tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3543129696041324861.post8608032723914412643..comments2024-03-12T19:57:41.861+00:00Comments on THINKING CATHOLICISM: FATHER DALLAT - WHY RUN AWAY?Thinking Catholicismhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16589713565062075036noreply@blogger.comBlogger66125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3543129696041324861.post-78250589186897924012015-03-22T17:28:03.670+00:002015-03-22T17:28:03.670+00:00Had the woman been sexually assaulted or robbed wh...Had the woman been sexually assaulted or robbed whilst asleep, that would be exploitation. However, she was happy to fund and maintain a relationship. If you call a spade a spade, she was willingly sleeping with a priest. She is at least on a par with a 'home wrecker'.<br /><br />The only exploitation I can see if of Buckley and the media - in order for 'Linda' to get her pound of flesh.<br /><br />There are two equally guilty parties in this sad affair. Along with an ex-priest with a penchant for website hits.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3543129696041324861.post-26523899221249812692015-03-21T12:24:03.431+00:002015-03-21T12:24:03.431+00:00Can you tell us?Can you tell us?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3543129696041324861.post-62401106993611352712015-03-21T11:20:43.511+00:002015-03-21T11:20:43.511+00:00Who are Siobhan, Deirdre and Liz?Who are Siobhan, Deirdre and Liz?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3543129696041324861.post-8940019591448734882015-03-21T10:16:24.589+00:002015-03-21T10:16:24.589+00:00You have more time than most to read over your typ...You have more time than most to read over your typing or predictive text. Do you know what predictive text is? As for your derived influences, I suggest that the imagery of Mr Toad is very apt. Well done contributor, spot on friend.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3543129696041324861.post-22768650676672030482015-03-21T10:06:47.037+00:002015-03-21T10:06:47.037+00:00Well done dear blogger, these PP and pretend cleri...Well done dear blogger, these PP and pretend clerics need to clear off. If you do not want to serve us as our priests and within the rules of our church, fine! Clear off and fook off, stop all this fraudulent behaviour please. Join Buckley or something. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3543129696041324861.post-62154843998387176692015-03-21T10:03:16.875+00:002015-03-21T10:03:16.875+00:00As long as you get the point Mr Toad MMM. I just y...As long as you get the point Mr Toad MMM. I just yawned whilst typing, apols to your arrogance. I hope I haven't insulted you OCD or is it undiagnosed EBD? Go on you keyboard Buckley blog warrior! Change the world. LMAOAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3543129696041324861.post-3149768525511008662015-03-21T02:10:39.249+00:002015-03-21T02:10:39.249+00:00The abrupt non grammatical end of this post, missp...The abrupt non grammatical end of this post, misspelling in penultimate line, and failure to understand the parallel of the basic concept of the organic need to uproot before renewal suggests C2H5OH derived influences.<br />MourneManMichaelAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3543129696041324861.post-1040352711548086932015-03-21T01:51:09.287+00:002015-03-21T01:51:09.287+00:00Just another incomprehensible inarticulate comment...Just another incomprehensible inarticulate comment from someone with limited articulatation capacity. Maybe that ties in to limitations in certain other capacities?<br />MMMAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3543129696041324861.post-66759511513715789432015-03-20T23:19:56.213+00:002015-03-20T23:19:56.213+00:00Before 12 weeks of pregnancy a loss is know as a s...Before 12 weeks of pregnancy a loss is know as a spontaneous abortion not a misscarriage and at five weeks most women don't even know they are pregnant it is just like having a period the only way of knowing is testing blood and urine for presence of specific hormones (i am from a medical background and a mother of 6 + 1 late stage misscage at 18weeks) no doctor would be testing for a miscarriage at 5 weeks think your facts are wrongAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3543129696041324861.post-22965669436861884862015-03-20T23:13:16.275+00:002015-03-20T23:13:16.275+00:00One response, FOOK Off PP. Lay and faithful lay wo...One response, FOOK Off PP. Lay and faithful lay woman! Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3543129696041324861.post-16857195586287074962015-03-20T23:12:01.691+00:002015-03-20T23:12:01.691+00:00MMM, you are as perverse as Buckley, although I wo...MMM, you are as perverse as Buckley, although I would add that you are a little more intellectually arrogant, the Mr Toad of the Buckley blog! As for the shaking of the tree,, eemm, what do you mean by this? I am an ex Catholic, I have no great love for my ex Church, but neither do I harbour pleasure in fault. Have you ever heard the sating, it is not WHAT you say it is HOW you say it! My objection to this kind of keyboard warrior behaviour levels there. