Most holy Bertie on the bishops
Here’s former Taoiseach Bertie Ahern talking in the Irish Examiner about the criticisms levelled at the bishops in the light of the Murphy Report: I mean it’s difficult for them all. I don’t know what’s going to happen. I mean they are all saying different things as far as I can see. Some of them [...]
Prosecute them all
See any priest that abused a child? Prosecute him. I don’t care if he’s 90 years of age and dribbling down his chin. Prosecute him. See any bishop that covered it up, that moved a priest, that helped that priest abuse again? Prosecute him. Any archbishop or cardinal, any lay person or any health worker, [...]
Brian Coward
As the faithful go to mass today – and I’m sure poor attendance will be because of the rain, nothing else – what leadership has the Taoiseach shown in the wake of the Dublin report? People want to see criminals prosecuted, whether they’re priests, bishops, archbishops, cardinals, lay people, Gardai who failed to act or [...]
It is time to turn our back on the criminal catholic church ltd
The audio clip below is a Father Tom Doyle, an expert in canon law, speaking to RTE’s Prime Time … in 2002 (hat tip @mark_coughlan). His final words – “There’s something radically, radically wrong”. Yesterday we discovered how wrong. The Dublin Diocesan report was published. It catalogues the systematic and constant abuse of children by [...]
Mental reservation
Words fail me. There’s so much to digest in the Dublin Diocesan report but this report in the Irish Times is just gobsmacking. “Mental reservation”. What utter cunts. More thoughts on it tomorrow … If you can wade through it the report itself is here.
