Brian Devlin
@BDevlin1
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Author of ‘Cardinal Sin: Challenging Power Abuse in the Catholic Church’, Anti bullying Activist, Whistleblower, Civil Rights, Ethics, Collapsed Catholic
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Here’s a life hack I’ve just learned. If you hold down the space bar on your iPhone and slide to the left it moves the cursor. The amount of times I’ve had to rewrite words because I’ve gotten a letter wrong! Partly why there are so many mistakes in my tweets. Go on. Give it a go
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Looking through old photos. A wee, lost, deaf boy (me) with my best ever friend who thought I was her puppy. Sheena.
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A nice photo my cousin took of my mum, Pauline Devlin, today. She’ll be 94 soon. Sharp as a tack. Still lives independently in her wee house in Ireland.
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Do doctors or nurses ever use the term ‘peelywally’ for their patients? I think they should. There should be a peelywally scale.
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This is not funny. This is superb reporting by
@PrivateEyeNews
. And those who caused this need to be held to account for the shitshow they’ve caused.
The inquiry into the Post Office scandal begins taking evidence today from the Post Office and Fujitsu, whose computer programme Horizon ruined the lives of many innocent people. So far only 4 people have been fully compensated. Here's how HIGNFY dealt with the story in 2021...
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I really don’t know how to express this. Minnie died peacefully this time last week. I know so many of you loved her. She adored your attention. And the toast. I’ve lost my friend. And my heart is broken.
#GoodDoggie
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Absolutely beautiful.
BEAUTIFUL DUET. Rudy has dementia but that didn't stop him from sharing his beautiful tenor voice during this lovely duet of 'Panis Angelicus'.
They performed for his caregivers and fellow residents at his Senior Care facility. (🎥:🎶Myoso.music)
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Nearly 40 years ago I left the ministerial Catholic priesthood in Edinburgh & I found my true vocation.
I began working with injecting heroin users and prostitutes in Leith, Edinburgh. It was in the mid-80s. Many were dying. Yes from drugs. But for more it was ‘the virus’
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Struggling back. One breath at a time. Thank you all for your kindness and beautiful support
@RootBranchSynod
and everyone.
#BeNotAfraid
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Home again. Thank you to everyone of you who messaged, prayed, well-wished and thought kindly of me. I will ever be able to thank you enough. Not out of the waters yet but on the long road to recovery. This just after my post op bath - hence the pained look 🤣
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Here’s a living example of power abuse and it lets you see the control that senior clerics in the Catholic Church take over those weaker than themselves. Misogyny is a way of life for these men and, sadly, for the women forced to interact with them.
I’m here with Sister Mary Juan at the Casa Santa Maria, which is not only a residence for priests but also the visitor’s office for Americans visiting Rome!
@thegnewsroom
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Thirty Nine years ago on this day I was ordained as a Catholic Priest. It was a big milestone for me and my family. Seminary was not an easy place to be at times. But I felt on that day that that was all behind me and that I had a future as a Catholic priest.
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Thirty Eight Years ago today I was ordained a catholic priest
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@BishopScicluna
So on this 39th anniversary of making promises and vows that essentially I ended up having to break I make another one today. For as long as there is breath in my body I vow to challenge abusers of power in the Catholic Church.
Thread ends.
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In the desperately sad case of Archie Battersbee and his family it is important to understand what is actually happening - or what has actually happened. This thread by
@doctor_oxford
explains it all. It is a masterclass in clear, compassionate communication too.
A desperate day for Archie Battersbee's parents. Even when the relationship between family & hospital is strong, these situations are heartbreaking. When trust breaks down, even more so.
Some of the media reports have been confusing, so here's a short thread about brain death /
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Thank you one and all. I ended up back in the surgical ward today but thankfully things resolved and I am back home now. Not pain free but very comfortable. Thank you so much for your kindnesses, your prayers and just for being the wonders that you are. Yours Aye. Brian.
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Dear Catholics. When you put your money in the collection plate at mass, are you sure you know where it is going or what it’s really paying for?
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Facing a bit of surgery tomorrow. Parastomal hernia repair and re-siting stoma on the other side of my abdomen. I’m in the best of hands and will be milking the sympathy and concern big time.
#StopTheStomaStigma
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This is amazing. A fantastic solution for some deaf people in these masked times.