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3543129696041324861.post-88297370903895901042015-03-20T22:52:35.033+00:002015-03-20T22:52:35.033+00:00I am a catholic parishioner of a parish that ciara...I am a catholic parishioner of a parish that ciaran Dallat served in. I am deeply saddened by the recent revelations and did'nt want to believe the story .there is no shame in making a mistake as God is forgiving but cannot understand why Ciaran didn't take the time out to make the decisions he obviously needed to make. Both parties knew they were wrong and whilst they were consenting adults this not excuse Ciaran of the deception he was living on a day to day basis in his ministry. I really question the trust that parishioners place in their priests and feel that it will be a long time before I will trust the priests that are part of our parish. The rule of celibacy needs to be changed but in many professions there are rules that don't make sense but as employees you abide by them or stand up to the consequences. The woman involved in this case did have the choice to say no. There are no winners in this situation. I only hope that all parties get the healing they so obviously need..Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3543129696041324861.post-21000375988715938132015-03-20T22:47:44.040+00:002015-03-20T22:47:44.040+00:00How utterly disgusting comparing CD with St Joseph...How utterly disgusting comparing CD with St Joseph and Our Lord!! What an idiot you are!!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3543129696041324861.post-9494374021108908642015-03-20T21:31:33.245+00:002015-03-20T21:31:33.245+00:00It wasn't exactly rocket science to work out s...It wasn't exactly rocket science to work out since she published dates and times Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3543129696041324861.post-29318804313867747342015-03-20T21:31:02.543+00:002015-03-20T21:31:02.543+00:00I would welcome fellow Priests of Down & Conn...I would welcome fellow Priests of Down & Connor to reply to my blog entry of 18:23, regardless of whether you are in agreement with my views or not. Discussion is healthy. <br /><br />Priest of D&C.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3543129696041324861.post-78782969817909967372015-03-20T20:05:41.200+00:002015-03-20T20:05:41.200+00:00Or SHAME. Or GUILT ?Or SHAME. Or GUILT ?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3543129696041324861.post-54766830865490893092015-03-20T19:54:45.634+00:002015-03-20T19:54:45.634+00:00How wise he is to remain silent. In the Bible, St ...How wise he is to remain silent. In the Bible, St Joseph never uttered one word. And when Jesus was faced with condemnation he did not defen himself.<br />Sometime silence is a sign of true strength.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3543129696041324861.post-13889963513162867082015-03-20T19:20:29.759+00:002015-03-20T19:20:29.759+00:00Could that come from being deprived of a laundry r...Could that come from being deprived of a laundry room 30 years ago - and ever since?<br /><br />There are only 2 things the R C Hierarch fear:<br /><br />1. Publicity.<br /><br />2. The loss of money and finances.Thinking Catholicismhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16589713565062075036noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3543129696041324861.post-53591519170633241592015-03-20T19:15:51.580+00:002015-03-20T19:15:51.580+00:00Yes - this is the "norm" :-)
Any streng...Yes - this is the "norm" :-)<br /><br />Any strength I have I get it from a passion for justice embedded in my by mr Dad who was an old socialist and Dublin trade unionist.<br /><br />And without being stupid or pious - I seem to have a strong faith in God. Thinking Catholicismhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16589713565062075036noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3543129696041324861.post-14360666235722387852015-03-20T19:05:55.450+00:002015-03-20T19:05:55.450+00:00Reading this afternoon's blogs has given me th...Reading this afternoon's blogs has given me the impression that several individuals of like mind, have either met or communicated, and agreed a concerted personal attack on Pat Buckley and his blogsite. There is a similarity of content in the blogs.<br />Furthermore, it seems to me those individuals are of the mentality I referred to when I posted at 15:04 on the previous blog, and indicated therein the typical traits of instinctively negatively inclined individuals who resent any alteration to the cocoon of their myopic opinions and beliefs. Perhaps their agenda is simply to preserve the status quo of their privileges.<br />The Titanic was full of highly privileged people!<br /><br />For what it's worth, having followed Pat's blogsite for about a year.