Comments on: Monsignor Maurice Dooley explains it all

By: UTV Insight Special - The Resurrection of Brendan Smyth, tonight at 9pm - Page 6

UTV Insight Special - The Resurrection of Brendan Smyth, tonight at 9pm - Page 6 — Sun, 19 Dec 2010 09:53:11 +0000

[...] Quote from 2007: The sexual abuses committed by Father Brendan Smyth against boys were real crimes and tragic for all those affected. However Chris Moore is not content with recounting real crimes. He distorts and embellishes the truth in order to involve other priests and thereby seeks to fuel hatred of the Catholic Church. We did know BEFORE 2007 that other priests AND bishops did facilitate Smyth with the full knowledge that Smyth was a most dangerous person around children. We knew then that Smyth was moved between parishes, dioceses and even countries where he preyed on victims who were as young as eight years old. Monsignor Maurice Dooley explains it all [...]

By: The Brady Bunch

The Brady Bunch — Sun, 21 Mar 2010 12:40:37 +0000

Poor old Brady must have thought the public had bought his “Mr Nice” act, then the Doodlebug chimes in with his words of support. Brady must have thought “Oh f**k, where did they get this tosser from.” It’s incredible that only a couple of decades ago these nutters were ruling the roost.

By: WhytheFace

WhytheFace — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 03:10:08 +0000

What about the so-called ‘good’ priests though? Why won’t any of them speak out with clarity? You listen to them and it’s the same auld thing of trying to decipher what they’re really saying. Thus, Fr Blah saying that Brady should explain further (or whatever) can be taken to be brazen outspokenness and opposition. If there’s any good men in that there Church they’d do well to speak louder because the impression given is that they’re so cowed, so obedient that if a bishop asked them to overlook something heinous again today or tomorrow, they might well say ‘yes boss’

By: Drunk Kitteh

Drunk Kitteh — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 14:48:09 +0000

Here you go Twenty!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00rh48m/Talkback_16_03_2010/

By: Twenty Major

Twenty Major — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 14:05:52 +0000

Give us a teaser

By: Peter Belfast

Peter Belfast — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 14:04:31 +0000

Monsignor Dooley’s comments on the Pat Kenny show are nothing to what was said on “Talk Back” Radio Ulster this lunch time. Tuesday 16th March.
BBC iPlayer should be up tomorrow or later today.

By: Anthony Murphy, editor of The Catholic Voice | Twenty Major – Still smoking in Dublin bars

Tue, 16 Mar 2010 13:11:50 +0000

[...] day, the only organisation that believes it can operate outside the law of the state – as per Monsignor Maurice Dooley’s comment on the Pat Kenny show yesterday. And, ultimately, the catholic church is at the centre of this particular discussion. [...]

By: Tomo

Tomo — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 11:06:15 +0000

Where were the parents in all this? Surely somewhere, sometime, a father managed to get his hands on a priest who molested his child? In spite of the bleating of Dooley and his ilk, I’m fairly sure diddling kids has ALWAYS been high on the list of societal no-nos. Oh, and absolutely ratzinger was up to his ASS in this- there’s no way he didn’t know what was going on back in his time in Germany.

By: Chris O

Chris O — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 10:55:42 +0000

What can we do? I’ve been struck off the baptismal register, but that’s a personal thing. What can I do on a societal level? You can throw the Crimen Solicitationis of 1962 in all the Catholic faces that you want, but they’ll still go to Mass.

“sure it was only a few bad apples, it’s not fair on poor Fr X, sure he’s a lovely parish priest”

I want to see them burn. I want to see the churches turned into town halls and museums. But mostly, I want to see them burn.

So, I is asking Twenty’s peeps, the most trustworthy people on the interwebz. What can I do to bring this thing down, without going to prison or becoming a martyr? I’d prefer to leave that bit to the folks who do it best.

By: The Cap'n

The Cap'n — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 10:28:46 +0000

I hear a lot about the state being responsible for a large part of the attacks on kids in institutions and so on but I have to say i hear very little about the ‘veto’ the catholic church held over the state’s social policy between 1930 and 1990.

There seems to be some sort of conspiracy to accept that the state should have challenged the church more but that doesn’t explain what happened to people who genuinely tried.

The younger Gardai who filed paperwork quickly before it could be sidelined by senior Guards. Those people in the Dept of Education who tried to tell what was going on in the slave labour gulags of the Magdalene laundries etc;

These people were all ‘veto’d’ by catholics trying to do their church a favour and protect its reputation. Some had their careers finished.

Its about time (and no better time) for RTE, The Dept of Education, Justice and so on to get rid of these nutters out of the state’s systems.

Interfering with the legal process should lead to jail terms for civil servants.