Day: Oct 16, 2023

15 misguided and probably vulnerable young men entered the disgraced Maynooth seminary this year.

In the 50s and 60s, that number would have been 100.

When I entered Clonliffe in Dublin in September 1970 there was over 120 of us just for one diocese – Dublin.

At the same time there were loads of seminarians in all the other seminaries of the time – All Hallows, Dublin, St John’s Waterford, St Kieran’s Kilkenny, St Patrick’s Thurles, St Peter’s Wexford, St Patrick”s Carlow and indeed The Wing in Belfast.

For years now, clonliffe, all Hallows, Waterford, Kilkenny, Thurles, Carlow, Wexford, Belfast are all closed.

And all the one surviving seminary can manage is 15 – not even one for each of the 26 dioceses.

How many of those 15 will reach ordination?

How many of those ordained will stay 5 years?

How many of the 15 are active homosexuals?

How many of the 15 have been homosexually seduced since entering?

PRIESTHOOD IS A DYING AND GAY JOB

The RCC priesthood is a dying way of life.

It is now being embraced by younger and older gay men looking for a place to hide that will also give them an easy life, a roof over their heads, a little status among a decreasing population of oldies etc.

The global reputation of the RCC is in tatters for child abuse, homosexual abuse, nun abuse, and every other abuse.

Most priests in Ireland do not wear a clerical collar in public now for fear of being called a “paedophile and a pervert.”

Those bishops and vocation directors sending young men to seminaries nowadays are being highly irresponsible and abusive.

They are sending them into hotbeds of promiscuous homosexuality.

They are sending them into battle after the war has been lost.

They are setting them up for failure, abuse, and public ridicule.

The priesthood as it has been and is is finished.

Ask any honest priest over 40!

In spite of what Irish bishops and others are saying – there is no shortage of priests to celebrate Funerals.

Instead, the problem is that the priests we have are doing things that priests are not required to do!

I’m talking about:

A. Priests doing desk jobs in bishops houses and elsewhere when those jobs can be perfectly done by competent lay people – leaving Priests to do what they were ordained to do.

B. Priests teaching in schools and holding down school teaching and admin jobs that can be done by others.

C. Priests teaching in universities and colleges when lay lectures can do those jobs.

D. Priests running charities, youth clubs etc full time instead of being in pastoral situations.

E. Priests in parishes running the finances, running primary and secondary schools when lay accountants and administrators can do all this.

Priests were ordained to preach the Word of God, celebrate Mass and the Sacraments and lead people in holiness and spirituality.

When priests are NOT doing what they should be doing they are NEGLECTING their PRIMARY VOCATION.

FUNERALS are a vital part of a priest’s vocation. Only he can celebrate the Funeral Mass and deceased Catholics are ENTITLED to a Funeral Mass.

At the time of a death it is the priests’ PRIMARY CALL to confort the deceased’s family and friends with the Word of God.

AND BISHOPS!

It priests in a diocese are under pressure with Funeral Masses, let the 30 + active and retired bishops in Ireland step forward and share the Funeral Mass load with the priests.

There is no reason why every bishop cannot celebrate a Funeral Mass a day.

I know that a lot of priests and bishops sit around presbyteries and bishop’s houses for hours everyday.

Ireland is NOT yet at the point where a deceased Catholic cannot have a Funeral Mass!