OVERHEARD IN HARRIS & HOOLE...
(An occasional feature)
7th April
Lunchtime with coffee and biscotti at Harris & Hoole. Myself, Mary Winterbourne, Sebastian D'Orsai, Tony of the Big Saloon, Sugarboy Nando and Ducky Duckworth got together to chew the fat and shoot the breeze. The following conversation could be overheard:
Mary Winterbourne: I see from your blog Gene that Detterling has again got himself into a right splutter. This time about a lady who was healed of liver cancer in Medjugorje.
Gene: Yes Mary, he has exploded in rage, anger and a paroxysm of self-pity at the publication of this article. Very strange.
Tony of the Big Saloon: Well not so strange really Gene. Detterling is being totally envious of this good lady being cured of liver cancer in Medjugorje and his first wife sadly passing away from this terrible illness.
Gene: Yes, I think you've got it in one Tony.
Ducky Duckworth: Why does he deny that this has happened? Surely he has seen that the medical evidence of this miraculous cure has been handed over to the authorities in Medjugorje.
Tony of the Big Saloon: I'm afraid dear old Detters is losing it. Some weeks back he posted a strange item: something about young Sebastian going to tea with Gary Glitter.
Sebastian D'Orsai: Is Detterling still obsessed with Granny Barkes Fell in Woolworths?
Gene: Yes, I believe he wakes up at night calling out excerpts from Granny Barkes:
Jeremiah, blow the fire; puff, puff, puff ... Your man has killed Tinker Weir. He'll be hung. You poor woman ... Blue ink, black ink, and good red ink ... See that sycamore tree? By the end of November there won't be a single leaf left on it ... Secundam scripturas ... Has he no ears? ... Some cherry-cheeked apples he saw on his way ... Hey! Don't touch that coal scuttle, that belongs to Stanton Bailey ... That's the biggest laugh I've had since I put salt in the sugar bowl last week ... I'll get ye Tony. I’ll get you Tony. ... James Hugh Monaghan from Dernee, a warrior I do beliee ... Hurling by bum, hurling by bum ... Ya'll come now? Oh! that do make it nice ... Belledotie, Belledotie … I'd give you a guarantee ... Grroah! Murphy! ... You are very unsatisfactory ... Don’t worry. Your day will come … I was reading The Messenger ... Yes, and truly, you are best ... Drinking buttermilk all the week, whiskey on a Sunday ... Back to back, belly to belly, don't give a damn about Yarnarelli ...
Sugarboy Nando: Any news about the publication of Detterling's memoirs?
Loud laughter from all.
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And, lest we forget:
ReplyDeleteHad Ratzinger unfrocked Kiesle in 1985, the abuse of children at St Joseph's would not have continued for a further three years. That is a FACT, no matter how often you try to deny it.
Ratzinger's apology in full reads as follows [my footnotes}:
“I can only express to all the victims [1] of sexual abuse my profound shame, my deep sorrow and my heartfelt request for forgiveness. I have had great responsibilities [2] in the Catholic Church. All the greater is my pain for the abuses [3] and the errors [4] hat occurred in those different places [5] during the time of my mandate."[6]
1 ALL THE VICTIMS, Gene: victimS, plural: you can tell this by the S on the end of the word. All the victims of sexual abuse that occurred during Ratzingers time as Archbishop of Munich [1977- 1982] and later head of the Congregation of the Faith and Pope - that is, 1985 - 2013. The phrase "ALL THE VICTIMS therefore must include the victims of Stephen Kiesle between the years 1985-1988, when Ratzinger failed to unfrock Kiesle. [2] I HAVE HAD GREAT RESPONSIBILITES [see 1 above]: and one of those was to detect, root out and expel priests and others in the Catholic Church whose favourite hobby was buggering small boys and raping little girls. These GREAT RESPONSIBILITIES obviously include those children abused by Stephen Kiesle after Ratzinger failed to unfrock him in 1985. [3] THE ABUSES - these must include the abuses committed by Stephen Kiesle after Ratzinger failed to unfrock him [unless you can prove differently, Gene?].
[4] THE ERRORS - these must include Ratzinger's failure to unfrock Kiesle in 1985 and probably his failure to alert Fr Thomas Ryan that he was allowing a convicted paedophile rapist to minister to the young people in his church.
[5] THOSE DIFFERENT PLACES - except, of course at St Joseph's Church, Penole, CA, where Stephen Kiesle, still a priest, continued to abuse children during the years 1985-1988 - Ratzinger made it clear that his apology did not include this, didn't he, Gene, and you can prove that, can't you? What's that? oh, you can't? Dear me, and YOU call ME a lying tosser... [5] DURING MY MANDATE: that is, during the years 1985 - 2013.
It is clear to anyone whose mind has a greater ratiocinatory capacity than a pair of skid-marked underpants that Ratzinger was apologising for all the sexual abuse committed on his watch 1985-2013 by priests whom he failed either properly to oversee, accurately to diagnose and condignly to punish, as well as arranging for their being unable to access children and young people ever again.
