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SILVERSTREAM – AN UPDATE.

Dear Bishop Tom,

It has been a little bit of time since the Bishop at Larne sent an e-mail asking some questions of the Ordinary of Meath about Silverstream Priory; however, good things come to those who wait.

Recently, it was brought to my attention that in the 2023 edition of the Irish Catholic Directory, none of the priests of Silverstream Priory are listed as clerics of the Diocese of Meath. The only cleric mentioned is the current superior Fr Basil MacCabe who is on loan from a French Abbey, and I am led to understand that is a priest of the Archdiocese of Dijon, due to the somewhat novel arrangement between Abbey of Saint-Joseph de Clairval and the Archdiocese of Dijon.

Who in canon law is responsible for the increase of Silverstream Priory?

It is, of course, you Bishop Deenihan because you are the Ordinary of the diocese! I am reliably informed that a monastery sui juris of diocesan right is unable to incardinate clerics. I am further reliably informed that you have actively dealt with jurisdictional matters concerning the Priory.

Why is the Diocese of Meath obsessed about refusing to acknowledge its canonical and juridical responsibilities for the clerics of Silverstream Priory? What are you hiding?

Why are you so afraid of taking responsibility for the clerics of Silverstream Priory?

Are you concerned about potential liabilities emanating from for the notorious past acts of Fr Mark Daniel Kirby the disgraced founder of Silverstream Priory?

Do you deny that your predecessor Bishop Michael Smith incardinated by Decree Fr Kirby into the Diocese of Meath.

Speaking of Fr Kirby, where is he at the moment? Is he still in the Netherlands with the nuns? If so — is he there with your written permission?

I am sure readers of my blog will be delighted to see that you were attending the scandal-ridden Silverstream Priory for the first profession of vows of Columba Ryan. Were you hoping that your presence would ameliorate some of the scandal? It is a massive vote of confidence.

IS TOM D PUTTING ON THE WEIGHT AFTER ALL THESE CELEBRATIONS ?

However, it would have been better if you had stayed away.

I am delighted to see that Elijah “porn again” Carroll is still a member of the community.

Are you planning to ordain him a Deacon any time soon? If so, I am sure the people of God in the Diocese of Meath might want to be apprised and they might not be too happy.

Looking at some of the photographs, some of the older members of the community look stressed and haggard and the naïveté and zealotry of the younger members is very much in evidence.

I look forward to receiving your reply about responsibility for the clerics of Silverstream, soon.

With an assurance of prayers in this grace-filled season of Easter

+ Pat

134 replies on “SILVERSTREAM – AN UPDATE.”

Also of interest is that Dom Basil Mary (presumably the shorter monk) is wearing a black cowl (the garment symbolic of monastic profession).
At St Joseph de Clairval the monks wear a black habit but a white cowl (https://www.newliturgicalmovement.org/2010/04/abbaye-saint-joseph-de-clairval.html?m=1#.ZGQDpobTWv4) which means that for a stay as superior supposedly for a year they’ve gone to the not inconsiderable expense of running him up a cowl which is unlikely to fit anyone else when he returns.
It’s also unlikely they had an old one lying around from anyone who’s left.
I think the business of appointing Basil prior is part of Silverstream being taken on by Clairval and Dom Basil will stay there.

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The RC is a very tight knit loving family. Some who “know” might describe it as incesteous.

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‘Naïveté and zealotry of the younger members is very much in evidence..’ suggests +Pat you are fairly fixed in your hostility to Silverstream. A man joining a monastery needs zeal. Calling it zealotry gives this interior drive, this perseverance, needlessly negative connotations. A prior suggestion was they offer the New Mass in English, not even a Latin New Mass as oft happens in religious houses, suggests its biggest offence for you +Pat is the use of the 1962 missal, not the wrongdoing of its former Prior and co-founder (with the now exiled Dom Andersen) which incidentally didn’t rise to the level of something meriting prosecution.
You yourself have posted posted examples of far worse, places that were steeped in authoritarianism and sexual perversion by their very design, like those many religious operated places of detention and slavery or schools that basically institutionalised pedastry. Silverstream should restore Dom Benedict Andersen immediately, obviously. You unfortunately seem to strongly support the bullying attitude of the Vatican towards the 1962 missal, an attitude which means a closed, closing or even deconsecrated church or monastery is preferable to one offering what’s usually, if a bit misleadingly, called the Latin Mass. Instead of the subtle and balanced attitude of the late Pope Benedict, an attitude far closer to Sacrosanctum Concilium, calling as it did for Latin to retain primacy, which built on Veterum Sapientia of St John XXIII, some social media head the balls provide a pretext for nasty bullying that prefers to destroy rather than build. There needs to be some basic reality. Catholicism has been destroyed in Europe by the ‘spirit of V2’ which is not V2, but a weird presentism rooted in obsolete philosophies of the 1960s, that sees everything before the present orthodoxy as utterly flawed. Perhaps Silverstream should be encouraged towards offering both the 1962 missal and a conventual form of the New Mass, that is, using Latin and plainchant. Some Dominican houses do both even for public Masses. The way forward has to be blended and flexible.
Peace.

