>

Didn't know that. Good nut fact for the day.
Slideshows????? What?
My man just opened up cp.ppt and added a few THOUSAND slides of kiddy porn????
Clippy: it looks like youre a depraved predator. Do you want to profane the church as well? >

Gotta be honest I'm hella confused about that. Was he using it to show other people? Sending it to others? Why a PowerPoint? >

Wild guess, he wanted to be able to view a bunch of the photos by quickly clicking through them and his old depraved ass didn’t know another way to do it >

My parents use Microsoft Word to store images. They'll find a picture they want to save online, right click, copy, then paste into a Word document. I've tried to teach them how to just save the image directly, but they refuse. >

This made me physically cringe. I'm sorry. >

- Honey, can you send Tim the pictures we took from the wedding? He asked if we have any ones that they would want to include in their gallery.
- I'm on it.
*sends you one of those slightly tilted pictures of the screen with the Word document open* >

I was gonna say imagine asking for a picture and getting a .docx file lmao but this is worse >

I work as internal (non customer facing) tech support in a fortune 100 company and routinely ask for screenshots of issues.
I once got a photo of a monitor that was embedded in a word document. >

How many more layers can we go? >


the congregation offered to financially support him

Important distinction to be made here:
The congregation referred to in this case is not the “people in the pews”… it is the religious order (known by its proper name “Congregation of the Mission” or its colloquial name “the Vincentians” after its founder, St. Vincent de Paul).
Such an arrangement would see him taken to the religious order’s provincial house where he would live under a sort of “house arrest” away from children and with no parish ministry.
As to whether such an arrangement  should be granted, I’ll leave that to the judge—though I would be hesitant unless the superior can give an ironclad guarantee that Fr. Jim would wear an ankle monitor and never have any access to internet whatsoever. >

Oh I see. That's different. 
If I were the judge, I'd simply chuck him into prison. Because I trust these people about as far as I can throw them. >

Fair and reasonable reaction. 
My primary concern was to make clear that the offers of support were not coming from people in the pews. >


Fair and reasonable reaction.  
My primary concern was to make clear that the offers of support were not coming from people in the pews.

Good. Because that would make this so much more disgusting. >

Gonna take this moment to highly recommend the film Spotlight to any who haven’t seen it >

THEY KNEW, AND THEY LET IT HAPPEN! >

Fun fact, Michael Rezendes (who Mark Ruffalo portrays in Spotlight) also investigated the LDS Church and published his findings on their coverups of child abuse this past year. The dude is like a bloodhound sniffing out and exposing predators. >

Did his good work lead to a dent in the organizations though? They still seem to be going strong. >

It takes a long time to bring a giant pillar down but it takes small cracks to get started. I’m sure 1000 years from now we’ll look back on his work and see it as the beginning of the end for religion. 
Look at the numbers, more and more people are growing up as non-believers. We’re far from “there” but it’s happening. >

Nude pix on the church printer . . .  I can imagine the scene.
Sister Mary Michael: Yo, does anyone recognize this tallywhacker?
Former Alter Boy Brian: Yeah, that's Father Jim. I'd know that hairy mole anywhere. >

That's Tommy Turner's tallywhacker >

Maybe we can get the police to send a sketch artist? >

"Have you seen this prick.." >

*making another streak to the tally list wall
*camera panning out to reveal a huge fucking wall covered in streaks >

Man I gotta say though. If you have an image collection of porn you really like to flip through. A PowerPoint is a damn fine idea. Not only can you auto scroll but add sweet ass flipping transitions.
That said. This man should burn for this >

And yet where are all the "anti-groomers" protesting these churches? >

It’s almost like it has never actually been about protecting children, and it’s always been about trying to demonize LGBT people >

At this point I am positive the religious right to life thing is about having more targets. >

Glad I'm not the only one thinking this is a big conspiracy. If there's no unwanted children then what's the point in joining the clergy? >

After the Southern Baptist sexual abuse report came out last summer I've become convinced that organized religion is deliberately made to be a front to facilitate abuse of the vulnerable. >

