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"Slideshows????? What?\nMy man just opened up cp.ppt and added a few THOUSAND slides of kiddy porn????\nClippy: it looks like youre a depraved predator. Do you want to profane the church as well?",
">\n\nWell I always did believe Power Point was a creation of a malevolent entity.",
">\n\nTuring complete, no less!",
">\n\nBut can it run Doom?",
">\n\nAnything can run doom",
">\n\nBut can Doom run Doom?",
">\n\nDoom can run Doom because Doom runs Doom when Doom runs.",
">\n\nPeople don't run Doom like it is, but it Doom.",
">\n\nGonna take this moment to highly recommend the film Spotlight to any who haven’t seen it",
">\n\nCheck out the 2017 limited series on either Netflix or Prime: \"The Keepers\" about a Baltimore-area Catholic girls' school. Based on the experiences as told by some of the girls, now middle-aged women. It is NOT nice, will make you cry, will enrage you. But I commend the women who made this documentary for as painful as it was for the audience to watch, I can't imagine how they made it thru. And they brought it around to a decent ending, but wow....I think some of what happened in Baltimore bled over into the Spotlight story.\nLapsed Catholic. I cannot reconcile with the Church hierarchy over this because they have behaved satanically for far too long to make me believe they are holy in any way.",
">\n\nThere was a documentary that came out a year or two ago tbzg sounds similar but men who were molested as kids while in the church. \nI honestly don't know how anyone can still support the church. At all. If it was one priest, sure. It's sad it happened, but pedophiles will always exist and find ways to get to kids.\nBut with how often it happens and with how little the church cares? Nope. I never could be catholic even if I was Christian.",
">\n\nBecause saving souls bringing them into their cult is more valuable than the ones they crush. The Vatican last I heard had 7 pedos protecting by not complying with extradition requests. \nAny organization not willing to comply with the laws of the country where they have a tax exempt status should lose their exemption and title to any property they own. If you RICO cartel and mafia assets, then you can do so for these child abusers and their protective association. \nYou know the church owns most of Manhattan and isn't paying taxes? All that money and we have to tolerate this shit? Nah fuck them.",
">\n\nNude pix on the church printer . . . I can imagine the scene.\nSister Mary Michael: Yo, does anyone recognize this tallywhacker?\nFormer Alter Boy Brian: Yeah, that's Father Jim. I'd know that hairy mole anywhere.",
">\n\nThat's Tommy Turner's tallywhacker",
">\n\nIf Reddit still gave free awards, I'd give one to you for catching the reference.",
">\n\nWAIT when did they get rid of the free awards",
">\n\nguess this is how i found out. last i claimed mine is around last week, i think. i only claim once every two weeks to gild certain biweekly thread lul",
">\n\nAnd yet where are all the \"anti-groomers\" protesting these churches?",
">\n\nIt’s almost like it has never actually been about protecting children, and it’s always been about trying to demonize LGBT people",
">\n\nAt this point I am positive the religious right to life thing is about having more targets.",
">\n\nGlad 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?",
">\n\nAfter 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.",
">\n\nI 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.\nThere are also many who truly believe the schtick and just compartmentalize the bad stuff. Both are to blame regardless. Nobody gets a pass.",
">\n\nI could see that with some of the smaller denominations for sure.\nWhen 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.",
">\n\n*making another streak to the tally list wall\n*camera panning out to reveal a huge fucking wall coveres in streaks",
">\n\nMan 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.\nThat said. This man should burn for this",
">\n\nPriest? Pedo? Are you sure? This is unprecedented",
">\n\nCorrection! PedoPreist",
">\n\nNew name not necessary. If anything there should be a name for the unique priests that arent pedos.",
">\n\nI'm inclined to think the majority of priests aren't child predators themselves.\nThe 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.\nWay, way too many of them are pedo-enablers. All the way up...",
">\n\nThen that would mean that... Gasp\nSouth Park was right all along....\nSneaky little bastards didn't think I would notice....",
">\n\nWish I was surprised",
">\n\nYou make slideshows of images? \nEdit: \nOh wait I see what you mean. Yeah the pedophile priest thing is so expected that only the slideshow bit stood out",
">\n\nHoly hell. Priest have normalized pedophilia.",
