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| DERMO MARTIN |
HETEROSEXUAL LOVE HAS BROKEN OUT AND SHOWN ITS ROMANTIC FACE AT ARCHBISHOP'S HOUSE IN DUBLIN - WITH DERMO AS THE MATCHMAKER.
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| FATHER NESTOR |
Father Dermot Nestor, the former parish priest of Churchtown, Dublin, has fallen in love with one of Dermo's secretaries at Archbishops House - Jackie Conway.
Jackie is also the mother of three children.
Because of the RC Church's rules, the couple apparently has to have a civil marriage.
But it will not be a totally secular affair - as the Best Man on the day will be Father Joe Mullan - the parish priest of Rathgar.
A very naughty Catholic journalist suggested to me that Gorgeous might be the Flower Girl :-)
Jackie is also the mother of three children.
Because of the RC Church's rules, the couple apparently has to have a civil marriage.
But it will not be a totally secular affair - as the Best Man on the day will be Father Joe Mullan - the parish priest of Rathgar.
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| FATHER JOE MULLAN |
And maybe Dermo himself might make an appearance on the day to congratulate the couple - maybe even wearing his turkey hat?
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Apparently, the Big Day is in early August.
Well, there are a couple of things we should think about this news:
1. Thank God there are still some heterosexual priests around.
2. Thank God Dermot Nestor is so honest and has decided not to live a double, hypocritical life.
I once celebrated the wedding of a young Birmingham parish priest who fell in love with his housekeeper.
His bishop forced him to leave because he was getting married.
Then bishop then replaced the priest with a former Anglican vicar who arrived in the parish with his wife and children!
The whole celibacy thing when taken to the extremes - is nothing short of madness.
Well, there are a couple of things we should think about this news:
1. Thank God there are still some heterosexual priests around.
2. Thank God Dermot Nestor is so honest and has decided not to live a double, hypocritical life.
I once celebrated the wedding of a young Birmingham parish priest who fell in love with his housekeeper.
His bishop forced him to leave because he was getting married.
Then bishop then replaced the priest with a former Anglican vicar who arrived in the parish with his wife and children!
The whole celibacy thing when taken to the extremes - is nothing short of madness.
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FRENCH PRIEST HITS UPSET CHILD DURING BAPTISM!!!
A French priest, 89, is forced to RETIRE after video of him slapping a crying baby went viral
A French Catholic priest today spoke of his shame after being forced into instant retirement for hitting a two-year-old boy for crying during his baptism.
Father Jacques Lacroix, 89, said 'I am finishing my ministry now' and that 'there is an end to everything'.
He carried out the bizarre assault during a ceremony at the Collegiate Church in Champeaux, near Melun, in the south-eastern suburbs of Paris, last Sunday.
In a video of the incident that has gone viral, a clearly irritated Father Jacques is seen shouting at the boy.
Jean-Yves, the Bishop of Meaux, said he had 'taken measures so that the priest (pictured) is suspended from all baptism and marriage celebrations'
'Calm down, calm down, you must calm down,' he says, adding 'be quiet' before squeezing the boy's face in his hands.
The priest then stares at the boy in the eyes, and slaps him hard on the cheek with his left hand.
The aggression prompts an immediate reaction from the boy's horrified parents and other family members, who finally prise him away from Father Jacques's grip.
Denying that the assault was too severe, Father Jacques told France Info radio on Friday: 'It was somewhere between a caress and a slap, I hoped to calm him down, I didn't know what to do.
'The child was screaming a lot and I had to turn his head to pour water over it.
'I told him to "calm down, calm down" but he was not calming down. I tried to hold him close. I just wanted him to calm down.
'I apologised for my clumsiness to the family. I am finishing my ministry now, it was my last baptism, there is an end to everything.'
Jean-Yves, the Bishop of Meaux, said he had 'taken measures so that the priest is suspended from all baptism and marriage celebrations.'
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The Bishop said Father Jacques would only be allowed to celebrate mass in the future if this was cleared beforehand.
He said Father Jacques had been guilty of a 'loss of coolness that can be explained but not excused'.
The Bishop added: 'This gesture is all the more regrettable because the baptism is meant to be a happy moment, but tiredness and great age clearly played a part.'
