the murderers of reputations

John Cooney interviewed Archbishop Diarmuid Martin in the Irish Independent on Monday.
The article was a page in length.
A further page was set aside later in the paper for Cooney to reinterpret the interview with a eulogistic assessment of Archbishop Diarmuid Martin for the peasants and an additional commentary so unsubtle, so banal and so manipulative as to beggar belief.
But that's exactly what Independent Newspapers is trying to do.
Beggar Belief.
By using sex abuse as a Trojan Horse, elements of the judiciary and their mouthpieces in Independent Newspapers, the Irish Times and RTE are trying to do what every oppressor in history has thus far failed to do.
They are trying to destroy the Catholic Church.
They're trying to shut down the Catholic Church by bankrupting it with perpetually recycled allegations of sex abuse and continual retrospective ascriptions of guilt.
But lo.
Here's larks.
The unsubtle and jeeringly anti Catholic John Cooney seemed strangely in awe of Archbishop Diarmuid Martin.
No repeat in this interview of John Cooney's mocking cavil that Bishop Martin Drennan should fall on his crozier.
Bishop Drennan was mentioned in Judge Yvonne Murphy's contrived report on the church's handling of sex abuse cases, but only because Judge Yvonne Murphy felt she had to note that no wrong doing could be attached to Bishop Drennan.
John Cooney's standard of judgement is evidently less exacting than the notoriously unexacting Judge Yvonne Murphy.
But there would be no talk of falling on croziers when John Cooney was interviewing Archbishop Diarmuid Martin.
For some strange reason John Cooney seems to like Archbishop Diarmuid Martin.
I wonder why.
John Cooney didn't mention his own earlier sneer about Bishop Drennan.
And Archbishop Diarmuid Martin was much too polite to mention the false sneering accusation against a brother Bishop of concealing child abuse.
John Cooney's interview was a salivatory exercise in mutual adoration.
Why it was almost sexual.
John Cooney asserted amid numerous false inuendos against the church and Bishops generally, that Archbishop Diarmuid Martin is a reformer who would never be welcome by the old guard because he's seeking to turn the church into something we could all be proud of.
Really?
So I guess John Cooney is giving his imprimatur to that one then.
Here's my assessment of Archbishop Diarmuid Martin.
I suggest that John Cooney's tribute to Archbishop Diarmuid Martin is as false as John Cooney's inuendos against sundry other Bishops.
I do not believe that Archbishop Diarmuid Martin has repudiated the Marxian extremism of his brother Seamus, a former political editor of the Irish Times who was famous for his advocacy of communist regimes and who some of us believe to have been a Soviet agent.
I am convinced that Archbishop Diarmuid Martin has closer links to the media groups currently attempting to destroy the church than he should have.
John Cooney says that with this interview Archbishop Diarmuid Martin was breaking his silence.
This is a lie.
Archbishop Diarmuid Martin has never been silent.
Since Judge Yvonne Murphy's contrived report into child abuse was published, Archbishop Diarmuid Martin has been conspicous by his lack of silence.
Indeed he has been conspicuous by his multifarious comments to the media and by his various nefarious manoeuvres to compel silence on others whose reputations, lives, witness and careers had been trashed in the report.
Archbishop Diarmuid Martin has been conspicuous in his attempts to force silence on Bishops whom Judge Yvonne Murphy has vilified for not handling sex abuse cases thirty years ago the way Judge Yvonne Murphy says they should be handled today.
Archbishop Diarmuid Martin has spoken out accepting everything in the report and allowed no right of reply for the men whose reputations were being destroyed in it.
Archbishop Diarmuid Martin has attempted to keep silent those Bishops who may have wished to defend their reputations so casually calumniated by Judge Yvonne Murphy and afterwards equally casually calumniated by Archbishop Diarmuid Martin himself.
Archbishop Diarmuid Martin has spoken out to put several Bishops under pressure to resign without those Bishops having been accorded any freedom to break silence and speak for themselves.
Archbishop Diarmuid Martin broke silence to allege that one retired Bishop had failed to apologise for his actions as criticised in Judge Yvonne Murphy's contrived report, forcing the retired Bishop to break silence under extreme provocation and reveal that he had issued a formal apology, that it had been forwarded to Archbishop Diarmuid Martin for publication, and that Archbishop Diarmuid Martin knew of its existence and had chosen to conceal it.
Archbishop Diarmuid Martin broke silence to again allege wrong doing on behalf of the retired Bishop and to claim that he Archbishop Diarmuid Martin never knew about his apology, a lie that was refuted by Archbishop Diarmuid Martin's own office who told reporters, that the Archbishop knew of the letter.
No, by God.
Archbishop Diarmuid Martin has never been silent.
But he has sought to deny so many others the right to speak.
He has used the Catholic Church tradition of obedience to the Archbishop to compel silence on men who were being egregiously slandered by a particularly venal Archbishop, namely himself.
He has denied honorable men the chance to answer a gerrymandered liberal atheistic report cobbled together by Judge Yvonne Murphy, a representative of a Judicial class so mired in abuse, murder, drug use, corruption, idolatry and the collapse of the rule of law in this country, as to beggar belief.
But that was always the game.
Beggaring belief.
That's what they're playing for here.
They care not one whit for sex abuse victims.
They ignore 99.99 percent of victims.
Their only concern is to destroy the church so that there will no longer be a spiritual platform available for Christians in Ireland to represent themselves within our culture.
It's all about power.
If you accept what they're doing gentle readers, you are a part of what they are.