I really do think a lot of preachers are just charismatic guys who know they can con people. It's relatively easy work for a bullshitter. Watched my uncle do it for years.
There are also many who truly believe the schtick and just compartmentalize the bad stuff. Both are to blame regardless. Nobody gets a pass. >

I could see that with some of the smaller denominations for sure.
When it comes to the bigger ones though, like the Catholics and the Southern Baptists, I totally think its largely just a big organized front. The fact that they're so reluctant to reform their ways and do the obvious right thing (immediately handing over their abusive clergymen to the authorities) just strengthens my belief. >

Priest? Pedo? Are you sure? This is unprecedented >

Correction! PedoPreist >

New name not necessary. If anything there should be a name for the unique priests that arent pedos. >

I'm inclined to think the majority of priests aren't child predators themselves.
The problem isn't how many of them there are after all; it's that they aren't being turned in when they get caught. Just shuffled around.
Way, way too many of them are pedo-enablers. All the way up... >

Wish I was surprised >

You make slideshows of images?  
Edit: 
Oh wait I see what you mean. Yeah the pedophile priest thing is so expected that only the slideshow bit stood out >

Holy hell. Priest have normalized pedophilia. >

Not just priests. Protestant Christians have a major problem with sexual abuse too, particularly against children.
After Major Investigation, Southern Baptists Confront the Abuse Crisis They Knew Was Coming
Don't let the Evangelical pedo defenders get away with claiming that Catholicism is the only issue here. It isn't. >


none of them are immune to the depravity.

Almost implied, really. >

5 years for thousands of child porn images and videos? Seems pretty fucking light to me. This piece of shit should die in prison. >

5 years and a ticket to heaven >

Heaven? For him? >

That's how this religion works. You sin, you say sorry, and you made it. Plus, before I became an atheist, my pastor said something like there's nothing you can do to lose your salvation once you accepted Christ. So yeah, he's good. Some of you might see him up there. He might be too busy chasing the little cherubs, tho. >

Don't you also have to be truly repentant for your sins, including making a good faith effort to keep from repeating them? >

I would love for someone to answer this because I really want to know, too. >

yes I'm pretty sure that's it. God sees people's hearts He should know the diff between true repentance and fake one >

Yes, assuming an all-powerful God existed, he’d be able to pretty easily know if you were truly sorry. >

Could someone explain this to me: How come so many priests are predators? Is it that people inclined to be priests have a tendency to be so, or is it that predators choose to become priests to try and get away with this shit? >

A variety of factors:

Unquestioned moral authority and intense trust from a large community who have all been taught to obey church authorities
Support from a massive extremely powerful institution that has covered up thousands of similar crimes
Strictly forbidden to marry, have sex, or iirc even masturbate, making them view all sexual activities as similarly taboo for them
Easy regular access to many children
Easy ability to get alone time with children
Priests are only held institutionally accountable to each other and to those with more authority in the church
Victims of sexual abuse have commonly been blamed and shamed in many christian cultures for "tempting" the rapist/perpetrator, discouraging any victims from speaking out — especially when the perpetrator has far more institutional power and social status than the victim
Children are least likely to know what a priest is doing to them or tell other people about it, especially if the trusted church authority tells them not to share
The christian belief system teaches you that your body does not belong to you but to their god, and that there is nothing wrong with forcing children to do or attend activities the children dislike
The church and its belief system adamantly oppose teaching children about what sex is and what sexual body parts are called, leaving children without the language to identify and tell others e.g. where Father Bill touched them — or why it was inappropriate

That's why in France, for example, Catholic priests sexually assaulted over 216,000 kids, and French “children were more likely to be [sexually] abused within the Catholic Church than in public schools or summer camps – or any setting other than family.”
P.S. Want to know the worst part? Child sex abuse is not limited to the Catholic church. The Mormon/LDS church and Southern Baptist Convention were recently exposed covering up pedophile pastors’ child sex abuse.
Want to protect your kids from an unaccountable institution that covers up child sex abuse and silences conversations about it? Then keep your kids out of church.
Edit to add this excellent way to protect kids that churches consistently fight against:

