Anthony Murphy, editor of The Catholic Voice
Posted on | March 16, 2010 | 71 Comments
Have just heard this man on Newstalk and he made my blood boil, more that the usual church apologists do as well. They were discussing the cardinal Sean Brady scandal in the light of the statement issued by the catholic communications office. You can view it in all it’s farcical glory here.
His argument consisted of two things:
1 – It all happened a long time ago and things were different back then
2 – The catholic church were not the only organisation involved in sexual abuse
With regard to the first argument he makes it sound as if raping kids and covering it up wasn’t as bad back then as it is now. As if somehow, since 1975 when Sean Brady chose to cover up a wicked crime, we have realised that sexual abuse of children isn’t good.
And as for the second, it’s completely irrelevant. It’s excuse making, it’s deflectionary, it’s trying to play down the seriousness of the problem. As far as I’m aware the catholic church were the only organisation whose members had taken a vow of celibacy, as rightly pointed out by Christine Buckley. The catholic church is, to this 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. Pointing to other groups and their crimes is entirely besides the point and does not lessen those of the catholic church one bit.
It just makes the person who brings up stuff like that sound rather pathetic. Which is exactly how Anthony Murphy, editor of the Catholic Voice, sounded. He couldn’t give a straight answer, saying that with ‘hindsight’ it’s easy to say things might have been done differently. What hindsight do you need when children tell you they are being raped? Father Sean Brady reported it to his superiors, the ‘punishment’ for father Brendan Smyth was that he was not allowed say mass or hear confessions – but he was allowed go around the world and sexually abuse many more children. Well played.
If I have a vicious dog and he bites a kid, I don’t need hindsight to tell me I shouldn’t put him in a room full of children. When he savages dozens of them I can’t say ‘Well, in retrospect that might not have been a good idea’. I wouldn’t get away with that as any kind of defence, neither should they.
And if you want to see what kind of a person Anthony Murphy, editor of the catholic voice is, check out their website.
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March 16th, 2010 @ 1:22 pm
I like how he could’t asnwer a single straight question. The whiny shitepipe.
March 16th, 2010 @ 1:33 pm
I don’t usually comment on blogs but after seeing the holding page of the Catholic Voice site after that interview makes me even more enraged about the whole state of the church/state.
The anti-gay “argument” lists a six point case with #3 & #5 stating that the Laws are in place to protect people from these abominations and should be upheld to encourage right from wrong – obviously execpt for priests raping children, they can do what the want and not suffer any consequences other than not saying fucking mass?
bastards
March 16th, 2010 @ 1:47 pm
One puzzling thing though – in their warped minds interfering with children was a lesser offense than a Celibate having consensual sexual relations with an adult female. Obviously to their mind a consensual homosexual relationship with an adult is damning – how come they don’ take the same view of priests and little boys ?
March 16th, 2010 @ 1:49 pm
These two points you highlighted Twenty, must be the official line now as agreed with all the bishops in Rome recently. So they called a meeting in the Vatican about how to protect themselves and basically tell us all to fuck off and be good little subjects. They are treating us with contempt and they firmly believe they’ll overcome this.
Well fuck you all in the Vatican. And fuck your agents and collaborators in Ireland. I view them as spies of a foreign occupier now.
And of course as all this goes on, the government gets off the hook with all the other shit going on like Nama. Or maybe that’s the idea.
March 16th, 2010 @ 1:55 pm
WARNING:
Readers are advised not to read the two linked documents on this post, one straight after the other.
The hypocrisy overload may cause cerebral damage.
The Catholic Church – The ENRON of world religions.
March 16th, 2010 @ 1:56 pm
Does anybody know the status of people in authority – the Justice system and Government ?
How many, for example, are Knights or members of Opus Dei ?
March 16th, 2010 @ 2:00 pm
Loads. Fucking loads.
