Pajot says every community in the country is going to see old church buildings shuttered, sold off or demolished. Neighbourhoods are going to have multiple churches closing. Some people qualify this as a crisis, and I kind of agree. It is going to hit everybody.I think Canada is becoming increasingly secular. We don’t attend religious services in the way that we used to. The reason it matters from my perspective is that these buildings have proven to be centres of community writ large, so they are homes to all kinds of not-for-profit and community groups that don’t necessarily have anything to do with religion but have to do with the common good. If these faith buildings close then we lose those spaces for those kinds of activities.

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The Catholic Church in Canada was vigorous before the Council. Then the New Springtime happened. Ergo, closed churches.

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The identification of the church with God is easily the most scary and abusive religious idea. It sets the institution on a divine level and it’s only a very short step to an abusive priest telling his victims it would be a sin to tell anyone.

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Owner of this blog is on fishing expedition.🐟🙄🤣
Yes re cousin as the way DLF shut down everything related to maynooth seminarians and mc ginnity. It showed his ruthless side and no takers.

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I used to live in Rathgar long ago when working in Dublin. At that time, Dublin was great place to work, boozing sessions, nightclubs, cheap flats.
I used to attend that church. I never liked one priest there as I didn’t know why, maybe instinct.

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Eamon- Rathgar is a wonderful place to live. I am a bit of a history buff. Did you know itwas originally a village which from 1862 was part of the township of Rathmines and Rathgar; it was absorbed by the growing city and became a suburb in 1930.It lies about three kilometres south of the city centre. It was a farm belonging to the Convent of St Mary de Hogges, at present-day College Green.[3] At the Dissolution of the Monasteries, Rathgar was granted to the Segrave family: they built Rathgar Castle, ownership of which subsequently passed to John Cusacke, who was Lord Mayor of Dublin in 1608.[4][5] The castle remained in the possession of the Cusack family for over a century, but gradually decayed and was a ruin by the end of the eighteenth century. No trace of it remains today, though it is thought to have been located at present day Highfield Road.The village began to develop in the eighteenth century. Rathgar Avenue may be the oldest street, while Highfield Road was developed in 1753. Zion Church and Christ Church Rathgar were built in the 1860s.

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The elements of praise here are not faint. The usage of highlighting the position of a select subordinate to obliquely point out anomalies in a superior is an ironic rhetoric that has its place. One will not have a victory (in the best of senses) every minute. The lockstep model of catholicism has always been poisonous, with all its unprecedented dangers today. The strange bale out will need further sniffing. Culture war and social justice war need higher intellectual and spiritual calibre (Another Comforter) than they’ve had foisted on them thus far. Our Fathers & Glory Be’s said include the true intentions around all this.

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The murder of a child is completely indefensible. The bigger question is who the NI authorities are protecting by obtaining a legal blackout on the murder of Noah Donohue? Is this drug story a decoy to divert from the truth to protect the Priest involved because he is a PSNI informant? Informant or not he should be brought to justice

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12:37 Agreed, there are many family questions unanswered and those who harmed Noah and took his life are being facilitated to evade justice to date. It stinks of cover up and collusion and creates more questions.

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Fermanagh born, belfast based Gary Donegan has a lot to answer for after his latest behaviour. Those in glass houses…

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Well I never??? Ian Patterson a dodgy pilgrimage director. No surprise there! He’s destroyed felling!
You also mentioned the three in a bed lit Pat!
Very thick files on those three at bishops house! Do you know? They were once photographed in a Spanish gay bar and hauled up for it on their return. Sitges is their holiday destination of choice! Naughty girls! All three of them!!!

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Plenty of big skeletons in that closet! Look how many past H&N bishops would not incardinate him. Ambrose, Kevin and seamus. I wonder why😂 Byrne knew better of course!

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I have to differ with you Donald. I’m turning up talking since 1969.
Free speech is precious to free men and women all over the world.
Go back to school Donald.

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H&N is a Diocese which just cannot stop giving and giving and giving….
What an outstanding mess and a half.

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How will we ever break the cycle of dodgy men appointing other dodgy men?? There are some really good guys out there, admittedly few, who not only deserve promotion/ recognition but also would do a bloody good job. We have a sickening cycle of corrupt men appointing other corrupt men and so it continues!

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You could start by not kidding yourself that the ‘good’ men (who by their work prop up this system) are, actually, good.
They’re not, they’re part of the problem, as is anyone who gives money or time.
Starvation will stop anything, even bottom feeders.

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I am interested in exploring the spiritual dimension of the Eurovision Song Contest, a wonderful way of bringing nations and people together under the banner of fraternity and peace. It said Saturday was chosen for a strike as it was the last date allowed under employment laws. Its general secretary Mick Lynch said he was sorry for the disruption but added that people have had “plenty of time” to make alternative travel arrangements, with the union having given more than two weeks’ notice.
The government says the RMT has turned down a “fair and reasonable” pay offer, but the union denies this.
Train drivers who are part of a different union, Aslef, went on strike on Friday, with some parts of England having no trains all day. It also denies planning strikes to impact Eurovision.

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You are interested in exploring the ‘spiritual dimension’ of Eurovision Song Contest, and yet, you went on to explore the political dimension and social ramifications of …current railway strikes?

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Well there is unity in diversity- these are all inter-related issues and each one impacts on those around it

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Unity in diversity? I wouldn’t go that far, Dave. There is no unity between Heaven and Hell, and you won’t find greater diversity than here.