The parents have accepted the priest's apology and were happy to see the boy baptised, the Bishop added. They would not reveal how the disturbing video of the assault came to be posted on YouTube.
PAT SAYS
If I was that baby's father I would have left that arrogant old bastard stretched out unconscious on the floor.
This is the kind of behaviour, once very common, and not so common now, that has turned once Catholic countries into strongly anti-clerical countries.
This is what Catholic priests are capable of when they are not stood up to and firmly put in their place.
1. They were in a relationship for many years and were on the verge of being publicly exposed so Fr. Nestor decided to leave.
ReplyDelete2. Many men were surprised he left for a woman... according to his past.
3. Fr. Mullan is Fr. Chris Derwins parish priest and ‘encouraged’ his vocation. They are very close like keep the same type of company...Thailand springs to mind.
I cannot believe how much strength the child's father needed to release the boy from the grip of that horrible old priest.
ReplyDelete"Thank God there are still some heterosexual priests around."
ReplyDeleteHe could be bisexual, +Pat, or pansexual. There's a lot of it about.
Lancaster Diocese. Married Priests with children in 3 Parishes, ex Anglican and an Ordinariate. Absolutely strange that we have so many irregularities as you say Pat.
ReplyDeleteHow is Lancaster these days now that +Michael and ++Billing have gone?
DeleteAgreed Pat. St Andrews Cathedral Glasgow. The Administrator Monsignor McElroy has fallen in love with a lady and left after more that 25 years Ministry. Sad loss. Lovely man. He isnt allowed to stay yet the gays in Glasgow can go at it like rabbits, go to the gay sauna, have relationships with eachother or with friends from nearby Dioceses, and in one case get arrested committing a sex act on himself in Church with a vibrator and they all get to continue as usual.
ReplyDeleteI am sure it was reported that he had a teenage child and the Church knew all along so why did he have to leave? True about the saunas though. Ask Patrica McKeever. She has evidence against at least a dozen of them.
DeleteIf Patricia McKeever has the concrete evidence of the clergy going to theses seedy saunas that they call them Men's Health Clubs they are NOT they are Gay saunas she should send the evidence and the names to Archbishop Tartaglia at his home NOT the HQ and also to Archbishop Adams. but most likely GOSSIP the sauna is near the Cathedral and the HQ of the Archdiocese of Glasgow.
DeleteThe old hag, McKeever, is a witch... and probably a dyke.
DeleteThey call her, and rightly so, Patricia Van Dyke.
DeleteIlliterate gay Irishman living in Scotland who is getting enough sex but who insists on peering into the sex lives of othets, making pronouncements again. An apostollc nuncio mentioned this time too.
DeleteWhat's all this about Fr Nestor. Will he still be in post. How the world turns. Good for them both. The French Priest is a story of an inappropriate person doing an inappropriate job.
ReplyDeleteAs if Nestor could be left in post.
DeleteDidn't realise Fr Nestor had left. If a priest who leaves can only minister in danger of death what's to stop them ministering in life. Juridical rubbish
DeleteWould Canterbury agree with that Vicar
DeleteInfant baptism is child abuse!
ReplyDeleteI hope the Ardoyne fishwife has told her Anglican best buddies what she thinks about their infant baptisms.
DeleteA total mockery of Catholic marriage to have Mullan acting as best man at Nestor the home-wreckers sham wedding. I hope that the secretary gets the boot. Nestor got a big financial settlement paid for by you and me.
ReplyDeleteI see you are celebrating the "love" of the spoiled priest Dermot Nestor who reneged on his vows as a priest. I wonder how long it will be before he does the same with his marriage vows! Perhaps I'm being very naughty but I thought you would be the bridesmaid.
ReplyDeleteMy sympathies are totally with Father Jacques. Although I am twenty years younger I can already see something like that happening to me on a bad day. I used to wonder where the crabbed old priests came from. Now I know. We really should be afforded a modest retirement with our dignity intact. The bishops encourage us to be "heroic" to the end and then hang us out to dry when something like this goes wrong.
ReplyDeleteWhat planet are you on 10.06? If you think it is possible that you’d assault a child on “a bad day” then best you leave now. And don’t get me started about a modest retirement. Most Priests live a life of riley - no bills, everything paid for and numerous holidays. You will be loaded, and you will also have your Pension. Do us all a favour and resign.