March 16th, 2010 @ 2:04 pm
I went to the catholic voice website (via your link Twenty) and it allows you to sign a petition with three lines of whatever you choose to write.
The second line should be an email address so I ended my thought with @fuckyou.com.
Apart from this, you can write what you want
It vents the rage.
March 16th, 2010 @ 2:11 pm
Added a few lines of my own to their petition.
Although words can’t adequately describe how I feel about these bastards…
March 16th, 2010 @ 2:14 pm
They don’t give a tu’penny fuck what we think.
March 16th, 2010 @ 2:15 pm
That catholic voice crowd look like a right pack of cunts. Imagine if they put the energy they’re putting into opposing the civil partnership bill into something that might actually make a positive difference to people’s lives. These so-called christians make me fucking sick, right wing conservative bigots who think raping children is more acceptable than two people of the same sex loving each other and having a happy life together..
March 16th, 2010 @ 2:18 pm
I can’t believe they have the sexy kids joke on their website.
March 16th, 2010 @ 2:19 pm
“It all happened a long time ago and things were different back then”
I escaped a sexual assault by a man (not a cleric) when I was in short trousers, at least a decade before Brady’s note-taking. The guards were immediately called. They took the matter very seriously. ‘Interfering’ with children was a crime, and was known to be a crime back then. Perpetrators were known to be repeat offenders and that other children would be at risk. That was one of the reasons why it was taken so seriously.
There is NO validity to any argument that maintains that we have a different standard or a different understanding today than we had in 1975, or 1965 or much, much further back. I think even the 1908 Children’s Act makes reference to children who might have to be removed from situations where they were at risk of moral danger [sexual interference].
These arguments seek only to excuse endemic secrecy and inaction on the part of the Catholic hierarchy, which furthered the paedophilic criminal actions of serial abusers.
If these apologists can give any example of an instance where a secular or civil authority enabled a non-clerical, serial abuser to escape the law for decades I would be very glad to hear of it.
March 16th, 2010 @ 2:19 pm
Wake me up when its time to start hanging some sense into them.
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again- all the current issues are because of a shortage of lions in the colosseum in Rome.
Join the WWF- Ireland needs lions.
March 16th, 2010 @ 2:27 pm
HM your comment about these people is right on- the catholic church when measured against a democratic republic is a subversive organisation.
(1) It does not recognise Irish law over its own by-laws
(2) It operates its own courts which have no place in our legal systems
(3) It regards itself and has had itself awarded the status of a foreign government.
Answers; (a) Brady must be told that he is to resign and will not be accorded any recognition of his church status in the meantine. (b) Fuck the Papal Nuncio out of Dublin as this should bring it home to catholics in Ireland where their loyalties should lie (c) Purge the Irish civil service of anyone who says they cannot perform their duties without referring to their ‘conscience’ (ie cult leader).
March 16th, 2010 @ 3:11 pm
4. Government-backed same sex civil unions would encourage and normalise homosexual behaviour, and it would harm natural marriage, children, adults, and homosexuals themselves.
Notwithstanding that the whole six-point case goes beyond outrageously offensive and into the realms of the bizzare, this point really takes the fucking biscuit.
How these cunts can seriously hold their heads up and talk about something that “would harm []children” defies belief!
I know it’s stating the obvious but they have no fucking shame.
March 16th, 2010 @ 3:35 pm
Fr Brendan Smyth’s order, the Norbertines, spent €174,110 in legal fees in 2006 according to The Irish Catholic [Michael Kelly, The Irish Catholic, 11 Oct 2007].
I wonder how much of that money was spent fighting the High Court action being taken by one of Smyth’s post-1975 victims? I think it is this action, began nearly a decade ago, which has dragged Brady’s role into the open.
“Referring to the abuse perpetrated by Fr Smyth the spokesman added ‘we will of course continue to offer support and maintain contact with those people who were so wrongly abused by one of ourpriests.’”