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It’s worth reflecting on the metaphysical and philosophical dimensions of the current crisis. Plato wrote extensively and most of his writings survived. His works are in the form of dialogues, where several characters argue a topic by asking questions of each other. This form allows Plato to raise various points of view and let the reader decide which is valid. Plato expounded a form of dualism, where there is a world of ideal forms separate from the world of perception. The most famous exposition of this is his metaphor of the Cave, where people living in a cave are only able to see flickering shadows projected on the wall of the external reality. This influenced many later thinkers, particularly the Neoplatonists and the Gnostics, and is similar to views held by some schools of Hindu dualistic metaphysics.
Plato died in 347 B.C.E. In the middle ages he was eclipsed by Aristotle. His works were saved for posterity by Islamic scholars and reintroduced into the west in the Renaissance. Since then he has been a strong influence on philosophy, as well as natural and social science.

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Why is it worth reflecting on those, Platonic things? You don’t say. Perhaps you don’t know.
As for the Platonic mini-biography, the point? Or was it just your showing off?

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Thank you for your respectful response. Apologies if it seemed like I am trying to show off. On the contrary, I am just trying to add to the debate.Metaphysics adds a level of conceptual rigor and clarity that can only improve the steadfastness of our knowledge: it is not here to compete with or replace any other fields, it is here as a necessary supplement to them in our quest for truth about reality. Indeed, some argue that there is no real need to create a hard distinction between metaphysics and the sciences at all, for their aims are continuous and complementary. And besides: dwelling on the actuality behind life is interesting, and good for the soul. As Bertrand Russell puts it about philosophy generally, in a quotation that could readily be used to defend the study of metaphysics specifically.

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Read the documents before making further plans. Rome is not allowing churches to be sold. Closed and rarely used, yes (and maintained), sold, a big no, no!

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When looking at other religions especially in area of married priests, there was very little abuse coming from these religious in comparison to rcc itself.
Where does the requirements re celibacy came from or originate from? Was it St Paul but it shouldn’t be taken as face value cos his books aren’t regarded as gospel except for Matthew, Mark, luke and John. I found gospel of John to be of mystical or symbolic narrative.
I personally think that the Vatican imposed celibacy sometime around 11AD cos of rcc priest wife’s claims to property or an asset which is technically a house or home plus cash as well. Thus rcc came up with an idea of celibacy.
Once a priest is caught or exposed re his duplicitous lives which gives an Bishop a massive leverage and control over any priests in question. So rcc bishops is all about control.
To date I never saw or me any bishops in public except for Casey of Galway, Martin of Dublin, drennan of galway and Galvin in Cork.

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Pat could you ask your readers to pray for my family please? We are going through a difficult and complicated situation. The elderly woman has been dead for days, no-one knows how many. She died alone, trapped in her house in Khartoum by the brutal battle between Sudan’s two warring generals.Azhaar had been watching from New York, desperately trying to save her. Now, she is desperately trying to recover her body.
She’s not alone. Intense fighting has made it dangerous to gather the dead in parts of Sudan’s capital.The humanitarian agreement reached by the two sides in Jeddah on Friday specifically commits to helping aid workers collect, register and bury those killed in the fighting.
“We keep on seeing dead bodies on the street, and hospitals that are out of service,” says Patrick Youssef, the Africa Regional Director for the International Committee of the Red Cross. “I hope the new declaration of humanitarian principles can truly allow for humanitarian corridors.”
So far it hasn’t, because the parties have yet to secure a truce to turn their promises on paper into reality.Azhaar’s grandparents, Abdalla Sholgami and Alaweya Reshwan, got stuck in the heat of the fighting. They lived in Baladiya street in Khartoum, next to the military headquarters and the British embassy. It became a battlefield for the two warring parties – Sudan’s army, and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces

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Pat is there no way you can start verifying comments or allowing only non anon patients, sorry I mean people, comment on your blog? I have read over some of the blog the last few days and there have been truly damning accusations. Priests being drunk at funerals and being late for burials? Couldn’t be true surely.

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On Palm Sunday (perfect timing!) our Parish Priest announced that there will be church closures and neighbouring parishes would merge. He said the current 4 priests would be reduced to 2. Obviously this ruined Holy Week and Easter for all concerned.
All anyone spoke about were the various scenarios. Now, these documents have been shared, we have hope. My friends and I thank you very much. We will share this far and wide!

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Bishop Pat, this is going to be big in Portsmouth. This has totally knocked the stuffing out of their ‘plans’.
Now this is out in the open, and folk know they can resist the attempts to sell of the psrish and assets, they most certainly will

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St Patrick’s is in crisis. The Pp from August will be the only Pp in residence. Due to the lack of clergy, they will not have a curate anymore.

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Clerical changes in Dublin later this week. Lots of us not happy with the Building Hope farce. A bunch of armatures leading change. They haven’t a clue. Our sacramental vision is a joke. Worse than pre Covid. Farrell is out of touch. Glad I’m retiring.

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Does the bishop of Portsmouth tell the truth about anything at all?
It has been said on this blog before that the bishop of Portsmouth is a Lone Ranger who considers himself independent and able to build his own structures etc. and having now read through these documents, I couldn’t agree more. The bishop of Portsmouth needs reigning in!

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God rest you Cardinal Pell, may you receive eternal peace and happiness for the injustice you suffered at the hands of those that need prayer and forgiveness!

