tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4807238897188927967.post7253995463449818606..comments2024-03-28T04:50:14.406+00:00Comments on TPQ: Catholic Priesthood Based Around 'Fundamental Lie'AMhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00559413440743290550noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4807238897188927967.post-48771345636303314362020-03-08T23:22:49.546+00:002020-03-08T23:22:49.546+00:00Really ? You surely cannot be unfamiliar with the ...Really ? You surely cannot be unfamiliar with the term, "Beard" as applied to the (often, but not always) unsuspecting wife of a dishonest homosexual man. English upper-middle class society was rife with such "arrangements" until more recent times and the House of Commons held quite a few of such individuals. Do we really believe that allowing Catholic priests to marry would Rory Carrhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04656521900824406245noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4807238897188927967.post-59437301711136886172020-03-08T20:14:24.107+00:002020-03-08T20:14:24.107+00:00Read the post, read the comments. Steve and Peter ...Read the post, read the comments. Steve and Peter in their comments only touched on the subject. Put these two men together with library facilities and assistants and I think they could find out what is the "origin" of what we despise. Much research required in this area, at least before 5000 BC., or their about. Hard call for Mary McAleese, that took guts and determination. Sometimes kevin o'neillhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18350086677262810323noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4807238897188927967.post-29470271853321757752020-03-08T12:43:46.313+00:002020-03-08T12:43:46.313+00:00Thanks for that comment - it would have made for a...Thanks for that comment - it would have made for a fine article as well. Having googled it, the book seems to be well worth the read.AMhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00559413440743290550noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4807238897188927967.post-18610516368412168572020-03-08T12:25:52.348+00:002020-03-08T12:25:52.348+00:00Back in the 1960s young Irish people were being to...Back in the 1960s young Irish people were being told that they could channel their sex urge into a religious vocation. Fr Lucius McClean actually used that line in his Sunday Independent column. The result was that a disproportionate number of those who entered the church were struggling with their sexuality and some of them went on to become abusers. As Conrad Baars explained in his 1971 report Peter Mulhollandhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08438352061248138143noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4807238897188927967.post-83330607608170340872019-11-07T20:53:49.347+00:002019-11-07T20:53:49.347+00:00All this because a priest isn't allowed to mar...All this because a priest isn't allowed to marry. My brother-in-law was an altar boy, was even taken with his twin brother to meet the Pope (John) back in the 80's. Fast forward 30 years that priest is dead but with multiple accusations of abuse leveled at him during the Australian Royal Commission. My BIL says nothing happened but by chance he is now a very well respected psychiatrist Steve Rhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13670990166576346966noreply@blogger.com