Doubtless this is why they have been so slow to allow ‘discovery’ of documents sought by the plaintiff in pursuit of her case.
Dana Rosemary Scallon performed a ‘sell-out’ fundraising concert for Kilnacrott Abbey in 2006. Was this to help with the legal bills?
A Norbertine Trust (the religious orders’ classic asset hiding ruse) put Kilnacrott Abbey on the market in late 2007/early 2008. Smyth is buried in the Abbey graveyard.
http://www.irishcatholic.ie/quickfiles/2007/111007/111007.pdf?id=5&sku=111007
March 16th, 2010 @ 3:52 pm
The whole “lets attack the civil partnership bill for the good of society/the kids” thing is just a convenient bandwagon for church officials to jump on and deflect attention away from the abuse scandals – they are a bunch of pricks the lot of them.
I’d say the folks at countmeout.ie are getting record hits these days.
March 16th, 2010 @ 3:55 pm
Thats a good spot Conan … weird to think that catholic pilgrims still go to a place for retreat where Brendan Smyth was buried.
It would be worth buying it just to dig the fucker up and thrown his bones on a rubbish heap where they belong.
I notice on the link there’s a story about the new head of CORI as well and the Voice article claims it has ‘in excess’ of 10,000 people on both sides of the border.
Bearing in mind the renowned Catholic sense of honesty I’d put that at somewhere around 5-7000 at most.
Hope they all die in a hideous chalice explosion, the mad cunts.
March 16th, 2010 @ 3:59 pm
Good point Ferdia. How same sex civil unions would harm homosexuals themselves is beyond me. If there are any gays on the site who can explain this I’d be delighted to know.
Anyway, that’s it for me. I have given the church the benefit of the doubt for a very long time but I truly feel physically ill for the past few days the more I hear from it’s apologists and defenders.
Not a penny more will they get from me, nothing ever again. I don’t care who fucking resigns or apologises now. It’s not an apology if it has to be beaten out of them. It’s too little too late.
March 16th, 2010 @ 4:02 pm
It’s a bit much a catholic organisation accusing someone else of behaviour which they think might harm children.
March 16th, 2010 @ 4:12 pm
The problem was we never had real republicanism here. In France, in Italy and in Spain republicans put manners on these fuckers. (In Spain they had to shoot a few of them but there you go). Hence church and state are seperate, they go their way, we go ours. Have you heard about many clerical child sex abuse case in Spain? Here we throw the Brits out, then we give the schools and hospitals to thesen bastards and all our heroes, Collins, Dev, and fucking Gerry and Martin, are mass goers. Republic my arse.
March 16th, 2010 @ 4:13 pm
The Nobertines, was that not Pete Doherty’s band? Seriously, fuck them out of education and health now.
March 16th, 2010 @ 4:15 pm
I sense a real intention to hurt the abused even more. There’s an undertone of revenge if what they are coming out with now. They’re not a bit sorry. They think it’s their right to treat laity as they wish.
March 16th, 2010 @ 4:21 pm
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00rh48m/Talkback_16_03_2010/
Scan 30 minutes into this broadcast for Dooley’s appearance.
March 16th, 2010 @ 4:32 pm
@ Crank – How same sex civil unions would harm homosexuals themselves is beyond me.
Crank, the church views the gay lifestyle as abhorrent and deviant. By regulating same sex unions you are making them normal and trapping homosexuals into the deviant lifestyle.
Church knows best and by not by not normalising these relationships you’re leaving the door open for the gays to return to a normal heterosexual lifestyle.
How any self respecting gay has anything to do with an organisation that labels them deviant is beyond me, but then again how any self respecting woman can support them is beyond me too. Seeing as women are held in such low regard.
time to burn the Vatican down to the ground….
March 16th, 2010 @ 4:49 pm
Germany is hotting up.
