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12 years ago @ http://www.belfasttele... - Vatican\'s empty gestu... · 1 reply · -2 points

Are you trying to deny that, in a column in the Irish Times, she demanded that the Catholic Church transfer ownership of some of its schools to compensate the State for the compensation which it paid to victims of sex abuse? Yes or No.

12 years ago @ http://www.belfasttele... - Orange Order’s g... · 1 reply · -2 points

edmondde

I am anti-Protestant aggression. I do not make attacks on the Protestant religions or the Protestant churches - nor do I interfere with their policies or rules. Unfortunately many Protestants, including yourself, seem incapable of the same conduct towards Catholics. That includes some Protestant clergymen - and not just from the Free Presbyterian Church. e.g. On Easter Tuesday of 1970 a Church of Ireland minister publically stated "The RC Church is wicked and evil".

You say that I am "very unrepresentative" of my community. What if I am? Andjust how unrepresentativeam I?. Do you actually believethat I am the only Catholic who has been ill-treated by Protestants and who resents the experience? Do you think that only a few Catholics resent Protestant privilege and Protestant aggression - such as strutting in Orange parades through Catholic districts, the persistent insulting of Catholic workmates or frequent and persistent Protestant interference in the internal affairs of the Catholic religion?

12 years ago @ http://www.belfasttele... - Orange Order’s g... · 0 replies · -1 points

The first policeman killed was Victor Arbuckle. He was shot dead on the Shankill Road in the autumn of 1969.
The Provisional IRA was set up as a Catholic defence force and then"defence" became rather elastic.I never approved of the Brits Out campaign - political or military - and I am still opposed to a Untied Ireland, howsoever achieved. That, however, does not change the fact that the IRA was the result of Protestant aggression, not thecause of that aggression.

Of more than 300 members of the IRA killed in Northern Ireland, less than 10 were natives of Eire. If Irish nationalism could not motivate the young men of Eire, why did it do so for their counterparts in Catholic Ulster? The answer: Protestants.

P.S. Where did you get the idea that I defend paedophiles?

12 years ago @ http://www.belfasttele... - Irish Catholics \'want... · 1 reply · -1 points

cassie

Is your calling me "sectarian" a case of the sly fox noticing his own stink first.

I have not interfered in the internal affairs of any Protestant Church nor have I been involded in propaganda aimed at putting Protestant children into the clutches of Catholic teachers.

12 years ago @ http://www.belfasttele... - Orange Order’s g... · 6 replies · 0 points

I am not impressed with yourattempts to white-wash Protestants by explainingall their misdeeds as a response to the IRA, fear of a United Ireland etc. etc. Why not tell the truth? Their aggression against Catholics is the result of sheer downright sectarian malice (just as in Scotland)- aggravated by a fear of losing their privileges over Catholics.

You have been guilty of aggression against Catholics e.g. your attacks on RC Church rules.

12 years ago @ http://www.belfasttele... - Irish Catholics \'want... · 1 reply · -1 points

When Fr Pat Buckley sued his bishop for unfair dismissal, why did the Industrial Tribunal rule that it had nojurisdiction in the matter?

12 years ago @ http://www.belfasttele... - Irish Catholics \'want... · 0 replies · +1 points

Leave it to Catholics to decde who teaches their children.

12 years ago @ http://www.belfasttele... - Pictured: Thousands wa... · 1 reply · -1 points

You are the person who accused me of being dumb.

12 years ago @ http://www.belfasttele... - Vatican\'s empty gestu... · 1 reply · -4 points

Trying to put them in the clutches of anti-Catholic teachers.

12 years ago @ http://www.belfasttele... - Irish Catholics \'want... · 0 replies · -2 points

So you intend to persist with your sectarian aggression against Catholics.

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