the scuttling archbishop

Archbishop Diarmuid Martin left the meeting with the Pope at which he had attempted to vitiate the lives and careers of his fellow Bishops, hurried to Rome airport, hopped on a plane, and returned to the welcoming arms of his media masters in Ireland.

He claimed a prior engagement had prevented him from staying in Rome longer.

Unlikely in the extreme.

What was the nature of this prior engagement?

What was its purpose?

It was a prior engagement that prevented him being photographed with the fellow Bishops he had just failed to hound from office.

A prior engagement which precluded any more photos with the Pope for Independent Newspapers shill John Cooney to mendaciously interpret as indicating Papal approval of Archbishop Diarmuid Martin's manipulations when the Pope was clearly repudiating Archbishop Diarmuid Martin's every machiavellian attempt to ruin honorable Bishops.

A prior engagement which prevented Archbishop Diarmuid Martin from travelling home in the company of Bishops and one Mr Nice Guy Cardinal who have belatedly made it clear to the Pope that they no longer hold Archbishop Diarmuid Martin in any esteem.

Archbishop Diarmuid Martin fled Rome... to attend mass at a third level college in Dublin.

That was the great unavoidable prior engagement.

Mass in a school.

A church service in University College Dublin.

The notion that this was a prior engagement which Archbishop Diarmuid Martin had to attend is yet another egregious lie.

Archbishop Diarmuid Martin is quite the father of lies, isn't he.

Archbishop Diarmuid Martin ran away to lick his wounds.

Archbishop Diarmuid Martin wished to be back in Dublin ahead of the other Bishops so that Archbishop Diarmuid Martin could continue his media campaign against those Bishops in their absence.

Within hours of his return, Archbishop Diarmuid Martin would be talking to television reporters. whining anew his faux concerns over child abuse, attempting once more to keep up the pressure on the Bishops he wishes to destroy.

All the talk about humility and solidarity and renewal was just hogwash.

The only humility Archbishop Diarmuid Martin is interested in, is the humility he imposes on Bishops he is seeking to ruin.

So he scuttled back to Dublin.

To a Dublin where Independent Newspapers and The Irish Times and RTE welcomed him with open arms.

This was never about sex abuse.

This was about power.

This was always about liberal atheists in the media and the judiciary attempting to remake the Catholic Church in their own image through the manipulations of their agent Archbishop Diarmuid Martin.

Had Archbishop Diarmuid Martin been successful in stampeding the Pope into demanding the Bishops resign, why then who else but Archbishop Diarmuid Martin would have played a key role in the appointment of the new Bishops.

That is the strategy Archbishop Diarmuid Martin has been pursuing in his attempts to remake the Catholic Church in his own image.

New Bishops for old.

What a lovely bunch of liberal coconuts they would have been.

That was the game.

It's not over.