Delete11.42, you should realise that 10.06 is a wind up merchant. That's very obvious. Apart from that your assertion about priests living the life of riley is patently a lie. Some may take things easy but most priests are genuine, caring men. I have a brother a priest and he's on his own in a busy parish. He's not had time off since last August. He keeps doing what he has to do but we, his family worry about his health and the heavy workload. He does not have much financially but that wouldn't be his priority. In his Diocese each priest pays for everything out of their monthly salary. You need to control your over the top assertions and deal with facts, reality and truth.
DeleteThe elderly priest in France should not have slapped the baby who was being baptised. That's unacceptable. But to make outrageous claims that this is common aming clergy is to deliberately make mischief. If any attempt was made by any priest to even attempt to touch any baby or child, he would rightly be reported to relevant authorities and asked to consider his position. There are very clear guidelines and policies which must be followed.
DeleteI strongly agree with Anon @ 11:42. It was an unwarranted assault on a defenceless child which can in no way be excused or justified.
DeleteHowever Anon @ 10:06 and 11:42 both raise an issue of interest to me, and probably others in relation to the power of bishops over their clergy.
1. What right or freedom does a diocesan priest have to retire, at 65 or some other prescribed age?
2. After retirement, what rights to support, financial, accommodation and otherwise does a retired cleric have: from his diocese or otherwise?
3. Are any entitlements under 1 & 2 above prescribed nationally, in Ireland for example, or are they at the discretion/decision/whim of individual diocesan bishops?
4. What rights of appeal exist on these matters, and to whom or what forum?
If such matters are left to the inclination of individual bishops it might explain the diocesan controlling and bullying element clerics sometimes refer to, thus leaving them in a very vulnerable exposed dependent position.
I would appreciate responses from across Ireland in particular to get a wide perspective on what is possibly a highly contentious issue. And thank you in advance for sincere objective replies.
MMM
NOYB. These are internal Catholic matters and not for you to worry your 74 year old athiest brain about.
DeleteCan we have the fake MMM back, please.
MMM,
DeleteI think that there is a general retirement salary in most diocese, and a place to live provided.
The retirement age is 75 and retiri g at 65 not the norm a d frowned upon by bishops with priest shortage.
There is no decent right of appeal except in certain cases.
Bishop's generally have priests by the short and curlies.
Bullying a.ong clergy is rife.
Many priests continue working way beyond 75 for as long as they are able or until they fall into a grave. Those who do so act voluntarily. They are not forced. They are free to retire completely at 75, if they so wish and they will still be provided for as they deserve.
DeleteA good thump never harmed anyone. We all got worse at school with lay teachers and they never got sacked. It never harmed anyone
DeleteAs a self employed person a priest should qualify for State pension at 66. I have witnessed one priest who inherited a house and having then the means to house himself and the pension income to support himself he retired. This however is rare.
DeleteIn most cases the priest is dependant on his parish for a home. Am I right in saying the dues he is allowed retain is reduced to match the pension, with dues handed over being used to pay priests in smaller parishes?
But once retired I understand the diocese retains a duty to home and pay a stipend to the priest. The location of house and amount of stipend of course is within the gift of the bishop. I have known quite a few who are thrown in nursing homes soon after 75.
At the end of the day all power rests with the bishop.
Anon @ 13:30. Please retract that insult against me.
DeleteMMM
MMM...let me quote Fr Jack Hackett:
Delete"I'm so, so sorry".
The comment at 18:01 is not from me, the 'original ' MMM.
DeleteObviously someone continues to impersonate my comments.
Pat I have now asked you several times by direct e mail for an ID code word, with no response. That's disappointing. Can you please explain?
MMM
MMM - why don't you use the blogger account that you were using to post before?
DeleteAnd, actually, how do we know that you at 22.15 are actually the "original" MMM? Just saying that you are didn't make it so. 18.01 sounds to me much more like the "original" MMM tbh.
Nor is the comment below @ 22:59 from me.
DeleteThose of you familiar with my comments will know that I am not in the habit of negative personalised comment.
I still await a response from +Pat with an ID code, and other than to briefly refute further impersonation will make no further comments.
MMM
If you log into google and set up an id you'll have an orange symbol to the left of your name. That id cannot be faked.
