tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3543129696041324861.post7161470331821494201..comments2024-03-12T19:57:41.861+00:00Comments on THINKING CATHOLICISM: "SABBATICALS" AND "FURTHER STUDIES"Thinking Catholicismhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16589713565062075036noreply@blogger.comBlogger36125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3543129696041324861.post-59173141529633177622016-09-07T10:43:45.026+01:002016-09-07T10:43:45.026+01:00To make a statement such as this, Rasputin, you mu...To make a statement such as this, Rasputin, you must have proof.<br />What is it?????<br />This is clearly an illogical - probably insane conclusion - give your evidence?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3543129696041324861.post-61195199563841720422016-09-04T23:00:47.385+01:002016-09-04T23:00:47.385+01:00And your point is, ..........??????????
MMMAnd your point is, ..........??????????<br />MMMMourneManMichaelnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3543129696041324861.post-78963169074936955692016-09-04T22:44:01.306+01:002016-09-04T22:44:01.306+01:00I am told that one of the Big Dean's favourite...I am told that one of the Big Dean's favourite stories - with which he regaled many a stupefyingly bored listener at a dinner table - was about Cardinal Hume after some big Do taking off his vestments and accoutrements. <br /><br />Seemingly, once he took off his cassock he was only wearing a vest (and trousers of course) and some of his flesh was exposed. <br /><br />A nearby minion was watching this shedding of garments and, according to the Dean, George Basil (who was a decent enough old skin) said to the minion: "yes, underneath all that, I am only flesh after all".<br /><br />I would loved to have said to the Dean: "well, what the f**k did he think was going to be there? Fur???" ;-)<br /><br />Btw, any sightings of the Yeti around Chelsea or Sloane Square these days? I hear he cuts a lonesome figure, like Francis Thompson, staring vacantly into the Thames.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3543129696041324861.post-64477213655441376752016-09-04T22:34:28.495+01:002016-09-04T22:34:28.495+01:00He'd be sixty-two at the time... dirty old bug...He'd be sixty-two at the time... dirty old bugger.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3543129696041324861.post-41395499518096260142016-09-04T22:22:26.017+01:002016-09-04T22:22:26.017+01:00I am finding some othe contributions to this blog ...I am finding some othe contributions to this blog which are fom catholic clerics very dark and strange. Have we any hetros left in the church? Out of the dozens of priests, bishops and cardinals that I have met and worked with only 2 were straight.<br />God help us all.<br />I have no homophobic leaning but I draw the line at hiprocasy.<br /><br />RasputinAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3543129696041324861.post-85849482530950126482016-09-04T22:01:38.168+01:002016-09-04T22:01:38.168+01:00Yes, they were O'Brien's victims - not his...Yes, they were O'Brien's victims - not his "lovers". <br /><br />That big bastard once gave a retreat to the priests of Down and Connor at Garron Tower in 2000 and talked about having fallen in love once with a woman. <br /><br />A whole load of horsehite as we know now. He was eying up the young priests at the time. <br /><br />I do recall, however, overhearing the former Dean of Belfast saying how "taken" he was with Keith Patrick's "honesty", "humanity" and "openness". <br /><br />I think a phrase the ex-Dean used was - "the sheer humanity of the man", uttered in that slightly breathless, giddy, voice he falls into, when he is somewhat starstruck, smitten or spellbound. LOLAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3543129696041324861.post-7811331288974901452016-09-04T21:59:30.775+01:002016-09-04T21:59:30.775+01:00Before any gay priest who leaves can ask for trust...Before any gay priest who leaves can ask for trust from the lgbt community he needs to earn it to join the community.<br /><br />We need to remember that the following Church doctrines need to be firmly opposed and despised and renounced.<br /><br />That even one act of gay sex is a serious sin that deserves everlasting damnation.<br /><br />That if a gay man is meticulous about safer sex because he has loads of partners and harms nobody he is still bad and a sinner.<br /><br />That it is okay to honour a Bible that has violent homophobic revelations from God.<br /><br />That Jesus having had gay sex would mean he was not God's divine son.<br /><br /><br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3543129696041324861.post-5276105914979230982016-09-04T21:46:53.882+01:002016-09-04T21:46:53.882+01:00Probably passive, legs akimbo, like O'Brien.Probably passive, legs akimbo, like O'Brien. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3543129696041324861.post-20163904165530690072016-09-04T21:37:55.604+01:002016-09-04T21:37:55.604+01:00Brendan is cute. I'll take him on a date if he...Brendan is cute. I'll take him on a date if hes interested. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3543129696041324861.post-53763441274597916482016-09-04T21:35:40.767+01:002016-09-04T21:35:40.767+01:00Worth a try? - "Take, for example, the spirit...Worth a try? - "Take, for example, the spiritual and physical penalties declared by the 4th Century architect of Eastern monasticism, St. Basil of Cesarea (322-379AD), for the cleric or monk caught making sexual advances (kissing) or sexually molesting young boys or men. The convicted offender was to be whipped in public, deprived of his tonsure (head shaven), bound in chains and imprisoned for six months, after which he was to be contained in a separate cell and ordered to undergo severe penances and prayer vigils to expedite his sins under the watchful eye of an elder spiritual brother. His diet was that of water and barley bread - the fodder of animals. Outside his cell, while engaged in manual labor and moving about the monastery, the pederast monk was to be always monitored by two fellow monks to insure that he never again had any contact with young men or boys."Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3543129696041324861.post-82133558759499883792016-09-04T21:30:47.451+01:002016-09-04T21:30:47.451+01:00Sometimes totally fanatical or unsuitable candidat...Sometimes totally fanatical or unsuitable candidates for the priesthood end up leaving the likes of Maynooth and get ordained by some order. Declan Gibson of the Raphoe Diocese, a nephew of the famous violinist Tommy Peoples, was notorious for years for violent aggravated robberies and violence. He had a criminal record. He does not come across as very mentally stable on the personal level. He joined the Franciscan Friars of the Renewal and is now a priest of the French extremist Catholic order, Missionaries of the Holy Eucharist. I approve of banning the burka but I think the state needs to ban the kind of habits those orders put their members in. It is very intimidating and too different from the norm for comfort. It clearly shows those men are navel gazers for the clothing is just a dehumanising barrier.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3543129696041324861.post-82721221892827297532016-09-04T21:26:20.929+01:002016-09-04T21:26:20.929+01:00Arrogance, conceit, ego and self importance know n...Arrogance, conceit, ego and self importance know no bounds among some clergy. Sadly, when those attributes are tinged with a tad of feeling untouchable a painful downfall can sometimes follow.<br />There was an aptly appropriate quotation in the Illiad, I think.<br />"Those whom the gods will destroy they will first make mad!<br />Maghera Micky<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3543129696041324861.post-42122056989133210912016-09-04T21:24:35.578+01:002016-09-04T21:24:35.578+01:00Gives a total new meaning to lost on active servic...Gives a total new meaning to lost on active service!! :-)<br /><br />RasputinAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3543129696041324861.post-60120603486340691642016-09-04T21:23:28.845+01:002016-09-04T21:23:28.845+01:00“Spend time in prayer” can also mean permanent exi...“Spend time in prayer” can also mean permanent exile, or even a substitute for signing on at the local JobCentre. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3543129696041324861.post-66758113731820635532016-09-04T21:14:52.448+01:002016-09-04T21:14:52.448+01:00Was Collins 'active'?Was Collins 'active'?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3543129696041324861.post-82678015566494026172016-09-04T21:12:00.551+01:002016-09-04T21:12:00.551+01:00Those priests weren't his lovers; they were hi...Those priests weren't his lovers; they were his victims.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3543129696041324861.post-80681233152794618082016-09-04T21:09:50.530+01:002016-09-04T21:09:50.530+01:00Which is?Which is?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3543129696041324861.post-10995328511079356732016-09-04T21:05:17.342+01:002016-09-04T21:05:17.342+01:00If someone was covertly 'active' while in ...If someone was covertly 'active' while in ministry one would think they wouldn’t be brazen enough to make such videos. Would you not want to keep your head below the parapet?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3543129696041324861.post-60842410845430677262016-09-04T21:02:11.044+01:002016-09-04T21:02:11.044+01:00This is not particularly unusual. Some people are ...This is not particularly unusual. Some people are just more suited to the life of an order. Dominican’s are having a huge spurt in vocations at the minute. He will still be an ordained priest but will have to go through all the stages of becoming a Dominican. Nothing suspicious here. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3543129696041324861.post-87974928074890397592016-09-04T20:52:42.571+01:002016-09-04T20:52:42.571+01:00I often wonder if priests like Fr Brendon ‘Bedsgoo...I often wonder if priests like Fr Brendon ‘Bedsgood’ Collins are coerced into making statements opposing same-sex marriage, etc. because the Church know all the embarrassing facts about someone. I always thought that was the case with Keith O’Brien being forced by the Vatican to make ever increasing outlandish statements about homosexuality and same-sex marriage until, finally, his former priestly lovers put a stop to him.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3543129696041324861.post-14327440102081203262016-09-04T20:43:20.918+01:002016-09-04T20:43:20.918+01:00+Pat you are right that some sabbaticals never end...+Pat you are right that some sabbaticals never end - there was one PP who when onto 'further studies' in Derry quite a number of years ago never to be heard from again - name no longer on Diocesan website and thats not to mention the MIAs named but have no appointmentAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3543129696041324861.post-69715492981754296662016-09-04T20:34:54.268+01:002016-09-04T20:34:54.268+01:00Sabbaticals often never end. We will havento wait ...Sabbaticals often never end. We will havento wait until 2017 to see if BC returns.Thinking Catholicismhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16589713565062075036noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3543129696041324861.post-63504840046435732892016-09-04T20:34:46.825+01:002016-09-04T20:34:46.825+01:00An interesting list of changes though never heard ...An interesting list of changes though never heard of a diocesan priest leaving to become a novice in an order - why would this be the case and is it common?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3543129696041324861.post-18576657853206747032016-09-04T20:32:56.181+01:002016-09-04T20:32:56.181+01:00Thank you for that reply +Bishop - I accept it cam...Thank you for that reply +Bishop - I accept it came to you via e-mail and you posted what you got - it seems the person who send you the e-mail then was the one who delibarately left out the end of the sentence out. I can only conclude that this is someone up to no goodAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3543129696041324861.post-25424657318216856262016-09-04T20:24:52.231+01:002016-09-04T20:24:52.231+01:00Brendan and Charlie have more than one thing in co...Brendan and Charlie have more than one thing in common.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com