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Byrne was made a bishop because he understands the rules of the closet, can be relied onto cover up and is himself compromised – perfect bishop material.
Was Elsie involved in his appointment?
Whose responsible? It’s a myth that the pope appoints them – the terna is a fix, a hatchet job, he was promoted or kicked uo stairs for a reason.

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Donal McKeown is a great pastor. He’s incredibly well-liked and hugely caring. Ask any parishioner of the Cathedral parish and they will tell you as much.

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Mind your own business Pat. You interfering old queen. If Eamon Martin were to meet you – he would beat you – you would be black and blue. He is a great Bishop and most kind and protective.

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Martin is most kind and protective, and yet, he would knock seven shades out of Pat if they met? The irony went over your head, didn’t it?

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Here we go again some ejit blaming empty Churches on the Latin Mass. Forgetting that we’ve had over fifty years of the vernacular foisted on us, the result EMPTY Churches and NO vocations. For hundreds of years we had packed Churches and many vocations, when the liturgy was in Latin.

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For hundreds of years we had…and all the stupid rest. Yes, and we had an uneducated, uncritical, highly submissive laxity, too, along with phenomenally successful cover-up of clerical corruption by Romanists. Might this have helped with bums on pews?

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How can so many bishops from humble backgrounds reconcile the notion of radical discipleship with living in luxury, when the theology of vocation counsels that they should sell all that they have, give the money to the poor and THEN follow Christ?

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Bishop Ray Browne ordained Fr. Sean Jones having first asked him to swear an affidavit attesting he was not the individual in a photograph that appeared on this blog. One does not have to be a forensic analyst to discern that it was Jones in the photograph and that the contents of the sworn statement given by the then Deacon Jones were a tissue of lies.
Bishop Crean of Cloyne has repeatedly has refused to acknowledge that a sex act took place on an altar in his diocese. He has pursued a strategy of dissimulation suggesting that the images of the sex act were “photoshopped”. Those are two examples, I could give you a lot more. The public execration of the bishops in Ireland is justified.

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I want to see priests and bishops spat on in the streets, mocked and ridiculed not for their virtue like Blessed Dominic Barberie but for their crimes and corruption. Not living in opulent palaces and country piles but on council estates struggling to get by like the great unwashed. This would be so good

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I want to see them all swept off the face of the Earth, but I can’t find a broom wide enough. So the Jesus can get a look-in.

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Does anyone know the current whereabouts of Fr Anthony Doe of Westminster please? I have heard some shocking stuff today and Fr Doe is hard to track down

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The Popper culture within Maynooth Seminary is shocking. Seniors seminarians forcing junior seminarians to try it and get them hooked on it.

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Jesus’s was thought to be mad by ‘his family’ and his family accuse him of being ‘out of his mind’.

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Philip Boyce is very good at shutting people up, he deserves an award for it. Horrible man, here in Donegal he left us a terrible legacy of cleric abuse. The Vatican cares so much that they protect and promoted this man. Says it all really.
There was a lot of rumours he dressed up as women frequently with a fellow cleric

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Rory and McCambley sought adult men, not minors, as do the chaplains to the A1, the Giant’s Ring and the public loos of the coastal towns of Co. Londonderry.

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Not quite today’s topic, but has anyone ever done a pilgrimage around the shrines of St. Paul? I would love to do that but can’t afford it just yet- would really like to hear about other people’s trips though. I honestly didn’t know until this morning that St. Paul stopped on one of his voyages at the port of Mykonos and even passed by the western coast of Santorini.

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Yes that’s true- in Santorini cathedral there is a beautiful fresco by Fra Angelico commemorating Paul’s visit to the island

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Suzie at 1.32pm
I was in Mykonos in late 80s on Greek hopping holidays. It was a beautiful island decked with white colours. Gorgeous island I have to say and sunshine -. magnificent.
But we landed in Mykonos late afternoon as travel rep asked us, are we partners as I didn’t understand what she’s getting at. I said no, my deaf mate who has an usher syndrome so I had to guide him carefully. I explained it to her that he needed help but not partner. She got it completely.
She said do you what this island mykonos, I said no. She said its island with half of it were gays, other half were straights. She told me that my holiday place was in gay area so I asked her to transfer it to straight area. All that was done in 30 mins.
But great memory re glorious sunshine, greek food and drinks with ouzo. I crashed my rental motorbike when drunk around 3am as I had to hauled and warned over by a Greek policeman. The weather there was too hot for my liking but I loved the scenery and the cliffs of Santorini. I would love to go there again especially Santorini.

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I want to hear more about Elsie’s caravan. Has anybody ever been invited for a campers’ picnic? Say what you like about Maurice, but he had style, and I doubt he’d have been seen dead in a caravan

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To be frank I think if a man has made a woman pregnant then he should man up and face that from here on his life will have to revolve around supporting his child. Especially if he belongs to a faith group which is big on the family, god help us. Apart from the more recent case of Ciaran Dallat, it will be a rare occurrence nowadays with mostly gay priests, although the support group says they’ve been inundated with calls from Scottish women claiming they were having relationships with priests. It must be historical relationships from way back.