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@ 12:17
“Silverstream should restore Dom Benedict Andersen immediately, obviously.”
Why is Dom Benedict’s restoration to Silverstream Priory not obviously seem by others, including Fr. Tom D, Silverstream Priory and ‘SWAT’ team, Coffey, Purcell and Dunllea who initially investigated the matter?

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Two words, 7:15: “Pat Buckley”. Two more words: “The Pillar”. That’s why Benedict Andersen must be suppressed. He violated the most basic unwritten rule of Catholic clerical life, omertà. Snitches get stitches.

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7:43
What do you mean? So someone thinks Nazism is right because they do like Wagner? And why the association of Nazism, Wagner, and Silverstream Priory? Are you suggesting Silverstream is directed by Hitler, Himmler and Goebbel likes, matching to Wagner’s Rienzi or some Wagnerian anthem.

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Portly best describes Tom. He has put on a few pounds from fine
wining and dining. An exercise bike might be an investment.

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Blackpool Cork City, boy? Salt of the earth in Blackpool Cork City, boy, but not exactly cuisine capital of the Real Republic. Go further west to Kinsale, boy.

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Reverend Father Philip Mulryne who recently told the Daily Mirror newspaper that he got bored of money and the attention of women when he was a £600k a year footballer at the height of his career. Ordained for Dominican Order in 2017.

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Take the risk for Christ but never blow the whistle no matter what even if it entails doing the work of the Devil.

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What is the Diocese of Meath and Fr. Tom D hiding? Do members of Silverstream Priory know why whistle blower Dom Benedict Andersen was scapegoated? Do monks of Silverstream know why Fr. Mark Kirby is not living at Silverstream Priory? Are members of Silverstream Priory afraid to speak to power or speak the truth in love? You cannot serve two masters. God is not speaking through Fr. Tom D or Fr. Paul Connell or Fr. Richard Purcell.

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+Pat, some interesting and intelligent commentary on Silverstream at 7.30 am this morning. You are right to be continuously highlighting who is ultimately responsible for the peace of Silverstream Priory. And we all know that the buck stops with +Tom.

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@ Pat 7:34 am

I wonder if the issue of Dom Benedict Anderson receiving justice warrants all that is printed in the blog in relation to Silverstream.

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To be clear, I think that occasionally turning the spotlight on Silverstream is important. There were, and possibly still are some shady things going on there.

However there are things said in connection with Silverstream that feel hectoring and unchristian. For instance, the blog’s apparent inability to refer to Elijah without calling him Porn Again Elijah.

When is Bro Elijah, or whatever his title is, ever going to be allowed to forget this lapse in judgement? Constantly referring to his past ‘sins’ is not Christian nor is it kind.

A man should be permitted to forget his past failings and not have them regularly brought into the light again, especially when bringing them into the light again appears to serve no other purposes than to titillate readers, embarrass a man and his community and certainly does nothing to gain justice for Dom Anderson.

How did Bro Elijah’s porn addiction get into the public domain? What was the source? This could only have come from an insider. Was it Dom Anderson who gave you this information and if so could Dom Anderson stand over its constant use to pillory a man whom he once called a brother? Does he feel that the blogs attempt to seek justice on his behalf warrants the singling out this unfortunate man in such a manner. That’s not just.

I do not know Elijah, he might be an unrepentant porn addicted man on the other hand he might be completely repentant. Who are we to judge?
What I do know is that if it were me, I’d be crushed and humiliated if I was to be aware that my name regularly appeared on this blog. Once again, I have to concede that I don’t know how Elijah might feel about his name on the blog. He might be totally unrepentant and laugh it off. Either way, we don’t know. But I would ask for a bit of Christian charity and request that if you need to mention him at all your might do so without the porn again title.

