Tell bishops to 'get the hell out of our cathedrals', says writer

The Smurf

Irish Catholics should establish a home-grown church by demanding that the bishops "get the hell out of your cathedrals", a leading author said yesterday.

Former 'Newsweek' journalist Robert Blair Kaiser also said that a grandmother who is urging women to boycott Mass in protest at the way women are treated in the church has started a revolution

He called on Irish Catholics to fix their "broken church" by making it "more Irish, less Roman" at the opening of the Humbert Summer School in Co Mayo.

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In a response to the US expert, 'Irish Catholic' deputy editor Michael Kelly rejected the comparison between England's occupation and the "colonising power" of the papacy.

He said that while he shared the keynote speaker's sadness that the church in Ireland had been unwilling and unable to embrace the teachings of the second Vatican Council, he could not accept that the council intended a rupture of the Catholic tradition of the church.

"What I have experienced in Ireland is a Catholicism that has betrayed the best tradition of our church, he added. He said it was more consoling to blame Rome than to search Irish Catholicism for what had gone wrong and he called for an "honest investigation" into the culture of the church here.

The dreadful truth about the "cabal of egomaniacal clerics" who failed Irish Catholics so dreadfully, is that these bishops did not come from Rome or Constantinople -- but from Caherciveen, Tullamore, Cavan, Roscommon and Castlebar.

-- http://www.independent.ie/national-news/tell-bishops-to-get-the-hell-out-of-our-cathedrals-says-writer-2305040.html

Contrast with this:

``Where the Bishop is, there let the multitude of believers be; even as where Jesus is, there is the Catholic Church''

--Ignatius of Antioch, 1st c. A.D

And so I say to you, you are Peter, and upon this rock I will build my church, and the gates of the netherworld shall not prevail against it. I will give you the keys to the kingdom of heaven. Whatever you bind on earth shall be bound in heaven; and whatever you loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven."

-- Matthew 16

There are so many errors and falsehoods in that article, but it goes to show the level of evil we are now facing inside the Church.

Whoever is not with me is against me, and whoever does not gather with me scatters.

-- Luke 11

Choices, choices, choices!

The Smurf

This story is featured on Fr Z's blog with interesting comments from readers:

http://wdtprs.com/blog/2010/08/ireland-tell-bishops-to-get-the-hell-out-of-our-cathedrals-says-writer/

Michael G

Here is more of the same. I would have no problem with bishops being prosecuted if they committed criminal offences.

http://www.independent.ie/national-news/bishops-should-do-time-for-sex-abuse-coverups-2307941.html

But this whole event seems to be just a lot of cranky old Americans talking to one another (and John Cooney).