WHO WILL REPLACE DM IN DUBLIN?

DM WITH GORGEOUS

The Vatican and the Irish papal nuncio have begun to plan for Diarmuid Martin's retirement and to finding his replacement.

As part of this, they will go through the motions of consulting the Dublin clergy. However, we all know that this is only ticking a box. The opinions and desires of the Dublin priests will not matter a jot to Rome.

They will ask Dermo what he thinks too. But Dermo will have no veto. Although it is said that he has a personal favorite in Bishop Paul Tighe - a Dublin priest who works in the Vatican. Dermo has been pushing his name forward with his contacts in Rome. Tighe is an expert on media and communications. Does Dublin really need another media and PR man? Surely not? Dublin needs a real pastor who will work at restoring the morale of its priests which sank to an all-time low under DM.

Or will Rome promote one of the current Irish bishops to Dublin? \sadly the current Irish bishops are a sad lot.

You have Doran (a former Dublin priest) in Sligo who distinguished himself during the same-sex marriage debate by comparing homosexuality to Downs Syndrome! The Sligo people I talk to regard him as a bearded irrelevancy. 

KEVIN "GAY = DOWNS SYNDROME" DORAN

You have Ous Dei minded Phonsie in Waterford who distinguished himself recently by making a fool of himself over the cervical cancer vaccine.

PNONSIE "NO VACCINES" CULLINAN

You have Noel Treanor in Down and Connor who fought with Ian Elliott of the child protection body and who renovated his palace at an undisclosed cost of between 1 and 4 million.

NOEL "NEVER AT HOME" TREANOR

You have Ray Brown in Kerry who is still sheltering King Puck at his cathedral in Killarney.

RAY " FREE KING PUCK" BROWNE

You have "ONE OF THE LADS" "CALL ME DENNIS" Nulty from Kildare and Leighlin.

DENIS "THE LAD" NULTY

You have Fintan "Lugs" Monahan in Killaloe who caused major controversy by imposing a priest as principal on his diocesan secondary college.

FINTAN "LUGS" MONAHAN

You have McKeown in Derry who gave off about wedding receptions at Knock recently and who has resorted to the old tack of shifting problem priests from parish to parish - not to mention all his "disappeared" priests.  

DONAL "HYGIENE" MC KEOWN

You have poor Amy in Armagh who has presided over the Rory Coyle and Eamon McCamley indecent exposure issues and who is getting to the point of having more priests in sex clinics in America than he has in many parishes - not to mention having priest's daughters speak at their father's funerals.

AMY "ME MAMMY" MARTIN

I'm afraid that Rome has not too many bishops worth thinking about shifting to Dublin. Although they could send Leahy of Limerick (a former Dublin priest). Having said that he has not exactly set "Stab City" on fire with his ministry.

For an organization with such a long history and with so many resources at its disposal, the Roman Catholic Church has not produced too many good leaders! Is that any wonder when they were  "formed" them in places like Gaynooth?

Of course, in every race there are the dark horses:

- The bearded Jesuit late of Raphoe?

- Some relatively unknown monsignor or priest from the Curia.

- A religious order man - JC McQuaid was a Holy Ghost when appointed in 1940. Of course, he had the backing of his friend Eamon De Valera.

- A really dark horse - a priest of Dublin diocese?

We can be quite certain of one thing. Whoever is appointed will be a "yes" man and a safe pair of hands.

He will be irrelevant in 21 st Century Ireland who has called TIME on the Catholic Church and its influence.

He will be an uninteresting little "Napoleon" who will lead his decreasing number of  "marche a terre" (foot sloggers) towards their Waterloo.

THE OPUS DEI CULT

Opus Dei's Questionable Practices

The following practices of Opus Dei are not common knowledge and need to be examined and questioned. The serious issues ODAN raises are based on a collection of first-hand personal experiences.

• Corporal mortification
• Aggressive recruitment / undue pressure to join
• Lack of informed consent and control of environment
• Alienation from families

Corporal Mortification

Corporal mortification (self-inflicted pain and deprivation) is perhaps the most shocking practice. See the corporal mortification web page for more details.

