tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5965333981619997978.post6203489730600867465..comments2023-11-03T08:40:03.424+00:00Comments on Jude Collins: Catholic priests and celibacy: time for a re-thinkJude Collinshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02255073034338282041noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5965333981619997978.post-16733220662436566792011-09-14T15:09:46.221+01:002011-09-14T15:09:46.221+01:00It was meant as a compliment. I've a lot of r...It was meant as a compliment. I've a lot of respect for Bishop Daly. He retired when he could no longer do the job, didn't hang on like some do, but then got another job as chaplain in the hospice. I know you probably don't agree with his views on republicans but he had a very influential effect on me at I time when I was inclined to support republican violence as so many in the Free State were. I was just looking up the words he used at the funeral of Patsy Gillespie "They may say they are followers of Christ. Some of them may even still engage in the hypocrisy of coming to church, but their lives and their works proclaim clearly that they follow Satan". Since then I've never looked kindly on any form of political violence.Taoiseachhttp://www.todayinthedoyle.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5965333981619997978.post-29790582776483205622011-09-14T11:16:11.914+01:002011-09-14T11:16:11.914+01:00I'll take 'reasonable' as a compliment...I'll take 'reasonable' as a compliment, Taoiseach...Jude Collinshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02255073034338282041noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5965333981619997978.post-18805311045733840202011-09-14T10:50:43.438+01:002011-09-14T10:50:43.438+01:00reasonable post, Jude. Bishop Daly's earned t...reasonable post, Jude. Bishop Daly's earned the right to present his views - not sure I agree, but that's another matter. Your last point is spot on though - no connection between celibacy and abuse that I can see.<br /><br />PJD - if you don't want to believe that's your choice. Christianity comes from Christ - the clue's in the name. I believe in Him and the Church he founded. What we did in Ireland is more, I think, about being a colonial and post-colonial country. We've never exactly had a decent settled history.Taoiseachhttp://www.todayinthedoyle.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5965333981619997978.post-70774350077946130802011-09-13T22:36:41.588+01:002011-09-13T22:36:41.588+01:00I'll come at this from a different angle; I lo...I'll come at this from a different angle; I look at Churches as vestiges of the old state. In the days when the Church was a secondary arm of state they controlled the hoi polloi.<br />They dribbled Knowledge towards them, they controlled by use of religion as a weapon of terror focussed on the next life. People in an already parlous state were promised worse after death if they didn't obey. So what's changed ? education for the masses makes more of us sceptical about the motives of these men who dress in funny clothes and in reality produce nothing to sustain their rather luxurious lives. We are told that it is only a few that abuse their position and their clientele but in reality the perpetuation of the whole ethos is an abuse. we know from history that modern Christianityis a construct of the meeting in Niccea which was aimed at stoppng division and intercommunal strife. It's all alie time people were told the truth.PJDnoreply@blogger.com