watching the defectives

The Irish Independent on Monday featured an unattribued article on its cover today juxtaposed with a picture of four Bishops.

The article, probably by John Cooney, was headlined Bishop Awaits Fate.

The clear implication of the article and its headline was that a startled looking Bishop in the photo was Bishop Martin Drennan whom the Irish Independent has been attempting to force to resign.

An additonal implication in the article was the Bishop Drennan appeared unsettled because he was waiting for some sort of confrontation with the Pope.

Only when you read the closely written caption underneath the picture did it become clear that Bishop Martin Drennan was not in the photograph at all.

Nor did the picture show any Bishops waiting to meet the Pope.

It showed four Bishops attending mass in Rome in memory of the now deceased Cardinal Cathal Daly.

The picture and the article and the headline in the Irish Independent therefore amounted to an egregious lie.

The front page was nothing more than a grotesque smear on a decent, brave, and honorable man.

The whole was a contrived agit prop effort to manipulate public opinion in a manner both illegal and immoral.

 

On page 16 of the Irish Independent, John Cooney had an article headlined Future Of Embattled Bishop In Pope's Hand.

This article was juxtaposed with a photo of a Bishop looking nervously at his watch.

Again the clear implication was that this was Bishop Martin Drennan and that he was running out of time.

The photo was in fact of Bishop Joseph Duffy and had, like the photo on the cover, been taken at the memorial mass for Cardinal Cathal Daly.

Perhaps the sermon went on a little long.

But there is no possibility that Bishop Joseph Duffy was looking at his watch because he thought Bishop Martin Drennan was running out of time.

The article and the photo juxtaposed with it, amounted to yet more lies, yet more sneering and yet more trial by innuendo of a man whose witness and courage have been a blessing to all who know him.

 

On page 17 of the Irish Independent, there was yet another article by John Cooney.

This article was juxtaposed with a large picture of a group of Bishops.

Beside the picture John Cooney wrote: "Like schoolboys waiting to see the headmaster, a gaggle of Irish Bishops in their white robes and purple zuchettos assembled in Rome last night ahead of a showdown summit with the Pope."

John Cooney's sneering and contempt for the men he is trying to ruin, is palpable.

But again, the picture does not feature Bishop Martin Drenna.

The picture does not feature Bishops waiting to see a headmaster or the Pope.

The photo features a group of Bishops attending a memorial mass for Cardinal Cathal Daly.

This sort of blatent deception is a measure of the venal dishonesty of John Cooney and of the base fervourless amorality of Independent Newspapers.

But it's not the full measure of it.

 

On page 25 of the Irish Independent, there is yet another article by John Cooney on the same mendacious theme.

The article is headlined Battle Lines Are Drawn At Rome Summit Showdown.

The headline is of course a falsehood, designed to manipulate public opinion and to put pressure on Bishop Martin Drennan.

There is no summit showdown.

No matter how hard Independent Newspapers and Archbishop Diarmuid Martin attempt to contrive one.

The article is illustrated with a large photo of a Bishop.

Again the implication from the photo's proximity to the headline is that this is a picture of Bishop Martin Drennan.

The picture is as always of another man entirely.

As before it was taken at the memorial mass for Cardinal Cathal Daly.

The lies mount up, don't they.

John Cooney writes in his article: "In 1891 it was a tragic case of Parnell versus the Bishops. In 2010 it is Martin versus the Bishops."

There is some confusion here as to whether John Cooney is suggesting that Bishop Martin Drennan is fighting his fellow Bishops.

But no.

The Martin he means is Archbishop Diarmuid Martin, a man John Cooney smirkingly styles as a reformer, trying to create a church everyone can be proud of.

Hey John.

Does Archbishop Diarmuid Martin not wear white robes and a purple zuchetto too?

Are these particular items of fashionable apparel somehow less sneer worthy when he's wearing them?

You like Archbishop Diarmuid Martin don't you?

The enigmas endure.