Aggressive Recruitment

 “University residences, universities, publishing houses. . . are these ends? No, and what is the end? . . . to promote in the world the greatest possible number of souls dedicated to God in Opus Dei…”(Founder of Opus Dei, Cronica, v, 1963)

Within Opus Dei, a heavy emphasis is placed on getting individuals to commit their lives to Opus Dei. Members' pursuit of potential members is aggressive and similar to the tactics used by totalistic groups. Because of this, ODAN believes the group violates the personal freedom of individuals.

• Opus Dei has a highly structured apostolate. Opus Dei members form "teams" and develop strategies to attract new members. For example, if the potential recruit is an avid skiier, then the numeraries may plan a weekend ski trip, when the "numerary friend" is pressured to tell the recruit that she may have a vocation, after which the numerary must report back to the Director. If the recruit is receptive, then the Director may talk more in depth about the vocation. They discuss "promising recruits" at their daily get-togethers (for members only) and during spiritual direction with Opus Dei priests and lay members. Opus Dei members often know which recruits are closest to joining, even if the person is hundreds of miles away.  
• Opus Dei members are typically taught to always have twelve to fifteen "friends," with at least three or four who are very close to joining. This leads to the utilization of friendship as "bait." Far too often, Opus Dei members drop friendships with those who are unlikely to join Opus Dei.
• Opus Dei members are required to report regularly to their lay Spiritual Directors on the progress of their personal recruiting. They also fill out statistics on their "friends," which may include the following: number of apostolic visits made; Opus Dei meditations attended; Opus Dei retreats made; confessions with an Opus Dei priest, etc. How does Opus Dei use this information? Why is it necessary? The recruits do not know they are being discussed and targeted in this way, a violation of their freedom and privacy.
• Opus Dei members befriend and cultivate young idealistic individuals through front groups at universities and schools and/or through affiliation with groups like Right to Life, young adult Catholic groups and St. Thomas More Societies. Some groups are completely Opus Dei-run and exist primarily for the purpose of attracting potential Opus Dei members. The groups' affiliation with Opus Dei is typically not immediately recognizable nor initially disclosed. An example of an Opus Dei "front group" is UNIV, an international convention of college students that is used by Opus Dei to attract "select" individuals who could potentially become members, particularly by participating in a yearly trip to Rome during Easter week when unsuspecting participants are aggressively pursued to make a commitment to Opus Dei while in Rome at the Opus Dei headquarters. These statements are based on the personal testimonies of former members, who also witnessed first hand the targeting of potential Opus Dei members while participating in groups not necessarily run by Opus Dei. The Opus Dei members joined these groups in order to find and befriend individuals who would more likely join Opus Dei.
  
  In addition to groups targeting young people, Opus Dei also attempts to attract potential "supernumerary" members by infiltrating parishes throughout the world. It is often very difficult to determine the extent of Opus Dei's influence in a given parish. Opus Dei members very often conceal their identity to "outsiders."

Undue Pressure to Join

Selected individuals are relentlessly pursued to consider a vocation or calling to Opus Dei.

• Opus Dei members carefully stage "vocational crises" at vulnerable moments in recruits' lives. The recruits are often told that God calls people at certain times in their lives, and if they say "no" they will never receive God's grace in their lives because they are "on the wrong track."
• Opus Dei members often tell their "friends" that failure to follow a calling to Opus Dei will lead not only to a life of misery and discontent, but possibly to eternal damnation.

Lack of Informed Consent and Control of Environment

When recruits decide to join Opus Dei, they vaguely commit themselves to live "the spirit of Opus Dei" without knowing the details of that commitment. The initial commitment, called "whistling," involves the writing of a letter to the prelate of Opus Dei asking to become an Opus Dei member. From that moment, new members are greeted with exuberance and welcomed into the fold. Eventually, the details of new memberships are revealed, and the new members are expected to comply, even if they object or have reservations. A great psychological burden is placed on the new members: they must be faithful to the commitment they have made by obeying all that their directors tell them is "the spirit of Opus Dei;" otherwise, they are turning their back on God. If they decide to leave Opus Dei, they have often already heard that they will surely live a life without God's grace, and may even be damned.