">\n\nNot just priests. Protestant Christians have a major problem with sexual abuse too, particularly against children.\nAfter Major Investigation, Southern Baptists Confront the Abuse Crisis They Knew Was Coming\nDon't let the Evangelical pedo defenders get away with claiming that Catholicism is the only issue here. It isn't.",
">\n\n\nnone of them are immune to the depravity.\n\nAlmost implied, really.",
">\n\nCould 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?",
">\n\nA variety of factors:\n\nUnquestioned moral authority and intense trust from a large community who have all been taught to obey church authorities\nSupport from a massive extremely powerful institution that has covered up thousands of similar crimes\nStrictly forbidden to marry, have sex, or iirc even masturbate, making them view all sexual activities as similarly taboo for them\nEasy regular access to many children\nEasy ability to get alone time with children\nPriests are only held institutionally accountable to each other and to those with more authority in the church\nVictims 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\nChildren 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\nThe 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\nThe 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\n\nThat'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.”\nP.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.\nWant 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.\nEdit to add this excellent way to protect kids that churches consistently fight against:\n\n“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.\nchildren 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.”",
">\n\nSo this should be buried enough if I speak in general terms.\nYears back one of our pastors had to give up being a pastor. They didn't get into details of what he did but they did stress that kids were not involved. The whole church could be seen relaxing.",
">\n\n5 years for thousands of child porn images and videos? Seems pretty fucking light to me. This piece of shit should die in prison.",
">\n\n5 years and a ticket to heaven",
">\n\nHeaven? For him?",
">\n\nThat'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.",
">\n\nDon't you also have to be truly repentant for your sins, including making a good faith effort to keep from repeating them?",
">\n\nI would love for someone to answer this because I really want to know, too.",
">\n\nyes I'm pretty sure that's it. God sees people's hearts He should know the diff between true repentance and fake one",
">\n\nYes, assuming an all-powerful God existed, he’d be able to pretty easily know if you were truly sorry.",
">\n\nYeah but......... \nI'm just starting the religious apologist's sentence for them.",
">\n\nFor 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.",
">\n\nOne 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.",
">\n\nOnce I heard this theory, the acceptance by conservatives of people whose behavior is in direct conflict with their moral beliefs, made more sense.",
">\n\n5 holly maries and transfer\nafter 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.\nRev. 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.\"\nMcDevitt asked the presiding judge for \"mercy for Jim,\" and even offered for the congregation to pay to house him in lieu of imprisonment.\n\"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.\"\n\"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.\"",
">\n\nIn Australia at the moment there is a furore after the death of Cardinal George Pell who was convicted (then exonerated) of personally abusing children, but was found by a Royal Commission (that would be a special prosecutor for our American friends?) of enabling and protecting paedophile priests for decades.\nCan honestly say I have not been able to listen to the string of \"Christians\" praising this man in our media for the last few days without wanting to puke. Suffer the little children.",
">\n\nWith you there. At least there’s a lot of people calling his supporters out on this. Fuck Tony Abbott, John Howard and Andrew Bolt to name a few.",
">\n\nI 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!",
">\n\nr/PastorArrested (also includes Priests)",
">\n\nDon'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.",
">\n\nIf there is a god, wtf?",
">\n\nThere is no God. Religion is about control and money",
">\n\nAnd more money",
">\n\n\"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.\" \n- Rev. Patrick McDevitt, provincial superior for the Congregation of the Western Province \n\nEvery single member of that congregation is a horrible piece of shit",
">\n\nWhat 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?",
">\n\n“Drag queens are grooming our youth!!!”",
