>

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