Opus Dei tightly controls the lives of its members, especially the numerary members who pledge celibacy and typically live in Opus Dei residences. The following are some examples of the controls placed on Opus Dei numeraries, which are part of the "spirit of Opus Dei:"

• Opus Dei numeraries are expected to hand over their entire salaries to Opus Dei, and generally may not hold their own bank accounts.  The numeraries are told to use money as if they were the mother in charge of a large and poor family.  They ask for the money they need each week and are then required to report how it was spent to the penny.  Opus Dei does not provide any financial report that indicates how the members' money is spent.
• Both incoming and outgoing personal mail is generally read by the Directors of each Opus Dei residence, without the knowledge or consent of family and friends.
• Reading material is strictly controlled, as are television viewing, listening to the radio, and other forms of recreation and entertainment.
• Opus Dei numeraries notify their Directors of (and secure permission for) their comings and goings.
• Opus Dei numeraries are required to practice corporal mortification such as the use of a cilice (a spiked chain worn around the thigh), flagellation, and sleeping on the floor or on boards.
• Opus Dei numeraries are required to confess weekly and are strongly discouraged from confessing to a non-Opus Dei priest.
• Opus Dei numeraries typically may not attend events which are not conducive to proselytizing, such as athletic games, theater, concerts, movies, etc.  In the rare instances when they may attend these events, permission must be secured from the Opus Dei directors.
• Opus Dei members are enjoined to confess even their slightest doubts to Opus Dei priests and/or Spiritual Directors; otherwise, "the mute devil takes over in the soul."

Alienation From Families

Communication to family about involvement with Opus Dei is limited and even discouraged.

• Opus Dei teaches individuals (despite their ages) that it is acceptable and even advantageous to leave parents and loved ones out of the decision-making process because "they will not understand."  Most parents learn of their child's lifetime commitment to Opus Dei months and even years later.  Many times, parents do not realize their children have  joined because the numeraries are told to remain in university residences and do not move into centers designated exclusively for numeraries, so as not to raise any suspicions.  Gradually, the bond of trust between child and parent is broken.
• Display of pictures of loved ones is discouraged, not by rule, but by subtle example.

PAT SAYS:

OPUS DEI is indeed a cult. As the above piece shows it operates in ways that are typical of cults. 

To be a good person you do not need to whip yourself or to wear a spiked chain around your upper leg. These practices are a mixture of twisted religious beliefs and pure sadomasochism. 

All of us have enough things in our lives that cause us pain and suffering without turning to medieval psychosis to try and please a God that is some kind of Sadistic Master.

In the Scriptures, God tells us that he wants LOVE, not SACRIFICES.

Add to this the brainwashing and destruction of families that Opus Dei engage in.

Opus Dei is also interested in taking people's wealth and comes off them. It has become a very rich cult with a massive property portfolio.

It's interesting to see who among the Irish bishops support Opus Dei.

We know Phonsie in Waterford does - and this week we have seen the fruits of Phonsie's love affair with Opus Dei.

Not so long ago Diarmuid Martin gave Opus Dei one of the wealthiest parishes in Dublin - Merrion.

However, Diarmuid does not whip himself or wear the spiked chain around his upper leg. A senior Dublin priest told me that Diarmuid gave the OD a wealthy Dublin after he was asked to do so by someone in Rome whom Diarmuid thought would help him secure a red hat.

That stunt of Dermo's does not seem to have worked for him.

As we know everything Dermo shoes is done for reasons of church politics and his own career.

There are many families in Ireland and all over the world who can tell stories of losing family members to Opus Dei for many years - and sometimes permanently.

Never allow yourself or a loved one anywhere near Hokus Dei.

THE PAPACY - A HUMAN CONSTRUCT

AT THE TOP OF CORRUPT ROMAN CATHOLICISM SITS THE PAPACY - A HUMAN CONSTRUCTION - AND NOT CREATED BY GOD OF HIS SON JESUS CHRIST.

