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  Why the fuck do churches and their supporters turn their backs on stuff like this? Or ask for mercy or leniency against a crime like this? This is sick and needs to stop. It’s been going for years and I’m sure other pastors are involved.
  This isn’t the first and we know it won’t be the last.
context: 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. >
  
  Didn't know that. Good nut fact for the day. >
  
  Right wingers want him to be a closeted drag queen so badly >
  
  least pedophilic priest: >
  
  The dead ones dont hurt anyone. >
  
  It's so common for priests to be sickos >
  
  Oh look... Another priest with child porn ... When do we get to start taxing the church? >
  
  Weird that so many god loving people are actually just pedophiles. Wonder what they think god thinks of them. Fuck theism. >
  
  Their god tells them to take the young girls as spoils of war. Their god is just as fucking depraved as they are. >
  
  tHaTs jUsT tHe oLd tEsTaMeNt tHoUgh.
  gOds mOraLiTy dOeSnt cHanGe, hE jUsT dEaLs wItH hUmAns diFFeReNtlY nOw. 
  Yeah when someone deals with people differently than they did before we generally call that "a change." >
  
  And he wasn’t trans??? Maybe it’s been priests all along that governors should be banning. When will they correct their mistake? /s >
  
  It's definitely the drag queens reading to kids in libraries that's the problem. >
  
  Lock him up and throw away the keys >
  
  Darn priests, at least those protestant ministers keep it in the family >
  
  Not surprised. >
  
  Three hail marys and all is forgiven. What a load of bs >
  
  Just one bad apple, I’m sure. >
  
  Least paedophilic priest >
  
  …slideshow? >
  
  God works in mysterious ways ya fuckin chomo. As a priest, he of all people should have seen this coming... >
  
  In other news, water is wet >
  
  Only five years... >
  
  ”Prior to this week's sentencing, McDevitt asked the presiding judge for "mercy for Jim," and even offered for the congregation to pay to house him in lieu of imprisonment.” 
  ಠ_ಠ >
  
  I don’t remember this plotline during Doubt… >
  
  We keep letting them get away with it, so they keep doing it. More obvious news at 10. >
  
  & once they found him out he got made a cardinal >
  
  He should've kept them in the garage with his Corvette >
  
  5 years? If nothing else, using PowerPoint should have been an aggravating factor. >
  
  When is this going to end?  I was in college in the late ‘80’s and met a dude who was a part of the settlement from the church then.  It’s still going on decade after sickening decade. >
  
  How is the Roman Catholic Church not closed down for enabling and protecting child abusers >
  
  Are all priests pedos? Like, does being a priest turn you into that or pedos want to be priests for easy access? Religion is so fucked. >
  
  It's an interesting conundrum. Obviously you can see why a trusted influential position with access to kids and no expectation of adult romances to maintain would appeal to predators, but you can also see how being taught to think of all sex outside marriage as absolutely wrong would lead to a fucked up ability to differentiate. >
  
  papabile! >
  
  Left nudes on a shared printer? Rookie mistake. >
  
  Teach your priests just enough tech to effectively turn themselves in. >
  
  Isn't it something how the church decided to investigate themselves again. Keep it in the family, guys.
  I was raised Catholic and among the things that turned me into a stone cold militant atheist was this shit constantly coming to light, even now years after we should assume any priest with a computer is suspicious. >
  
  Is there already some Law (not like legal Law, but like Murphy's Law), something I'll call the Inverse Law Of Good? Something three step, that says something like:
  1 - The more an organization tells its people it is good / the way to live / pious and right, the more likely they are to tell their group that people from the group are (by default) to be trusted because they are good / living the way you should live / pious and right by association
  2 - As a direct result, this organization will attract THE WORST dregs of society that know they can use this short-cut in conditioning to commit their abhorrent / illegal / sickening acts on the followers of this group (because the group leaders and its followers will protect them: the former because they have a vested interest in maintaining their place in the status quo, the latter because of the social conditioning that they are with the Good People and a need to believe they haven't wasted decades of their lives on a lie)
  3 - as the years become decades and even centuries, this rot works through the whole group. Abhorrent individuals get into positions of power, protecting others of their ilk for generations to come. People that speak up are banished from the group, from the society.
  TL;DR - thanks to human nature, you can tell which groups are the worst for you by how much they claim they are the best for you. You can guess where claiming their edict of goodness literally comes from an all-powerful unseen source puts them on this sliding scale. >
  
  Let me guess.
  Moved to a different church at the other side of the country and that’s about it for consequences? >
  
