John Heneghan

@LewisJonathanE @tjmcgibnxy It didn’t stop him becoming a Papal knight if memory serves me correctly

When I see Irish leftists post that "Zionists are unwelcome in Ireland," I cannot help but think of Irish politician Oliver J. Flanagan and his virulent antisemitism Born in 1920, Flanagan's first speech to the Dáil (Irish Parliament) in July 1943 called for Ireland to emulate Nazi Germany and to "rout" the Jews out of Ireland. Shockingly, he was neither censored, nor rebuked for his antisemitism Even though the Final Solution was in full effect in Europe, he nevertheless blamed Irish Jews for Ireland's economic woes, saying: "There is one thing that Germany did, and that was to rout the Jews out of their country. Until we rout the Jews out of this country it does not matter a hair's breadth what orders you make. Where the bees are there is the honey, and where the Jews are there is the money." Today, though they'd never admit it, Irish antizionists who advocate "breaking the chains of Zionism" or who say you can't be Irish and a Zionist are echoing Flanagan's pro-Nazi sentiments

@MaryKenny4 Well said Mary. The anti Catholic diatribe y a certain journalist ignores the fact that people are being more honest in not having a religious wedding if they have no intention of living by Catholic expectations

The rise in "Spiritualist" weddings in Ireland shows a yearning for faith, not a rejection of it. The search for the numinous goes on, and the rites & rituals replacing the old are often imitations of the original. My Irish Independent column 7/05.

@ColmanOfGuaire She apologised and removed the video in fairness

The UK Tories, under the leadership of militantly pro-abortion agnostic Nigerian Badenoch, are actually more jingoistically anti-Irish than they were during the height of the troubles.

@PaddyJManning @Independent_ie @SarahJayBee A very succinct and accurate point. Bigotry is never edifying

Today, as we celebrate the feast of St Joseph the Worker, and the dignity of human work, we remember the largely Irish labour force who built Westminster Cathedral. St Joseph the Worker, pray for us.

@MartinP_Cesar Archbishop Lefebvre accepted the validity of the 1969 Missal of St Paul the VI. Important to keep that in mind

La Misa católica se salvó gracias a Monseñor Marcel Lefebvre. Decimos católica en contraposición al rito impuesto por Pablo VI a comienzos de 1970. Un nuevo misal que hacía todo nuevo: desde la organización de los muebles del presbiterio hasta la creación de dudosas plegarias eucarísticas, sacadas de la manga. El Novus Ordo se planifició cuidadosamente, con el propósito de eliminar de la Misa todo aquello que pudiera ofender a los cismáticos protestantes.

@jshocds @PillarCatholic An excellent synthesis is there need also more openness to the Vetus Ordo and looking again at Traditionis Custodes? I suppose time will tell.

Interesting assessment of the SSPX developments & why Pope Leo won’t meet them, from @PillarCatholic: pillarcatholic.com/p/why-leo-wont…

@thejournal_ie Is it not a good thing if people have no intention of living by the values signed up to the values expected in a Catholic wedding. At least it’s not tinged with hypocrisy

Civil ceremonies have overtaken Catholic weddings as the most popular way to get married in Ireland. According to new figures from the CSO, Catholic ceremonies made up less than a third of all weddings in 2024. jrnl.ie/7026008

@TRHLadyThalia A Queen Consort not a queen regnant as was Elizabeth II ( Queen in her own right )

Camilla is the Queen. She is the Queen by right of being married to the KIng and having been crowned as the Queen. Will you be upset when Catherine is called Queen, or is it just Camilla you object to. Life moves on and titles are passed on, that is the way of the Royal family.

@smuszynski92 For which he was automatically excommunicated

25 kwietnia 1991 roku zmarł JE bp Antônio de Castro Mayer, wielki obrońca wiary katolickiej. ➡️ w 1948 roku mianowany przez Piusa XII biskupem diecezji Campos w Brazylii, którym pozostawał do 1981 roku, kiedy to złożył rezygnację w związku z osiągnięciem wieku emerytalnego; ➡️ podczas II Soboru Watykańskiego zrzeszony wraz z ponad 250 innymi biskupami (w tym abp Marcelem Lefebvre) w grupie Coetus Internationalis Patrum, która sprzeciwiała się liberalnym nowinkom soborowym, takim jak wolność religijna, fałszywy ekumenizm i kolegializm biskupi; ➡️ jako biskup diecezjalny odmówił implementacji Novus Ordo w swojej diecezji, w związku z czym do czasu jego ustąpienia w 1981 roku w diecezji Campos nadal „obowiązywał” katolicki ryt Mszy Świętej w obrządku łacińskim; ➡️ w 1988 roku wraz z abp Marcelem Lefebvre, w sytuacji obiektywnego stanu wyższej konieczności, współkonsekrował na biskupów księży Bernarda Fellay, Bernarda Tissier de Mallerais, Richarda Williamsona oraz Alfonso de Galarreta, celem zachowania prawdziwie katolickiego kapłaństwa i doktryny katolickiej wobec postępującego i trwającego nadal modernistycznego kryzysu w Kościele; Pamiętajmy o JE bp Antônio de Castro Mayer! Wieczny odpoczynek racz mu dać, Panie!