The words of scripture that the RC apologists rely on for their doctrine of the papacy and papal infallibility are:

Mat 16:15 He saith unto them, But whom say ye that I am?

Mat 16:16 And Simon Peter answered and said, Thou art the Christ, the Son of the living God.

Mat 16:17 And Jesus answered and said unto him, Blessed art thou, Simon Barjona: for flesh and blood hath not revealed it unto thee, but my Father which is in heaven.

Mat 16:18 And I say also unto thee, That thou art Peter, and upon this rock, I will build my church, and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it.

This passage is most frequently quoted by Catholics to support Petrine theory (papal succession), that proposes Jesus founded His church on Peter (the rock). The Protestant will usually point out that two different words for "rock" are present in the Greek text- "thou art Peter (Petros), and upon this rock (petra) I will build my church;" ... . The distinction that is apparently being made in the Greek is one of size. Petros equates to a pebble, or small stone, while petra equates to a massive foundation stone, too large to be moved:

This distinction in the Greek, the Protestant points out, makes it clear that Peter is not the rock that the church is founded upon, but rather Peter's profession of faith and/or Jesus Himself. To this the Catholic will likely respond that early church fathers indicate the book of Matthew was originally written in Aramaic, not Greek. The Greek, they will say, has been incorrectly rendered because petra, being feminine in the Greek, could not have been used to represent Peter's name. They will propose that what Jesus really said in Aramaic to Simon Peter was this: "thou art Peter (Kepha), and upon this rock (kepha) I will build my church;" ... . The original Aramaic, they will point out, makes it quite plain that Peter was indeed the rock.  No Aramaic texts of Matthew have survived, they have all been lost. So just what the Aramaic texts might have said is nothing but pure speculation. So speculation is all they can muster as evidence to support Petrine theory in Matthew 16:18.

Some Catholics may even suggest that there has always been a unanimous Church interpretation of this passage in support Petrine theory, at least up until relatively recent Protestant dissent to the presumed authority of the papacy. The following is presented to show that even early "Christian fathers" were actually quite diverse in their interpretation of this passage in Matthew and they most certainly did not agree that Peter was the foundation rock (petra) which Jesus spoke about.

BISHOP STROSSMAYER

An interesting and important speech - which some say was made by Bishop Strossmayer of Croatia ant Vatican One in 1890 - and others say was actually written by a former Augustinian priest - a Mexican named Dr Jose Agustin de Escudero.

FATHER JOSE AUGUSTIN DE ESCUDERO

Whichever of them wrote the speech it seems to me that the content of the speech is very important and very informing. Its conclusions are:

    (1) That Jesus has given to His apostles the same power that He gave to St. Peter.

    (2) That the apostles never recognized in St. Peter the vicar of Jesus Christ and the infallible doctor of the church.

    (3) That St. Peter never thought of being pope, and never acted as if he were pope.

    (4) That the Councils of the first four centuries, while they recognized the high position which the Bishop of Rome occupied in the church on account of Rome, only accorded to him a pre-eminence of honor, never of power or of jurisdiction.

    (5) That the holy fathers in the famous passage, 'Thou art Peter, and on this rock I will build my church,' never understood that the church was built on Peter (super Petrum) but on the rock (super petram), that is, on the confession of the faith of the apostle. I conclude victoriously, with history, with reason, with logic, with good sense, and with a Christian conscience, that Jesus Christ did not confer any supremacy on St. Peter and that the bishops of Rome did not become sovereigns of the church, but only by confiscating one by one all the rights of the episcopate.

It is also important to note that for the first 1870 years of Catholicism it was not a defined doctrine of the church that the pope was infallible.

The doctrine of papal infallibility was not totally new - it had been used by Pope Pius in defining the Immaculate Conception of Mary as a dogma in 1854.

The bishops at the council were divided into three camps:

1. Those promoting infallibility and their supporters - people like Henry Manning.

2. A majority of the bishops who did want to strengthen papal authority - but not actual papal infallibility.

3. A minority of 10% who opposed the definition because it was a departure from the position of the early church and would create more tensions with non-Catholic churches and governments. In this group, you had most of the German and Austro Hungarian bishops, half of the American bishops, one-third of the French bishops and most of the Chaldean and Melkite bishops.