I, honestly believe that sometimes this blog forgets that the men ( it’s usually men) are human beings. Sure, call-out their hypocrisy but please don’t claim that you are acting in a Christian manner when you ridicule, humiliate and mock in the name of attaining justice for Dom Anderson or anyone else.

And just to head off the “hello Elijah comments, this is NOT ELIJAH

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Kirby made Elijah’s porn addiction known to the whole community and to certain wealthy female visitors.

Elijah was only allowed access to the monastery computer in a room with an open door. The whole community was charged with watching him.

It was / is part of the homoeroticism that pervades Silverstream.

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7.34: Utter nonsense. His life is not your real focus, rather your hostility and nastiness against the Minks, Bishop Deenihan and the many whom you hate. Thank God for the Minks who are on a renewed, inner pathway of Godliness and deep commitment to Benedictine spirituality.Par, you could learn from the struggles and challenges of these MONKS. Your obsession with the Minks is deeply sinful. They surpass your “spirituality” any time. Go and spend some time with them without your bigotry, hatred and prejudice. GO..PRAY..REFLECT…and BE RENEWED IN CHRIST.

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But Pat, calling him Porn Again Elijah doesn’t allow him to become “Born Again”. We all have the ability to change. When I was younger I regularly watched porn, but that is no longer the case. I was able to wean myself off it.
You just seem to keep on with a person’s past sins. There seems no opportunity to change and grow in your eyes.
Thank God I don’t have you banging on about my past sins (that are in the past). I’ve been reminded of the poem If a child…
If a child lives with criticism, he learns to condemn.
If a child lives with hostility, he learns to fight.
If a child lives with ridicule, he learns to be shy.
If a child lives with shame, he learns to feel guilty.
If a child lives with tolerance, he learns to be patient.
If a child lives with encouragement, he learns confidence.
If a child lives with praise, he learns to appreciate.
If a child lives with fairness, he learns justice.
If a child lives with security, he learns to have faith.
If a child lives with approval, he learns to like himself.
If a child lives with acceptance and friendship, he learns to find love in the world.
How was your childhood/early adult life?

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Imagine it, a world in which Rose West can live her life and have everyone forget what she did.
Surely she must be repentant and can be trusted not to do it again by now. /Sarc
Actually what’s most interesting to me in the Elijah thing is the way the whole community and others knew about his little problem. I can’t believe that the motivation for this humiliation wasn’t sexual. This is, in my opinion, the reason this should be known because it shows the real rottenness at the heart of Silverstream: a monk being utterly humiliated rather than have his problem dealt with.
So actually he should be Humiliated Again by the Prior who Hears Voices from the Tabernacle Elijah.

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7:34 the presence of the Irish Bishops at this and other controversial events confirms their proactive support of the various levels of abuse, corruption and criminality that are ongoing on the Irish clerical scene in Ireland.

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I agree with the post at 7.45.
You’ve asked, Pat, on more than one occasion, that blog readers, while praising your virtues, remember also that you are a sinner with many failings. Which is fair enough. Do you not think, then, that the commenter at 7.45, has a point? (Which, incidentally, you failed to address.)
Do you refer to Elijah as ‘Porn Again’ because he wilfully refuses to give up viewing such media (and how do you know?), or because you enjoy taking the piss out of him?
You’re a Christian priest, Pat. Answer honestly. And if it is because you enjoy taking the piss out of him, admit it, and repent. It won’t make you look weak; just human, like Elijah.

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I love it when 9:24’s rage makes him go off on one to such an extent that his rage posting causes wonderful spelling mistakes.
Anyone would think to read his comment that Elijah wasn’t one of the, er, minks.

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9:28
How old is Bro. Elijah?
Do we know in what context Fr. Mark Kirby learnt of Bro. Elijah’s problem?

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2:26 minks, of course, all fur coat and no knickers from the padres & cohorts that don’t practice what they preach.

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Martin Long told NCR in an email. “It is usual for a monastery to have a visitation at least every four years and, earlier this year, Silverstream had its first visitation as a Diocesan Institute of Consecrated Life.”
Who was Martin Long codding with his claim that the Silverstream visitation was just routine? Who assigned Purcell to the visitation? Were Dom Mark Kirby and Dom Benedict Andersen both incardinated into the Diocese of Meath? What lengths have Deenihan and Connell gone to to protect Purcell? Why is Purcell being protected and Andersen being punished?
Was the Silverstream visitation just a coincidence? Is Connell’s reward of a mitre after the scandal also a coincidence?
There is no smoke without fire. There is no hypocrisy without scandal.
Deenihan wants to get Silverstream off his hands and has his eyes on Cashel & Emly. Connell’s mitre suggests that Deenihan will also be rewarded. He probably has two to three years to have Silverstream standing on its own two feet as a “respectable” monastery.

