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Post by Alaisdir Ua Séaghdha on Aug 29, 2008 12:06:18 GMT
I'm looking forward to the libel action.
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Post by pilgrim33 on Nov 24, 2008 18:03:46 GMT
Christina Gallagher to be assumed into heaven, body and soul, within the next 6 months. This is what is on yesterday's Sunday World paper.
We'll be able to go to house of prayer to pray to this new saint, as she will be above all the other saints in heaven... maybe above Our Lady??!!!
Wonder if she's put in jail within the 6 months, will she be assumed body and soul from her jail cell?
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Post by hibernicus on Nov 26, 2008 14:43:48 GMT
Alas, this sounds pretty characteristic. I've thought the whole thing was a massive ego-trip for years (the messages are full of statements about how Christina is a chosen soul and it is wrong to doubt her because questioning adds to her suffering - very different from the humility of genuine visionaries). These sort of grandiose claims are very common in people who build up a fantasy self-image and respond to perceived threats of its collapse by inflating it still further.
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Post by Harris on Nov 26, 2008 14:55:43 GMT
Christina Gallagher to be assumed into heaven, body and soul, within the next 6 months. This is what is on yesterday's Sunday World paper. We'll be able to go to house of prayer to pray to this new saint, as she will be above all the other saints in heaven... maybe above Our Lady??!!! Wonder if she's put in jail within the 6 months, will she be assumed body and soul from her jail cell? Indeed. Now that would be something!
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Post by Michael O'Donovan on Dec 10, 2008 16:31:18 GMT
Christina Gallagher to be assumed into heaven, body and soul, within the next 6 months. This is what is on yesterday's Sunday World paper. We'll be able to go to house of prayer to pray to this new saint, as she will be above all the other saints in heaven... maybe above Our Lady??!!! Wonder if she's put in jail within the 6 months, will she be assumed body and soul from her jail cell? Indeed. Now that would be something! Let's hope they don't miss the opportunity to film the Assumption and put it on YouTube.
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Post by Beinidict Ó Niaidh on Jul 3, 2009 10:22:56 GMT
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Post by Alaisdir Ua Séaghdha on Jul 6, 2009 10:12:49 GMT
This is a very useful contribution to this thread. Why didn't we go to the Tuam website earlier?
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Post by hibernicus on Nov 2, 2009 18:16:58 GMT
The SUNDAY WORLD journalist John Gallagher has just published a book on Christina Gallagher and her movement called IMMACULATE DECEPTION, drawing heavily on the testimonies of ex-members (E12.99 from Merlin Publishing). I would recommend it to everyone who is interested in learning more about this person and her career. Here is the Amazon link. www.amazon.co.uk/Immaculate-Deception-Shocking-Christine-Gallaghers/dp/1907162011
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Post by hibernicus on Jan 11, 2010 12:43:45 GMT
Reviewing this thread, I notice Christina Gallagher has not been assumed into Heaven on schedule. John Gallagher's book quotes some of her disillusioned supporters as saying they expect her to be assumed to the USA by passenger jet fairly soon; let's wait and see. I recommend the book to everyone with an interest in the subject. It can be got at Veritas and Hodges Figgis in Dublin.
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Post by Michael O'Donovan on Jan 12, 2010 23:22:52 GMT
Reviewing this thread, I notice Christina Gallagher has not been assumed into Heaven on schedule. The Lord must still have a use for her in this world, though only He knows what it might be.
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Post by hibernicus on Jan 13, 2010 12:11:07 GMT
Indeed, just as He must have some use for the earthquake in Haiti. That doesn't absolve anyone from the need to minimise its effects and care for the victims. If anyone thinks this description is unfair, read IMMACULATE DECEPTION's descriptions of the emotional pressures put on vulnerable elderly people to make financial donations they can't afford (as described by former members). Even if we make the most extensive allowances for the bitterness of people who believe they have been scammed, even if all the people involved in exerting those pressures are in fact sincerely deluded and really believe they are doing God's work, this would still be highly unethical, and the Church authorities should intervene.
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Post by Michael O'Donovan on Jan 14, 2010 0:25:36 GMT
Even if we make the most extensive allowances for the bitterness of people who believe they have been scammed, even if all the people involved in exerting those pressures are in fact sincerely deluded and really believe they are doing God's work, this would still be highly unethical, and the Church authorities should intervene. Yes but what more can they do? I think the bishop has repudiated the whole thing and forbidden priests to say Mass there. It seems to be a matter now for civil law.
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Post by Askel McThurkill on Jan 14, 2010 15:46:57 GMT
Archbishop Neary has been doing the best he can. But Cardinal Brady has taken no action against Father Gerard McGinnity, for reasons which are all too plain. This is a major failure.
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Post by hibernicus on Jan 14, 2010 17:14:59 GMT
Even granted that the whole thing seems to have first of all operated through the prayer-group network and then built up a network of its own, I think the Church authorities should do more to publicly dissociate themselves from it and warn people against it (as I believe some priests in the vicinity have done). Old people, who make up much of its clientele, are so vulnerable and easily exploited. The IMMACULATE DECEPTION book quotes several sadder and wiser ex-members complaining that the Church has not done more to warn people against it and drawing comparisons with other examples of episcopal inaction. This is one instance where things clearly have got worse since vatican II - if the old canonical rules against publicising unapproved apparitions were still in force, his would never have got as big as it has.
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Post by Alaisdir Ua Séaghdha on Jan 19, 2010 12:43:32 GMT
'Immaculate Deception' is on my reading list. When I have done that, I will revisit this thread.
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