">\n\n\"I think we all know where people put on dresses and fuck kids\"\n-Trixie Mattel, 2022",
">\n\nKid “Bless me Father, for I have sinned”\nPadre “ call me, maybe?”",
">\n\nImagine my shock to discover that a priest has been involved in a sex scandal and one involving the exploitation of children, at that.",
">\n\nGOP: \"But wuttabout drag queens?!?!?!??!\"",
">\n\nDoing the Lords work 🙏🏾",
">\n\nTax-free",
">\n\nWhat's the deal with priests being so into pedophilia? Can't they look at milf pounds like normal people?",
">\n\nOh look... Another priest with child porn ... When do we get to start taxing the church?",
">\n\nr/pastorarrested",
">\n\nChurch is a scary place, especially for children.",
">\n\nI 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.",
">\n\nOnly 5 years. What a joke.",
">\n\n\nThe 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.\n\nIf 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.",
">\n\nNo one is suprised a priest is a pedophile. \nBut printing out yer nudes? That's odd.",
">\n\nI can think of a reason he printed it out. And I really don't like that reason.",
">\n\nI'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.",
">\n\nThe sheer audacity to do it at church where you work",
">\n\nAnd not a drag queen in sight...",
">\n\nThey do kinda wear dresses, though",
">\n\nToo many “coincidences” within this church to be anything other than systematic",
">\n\nPretty 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.",
">\n\n\nThe data often suggests numbers of pedophiles similar to the general population\n\none 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",
">\n\nYeah, 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.",
">\n\nI 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.",
">\n\nIt's so common for priests to be sickos",
">\n\nGross",
">\n\nAll he needs to do is repent, right?!?",
">\n\nA priest? With kiddie porn? I’ve never heard of such a thing!",
">\n\nRemember 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.",
">\n\n5 years that's all he got",
">\n\nThat's fucking disgusting. Misappropriation of office materials.",
">\n\nIt 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",
">\n\nIdiot 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.",
">\n\nso 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.",
">\n\nI 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 🤷♂️",
">\n\n5 years isnt nearly enough. Lock him up forever and a day.",
">\n\n~~Drag shows~~ Churches are not safe for children",
">\n\nI'm sure the religious Right will be out protesting him any second.\nRight? Right guys? Groomers and all this? Qanons? Where you guys at?\nHuh. Weird.",
">\n\nBut the dragqueens guys?!?!?!??!? /s",
">\n\nWeird that so many god loving people are actually just pedophiles. Wonder what they think god thinks of them. Fuck theism.",
">\n\nTheir god tells them to take the young girls as spoils of war. Their god is just as fucking depraved as they are.",
">\n\ntHaTs jUsT tHe oLd tEsTaMeNt tHoUgh.\ngOds mOraLiTy dOeSnt cHanGe, hE jUsT dEaLs wItH hUmAns diFFeReNtlY nOw. \nYeah when someone deals with people differently than they did before we generally call that \"a change.\"",
">\n\nAnd he wasn’t trans??? Maybe it’s been priests all along that governors should be banning. When will they correct their mistake? /s",
">\n\nDoesn'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...",
">\n\nIt's surprising. Who prints out their own nudes?",
">\n\nLock him up and throw away the keys",
">\n\nDarn priests, at least those protestant ministers keep it in the family",
">\n\nNot surprised.",
">\n\nThree hail marys and all is forgiven. What a load of bs",
">\n\nJust one bad apple, I’m sure.",
">\n\nLeast paedophilic priest",
">\n\n…slideshow?",
">\n\nGod works in mysterious ways ya fuckin chomo. As a priest, he of all people should have seen this coming...",
">\n\nIn other news, water is wet",
">\n\nOnly five years...",
">\n\n”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.” \nಠ_ಠ",
">\n\nI don’t remember this plotline during Doubt…",
">\n\nWe keep letting them get away with it, so they keep doing it. More obvious news at 10.",
">\n\n& once they found him out he got made a cardinal",
">\n\nHe should've kept them in the garage with his Corvette",
">\n\n5 years? If nothing else, using PowerPoint should have been an aggravating factor.",
">\n\nAnd you thought looking at Bob's family vacation pics was a bad time",
">\n\nWhen 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.",
">\n\nHow is the Roman Catholic Church not closed down for enabling and protecting child abusers",
">\n\nAre 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.",
">\n\nIt'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.",
">\n\npapabile!",
">\n\nLeft nudes on a shared printer? Rookie mistake.",