So it's Archbishop Diarmuid Martin versus the Bishops.

That's what John Cooney means.

And actually for the first time there's a smidgin of truth in that.

Some of the Bishops have certainly grown weary of this odious oleaginous career diplomat Archbishop Diarmuid Martin, casually telling liberal newspapers that they should resign from office.

Some of the Bishops know full well that they have been targeted by an orchestrated liberal atheistic attempt to deprive the church of her leaders.

Some of the Bishops believe they have a right to a fair hearing.

And some of the Bishops have never doubted that they are entitled to something better than presumption of guilt, something better in recognition of their lives of self sacrifice and devotion to Ireland, something better than trial by innuendo, something better than a jeering cur in a failed newspaper lying about them in the full glare of the nation.

But John Cooney is not finished.

John Cooney continues: "If the German Pontiff flunks the Drennan dilemma, the Irish Bishops will return on Ash Wednesday to a church in revolt."

Threatening the Pope now.

John Cooney is threatening the Pope with a revolt by Irish Christians.

Let's be clear.

John Cooney is a writer for a declining liberal atheistic newspaper group that has debts to lenders of 1500 million dollars and counting.

That's his status.

He is not an insightful commentator.

He's not even a popular commentator.

He's a no one.

He speaks for no one but himself and a liberal left wing cadre seeking to use old sex abuse cases as a Trojan Horse to destroy the Catholic Church in Ireland.

Now John Cooney is threatening the Pope with open revolt as though John Cooney has the power to speak for anyone except himself and his ever narrower circle of porcine applauding Dublin Four friends.

Vainglorious isn't it.

And disgusting.

John Cooney really wants to destroy Bishop Martin Drennan.

So much so, he can taste it.

The other Bishops played ball.

They wanted to be nice boys.

They allowed media scoundrels to convict them of wrongdoing without a trial, a hearing, an explanation, a balance of reportage, or any due process whatsoever.

The scoundrels in the media convicted them.

Scoundrels.

Utterly unaccountable cowardly leftist scoundrels.

Yes, a group of Bishops took John Cooney and company's media manipulations on the chin and resigned as they were expected to.

But Bishop Martin Drennan spoke the truth.

He did not back down.

He did not bow to the fatted calf of Tony O'Reilly's bankrupt newspaper group.

The same newspaper group which a few months ago had permitted Paedophile Slattern Ian O'Doherty to mendaciously assert in print that the entire Catholic Church is a paedophile ring.

But Bishop Martin Drennan would not bow to their persecution of him or the church.

Under any circumstances.

It's almost as though John Cooney feels personally aggrieved that Bishop Martin Drennan refused to follow the plot.

The Drennan dilemma?

Apparently John Cooney thinks that if John Cooney attempts to sabotage a man's life and career, the Pope has no choice but to approve of John Cooney's actions on such matters.

Apparently John Cooney over estimates John Cooney's standing with the Pope and among Christian people in Ireland.

Apparently John Cooney seriously thinks that if John Cooney gives the word the Catholics of Ireland will rally to his liberal atheistic standard.

Hey John.

You're not that popular.

Word on the pews is you're lower than pond scum.

I'm just saying is all.

Apparently John Cooney has been undeterred by John Cooney's failed attempts to organise a boycott of the sacraments in Irish churches last year.

Lets just say, the turn out for the boycott was disappointing.

For John Cooney.

The Drennan dilemma?

There is no dilemma.

Bishop Drennan has called Independent Newspapers bluff.

And Independent Newspapers, that debased, loss making, thoroughly unaccountable media entity, doesn't like it one bit

 

 

 

 

Footnote: Bishop Martin Drennan is mentioned in Judge Yvonne Murphy's self serving and manipulative report into the church's handling of child abuse, only in so much as Yvonne Murphy stated that his behaviour was exemplary at all times. In any case, you all know that my assessment of Yvonne Muphy's report is that it was dishonorably contrived in order to bring down the church and has been dishonorably used by the media to do just that.