I recently heard Olivia O Leary seriously denigrate the nuns that worked in the Magdalene Laundries ,sneer at the Catholic ethos and viciously attack the wearing of cardigans by women as an attempt to smother female sexuality,especially if worn by nuns.Considering that she herself was educated by nuns in a boarding school ,presumably having been sent there by her parent or parents ,this is a prime example of biting the hand that feeds you.This should serve as a valuable lesson to nuns not to waste their compassion on the education of middle classes who ran Irish society for decades and who put the people in the laundries in the first place. She is not the only Catholic hater to so bite the hands of those that educated her and not the only person who feels free to denigrate the Catholic Faith working in RTE, an institution funded by a populace of which 80% expresses itself to be Catholic.
Remember the Father Reynolds lible case where RTE blatantly lied about the Priest."Group Think " at fault the report found.Has it gone away?
Within a few days Kathleen Lynch of the "more faces than Big Ben sisterhood "and a paid up member of the" Jigger pokers" gave credence to a report that a woman was admitted to the Magdalene Laundries because she missed Mass.
I am sick in the craw of people like belittling my Faith ,severely doubt that the Magdalene Laundries were the places of hardship claimed in certain quarters and severely doubt that Kathleen Lynch's claim is true .I would be more inclined to listen to her had she not withdrawn the mobility allowance that enabled a minimum of independence to the most severly disabled people in the country the same day.
Had the nuns done it in years gone bye I am sure that these two ladies would be choking with rage and spewing bile by the new time.
The anti Catholic bias of RTE revealed itself further this evening on Mary Wilson's show when she gave full vent to a priest called Flannery (whose brother I think is a Fine Gael grandee and which may explain a lot),who made reference to certain Cardinals present in Rome as having been "tainted "by association with the Vatican and therefor not being worthy of elevation to the Papacy.In my innocence as a Catholic I always thought that The Holy Ghost g had a big say in this choice and am not surprised that this Priest has difficulties with the Church. Maybe he thinks that he himself is the only one qualified to take up this mantle.Off with him so.I am sure Bishop Sinead O Connor would back him for one.
I am certain were his brother to refer to anyone in Fine Gael headquarters as n being" tainted by Fine Gael policy he would be run out by Edna post haste.
He was followed on the interview by John Cooney," veteran religious affairs correspondence of the Irish Times.",who waxed lyrical about the desire for a Pope who favoured same sex marriage,women priests and married priests est c etc etc.He seemed to have a Scottish accent.He should therefor know that all these are de rigeur in the Church of England and maybe thought that he was at such a Synod.
Joe Duffy Made a disgrace of himself and all Dubs last week by the nature of his hectoring,bullying and ganging up with another loudmouth on an elderly Tallaght Priest whose views disagreed with his own.
I suspect that the reason RTE has to resort to such loudmouth bigots is because no decent Catholic will have anything to do with them .
Anyhow I will be reading the Mc Eleese report soon and will give an unbiased summary.
I get very worried when I see spokespeople looking for non adversarial compensation.What are they trying to pull?.Ancient Catholics are publicly tried in open Court and no sympathy whatever is shown to them.What is sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander.And I would not favour giving compensation to anyone put there for murder of infanticide,which a minority were.
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