">\n\nTeach your priests just enough tech to effectively turn themselves in.",
">\n\nIsn't it something how the church decided to investigate themselves again. Keep it in the family, guys.\nI 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.",
">\n\nIs 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:\n1 - 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\n2 - 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)\n3 - 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.\nTL;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.",
">\n\nLet me guess.\nMoved to a different church at the other side of the country and that’s about it for consequences?",
">\n\nThose damned drag queens strike again.",
">\n\nI mean that’s kinda how they caught BTK",
">\n\nSo priests are still abusing kids after we didn't do anything to them the last few times we caught them? Color me surprised.",
">\n\n\nCourt 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.\"\n\n...\n\nDuring 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. \n\n...\n\nAnd 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. \n\nFuck everyone that allowed this scum to continue in a position of authority.",
">\n\nDon’t hear this happening at drag shows…j/s",
">\n\nHe put the PDF in pedofile",
">\n\nThis is Fucking ridiculous",
">\n\nNever forget who the actual groomers are",
">\n\nThe proud boys will be outside of churches \"protesting\" with guns now, right? right?",
">\n\nA priest being pedophile? But that is absolutely unheard of, say it isn't so!",
">\n\nYou sure this wasn't at a Trans drag show? GOP is sure this happens at Trans dragsl shows",
">\n\nExcommunicated by PowerPoint",
">\n\n5 years and a fine? FFS, that’s ridiculous.",
">\n\nPraise Jesus!",
">\n\nAnd the right thinks kids going to drag shows are the problem",
">\n\nAverage christian.",
">\n\nbut the drag queens are reading books to children in libraries! The madnessss",
">\n\nSo they moved him to a new church. This is what they have always done.",
">\n\nleast pedophilic priest:",
">\n\nThe dead ones dont hurt anyone.",
">\n\ninto the furnace he goes. theres no rehabbing people like this.",
">\n\nIt's always the ones you least expect..",
">\n\nOr in this case, the ones you MOST suspect",
">\n\nlol ya, I said that with sarcasm..",
">\n\nPray that he gets nut cancer.",
">\n\nNut cancer was once described to me as \"the common cold of cancers\". It has something like a 95% survival rate.\nHe deserves worse.",
">\n\nDidn't know that. Good nut fact for the day.",
">\n\nIt's definitely the drag queens reading to kids in libraries that's the problem.",
">\n\nRight wingers want him to be a closeted drag queen so badly",
">\n\nI could never trust any man who goes into priesthood. Completely unnatural and deviant occupation rife with pedophiles.",
">\n\nThis MONSTER got 5 years?! \nThe CHILDREN being abused in the images will suffer for the rest of their lives!!\nI'm in favor of LIFE SENTENCES for child sex offenders. \nOr better yet, the DEATH PENALTY!!",
">\n\nReligion was invented by Man for Control of the Flock.You go to Confession and tell the priest everything so they can determine how to undress you.\nI was once a Catholic.....born, baptised, confirmed and educated in a Grammar school run by Irish Christian Brothers under the Order of Edmund Ignatius Rice......and now I'm an atheist.",
">\n\nHow come it is always ‘Christians’ who are involved in child sex abuse?",
">\n\nOf course he's a pedo, he's a priest!",
">\n\nYes millions of idiots keep donating billions to the church",
">\n\nNot simply donating, they bring their children along, indoctrinate them that the priest is the speaker of God, and that God can do no wrong, so anything the priest dose is holy and good. The priest even says so!\nAnd when the kids bring it up the first few times weird things happen? The parents tell them to shush. And so, the sacrifices continue, the parents make a show of not knowing, and things get worse for the children.\nAnd if the priest is reported, the church just moves them to a different parish.\nThe only difference between the taliban and the catholic church, is one of them advertises the child slaves as a benefit, while the other pretends it's not (but totally encourages it, top to bottom).",
">\n\nAnd who are the groomers again?",
">\n\nThis is what happens when you don’t recycle your printer papers.",
">\n\nI feel like this isn't oniony enough, everyone knows by now that priests are significantly more likely to be pedophiles than the general population.",
">\n\nSure, but “gets caught by leaving nudes on a printer” is a fairly onion-y end.",
">\n\nYa know you're right",