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Seamusvii at 7.41am
Dog with a bone especially O Connell and Silverstream but I understand where you are coming from.
O Connell is bit like to Byrne of H AND N cos love of fine wines and eating out with rich foods.
He’s like a china in a bullshop. It would be fun to watch it 🤣

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Why is Deenihan going to such great lengths to protect Purcell?
Where is Mark Kirby? Why is Purcell back in Mount Melleray Abbey
as if nothing happened? Do these people think they live in a bubble?
Have they no shame?

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2:07 Purcell has them all by the short and curlies. He recorded “everything”.
If Rawhide goes down, he’s taking all the movers and shakers with him.

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@ 10:17 pm
What do you mean ‘recorded everything’? Recorded what? In what context?

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Seamusvii at 7.41am

Deenihan came across as very ambitious one, possibly a careerist. He would go an extra mile and nuke any prospective candidates in order to get that prize which is an Archbishopric role in Cashel or Armagh or Dublin.

He thrived on publicity/attention such as Aisling Murphy funeral.

Martin long is gone as he was pravda spokesperson for am outfit who specialises in denying crimes, OMERTA, 💰, problem with celibacy, back stabbing or gossiping which could be vicious at times.

We didn’t know RP was doing his double lives until much later. RP wasn’t protected at that time until he was exposed much later on this blog.

Its the quiet ones such as Gearoid Dullea now PP of ballinlough parish who could be potentially a candidate for Bishop job cos he covers his tracks so well. That’s why he’s the invisible one cos nobody was talking about him nor was O Connell.

Its important to inform the investors who put their money into that pet project of DM Kirby, think it was a director’s wife in paddy power re goings on etc. It would be advisable to inform her if necessary.

Knock bookshop had kirby book as top of their list, no 1 as if you look inside that shop.

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12:34
DG, are bishops glorified kingpins in their ecclesiastical fiefdoms who can do whatever they like, unaccountable to no one, not even Rome? It seems to be the case.

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Seamus viii at 1.11pm
Yes it’s a blatant sheer hypocrisy and arrogance on their part. It would take a scandal to bring them (TD, kirby, o Connell) down.
Can’t rem o Connell was involved, could you enlighten me on this cos I thought it was RP, Dullea and Coffey was involved 🤷‍♀️.
Their treatment of Anderson was nothing short of downright descipable cos it was pure retaliation for being a whistle blower. Perps corner was a disgusting piece of work by TD cos he’s a Bishop who approved it. He didn’t go an extra mile to protect the innocent ones.
The impression that I got was once anyone who became a priest, then they get compromised. It applies to Dom anderson who would say no to bishops who were in comprised positions.

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Why is Philip Mulryne there? How do him and Martin Graham know each other? Why was he up staying in the parochial house for a few days with him?

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I was wondering that, too, 9.16. All that rugged masculinity associated with Phonsie, and his away-days with the boys out in the wilds. All very ‘Lord of the Flies’, if you know what I mean.

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The shame back then, of a footballer being a gay! Better conforming and then being with the one you have always loved, I always wondered what Fr Graham liked about football, I now know.

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Fr Martin Graham was involved in the burial plot controversy at Milltown Cemetery where locals alleged that “new” plots that already had human remains in them were being sold.
North Belfast Pensioner Veronica Ewing was horrified when she was told the plot would not be allocated until she was dead. Veronica had already paid £3,000 for the plot. She complained that there was no plot number on the lease.
Veronica and her friend Margaret Fox who also had a run in with Milltown Cemetery eventually got a refund.

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Marty Graham 🤔 That’s the guy who loves to waltz around in a biretta, isn’t it?! 😁

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Hi all. 16 comments so far. Perhaps the day is long. I wonder if anyone gives a sh*te anymore. Perhaps they could release a new version of the Smokey song living next door to Jesus. Jesus seems to be lost in a war of words politics and superstition Maybe we could learn or relearn a little from our Muslim brothers and sisters

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Anyone with any moral sense has already left the cult because of revulsion at its behaviour, so in fact nobody who remains does care.
But then they’re the ones who never did or will.

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9.22
Of course if that were true it wouldn’t mean that all who had left the church had any moral sense, logically.

