father nally defies the swastika

Kilcullen church seventeen years ago.
Father Nally paused before beginning his sermon.
The congregation was silent.
For the past week Independent Newspapers, the Irish Times and RTE had been hashing and rehashing a sex abuse scandal, hijacking real victimhood for their war against the Catholic church.
This is fifteen years ago, mind.
Not last week.
Here we were.
The dulcet Summer of 1992.
Some in the pews perhaps really did believe Independent Newspapers, the Irish Times and RTE genuinely cared about sex abuse victims.
But not everyone.
Many of us were already wondering why if they cared so much about the truth, Independent Newspapers, the Irish Times and RTE hadn't made it clear to the general public that 99.99 percent of sex abuse cases arise in the family home and do not involve clerical or religious people.
If my figures were correct, that meant that 999 victims out of every thousand were effectively being ignored.
What possible motive could such high minded paragons of journalistic integrity have for concealing the truth about sex abuse?
I had talked to social workers in the 1980's who had told me quite bluntly that there was an epidemic of sex abuse sweeping the country.
They said there was no secret about where it was focussed.
It was focussed in the family home.
Yet already Independent Newspapers, the Irish Times and RTE were leading people by the noses to the utter falsehood that sex abuse arose mainly in Catholic church run institutions.
I am not their judge.
But I do believe Indepedent Newspapers, the Irish Times and RTE will answer for this on judgement day.
If I am correct that they have deliberately falsified the situation with regard to sex abuse, their undead souls will go down forever.
See you in hell, eh Tony?
(Heelers is implying that Mr Tony O'Reilly proprietor of Independent Newspapers will expiate his sins in the eternal flames of damnation. You too Gavin. - Ed note.)
Don't get me wrong.
I'm not saying they told a single lie.
I'm saying they deliberately and maliciously ignored 99.99 percent of the truth.
And they did it for a reason.
Look at them now.
For the past few days here in Ireland, Independent Newspapers et al, have finally begun scrambling to print some stories about sex abuse that do not involve the Catholic church.
It's too little too late.
They're just trying to cover themselves.
They're fooling no one.
But you've heard me at this before.
And you all know where I stand.
You all know the opprobrium with which I view Mr Ian O'Doherty's lying cowardly and utterly malign assertion recently in the Irish Independent that the Catholic Church is a paedophile ring.
You all know my assessment of the great O'Doherty.
You all know what I think is the solution to the problem of anti Catholic manipulation of sex abuse stories in the Irish media.
You all know bloody well.
I've told you to get up off your knees, and stand up for your church.
You didn't bow to Cromwell when he tried to steal you from the Catholic faith.
You didn't bow to Hitler.
You didn't bow to Karl Marx.
You didn't bow to Stalin.
You didn't bow to Mao.
Why would you bow to this collection of amoral fervourless Dublin Four self worshipping hypocrites who have created nothing and destroyed much?
Stop buying Independent Newspapers (ie The Irish Independent, The Sunday Independent, The Evening Herald, The Sunday World, and that right riveting read The Daily Star whose editor Ger Colleran once vilely and profanely claimed on national television that children were being abused in every Catholic church presbytery in Ireland), stop advertising in them, stop buying the Irish Times, stop our government from floating these entities through health board advertising, stop permitting the government to force you to finance RTE through a licence fee, stop the whole goddam con job whereby the Christians of this country are compelled to finance newspapers and radio stations and television broadcasters who despise and vilify us while we are prevented by law from setting up newspapers, radio stations or television channels to compete with this morass of malign distorted anti Catholic propaganda.
Let the crowing atheists and the creeping communists in our midst know that if they want to persecute some of us, they must persecute all of us.
Yes.
Get up off your knees.
I remember all those years ago one social worker telling me: "We're like the villains going in among families. The children are glaring at us saying: Don't take Daddy away. The women are glaring at us. It's nearly impossible to get at the truth."
But the media didn't want to get at the truth.
Or could it be that some sex abuse victims are more important than others?
Yeah they are.
The ones who are murdered for a start.
The ones who are ritually sacrificed to satan.
The ones whose abuse is most extreme.
The 99.99 percent of victims would in all probability be more important than the 0.01 percent of victims whose stories are continually recycled by Independent Newspapers, the Irish Times, RTE and shadowy figures within our judiciary and our political establishment.
I ask you again.
Whaddaya think folks.
Do Independent Newspapers, the Irish Times and RTE genuinely care about the victims of sex abuse?
Or could it be that Independent Newspapers, the Irish Times and RTE were simply trying to destroy the Catholic church as a platform of influence for the people of Ireland?
But I digress.
Kilcullen Church 1992.
Father Nally faced the people.
He would be the only Padre I ever saw telling it like it is.
"So you think we've failed you?" he enquired. "Well you've failed us. MASSIVELY."