">\n\nI have a theory about the correlation between priests and pedophiles. This is my opinion based on conversations with a childhood friend (not a pedo) and is only my opinion but could explain why so many priests abuse children. Get your down votes ready. \nThese boys grow up in the church and it is all they know for the most part. When going through puberty we become attracted to a gender (male or female gay or straight sometimes somewhere in between) and more often a \"type\" as well (blonde brunette short tall etc). Our hormones drive us to seek companionship, intimacy, and ultimately procreation. \nThese boys growing up never develop this attraction to their peers but rather feel more comfortable around younger children and usually behave as mentors. The combination of love of church and disinterest in peers puts the thought in their heads that priesthood is their calling. It takes a long time and effort to become a priest. There are easier paths if a guy just wants to bang kids.\nPut together lack of sex or release of biological needs with access and constant contact with children and they are basically pushed over the edge.\nTo sum up, pedophiles don't become priests to molest children, they become priests because they don't realize they are pedophiles. This is just my opinion, and obviously there are also exceptions to this.\nPerhaps the solution is to get rid of this nonsense celibacy.",
">\n\nAlternative theory: pedophiles become priests because they know the Catholic Church will support and hide them from accountability. Plus, all those altar boys have been easy pickings for decades. \nOn the positive side, Catholic Churches are closing all over Missouri because of dwindling congregations.",
">\n\nThis is one crime I’ll never be able to fathom.",
">\n\nSo fucking sick advocating for this monster so he can maintain freedom?",
">\n\nThe church has been so infiltrated by Child abusers that they are currently rating worse than Satan Worshippers",
">\n\nCan we just fuck churches off now???",
">\n\nYour tithing had to go somewhere.",
">\n\nHow come republicans are not calling these people groomers?",
">\n\nIs anyone else picturing the scene in the first Scary Movie where the cop asks Anna Faris to look at some pictures?\nPriest hands out the pictures of himself along with the weekly pamphlet. Maybe the first reading is from the Song of Solomon...",
">\n\nOh shit. \nHas he been quietly shuffled to a new church yet?",
">\n\nI'm old enough that when I see \"slideshow\" I think of him arranging physical slides in a carousel to project on a screen, like the family trip to Disneyland. Maybe invite the neighbors over for cake.",
">\n\nLord above why is this a thing",
">\n\nYou mean not a drag queen?",
">\n\nActual groomers.",
">\n\nJust think the hands that wanked to kiddie pr0n put wafers on the tongues of everyone in that congregation...",
">\n\nLMAO. This slightly ambiguous headline had me thinking “who attended these slideshow presentations?”",
">\n\nOh look another pedophile catholic priest. Good job reinforcing that stereotype.",
">\n\nAnd we should take guidance from those who hide these atrocities so we can live a better life in the eyes of god.",
">\n\nFriendly reminder religion is a mistake that deserves to be taxed. If you threatened to tax zealots tomorrow child molestation by priests would drop to zero",
">\n\nmay your mother smile as you burn",
">\n\nThis is what happens when you have unchecked power for thousands of years.\nHorrifying.",
">\n\nDid he learn this behavior from a drag show? /s",
">\n\nReminds me of something Chris Rock said: \"Where do women find the porn? They don't find it in your hiding place, they find it in the VCR\"",
">\n\nHe was also probably saving up for a trip to Disney World.",
">\n\n\nincluding child pornography and images of child erotica.\n\nI want to know the difference but don't want to get on a watchlist by googling it.",
">\n\nWithout the word child there, there's a difference in degree. I'd say it's the same thing with that word in there just describing the subject depicted. Pornography is generally actual sex acts of some form or another. Erotica falls short of that, it may be arousing or suggestive. For example, a cabaret show may be erotica but it's certainly not pornography.",
">\n\nPriest? Church? Man in a tax evasion party house?",
">\n\nYet the church immediately moved him somewhere else as there was a daycare next door to the church, then offered to pay to have the priest under house arrest so that the child predator won't go to jail.",
">\n\nShittiest Ted Talk I’ve ever seen, honestly…",
">\n\nOnly five years?! \nUgh!",
">\n\nAnd they call LGBT+ people groomers. (eyeroll)",
">\n\nAnyone who has ever been to a church sadly knows this doesn't need to be in this sub for us to know it's a real story.",
">\n\nOh how nice. The Reverend pleaded for him not to be incarcerated. Because of fucking course he did."
