The politics of the Catholic Church

While it is said by clergymen that Christians have no true politics,what passes for the politics of the Catholic Church is insipid,mawkish sentimentality which appeals only to cutthroats,ambitious Philistines and urban criminals. In all rational debates and discussions,it should be remembered that the Irish Catholic Church has raised Irish Catholics up from the level of brutes and ignorant countrymen to the level of thinking people in defiance of the Orange Order, Unionists of all shades and Protestant assemblies.

That is not the point of this article,so let us examine some issues arising from the 1930's persona of the Church.

I refer to its fascist sentinels .

One of the Dublin church sentinels,one of the lumpen thugs dredged up into vigilantee gangs, attacked me with a cutthroat razor in late 1991 and carved open my hand. 

Another Dublin sentinel for Purnell (British Military Intelligence,Temple Bar,Dublin).was Cathal Morris (SCR,Cornagrade, Enniskillen and Drumclay Road).

Was it ever any different with a psychopath called Connelly and his liegeman, O Brien?

Mike Allen was another English import brought in to head up the so-called Irish National Organisation of the Unemployed by spies in Armagh,Belfast and Derry. He saw his role,a spy in the pay of the Irish Congress of Trade Unions,as diverting criticism from the trade union heads and suppressing protest against the Irish gombeen class.

Those of you who have studied Irish can read of the downfall of one of those gombeen types in the classic work of Mac Grianna,An Druma Mor.

 The politics of the modern Catholic Church which it has taught the SDLP and confined former radicals in latter day Sinn Fein to,are no different from those of the Ancient Order of Hibernians and neoliberal agitators and more recent American imports into Ireland.

 The Northern parties to which I  refer used to represent the interests of their voters assiduously. They are now with only a few exceptions disinterested representatives of the Catholic Church.

The mawkish sentimentality of the Catholic evangelical movement of the eighties and so-called pro-lifers has been introduced to the US by the Supreme Court. That is the  work of clerical judges and a ragtag and bobtail of wayward politicians who are out of touch with the demands of a modern society.

Perish the politics of the Catholic Church and Clerical meddling!

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The heart of the matter

Make no mistake about it, working men and women and progressives,all churches are earthly institutions full of beggars and begrudgers who believe in "killing" (Pope Leo 12,Rerum Novarum,1883) and "coercion" and The Corporation (Pope Pius 12, 1937, Divini Redemptoris).

These prelates are people who departed from the Christian Faith at the turn of the first millennium. Then they abandoned the role of Vicar or married priest.

Saint Peter was married and that is the personage in whom the role of Vicar of Rome truly rests,a married man.

Don't be misled by these worldly men whose admonitions are often of a sectarian or hateful or spiteful nature. They are after all only men,not divinities. Whereas those of them in a state of grace have power to mediate with God on behalf of the layman, many are not in such a state of grace because they do not attend to their duties in a proper fashion.

It is not for a layman such as myself to lay down the law to clergymen. It is for the Catholic Church,the true vessel of Christ,to pay heed to the voice of the faithful and to change its course fulsomely and in keeping with the Gospels.

We say to worldly clergymen,"We all know that you are uncharitable men. You are fooling nobody with your pious phrases. You are empty vessels and empty vessels such as yourselves and revivalists and naturalists and Paisley make the most noise."

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Whatever about the failings of clergy or parishes or dioceses or countries of the Church,we must not deny them sustenance and active support. We should not shower them with verbal abuse like the heretics do but rather welcome them and their work willingly because they are only human vessels at the end of the day. By God's grace they are invested with the work of divine ministry and spiritual powers,gifts and blessings.

Let us give them their due when they get things right and refrain from unfair and inaccurate criticism when they do not. Regarding pre-War encyclicals and nineteenth century social commentaries authored by popes and prelates,it does well to remember that "when the Church becomes involved in politics,it always comes off worst" (Pope Benedict). 

The doctrines of the Irish Catholic Church are lodged in the nineteenth century when great need and despair pummelled it forward into the role of political leadership and temporal authority. Today,its political meddling is a cause of both deep dismay and sectarianism. Almost all true believers in Christian values are aghast at the role of the church in paedophilia, economic exploitation and sectarian division. That is due to some clerics nationalist revisionism which is telling us to defer to treacherous leeches and other bloodsuckers like Sinn Fein and Fianna Fail rather than standing up to them and bringing them to court for slander,assault and loss of earnings.

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18.8.2025

"Ignore priests talking about things like politics that are no business of theirs. They're all well provided for and have all their needs catered for by women who worship them.

"No church or clergyman ever paid the bills at the end of the week.

"If a numbskull like Sean Lynch can see that Father Joe Mc Veigh and people like him isn't worth a ball of blue,it doesn't say much for you because you think there's some good in him and his sermons. Leave religion behind you at the church door unless you are under a debt of gratitude to the clergy or a member of your family was helped by them. That's what going the extra mile for peace means because,in some situations, they're the only people who care about anyone.

"Go up and make your peace with Canon Mc Elroy and promise to give him some money when you have your inheritance because he is the one who got you a law degree not Haughey or that old bollocks Gerry Adams."