Favourite One-liners Volume 7 (Coniston St Paul the Apostle Knights of Columbus edition)

“Welcome to the club.”
-Pat Masson (when I was made a lector)

“I don’t have a cell phone and I don’t use social media. I’m hanging up.”
-Sandra Boyd (when I asked her to listen to what had happened re: Facebook posts, and my students, and asked her give me 30 minutes to show her some documents)

“If you say that again, I’ll call the police.”
-Jane Shannon (in the church basement, when I said that the reason people don’t come to church anymore are the people in the church who don’t follow their own rules, after the CWL swearing in ceremony before Mass where they ignored me, even though I had been invited to be the Spiritual Convenor)

“If you do that again, I’ll call the police.”
-Andrew Cummings (after I broke down again at work as the St Paul crowd started giving me the silent treatment once I was kicked out) Just overnight, they turned on me, without hearing what happened. They avoided me, wouldn’t look at me. While I was working, Darren Dumontelle made a comment about how maybe I should have been more professional in Peterborough. I felt trapped there and so I quit because of Andrew’s threat.

“Looks like you’re backed into a corner.”
-Lindsay Fournier on Dec 9, 2021 when I met with him and Celestine Agwu about FCR and told them what had happened in Peterborough. Lindsay said that conversation was confidential.

“Don’t worry! You’re a child of God.”
-Celestine Agwu on Dec 9, 2021 in a meeting set up by Lindsay Fournier. He just spiritualized the matter.

“If you hang out with her (Marie Bouclin), maybe they won’t come after you. Angie and Suzette were never going to accept you anyways.”
-Roland from the Knights of Columbus

“You know what I like about you? You wore a skirt at Easter. You were the only woman wearing a skirt.”
-Roland

“They’re just covering their ass, Jen.” “We can’t let a Catholic woman have a trial, Jen.”
-Roland invited me to his house for coffee. I wanted to hear what he knew and what he had heard. After chit chat for a few hours, he said this to me. I think this was the real reason for the visit. I guess he thought it was acceptable for me to be put through all this so “they could cover their ass”