Bishop Magee's interaction with 17-year-old boy

The extract below is from the Cloyne Report published today.

One is forced to ask after all these years was the Guardian newspaper not far off the mark when it asked some pertinent questions.

This is the tip of a terrible iceberg and some brave church leader needs to be open and honest.

Bishop Magee is well known for his pious words and holy thoughts.

And this same piousity and holiness is in the ascendancy in the church today.

Was it not so obvious for so long. Is all the nonsense and humbug not as clear as the nose on our face?

It is.

It's well worth studying the Guardian newspaper in the context of some of the nonsensenical pious 'churchy' publications - electronic and hard copy.

Maybe our modern day saints are the women and men who work at that newspaper.

Toxic fits with Rupert Murdoch, who is a papal knight and his corporation. The term fits too with the word 'church' and its bishops and leaders.


What follows is from the Report.

1553 Bishop Magee: The inquiry also dealt with a personal complaint against the former bishop himself.

The report said concerns had been raised about Bishop John Magee's own interaction with a 17-year-old youth named as Joseph. As a result of the complaint, the bishop had to receive 'boundary counselling'.

The concerns relate to a meeting the young man had alone with the bishop after he had decided not to take up a priestly vocation.

Joseph reported that the bishop embraced him tightly for around a minute and at the same time asked it it 'felt good.' Joseph also said the bishop kissed him on the forehead, and that Magee told him he loved him and that he dreamt about him.