The First Vatican Council was very controversial and involved the 1050 bishops present in a great argument. Urged on by Pope Pius the majority got their way.

The council was suspended by the pope - and never resumed and left most of what it had intended to do undone/

PATS VIEWS:

1. I believe that JESUS HIMSELF is the head of the Church and not the pope.

2. I do not believe that the pope is the Vicar of Christ on earth.

3. I do not believe that Peter regarded himself as a pope.

4. I don't know if Peter was ever in Rome?

5. I believe that the papacy is a human construct.

6. I think that the pope by tradition and by being the bishop of an important city has become the FIRST AMONG EQUALS.

7. I believe that the Vatican has become more and more corrupt over the ages and that many of the popes were bad, weak or evil men.

8. I believe that the Vatican and the RC Church needs major reform.

9. I believe that the Holy Spirit speaks through EVERYBODY and not just through prelates and clerics.

10. I believe that the Catholic church and all churches should be governed by a council of all its members - representing laity and clergy.

11. I believed that all churches should follow the Bible - especially the New Testament - rather than man-made canon laws.

THE GYNAE BISHOP

PHONSIE CHALLENGED ON TV3

Bishop claims cancer vaccine ‘70% safe’

• The Irish Times
• 28 Sep 2017
• PAUL CULLEN Health Correspondent

Bishop Cullinan: said money would be better spent promoting chastity

The Gardasil vaccine against cervical cancer is “only 70 per cent safe”, a Catholic bishop has suggested.

Bishop Phonsie Cullinan, Bishop of Waterford and Lismore, says parents are being pressurised into agreeing to have their daughters vaccinateed. The money spent on it should be diverted to helping young people stay chaste.

Although the vaccine is backed by the World Health Organisation and other international scientific bodies, he maintains there are “conflicting opinions” from experts about its safety.

Bishop Cullinan says the experience of the Regret group of parents who have concerns about Gardasil should not be “rubbished”.

He has also asked why the vaccine is not being given to boys: “Why is this vaccine being ‘offered’ only to girls? One can add that the male contraceptive has been available for years. Are men using it? Why not? Where is the equality in that?”

In supplying his remarks to The Irish Times, Bishop Cullinan says they are intended “with great respect for medical personnel. But debate is good, once it is reasonable.”

He questions whether the vaccine will “lull our girls into a false sense of security”, making it more likely some of them engage in more risky behaviour.

Sexual activity

“More sexual activity means an increased risk of infection and therefore an increased risk of serious health problems,” he said.

“I wonder could the large amount of money being spent on this vaccine be better spent on programmes which encourage our young people to live clean and chaste lives. I know that the vaccine may do some good but from what I have read it is not the most effective way to guard against cervical cancer.”

Up to 30,000 adolescent girls are due to receive the vaccine in schools this month, but uptake rates have fallen to 50 per cent as a result of opposition from a number of groups. Their claim that hundreds of girls who received the vaccine are suffering long-term health effects as a consequence have not been supported by any scientific study.

Bishop Cullinan says the vaccine offers “no absolute guarantee” of “full protection” against cervical cancer.

“The vaccine covers 70 per cent of cervical cancers. Would you go on a plane that was 70 per cent safe? Smear tests will still be necessary.”

“There seems to be pressure on parents to get their girls vaccinated with the Gardasil product,” he said. “The insinuation is that to be a ‘good parent’ you should do this. But there are conflicting opinions from experts about the safety of this vaccine.”

‘Young lives ruined’

He suggests those interested in the concerns expressed by Regret should look up the group’s videos on YouTube.

“As a Bishop I have spoken to young people, especially young women, who tell me (with tears) how they have been used and dumped over and over. This can result in forms of depression, lack of self-esteem and even self-harm. This is what I have seen in young lives. Does our promiscuous attitude to sexual behaviour bring true happiness? And the reckless partying and porn? I see so many young lives being ruined.”

