Clerical Errors Archives

During the recent synod, Pope Francis announced the new cardinals to be elevated in December. But once again this list did not include any Irish archbishops.

ANNUAL 2024: PAPAL RULE OK!

November 14, 2024

THE MARATHON Synod on Synodality convened in Rome recently by Pope Francis to update world Catholicism ended in the anticipated anti-climax. In his... Read more »

Mary McAleese again criticised the Church’s ‘out-dated internal structure of governance’ based on canon law’s ‘embedded inequality’.

ANNUAL 2023: CLERICAL ERRORS – McALEESE FIGHTS ON

November 15, 2023

THE MONTH-LONG Synod on Synodality convened in Rome by Pope Francis to update world Catholicism ended in anti-climax on Sunday October 29. This... Read more »

Archbishop of Armagh Eamon Martin will have a chance to shine when he lead’s an Irish delegation at a European-wide gathering in February.

ANNUAL 2022: CLERICAL ERRORS – ELUSIVE RED HAT

November 17, 2022

AN UNEXPECTED lifeline that could yet help the ambitious if indecisive Archbishop of Armagh Eamon Martin to obtain a coveted red hat was... Read more »

ANNUAL 2021: CLERICAL ERRORS – PRIMATE VS PRESIDENT

November 18, 2021

Eamon Martin, Catholic Archbishop of Armagh and Primate of All Ireland, was doing well in 2021 until he fumbled the ball by consenting... Read more »

THE MARYS’ HOLY WAR

July 1, 2021

IN AN arcane spat for the unofficial title of ‘Defender of the Faith’, Mary Kenny, the conservative Catholic writer has chided Mary McAleese,... Read more »

€100M DOWN THE SWANEE

July 1, 2021

IT CAN’T be easy to spend €100bn and get absolutely nothing for your money, but the EU’s Common Agriculture Policy (CAP) has pulled... Read more »

BISHOP NULTY AND TAKING THE FALL

April 22, 2021

HE IS now known as Bishop Denis, the feminist menace. Denis Nulty, the twitter-loving Bishop of Kildare & Leighlin, is one of a new... Read more »

ECUMENICAL ERRORS

April 22, 2021

AN INTERESTING story about a Protestant woman’s High Court challenge to the report of the Commission on Mother and Baby homes centres on... Read more »

CLERICS HOT UNDER THE COLLAR

April 8, 2021

MARY MCALEESE’S tirade against Pope Francis’s unexpected endorsement of the Vatican doctrinal watchdog’s banning of blessings for same-sex couples has elicited a guardedly... Read more »

IN PRAISE OF DEREK SCALLY

April 8, 2021

DEREK SCALLY, of the Irish Times, has emerged from his Berlin bunker to become the transcendental seer of the lost souls of Irish youth... Read more »

MARY NOT QUITE SO CONTRARY?

March 25, 2021

MARY MCALEESE’S robust dismissal of a decree from the Vatican Congregation of the Doctrine of the Faith, (CDF), which forbids priests blessing same-sex couples,... Read more »

SLOWLY DOES IT AT TENI

March 25, 2021

THE CULTURE war surrounding self-identification for transgender people continues to stir up strong emotions, most recently in the letters pages of the Irish... Read more »

DAVID QUINN’S POLITICAL PROBLEM

April 4, 2019

DAVID QUINN, director of the high profile Catholic advocacy group, the Iona Institute, could find himself having to go to Confession if the... Read more »

BISHOP CASEY TO BE REINTERRED?

April 4, 2019

ANGER OVER fresh allegations of child sexual abuse and other improprieties going back to the 1960s against disgraced former Bishop Eamonn Casey have... Read more »

IONA INSTITUTE’S NEW FACES

April 4, 2019

WHILE DAVID Quinn has been busy preaching to the converted, his Iona Institute has been on something of a recruitment drive and has... Read more »

METHOD TO McALEESE MADNESS

July 12, 2018

MANY IRISH Catholics believe former President Mary McAleese has lost a sense of balance on controversial gender issues as instanced by her latest... Read more »

BELL, BOOK AND CANDLE FOR FLANNERY?

January 25, 2017

REBEL CLERIC Fr Tony Flannery may have seriously miscalculated by defying a five-year-old Vatican ban on celebrating mass to mark his 70th birthday.... Read more »

McALEESE Vs OLD BOYS’ CLUB

November 20, 2015

THE Church of Rome is constituted under the rule of a monarchical papacy and prides itself on not being democratic. However, in the... Read more »