Spiritual Blowjob.

    Valentines Day came early for Archbishop Diarmuid Martin of Dublin on Tuesday 22nd January 2019 when a fawning letter written to him was published in the ingratiating Irish Times. The love article (or spiritual blowjob) was written by the sycophantic Fr Joe McDonald, a Parish Priest of St Matthew’s Church in Ballyfermot, Dublin and founder of Roncalli. (Roncalli initiatives are the inclusion of women at every level in the church, including governance, reform of clergy including refresher courses, the closure of seminaries and half the churches in the diocese, selling church land solely for social housing, revamping confession, restoration of midnight mass, and a greater welcome for the LGBTI+ community.) Good luck with that Fr Joe McDonald, it would never be sanctioned by the Vatican, they will soon burn him at the stake for heresy, this belief is contrary to all Catholic Church Doctrine and the maintaining of its vast wealth. 

     Instead  of “blowjob” Shakespeare used the idiom  of  “offering to lick his shoe.”  In The Tempest (3:2) when Caliban wants to serve Stephano rather than Trinculo. So we could call Fr Joe’s attitude boot-licking,  brown-nosing, fawning… sucking up!

     The obsequious Fr Joe McDonald wrote lovingly, “The first word we wish to offer you is ‘thanks’ ”.  He goes on,  “Thanks for a powerful legacy most especially in the area of safeguarding. In this you have given courageous leadership, never shirking your responsibility in the media and thanks for your obvious empathy with those who have suffered. Thanks for your energy. Thanks for your smile.”

    I almost wanted to reach for my hankie and bucket!  Let’s be clear here: Archbishop Diarmuid Martin of Dublin did not safeguard vulnerable Children but acted only when the perpetual sex and rape scandals of his delinquent Clerics hit the shit fans and only then. Archbishop Diarmuid Martin had known since at least the late 1960s that many of his classmates and fellow Clerics were raping children in Dublin and he chose to do nothing to help those vulnerable children. 

    It’s a bit premature that the brown-nosing Fr Joe McDonald’s metamorphosis of Archbishop Martin is nearly complete and that his anointment to Sainthood must be very near.  Archbishop Diarmuid Martin’s main job as the Archbishop of Dublin has simply been to plaster over and cover up the huge cracks of rape filth stemming from his Cult, the Irish Catholic Church. Archbishop Diarmuid Martin didn’t “give courageous leadership”, as Fr Joe McDonald says. Martin’s survival and rejuvenation (FELIX…SURE ABOUT THIS WORD?  MAYBE SANCTIFICATION OR…) is particularly astonishing in that he and his Cult have been wrong about virtually everything.  As noted in both the Murphy and Ryan Reports, The Cult have never been held accountable for anything, although one should note that accountability is not a prominent Irish trait.   Archbishop Diarmuid Martin is many things but he is not a blessed Saint but rather is a dangerous and authoritarian demagogue. Corrupt and incapacitated, he is a sanctimonious hypocrite.

    It was Archbishop Diarmuid Martin’s responsibility to release all the 62,000 archive files in his Bishop’s Palace, fire all the Clerics named and closed down all the Religious run Institutions in his care. But sadly he did nothing, except hide and destroy what he could while actively obstructing the many official investigations that have taken place (some of which are still ongoing) and the multiple actions that are still on progress in the Irish High Court. 
    Archbishop Diarmuid Martin and his ilk want us to believe that the depraved, delinquent Clerics who roamed and rampaged across Ireland as wolf packs until they were caught, were the true earthly representatives of Jesus Christ. According to themselves, they are imbued byJesus Christ the Creator with spiritual authority and are anointed with special powers. In reality, they are and were transgressors, criminal pedophiles and nothing more then confidence tricksters. 

    Yes, Archbishop Diarmuid Martin of Dublin makes some nice sound bites, for the enabling Irish Press, State Radio and Television which readily accepts his repeatedly saying, “Sorry”. He offers worthless prayers with a “contrite heart” and professes a sense of false guilt and a desire for atonement by characterising himself as a penitent and remorseful sinner.  Give me a break!  Archbishop Diarmuid Martin doesn’t feel any remorse but  rather wears his mourning clothes of sackcloth and goat's hair under his lavish high church garments.  He’s great at uttering  a few good and rousing words about the horrors that he says he feels over the deluge of thousands of Clerical child-rape cases emanating from his Irish Catholic Church. To be honest, I’m fed up with his hypocritical, half-assed apologies and his insincere “Sorry” and “Let us Pray” every time another child-rape scandal breaks. What good are his apologies to any Survivor?  They mean nothing - they are just empty words.  

    Archbishop Diarmuid Martin - you who profess to truly live in the example of Jesus Christ, how about doing something meaningfull to atone for the Cult’s Child-Rapes? How about selling off all the Irish Catholic Church’s wealth?  Yes sell it all off!  Liquidate the entire Irish Catholic Church’s assets, which I believe, would reap at least €6 to €8 billion euros, an almost unimaginably colossal sum. Sell off all the 26 Bishop’s Palaces, all the Gothic Cathedrals, all the thousands of Churches and the rectories, the empty cavernous convents and monasteries, all the thousands of Irish Catholic schools and the million acres of land on which they are located!  Auction the priceless sculptures, the precious paintings, the medieval tapestries, the thousands of illuminated manuscripts and Irish historic papers, the jewel-encrusted chalices, altar plate and thuribles, and the gold and silver crucifixes! And don’t forget to cash-in  the Bond and Stock portfolios, worth in excess of a billion euros! 

    Then, Archbishop Diarmuid Martin, please do something original and  distribute the billions raised among the poor, the dispossessed, and all the Survivors of Clerical rape and abuse.  Then you and the other Clerics who profess to be true believers in the example of Jesus Christ can live in relative poverty as Jesus did. Jesus preached,  “Go and sin no more” and  “Repent, then, and turn to God, so that your sins may be wiped out, that times of refreshing may come from the Lord.” 

"As the purse is emptied, the heart is filled."―Victor Hugo. 
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    And for you, Archbishop Diarmuid Martin,"Every charitable act you do now and into the future is a stepping stone towards heaven.”  - Henry Ward Beecher
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    That is a Real Valentines Day letter, Archbishop Diarmuid Martin  - not the twisted Spiritual Blowjob letter that one of your sycophants wrote. Owen Felix O’Neill