March 16th, 2010 @ 4:54 pm
Durruti; “The problem was we never had real republicanism here. In France, in Italy and in Spain republicans put manners on these fuckers. (In Spain they had to shoot a few of them but there you go).”
Got it in one I reckon, Durruti. Trouble is that at the time there was so much deference to the church built up over centuries that Connolly would not have had the support for shooting McQuaid.
Don’t get me wrong- I’m in favour of shooting the fuckers now. Any Irishman that can take an oath which binds him to follow instructions from Rome deserves a bullet as a traitor in the same way that an Irishman taking money from MI5 would deserve a bullet.
I don’t imagine for a moment I’ll get my wish but I’ll accept the ruin of the catholic church in Ireland as a consolation prize.
I emailed Brady’s office (Admin@Aracoeli.com) to ask how many children were attacked after Brady took part in a silencing procedure and told him if he was half a man he wouldn’t just resign but shoot himself.
I received an acknowledgement a few minutes ago from one of Cardinals gofers;
‘With regard to your recent e-mail, I wish to assure you that, along with the many other e-mails of support and of criticism received today, it has been left for Cardinal Brady’s attention.’
‘Support and criticism’ eh? I’d love to know how many Irish citizens are in favour of enabling paedophilia.
Shortly after that I’d like their addresses.
March 16th, 2010 @ 5:37 pm
Crank, the church views the gay lifestyle as abhorrent and deviant
Unless it is little boys dessiegee -for some reason that is different.
Conan- I think the Moors Murders changed a lot of attitudes in police forces, though the Dunphy case in 1967 showed the Courts had a long way to go.
Man got his 6 year old foster-daughter out of bed at midnight and gave her such a severe beating that she died. Her crime ? She left her face cloth in the hand basin. The jury found him guilty of manslaughter and the Judge gave him 12 months. Dunphy’s solicitor argued that this sentence was too harsh given a parent’s legal right to punish his or her child.
March 16th, 2010 @ 5:39 pm
Thanks dessiegee. Your answer trapping homosexuals into the deviant lifestyle
is exactly how the church would view it. They think they’re doing the homosexuals a favour!
I came so close today to opting out of the church via the guidelines on countmeout.ie but stopped at the last minute because the diocesan fuckers are my customers sometimes and I need the work.
I’m going to take as much money from them as I can, but I fucking hate myself.
March 16th, 2010 @ 5:41 pm
cap’n the support comes from people who still think a letter from a priest can get their children into the civil service
March 16th, 2010 @ 6:03 pm
Crank, don’t beat yourself about taking money from people you despise. Priests do it every Sunday.
March 16th, 2010 @ 6:09 pm
That’s a press statement from a corrupt organisation. It’s no coincidence that the vatican is based in italy, a country which is corrupt to the core – some ridiculous figure of 20 different governments collapsed since the world war II and is run by another criminal organisation, the mafia.
That press statement isn’t worth the paper it’s written on. The cops should ask Daly to come into the station.
I notice FF and FG haven’t said a single fucking word.
Where’s the Minister for Justice? Probably in the fucking vatican
March 16th, 2010 @ 7:16 pm
Heh, I just signed that petition. Name was Fuck off, email was youpatheticbigot@antichrist.com, and address was Get bent Lane, dublin 1, and it took it and said thank you for signing the petition! teehee. More fun to be had, if anyone gets bored…..
March 16th, 2010 @ 7:26 pm
just signed the petition
email:Bullshitwizard@jesusturnsintoabiscuit.com
address:letterfrack abuse processing plant
March 16th, 2010 @ 7:27 pm
Friend of mine sent an angry e-mail to Catholic Ireland, and this is the response – painful stuff, really…:
“Now now I think that is a little extreme don’t you. As for being consigned to history maybe that is a bit early and why do you still ignore the facts.
First only 3% of abuse is committed by clergy which means a massive 97% is committed inside families and always has been with nearly 60% of abusers being married men. So when you talk about cults and rings get your facts right. It is also a fact that married protestant clergy, jews and moslems commit a higher percentage of abuse.