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"Slideshows????? What?\nMy man just opened up cp.ppt and added a few THOUSAND slides of kiddy porn????\nClippy: it looks like youre a depraved predator. Do you want to profane the church as well?",
">\n\nWell I always did believe Power Point was a creation of a malevolent entity.",
">\n\nTuring complete, no less!",
">\n\nBut can it run Doom?",
">\n\nAnything can run doom",
">\n\nBut can Doom run Doom?",
">\n\nDoom can run Doom because Doom runs Doom when Doom runs.",
">\n\nPeople don't run Doom like it is, but it Doom.",
">\n\nGonna take this moment to highly recommend the film Spotlight to any who haven’t seen it",
">\n\nCheck out the 2017 limited series on either Netflix or Prime: \"The Keepers\" about a Baltimore-area Catholic girls' school. Based on the experiences as told by some of the girls, now middle-aged women. It is NOT nice, will make you cry, will enrage you. But I commend the women who made this documentary for as painful as it was for the audience to watch, I can't imagine how they made it thru. And they brought it around to a decent ending, but wow....I think some of what happened in Baltimore bled over into the Spotlight story.\nLapsed Catholic. I cannot reconcile with the Church hierarchy over this because they have behaved satanically for far too long to make me believe they are holy in any way.",
">\n\nThere was a documentary that came out a year or two ago tbzg sounds similar but men who were molested as kids while in the church. \nI honestly don't know how anyone can still support the church. At all. If it was one priest, sure. It's sad it happened, but pedophiles will always exist and find ways to get to kids.\nBut with how often it happens and with how little the church cares? Nope. I never could be catholic even if I was Christian.",
">\n\nBecause saving souls bringing them into their cult is more valuable than the ones they crush. The Vatican last I heard had 7 pedos protecting by not complying with extradition requests. \nAny organization not willing to comply with the laws of the country where they have a tax exempt status should lose their exemption and title to any property they own. If you RICO cartel and mafia assets, then you can do so for these child abusers and their protective association. \nYou know the church owns most of Manhattan and isn't paying taxes? All that money and we have to tolerate this shit? Nah fuck them.",
">\n\nNude pix on the church printer . . . I can imagine the scene.\nSister Mary Michael: Yo, does anyone recognize this tallywhacker?\nFormer Alter Boy Brian: Yeah, that's Father Jim. I'd know that hairy mole anywhere.",
">\n\nThat's Tommy Turner's tallywhacker",
">\n\nIf Reddit still gave free awards, I'd give one to you for catching the reference.",
">\n\nWAIT when did they get rid of the free awards",
">\n\nguess this is how i found out. last i claimed mine is around last week, i think. i only claim once every two weeks to gild certain biweekly thread lul",
">\n\nAnd yet where are all the \"anti-groomers\" protesting these churches?",
">\n\nIt’s almost like it has never actually been about protecting children, and it’s always been about trying to demonize LGBT people",
">\n\nAt this point I am positive the religious right to life thing is about having more targets.",
">\n\nGlad 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?",
">\n\nAfter 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.",
">\n\nI 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.\nThere are also many who truly believe the schtick and just compartmentalize the bad stuff. Both are to blame regardless. Nobody gets a pass.",
">\n\nI could see that with some of the smaller denominations for sure.\nWhen 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.",
">\n\n*making another streak to the tally list wall\n*camera panning out to reveal a huge fucking wall coveres in streaks",
">\n\nMan 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.\nThat said. This man should burn for this",
">\n\nPriest? Pedo? Are you sure? This is unprecedented",
">\n\nCorrection! PedoPreist",
">\n\nNew name not necessary. If anything there should be a name for the unique priests that arent pedos.",
">\n\nI'm inclined to think the majority of priests aren't child predators themselves.\nThe 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.\nWay, way too many of them are pedo-enablers. All the way up...",
">\n\nThen that would mean that... Gasp\nSouth Park was right all along....\nSneaky little bastards didn't think I would notice....",
">\n\nWish I was surprised",
">\n\nYou make slideshows of images? \nEdit: \nOh wait I see what you mean. Yeah the pedophile priest thing is so expected that only the slideshow bit stood out",
">\n\nHoly hell. Priest have normalized pedophilia.",
">\n\nNot just priests. Protestant Christians have a major problem with sexual abuse too, particularly against children.\nAfter Major Investigation, Southern Baptists Confront the Abuse Crisis They Knew Was Coming\nDon't let the Evangelical pedo defenders get away with claiming that Catholicism is the only issue here. It isn't.",
">\n\n\nnone of them are immune to the depravity.\n\nAlmost implied, really.",
">\n\nCould 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?",