“scientific literature over decades shows that comprehensive sex education starting around kindergarten actually prevents children from being sexually abused and groomed because it teaches children the correct words for their body parts and also teaches them concepts of privacy, personal space, bodily autonomy, the difference between appropriate and inappropriate touching, and the fact that sex is something that only adults do.
children with this knowledge are not only better equipped to identify abuse and predatory behavior and communicate that its happening to a trusted adult, but also prevent it from happening in the first place by recognizing when something is happening that shouldn’t.” >

Seems empirical evidence supports the fact that the sexuality-related restrictions set by the religious institutions can encourage harmful deviant behavior. Had they ever acknowledged this, or would they ever? >

For all the screeching and whining done by republicans over groomers and pedos, they sure do have a massive [and selective] blind spot to the church and the clergy. >

One of the defining features of conservatism is essentialism. They essentialize everyone into "good people" and "bad people". "Good people" who do a bad thing "made a mistake" but are still fundamentally good. "Bad people" who do a bad thing are just showing how bad they really were all along. "Good people" get the benefit of the doubt and extenuating circumstances. "Bad people" deserve the book thrown at them and to rot in hell. >

Once I heard this theory, the acceptance by conservatives of people whose behavior is in direct conflict with their moral beliefs, made more sense. >

5 holly maries and transfer
after it was realized there was a childcare center near Saint Mary's, the Congregation relocated the priest to Vianney Renewal Center in Dittmer, Missouri, on Jan. 2 this year.
Rev. Patrick McDevitt, provincial superior for the Congregation of the Western Province, said in a statement on Tuesday that the circumstances are "very saddening," but that "we respect the judge's decision and have cooperated with law enforcement throughout the process."
McDevitt asked the presiding judge for "mercy for Jim," and even offered for the congregation to pay to house him in lieu of imprisonment.
"I am asking that you spare him incarceration and, instead, allow him to reside at [Vianney Renewal Center]," he wrote in a letter to the judge dated Dec. 21. "If he is allowed to remain at VRC, I will see to it that he is never transferred from the facility, unless his health deteriorates and hospitalization is needed. His care/residency will be paid for by my congregation."
"What Jim has done is wrong and criminal," he said. "After Jim was moved to Perryville, he started engaging in prayer, he eats meals with his confreres, and he is an active participant in community life. If only he had been involved like this years before, I truly believe he would not be in the situation that he is in." >

It's amazing what kind of leeway being a "good Christian/Catholic/whatever" can get you, isn't it? A slap on the wrist and a transfer to a new congregation that probably won't be told he's a predator. >

And they wonder why people are leaving the Church in droves. >

I read this article after just reading about how Missouri lawmakers are trying to pass a law to make women politicians cover up their bare arms.  I trust a woman in a short sleeve shirt, more than I do a priest! >

r/PastorArrested (also includes Priests) >

If there is a god, wtf? >

There is no God. Religion is about control and money >

And more money >

"I am asking that you spare him incarceration and, instead, allow him to reside at [Vianney Renewal Center]. If he is allowed to remain at VRC, I will see to it that he is never transferred from the facility, unless his health deteriorates and hospitalization is needed. His care/residency will be paid for by my congregation." 
- Rev. Patrick McDevitt, provincial superior for the Congregation of the Western Province 
​
Every single member of that congregation is a horrible piece of shit >

Yeah but......... 
I'm just starting the religious apologist's sentence for them. >

I keep reading through looking for a Catholic apologist to state that the rates of child molesters in the Church are about on par with society as a whole AND that technically many aren't pedophiles by definition AND that the sexual revolution is to blame. All horrible apologist talking points which users have tried to use in arguments with me. >

Don't worry, I'm sure the church will come down hard on him for wasting office supplies. This is a matter the church takes very seriously. Stealing is a sin, after all, or so I've been told. I personally don't go to church because I don't support pedophiles. >

"The gays and dragqueens are groomers! Come, Jimothy, let's go to church." 🤡🤡🤡 >

What an idiot. Everyone knows a compelling PowerPoint should never have more than 24 slides. His new roomies, the other inmates, are going to kill him for wasting their time. Oh... and they prolly won't let him off on that other thing either, right? >


The Congregation added in the statement that it is "committed to a safe environment and maintains on-going accreditation from Praesidium," an organization that has created protocols in an attempt to prevent child abuse.

