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Parish priest compares Irish leader to Adolf Hitler

Anger over ‘Heil Herr Kenny’ headline on church newsletter


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A County Louth parish bulletin has likened Irish Prime Minister Enda Kenny to Adolf Hitler after his attack on the Vatican in the wake of the Cloyne Report.

Kenny was heavily critical of the Holy See and the Pope after the report criticized the church’s response to child sex abuse claims in the Cork diocese.

Parishioners in the Louth village of Togher were told in their latest parish bulletin that the last European leader to make such an attack on the Vatican was Adolf Hitler.

The article, written under the headline ‘Heil Herr Kenny’ in the parish bulletin, is believed to have been written by parish priest Fr Thomas Daly. He is refusing to talk to reporters.

It stated: “Perhaps he [Enda Kenny] might also keep in mind that the profile of Knock was hugely raised by the visit of a former Pope [John Paul II] to the shrine in 1979.
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“If history teaches us one lesson, it must surely be a call to be careful about the canonization of political leaders. Even Hitler had to face that reality. A cautionary tale.”

The bulletin also questions the reaction to Kenny’s speech which has been acclaimed across the world.

“His Dáil speech was greeted with shouts of jubilation by almost every journalist and TV pundit in the country,” stated the article.

“Is this the new Ireland? Is this the fulfillment of the dreams of the founding fathers? ‘No Pope here’. Is this the way forward for a new and better Ireland?”

Prime Minister Kenny was asked to comment on the Hitler allegation following his round of golf with US Open champion Rory McIlroy at the Irish Open pro-am in Kerry.

“He should come to Killarney,” said Kenny. “That comment doesn’t deserve the dignity of a response from me.”