">\n\nA variety of factors:\n\nUnquestioned moral authority and intense trust from a large community who have all been taught to obey church authorities\nSupport from a massive extremely powerful institution that has covered up thousands of similar crimes\nStrictly forbidden to marry, have sex, or iirc even masturbate, making them view all sexual activities as similarly taboo for them\nEasy regular access to many children\nEasy ability to get alone time with children\nPriests are only held institutionally accountable to each other and to those with more authority in the church\nVictims 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\nChildren 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\nThe 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\nThe 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\n\nThat'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.”\nP.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.\nWant 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.\nEdit to add this excellent way to protect kids that churches consistently fight against:\n\n“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.\nchildren 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.”",
">\n\nSo this should be buried enough if I speak in general terms.\nYears back one of our pastors had to give up being a pastor. They didn't get into details of what he did but they did stress that kids were not involved. The whole church could be seen relaxing.",
">\n\n5 years for thousands of child porn images and videos? Seems pretty fucking light to me. This piece of shit should die in prison.",
">\n\n5 years and a ticket to heaven",
">\n\nHeaven? For him?",
">\n\nThat'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.",
">\n\nDon't you also have to be truly repentant for your sins, including making a good faith effort to keep from repeating them?",
">\n\nI would love for someone to answer this because I really want to know, too.",
">\n\nyes I'm pretty sure that's it. God sees people's hearts He should know the diff between true repentance and fake one",
">\n\nYes, assuming an all-powerful God existed, he’d be able to pretty easily know if you were truly sorry.",
">\n\nYeah but......... \nI'm just starting the religious apologist's sentence for them.",
">\n\nFor 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.",
">\n\nOne 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.",
">\n\nOnce I heard this theory, the acceptance by conservatives of people whose behavior is in direct conflict with their moral beliefs, made more sense.",
">\n\n5 holly maries and transfer\nafter 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.\nRev. 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.\"\nMcDevitt asked the presiding judge for \"mercy for Jim,\" and even offered for the congregation to pay to house him in lieu of imprisonment.\n\"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.\"\n\"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.\"",
">\n\nIn Australia at the moment there is a furore after the death of Cardinal George Pell who was convicted (then exonerated) of personally abusing children, but was found by a Royal Commission (that would be a special prosecutor for our American friends?) of enabling and protecting paedophile priests for decades.\nCan honestly say I have not been able to listen to the string of \"Christians\" praising this man in our media for the last few days without wanting to puke. Suffer the little children.",
">\n\nWith you there. At least there’s a lot of people calling his supporters out on this. Fuck Tony Abbott, John Howard and Andrew Bolt to name a few.",
">\n\nI 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!",
">\n\nr/PastorArrested (also includes Priests)",
">\n\nDon'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.",
">\n\nIf there is a god, wtf?",
">\n\nThere is no God. Religion is about control and money",
">\n\nAnd more money",
">\n\n\"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.\" \n- Rev. Patrick McDevitt, provincial superior for the Congregation of the Western Province \n\nEvery single member of that congregation is a horrible piece of shit",
">\n\nWhat 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?",
">\n\n“Drag queens are grooming our youth!!!”",
">\n\n\"I think we all know where people put on dresses and fuck kids\"\n-Trixie Mattel, 2022",
">\n\nKid “Bless me Father, for I have sinned”\nPadre “ call me, maybe?”",
">\n\nImagine my shock to discover that a priest has been involved in a sex scandal and one involving the exploitation of children, at that.",
">\n\nGOP: \"But wuttabout drag queens?!?!?!??!\"",
">\n\nDoing the Lords work 🙏🏾",
">\n\nTax-free",
">\n\nWhat's the deal with priests being so into pedophilia? Can't they look at milf pounds like normal people?",
">\n\nOh look... Another priest with child porn ... When do we get to start taxing the church?",
">\n\nr/pastorarrested",
">\n\nChurch is a scary place, especially for children.",
">\n\nI 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.",
">\n\nOnly 5 years. What a joke.",
">\n\n\nThe 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.\n\nIf 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.",
">\n\nNo one is suprised a priest is a pedophile. \nBut printing out yer nudes? That's odd.",
">\n\nI can think of a reason he printed it out. And I really don't like that reason.",
">\n\nI'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.",
">\n\nThe sheer audacity to do it at church where you work",
">\n\nAnd not a drag queen in sight...",
">\n\nThey do kinda wear dresses, though",
">\n\nToo many “coincidences” within this church to be anything other than systematic",
">\n\nPretty 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.",
">\n\n\nThe data often suggests numbers of pedophiles similar to the general population\n\none 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",
">\n\nYeah, 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.",
">\n\nI 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.",