If you need protocols for that, you might have an inherently problematic organization. If you need to be accredited for those protocols, you DEFINITELY have a problem. >


"After Jim was moved to Perryville, he started engaging in prayer, he eats meals with his confreres, and he is an active participant in community life. If only he had been involved like this years before, I truly believe he would not be in the situation that he is in."

Hugest pile of BS ever. He'd have been hunting for more kids, daily. >


Court documents say that some of the children in the slideshows appeared to be under the age of 12 and that some of the content "portrayed sadistic or masochistic conduct."

...

During that time, he was removed from his position, according to the Congregation of the Western Province and "placed in a monitored environment." Court documents show that he was initially sent to a different facility known as Saint Mary of the Barrens in Perryville, Missouri. 

...

And after it was realized there was a childcare center near Saint Mary's, the Congregation relocated the priest to Vianney Renewal Center in Dittmer, Missouri, on Jan. 2 this year. 

Fuck everyone that allowed this scum to continue in a position of authority. >

I think the most disgusting part isn't the actual crime because at this point I've become desensitized to stories like this its that an entire fkn congregation would pay to house this dude instead of letting him rot and a pastor is encouraging that behavior. >

I know, right? That's just mind-blowing to me. Even if the priests support him, you would think that the congregation would leave the church in total disgust. 
My grandmother was a devout Catholic for her entire life. 
But if a Catholic clergyman had the BALLS to ask her to financially support a convicted sexually predatory priest, she would have spat in his face. >

I'm not that guy who hits Ctrl-P and *rushes* to the printer immediately, but I'm definitely saying there are times when that's not a terrible idea. >

The sheer audacity to do it at church where you work >

“Drag queens are grooming our youth!!!” >

"I think we all know where people put on dresses and fuck kids"
-Trixie Mattel, 2022 >

Only 5 years. What a joke. >

Remember kids, you only read of the ones we know about. They’ve been grooming children for centuries and passing on their gross habits. How many more are there? Hundreds? Easily. Thousands around the world? Possibly. >

Sinead was right >

But, but, but....the drag shows. >

r/pastorarrested >

That's fucking disgusting. Misappropriation of office materials. >

It blows my mind that people can do things THAT ILLEGAL and be so careless with hiding the evidence. Must be a result of getting away with it for too long >

so is there a class in divinity school where they just lay down the probably much-anticipated notion that everyone is there just to gain access to children they can exploit? How is it this widespread and common for people in this field to abuse children, specifically in a sexual manner? It makes me think there has to be some “best kept secret” that only gets talked about in back rooms that compels all the phedofiles of the world to congregate under the disguise of being a Catholic, religious leader. I say fuck ‘em. >

I completely agree priest are the last people I’d leave my children with. Most criminals have more respect for children. I’ve never in my life met a priest I didn’t think would touch children given the opportunity. But that’s the Catholic Church for ya 🤷‍♂️ >

The other priest's comments really anger me. The fact he thinks paedo priest deserves a comfortable incarceration shows he doesn't really think paedo priest has done anything wrong. >

I for one am glad that churches across our nation are losing followers; I just wish they'd move a little faster. >

But remind us all again how drag queens were the child molesters. >

No one is suprised a priest is a pedophile.  
But printing out yer nudes? That's odd. >

I can think of a reason he printed it out. And I really don't like that reason. >

I'm sure the religious Right will be out protesting him any second.
Right? Right guys? Groomers and all this? Qanons? Where you guys at?
Huh. Weird. >

And not a drag queen in sight... >

They do kinda wear dresses, though >

Too many “coincidences” within this church to be anything other than systematic >