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Reply to;No Breanorsays:
May 13, 2023 at 1:33 pm
“if a man has made a woman pregnant”
Surely, it takes two to tango, unless it’s pregnancy by a rapist, each person in a consensual relationship, if they don’t want a child as a result of their tryst, should ensure prevention of pregnancy.
One of the oldest tricks in the book is the girl deliberately getting herself pregnant to try and nab her man, a risky business, sometimes lucky sometimes not, or she gets to the stage in her life where she desperately wants a baby, (I can’t understand that one.) and will again deliberately get herself pregnant.
I agree with you if a child is the result of their negligence, the child must be supported.
It would be irresponsible for girls in this day and, age, to find themselves carrying the can, as the 30,000 women who passed through the Irish Magdalene laundries, who were left high and, dry by irresponsible (Irish) men.

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Timothy Gardner got a shockingly light sentence. After admitting to the charges, Gardner was sentenced to eight months in prison, suspended for two years at Southwark Crown Court today.

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If the RCC has to resort to resurrecting total creeps like Joe McGuigan to active ministry to keep the show on the road, then it demonstrates that it’s in the last through of death, desperately gasping as the inevitable approaches.
What I fail to understand is how McGuigan managed to go 20 years without being removed from the clerical state. English dioceses used Pope Benedict’s fast-track administrative procedure to get priests like McGuigan off their books. So, therefore, if any misconduct comes to light in those unsupervised 20 years in which he was still a priest, I am sure the church will have no problem digging deep to compensate potential victims.
The diocese needs to reconsider its approach immediately. I hope the press picks this up.l and they probably will. Why would Paddy even want him near his parish, he is very vocal about politics and homosexuality so surely he was against this?

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Where is Down and Connor seminarian Gerry Murphy, a native of Downpatrick, seems to have disappeared completely.

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I went to a leather bar in London some years ago and I was shocked to see a D&C priest at an adult-baby club in a nappy. ABY was not a sex club, just adults wanting to be babies or daddy’s. Strange

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Bill Mulvihill continued to receive his monthly salary of £ 2,200 for some 24 months after resigning

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I am sick of this emergency phone. What part of emergency do these plebs not understand. No you can not arrange a baptism on the EMERGENCY phone, go to the parish office!! This vicariate has gone to the dogs.

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Pat did you ever get involved in a sexual deal while at Clonliffe? I didn’t myself but I do know of most priests signing up to things of the sort.

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I wish our parish would adapt the Latin mass as it would make it more interesting and fun. Especially with the priest we have at the helm, any day now I’m waiting on him falling asleep standing up

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I also have heard rumours of Fr Fr Tony Corr from Lurgan and his alleged heart attack. He died young in his sleep recently. Amy conducted the funeral in Dromore diocese. Can of worms.

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Catholicism will rightly split down the middle Pat you are right, Conservative catholic’s and liberal ones. They will split as fast as Dallat did when he got that woman pregnant.

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I know how to get parishioners back to mass, hire Father Conor McGrath and they will come back in space loads; for the youngest and most attractive priest in NI also has the personality and charm

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Enniskillen parish was mentioned recently, especially the curate “Donnelly”, described as a ‘prissy madam’ and a ‘prissy mare’. If it weren’t for Fr. Donnelly the parish would close completely, he does all the work and carries the bulk of the work. He has some traits that annoy some people, but he’s a good guy and a hard worker.

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I am a nurse in the South Eastern Trust but I use to work in a private healthcare provider and we would have seen a lot of priests, married men, vicars etc attending for regular sti checks. So much for celibacy and commitment!

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Noel Treanor is cunning. A vindictive man as well. Malice emanated from him. He was more about upholding the firm than he was anything else. The story from today’s blog is horrible. But sadly nothing shocks me anymore when it comes to the RCC. Abuse, slavery, financial corruption. Ties to the mafia and the illuminati. Murder even of their own to cover up their misdeeds. It’s all there. Truly a cesspit. Rehabilitates Joe weeks before he leaves for his successor to deal with, utter cowardice

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Can anyone help? I have heard that the Scottish Bishops are discussing with the relevant Vatican Depts the possibility of reducing the number of Diocese in future years. Not sure if this means that the current 2 posts won’t be filled. Does anyone know anything? I presume if this is right, it will take years to work through the various Church processes. Maybe Mr McCubbin or some of the Scottish clergy can shed any light. Thanks everyone

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There is so much on this blog about LGBTQ and the Church. Can someone explain how Bishop Byrne allowed the Diocese to openly and regularly have a LGBTQ group meeting in St Andrews Church Newcastle where mass is celebrated once a month for the group on a Tues evening? This church is only a mile from the Cathedral and Gay bar area of the city.

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Bobby Sands MP would be turning in his grave at this lot. He was very friendly with Fr Noel Fitzpatrick, one of the Ballymurphy Massacre victims, that was instrumental in his cause for equality for Catholics and Ireland alike

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Quiet enough on the blog on a Monday!
The holy ones are recovering from their weekend trips to the Priesty saunas.
They’ll be off in their motor homes before we know it.
Park rangers will have plenty to gossip about again during tea break

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Jesus wept!! I think only Cardinals such as the Burke crone are allowed to wear red Cappa Magna, others apparently wear a purple one.
Has McMahon got idea above his station.
Each time I see one of those old farts wearing it I see red, its use was abolished in 1969, I wonder when McMahon wore this one?
I have to say I find it ridiculous, it serves no liturgical purpose, only to show off. I fancy the late Liberace would look flamboyant in that. Is it drag queen by the backdoor, one has to ask?
Instead of impressing, I would cringe seeing one of those silly blokes cavorting down the aisle in one of those, my mind would suddenly drift onto thoughts of very non religious drift

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Pat I hear Vladimir Putin threatened Boris before his resignation. I would not be surprised if Boris is in office again to fight the next election

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is there any reason to believe that ++Eamon would have the bravery or basic moral fibre to stand up for a clerical victim of sexual abuse by his superior, and of continuing ecclesiastical abuse by his own ordinary, Tom Deenihan?