<br />I do not agree with everything Pat Buckley says or does. Indeed sometimes i think he's a little too 'over the top'. I do not believe or share any of his beliefs in god, Jesus as god, nor the validity of Christianity. I was reared a catholic, trained for six years as a priest in an Irish major seminary, leaving before ordination, and over the following 10/20 years 'drifted away' from those childhood beliefs, and now, over 70, regard myself as a committed Humanist.<br /> But I think there probably was a highly charismatic, enigmatic powerful personality, a human individual called Jesus, who demonstrated remarkable qualities of care, love and compassion, so much so that he left a core of followers who subsequently elevated his status to that of the Messiah much longed for by the Jews.<br /><br />I do believe that what Pat says and does is deeply motivated by compassion and respect for indivduals, especially those disadvantaged and disempowered. I think he strongly identifies with the underdogs marginalised by powerful institutions. I believe he follows his understanding of the core Christian principles as taught by Jesus and the early Christian church, and is very disenheartened by the way those benign teachings have been corrupted by the institutionalised vested interests of the powermongers of the RC church.<br /><br />I share his views of the lack of integrity in much of the institution of the RC church's clerical hierarchy, but I equally recognise the honesty and committment of many, probably the majority of ordinary RC priests who follow their consciences and church's benign teachings, and faithfully serve their parishoners.<br />So I wish Pat well in every respect in exposing the duplicity and arrogance of the RC hierarchy and in particular those who take advantage of their position as ministers to feed on rather than nourish their flock. <br />So for those who wish to preserve the status quo, consider the huge changes to your church in past 50 years alone, and the words of Ecclesiastes:<br />"For everything there is a season, and a time for every matter under heaven,<br /> ......a time to be born, and a time to die;<br /> .......a time to break down and a time to build up;<br /> ........a time to plant and a time to pluck up what is planted."<br />Keep shaking the tree Pat.<br />MourneManMichaelAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3543129696041324861.post-88517527437983755232015-03-20T18:45:22.227+00:002015-03-20T18:45:22.227+00:00Pat, I am stunned and dismayed at the level of hos...Pat, I am stunned and dismayed at the level of hostility you are facing on this blog today. Is like this regularly? <br /><br />I'm a relative newcomer to your blog, and I'm left wondering from where on earth you get your strength to continue exposing injustice.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3543129696041324861.post-30605617111314304332015-03-20T18:43:34.916+00:002015-03-20T18:43:34.916+00:00I don't know why you feel that Fr Dallat needs...I don't know why you feel that Fr Dallat needs to issue any sort of statement. His name has already been dragged through the mud without adding fuel to the fire by issuing a statement for people to dissect and lay blame. <br />Both Fr Dallat and the woman concerned are at fault in this sorry situation yet she has opted to remain anonymous, while people are getting their pitch forks ready for Ciaran Dallat. They both entered in to a relationship knowing that it was wrong, they are both at fault and no statements, apologies or admissions of guilt will change that fact. It is equally as wrong for a priest to enter into a relationship with a woman as it is for a woman to knowingly enter a relationship with a priest. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3543129696041324861.post-3724113727393694442015-03-20T18:30:54.376+00:002015-03-20T18:30:54.376+00:00And at the public river bank seems to be your pref...And at the public river bank seems to be your preferred method patAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3543129696041324861.post-42547726386665729052015-03-20T18:23:59.209+00:002015-03-20T18:23:59.209+00:00Camera?
Was my picture in The Irish News on St P...Camera? <br /><br />Was my picture in The Irish News on St Patrick's Day when it published the story? No.<br /><br />Where is my picture side by side with Linda as her hero? Nowhere.<br /><br />I am not camera shy.<br /><br />But neith are I camera fearful or hungry.Thinking Catholicismhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16589713565062075036noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3543129696041324861.post-3127711671153791092015-03-20T18:23:58.099+00:002015-03-20T18:23:58.099+00:00Oh yes affairs of the heart.....we have all had ou...Oh yes affairs of the heart.....we have all had our hearts broken in our time but that did it mean we ran to the Irish news and broadcasted it to the world. If only someone would pay for counselling for all of us every time we had our hearts broken and I'm sure every woman out there wishes she cld claim back every penny she spent on a man when it didn't work out. Sorry just to clarify.... "Linda" did enjoy these holidays as well???Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com