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HOW-HI FLY
Top of the morin’ hi fly. How’s it going aul stock.
Begorra hi what in tarnation is going on at all at all.
Does anyone give a caca is a fair question.
Yes and no fly depending on yer point of view.
Jesus seems lost but those who know know
Could our leaders organise a prayer in a Mosque?
As The Kinks once sang, we’re all ‘Gods Children’.
Have a wonderful day, Fly Hi.

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8am Maybe the greedy Irish clerics are finally out doing what they’re meant to be doing, they profess on ordination to go in “Service of Others”. Perhaps they’ve all hired a bunch of mini buses and headed to Killaloe to negotiate a peaceful resolution to the asylum accommodation issue going on near Ennis town. Maybe RC own empty urban properties where these men could at least walk to a local shop for a pint of milk and find a job within walking distance of their accommodation.

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Very true 9.53. Lot’s of empty presbyteries around Clare.. kilnamona, Tubber, Crusheen, Cooraclare, Doonbeg are just a few. Not to mention St. Flannans College with a whole empty boarding school full of empty beds. But for +fintan it’s all about cash.. Nothing of the spirit of Pope francis has rubbed off him..

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Get a grip, they too busy playing tennis in Ennis. 🎾 🏸

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Pat @ 8:54 am
You’ve said these things before but I’d prefer you address the content of the post rather than regurgitate the same old lines.

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I admire your efforts to question the situation at Silverstream and to highlight the oddities that go on there. However, I doubt if you will get any reply or any satisfaction from either Silverstream or Deenihan. I think they have longed worked out that they can just brazen it out, because they and nobody else is going to address the issues and concerns you raise. And, nobody else will either, not in Ireland nor in Rome. That’s just indicative of the arrogance of the RCC and its bishops and clergy. They know they can get away with things. Unless there is a legal, criminal or police element to it, and leverage can be brought there. But, it seems to me that there is little more that you can do to put pressure on Silverstream et al and see some movement. I think we just have to wait until the whole thing implodes of its own accord. Thats’s not defeatism, it’s just realism.

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The ‘whole thing’ will never implode. That kind of thing never does, as history shows, without a little push ‘n’ shove from outsiders.
Keep at it, Pat.

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9:06
Is it an RCC personnel matter? CSA is another RCC personnel matter, is it not? Look at the fallout from CSA cover-ups. Ongoing…..

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Tom Deenihan has alot to answer for when he was in Hull. He is carrying lots of extra weight Pat, probably stress eating because you are calling a spade a spade when it comes to his blinkered eyes.

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Silverstream is just f****d up place set up by and funded by American trads. I am amazed that somebody as liberal as Deenihan continues to tolerate Silverstream in his diocese. Deenihan has no affinity with the Old Rite. To the best of my knowledge he does not celebrate the liturgy in that manner.
The question of Elijah’s porn addiction is relevant if he is ever going to be ordained a priest. But you could be kinder +Pat.
A struggle with pornography is something you confess in a sacramental setting and not divulge to the whole community unless Elijah is woke and desperate for attention.
If Elijah told Kirby about his struggle in confession and if that is how Elijah’s difficulty came into the public domain it is possible that Kirby directly/indirectly violated the sacramental seal and that is very serious.

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How a community as problematic as Silverstream can continue to carry on as it does in the age of Traditiones Custodes is beyond me. Why Deenihan, Coffey, Purcell and Co. would come together to try to save it is beyond bizarre … unless somehow exonerating Kirby is important to them for another reason. 💅

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9.24
Do you mean T. Deenihan is theologically liberal? Is he aware there is such a thing as a theological spectrum?

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Pat, give up the ghost and stop the haunting mate. The best sex I ever had was when I was in formation with a fellow monk in monastery, wish I could turn back time

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11:06- No respect for the young, their elders, the old, women, colleagues and even their mammy’s. What a bunch.

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Anonymoussays:
May 16, 2023 at 7:39 pm
@ 2:00pm
It will indeed be interesting no doubt he’ll have plenty of bad-mouthing to say about his brother clergy and wont be worried about them doing it to his Mammy.
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Is above post peculiar or strange?? Yesterdays blog: Egan-‘You Will
Become The Bishops Man’. I thought it strange- has poster possible psychopathic or antisocial personality disorder tendencies??

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9:53
They seem to be very creepy. It’s like a cottage industry where they continuously look for money from gullible supporters.
They are still selling Mark Kirby’s book ‘In Sinu Jesu’!
He is not some kind of victim soul.
His victimhood is entirely of his own making.

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1:53 it’s a cottage industry allright in every sense of the word!

