This is going to be a short one today. I am mindful of all my old school friends around the globe who are now hanging on to every word I write and because I do not know how far they have been religiously persuaded over these last 50 years and as I do not want to upset our recent acquaitance,… (more…)
I started this blogging vehicle on 24 November 2009 and since then I have written 59 blogs almost on a daily basis with the exception of an alcohol refuelling stop over the Christmas. Blog writing is a little like walking across the Sahara Desert. You set off nice and fresh with plenty of water but after two months and no… (more…)
Even now after all the revelations, after all the promises, after all the pleas of best practice the church is proving to be a slippery customer if you expect cooperation on matters priestly and sexual. The hierarchy in the form of the majority of bishops do not agree with all the Murphy Report says and will not accept fully accountable… (more…)
I think it remarkable how Dr. Willie or Won’t He Walsh, Bishop of Killaloe has gone public about his innermost thoughts and reflections and praised the 50% of the Church’s congregation who have been wilfully ignored for the last 1500 years. Willie who is within a hair’s breadth of retirement has admitted that on one or two occasions during his… (more…)