Don't wanna give them the click… Wayback Machine has it though
https://web.archive.org/web/20170225124214/https%3A//www.stmaryskssspxmc.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/The_Recusant_Issue_31_Nov_Dec_2015-Copy.pdf
14. When rumours of a very serious nature concerning Fr. Abraham began to circulate in the early summer of 2015, two faithful who attended his Mass in Broadstairs decided to ask Fr. Abraham directly and in a face to face conversation, if nothing else so as to give him a chance to defend himself in the event that the rumours were malicious and unfounded. They therefore arranged a private interview with him at the house in Broadstairs. At this private interview, Fr. Abraham admitted to them that it was true that he had been the object of two separate accusations, and that the accusations were what had led to his suspension. Furthermore, he admitted that the accusations were true and that he was guilty of what he had been accused. He also said that he was not ‘cured’ of the temptation, that he still laboured under it, and that such incidents could happen again in the future. To one of the two faithful, a family father, he said that if ever the man were to catch him looking at his children in an unusual way, he was to give him a stern look or a sign so as to make him snap out of it.
In entirely unrelated news, The Recusant, one of the inhouse magazines of the SSPX, reported in 2015 concerning one Fr Stephen Abraham, who was reported by a number of SSPX websites some years ago to have visited Ireland. See page 14 - "Concerning Fr. Stephen Abraham, by Greg Taylor". Item (14) on page 16 may be of interest to Gardai.
https://www.stmaryskssspxmc.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/The_Recusant_Issue_31_Nov_Dec_2015-Copy.pdf
Fcuk Richard Williamson's group. Just another bunch of Xtians that rely on their antisemitism to recruit. Loathsome bunch.
Oops, Gardaí probe safeguarding issues following complaint about fundamentalist Catholic group
A Garda complaint has been made about a fundamentalist Catholic group based in Cork, which has allowed a defrocked priest to say mass despite alleged safeguard breaches. The Society of St Pius Resistance, a splinter group of the controversial SSPX which was founded in 1970 by a former bishop who clashed with the Vatican over reforms, has operated from a farmhouse in Drinagh, Co Cork. Gardaí have confirmed that enquiries into the group are ongoing on foot of a complaint which alleges safeguarding breaches in relation to the defrocked priest. It is understood that at least one safeguarding organisation has also referred the matter to Tusla. The Irish Examiner further understands that the defrocked priest is not currently in Ireland.
https://www.irishexaminer.com/news/arid-41603506.html
"I've heard about those cults, Ted":
The Catholic Bishop of Derry has warned parishioners that someone posing as an ordained priest who is part of a breakaway fundamentalist faction of the church is conducting illicit Masses in the diocese.SSPX, the Society of St Pius X, was founded in 1970 by a Bishop and group of priests who believed the Catholic Church was becoming too modernist. [Yeah, right]In 2012 a much more fundamentalist breakaway faction, SSPX Resistance, was formed.…Bishop McKeown said he "wanted to make people aware" that members of the group who are ministering mass "may not have gone through vetting and safeguarding procedures, which is a legal requirement, as well as the fact that they reject everything to do with the Roman church at the present time"."They would refer to the Mass in English as the Protestant Mass," he said.Fr Michael Canny, parish priest for the Waterside parish in Co Derry, said it was important to warn parishioners that people may be dressing as priests and purporting to be priests, but are not.
The Catholic Bishop of Derry has warned parishioners that someone posing as an ordained priest who is part of a breakaway fundamentalist faction of the church is conducting illicit Masses in the diocese.
SSPX, the Society of St Pius X, was founded in 1970 by a Bishop and group of priests who believed the Catholic Church was becoming too modernist. [Yeah, right]
In 2012 a much more fundamentalist breakaway faction, SSPX Resistance, was formed.
…
Bishop McKeown said he "wanted to make people aware" that members of the group who are ministering mass "may not have gone through vetting and safeguarding procedures, which is a legal requirement, as well as the fact that they reject everything to do with the Roman church at the present time".
"They would refer to the Mass in English as the Protestant Mass," he said.
Fr Michael Canny, parish priest for the Waterside parish in Co Derry, said it was important to warn parishioners that people may be dressing as priests and purporting to be priests, but are not.
