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"Right now I'm a journalist, but I'd like to work my way up to pond scum"

December 11, 2011

Sam Smyth is catching up with McGarry in the barrel bottom scraping competion. In this "revelation" we learn that an eleven year old boy some fifty years ago was nervous when being asked questions by John Charles Mc Quaid. And the only possible explanation for this, in Sam Smyth's view, is that John Charles was a child molester. These journalists are a credit to their profession. Play their cards right and they could work for RTE.

Posted by Mc Camley. Posted In : Current affairs

Still rubbing those sticks

December 8, 2011

I take back everything I said about Patsy Mc Garry - I was much too kind to him before - he's actually much worse than I thought possible.

I cannot speak to his motivations - but his behaviour is that of someone who detests the Church and is determined to do as much harm as he possibly can. Where there is no news he simply regurgitates old rumour. So today in the Irish Times he's repeating the suggestion that Archbishop John Charles Mc Quaid was a child molester, repeating the line from Joh...
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Posted by Mc Camley. Posted In : Church in Ireland

Still Public Enemy No. 1

December 6, 2011

Someone told me I was rather hard on Patsy Mc Garry in my post the other day. For a moment I thought, maybe I was. that feeling lasted until I read Mc Garry's article today in the Irish Times; he is still the John Dillinger of religious correspondents. In this little piece he's attacking the Seal of the Confessional and using a book by Dr Marie Keenan as his way in. I haven't read the book but I have read other things she's written and heard her on TV. I suspect Mc Garry has picked his ...

Posted by Mc Camley. Posted In : Church in Ireland

Sean Brady - update

December 5, 2011

I have updated a post I did last week following a statement by the Catholic Communications Office. You can read the updated post here, including the Statement and some further questions I have.

Make sure your computer gives you a fresh copy - not a saved version.
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Posted by Mc Camley. Posted In : Church in Ireland

Betrayal at home, religion from Rome.

December 5, 2011

Someone asked me the other day if my first loyalty was to the Church or to the State. They asked me as if it were a ridiculous question with only one possible answer. And indeed there is only one possible answer for a Catholic. We are members of the Body of Christ and that is infinitely more important than being citizens or subjects of one State or another. And that is why the decision to close the Embassy to the Holy See has been such a hurtful one for Catholics because the Holy See is m...
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Posted by Mc Camley. Posted In : Current affairs

Tottenham Hotspur go 2nd from top!

December 3, 2011

Well at least until Man Utd finish their match.
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Posted by Mc Camley. Posted In : Football

"Where there's smoke, there's fire."

December 1, 2011

Where there's smoke around the Church, there's Patsy McGarry furiously rubbing two sticks together.

Why do people take an instant dislike to Patsy McGarry? It just saves time.

Patsy writing in the Irish Times about the six reports published yesterday can find so little in them to support his usual rant that he resorts to going back to the Murphy/Dublin Report and Cardinal Brady's involvement with the Brendan Smyth affair.

In Raphoe I can't see what Bishop Boyce is supposed to have done or fail...

Posted by Mc Camley. Posted In : Church in Ireland

Just curious.

November 30, 2011

So reports are published today of reviews which were carried out by the National Board for Safeguarding Children in the Catholic Church (NBSCCC), covering Derry diocese, Dromore, Kilmore, Ardagh and Clonmacnois, Tuam and Raphoe.

Needless to say the headlines will not be based on the fact that most reviews were positive but on the negative comments about Raphoe.

You can read them here: Raphoe, Derry, Dromore, Kilmore, Ardagh and Clonmacnoise, Tuam.

The RTE spin seems to be on the low number of c...
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Posted by Mc Camley. Posted In : Church in Ireland

Follow the Money - updated 5th December

November 30, 2011

The Irish Times front page today has a story on Sean Cardinal Brady's pay-off to the second man, one of the teenagers he swore to secrecy concerning Fr Brendan Smyth back in 1975. The deal will be recorded in the High Court today.

The Irish Times reports that "In June 2010 Cardinal Brady reached an out-of-court settlement, said to be worth more than €250,000, with the other teenager whose abuse by Smyth he investigated in 1975."

Now my question is, how did Sean Brady fund a pay-off of a quar...

Posted by Mc Camley. Posted In : Church in Ireland

Good grief Charlie Brown.

November 25, 2011

Good relations aren't about economics.

So the Holy See has appointed a new nuncio to Ireland, Mgr Charlie Brown from the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith.

I desparately hope it is a good sign. I had been hoping for an Irish American, a good English speaker, familiar with the child abuse crisis and not afraid to weigh in where necessary. Let's keep him in our prayers, and not be afraid to write to him with our thoughts.
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