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Post by Deleted on Nov 26, 2011 18:22:44 GMT
;D What say ye? Today the Holy Father, Pope Benedict XVI, has appointed the Right Reverend Monsignor Charles John Brown as the Apostolic Nuncio to Ireland. Please see below a summary of the ministry of Monsignor Brown. · Monsignor Charles John Brown was born in New York, United States of America, on 13 October 1959. He was ordained priest for the Archdiocese of New York in Saint Patrick’s Cathedral on 13 May 1989. He served as curate in the Parish of Saint Brendan, in the Bronx, New York, from 1989 to 1991. From 1994 Monsignor Brown has been attached to the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith in Rome. He was appointed Chaplain to His Holiness on 6 May 2000. He was appointed Assistant Secretary to the International Theological Commission in September 2009. Monsignor Brown holds the following academic degrees: BA in history, University of Notre Dame, Indiana (USA) MA in Theology, Oxford University (England) MA in Medieval Studies, Toronto University (Canada) M.Div., St Joseph’s Seminary, New York (USA) STL and STD in Sacramental Theology, Saint Anselm Pontifical Athenaeum (Rome) Further information: Catholic Communications Office, Maynooth: Martin Long 00353 (0) 86 172 7678 wdtprs.com/blog/2011/11/the-new-nuncio-to-ireland-some-thoughts-and-a-request-to-readers/I agree with Fr. Z, he's getting my Rosary before bed tonight. What do you think, theology rock solid, close to the Pope and Ireland is now mission territory. I am excitable! ;D
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Post by hibernicus on Nov 26, 2011 19:54:58 GMT
Too early to say, but the comments on Fr Zuhlsdorf's blog are encouraging. Msgr Brown (who is being made Titular Archbishop of Aquileia) does indeed need our prayers if some of the rants on Politics.ie are anything to go by. Here's an example of direct incitement to violence against him (ad other priests); www.politics.ie/forum/foreign-affairs/176403-new-nuncio-ireland-7.htmlToday 01:44 PM #68 Ribeye Politics.ie Regular Join Date Jul 2011 Location Dublin Posts 1,063 Once a criminal organisation realises that it has lost control of a territory they only dispatch lower ranking goons to manage it, over time their grip weakens and the cash flows dwindle until they give it up altogether and allocate their resources elsewhere, This process can be accelerated in the locals use violence against the thugs, I hope the latter happens,
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Post by Deleted on Nov 27, 2011 22:05:13 GMT
I don't know how you managed to keep your cool in that thread and not reply as it went on. I would have been the eejit replying to every post. I don't understand how you can bear to be a member there and not reply to those foolish posts, they're so depressing. In England following the riots, posting incitement to riot on facebook was used to charge them. I dearly hope that if anything happens in that regard that the likes of that poster is charged. He's probably a 19 year old spotty brat whose mammy washes his clothes for him. I wonder who runs the school where he was educated, where his mother gave birth to him, would he go to St. Vincent de Paul if he couldn't feed his family? I am amazed by how illiberal and ungrateful and fascist so many of my fellow Paddies are.
Well yahboo to them, we may stick our noses in the air when it comes to the Vatican, but they don't lower themselves to the same level. They have sent us someone the Pope knows well and I trust his judgement. Don't forget to send up a decade of the Rosary for him ladies and gents!
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Post by Alaisdir Ua Séaghdha on Nov 28, 2011 20:26:23 GMT
I read through the politics.ie thread and I can't get over the ignorance of many, if not most, of the posters on the issue in question. But then that shouldn't surprise me.
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Post by hibernicus on Nov 29, 2011 21:43:53 GMT
I'm not a member of Politics.ie - I just read some of the threads regularly. Admittedly the posters are self-selected to some extent (there are some pretty outspoken Catholic posters though they're a small minority) but they do reflect certain strands of opinion which we ought not to ignore - and indeed the fact that Ribeye's direct incitement to violence was not immediately zapped by the moderators, as I would certainly zap any incitement to violence here as soon as I saw it, is significant in itself. To take another example of the mindset - Ken Bruen's detective novels are best-sellers and in his best-known private eye series the Catholic Church is presented as the Big Bad which corrupted and oppressed Irish society for decades. John Banville's novels written as Benjamin Black and set in 1950s Ireland express a similar view, and I hear the BBC is about to adapt them for TV... the Long Lent isn't over and it's going to be a long hard slog.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 30, 2011 1:48:19 GMT
I apologise, a man on that thread there has a style of writing very much like your own and I'd have put money on him being you. He is Catholic however looking back tonight over some of his posts it is clear he needs a good confession, God help him. He is not a great ad for the Faith to his fellow posters, he needs a good wife or a holy priest to sort him out. I sincerely hope he gets that input for the sake of his own soul and for the scandal of his posts and threads to some of the other posters. Daft daft man. The other Catholics seem consistent in their posting though thank God. They are definitely in the minority mind you. I like that poster "wellnow", such a Paddy Irish expression. There's a bit of whipping from the mods over there needed, how can they let that go, I think it was "liked" as a post too. It's owned by a man with links to Declan Ganley nay? I would have thought it would be a little more friendly to us, naive that I am. I wouldn't have the courage to join in, work is tough enough, I don't need pressure offduty too. I wish some of those lads would come join here, make it a positive space for Catholics, as it is, but busier!
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