Cullinan challenged:

Sir, – Further to “Catholic bishop claims cervical cancer vaccine ‘only 70% safe’” (Online, September 27th), is it the case that a Catholic bishop can make remarks on any topic and have them appear in The Irish

Times? Or is it the case that alongside being a bishop, Phonsie Cullinan is a medical professional or researcher? One of these must be the case for your newspaper to have published his remarks on the HPV vaccine. In his remarks, the bishop says that “debate is good”, which is a fine-sounding platitude, but a person in a position of respect questioning the opinions of qualified medical professionals without any relevant qualifications of their own is not good. The simple fact of the matter is that his comments will not help parents who are unsure of what to do about the vaccine; they only risk clouding the question further.

In my opinion the bishop should not have made comments about the HPV vaccine as I don’t see that he is qualified to do so. What truly worries me, though, is how The Irish Times felt that it was newsworthy or in the public interest to print them. To me that seems simply reckless. – Yours, etc, DAVID HARTE, Inchicore, Dublin 8.

Sir, – Bishop Phonsie Cullinan’s comments on the HPV vaccine were at best ill-advised and at worst extremely ignorant.

He is ignoring vast tranches of evidence that support the safety of this vaccine and his beliefs will no doubt further confuse worried parents on this topic.

There are no “conflicting questions” from experts about its safety and the World Health Organisation has backed this up countless times.

Linking the HPV vaccine to low self-esteem and depression is plain wrong.

Mentioning the HPV vaccine in the same sentence as promiscuity, pornography and reckless partying is plain perplexing.

The best way to describe this vaccine’s safety to people like Bishop Cullinan is to use an analogy. Imagine someone has been accused of a crime and acquitted in a court of law yet is still assumed to have committed that crime by some. That is where some are on this vaccine. It has had its safety rigorously tested countless times and, importantly, it will continue to have it tested into the future. There is no conspiracy. Perhaps the bishop should listen to some of those who have suffered from cervical cancer and their families before he decides to make more ill-informed comments on this topic. – Yours, etc,

Dr NIALL BREEN, Dublin 5.

PAT SAYS:

Phonsie "The Terminator" Cullinan is now making pronouncements about lady's cervixes and calling for his version of chastity to replace medical vaccines!

And he is such an expert on the female genitalia and reproductive organs that The Irish Times quotes his every word on the matter!

I can just picture Phonsie in his little chapel in Bishop's House, Waterford, asking God's guidance on what to say about what Dame Edna Everidge calls "my front bottie".

And of course in line with his Opus Dei beliefs Phonsie will have consulted what the Church Fathers have to say about the front bottie. 

• Woman is a temple built over a sewer. –Tertullian, “the father of Latin Christianity” (c160-225)

• [Women’s] very consciousness of their own nature must evoke feelings of shame.–Saint Clement of Alexandria, Christian theologian (c150-215): Pedagogues II, 33, 2

• Nor are the women to smear their faces with the ensnaring devices of wily cunning. . . The Instructor [Christ] orders them to go forth “in becoming apparel, and adorn themselves with shamefacedness and sobriety, subject to their own husbands.”  –Saint Clement of Alexandria, Christian theologian (c150-215): The Instructor

• In pain shall you bring forth children, woman, and you shall turn to your husband and he shall rule over you. And do you not know that you are Eve? God’s sentence hangs still over all your sex and His punishment weighs down upon you. You are the devil’s gateway; you are she who first violated the forbidden tree and broke the law of God. It was you who coaxed your way around him whom the devil had not the force to attack. With what ease you shattered that image of God: Man! Because of the death you merited, even the Son of God had to die… Woman, you are the gate to hell. –Tertullian, “the father of Latin Christianity” (c160-225): On the Apparel of Women, chapter 1

• For it is improper for a woman to speak in an assembly, no matter what she says,
  even if she says admirable things, or even saintly things, that is of little
  consequence, since they come from the mouth of a woman. –Origen (d. 258): Fragments on First Corinthians, 74

• Woman does not possess the image of God in herself but only when taken together
  with the male who is her head, so that the whole substance is one image. But
  when she is assigned the role as helpmate, a function that pertains to her
  alone, then she is not the image of God. But as far as the man is concerned, he
  is by himself alone the image of God just as fully and completely as when he and
  the woman are joined together into one. –Saint Augustine, Bishop of Hippo Regius (354-430)

