• Church probes priest's porn presentation
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[QUOTE]The Catholic Church in Ireland says it's investigating how a priest making a presentation to parents on their children's upcoming First Confession instead ended up showing them a computer slideshow of gay porn.The leader of Ireland's four million Catholics, Cardinal Sean Brady, said the priest involved insists he didn't know how the explicit images got on the memory stick he intended to use for his Powerpoint presentation to families at St Mary's Primary School in the Northern Ireland village of Pomeroy. Brady said the priest, the Reverend Martin McVeigh, "has stated that he had no knowledge of the offending imagery" and is helping an internal Church investigation. McVeigh said other church officials used the memory stick and he wanted an investigation "so that what happened can be legitimately explained". "I don't know how it happened but I know what happened," McVeigh said. That's not good enough for St Mary's parents, who are demanding the priest's suspension from parish duties until the church determines who's responsible. They withdrew their children, mostly aged nine, from a planned Sunday service focused on the children's upcoming first Confessions and Communions, major sacraments of the Church. The parents described how, at a March 26 meeting at the school, McVeigh inserted the memory stick, clicked open a folder - and unleashed a cavalcade of sexually explicit pictures of naked men. "He was visibly shaken and flustered. He gave no explanation or apology to the group and bolted out of the room," the parents said. Two other school and church officials continued the Communion discussion, they said, "however the parents who viewed the pictures were horrified and distracted". They said an eight-year-old child also was present. After about 20 minutes, they said, McVeigh rejoined the meeting "and wrapped up by saying that the children get lots of money for their Holy Communion and should consider giving some of it to the Church". The parents said they were "enraged that Father McVeigh has been entrusted with the pastoral care of their children." Church officials arranged for another priest to oversee the children's Confessions this month but couldn't say whether McVeigh would oversee their First Communions in May.[/QUOTE] [url]http://news.ninemsn.com.au/smartphone/article.aspx?id=8445790[/url]
Probing eh? [editline]2nd April 2012[/editline] But seriously, what the fuck how did this happen.
"Yeah sorry about scarring your children for the rest of their life but hey you should give the church some money"
thats fucking hilarious
That alliteration in the thread title.
[QUOTE=Tea Guy;35406352]"Yeah sorry about scarring your children for the rest of their life but hey you should give the church some money"[/QUOTE] Don't... think you read the article, did you?
This reminds me of that video with the businessman's slideshow turning to a screen saver of porn, or something like that.
Probably some youths from the church pulling a prank, considering they're generally leaned upon for tech support
[QUOTE=archangel125;35406381]Don't... think you read the article, did you?[/QUOTE] But... That is exactly what happened.
Professional papal pontificates probe priest's public pubey porn Powerpoint presentation, probably primarily permissed per purpose pertaining pastoral parenting propositions. :P
Nobody's that stupid (I hope), someone must have set him up. The "probe" should reveal what kind of person he really is and that will tell if these are his pictures or if somebody sabotaged his flash drive.
Fantastic title
[QUOTE=archangel125;35406381]Don't... think you read the article, did you?[/QUOTE] I did. I just thought it was funny how he comes back later and suggests that they should give the church some money.
Well at least they're finally doing something about this stuff.
While the Catholic church has had some issues, this one seems to me like a prank and nothing really that news-worthy.
Fr Michael's idea of showing children "the body of Christ" was not well-received.
[quote]The Catholic Church in Ireland says it's investigating how a priest making a presentation to parents on their children's upcoming First Confession instead ended up showing them a computer slideshow of gay porn.[/quote] Because he wasn't paying any fucking attention?
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