  Those damned drag queens strike again. >
  
  I mean that’s kinda how they caught BTK >
  
  So priests are still abusing kids after we didn't do anything to them the last few times we caught them? Color me surprised. >
  
  Don’t hear this happening at drag shows…j/s >
  
  He put the PDF in pedofile >
  
  This is Fucking ridiculous >
  
  Never forget who the actual groomers are >
  
  The proud boys will be outside of churches "protesting" with guns now, right? right? >
  
  A priest being pedophile? But that is absolutely unheard of, say it isn't so! >
  
  You sure this wasn't at a Trans drag show? GOP is sure this happens at Trans dragsl shows >
  
  Excommunicated by PowerPoint >
  
  5 years and a fine? FFS, that’s ridiculous. >
  
  Praise Jesus! >
  
  And the right thinks kids going to drag shows are the problem >
  
  but the drag queens are reading books to children in libraries! The madnessss >
  
  So they moved him to a new church. This is what they have always done. >
  
  In Florida the governor has targeted Drag Queen shows because he says they are “grooming” kids.  DeSantis needs to be patrolling the churches, scout leaders and coaches-  but that doesn’t fit his narrative. >
  
  The biggest piece of bullshit about the article is that you have to search and click through way too much stuff to determine this is a Catholic church.
  This is another case of Catholics harming children.  The article does not mention the word Catholic once, despite them being an organized religion with an institutional history of raping children. >
  
  Only five years? WTF is this bullshit? >
  
  Jail, hospital, jail in that order. >
  
  I mean, he’s fine. He just has to ask for forgiveness & in due time he’ll be in heaven. >
  
  And fuck organized religion. >
  
  They pent up so much kinkiness during abstinence that it comes out as pedophilia. Satan is there being priests. >
  
  Name another organization that could withstand repeated cases like this. When is their time up?!?! >
  
  And never pay a dime in taxes.
  Helps when you fully infiltrate the government and the highest court in the land. >
  
  We could have overlooked the child porn, but the transitions were so bad he deserved jail time. >
  
  …………PowerPorn???? >
  
  He got 5 years? That’s not even close to enough. Although, he may not last long if he does serve time, one can hope. >
  
  Ar this point, we should just nuke the Vatican. >
  
  It's just a staple part of their culture at this point >
  
  r/brandnewsentence >
  
  The church (take your pick of any fictional religion, which they all are) strikes  again! >
  
  If any other organization here had the same track record of child abuse and sexual assault it would be banned >
  
  Same thing happened in Australia with a catholic Church bishop who was more interested in protecting the church, the status quo and the abusers rather than the victims.  He is dead very few shedding a tear >
  
  Let’s not report him and send him to a small rural town, and not involve the authorities. That is some moral compass the Archbishop and the church leaders have. Disgusting behavior by a religious organization. >
  
  5 years. about 20 grand in fines.
  what a fucking joke >
  
  What the actual fuck?!? This makes me so angry. Should get more than five years. This is exactly the opposite of what the gospel teaches. I’m far from perfect but I can’t fathom someone being part of church leadership and still acting this way. I know it’s not the first time and people are not even surprised when they hear this. But it still baffles me. I reckon God must be cut more than anyone. I know many folk don’t believe in God to start with but could you imagine someone doing this in your name? I try to separate God and religion but I just can’t fathom how so many people can get it so wrong. Just read the frickin gospel, it’s not like it’s not accessible. Doesn’t take much to work out that’s not how you’re supposed to do life! 🤬
  Sorry, rant over. >
  
  Because "god" is a fiction designed to scam people and control them, and the purveyors of the god delusion are bad people who hide behind their collars and vestments while doing unspeakable things. 
  Free your mind. Embrace atheism. They're lying to you about god. They always have. >
  
  Th first paragraph is vomit inducing as at 72, this ain’t his first rodeo. 
  “A retired priest has been sentenced to five years in prison after it was discovered he had made slideshow presentations containing thousands of images of child pornography. The 72-year-old's arsenal of abusive material was discovered after he left nude images of himself on a church printer, officials said.” >
  
  It was to maintain purity or as an exercise against temptation. >
  
  Now that is a groomer, not school teachers trying to teach children about the modern makeup of families in 2023. >
  
  
  The U.S. Attorney's Office of the Eastern District of Missouri said on Tuesday that Vincentian priest James T. Beighlie of St. Louis, Missouri, had 6,000 pictures containing child sexual abuse material on a computer, including child pornography and images of child erotica. 
  
  What's the difference here? >
  
  I guess you could call this an example of the St. Peter Principle... >
  
  Now the LGBQT community needs to show up to churches and picket the real "groomers".