• What is the difference whether it is in a wife or a mother, it is still Eve the temptress that we must beware of in any woman… I fail to see what use woman can be to man, if one excludes the function of bearing children. –Saint Augustine, Bishop of Hippo Regius (354 – 430): De genesi ad litteram, 9, 5-9

• Woman is a misbegotten man and has a faulty and defective nature in comparison to his. Therefore she is unsure in herself. What she cannot get, she seeks to obtain through lying and diabolical deceptions. And so, to put it briefly, one must be on one’s guard with every woman, as if she were a poisonous snake and the horned devil. … Thus in evil and perverse doings woman is cleverer, that is, slyer, than man. Her feelings drive woman toward every evil, just as reason impels man toward all good. –Saint Albertus Magnus, Dominican theologian, 13th century: Quaestiones super de animalibus XV q. 11

• As regards the individual nature, woman is defective and misbegotten, for the active force in the male seed tends to the production of a perfect likeness in the masculine sex; while the production of woman comes from a defect in the active force or from some material indisposition, or even from some external influence. –Thomas Aquinas, Doctor of the Church, 13th century: Summa Theologica I q. 92 a. 1

If the vagina is the gateway to Hell why is Phonie giving so much thought to it?

I may be wrong?

Maybe Phonsie is a medic who specializes in gynecology?

Or maybe he was a midwife before he became a priest?

Or maybe he was once chaplain to a Sexually Transmitted Disease clinic?

AND - why is Phonsie, as a bishop, talking to young women about their sex lives and their front hotties?

This latest intervention by Phonsie sends his reputation further down the TUBES!

Who does Phonsie  think he is that he can dictate to Irish men and women in 2017 what they can and cannot do with their bodies?

 

On yesterdays Tonight Show, Ivan and @Cooper_m spoke to Bishop Phonsie Cullinan about his stance on the cervical cancer vaccine. #tonightTV3 pic.twitter.com/I0s302oVKu

— TV3 (@TV3Ireland) 29 September 2017

NEW MAYNOOTH SCANDAL

THE BLOG HAS BEEN MADE AWARE OF A NEW SCANDAL BREWING AT MAYNOOTH SEMINARY - A SCANDAL THAT MAY VERY WELL BE MORE DAMNING THAN LAST SUMMER'S GRINDR SCANDAL.

Dermo

A well placed and well-informed source has made a formal complaint, in writing to Archbishop Diarmuid Martin of Dublin, Archbishop Eamon Martin of Armagh and the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith in Rome (CDF)

Amy

To date, the complainant has not received either an acknowledgment of their complaint from any of the three sources.

CDF

The complaint involves both sexual matters and matters of corruption/administration and it names laymen, priests, and seminarians.

The complainant asks the CDF/Vatican to remove the "Pontifical" status of Maynooth until a thorough investigation has taken place. 

They have also asked Diarmuid and Eamon Martin to place the complaint on the agenda for the Autumn meeting of the bishops which takes place in a few weeks in October.

They have also asked the Vatican to break all ties with Maynooth on the basis of their complaint.

Furthermore, the complainant has threatened the bishops with the release of all the information they have to RTE's Prime Time programme if no action is taken by them.

They insist that the matter they have reported requires the immediate resignation of senior people in Maynooth.

The person who made this complaint played a very significant role in the exposure of last year's Grindr scandal at Maynooth - and as such what they have to say carried a lot of weight.

As of yet, while they have named names to me, they have not provided me with the information and evidence I would need to publish all they claim on this Blog.

Needless to say, if and when they do I will bring all the information to the attention of the readers here.

After last year's gay sex scandals the incoming president was appointed for a short three-year term instead of the normal ten-year term.

Furthermore, it was announced that within that three period a new office of "rector" would be created.

Maynooth had only SIX men enter the seminary this year - the lowest in its whole history.

Maynooth is gasping for its last breath.

Another big scandal will kill it off completely!