Bit rich of the RCC to be pointing the safeguarding finger, n'est-ce pas?
Apparently telling people they're going to burn in hell is "humour".
Old story but I came across it via an unlikely series of internet links.
https://archive.ph/20130703160707/http://www.3news.co.nz/DB-to-buy-church-a-new-billboard/tabid/423/articleID/159193/Default.aspx
NZ brewery had a long series of ads over many years with a phrase followed by a sarcastic "Yeah right." (is there such a thing as a non-sarcastic "yeah right"?)
Church decided it'd be a wheeze to erect a billboard saying :
Atheists have nothing to worry about! Yeah Right
Well that's definitely going to prod me to reconsider my philosophical world view…
Brewery sued and an amicable settlement was reached, the brewery offered to get their adversing agency to come up with some cool slogans for god. 👍️
Reverend Jim Wallace was presented with the agency-developed concept yesterday, which included the phrases "God tweets too. Just look up in the trees" and "God, the ultimate search engine".
🤮
I've always got a reply back when using a search engine, even if it's a crappy reply…
The church had since taken down the contentious billboard. "We are not in the business of fighting copyright law. We are not here to make enemies, we are here to tell people about Jesus and to do it with a sense of humour."
You guys are gonna burn in hell, hahahaha! That sort of humour.
These people really do not have any idea how they are being complete pricks. In their minds, pretty much anything is justified if it "spreads the word" 🙄
Another slogan the brewery used was
"Our father in Heaven, Tamaki be your name – Yeah right"
For those who are not finger-on-the-pulse with the NZ extremist-evangelical / cult scene, Brian Tamaki seems like a very pleasant individual to make one's acquaintance with. [Caution - post may contain sarcasm]
In July 2008 TV3 broadcast "Inside New Zealand: The Life of Brian", a documentary by reporter Ross Jennings.
Talk about an open goal 🤣
Bishop Fintan Gavin hailed the success of the Maranatha 2025 event in Cork City Hall which was attended by 500 students from 20 secondary schools
I wonder how much choice they had in the matter.
There certainly wouldn't be 500 there if this wasn't organised via the schools they are required to attend
Is this the first year in living memory there are shag all articles about Ash Wednesday and not even a single boards thread about it?
The square root of shag all people care about it any more. For those who do, fine, and nobody would have any problem with that whatsoever if that religion didn't continue to control 89% of our taxpayer-funded primary schools.
Deport them under armed guard on military transports and make sure there are photos on the front page of the Catholic Reporter! Woot!
The comments also make for an interesting read. Trump seems to be attacking so many different large groups at the same time he could end up very isolated. While the conservative Christians that support him tend not to be Catholic, I'd imagine any attacks on the church will go down like a lead balloon.
#MAGA,ftw. https://www.pillarcatholic.com/p/visa-program-used-by-thousands-of
Nuns gotta leave the US. Go, CFTrump!
You clearly haven't met some of the sports fans that I know.
But, yeah, you're right. There is clearly more to it that that. But the fact remains that, as I said, churches and sporting bodies have a common interest in learning how to manage the fallout from sex abuse cases. Where's the lie?
There's waaaayyy more to it than that, P. The equation of a sports team with a religion is nonsensical. Nobody was ever threatened with going to hell for supporting the wrong sports team.
1992. I used to think they were being waay too alarmist about rebith of fascism in the US, I mean how could that be possible?
[1:07] "black robe in swill [Clarence Thomas], I believe Anita Hill, that judge will rot in hell"
But it's reality now, the US Supreme Court packed with religious fuckwit puppets, open Nazis in the US government, the supposed cradle of democracy is a long way away now. It's sickening.
The churches and the sporting bodies have a common interest in learning how to manage the fallout from sex abuse cases. Just sayin'.
