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Last week John Cooney was writing in Independent Newspapers about what a wonderful reformer Archbishop Diarmuid Martin was.
This week he's attempting to preserve some journalistic credibility and put some distance between himself and the same Archbishop Diarmuid Martin.
John Cooney's keynote is not subtlety.
On the eve of the Bishops meeting in Rome, which Independent Newspapers had helped precipitate with the sole intention of orchestrating the firing of Bishops, John Cooney wrote glowingly of a photograph featuring Archbishop Diarmuid Martin and Pope Benedict.
John Cooney claimed the photograph showed in what high regard the Pope held John Cooney's then favourite Archbishop Diarmuid Martin.
The Irish Independent didn't publish the photograph.
We had to take John Cooney's word that it showed what he said it showed.
John Cooney also turned his interpretative skills to other photographs.
These ones were published.
John Cooney claimed a photo of the Pope with Cardinal Sean Brady showed the Pope wanted to keep his distance from Cardinal Sean Brady.
Ah yes.
This interpretation was the clearest evidence yet that Cardinal Sean Brady may not be a deliberate participant in John Cooney and Archbishop Diarmuid Martin's axis.
Perhaps all along Cardinal Sean Brady has just been a weak and vascillatory accidental accomplice to these two atheistic cads.
What's become clear is that John Cooney doesn't like Cardinal Sean Brady.
But you know John Cooney doesn't like any Bishops.
Not even the misguided leftist infiltrator Archbishop Diarmuid Martin.
Their alliance was always an alliance of scoundrels.
An alliance of convenience.
John Cooney and Independent Newspapers wanted to destroy the church.
Archbishop Diarmuid Martin wanted to remake the church in his own image.
Their aims were not mutually exclusive.
Destroying the church and remaking it in Archbishop Diarmuid Martin's image, amount to the same thing.
But let's get back to John Cooney inspired interpretation of photographs.
John Cooney claimed a photo of Bishop Martin Drennan with Pope Benedict showed that Pope Benedict held Bishop Drennnan in disdain.
It showed no such thing.
John Cooney's interpretation of that photo was as mendacious and manipulative as everything else he has written about the Catholic Church.
Here is the news.
John Cooney never cared one whit about sex abuse victims.
The ball game was always to force the resignation of a generation of Bishops and to replace them with liberals.
By randomly ascribing guilt, by inventing a new standard whereby those guilty of sex abuse would not be the ones who commited sex abuse, but instead the bosses of those who committed sex abuse, by creating such a false standard, and then by applying it solely to the Catholic Church, and specifically not to any other institution, hospital, sports club, community organisation, business, government department, or vocational group in Ireland in all of which sex abuse is rampant, why then, with that business model, Independent Newspapers, Judge Yvonne Murphy, RTE, The Irish Times et al, could quite simply succeed where every two bit Nazi, commie, devil worshipper, freemason, and Islamist has failed for two thousand years.
They could shut down the Catholic Church.
No murders would be necessary.
Except the murder of reputations.
Forcing mass resignations of Bishops would have helped deter young people from the priesthood while delivering an enormous propaganda victory for the abortionists, atheists, and leftists who make up the editorial and journalistic staff of Independent Newspapers, RTE, and The Irish Times.
Yeah.
They must think they came close.
And it isn't over.
Listen to me folks.
We haven't been asked to defy Hitler's guns, or Stalin's guns, or Osama Bin Laden's guns.
Risking our lives for the faith is not the challenge we've been given.
Our challenge is to risk ridicule and humiliation at the hands of the very liberal atheistic scoundrels who have mired Ireland in the violent society.
We're not asked to die for the faith.
At least not yet.
We've been asked to defy a corrupt liberal Judiciary, along with their allied anodyne atheistic media groups, worthless shills without principle or insight, miserable hounds attempting to destroy Christian belief and replace it with the pleasure ethic, the basest curs of Independent Newspapers, RTE, The Irish Times, and lesser breeds without the law, who are in league with each other to destroy our church.
We are asked to defy them.
Give them no quarter.
Call them what they are.
Persecutors of the church.
Betrayers of Ireland.
Last week John Cooney threatened that if the Pope didn't fire the Bishops, the church in Ireland would go into open revolt.
John Cooney somewhat overestimated the extent to which he speaks for Catholics in Ireland.
John Cooney's conception of himself as somehow being a leader of Irish Catholics is beyond delusional.
Cooney can you hear me.
I know you can.
Why have you done this?
Why have you sought to criminalise honorable, decent, heroic Bishops?
Why have you sought to destroy our ancient and true religion of light?
Why Cooney?
Why?