The Cloyne AnomalyIt is heartening to see some dissenting voices. That there are still people here who will make waves and stand up against this terrible situation. This site.. http://clericalwhispers.blogspot.com/2008/12/churchs-reputation-set-back-years-by.html See the newer items on the side bar as they come in. There is no penitence. Arrogance still.. shouting that he will only quit if the Pope tells him to; well, so be it. That needs to be done. And that lone voice, of the 71 year old Augusitinian Friar - God bless Monastics - who strode out in the darkest winter days, in all the gales and frost, and towards the end of his pilgrimage, gathered more and more. To be embraced by the Archbishop on the cathedral steps. And who told Bishop McGee quite literally where to go and how to get there. Face to face. Well done, Father; bravo... amen. God love you... It reminds of God speaking about the destruction of Sodam and Gomorrah... Can we find even one good man to save it from destruction? It is but a few years since the Augustinians were severely chastised by Holy Mother Church, from the Vatican itself, for an Easter Concelabration with an Anglican Rector. A glorious occasion in a crowded Church. Up went the outraged cries of heresy etc etc etc. This Nun got "excommunicated" from a forum for praising the Friars. They were forced by public humiliation to make a major apology, and one Friar was sacked from his academic post in Rome. And now? A Bishop who has sanctioned ongoing abuse, broken all the Church rules.. Still sits in his palace.. and still saying mass? And no one will depose him? Is not this a millionfold worse? A bishop, leader of a large flock,who has turned away from Jesus in every sense that matters. Because that is what has happened here. A falling Church has become some kind of old boys network. A club. Which cares only about its own. Their apologies are hollow and derisory. They got caught, simply. In the next weeks, the dark revelations of cruelty and abuse in the institutions run by religious orders here will come out. And the stench rises to heaven. Where there should be the sweet savour of incense... Ireland; where thousands died for the Catholic faith. And now the utter anomaly that it is the "leaders" of the Holy Church who are destroying it more surely and permanently than any invading Vikings or English ever managed to do. The enemy is within the gates. And they have pushed Jesus away. They heed not nor follow His Words, Who is Word. Matthew 18 teaches us how to deal with offences. Sure and simple. But there is nothing spiritual or holy in these men now. All that has gone. No Jesus there. So, here, we stay quietly, as we always do. Affirming when need be that we are not an Irish Order and that we abhor what is going on. That never in all our years and decades have we done wrong as has been done here. As we already say to all who look at us with that disgust in their wounded eyes. Wearing the Holy Habit of Religion in Ireland is not easy.. Yet sometimes we can avail. Please God so. Blessings this dark day | 