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Michael Dohnan wrote: " I do not suppose anyone is interested in the truth of the matter. No one since Adolf Hitler has attacked the Catholic Church from such a position of power and leadership as Enda Kenny has done." Poppycock. If any other institution but the Church had committed this outrage, the citizens of Ireland would be breaking down their doors and dragging their leaders to the nearest tree. As that great Irish epitaph for the sheep thief read: "He lived by wool and died by hemp."
barneyjo, don't apologise to anyone for anything. There are far too many inconsistencies to ignore or forget about. Sean Brady is just one example and it doesn't hurt to remind anyone, lest one forgets and history repeats itself.
Everyone who is responding to me, I ask that you read the entire post where I respond to the errors that I quote at the beginning. Irish Central does not allow spaces (at least without entering HTML), so the quote that you and I all objected to, is squashed together with my comment. AGAIN, PLEASE READ MY POST TO THE BOTTOM. Thank you...jt
The fascist "Opus Dei" has overidden the RCC Church out - secularism in
Joey Trany says that pedophiles numbers are much the same as in the general population but they should not be. It should be less or not at all with a priest as he has a supposed 'calling from God 'and had extensive trainig in theology and morals etc. Abusive behavoir by priests should be near zero not close to the general population.
Enda Kenny is the Democratically elected Prime Minister of Ireland. Daly and his Boss in the Vatican are members of a corrupt criminal organization that shelter child rapists, I think they are now going to play the poor oppressed church bit.
@ Bocktherobber one other point in case you try to warp the truth there was a holocaust and over 6 million jews were brutally murdered by the Nazi murders but there was also collobration between some jews and the Nazis
Joey, I don't think the point is that there are more paedophiles in the catholic church, although I'm not entirely sure there aren't. The problem is the way they have colluded to cover up child sex abuse, and are implicated in the cover up all the way up to the Pope. They have spent decades, and probably actually centuries, moving the offenders around from one parish to another, rather than turn any of them over to the civil authorities, and this is what has to stop now. Enda Kenny just may be the man to do it. The Pope himself, as a cardinal, has been proven to have known that at least one child sex offender in Germany was moved around in this way, and did nothing about it, not of course that it is all his fault. There is plenty of blame to go around.
@ Bocktherobber You fool learn your history before you open your mouth - The German collaboration with Jewish Zionists (Haavara Agreement) resulted in most German Jews having already left Germany before the war began, an odd agreement seen from today's politically correct perspective where the deliberate and brutal murder of all Jews is taught and legally enforced (In many countries including Germany, France, Canada etc) on pain of imprisonment or huge fines. This mass-movement of people was achieved in a peaceful manner, with many Jews praising Adolf for the manner in which he conducted this delicate procedure. As a result, many Jews fought for Hitler during the war. Jews even nominated Hitler for the Nobel Peace Prize. In short, there was a great deal of support for Hitler from Jewish people until the day he died. Some of this support is documented = Yitzak Shamir, (Israeli Prime Minister). Former deputy leader of the NMO, (Israeli Freedom Movement) that offered to join the war on the Nazi side. Gertrude Stein, Jewish Nobel Laureate Novelist, nominated Adolf for the Nobel Peace Prize. Helmut Schmidt, German Chancellor 1974-1982.Served as lieutenant in the Nazi army and air force Avraham Stern. Leader of the NMO, (Israeli Freedom Movement) that offered to join the war on the Nazi side. = Lets get this straight all persons involved in rape of children or indeed any person should be castrated – The Catholic Church has a lot to answer for in Ireland not just the sexual abuse but also the Physical abuse – having said that I will not stay quite and let some jump up dedicators like Kenny and his Justice Minister Alan Shatter use such hideous crimes as abuse to further their warped political ideology – The Irish people can decide their freedom not some prate that believes we should embrace very sick immoral way of Life because the World is doing it – enough said
=== "The percentage of pedophiles is the same or greater in the GENERAL population, as for the priesthood. It is a general sickness, NOT specific to any church or group. Why doesn't anyone select for attack the pedophiles in the Protestant church or the Jewish faith, or the Muslim sharia that says it is desirable to marry 9 year-olds? === The person who wrote that post missed the point. This is not about the all too human failure of child abuse; it is all about the systematic, bureaucratic cover-up of those crimes, in ways that multiplied the number of victims for decades. A charge of which the Church stands convicted. As to: "The attacks on the Catholic Church are political and come from a deep hatred of all things that are not understood by simple and unspiritual minds." Eric Hoffer was a brilliant American writer, who wrote a book whenever his longshoremen's union went on strike. Mr. Hoffer wrote: "Propaganda does not deceive people; it merely helps them deceive themselves." The level of self-delusion in that statement is so impenetrable as to make any attempt to respond ridiculous.
The Catholic clergy should be very careful with Nazi analogies, lest is inspire folks to look into the level of collaboration between the Church and Nazis. In the south of France, where I live, all the Vichy government had to do was make divorce illegal and abortion a capital offense to earn the cooperation of the Catholic Church. Despite the heroic opposition of a few prominent clerics (out of respect for his courage and humanity, I must mention the name Jules Gerard Saliege, Archbishop of Toulouse.) and thousands of brave individual Catholics, the Church and most of its bishops fit into Nazi dominated France quite comfortably. Too comfortably for this priest to get away with that cheap analogy, to excuse his church's cover-up for the rape of children.
Yankee724...I think you don't know much about the Roman Catholic Church. They claim they are Jesus Christ here on earth! Why do the (children and their parents)have to go to confession to these men at least once a month or be in "mortal sin"? Why is the confessional a privilidge they cannot divuldge? Cause they forgive you not God. There is a big Stick hanging over the vunerable (and not so vunerable) but naive, that they dare not move. They are told," who would believe you over them", a Holy person that is sitting in for Jesus Christ???? I would like God to bless Ireland also, by opening it's eyes to the evil that lies behind all the POMP AND CEREMONY. What would JESUS do? He'd get OUT! People in the RCC have put GOD IN A BOX and HE IS BIGGER THAN THE UNIVERSE! HE IS EVERYWHERE AND WILL NOT BE MOCKED.
The one thing that Hitler might have known, was that the sexual molestation of God's vunerable people by Roman Catholic clergy was very true!!!...Hitler was an evil man who did evil things.And for him to have said that, is a very telling observation.Evil knows evil when it sees it!! Enda Kenny has finally broken free from Rome and found God. Amen! Would that most people who know God, would do the same!
Nice going BlackPirate, associating a Jewish justice minister with Nazism. Is there no end to the paranoia of the Catholic ideologues?
Hitler silenced the Catholic Church by threatening to put priests on trial for sexual crimes against children. I used to think Hitler was making up those crimes. Now I wonder.




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