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February 17th, 2010

The two major items on the news yesterday were the bishops and their meeting with the pope, and Willie O’Dea trying to defend the fact that he is a perjurer.

First of all, we had the unedifying spectacle of a group of men dressed in skirts grovelling to an ex member of the Nazi Youth Party.  It was a nauseating sight – grown men kissing the fucking ring of an old fart who thinks he is God Almighty.  And what was the outcome of this meeting?  A torrent of verbal diarrhoea that means sweet fuck all.  There were no expressions of responsibility or real remorse, just the usual platitudes stating that child abuse is a ‘heinous crime’ and a ‘sin’.  Big fucking wow!  So the self appointed guardians of our morals have discovered that child abuse is wrong?  Well, slap me on the face with a wet kipper.

Then we had the case of a government minister who swore an affidavit in the High Court knowing it to be a pack of lies.  He was caught out on his lie, but did he give a shit?  Not at all.  He sat in the Dail with a smirk on his face as our Glorious Leader defended him and claimed that he had made ‘a genuine mistake’.

There is a lot in common in the above two cases.  Whether it was child raping priests, or a government minister committing perjury, both knew they were above the law.  Both knew they can get away with lying, cheating and conniving because their bosses would cover for them.

The Vatican is supposed to be the ultimate authority on matters of morals for Catholics.  The government is supposed to be the ultimate authority on temporal matters.  Both institutions have demonstrated that they are morally bankrupt and are prepared to treat us with utter contempt.

We are on our own.

How low can you get?

December 6th, 2009

In 1970, a ten year old girl, Bernadette Connolly was abducted, raped and murdered in County Donegal.

The crime has never been solved.

The known facts of the case are that a van was seen by several people in the vicinity of the abduction.  That van was owned by the Passionate Order of monks, who had a house in the area.  Suspicion centred on a Father Columba who was a member of the Passionate Order.

Naturally, detectives wanted to interview this Fr Columba, and here is where the mystery begins.

An alibi was provided for Fr Columba by another monk, who said Columba was in Dublin at the time.  Yet an eyewitness said they saw that monk in the van with Columba near the scene of the abduction at the time of the crime.  In the early stages of the investigation, Columba was transferred to Africa.  At every turn, detectives were met with silence and non-cooperation.  Vital evidence, such as Bernadette’s bicycle went missing.    The investigation was eventually stopped at the highest level.

Why did the monastery fail to cooperate?  Why did the Church stop the investigation?

To my mind, there can be only one reason.

We know that the Church are quite willing to shield abusers, paedophiles and rapists.  We know their policy of protecting themselves against any investigation, no matter how guilty they are.

Has the Church sunk so low into the depths of depravity that they will knowingly shield and protect a child murderer?

I thought the Murphy report was bad.

But this just defies all belief.

Silence of the wolves

December 3rd, 2009

For a while there, I was very confused.

First there was the Murphy Report that exposed the inherent evil within the Dublin Diocese. Children were systematically raped and abused, yet the Vatican has absolutely nothing to say about it.  The bishops are ‘reflecting’ but doing fuck all else.  The lesson I learned from this is that it is apparently quite all right to molest children, rape them and then toss them aside before moving on to fresh pastures.

Then there was the case of the priest who defaulted on his taxes.  Unlike the bishops, he gets a belt of the crosier because he called the tax people a shower of bastards and said they were responsible for people committing suicide.  This is where I began to get really confused.  It is apparently all right for the bishops to cause people to commit suicide, but you can’t say that about the tax people?  The Church got very upset about it anyway.  I didn’t learn any lesson from this, as it made no sense.

Then there is the case of the cardinal who said the homosexuals and transsexuals can’t go to heaven.  Now I would have thought this was just part of the theological rubbish that is constantly pouring out of the Catholic Church, along with all that crap about contraception and celibacy and the like.  Not so however.  This apparently is far far worse than defaulting on your taxes or raping children.  Why?  Because the Vatican got involved.  They got very hot under the dog-collar, right up to the very top of the organisation and retracted the cardinals statement.

So here are the facts.

Rape children to your heart’s content. Result?  Catholic church not interested.  Carry on.  It’s quite OK.

Become a major tax defaulter and call the tax people names.  Result?  The bishops are going to get very annoyed with you but the Vatican couldn’t give a shite.  Tax people are obviously more important than children though.

Say that homosexuals are sinners.  Result?  All hell breaks loose and the Vatican screams from the rooftops.  This is obviously a heinous crime.

I found it difficult to reconcile these three reactions.  They seems to be utterly disproportionate.

But then it struck me.

I understand now.

According to the Catholic Church, you can do whatever the fuck you like.  You can systematically rape young boys and girls.  You can evade taxes to your heart’s content.  But what you must never ever do is say anything.

It’s the Eleventh Commandment.

Keep your fucking mouth shut.

The Irish Holocaust

November 29th, 2009

Like most Irish, I have been following the fallout from the Murphy Report on the child sex abuse in the ‘Catholic’ Diocese of Dublin.