DeleteOHL - as you can see from the post at 22:59, MMM already has a blogger account, although he denies that it's his!
DeleteI'm sick of all his whinging about getting a code from +Pat, about impersonation, etc. when there is something MMM himself can take care of.
Thank you OneHammer.I had not known how to do that. However, looking below, you'll see that's already been done @ 17:25 & 22:59 by whoever is getting his/her 'kicks' from impersonating my comments. As I've said above, those familiar with my comments will readily recognise those two latter comments are not my usual style.
DeleteAnd frankly I have to say I'm disappointed that despite my several requests, +Pat has not replied to my mails, yet I can see that he has been active on the site.
MMM
For goodness' sake - that was NOT me at 11:20. It's NOT me that is constantly going on about getting a code from +Pat.
DeleteMMM
I hear that the secretary in question never got the boot. She got a pay rise
ReplyDeleteWell she does have another mouth to feed now.
DeleteBless them. They might ring you to do a proper wedding!
DeleteI didn’t realise who the woman was. I know her now. I thought she was some drunken old tart at first.
DeleteThat Priest involved in the baptism needs a severe kick in the balls
ReplyDeleteThe priest's bishop said his actions could be explained but not excused. I don't think anyone is going to say that he was right to slap the child or to hold him so tight that the child had to be prised away from him. However, he is 89 years of age, and I wonder could this explanation to which he bishop alludes be dementia or some age-related illness which affects his behaviour. Clearly if this is the case, he should not be in public ministry, but he has presumably been a priest for over sixty years and has not attracted the attention of the media for this sort of thing before (as far as we know). Even if a priest had "anger issues" I find it hard to believe that he would act out in this way - surrounded by several other people and while being recorded. I've known many "crabbed old priests" (to use 10.06's term) but none so crabbed that they would hit a baby for crying.
ReplyDeleteI think it's right that he be removed from ministry - I am not excusing what he did - but maybe we shouldn't be so quick to judge the man.
Anon @ 12:43 - totally agree.
DeleteSounds like a balanced and considerate approach to me.
DeleteFr Joe - no fear of him getting married not to a woman anyway. Someone mentioned Derwin. Joe is also friends with Gorgeous. I know he likes the finer things in life and does travel extensively.
ReplyDeleteOf course, Rathgar is not a shanty town :-)
DeleteNot exactly the humility Jesus might expect. A man who travelled on a donkey. There is a lot of rot in the institutional Church of Rome.
DeleteJoe used to teach homiletics in Maynooth too.
DeleteCan you let us know if you've found out wither the "alleged suicide attempt" by Sean Jones was true or false?
ReplyDeleteHave not been able to verify one way or another.
DeleteAlthough the trads are doing very well in France, the liberal French church is kaput, just like their counterparts elsewhere in Europe. That's why you have 89 year olds doing baptisms. Once these old-timers go, there'll just be the trad priests left.
ReplyDeleteThen the real renewal can begin.
I personally am not at all attracted to the Trad Mass etc.
DeleteBut of course those who are should be facilitated.
Remember most of the a use scandals involved priests who said the Trad Mass!
Wrong use of cause and effect...
DeleteThat's why the mad "trads" are weeded out at Gaynooth asap.
DeleteYes, 15:11, with fine lads like Puck, Gorgeous, Gannon and Derwin living the dream. The non-trads who are ordained tend not to stay in ministry. The silver jubilee class gathering at the Maynooth Union this year was the smallest ever. Most of the class has left.
Delete13.27 Delusional - not at all factual.
DeleteActually, 22:18, it is factual. The official data from the Church in France (http://www.eglise.catholique.fr/) a couple of years ago showed that the average age of its roughly 14000 priests is 75. The number of ordinations for the country cannot match the huge number of priests who will retire or die in the coming decades. By 2038 the number of "ordinary" priests in France may be as low as 600.
DeleteTraditionalist groups on the contrary are growing in France. At the moment they form only about 3% of the presbyterate, but if the upward trajectory continues for traditionalist ordinations and the downward trajectory continues for "ordinary" ordinations, by 2038 more than half of Catholic priests in France will be traditionalists.
Of course it is not the case that Catholicism is booming in France. However, young people who remain Catholic are being nourished by the traditional form, and that is where the faith is flourishing.