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I appreciate that I am getting on a bit and bordering on the geriatric. I simply don’t see any monks looking stressed or haggard in the photographs. Perhaps I need to get to Specsavers.

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Is Fr Phil Mulryne poking his tongue at the camera or at Bishop Tom? Goodness, can one not take these guys anywhere!

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All those costumes. All that dressing up. All that peacockery. One is instantly reminded of the Nazarene, since he always thought that appearance mattered most of all.
“Verily, I say unto you when you go out into the world take at least half a dozen tunics, and as many staffs as won’t burden an ass to the ground, because appearance matters, and is, indeed, everything. Looking the part is more important than being the part.
“And be sure that your tunics are cut from the finest cloth, and of many colours too, so that some can be worn in the morning, some at midday, and some for evening attire at dinner in the best houses.
“And be sure to bring with you many pairs of sandals, since all that shaking off dust from them in righteous judgement of others will wear them out the quicker.
“Last but not least, bring with you the deepest of purses, and collect mammon where you will, for it is, verily, money that makes the world go round, at least for my disciples. This is how the world will know that you are mine, and that I am in the world and of the world, as you all are. And the world will then know that you all ‘get it’, as I ‘get it’. “

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Ha ha They remind me, their appearance, of that 1980s film based on Umberto Eco’s novel, ‘The Name of the Rose’. I remember my dad’s reaction on first seeing the assortment of Benedictine monks in it: ‘That’ s vile! ‘🤣 They were all so hideous.

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TD has given his MASSIVE endorsement of approval to silverstream….mark kirby pet project.
Is it 💰💰right?

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It’s hilarious that any of you would make out that a monk surfing porn online to the extent that the prior stops him accessing the internet unless the door is open, can be described as a lapse of judgement which could be forgotten.
What is being described is an ongoing, repeat behaviour.
Also, porn and masturbation are not single events. What planet do you people live on? You should just look at your own porn and masturbation histories to know that the behaviour is
1. Uses porn and masturbates
2. Gets Catholic guilt
3. Confesses
4. Resolves never to do it again and the history is conveniently forgotten
5. Gets horny
6. Repeat from 1.

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2.21, not sure what that means, but, if it’s ‘take all the ridicule and abuse you get for your “crime” as thoroughly deserved”, then that’s fine. Just don’t call it Christian, and that’ ll be fine, too.

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1:14 Hope you washed your hands before typing this on the community computer, Dom. 😳

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1:53, not only do Silverstream still sell the book of Kitty Kirby’s insane tabernacle chats (imprimatur by the previous Bishop of Meath), but the Irish Catholic Directory for 2023 lists Kirby’s personal blog as still being an official website of the community. Sick, sick, sick. 🤮

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Catholic obsession with Masturbation is so passé and tedious – the human person is hyper sexual and stimulated by variety which in turn increases the secretion of oxytocin and endorphins – every human being has masturbated and does masturbate – from peasant to pope, from king to pauper.
The error isn’t repeat masturbation (for everyone masturbates) but the faux confession of something which isn’t sinful but entirely natural and harmless – except within a Catholic milieu (following Aquinas) Onanism is judged more incriminating than incest or bestiality which is clearly just poppy cock and fallacious.
Once a persons masturbatory habits are in the public not private domain the poor bastard is screwed and subject to opprobrium and ridicule whereas in truth masturbation is like sneezing or enjoying an extra scoop of ice cream.
Catholic moral theology needs to grow up and mature especially regarding masturbation (one of lives natural pleasures) and anal sex, infinitely more pleasurable than vaginal and as natural as the air we breathe.

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Seriously what personal dysfunction compels a man to be a monk today?

The photograph depicts a gaggle of dysfunctional and pitiful males who are v likely unemployable and in need of a mental health evaluation – the dregs not the best.

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It’s pure escapism. From a reality in which they felt inadequate and could not cope into a make-believe world in which suddenly … and perhaps for the very first time … they feel important, even superior, in service of a god who could have allowed them to feel this way in the real world, but apparently chose not to.
Makes sense. 😕

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If I were a priest of Ardagh & Clonmacnoise I’d be marking P. Connell’s card. Imprudent of him to have accompanied Deenihan there.

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Can anyone think of a good collective noun for a gathering of parasites, such as the one (above) at Silverstream? Now don’t be cute by stating the obvious ‘a colony of …’ Be creative.

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To paraphrase Oscar Wilde a man who moralises about masturbation is invariably a hypocrite and rather plain.

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