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More importantly for the priests meeting with Archbishop McMahon is to be open, honest and transparent about all issues affecting the Church and priesthood and to be absolutely upfront about all challenges, morally, spiritually and pastorally. All priests and Bishops need to urgently establish a TRUTH Forum to discuss everything, especially relating to all abuse victims and survivors. We can only hope and pray for a positive, constructive new dialogue and way of renewal. I’m sure the Archbishop is aware of Bishop Byrne’s ruinous reign, so let him deal with that himself and try to renew his mission with the Catholic community and that of the priests whom he will meet.

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What on earth is Pollo Kyiv? why would you mix Italian and Ukrainian? Kurka Kyiv is correct. Although I am still using its official name and the name it was known for centuries – The Kiev. It would be like the Welsh or Scottish mandating the use of Cymru or Alba.

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Let’s hope that the priests of H&N turn up and have the balls to tell it as it is / was. So many of them will be still playing the game of calculating the advantage and disadvantage to them from McMahon and incoming administration, such is the personalised, feudal, medieval nature of the relationship between priests, bishop and diocese. Put a foot wrong, say the wrong thing, and the consequences can be significant for you, with no means of redress. So, I doubt if McMahon will get the whole truth. He will get a sifted version, and significant elements will be unsaid in an attempt to protect arses. I’m sure there will be some sort of idiotic canonical threat about excommunication or something like that if anything is revealed about what is said, but I encourage clergy who are there to leak liberally so that McMahon and co know that they can’t keep this all tidy and close and do what the do best – cover up !

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Pat how the hell can Putin get away with supplying the missile to Iran that downed a civilian flight over Ukraine going to Canada. This is unacceptable. Fr Andrei Shevchenko was on the flight, returning to ministry in Winnipeg. RIP Fr Andrei

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How many bishops out there similar to Byrne who have no moral compass whatsoever 🤷‍♀️
What jumped out at me re Byrne, no common sense, no sense of morality, his disdain, his cockiness et al.
Thought of one word which amplified it was his total sheer reckless, speeding headlong into lmdisasters during his reign.
I’m not in a position to judge him cos I don’t have all the facts herein except for this blog.
Thought he should be laciased, given no sense of his morality, no compunction, free for all, is that Oscutt’s characteristic trait 🤷‍♀️

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I hope that safeguarding is also in the line of fire in the investigation as they were incompetent in the whole debacle from day 1 and tried to shift blame by leaking stories to the press and bending the truth when dealing with victims and their families whilst claiming to be victims of the Church themselves!!!! You couldn’t make it up.

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Pat, while you rightly ask that the abuse of a priest be thoroughly investigated and action taken, isn’t it strange that you then abuse a priest in effeminising his name – “fanny” ? And by circling those present, are you not descending to abuse of another kind? I’m confused about your mind at times

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It is appalling that the dreadful Fanny Mullaney is still in situ despite what is known about him. Unfortunately there are a lot more Fanny’s than Mullaney starting at very top

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Disobeying your bishop is wrong in the church but abuse is just fine.
It’s like the church teaches that sex should only be within marriage but really teaches that it’s just fine to be covered up and facilitated if it’s with a child.

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Ask Jimmy Saville to investigate Garry Litter or Boris Johnson to investigate Baroness Mone or Hitler to investigate Oswald Mosley and so on.
Whitewash, Cover Up, Hypocrisy and Old Boys Club.
On the other hand – report to the police – they decide witness is credible, there is a case to answer and prosecution can proceed – different ball game then and Byrne in deep poopy.

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Well!!If that isn’t the funniest scenario I have heard in a while, whoops, of course, it’s the Roman Catholic church and, it’s hierarchy we are talking about here.
Cardinal Ouellet alleged sex abuser (woman) and the sexual abuser complicit enabler Francis, who will decision will make final decision on, another alleged sex abuser (man) Oratorian Bishop’s outcome.
Something is putrid here.
It would appear, “They wolves minding the chicken coop” yet again.

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Does anyone else get tired of all this church stuff? It’s an imaginary universe of their own creation. People are invariably left wondering why they ever bothered with it. “Why stoop so low, to pick up so little” Any secular news to talk about +Pat? We need a break coming up to the festive season.

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Be warned they are following this blog .They believe they know who I am , and are already got a plan of action against me for speaking out .I have been told .I will not be stopped !

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Pat, are you confirming that the alleged victim of the abuse is a priest? If the sexual abuse occured by Bishop Byrne on any person, it must be reported. No equivocation. Can you confirm too if the victim has made himself known to you? What’s going on?

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Well done Pat. Your work has been impressive this year. Armagh’s Ryan McAleer and England’s thugs well caught. You are hot on their trail.

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Many years ago when I lived in Oxford I took a friend to see the Oratory. As we stood there, some clerics passed, and one said to another ” he’s gorgeous “. Sadly, this was aimed at my friend, not me.

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Arnie Schwarzenegger is no longer married into the Roman Catholic Kennedy clan. He’s getting his oats elsewhere these days = less hassles = simples.

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Why did Robert Nugent not address concerns we have about his obsession with young hot men masturbating? He also never went near the accusation by some that he is a closeted homosexual.