#DeafAware
#HearingImpaired
#deaf
#LipReading
A paramedic has found an innovative way to communicate with hard of hearing patients while wearing a face mask.
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Here she is. My beautiful best friend Minnie. She lost her eye but not her smile and affection.
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When you’ve got a four year old wee girl coming over for a visit.
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And, now I realise, I had to leave the priesthood and be with them in order to become a priest.
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THIS from Micheal and many like him is why I will challenge the abuse of power in the Catholic Church until I have no breath left in me.
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@charliersmith1
Charlie. Your posts are uplifting. You are an amazing beautiful person with an honesty and smile that lights up these dark winter days. Keep on.
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Utterly stomach churning. .
I’m here with Sister Mary Juan at the Casa Santa Maria, which is not only a residence for priests but also the visitor’s office for Americans visiting Rome!
@thegnewsroom
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I’ll tell you what. This post Covid cough and fatigue is awful. I’m 5 months in and it is still rough.
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This is my funny, kind, loving dad who died on this day 19 years ago. I’m much taller than he was. But I’ll never be bigger than him.
#WeeTonyDevlin
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@SarahCrossan
Hi Lola. I was bullied at school because I was deaf. And then I got a hearing aid and people picked on me for that too. So books became my friends. I read, and read and then read more.
The more you read, the more you know what is and isn’t important. Keep on reading. Brian
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French cardinal admits to abusing teen girl 35 years ago. Here we go again. And look : ‘He is a member of the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith, the Vatican office charged with investigating clerics accused of abuse.’ This is evil.
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My dog is, quite simply, the most beautiful dog in the world
Sorry. Had to be said.
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When I see how hearing aids have changed it is hard to imagine back. But this contraption for me, as a young boy, opened a door that had been closed. Of course children bully others who are different. So do adults come to that. Let’s learn to
#EmbraceDifference
#DeafAwareness
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Best Xmas ad
This Christmas ad for a pub in Enniskillen is better than anything John Lewis has ever put out
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My 94 year old mum was going through some stuff she kept from when I was a baby. She posted me these. Two medals and relics. One of St Anthony ( my first name is Anthony) and one of PopeJohn XXIII.
I became deaf as a baby and she pinned these onto my vest.
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@guineas4lifenew
It’s what we used to carve out our Halloween lanterns out of before the yanks and their pumpkins took over.
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Have shingles. I told my mum.
Under no circumstances must the two ends meet on your chest.
Why not?
It's bad.
What happens?
I can’t remember
How do I stop the two ends meeting?
I’m not a doctor Brian
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I should have explained that Pepper is a Derry Girl whose come to the Black Isle. She’s ‘settled in’ let me tell you. Utterly, madly, adorable.
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There’s something I’ve been meaning to tell you all....I was a whistleblower in the story that exposed the hypocrisy of Scottish Cardinal Keith O’Brien in 2013. This is the inside story of what that experience felt like. And my reflections on how the church needs to change.
“A searching but compassionate account of one of the greatest sex scandals in the Catholic Church in recent history” – Richard Holloway
'Cardinal Sin: Challenging power abuse in the Catholic Church' by
@BDevlin1
available for pre-order now:
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Wee Tony Devlin. My dad. Died on this day 2004. The loveliest, funniest and kindest man I ever knew.
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There will never be memorial walls with their names etched onto them. But their lives mattered. Their memories matter. They helped me as much as they challenged me. They changed me.
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@BishopScicluna
The Church authorities operate a system of Omertà to stifle any criticism. It behaves like a mob, a crime gang, rather than followers of Jesus.
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From FB memories. My first hearing aid. It looked clunky and made me stand out. But so did being a wee deaf boy. Times move on. But there’s still a need to
#BeKind
#DontBully
#DeafAwareness
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.
@BBCRadioScot
I wish to complain about the wrong headed decision to axe the media review on the
@JohnBeattie_
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@EamonnONeill
@Detroit67Book
and
@MsABurnside
is one of the best things on Radio Scotland. Please reconsider.
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Why did I have those thoughts? Because when I was in seminary the cover spiritual director, Fr Keith O’Brien, attacked me. He made it clear he wanted to have a sexual relationship with me. And 3 months after my ordination he was made Archbishop of St Andrews and Edinburgh.
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@BishopScicluna
The system of appointing bishops stinks. It is secret and is biased towards appointing men whose loyalty is to the organisation and not to the beatitudinal message of the gospel.