Not delusional at all. Just fact.
Hi Brendan
ReplyDeleteShut up fanny. It’s Sunday. I’ve done me arr father today. It’s MY time now.
DeleteAren’t yiz all very brave lining up to beat up that 89 year old priest, Buckley included, who obviously wasn’t fit to be working in the first place???
ReplyDeleteNot a word about the many good priests who give good and faithful service well into their 80’s and older who never cause anyone any problem.
But this one old guy who’s clearly not right and you’re all gonna knock him unconscious, kick his balls in, blah blah blah. Says more about all of ye shower of w****ers.
Swearing isn’t the answer 1502. The elderly Priest committed a a common assault (provided no marks left, if marks then actual bodily harm). We don’t know why he is still active at that age or if he was covering, but we must presume he is of sound mind and body or he would not be working. Good that he has stepped down and I wouldn’t shout too loudly about the person above who said he needs a kick in the balls. If he had slapped my son then he’d have gotten exactly that! Best approach now it to pray for the man.
Delete18.38 is like most on here. You must feel a big man wanting to assault an 89 year old man. All talk and no action, big girls blouse more like.
Delete18:38 Your prayer in those circumstances would be a meaningless waste of time. It would be more christian to pray for your own conversion.
DeletePope Francis: "Many forces have tried, and still do, to destroy the Church, from without as well as within, but they themselves are destroyed and the Church remains alive and fruitful ..... she remains inexplicably solid." Yes, Buckley ..... "You are Peter and on this rock I will build my Church ...." Despite your inflated egoism, you will not destroy the Church. Have you tried to be exorcized .... you are full of evil!!!!!!
ReplyDeleteI do not want to destroy the Church - the Body of Christ.
DeleteI want to see the end of the evil man made institution that is choking the Church.
I do not want to kill the tree.
I want to kill the poisonous ivy that is choking the life out of the tree.
You are a joke! What is your Gospel? Hate? Accusations without evidence? Destruction of peoples' character? Sorry, you are the poisonous ivy! "On this rock I will build my Church." You, Buckley, are satan's voice in today's world! I asked before, and I ask again, what are your Beatitudes????
DeleteI could not outdo the Beatitudes of Jesus.
DeleteBut here is a creed I wrote one time:
A CREED
Bishop Pat Buckley
We believe in God. A Personal, Loving God.
We believe in Jesus Christ the Son of God.
We believe that God created us and all things.
We believe the process of Creation to be a Mystery.
A never-ending and all-enduring Mystery.
We believe in the total equality of all.
We believe God to be Glorious.
Gloriously Colour Blind; Gloriously Gender Blind;
Gloriously Creed Blind; Gloriously Disability Blind;
Gloriously Sexual Orientation Blind.
We believe that God is glorified in Diversity.
That God’s Other Name is Eternal Diversity.
We believe in the human heart’s quest for Truth.
That all of Life and Faith is a Journey.
That all of us are on the Personal / Shared Journey.
We are assured of our Final Destination - God;
The unknown Journey being the Challenge and the Thrill.
We believe in Freedom.
Freedom of Thought. Freedom of Expression.
The Freedom to be our Worst or Best Selves.
But we also believe in Consequences.
We believe that Heaven and Hell are merely options.
That Life presents us with tickets to both.
And that we ourselves choose the Final Bus;
Leaving one ticket lying in the rain.
We believe in Love - Divine Love - Human Love.
In a Set of Arms that embrace the Universe.
And in a Finale beyond Our Wildest Dreams.
Appropriately enough for the way you operate your blog, your creed doesn’t affirm a belief in truth.
Delete15.44 - not a trinitarian creed. Where’s the Holy Spirit?
DeleteSorry. Pat.
ReplyDeleteI can't agree with your Creed.
It's all very nice and VaticanII but the Jesus that I believe in is the Jesus of John's gospel chapter 1. He;s God the Son and the God of the Old Testament as well as of the New. For those that hate Him He visits the iniquities of the fathers upon the sons even to the third and the fourth generation.
I was expressing only one, simple facet of the Divine Diamond :-)
Delete16:02
DeleteYours is a very selective biblical hermeneutic.
That’s exactly what the God of the Hebrew Bible does not do - visiting iniquities from former generations on those of the future. Well at least, not since Ezekiel 18 - and that goes back to the early 6th Acentury BCE.
