Christine Gallagher’s House of Prayer has apparently become engaged in a battle with the Catholic Church, despite – or because of – its apparently over-the-top Catholicism.

They called out the big liturgical guns to defend themselves.

Our Blessed Lady, Queen of Peace, in a most urgent plea, is calling all Her children in Ireland and throughout the world to unite in a novena honoring the Most Holy Trinity to crush evil attacks coming against Her Mother House of Prayer, the Chain Houses and Her daughter Christina. (October 2007 on the House of Prayer site)

Bit ironic really. Sort of demonstrates the ineffectiveness of prayer, in fact. Well, at least, prayer’s ineffectiveness at getting the support of the Roman Catholic Church. As reported in the Irish Independent, the CGHOP organisation is not acceptable to the church.

The controversial House of Prayer has been disowned by the Catholic hierarchy and has no standing in the eyes of the Church.
In a hard-hitting statement, the Archbishop of Tuam Michael Neary said the House of Prayer “has no Church approval and their work does not enjoy the confidence of the diocesan authorities”

However, their prayers managed to bring some excellent material rewards, according to Eirbiz.com

One woman today told of how her mother had been sucked into the cult to the point where she has paid about €15,000 to Christina Gallagher so far and now wants to sell land worth about €100,000 in order to give more to the House of Cash. Her mother even pressurized another daughter to part with money from her SSIA account.
The report in the Sunday World said that Mrs Gallagher now lives in an up-market area of Malahide in a house worth €4m.

When their Sunday masses were banned discontinued this week, according to the Connaught Telegraphit even caused some financial anxiety outside the odd cult prayer organisation.

Some representatives of the business community in Achill were due to meet last night (Tuesday) to discuss what they describe as “a worrying situation” because of the economic importance of the Centre for the area. (Connaught Telegraph)

I have to speak up on behalf of the Catholic god here. Isn’t he going to be a bit confused? Which novenas should he take as legit? There’s the ones coming from the Catholic Church itself, headed by his representative on earth. So, you’d expect him to be paying a bit of attention to the people he employs. But then, Christine Gallagher is speaking for his mother. Doesn’t it contravene Catholic family values to favour his representative-on-earth against his mum and his Irish half-brothers and sisters. Dilemma, huh?

If he makes his decisions on aesthetic grounds, it’s an easy choice for the man upstairs, though. Official Rome: Sistine Chapel. In fact, Renaissance masterpieces by the metric tonne.
CGHoP: This sort of image. Blimey.