an open letter to archbishop diarmuid martin

Hey Arch.
Just been reading John Koehler's book about Soviet spies infiltrating the Catholic Church after World War Two.
It's a spiffing read.
High octane stuff.
Apparently the Russians spent fifty years trying to infiltrate and subvert the Catholic Church throughout Europe.
My God, Archie.
It couldn't happen here, could it!
Do you think it's possible that the Russians spent the years from 1940 to 1988, inserting spies into Catholic Churches across Europe, and that for some arcane reason, they didn't bother with Ireland?
We know that the Russian KGB was running spies in the IRA, the Irish Times, the Irish Union of Students and within the upper echelons of the Irish Civil Service and the Irish parliament.
Is it reasonable to assume they drew the line there and didn't bother with the Irish Catholic Church?
But who among our esteemed Bishops could have been a Russian spy?
Who would have had motive, opportunity and the will?
Who has acted like a Soviet spy?
Who Archie?
Who among our Bishops has ever colluded with atheistic anti Catholic media groups and with shadowy figures at the upper reaches of the Judiciary and Civil Service in a blatent attempt to criminalise an entire generation of Bishops, priests and nuns?
Who has attempted at a stroke to compel an entire generation of Bishops to resign so that he could replace them with hangpicked liberals graven in his own image?
(Craven surely? - Ed note)
Who was was a brother of the famously pro Soviet former political editor of the Irish Times?
I say it again.
Motive, opportunity and the will.
Get out Archie.
I want you gone.
James Healy