To say that I am sickened by the whole affair is a gross understatement.

Let’s just look at the facts to date.

  • There was systematic and widespread child abuse for at least the last sixty years.
  • The abuse took the form of physical and mental abuse, including rape, buggery, indecent photographs and molestation.
  • The number of abusers is not known but I think it is fair to say that a large minority of priests were involved.
  • Those that were not directly involved with the abuse were complicit by their silence.
  • The hierarchy not only were fully aware of all the abuse but actively covered it up with denials, threats and lies.
  • The hierarchy’s response in all cases was to move the abuser to fresh pastures, being fully aware that the abuse would continue.
  • The hierarchy engaged in a philosophy of “mental reservation” which enables them to blatantly lie while convincing themselves that they are telling the truth.
  • The Vatican is fully aware of the extent of the abuse, but is actively involved in the denial.

So where does that leave us now?

First and foremost, because of their admission of the use of “mental reservations” it is impossible to ascertain when the truth is being told.

Despite all the revelations, the hierarchy is still involved in cover-ups, denials and outright lying.

Letters of “apology” from Donal Murray [I refuse to accord him any title such as Bishop or Doctor – he is just a low life bastard] are being read out today in churches in Limerick.  Here is a “man” who not only denied that abuse existed but in turn intimidated, threatened and abused those who made complaints, to an extent that one of the complainants – Peter McCloskey – committed suicide after being threatened by Murray on several occasions.  This low-life has stated in the last couple of days:

As I look back on that time, I ask myself many questions, especially about the three cases in which the report criticises me.
At no time did I, as an auxiliary bishop of Dublin, receive an allegation of sexual abuse and fail to act.
When an allegation of sexual abuse of children by a priest was brought to my attention, I responded promptly and conscientiously and in each case notified the Archbishop and Diocesan authorities and co-operated fully with them.
I never deliberately or knowingly sought to cover up or withhold information brought to my attention.

This scum is still denying everything despite all the evidence against him.  He is refusing to resign, and instead is issuing a mealy-mouthed “apology”.  He is so far beyond contempt.

In fact not one member of the hierarchy has offered to resign.  The denial, the closing of ranks and the lying continue.

The Catholic Church has lost any semblance of respectability.  It has shown itself for what it is – a glory club for those who want power and wealth, and the freedom to abuse children.

It is up to the people of Ireland to vote with their feet.  I sincerely hope that there will be a mass exodus from churches today when that letter of “apology” is read out.  I sincerely hope that church-goers make their disgust known.

There is no use relying on our government.  Cowen is as complicit by his lack of action as the hierarchy themselves.

I am ashamed that I was once a member of that church.

I am ashamed of Ireland.

Grandads thoughts on the Dublin Diocesan Report

November 27th, 2009

Like most people in the country, I have been reading the Dublin Diocesan Report and following the news and comment.

Unlike most people in the country, there was little in it to surprise me.

I was horrified, of course but it was more or less what I would have expected.

The gut reaction of the media has been to castigate the authorities, and in particular the Gardai who were complicit in the cover-up.  Personally, I don’t think they deserve the abuse that some have been heaping on them.

To understand the report, you have to understand what Ireland was like in the last five decades.

Back in the forties, fifties and sixties the ultimate power was the Catholic Church.  The final judgement rested not with the Supreme Court but in the Archbishop’s Palace.  McQuaid ruled the country with a rod of iron and he was the final arbiter when it came to matters of law, education and even the Constitution.

Having been educated in the fifties and sixties, I can confidently say that I, and the rest of the country, was brainwashed into a mindset that the Catholic Church was not only the only church and the only authority, but that it should be treated with the ultimate deference and respect.  Even fifty years later, I can feel the results of that brainwashing as It was drummed into me to an extent that the Church’s philosophy became as much a part of me as my bones.

Last night, I watched Prime Time.  It was a horrifying program, as it clinically dissected the evils within the Church.  Not so long ago, that programme would never have been aired.  The Church hierarchy would have never allowed it.  In fact, I can guarantee that the RTE Authority would have been sacked on orders from The Palace.

It is in this light that we must judge the Gardai.  They were merely following decades of a philosophy that the Church was right, and that it knew best.  The Gardai who refused to accept this were the younger brigade who had not suffered so much of the brainwashing.

I reserve my contempt and hatred for the Church hierarchy who even to this day are pursuing their attitude of superiority.  There are exceptions [very few] such as the Archbishop of Dublin Diarmuid Martin, who had the guts to cooperate with the inquiry yet is still incapable of saying a bad word about any one of the perpetrators. 

So here we have an institution that is rotten to the core.  From the bishops up to and including the pope, there is still an attitude of corruption, greed, lust for power and money and worst of all, an attitude that not only can they do no wrong, but are showing no signs whatsoever of contrition.  They have not changed and will not change.

There is one thing that I can say with absolute confidence.

The Catholic Hierarchy has absolutely nothing to do with Christianity or faith.

-oOo-

The Report – Document 1 – Document 2

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