@Netterville @Rgt71Robert @kimleadbeater The legislation was fraught with difficulty and was poorly drafted

@Rgt71Robert @kimleadbeater Fuck off, you ghoul. The bill was atrocious and the House of Lords represented the ppl better than the HoC.

Totally with @kimleadbeater here. And this is no longer about one bill but a system. When any legislation can be buried by procedure in the House of Lords, the question is: why do appointed figures, political, professional or ecclesiastical, hold the power to override the elected will of the people? As a priest of @churchofengland , I am dismayed that @ArchbishopSarah @CottrellStephen and the rest of the bishops have not only failed to confront this, but continue to benefit from it. None of us can claim moral authority while occupying seats that depend on power without democratic consent. Silence in the face of this is not neutrality but complicity. A chamber built on appointment cannot claim democratic authority. When unelected voices can block the will of the Commons, it is not scrutiny but obstruction. It is power without mandate, authority without accountability, and influence without consent. And where power refuses accountability, it loses its moral claim. The bishops should know this all too well as trust in them in the church is at a very low ebb indeed. Reform of the second chamber is no longer a matter of preference, it is an essential matter of justice. Democracy cannot survive where power answers only to itself. theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

@Tiernan__Joseph @grannies4equal @MaryKenny4 @S_Moriarty1 @Berlinnaeus While you are correct regarding ordination it wasn’t an infallible statement

@grannies4equal @MaryKenny4 @S_Moriarty1 @Berlinnaeus As Catholics, we believe in papal infalliblity. The matter of women ordination has already been resolved and clarified by Pope John Paul II.

Sunday Independent...

@PaddyJManning Argue on the point please. Ad hominem attacks reflect poorly on those making them

@MaryKenny4 In fairness they reviewed my book on Maynooth which was as Gaeilge

Important review from Felix M. Larkin, an excellent historian. The Book Pages of the weekly Irish Catholic newspaper really are very good, especially on matters of Irish history.

@MaryKenny4 His execution had a profound affect on Mgr Pádraig de Brún leading to him being the only member of the staff of St Patrick’s College Maynooth to oppose the Treaty

A sincere and patriotic young man.

@TonySeruga Please keep your sedevecantist nonsense to yourself

Note: My wife and I were Catholic. I was an altar boy for 8 years. And there is no doubt in our minds that something is radically wrong/different at the Vatican. With Pope Leo XIV. I’m done trying to justify their decisions. What we’re looking at doesn’t feel like a misstep or a bad phase. It feels like something else has been taken over. Like the papacy… the papacy… has been hollowed out and turned into something else entirely. I’m sick of pretending that’s not happening. And I’m not alone. The word being used… the word people are whispering and then saying louder EVERY WEEK… is “fake.” Not fake, like a conspiracy theory meme. Fake like a gut reaction. Fake, like looking at something that should be unmistakable, realizing you don’t recognize it anymore. That’s the problem. And it starts with LEGITIMACY. Because once people start... open.substack.com/pub/tonyseruga…

@eamonnconway Good evening Eamonn, you are incisive and succinct as always. It will be interesting where @Pontifex stands at bringing unity to the church.

@connachtrugby What about those of us who are season ticket holders already?

Season Tickets for 2026/27 - Register your interest 🎟️ 🔗 r1.marketing-pages.com/p/7NQW-GL8/26-… #OneConnacht

@dramdarcy @Netterville He edited and published the Simple Lessons written by Eoghan Ó Gramhnaigh

A frustratingly uncompromising figure on a political level, but a great scholar ...

@Netterville @dramdarcy In vino Veritas

@dramdarcy I’m always taken by those who argue that they’ve no Irish because of the way it’s taught. Years of looking at FB posts on Irish topics has taught me that a significant percentage of the population emerged from school with an inability to use English.

The standard of writing in this 'statement' is shockingly bad. Watch syntax, punctuation, and phrasing; this does not inspire confidence.