DUBLIN — The Roman Catholic Church in Ireland said Monday it is investigating how a priest accidentally displayed a series of pornographic gay images during a presentation to parents of children preparing to receive First Holy Communion.
Rev. Martin McVeigh
The priest, Rev. Martin McVeigh, insisted he didn’t know how the explicit images got on the memory stick he intended to use for his presentation to families at St. Mary’s Primary School in the Northern Ireland village of Pomeroy, according to CNN.
The leader of Ireland’s Catholics, Cardinal Sean Brady, issued a statement Monday admitting that “inappropriate imagery was inadvertently shown by a priest at the beginning of a PowerPoint presentation.”
The statement went on the say the material “was immediately removed from the screen” and “the priest has stated that he had no knowledge of the offending imagery.”
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“The archdiocese immediately sought the advice of the PSNI (Police Service of Northern Ireland) who indicated that, on the basis of the evidence available, no crime had been committed.”
But angry parents are demanding that McVeigh be suspended from parish duties until the church determines who’s responsible.
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.
Irish media outlets are also reporting that at least one child, said to be an eight-year-old, was at the meeting.
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you know the bastid downloaded it himself!
Bwhahhaahaa.
Thats terrible…
Oops. Wrong file!
We all know …
How typical!
LMAO
thats hilarious.
ohh I see how it is Priesty :P
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3 things: 1) Nothing wrong or illegal about gay porn; 2) what’s wrong was this priest’s lack of porn organizing/double-checking skills regarding his digital files; and 3) isn’t it sad when it’s a relief a Catholic priest wasn’t looking at child porn instead, which is kind of what we come to expect these days.
Katherine Wai
Just doing a little research hahahaha
Sorry, but we all know it was there cuz Father happy pants downloaded it…investigation closed!
I can do naught but LOL.
I’m gay and have nothing against him watching gay porn…. but how did it happen? He was wathing it. lol Nothing more, nothing less. Move on with life.
so the homophobe is actually a repressing homosexual, not surprise there!
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I couldn’t care if a priest wishes to indulge himself to some pictures of gay porn, he just should have been more careful about where he put the files, very silly mistake!
He can always invoke his defense with the doctrine of immaculate conception. It’s about as convoluted as his explanation.
Ha
How it happened, simple, he was looking at it and forgot to remove it before he did the presentation.. case closed
They were not images of boys, so I say give the priest a break. I bet he finds the body of Christ sexy as hell…
Sloppy file organization, plain and simple.
I lol’d
“accidentally” huh? Riiiiiiiight
Investigate this as a crime of passion.
They’ve been “investigating” gay priest for years and still covering it up. Why should anyone believe this will be any different?
Riiight they all say it’s an ‘accident’ yeah yeah sure sure
Ohhhhhhh this is too good to be true!!!! xD!!!!!.this is like a sitcom
How do you get a nun preggers?? Dress her up like an altar boy!!
Lot pop ups in that article.
1st of all, it is a big problem… A priest is supposed to be an edification of “holiness”. To see him indulging in a “blasphemous” act is basically illegal in the eyes of the church. But I mean this just goes to show we are all human and sinners saved by salvation so the church needs to stop spreading homophobic hate. A priest is no different. You can be as holy as you wanna be, but the fact is we are all human.
I say this is NOT a crime if the porn is from a long time ago, now dull of any current value. IF RECENT, then it’s red hot and should be investigated before it cools.
There IS A REASON WHY people hate us in the world, America. It is because we are hypocrites. At it’s best.
Well… you need a dick to apply for the priest job. But once you get the job, you can’t use your dick any more….
must have gotten it mixed up with the parent trap dvd case or something.
It’s really not that hard people! Catholic priest? Gay Porn? Children? Now watch them make it all go away!
Didn’t this happen in an old episode of Father Ted?
What an asshole!
He did not even ask for apologies after the act
Its unnatural for a person to be celibate….but now was this rgular porn or child porn…regular porn ….no biggie…hes human …..child porn …..id say fry him..but. they will just move him to another church where no one knows him ….
This story is a classic, love it. What will they do about it NOTHING.