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Two or three weeks ago, Rev Professor Enda McDonagh was installed as ecumenical canon of St. Patrick’s Cathedral, Dublin, a cathedral owned by the (Anglican) Church of Ireland.
This beautiful cathedral was stolen (twice in fact) by the British Crown from the Catholic Church, and most of its worshippers today are the descendants of English planters. The Pope still offically recognizes it as a Catholic Cathedral, and its’ sister (but smaller) Cathedral, Christchurch, is in Rome’s eyes still the seat of the Catholic Archbishop of Dublin, although occupied by the Anglican Archbishop.
Fr Mc Donagh was installed as ecumenical canon in St Patrick’s along with Rev Ken Newell, a former Moderator of the Presbyterian Church in Ireland. By accepting this invitation he is accepting Anglican ownership of the cathedral, and accepting the CoI’s erroneous claim to be the rightful successor of the pre-Reformation Irish Church. In reality, the Crown confiscated Catholic churches and transferred them to Anglican hands. By accepting this invitation he insults the Pope, and the millions of Catholics, both in Britain and Ireland, who were killed by the Anglican Establishment for their Catholic faith.
He was installed by the Anglican Archbishop of Armagh, Alan Harper. By accepting this invitation Fr Mc Donagh appears to be accepting the validity of Anglican orders, which are of course, ‘absolutely null and void’ in the eyes of the Catholic Church (see Apostolicae Curae). Alan Harper is a very nice man, but he is a mere layman in the eyes of the Church. Not only that, but he is occupying a Church which is rightfully Catholic.
Fr Mc Donagh was Professor of Moral Theology and Canon Law at the Pontifical University of Maynooth. Despite this, his opinions on moral issues are not in conformity with Catholic teaching. At a “civil partnership” of a ‘gay’ couple, Julian Filochowski and Martin Pendergast (an ex-priest), he said that: “in their being so honourably gay they have enabled us to be a little more honourably Catholic”. Fr Mc Donagh, as a former Professor of Moral Theology at Ireland’s main Catholic University, should be aware that there is nothing Catholic about homosexuality, rather it is considered an ‘intrinsic disorder’ by the Church. Fr Mc Donagh also said that this occasion was ‘a prophetic one, at least a partial realisation of a dream, leading us further along the road to being honourably Catholic’. Despite his homosexual lifestyle, Julian Filochowski remained a director of the Catholic Agency For Overseas Development (CAFOD), an agency of the English and Welsh Catholic bishops until 2003 (…which btw, has also supplied condoms to those in the developing world).
Fr Mc Donagh should not be allowed by the Church to take up this post. As an ecumenical canon, he will be celebrating “holy communion” with the Church of Ireland, despite the fact that this is forbidden by the Catholic Church. He supports homosexuality, and is opposed to Church teaching on the sanctity of marriage. He should not be in a position of authority in the Church. The fact that he was a Professor of Moral Theology is scandalous.
This beautiful cathedral was stolen (twice in fact) by the British Crown from the Catholic Church, and most of its worshippers today are the descendants of English planters. The Pope still offically recognizes it as a Catholic Cathedral, and its’ sister (but smaller) Cathedral, Christchurch, is in Rome’s eyes still the seat of the Catholic Archbishop of Dublin, although occupied by the Anglican Archbishop.
Fr Mc Donagh was installed as ecumenical canon in St Patrick’s along with Rev Ken Newell, a former Moderator of the Presbyterian Church in Ireland. By accepting this invitation he is accepting Anglican ownership of the cathedral, and accepting the CoI’s erroneous claim to be the rightful successor of the pre-Reformation Irish Church. In reality, the Crown confiscated Catholic churches and transferred them to Anglican hands. By accepting this invitation he insults the Pope, and the millions of Catholics, both in Britain and Ireland, who were killed by the Anglican Establishment for their Catholic faith.
He was installed by the Anglican Archbishop of Armagh, Alan Harper. By accepting this invitation Fr Mc Donagh appears to be accepting the validity of Anglican orders, which are of course, ‘absolutely null and void’ in the eyes of the Catholic Church (see Apostolicae Curae). Alan Harper is a very nice man, but he is a mere layman in the eyes of the Church. Not only that, but he is occupying a Church which is rightfully Catholic.
Fr Mc Donagh was Professor of Moral Theology and Canon Law at the Pontifical University of Maynooth. Despite this, his opinions on moral issues are not in conformity with Catholic teaching. At a “civil partnership” of a ‘gay’ couple, Julian Filochowski and Martin Pendergast (an ex-priest), he said that: “in their being so honourably gay they have enabled us to be a little more honourably Catholic”. Fr Mc Donagh, as a former Professor of Moral Theology at Ireland’s main Catholic University, should be aware that there is nothing Catholic about homosexuality, rather it is considered an ‘intrinsic disorder’ by the Church. Fr Mc Donagh also said that this occasion was ‘a prophetic one, at least a partial realisation of a dream, leading us further along the road to being honourably Catholic’. Despite his homosexual lifestyle, Julian Filochowski remained a director of the Catholic Agency For Overseas Development (CAFOD), an agency of the English and Welsh Catholic bishops until 2003 (…which btw, has also supplied condoms to those in the developing world).
Fr Mc Donagh should not be allowed by the Church to take up this post. As an ecumenical canon, he will be celebrating “holy communion” with the Church of Ireland, despite the fact that this is forbidden by the Catholic Church. He supports homosexuality, and is opposed to Church teaching on the sanctity of marriage. He should not be in a position of authority in the Church. The fact that he was a Professor of Moral Theology is scandalous.