Oh and what about the foster families who were accused of sexual abuse last week – why do you ignore these – it happened last week – if you are serious about protecting children open your eyes and look at what is happening today under your nose rather than confining your anger and guilt to what happened over 30 years ago.
Best wishes”
March 16th, 2010 @ 7:35 pm
isn’t there a facebook page or something I can join…
March 16th, 2010 @ 7:36 pm
found one…
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Enough-is-Enough-Cardinal-Sean-Brady-MUST-resign/365313388207?ref=search&sid=657079364.1999590951..1
March 16th, 2010 @ 7:41 pm
Had a look at the website. The usual shite.
The Catholic Agenda has two sins:
- Being gay, which must be cured.
- Any manifestation of woman’s sexuality is abhorrent.
Stick with those precepts, and you can shag, rape, steal, lie and fuck about all you like. Jesus likes it best when you stick a boot (real or metaphorical) into gays and women. It helps with some of the above if you don’t get caught – that embarrasses the church, which is almost (but not quite) as bad as the two major sins.
March 16th, 2010 @ 7:56 pm
David D:Fuck Facebook.. that will do nothing,it may have got rage against the machine to number 1 but this is far more in need of urgent action..
I believe some protests outside churches at Mass time may be the logical process.. silent protests,so they cant accuse people of being part of a lynch mob…I dunno,just throwing that suggestion out,but the local 11am sunday mass would probably be a good focal point.being the BIG mass off the week..
March 16th, 2010 @ 8:09 pm
Following Durutti’s Spanish suggestions above, why not shot a few of them, or at least burn a couple of churches?
March 16th, 2010 @ 8:11 pm
fill, I reckon a standard agreed statement nailed at the same time to the main door of every Cathedral in the country might have some effect, at least in pr terms. It would have the benefit of being addressed to the hierarchy rather than ordinary priests and punters.
March 16th, 2010 @ 8:19 pm
I wonder what would happen if any other large foreign based organisation came into the country and its officers were subsequently found to have been abusing children and shielding its abusers from the law?
There’d be house burnings. With the church though it seems to be a matter of negotiation, of reasoning with the thoroughly and basically unreasonable.
Resignation is it … a bit like politics where you get caught breaking the law and you only have to hand in your notice.
Brady and every other priest who made a child promise not to speak to anyone about what happened them should be prosecuted for perverting the course of justice.
There’s only one way tossers like Dooley will begin to understand that the law applies to them too and that comes when senior churchmen get jailed.
March 16th, 2010 @ 8:23 pm
Archbishop Martin has been quiet – but he’s spoken out now. He was definitely distancing himself from the rest of the Irish hierarchy.
http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/breaking/2010/0316/breaking39.html
March 16th, 2010 @ 8:24 pm
Expressing your disgust in the petition fields of the catholic voice is only going to serve to bump up their numbers of people who they say oppose civil partnership rights – please dont give them any assistance, they are vocal enough as it is!
March 16th, 2010 @ 8:39 pm
I heard that program as well (or maybe it was a different one as Pat “Blander than Bland” Kenny was the host) and I found argument 2 utterly revolting. And the morons there let the discussion devolve into a “do family members abuse kids more than the Church?” stats-fest.
I used to listen to American conservative talk radio on long road trips to stay awake – rage at stupidity and hatefulness is very good at keeping one awake. I heard little that was as disgusting as what that man was saying to excuse the enabling of the abuse of children by the Church.