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But many decades later I met other priests that had been victims of O’Brien. We whistleblew on him. That act of whistleblowing turned my world on its head all over again. I was exposed to the callous under belly of the Vatican and its senior men
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A very Happy New Year wish to you all from me on the
#BlackIsle
in Scotland. Special greetings from my best pal Pepper.
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I am sure you’re doggie is the most beautiful dog in the world too. But Minnie. I collapse with adoration with this stunning old dame.
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Keith O’Brien on the other hand went on to become a cardinal. He went on to take part in the election of Benedict XVI.
He was adored by so many people. The laughing Irishman.
But all the while he had another side to him. Which I had experienced. He was a predator of priests
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I seem to be toppling over quite a bit these days. I’m sure it’s PoTS/long covid. It’s the strangest feeling. Don’t lose consciousness but I fall when I get up. About four times now. Then a headache and have to lie down. Very tired. ECG is fine. Anyone else get this at all?
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@BishopScicluna
Priesthood and the body of bishops is a closed brotherhood. A brother hood made up of frequently self loathing sexually and developmentally immature men. Misogyny is marbled through their veins. They fear and hate women as much as they fear and hate challenge.
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Bill Bailey did more for public morale in this pandemic with his few comments than Johnson could ever do
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@BishopScicluna
Many of them lead double Iives. They are the keepers of each others secrets. And they are hoax leaders. And their followers are gradually understanding just how conned they have been. They are beginning to understand just how appallingly corrupt many of those ‘leaders’ are.
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I went on to work with heroin users and sex workers in Leith during the AIDS epidemic. I left the Catholic Church behind. I wanted nothing more to do with that organisation.
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@roastmalone_
Her name is Pepper. Also Pep, Peppy, pepperoni, pep pup. But mostly NO PEPPER. or GET THE FECK DOWN OF THERE PEPPER
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Can I ask, when you say that you are going to pray for someone, or keep them in your prayers, what do you do? There’s no side to this question. I just really am very interested.
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My best friend from school died yesterday. We sat together all through primary and secondary school. I used to sing this to him in German class to make him laugh. Love you Kevin.
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It’s
#WorldAIDSDay
today. Forty years on discrimination still persists. Although clinical interventions have improved beyond measure. I will keep remembering those beautiful, vulnerable, frequently hilarious and challenging young people who ‘caught the virus’.
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At 7 pm 37 years ago I was ordained as a Catholic priest. It was after 7 years of hard academic study and personal formation. I left the priesthood less than 18 months later. One of the most taboo things a Catholic could do. I had to in order to keep my integrity intact.
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Last night Minnie really struggled to see on her way home in our walk. Then this happened. Barley appeared and led her home. Rubbed against her when she moved off the path
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I often wonder, when inquiries are rife about how many deaths could have been avoided in Covid, how many millions of people needlessly died who were denied access to condoms across the world due in large part to Catholic bishops preaching against their use. And influencing policy
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Thanks to all the surgical medical nursing, cleaning and therapy staff in Raigmore. I was broken and you fixed me. You were kindness personified.
@NHSHighland
please credit the staff on Ward 4C and SHDU for having done a first rate job. I’ve been sprung. Time to break free
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This is me in Rome in 1980. I had just finished my second year in seminary. I was on my ‘compulsory year out’. Compulsory for boys who joined up straight from school
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I drove to the end of the road in Ireland today. It was so moving.
#TheWildAtlanticWay
Next stop America.
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My wee pal is trying to fathom out the noises. *raindrops on the car roof*
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Thank you
@NHSHighland
for outstanding service in Raigmore Hospital today. Two CT scans by kind, professional, friendly and sensitive clinical staff who couldn’t have made me feel any better than they did. Please pass on my thanks. The NHS is open.
#CivilityAlways
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My world fell apart. My hopes for the future were ruined. I was to go on and damage the lives of my mum and dad. Two people who gave me everything they had. For many many years I was shunned. It wasn’t their fault. They didn’t, couldn’t understand.
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As an old man whose been deaf nearly all my life I have to say this is one of the most beautiful presentations of the joys and challenges of deafness I’ve ever seen. I love you
@pernicegiovann1
and
@RoseAylingEllis
"In this dance we have a very special moment, and I'm doing it for the deaf community." 💖 So much power in the silence of Rose and Giovanni's routine.
#Strictly
@RoseAylingEllis
@pernicegiovann1
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