Parents in shock as priest displays gay porn images [article]

Congratulations HorH, you managed to thank a post that called a village priest a dirty bastard despite the Fact that there is no Evidence that he did anything illegal. How many years has this priest tried to help others, I think this is the same priest who helped the Irish in London when they ended up homeless. Why don't you stick to praising the sspx or post in the atheist forum, although intelligent atheists would tell you where you can stick your hatred of homosexuals.
It would be better to ignore your posts but your negativity is an acid in this forum that eats through the page.
If you have a problem with homosexual priests take it up with the 30%-60% of the hierarchy who deal with it in their own lives.

charlemont wrote: »

That was hilarious, If I had been there I would have had convulsions from laughing. The priest must be mortified.

Agreed. A real Father Ted moment. Remember the 'not a racist' slideshow?

Estimates range widely, not practicing homosexuals, but orientated towards same sex attraction.

http://www.religioustolerance.org/hom_rcc.htm

The job of being a priest can be a deeply isolating and lonely one. I knew a Fr McVeigh in Drogheda in the eighties and he was a good and kind man.

Putting priests on pedestals that occurred in Ireland until recently led to the narcissism and grandiosity that allowed for child molestors to go unpunished. But hurting a child and homosexuality are two completely different urges.
Many priests, especially those of an advanced age simply don't want to address the subject of human sexuality and especially of homosexuality. Who can blame them! The next Pope will have to face the reasons for empty seminaries. The first step of many will be to allow diocesan priests to marry.

I don't like criticizing you HorH but attacking groups within the Church instead of trying to understand the issue only freezes readers from approaching Catholicism at all, which is a grave error. I'm going now to post a rebuttal to your comment about the degeneration of the Trappist order that you mention in another thread.

Keylem wrote: »

lmaopml, I was speaking in general. I'm sure there are some priests out there that indulge in such activities, who would not speak out against it.

It seems to me that this priest didn't know the contents of the usb stick, and certainly wouldn't have used it had he known!

Sorry, Keylem I wasn't speaking about you in particular just in general - how easy it seems for some to stereotype others and become convinced - it's something that as Christians we fight against for and on behalf of so many that stereotypes have created all sorts of injustices for in the world...... It's sad really.

IITYWYBMAD wrote: »

Having worked in IT for the last 20 years, I've yet to see a situation where porn has been projected onto anything bar a PC via a virus. Most trojans/viruses have the ability to put malware in-place or redirect your browser, but I've never seen one that can put numerous acts of homosexual activity onto a screen through the use of a USB stick.

Secondly, as a father who has been to many a baptism/communion/confirmation meeting, I've yet to see a situation where this type of thing happens, or a priest disappears.

Thirdly, as somebody who gives presentations to audiences of 10's and sometimes 100's of people, I've been thought to review and re-review what I'm about to present as a matter of course.

I think it's fairly obvious what's happened here, and I think the priest (irrespective of his past helping the homeless (is that not his job!!!)) will take a sabbatical...etc...etc...

All I'm saying is that there very well could be an explanation - it seems investigating the PC that the files on the USB stick originated from would perhaps be the way to go....

In fairness, in work I get so much spam sometimes on one pretty old email account - Anything from extending the length of my Penis (which I don't have cause I'm female )
to Russian and Asian women who want to marry me, or indeed that I've won billions of Euro in various lotteries worldwide ) An indecisive click on the wrong website or wrong email and bingo your computer gets infected. I don't know how many times I've had to use malewarbytes on some of the laptops in work that get infected by clicking on the wrong thing - and it can be embarrassing for the users - until I try to calm them down and let them know it's commonplace.

Granted how the files got from the PC to the USB would need to be determined I guess......That's what investigions are for.

Sonics2k wrote: »

There's no need to turn him into some form of outcast simply because he might be gay or bisexual..

His orientation (whatever it is) has nothing to do with it.

lmaopml wrote: »

All I'm saying is that there very well could be an explanation - it seems investigating the PC that the files on the USB stick originated from would perhaps be the way to go....

In fairness, in work I get so much spam sometimes on one pretty old email account - Anything from extending the length of my Penis (which I don't have cause I'm female )
to Russian and Asian women who want to marry me, or indeed that I've won billions of Euro in various lotteries worldwide ) An indecisive click on the wrong website or wrong email and bingo your computer gets infected. I don't know how many times I've had to use malewarbytes on some of the laptops in work that get infected by clicking on the wrong thing - and it can be embarrassing for the users - until I try to calm them down and let them know it's commonplace.

Granted how the files got from the PC to the USB would need to be determined I guess......That's what investigions are for.

Agreed...totally.

Of course there is an innocent explanation for it, sure isn't there always???

Occam's razor would also determine that the most obvious answer is the one that usually makes the most sense, i.e. this priest saved some images to his USB stick that he inadvertently forgot to delete. I'm not stating this as fact, as I have no knowledge of this priests private life, nor his interaction with the lay people of this world.

What I would hate to see is another complete cover up by the priesthood of this unfortunate event, and for once they come out and say "look this is what happened".....

I think the religious has suffered more from their handling of recent events, than they would have had should they have met these issues head-on and just be honest with everyone, which is a virtue last time I looked.

IITYWYBMAD wrote: »

What I would hate to see is another complete cover up by the priesthood of this unfortunate event, and for once they come out and say "look this is what happened"......

+1 if it was his stuff I'd hope he'd come out with his hands up and take the flak rather than try to bury his head in the sand. If it wasn't his then I'd like to see it investigated.

StanMcConnell wrote: »

Apparently, it was a shared USB key. So, a bit early to assign blame.

If it was his, he should be chided privately to ensure it doesn't happen again, but I doubt we'll ever see a public response to the investigation - not that it's necessary. He's already been embarrassed enough.

It looks like it was a shared usb key.

The leader of Ireland’s 4 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 Rev. 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.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/irelands-catholic-church-probing-why-priest-showed-parents-a-slideshow-of-gay-porn/2012/04/02/gIQAVG1SrS_story.html?tid=pm_world_pop