by Dreams End » Tue Jul 25, 2006 2:31 am
Looking up Sinead I see that she was ordained in 2003 in the Palmarian Catholic Church, an ultraconservative splinter from the Catholic Church. They viewed the church as infested with progressives and communists and strongly denounced Vatican 2. <br><br>And, as so often happens with abuse victims, as O'Connor surely was, she ends up under the control of another likely abusive organization:<br><br><!--EZCODE QUOTE START--><blockquote><strong><em>Quote:</em></strong><hr>Clemente Domínguez y Gómez (1946-2005), one of the seers in the alleged Marian apparitions of Palmar de Troya, Spain (1968-1976) and later a “Thuc Bishop”, consecrated by the Vietnamese Archbishop on January 11, 1976. In 1978, Domínguez (in the meantime blinded by a car accident in May 1976) revealed that he had been mystically designated by Jesus Christ as the new Pope in a 1976 vision, and his followers confirmed his election as “Pope Gregory XVII” (the same name adopted by Tremblay in Québec). His “Catholic, Apostolic and Palmarian Church” (named after the town of Palmar de Troya) is probably the single largest organization bowing to the authority of an “alternative” Pope, with more than a thousand followers in Spain and several hundreds more internationally. In the 1990s, however, Domínguez was accused of sexual immorality with several nuns of the order he had established in the meantime; in 1997, he admitted his sins and asked for his community’s forgiveness. Most followers remained loyal to Domínguez and to his hand-picked successor, former lawyer and “Thuc Bishop” Manuel Alonso Corral. Others, however, have both doubted the sincerity of Domínguez in his apology and questioned his decision to appoint a successor rather than leave this choice to a conclave including the many cardinals he had in the meantime appointed from among his Bishops. At the end of 2000, 17 Bishops with a couple of hundred followers left the Palmarian Church, and formed a splinter movement known as “The Tribe”. Dominguez died on March 21, 2005. It has been succeeded by Manuel Alonso Corral, who has been crowned as Pope on March 26 under the name of Peter II.<hr></blockquote><!--EZCODE QUOTE END--><br><br><!--EZCODE LINK START--><a href="http://www.cesnur.org/2005/gregory.htm">link</a><!--EZCODE LINK END--><br><br>Admittedly, it could have been consensual sex with the nuns...I don't really care what they do in private but it stinks to high heaven to me as some sort of cultish group. I don't know if O'Connor has stayed with them. <p></p><i></i>
