Fall of the Catholic Church

Certainly breezy, punish the lawbreakers, go for it!!! But the innocent? They should be punished too? Like what happened in Stalins Russia ( and possibly still the same the present day) That's the Ireland you want breezy???

It could just be proof of 1 very very rich person in the congregation. Funny that no mention of this mystery parish shows up on Google in a country where stuff like this would surely make the local paper.

There is a story of 150 parishioners raising €115k with half of that coming from 2 doners. Which is a lot less than the 650 I estimated.

Quote:- Breezy

 "Add to that any organization that raped loads of kids and buried more in septic tanks probably should not be allowed to still run schools."

Makes sense. Unquote.

So any organization Breezy, including innocent members of that organization, who had no hand act or part in any wrongdoing, will share the same fate as the guilty?? Unless of course you think that each and every person in that organization was guilty .. what ever happened to the rule of law and presumption of innocence?

Discrimination against non catholics?

I'm assuming you have evidence of this?

I would gladly have sent my kids to an educate together school but it's almost impossible to get into them. The church owned schools are the only option for a lot of people and in my experience the religious education has been minimal. I'm sure others haven't experienced things exactly as I have but anyone else I know with kids in different schools have a largely similar experience to mine.

I'm also anything but an apologist for the church, I'm not a church goer and I'm as appalled as everyone else by the church.

How have you fared with your childrens school?

My kids spent a lot of time sitting out of religious indoctrination - but that was around a decade ago.

I am not suggesting a catholic should be banned from being a teacher or a member of a school board.

I am suggesting the catholic church as an organization with a hierarchy which is what it is should be banned from running a school.

It is obvious to everyone else on here of course that this is what I meant including you but you can't help trying to twist and deceive.

Luckily the state agree with me as the church never gets awarded the job of running any new school when it goes to tender.

It was our nearest school and there were no secular alternatives.

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119252728#Comment_119252728

Jokeshop. Every catholic and church of Ireland school does this. That's 89% and 5% of all primary schools.

At least the CoI school my kids go to respects the right to opt out. Most of the kids there are not CoI and it likely would have closed years ago if only CoI kids went there. It's the only non-RCC and non-single-sex option in the area.

As for discrimination, plenty to inform yourself with here:

https://html.duckduckgo.com/html?q=discrimination%20site%3Ateachdontpreach.ie

Also, schools are no longer allowed ask for baptismal certs. RCC isn't saying, but baptism rates are most likely collapsing as a result (just like catholic marriage rates have collapsed in the last ten years)

Although I don't really know why I'm bothering to reply to someone who is peddling racist myths. The rules are the same whether you are Irish or not. BTW all kids born here are Irish.

Typically the priest in North Roscommon are covering (badly) 3-4 parishes. Priests are dying and the neighbour priest is pushed to take on the parish rather than been replaced. Necrosis by slow cuts.

Hahaha.

Nope.

From https://www.pillarcatholic.com/p/is-there-a-global-vocations-crisis

Hey, he heard this from his priest so it must be true. Like, the whole church is gonna change nonsense. Not unless its imposed by an external authority, which is particularly difficult with the criminal enterprises known as the RCC given the pervasive influence (and massive amounts of money) that the Criminal Enterprise has. Money they fail to mention when some dilapidated (though, no doubt expensively built in the day) church is collapsing and they need to shear the sheeple again.

My wife's family were evicted from their farm in Leitrim in the 1880's and were sent to the poorhouse until they could raise enough money to emigrate.

At around the same time, a fancy church was being built in Dingle at great expense, featuring stained glass and gorgeous ornate hardwood floors (that survive to this day.) While in the poorhouse, the local Quakers supported her family. Surely some of the money spent on the fancy Dingle church floors might have helped? Be assured their experience wasn't unique, it was the Quakers that supported most of the poorhouses. Not the RCC. Oopers.

Oh, regarding those floors (the chapel's associated with a now-defunct convent.) A local friend tells us that in the 1980's, when she was a student there, all the girls had to wear slippers when walking on the floors for worship. The boys, however, could wear their hobnail boots, these were all children of farmers, the dominant employer in the area up till the 1990's or so. The floors are still really nice, made from exotic hardwoods and all.

So it was all a set up from the start, a dramatic device, if you will?

Are you talking about primary or secondary? Did you have religion classes?

hearsay isn't fact. you do understand the difference between the two?

WOW... the irony !!! talk about vitriol,,,, didums get the fragile feelings hurt???? Poor you🤣 Reminds me of the Biblical term. Those who see the mote in their neighbors eye, but fail to see the beam in their own ....have look in the mirror, Princess.