March 16th, 2010 @ 8:51 pm
can we do a later time for the protest mass thingy filler? I can’t really start to function correctly ’til after midday when I’ve had croissants, honey, coffee, blow-up doll etc
March 16th, 2010 @ 9:51 pm
You do the Saturday evening mass Itchy (*sotto voce* ya lazy cunt…)
March 16th, 2010 @ 11:18 pm
no wonder I’m an atheist…
March 16th, 2010 @ 11:41 pm
it’s great the way the anti-Catholic Church has organised itself. Some half-arsed branch of the Catholic Church says that thay in the past it was okay to shag children as we knew no better. One-in-4 says they are cunts. The Catholic Herald says that One-in-4 don’t understand the blessing that was being bestowed on these children by buggering them. Now the anti-Catholics are well enough organised to have a leader to say how dreadful it was to be a victim. Then we hear from Fianna Fail that it was right that Michael Woods indemnified the the evil Catholic bastards for molesting children. And fortunately, the civilised people are able to point out how corrupt all of the institutions of state and RC Church are.
In the past, the vicims might have been loosely assembled under one flag which the Scumbag church and state could redicule and vilify. Now the number of people and organistaions who would burn the RC church and FF are much larger.
Please don’t let us lose the momentum. These cunts are so experienced in biding their time and waiting for their catastrophes to blow over.
Some small thing that can make a difference:
Do not contribute to the RC charities. OXFAM do the same work, but do not supply some Catholic paedophile from Ireland to administer the aid
Go to Mass but give the cunts no money, put a note in the collection to the effect that you will contribute again once they come clean on the paedophiles
I am not some gobshite who sells the “Socialist Worker”, just an ordinary bloke who is pig sick with this kip of a country, and its religious and political leaders
March 17th, 2010 @ 12:30 am
So Twenty, What the fuck are you going to do about it? Enter into another “best blog” competition? Yadda, Yadda, Yadda.
March 17th, 2010 @ 12:42 am
Go to Mass but give the cunts no money, put a note in the collection to the effect that you will contribute again once they come clean on the paedophiles
good suggestion. but i don’t know anyone under the age of 50 that goes to mass. I agree those guilty of either abuse or cover up should be punished but regardless of whether they are or not, the church as we have known it is finished
March 17th, 2010 @ 12:44 am
heard the interview too-wanted to strangle the goshite….
March 17th, 2010 @ 12:45 am
…erm..gobshite..
March 17th, 2010 @ 1:53 am
I’m drunk. Anyone with me? Srsly, it’s St. Patrick’s Day, life sucks, I’m tired of these cunts in government and the Catholic church… Is it any wonder we’re a nation a alcoholics.
March 17th, 2010 @ 2:19 am
Peadar, plenty of people under 50 go to mass. They’re often well intentioned who’d abhore abuse but they’re brainwashed into believing the priests.
Religion has failed. What next?
March 17th, 2010 @ 3:46 am
they’re brainwashed into believing the priests.
Denis Faul was one of the few public figures I respected. This is why he said at the Opsahl commission in 1993
“‘the faith is caught as much as taught’”
and why he was quoted as below in a 1988 Seanad debate on Northern Ireland Integrated Education Proposals :
“we will give up our Churches before we give up our schools.”
March 17th, 2010 @ 4:39 am
BEEN THINKING SINCE MY LAST POST TWENTY – YOU ARE PERFECTLY RIGHT IN PERSISTING IN BLOGGING ABOUT THIS EVIL SHITE….KEEP IT IN THE OPEN….BECAUSE AFTER ALL IT REALLY IS BETTER TO LIGHT EVEN A TINY CANDLE THAN JUST SIT AROUND CURSING THE DARK.
March 17th, 2010 @ 9:10 am
Martin McGuinness, IRA Oath of Allegiance, condemning Fr Sean Brady, Oath of Silence.
Fuck me, you couldnt make it up.
March 17th, 2010 @ 9:23 am
I’m ashamed to be Irish and I’m ashamed to be Catholic. It really is a sad time for the island.
Time to get out.
March 17th, 2010 @ 9:57 am
No. Time to stay and change it.