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2.26: Robert Nuget has seen through this vicious blog. Why should a man of his moral and spiritual integrity have anything to do with a blog of this kind? Robert is a wise, sensible man not to address crapology about him on this blog. He was denigrated, mocked and ridiculed before when he commented on this thuggish, bullying forum. Robert is a genuinely good guy and this blog has perpetuated the lie about his views on sexuality and about his own sexuality. Disgusting behaviour on this blog. Robert at least leads people to GOD.

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There’s no integrity there. He was going to sort the Thurles seminary suicide but soon caved under pressure from the cult – the cult he supports, of course.

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Just wondering if Henry (Ciaran) O’ Connell has any connection with Byrne. Henry was an Oratory priest and cc Westport…he left the priesthood for gay lifestyle..

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Leopards and Anon 6.20: good to see that others, like myself, are keeping a critical eye on Mr Dildo Dallat through my contacts in Loughinisland, so we regularly share info, usually in O’Tooles. We note his car’s movements, locally, and further afield from friends in Annacloy, Crossgar, Drumaness, Newcastle : yes we keep a close eye on him, …..just waiting. And when the time is right…..!

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Hang on… In the first report on Taylor from BishopAccountability, one sentence says: After the hearing, Father Dennis Tindall, child protection officer for the Hexham and Newcastle Diocese, said: “There may well have been other people who have been harmed by David Taylor, but we don’t have any evidence of that”.
Wasn’t Tindall mentioned in a post earlier this week as one of the priests who was made a canon alongside McCoy in H&N under Byrne? If he’d been in the safeguarding office at some point, surely he would’ve known of the historic allegations against and safeguarding plan for McCoy? How interesting…!!!

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What attracts sexual monsters and homosexuals to the priesthood? I would be mortified if any of my sons came to me and told me they were going off to seminary

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Not just the RCC after all. Papua New Guinea’s foreign minister has quit after a controversy over spending on the country’s official delegation at King Charles III’s coronation.
Justin Tkatchenko travelled with his daughter Savannah, who posted a TikTok showing her first-class plane journey and shopping spree in Singapore.
On Wednesday, he branded her critics “primitive animals”.
Mr Tkatchenko’s comments sparked protests in the capital Port Moresby on Friday outside Parliament House.
Papua New Guinea is a Commonwealth nation in the Pacific which has King Charles as its head of state.
In a statement on Friday, Mr Tkatchenko said he “stood aside” after consulting with Prime Minister James Marape.
He added that he wanted to ensure recent events did not interfere with upcoming official visits by US President Joe Biden and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
“I also want to ensure the truth of this matter is cleared and the misinformation and lies are corrected,” he said.

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Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky is visiting Rome, where he is meeting political leaders ahead of an audience with Pope Francis.

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Let’s hope the pope has the courage to tell him to stop his American back war and to stop persecuting Christians in Ukraine.

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Never forget that the same people who brought you the so-called holy books, which of course they wrote and edited, are the same people who abused countless children sexually and nonsexually, they are the same people who butchered innocent people in the name of God just because those people didn’t share their belief.

how can there be any credibility in an organisation which has used terrorism and other horror as it’s mechanism

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The Ordination to the Priesthood of Deacon Sean Henry by the Rt. Rev. Mark Davies, Bishop of Shrewsbury, will be held at 6.00pm on Friday 7th July at Shrewsbury Cathedral. Why? Is there anything we should know about this clandestine celebration, or even Sean Henry?

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What is so clandestine about it? It is on the Diocesan web site along with 2 other deacons in 2 other churches.
Do you work for the cleansing department and looking for dirt?

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The report said the offending priest’s crimes were against ‘the dignity of priesthood’. I almost wet myself! 😅

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When my depression works the graveyard shift all of the people I’ve ghosted stand there in the room. I should not be left to my own devices.

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Why does HAUSCHILD get more stick on here? No, not because she’s a female. (The feminist card, typical) no it’s because the Diocese was in a bad way before she clip-clopped over to the curial offices but now it is far worse. (I’ve served under 4 bishops and we’ve never experienced anything quite like this!).
They’ve disregarded the Catholic Church and they’re making it up as they go along, with EGAN doing whatever HAUSCHILD thinks up next.
It’s a very sad situation. The bishop who was once all things ‘new evangelisation’ has emptied the church, and this was happening pre-COVID.
We are in suspended animation at the moment and the rot is settling in.
HAUSCHILD’S attempt to control parishes as if they’re hospital wards has caused priests to down tools basically.
The majority of Priests in PORTSMOUTH are now 60+ years, EGAN has 6 years left. We have ridiculous ‘vission’ and the few young Priests we do have are not and will not be able to run a parish, let alone mega sized parishes!
EGAN and HAUSCHILD think there are hundreds of lay folk just waiting for the chance to give up their time to run and organise things, to join committees and teams, to attend formation sessions, but there aren’t. (They’re working to a 1980’s model).
All in all, we need an inspiring leader, not a corrupt liar and his COO.
PLEASE GOD!

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‘there are hundreds of lay folk just waiting for the chance to give up their time to run and organise things,’
Well the clergy of Portsmouth aren’t showing themselves very able or willing are they?
Frightened of work as well as women. 😂

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A helicopter crashed in Russia’s Bryansk region, on the border with Ukraine, injuring one woman. Footage circulating on social media purports to show an S-24 war plane also crashing in the region on Saturday – although the videos have not been verified.

