Are we in COTY territory here. I found the whole read a bit confusing.
Couldnât agree more, they unite a community. Was involved in 2 local ones recently, grave digging etc. Lovely to see everyone coming together to celebrate life well lived.
Didnât even get an acre out of either of them. 
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Itâs a long game bidness. Youâre meitheal system is the correct path to take. Youâll have oulâ wans saying that young Kinvara lad is a daycent young lad and him with a houshĂ©Ă©n full of wimmen.
God help him trying to keep them in school/cars/style/college/ money etcâŠWeâll lave him an oulâ siteâŠâŠ
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During the formal photocall, the Pope said: âToday, I did not just meet a man, a President, I met a wise man of today.
âI thank God that Ireland has such a wise man as its Head (of State).â
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Franceâs turn to step into the light
The vids
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Gort, the Cork of Galway.
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As in full of Anglophiles?
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Deviants.
One post features a clip of a woman using a blow dryer between her legs alongside a video of the priest, who asks her what sheâs doing. âIâm heating up your dinner,â she replies, before Fr King says âI am hungry.â
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The abbreviated version of his title adds extra sauce Fr King
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Priests talk very slowly. Iâm watching the mass on RTE1 right now. The homily:
In the film.
4 weddings and a funeral.
There is a rendition
Of w.h audenâs poem.
Funeral blues.
You can see when youâre watching old episodes of Gay Byrne era Late Late Show that people spoke slower back then and had more patience. Maybe they were just used to listening to priests.
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interesting man
Are the Germans having their time? Benedict caught up in it
The Phonse has a bit of explaining to do here.
Laicisation of Catholic priest criticised as âunacceptableâ
Bishop challenged with having âcompletely distortedâ record of meeting
Patsy McGarry
The laicisation of a priest who appeared in drag on a television programme has been described as âinappropriate, unreasonable and unacceptableâ by the Association of Catholic Priests (ACP).
Fr Richard Geoghegan, parish priest at Ballyneale, Carrick-on-Suir in Tipperary, appeared as âShirley Basseyâ on the 2017 RTE programme âFrancis Brennanâs Tour of Vietnamâ. His laicisation was confirmed after a meeting with the Catholic Bishop of Waterford and Lismore Phonsie Cullinan.
In a statement yesterday, the ACP expressed âdismay and sadnessâ on hearing that Fr Geoghegan had been laicised and was no longer a priest.
The Association also said Bishop Cullinan had produced âcompletely distortedâ minutes of the meeting he attended with Fr Geoghegan and a member of the ACP leadership team.
Responding to the ACP statement, Bishop Cullinan said that, âof his own accord, Richard Geoghegan petitioned Pope Francis for laicisation from the priesthood on 31st March 2021. At the meeting last March, Richard attended the diocesan offices, in the company of a chosen colleague, to sign the request to the Holy Father for laicisationâ.
Pushed out
The Bishop continued: âOn 15th December 2021, Pope Francis granted Richard Geogheganâs petition, meaning that he is no longer a priest. I wish to acknowledge and thank Richard for his pastoral ministry over the years and wish him well for his future.â
A spokesman for Bishop Cullinan added that he would be âmaking no further comment on what is a private and confidential matterâ.
The ACP said it had been contacted by a priest in 2020 who said the then Fr Geoghegan âwas being âpushed out of priesthoodâ â even though there was no allegation or official complaint against himâ.
Subsequently, a member of the ACP leadership team accompanied Fr Geoghegan to a meeting with Bishop Cullinan at which the priest âexpressed his wish to remain a priest of the diocese. Bishop Cullinan responded that he knew that Richard did not want that. The Bishop added that he felt it best for Richard if he left the priesthood.â
Distorted
The ACP statement continued that âthe Bishop outlined all the reasons why he felt Richard should leave â including a mental health crisis that Richard had experienced. Sometime after the meeting, when Richard obtained the minutes, he discovered they were completely distorted and only included some of what the bishop had said and nothing of what Richard or the ACP member had saidâ.
It claimed Fr Geoghegan was removed from public ministry by Bishop Cullinan last year and âwas not informed of this nor did any formal process take place to alert him to it.â He was then asked to leave his house and âbecause he felt unsupported and ânot wantedâ by Bishop Cullinan, Richard reluctantly signed the laicisation papersâ.
After 28 years of service to the diocese Mr Geoghegan, at 54, was left â without an income, accommodation and dependant on a derisory financial settlement,â it said.
Bishop Cullinanâs treatment of Richard Geoghegan âfell well below the âpastoral careâ a bishop as âa shepherdâ is expected to exercise in relation to his priest, a standard of respect, support and care that is enshrined in the law of the Catholic Church and which priests have a right to enjoy,â the ACP said.
In a tweet last Sunday night Richard Geoghegan said âI entered seminary in 1987 at the age of 19. I was ordained in 1993 at the age of 25: On 7/1/22 I was officially dismissed by Rome. On Friday 14/01/22 my Bishop was happy to dispense me. Iâm a good man. And he talks about the shortage of vocations.â
Read that obviously more to it
Was on a course in the Dominicans
Popes Quay recently
Ex priest from Boston in attendance
He left the priesthood after 12 years
( no issues but celibacy for him was difficult he said )Heâd have remained a priest if he could have had a family etc etc
As a practicing RC I know many priests and nuns and the vast majority of them even the v aged ones are of the opinion that clergy should be allowed to marry and have children
PS of the 70 plus on our course ( all ages and backgrounds)
V v majority including some friars welcomed the idea of women priests
And most wouldnât have issues with clergy getting married
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