2009 December 17 « Ciaran’s Peculier [sic] Blog

Fallout from Clerical sexual abuse

Dr Donal Murray has been forced to resign from the bishopric of Limerick. It is true that he was guilty of sins of omission, rather

Donal Murray - fall guy?

than commission. Donal Murray was not the worst member of the Catholic hierarchy – he was a saint compared to his boozy, Opus Dei-loving predecessor Jerry Newman. I can’t help feeling that he is being made a sacrificial lam, a fall guy if you will, for others in the body of the church and the laity. far more deeply stained with guilt.

The Murphy report was a very courageous and candid document that uncovered the horrors of a dishonest culture of silence and deceit. But people were shocked by the degree of what had gone on, not by the revelation that clerical abuse had occurred and been hushed up. The proverbial dogs in the street knew that.

So the report was issued to general, and to an extent quite correct condemnation of the Catholic Church in Ireland. This occurred only weeks before the most dishonest, cruel and vicious budgets in the State. Ordinarily it might have been expected that some members of the hierarchy, as well as ordinary religious, would have spoken out against a measure that deliberately targeted already disadvantaged sections of Irish society such as the blind. However, with the Murphy report on the table, all bishops were cowed into silence; had they spoken out against the budget I could well have imagined some government minister telling them to get their own house in order first or words to that effect.

Those who were the victims of abuse are still hurting. It’s possible the hurt will never heal. Alas, I sense that some of those in the government who have set themselves up as guardians of the rights of victims, or who have proclaimed themselves citizens of a republic, are the very people who knew full well that such abuse was rampant and systematic, but did or said nothing because they viewed the Catholic Church as too powerful and influential. It is only when they sense they can kick a dead horse with impunity that they do so with alacrity.

The Yogi Bear Syndrome

Ever wonder why it is that I you want the poor to walk harder you pay them less , but if you want the rich to work harder you pay

Smarter than the average bear

them more? Or why it is that some poor bastard who lost his job through no fault of his own, and maybe who is trying to make a bit to feed his wife and children through the odd nixer is vehemently pursued by the latter-day witch-hunters of the social welfare department’s fraud prevention unit while the head of some parastatal flitters away public money on ludicrous expenses like first-class flights and earns only praise? It’s because the people at the top are Ireland’s Yogi bears who are smarter than the average bear Boo-Boo. They usually have college education, but what’s more they are possessed of often super-human intellects and razor-sharp mental acuity. They are always inspired by the long term. They have prodigious appetites for work. They are soft-spoken, sober and given to moderation in their eating habits. Most importantly they are wedded to unquestioning loyalty to the State, its laws and institutions.

They stand out from those the bottom – those who must, according to God’s Divine law, stay at the bottom because they are not blessed with the intellects and abilities of Yogies. These individuals crawl cravenly from one welfare cheque to the next. which, no matter how generous, is never enough for them. If they are ever given jobs they skive off at the earliest opportunity to the pub or the bookies. Their hideous, mean little lives are embellished are embellished by binge drinking and consumption of junk food, punctuated by beastly fornication so as to be able to skim yet more from hard-working tax payers in Children’s allowance handouts. They show no desire to benefit from the helping hands offered them in charity by their betters, instead biting viciously at the claws that attempt to feed them, as hey seek all manner of ruses to defraud those whom God has placed over them, thereby forcing their rulers to devote ever more money to stamping out their fraudulent antics.….

…NOT!

Yogies are identifiable because of three attributes.

First, they are related to someone. They consolidate their positions with reference to another phenomenon beloved of the Irish establishment, The Itchy Arse syndrome – You scratch my arse etc. Second, they are arrogant, and third they are incompetent being shining examples of mediocrity. In fact, it could be said that they don’t know ho to wipe their arses, and that it is through the abundant use of aftershave and perfume that this weakness in their upbringing is marked. They are dyed deep in the culture of both, of “Ah sure it could be worse”, “the hoors won’t know any better” etc. It’s because the yogies are in charge of this fair land m both at local and national level, that we have gone from the bright sun-lit uplands of the Celtic Tiger to our present miserable economic state, and the worst of it is, they are still in charge, so don’t expectant anything better anytime soon.

That’s All Folks.

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