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Donald Trump has confirmed that if he is re-elected he will end the war between Russia and The Ukraine in one day. We’re all ears 👂 👂

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Care of the earth is truly an issue of spirituality and justice and this is a good new story-A green loaf of bread flavoured with matcha, white chocolate and fruit has been crowned the best loaf in Britain. The bread, called Brioche Japonais, was baked in Derbyshire by a woman who started baking as a hobby. Miyo Aoetsu now runs Kuma-San Bakehouse professionally from her home in Matlock, supplying local businesses and baking loaves for customers to collect. Her award-winning loaf was inspired by her Japanese heritage and also her time living in France.

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Bishop Pat, what a strange world we are living in- you’d never have seen this stuff in my day: As a gay person growing up in a small fishing village in Northern Ireland, anxiety was a familiar feeling for Gareth Graham – but it is a feeling that he has overcome since coming out four years ago.
Now 28, he is preparing to enter the spotlight as a contestant in the UK’s first ever gay dating show, I Kissed a Boy, on BBC Three.
Filmed in Italy and hosted by popstar Danni Minogue, the format is 10 single men paired up by producers based on their likes and dislikes.
They meet for the first time with a kiss that will decide whether or not they want to commit.
The ultimate objective, as with most dating shows, is to watch the drama unfold as the contestants try to find love, but Gareth insists this one is more relatable than the others.

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How true! EGAN is building a church in his own likeness, not after the likeness of Christ.
Consequently, the Diocese is dying a slow and painful death. We know numbers are down everywhere, but this is different- PORTSMOUTH numbers are down and we have no hope of picking back up again, which is why we have a bishop who is ready to shut the diocese down rather than build up.

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Oh! that’s just terrible altogether, Ireland should promptly send a delegation of Irish clergy & their lay hierarchy to reconvert them as a matter of urgency. We just cannot have lapsed Catholics in North Korea of all places. The world could come to an end or anything if that’s allowed.

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Imagine a bishop desiring to shut down his diocese. It’s the complete opposite of what he’s supposed to be doing.
EGAN is closing and merging and restructuring whilst the people are walking away in their hundreds.
The priests are bearley going through the motions. They are doing the bear minimum.
The parishes are functioning, but only just. There is no place that is alive and thriving. NOT ONE PARISH!
Why is EGAN so egar to shut up shop?

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Pat, if your investigative work has any truth, this is a sordid story. I cannot fathom why, after all the sexual abuse scandals for the past 30 years or more that a bishop or priest does not realise that the public faithful are scandalized by the behaviour described above. The events as described are a scandal. None of us is totally perfect and I do not approve of a deliberate targeting of any person in a malicious or vindictive manner, but truth is essential and paramount. These revelations are faith shattering

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Byrne offered to be an Assistant Bishop in Westminister, Southwark, Birmingham or Liverpool and was told just pack your bags and go back to the Oratory.
Because there is NO actual case the Holy Father Francis cannot strip him of being a Bishop however he is finished.
Byrne is doing the “poor me” and thinks he has been badly treated by the Papal Nuncio and Rome

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Well done Pat, don’t take your foot off the pedal though, no doubt in my mind there are many more out there that need to be outed. A never ending story, you will never be without fodder for your blog. There appears to be no end to the corruption, lies, double standards, amongst Roman Catholic church clergy.
There was a time where sex and Roman Catholic were never mentioned in the one sentence, now sex and Roman Catholic are synonymous.

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A RC cleric who recognises the reality that the whole RCC is a man made shambolic construction to maintain benefit for its clergy.
RCC origins may well have been a genuine belief in JC, a singularly impressive individual said to fulfill nationalistic aspirations of the then Roman suppressed tribal Jews. Once Emperor Constantine endorsed the legitimacy of Christian aspirations and incorporated them into a Roman power and control framework the stage was set for all the subsequent self serving machinations of the RCC. 2000 years later it lumbers on, but increasingly frail and stumbling from crisis to crisis.
Its “end is nigh!”

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Bishop Dick Emery was supported at his ordination by sniffer Canon Aidan Prescott who left Valladolid and finished his training at Oscott… bed sheets – anyone know the story?

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When Philp first arrived in the Diocese of Portsmouth, the first thing he did was to sack the employed lay members of the department for evangelisation and catechesis, explaining that the Diocese could not afford them.
What they were paid was nothing compared to the hundreds of thousands we spend each year now, employing people who, quite frankly, are not a patch on the originals.
He also dismissed the vicars general who were experienced and knowledgeable. (They may have been a little loosed lipped, but that’s by the by).
To see all the job advertisements week after week, advertising jobs that we really don’t need for £50k+ is an insult to the average Mass-goer.
But where do we go from here? Who can help? If the bishop cannot see the harm he is causing, then what hope do we’ve have?

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Did KOB move to diocese of Newcastle after he had resigned?
They bought a house for him I think somewhere in diocese of Newcastle. He was buried beside his parents grave.
What I didn’t know that he was born in NI.

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Bishop Buckley,
Thank you very much for the hard work you do to expose the crime, double standards and dysfunction at the heart of the church.
And thank you for allowing the clergy to expose their own real attitudes and behaviour here as they are today.
Very revealing indeed, their comments are.

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Clerical celibacy as a discipline lacks all integrity today – a device to cover up homosexuality, child abuse and is by its v nature hypocrisy.

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Listening to Marie Collins on RTE lunch time news would not give any confidence in the ‘integrity’ of the Pope’s commission on abuse which is meeting in Rome this week.