I know psychology has been introduced for applicants to the priesthood in recent years. Is this to ascertain if the man presenting himself is mad ? I think it’s fair to say anyone in their right sound mind would not present as a potential future priest. It’s a dysfunctional unhealthy lifestyle. If I was the diocese I’d refer the candidate to be sectioned under the mental health act as he is clearly unstable and potentially dangerous to himself, others or both.
ReplyDeleteWhat are you on about? Psychological assessment has been going on for years.
DeleteActions of the French priest shouldn't surprise anyone. When I was at school, right into the early 80's it was common practice for some priests and all "Christian" brothers I encountered to beat the crap out of you if you annoyed them. Thought they were untouchable and could do whatever they wanted. Parents in those days were afraid to confront them because God had called them and they were fearful of incurring God's wrath. Pat is right. The Da should have laid the oul b@@@@@d out. Sadly amongst some of my colleagues, this old school train of thought still exists; that we are the chosen ones, we are untouchable. I won't even talk to a child unless there is another adult present. I hope the French priest is prosecuted to send out a message to others of the same ilk. What is happening to our Church? We have allowed evil to prosper. I pray that God will open our eyes and our ears to let us hear Jesus. My heart is broken by what I continue to see not only in my own diocese but in others.
ReplyDeleteCan we infer from your comments “Anonymous Believer in christ (sic)” that you are a priest?
DeleteNot the brightest are you? Your literary skills leave a lot to be desired for someone who, presumably, was educated to at least undergraduate level. ‘Thick as two short planks’, as my Dad would have said.
What a load of twaddle!
ReplyDeleteAnd the previous comments are right. There are some good elderly priests. Sadly they are in the minority given the indoctrination that we receive
ReplyDeleteWlll said Pat. Shame you’ve not got Church in the Lancaster Diocese. I’d be there every week as would a number of my friends. God bless you for the work that you do.
ReplyDeleteLancaster Diocese is under new management. Bishop Campbell and his PA Fr Robert Billing have gone. The new man is Bishop Paul Swarbrick who is a loving and gentle man with a sense of humour. Parish dodging Billing is hiding in SJV Parish, Blackpool with his close young handsome friend until he moves to Canada to study Canon law. Campbell is living in Hammersmith Presbytery with the Augustinians.
Delete18.43 I suspect that your new bishop was the cousin of Judith Swarbrick who was a satellite secular and died about 10 years ago. If he is like her, he will be prayerful, a man of great faith, high intelligence and very humble. You are truly blessed!
Deleteoops that should be Carmelite secular.
DeleteWas Fr Darcy interviewed during the Fermanagh match?
ReplyDeleteBrian D, Arlene and Stalford all had a big laugh and pow wow after the game. I think the only woman among them was Brian and an auld one at that. Big Butch Arlene even managed to kiss Darcy on the cheek. She must have felt a pity of him that he was never allowed to marry.
DeleteEven on a hot day like today's, Big Butch Arlene would have gone home for a big Fermanagh roast dinner with lots of spuds and gravy.
DeleteHis prayers for the team didn't go well. Jinxed it if you ask me.
ReplyDelete1142. If your brother is a Priest then you should know that they don’t pay their own way. No rent or mortgage, no bills, no food to worry about, phone and car usually paid for etc. If your brother hasn’t had any time off since last August then I am afraid that is his own fault and he must look after himself more. I don’t dispute that some Priests work hard, but let’s be honest. They don’t get up at 5 in the morning, work 12-14 hour days and need to spent £2000 a year travelling to work. They receive a modest allowance and this combined with stipends usually covers a couple of holidays. Most Priests I know also know people who let them use a Villa or holiday home free. Rarely do Priests do house calls and most only say 1 Mass a day. I would say the job is steady rather than exhausting! Although some do work hard I accept.
ReplyDeleteYou twit1 No idea and yet makes pronouncements. Get a life, you sad little person.
DeleteA priest pays for his own food and car expenses. He doesn’t pay rent because the house belongs to the parish and he is a kind of live in caretaker while he is there. He can be moved elsewhere without much notice and that can be a bit disconcerting. Some priests have private means but many depend entirely on the stipend they receive. They are entitled to a modest standard of living. You get lazy people in every walk of life - human nature. Most priests are not living the ‘life of Reilly’ but are dealing with people often at their lowest and most vulnerable. It can be very stressful.