Pretty clear there were systematic failures to deal with stuff, if that's what you mean. The data often suggests numbers of pedophiles similar to the general population. But you would have liked to think it would be a number way below that. Zero, for instance. >


The data often suggests numbers of pedophiles similar to the general population

one important difference between pedophile priests and random members of the general population is that random people don't usually have the support of massive millennia-old ultra-wealthy international institutions publicly viewed as sacred moral paragons which take great pains to cover up their child sex abuse and keep pedophile priests in good standing to maintain their influence over communities and give them ready access to more children who are taught to obey them >

Yeah, not sure why I got the downvotes when I'm saying something pretty similar. It's wrong to fall back on being similar to the population as a whole when you're supposed to be squeaky clean. >

I guess it's just that the point you brought up, saying priests have the same rate of child sex abuse as (insert more favorably viewed group here), is one I have most commonly heard from Catholics trying to downplay or dismiss the pedophile priests problem. >

5 years that's all he got >

And you thought looking at Bob's family vacation pics was a bad time >

5 years isnt nearly enough.  Lock him up forever and a day. >

~~Drag shows~~ Churches are not safe for children >

Can we just destroy the catholic church? At this point it is just a sex cult. >

r/PastorArrested 
They do it every day
They STILL do it every day
Fuckxing kids must have a great ROI because they just KEEP DOING IT and COVERING UP FOR IT and PAYING FOR LAWYERS AND LITERAL SEXUAL ABUSE LIABILITY INSURANCE ITS SO BAKED INTO THEIR MODUS OPERANDI >

Just wonder how the parishioners feel about the money they’ve given to their church. Paying for computers and hard drive space to store all that disgusting material. And you know how his Lawyers were paid. Yep, church money. Keep on filling the basket cause they need your money. >

He just figured it out. Instead of living by the rules god gave him, he does what he wants, then ask for forgiveness. >

Why in hell has the Catholic church not been shut down and put out of business permanently?  These pedophile priests have been raping children for so many years, and they're still doing it.  To let the church continue on, business as usual, is like turning a blind eye to a crime ring, or to a brothel with babies as the sex workers. >

The US Catholic Church got 2+ billion bucks in covid PPP "loans" paid for by taxpayers that never have to be paid back.   
Helps when you infiltrate and control the highest court in the land. 
Taxing churches would end this problem. Takes the away the incentive to say you believe in "god." 
Militant atheist ex Catholic here. >

Religious people are the worst.. >

Vows of celibacy don't exist. It's a lifelong commitment to perversion. >

Put him under the jail. >

What a great and informative article.  And by "great and informative" I mean total horse shit.  The word "Catholic" is never used at all, but a number of obscure "organizations" are mentioned. >

Tell me again why we still let pedo churches exist? >

God made him >

r/wishThatWasOnion >

Oh. Like my coworker who left porn (including child) in a file on a work  computer and printed porn in the assistant to the owner's printer...
Our IT guy wiped everything out, HR never reported it and the guy got rehired a year later. >

Please tell me how a drag queen reading to kids in a library is worse than this. >

this is so disgusting >

Obviously the devil made him do it cause god works in mysterious ways >

Tax-free >

GOP: "But wuttabout drag queens?!?!?!??!" >

Idiot pedos like this are like that one roach you see when you turn on the kitchen light in the middle of the night, that's the bold one, and for every bold one there's a dozen more that are hiding. >

into the furnace he goes. theres no rehabbing people like this. >

Kid “Bless me Father, for I have sinned”
Padre “ call me, maybe?” >

But the dragqueens guys?!?!?!??!? /s >

What's the deal with priests being so into pedophilia? Can't they look at milf pounds like normal people? >

Doesn't NotTheOnion imply the news was unexpected or surprising in some way? Anyone here really surprised a priest is involved in compiling / making(?) CP? Im certainly not... >

It's surprising.  Who prints out their own nudes? >

Pray that he gets nut cancer. >

Nut cancer was once described to me as "the common cold of cancers". It has something like a 95% survival rate.
He deserves worse.