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Outstanding issues involving Bishop Fintan Monahan:
* St. Flannan’s shenanigans.
* Fr Ger Fitzgerald
* Fr Jerry Carry
* Killaloe MIA’s
* Fr Arnie in Shannon
* Alleged Killaloe Diocese Data Protection Breaches involving minors still under investigation.
Feel free to add to the list.
Meanwhile, the Limerick Leader has featured Bishop Monahan in Saturday’s paper under the heading: Bishop of Killaloe is a ‘Confirmed’ fan of Tik Tok.

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Sounds to me as though they are stalling, Pat. I suspect they know you have a strong (perhaps even a compelling) case, but don’t want to concede this too easily. Otherwise, they’d have kicked out your complaint forthwith, and well before now.

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just look at what Bishop Tom Deenihan is doing to Dom Benedict Andersen, look at what Bishop Ray Browne did to Kerry to his own priests yet Rev. Mark Moriarty is being a pampered pooch courtesy of the Kerry mass goers. Bishop Fintan Monahan in Killaloe hunts women broken by his priests in the direction of women’s refuges whilst he spends thousands on the priests who exploited their clerical collar to access these already vulnerable parishioners. That’s just three as an example, there are many others.

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The Fine Gael leader in the Seanad, Senator Regina Doherty, has called on the Cabinet to look again at the Mother and Baby Homes legislation, so that survivors who were in such homes for less than six months can qualify for redress.
Senator Doherty said she had not heard “any logical reason” as to why such survivors should not qualify, adding this left her with the impression that “… it boils down to money, and I really hate that.”
She said excluding such people means they are also excluded from the apology and acknowledgement of their pain and this would “hinder any recovery” and compound their pain.

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Archbishop Eamon Martin will NEVER resign unless asked to by Pope Francis.
Eamon Martin is in Denial and only one way forward in his mind a red berettia.
look how long he is dragging Dromore out and Rome is not amused at his constant delays.

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6:36 None of the overprivileged and self interested brats or their colleagues will jump ship unless they are pushed overboard with a float stuffed with hush money and onward facilitation arrangements, letters of good standing. Eat your heart out Dom. Benedict Andersen, if you’d agreed to keep stum you’d be in the clover, no place for persons of integrity in the RCC.

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Jeepers, I was in Maynooth during the 2000s. I always knew there was stuff going on, but the sheer scale of it is staggering. So many so called ‘orthodox’ guys pretending to be holier than everyone else were actually just a shower of lady boys stuck in a closet abusing each other. Thankfully I never seen or experienced any of that filth. Honestly Pat, what is in someone’s head that makes them continue with a vocation and descend into that level of deceit?

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Clapham Feelers (the gay rugby club of which Dr/Fr Rory Coyle is a member and its chaplain) has made its Facebook page private, presumably to prevent the blog from monitoring Rory’s antics and high jinks.

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Damn I used to enjoy copping on eyeful of the Feeler ladz and The Reverend Dr Rory hanging out with them.

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Evening and night prayer in the college chapel in Maynooth were always sparsely attended on Eurovision night, as all the college homosexuals were sitting in the TV rooms, shrieking and bitching about the performers and their looks and costumes, instead of being at their prayers.

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CLERGY IDhttp://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/world/french-catholic-church-to-provide-clergy-with-scannable-ids-in-bid-to-battle-sexual-abuse/ar-AA1b8Skv?ocid=msedgdhp&pc=U531&cvid=13b31d9f85cf4157a9e123bc9bac416f&ei=22

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@9.51pm My Lord and my God. I so hope that’s not true. I wouldn’t be surprised though and it seems to be the hush hush spineless bishops meeting. No wonder some senior clergy who have the readies are bailing out. Morale, already low, will nosedive.

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I wonder if dioceses in Ireland or Italy, USA, Australia and more would cut their retired clergy off in such a harsh manner? They are facing large abuse legal bills. Who do they punish? Their own retired priests funds. Says it all about the present intake of English Bishops.

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There are a number of English dioceses preparing to abandon their retired clergy funds. This includes Birmingham, Portsmouth, Liverpool, Lancaster, Nottingham and others. It is no longer sustainable post-covid financial hit. It was agreed at a recent bishops conference special zoom meeting. Elsie is saying little like a sleekit. I wonder why? He like other sneaky bishops want to say few words incase they spook their active clergy and more so their retired men. Disgusting.

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Many dioceses are lumping the retired clergy together to save costs, e.g. Salford, where they have rooms in the Cathedral buildings. The days of the diocese buying you a bungalow are over. If you’re fortunate enough to benefit from an inheritance, you’ll be ok. Otherwise, it’s a miserable retirement. You need at least £250,000 in a private pension pot for a modest retirement. You’ll get around £8k assuming all your stamps are paid from the state and a £250k pension pot around £14k a year, so £22k a year which isn’t much if you have to house yourself and pay bills. Younger priests need to start saving now or persuade their parents to pass on the pensions IHT free.

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10:25 well heeled benefactors occasionally supply bungalows for “extracurricular services rendered”.

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Elsie with the help of that nasty welfare nun has lumped/forced his retired clergy into presbyteries for over 8 years now to save cash. It’s a miserable existence for the retired especially if they have a hostile PP which is most often the case in Westminster. Horrible

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Some dioceses have been left big legacies specifically for the retired and sick priests. Nothing to do with their separate post Covid low income.

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