Delete18.33: Obviously each Diocese is different. In my diocese each priest gets a monthly salary out of which he pays for everything, apart from a mortgage and we get only one allowance, phone rental. I know my workload is not equal to that of parents with children or those who have to rise early and travel long hours but quite honestly, the fact that we are now reduced almost to being on our own and ageing, it is challenging to keep in contact with everyone and be imaginative all the time. It is often difficult to gauge the real needs of parishioners. We are human beings and therefore subject to the same human vagaries as everyone else. I am not complaining but 46 years on after ordination, I try my best but I would not choose priesthood today. The climate of today's world is very dismissive of priesthood and often unappreciative. Yet, I trust in God to guide me in my ministry and availability to people.
ReplyDeleteGod bless you Father. 46 years is fantastic. Thanks for all you do. I am saying a prayer for you tonight.
Delete20.13 Fair and Honest. God bless. We do need priests today perhaps a bit like Eliga or John the Baptist
ReplyDeleteWe don’t need priests. They’re all perverts.
ReplyDelete21.10
DeleteThe planet doesn’t need human beings. They are all.......
21.10: It takes a twisted, perverted mind to make such an ignorant comment. Stay sitting on the loo!! It might eventually all pour out where it's supposed to go!! You twit.
Delete+Pat, I wonder does Coddle have a fish supper after reading your blog. I hope the truth doesn’t cause him indigestion. He isn’t living off grass. He is getting more fat living off the share collection every day.
ReplyDeleteYou are right but why is the world dismissive of us as priests. It is because as an organisation we have failed and sadly some of our colleagues and leaders have taken their eyes off the cross. Like you, I too trust in God to give us the strength to minister to the people, to minister the gospels. Our church is losing sight of the gospels and has allowed sin, avarice and pride to creep in. We are fortunate in some ways that our workload is not as challenging physically as others but it is becoming more mentally draining trying to preach the good news of the gospels whilst trying to fly below the radar of our leaders. I love being a priest. I am very blessed to be a priest. It is a privilege being a priest. It is not,however, a privilege having to put up with man made rules that have nothing whatsoever to do with the teachings of Jesus. Our church needs reformed if it's not too late. Pope Francis is trying but is facing constant and consistent roadblocks and barriers by our own church. I pray that God will give those obstructionists ears to hear and eyes to see that HE is sovereign and it's HIS way or the highway.
ReplyDeleteGod Bless Bishop Trainor of D&C who will celebrate 10 years of his Episcopal Ordination this week. Poor auld crater.
ReplyDelete21:10 We do need priests, good holy priests they are not all perverts You Cretin!
ReplyDeleteFr Nestor is well lush. No wonder he's beating off the ladies with a stick.
ReplyDeleteRe: Priest recruitment.
ReplyDeletePSYCHOLOGICAL ASSESSMENT my arse,it's been going on for years after The Liberal Elite and the"Mad Mods" got into power. It has not worked look what we got abusers and men with no vocation. All we hear from these"Mad Mods" is renewal updating and downplaying anything Catholic. It is not renewal we need but a RETURN to the iron discipline of The Church. His Eminence the late John Cardinal Heenen said in 1972 "Long before the year 2000 their will be no institution recognizable as The Catholic Church of today". How right he was!
Cardinal Heenan, after seeing the Novus Ordo demonstrated in the Sistine chapel, said that its introduction would lead to a congregation of women and children only. How right he was on that too.
Delete24 June 23:19. Yes he has been a bishop in our diocese for ten years and has overseen an 80% decrease in church attendance. Does nothing. A very aloof man who doesn't want to be here. Would prefer to be sitting behind his desk in Brussels and hasn't got over the disappointment of losing out in the Armagh diocese due to his false accusations The diocese is run by the egotistical queen, O'Hagan( look at me and there's no one like me) and enforcer in chief "wee Joe". Sooner we get good leadership the better but D and C has never been known (well not in my time) for having good bishops. After snobby Philbin we had Herr Cahal Daly followed by the psychological and emotional abuser Paddy Sniff and now we have Treanor. Sorry McKeown didn't get it.
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