"I can only express to ALL the victims of sexual abuse my profound shame, my deep sorrow and my heartfelt request for forgiveness." It's that word ALL that gives it away, Gene: I'm sorry if it's confusing. Stuff your pissy little opinions up your arse. I will not apologise for telling the truth, and I will go on telling it until you acknowledge that it is the truth. In the meantime, I continue to wait for your answer to this:
"Detters can we leave A.N. WILSON and ARIANNA HUFFINGTON behind?"
Not until you have dealt honestly with this example of your lying bastardy:
'Gene writes beautifully - something not always the case with authors of trail-blazing literary works.' [A.N. WILSON]
"The genius of James Joyce is alive and well and living amongst us. His name is Gene Vincent." [A.N. WILSON]
'I was enthralled. A new star has shot into the literary firmament. [ARIANNA HUFFINGTON]
When you are going to admit that you have made these reviews and their authors up? Make no mistake: I am going to keep on asking until you tell the truth, or I lose patience, inform Mr Wilson and Ms Huffington and let nature take its course.
This lady believes that she had terminal liver and spinal cancer, heart failure and was blind in one eye, and that she was miraculously cured at Medjugorje. She is entitled to believe that, but if she wishes the rest of us to believe it, then she should supply evidence - full, authenticated medical case notes from tests to diagnosis to treatment to prognosis of imminent death to inexplicable and miraculous cure. And unless Fr Pereira has seen the authenticated before and after scans, medical notes, diagnoses and prognoses, he is in no better place than you are or I am to confirm or deny this. Nor do we have any confirmation from her family doctor or her oncologist.
ReplyDeleteAnd if this had really happened, and if it were possible to authenticate such a cure with incontrovertible medical evidence, how come it has not been headline news for the past two years?
It hasn't even been news in Ms Fitzgerald's local paper, let along state, national or international press, from which I conclude that no-one has been able to authenticate the story.
From which the only possible conclusion is that the story is untrue, which doesn't, of course, rule out the possibility that Mr and Mrs Fitzgerald and Fr Pereira believed it to be true.
Publishing this kind of overheated nonsense harms the catholic church you purport to support.
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ReplyDeleteAidan Purves-Brownrigg
124 Manor Road
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A. N. Wilson
c/o
The Oldie
65 Newman Street
London
W1T 3EG
Dear Mr Wilson,
Please find enclosed a copy of a novel, "Granny Barkes fell in Woolworths" , published in December 2023. Its author uses the pseudonym Gene Vincent, under which he also operates a blog - "Gene Vincent...a voice in the wilderness." You can find this at https://genesmusings-gene.blogspot.com/
I also enclose two screenshots of postings on this blog, where Mr Vincent claims that you have reviewed this book in the following terms:
'Gene writes beautifully - something not always the case with authors of trail-blazing literary works.' [A.N. WILSON]
"The genius of James Joyce is alive and well and living amongst us. His name is Gene Vincent." [A.N. WILSON]
In fact the book is, as you will see, the kind of dreadful rubbish that gets vanity publishing a bad name - a sort of "painting by numbers" collage of disconnected sentences bulked out with meaningless photographs. Some measure of its quality may be gathered from the fact that at this writing it occupies position number 1,688,360 on the Amazon Best-Sellers list.
On the other hand, in claiming that, not only have you reviewed this book but also reviewed in glowing terms, it seems to me that Mr Vincent is jeopardising your professional position as a book-reviewer as well as publishing blatant and libellous lies to which, despite many warnings from correspondents to his blog, he refuses to admit.
What you might wish to do about this is, of course, entirely up to you, but it occurred to me that the whole situation might form the basis of one of your entertaining articles in The Oldie, as well as making sure that Mr Vincent's preposterous claims as to your estimate of the literary quality of his book are thoroughly exploded. If, in the process, Mr Vincent were to undergo public exposure and humiliation, many of his readers would see that as a bonus.
Yours etc.,
Aidan Purves- Brownrigg
Detterling do you take me for a total bollocks?
DeleteGENE
No, Gene, I take you for the bombastic fraud who is going to get the shock of his life before very long.
DeleteAidan Purves-Brownrigg
"And I encouraged her to send all this medical data to the Bishop here, the Apostolic Visitator, Archbishop Aldo Cavalli."
ReplyDeleteBut I took no steps to ensure that she did this.
"So she told me this morning..."
And in the interest of authenticating this miracle I took steps to ensure that she was telling the truth...
"that she did that yesterday..."
and of course she copied me in to the emails so that I could be sure that she was telling me the truth...
"I think she had a meeting with the Bishop and handed over all the medical documentation to him and told him the story as well."
And who could ask for clearer verification than that?
Gene, were it possible, this abject piffle would insult even your meagre intelligence. Either post some genuine evidence or shut the fuck up.
Detters I have managed to find for you an email contact for Fr Leon Pereira. I'm sure he would be happy to address your concerns regarding this miraculous healing.
ReplyDeleteleon.kuriakos@icloud.com
Best wishes,
GENE
What do you take me for? A Catholic priest with an alias? Come off it.
ReplyDeleteAnd in any case I have no concerns about Mrs Fitzgeralda miracle cure. Until it is confirmed by independent and verified medical evidence it remains at best wishful thinking and at worst fraud. Either way the burden of proof is not mine. Stop insulting my intelligence, twat.