US National Football League franchise exposed as 'free PR advice' to help defuse a pedophilia scandal in New Orleans, the host city for this year's annual Super Bowl. Seems like the RCC is doing what it does best - cultivate the rich & famous for help in its hours of need. Apparently 1 Saints exec influenced the list of names released by prosecutors. Nasty.
https://apnews.com/article/new-orleans-saints-catholic-church-sex-abuse-77f92deb50e6333fa04a9db1897f8171
That's a sign if ever I saw one.
https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-d&q=follow+the+holy+gourd+life+of+brian#fpstate=ive&vld=cid:ce4fe92c,vid:Ka9mfZbTFbk,st:0
Dublin's most recent religious attraction - Cherry Tomato Bridge - flowered about ten days back during the cold spell, and died as quickly as it arose, leaving nothing but sweet memories and the occasional red skidmark.
https://www.thejournal.ie/cherry-tomato-bridge-dublin-6591206-Jan2025/
been a verrry long time since I've clicked on a .ru link and I'm not going to resume now!
😂 The Moscow Times moved to Amsterdam in 2022 and has been banned in Russia since around then too. The current Russian government first declared the publication a 'foreign agent', and more recently, an 'undesirable organization', for which anybody in Russia interacting with the Moscow Times can be prosecuted and jailed. Together with Meduza.io and TV Rain, the Moscow Times is considered generally reliable, given the restrictions in place.
Sunday Worst
https://www.sundayworld.com/crime/courts/defence-forces-member-who-raped-partners-long-term-friend-jailed-for-five-years/a864022730.html
The court heard O'Connor maintains his innocence and does not accept the verdict of the jury. Testimonials were handed into court, including a letter from a priest who said that this “was totally out of character from the Alan he knew”.
He'd never tried to rape that priest
Kind of reminiscent of the argumentative couple John and Mary from Fr Ted. Priests live in a sort of dream world where their every (material) need is met without having to lift a finger, everyone who interacts with them is putting on a front. They have no idea of the everyday lives of ordinary people but somehow are still regarded as having opinions worthy of being aired in court.
OK… been a verrry long time since I've clicked on a .ru link and I'm not going to resume now!
So I will take that "on faith" 🤣
Menawhile, in Russia, an orthodox priest announces that the Lord is is using US HIMARS missiles to punish Russia, and that the invasion of Ukraine was, broadly, caused by masturbation - although, he doesn't clarify whether it's Ukrainian masturbation or Russian. The same priest was also wondering whether women really need breasts if they're not breastfeeding:
https://www.moscowtimes.ru/2025/01/15/v-rpts-zayavili-chto-voina-v-ukraine-nachalas-iz-za-masturbatsii-a152450
Intellectuals are posited as both sinister and powerful, conspiratorially undermining the values of ordinary people.
Not a million miles distant from Hofstadter's famous essay 'The Paranoid Style in American Politics':
https://harpers.org/archive/1964/11/the-paranoid-style-in-american-politics/
This is Senior, who was Protestant and a Harvard prof, not the one famous for working for JFK then RFK. Protestants the lot of 'em.
Some interesting quotes from Junior:
“America gets the President it deserves”
and
“Anti-intellectualism has long been the anti-Semitism of the businessman," by which he meant that those at the top of the heap use intellectuals as a scapegoat to distract people from the societal inequities that actually affect their lives: those of wealth and power. Intellectuals are posited as both sinister and powerful, conspiratorially undermining the values of ordinary people."
https://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/1184434.Arthur_M_Schlesinger_Jr_
I suspect not but he's clearly not the group being referred to
Wait. Arthur Schlesinger was a wealthy American Catholic?
Amazing how up their own holes that Catholic group are (although it seems to be one very angry guy rather than a group… this "charity" also pays him $700k a year.)
They call themselves a "league for religious and civil rights" then come out with that sort of sectarian, bigoted nonsense.
Quoting Harvard professor Arthur Schlesinger, Sr., the group believes that prejudice against the Catholic Church is “the deepest bias in the history of the American people.”
Not slavery? Not antisemitism? Not racism? Not sexism? Noooo… wealthy American catholics are the Most Oppressed People Ever™ 🙄 The level of conceit is amazing.
'Murica.
BTW I hope everyone is enjoying the "traditional seasonal celebration".
RCCophiles sharing the Xmas spirit:
https://www.boredpanda.com/catholic-league-mocked-winter-solstice-billboard-for-atheists/