March 17th, 2010 @ 9:58 am
Like Conans revelation above, myself and two buddies were still in knee pants when this cowboy rode into town. I recall very clearly his daily drive-by through our streets in his BMW as we played football, the mowl and relivio.
http://homepage.eircom.net/~zzedx/news251102.htm
One time he came and asked our parents permission to allow us accompany him to a performance of ‘The All Priests Show’ at The Hermitage golf club. Michael Cleary was the main attraction, while Tony Walsh was second billing as Elvis. He sat us in the wings as he did his thing: from that vantage point we could see all the suits and ballgowns in the front row, and they, quite clearly, saw us too.
After his performance, he took us back to his priests accomodation, fed us Coke and cookies, and then left briefly to run an errand. We legged it, giggling that he never got his hands on us, and that we got our Coke and cookies for free.
But that same room saw some terrible things happen to other children whom I knew personally. Eventually they had to demolish it, as the memories contained were too much for some survivors of his sexual abuse. They replaced it with old-folks accomodation, and named it after a priest.
From the linked article:
‘Tony Walsh was told to stay away from the funeral the day before he sexually assaulted the boy it has emerged. Speaking on RTE’s Liveline programme Fr Eamon Clarke, a priest of St Philomena’s parish at the time of the 1995 assault, said two priests instructed the defrocked Walsh to stay away from the funeral the next day when he attended the removal in clerical dress. Fr Clarke said: ‘he attended in full clerical garb with a Roman collar. We thought he was a friend of the family. We could not make a public scene because we knew he was under suspicion and investigation. but he was entitled to due process. After the removal we told him he was not to attend the funeral and he could not concelebrate the Mass.’
The most shocking thing said Fr Clarke, was that Walsh then attended the funeral and went with the family to a reception afterwards, where he assaulted the boy in the toilet of a pub.’
When they incarcerated him to The Curragh, he was known as a ‘watcher’ who would stand in the shower rooms and watch the other priests blowing and buggering each other. He’s since been released.
March 17th, 2010 @ 10:00 am
no mass
March 17th, 2010 @ 1:23 pm
There is no sign of any realisation of the enormity of the damage they have done to the individuals abused and destroyed.
Any individual who confronted the head honchos with abuse issues(v few) were removed or smeared.
Its all about damage limitation.
And nothing else.
And to be candid would you expect any different?
Its a corporate entity .
The original of the species.
March 17th, 2010 @ 3:15 pm
I find myself getting angrier by the day at these arrogant hypocritical fools. How much longer must the people of this island suffer at their hands.
If the govt. and gardai refuse to act then how long before people start taking justice into their own hands?
March 17th, 2010 @ 3:23 pm
I agree entirely. But who amongst us is sick enough to rape a priest? I mean the full-on, loob-free, blood and shit everywhere, violent anal rape of a tied-down priest? I wonder how long it would take before the police start an all-out investigation of that type of horror? Or our political elite move to introduce tough new measures to deal with the scourge of priest rape?
March 17th, 2010 @ 5:11 pm
The great irony of Mowls graphic solution to righting wrongs in the ol’bilical style of an eye for an eye, is that the same clergy would demand “justice” for one of their own being bummed forcibly. But the same beauts played three parish perve shuffle with horrific results.
March 17th, 2010 @ 5:12 pm
If its wasn’t for the grotesque tragedy that it blighted innocents with.
You’d have to laugh.
March 17th, 2010 @ 8:35 pm
I asked them to read Matthew 7 before posting any new petitions.. It talks about the speck and the log in someone’s eye.
March 18th, 2010 @ 9:58 pm
Just remind me what’s the big deal with celibacy? I’m sure I was told in primary school (something to do with being married to god, or is that nuns *). Fucked if I can figure out the point of it.
*Another complete waste of space
March 25th, 2010 @ 8:41 pm
More Priestly going’s on
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/vaticancityandholysee/7522133/Pope-accused-of-covering-up-abuse-of-200-boys.html
Cunts