">\n\nIt's so common for priests to be sickos",
">\n\nGross",
">\n\nAll he needs to do is repent, right?!?",
">\n\nA priest? With kiddie porn? I’ve never heard of such a thing!",
">\n\nRemember 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.",
">\n\n5 years that's all he got",
">\n\nThat's fucking disgusting. Misappropriation of office materials.",
">\n\nIt 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",
">\n\nIdiot 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.",
">\n\nso 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.",
">\n\nI 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 🤷♂️",
">\n\n5 years isnt nearly enough. Lock him up forever and a day.",
">\n\n~~Drag shows~~ Churches are not safe for children",
">\n\nI'm sure the religious Right will be out protesting him any second.\nRight? Right guys? Groomers and all this? Qanons? Where you guys at?\nHuh. Weird.",
">\n\nBut the dragqueens guys?!?!?!??!? /s",
">\n\nWeird that so many god loving people are actually just pedophiles. Wonder what they think god thinks of them. Fuck theism.",
">\n\nTheir god tells them to take the young girls as spoils of war. Their god is just as fucking depraved as they are.",
">\n\ntHaTs jUsT tHe oLd tEsTaMeNt tHoUgh.\ngOds mOraLiTy dOeSnt cHanGe, hE jUsT dEaLs wItH hUmAns diFFeReNtlY nOw. \nYeah when someone deals with people differently than they did before we generally call that \"a change.\"",
">\n\nAnd he wasn’t trans??? Maybe it’s been priests all along that governors should be banning. When will they correct their mistake? /s",
">\n\nDoesn'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...",
">\n\nIt's surprising. Who prints out their own nudes?",
">\n\nLock him up and throw away the keys",
">\n\nDarn priests, at least those protestant ministers keep it in the family",
">\n\nNot surprised.",
">\n\nThree hail marys and all is forgiven. What a load of bs",
">\n\nJust one bad apple, I’m sure.",
">\n\nLeast paedophilic priest",
">\n\n…slideshow?",
">\n\nGod works in mysterious ways ya fuckin chomo. As a priest, he of all people should have seen this coming...",
">\n\nIn other news, water is wet",
">\n\nOnly five years...",
">\n\n”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.” \nಠ_ಠ",
">\n\nI don’t remember this plotline during Doubt…",
">\n\nWe keep letting them get away with it, so they keep doing it. More obvious news at 10.",
">\n\n& once they found him out he got made a cardinal",
">\n\nHe should've kept them in the garage with his Corvette",
">\n\n5 years? If nothing else, using PowerPoint should have been an aggravating factor.",
">\n\nAnd you thought looking at Bob's family vacation pics was a bad time",
">\n\nWhen 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.",
">\n\nHow is the Roman Catholic Church not closed down for enabling and protecting child abusers",
">\n\nAre 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.",
">\n\nIt'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.",
">\n\npapabile!",
">\n\nLeft nudes on a shared printer? Rookie mistake.",
">\n\nTeach your priests just enough tech to effectively turn themselves in.",
">\n\nIsn't it something how the church decided to investigate themselves again. Keep it in the family, guys.\nI 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.",
">\n\nIs 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:\n1 - 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\n2 - 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)\n3 - 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.\nTL;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.",
">\n\nLet me guess.\nMoved to a different church at the other side of the country and that’s about it for consequences?",
">\n\nThose damned drag queens strike again.",
">\n\nI mean that’s kinda how they caught BTK",
">\n\nSo priests are still abusing kids after we didn't do anything to them the last few times we caught them? Color me surprised.",
">\n\n\nCourt 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.\"\n\n...\n\nDuring 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. \n\n...\n\nAnd 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. \n\nFuck everyone that allowed this scum to continue in a position of authority.",
">\n\nDon’t hear this happening at drag shows…j/s",
">\n\nHe put the PDF in pedofile",
">\n\nThis is Fucking ridiculous",
">\n\nNever forget who the actual groomers are",
">\n\nThe proud boys will be outside of churches \"protesting\" with guns now, right? right?",
">\n\nA priest being pedophile? But that is absolutely unheard of, say it isn't so!",
">\n\nYou sure this wasn't at a Trans drag show? GOP is sure this happens at Trans dragsl shows",
">\n\nExcommunicated by PowerPoint",
">\n\n5 years and a fine? FFS, that’s ridiculous.",
">\n\nPraise Jesus!",
">\n\nAnd the right thinks kids going to drag shows are the problem",
">\n\nAverage christian.",
">\n\nbut the drag queens are reading books to children in libraries! The madnessss",
">\n\nSo they moved him to a new church. This is what they have always done.",
">\n\nleast pedophilic priest:",
">\n\nThe dead ones dont hurt anyone.",
">\n\ninto the furnace he goes. theres no rehabbing people like this.",
">\n\nIt's always the ones you least expect..",
">\n\nOr in this case, the ones you MOST suspect",
">\n\nlol ya, I said that with sarcasm..",
">\n\nPray that he gets nut cancer.",
">\n\nNut cancer was once described to me as \"the common cold of cancers\". It has something like a 95% survival rate.\nHe deserves worse.",
">\n\nDidn't know that. Good nut fact for the day.",
">\n\nIt's definitely the drag queens reading to kids in libraries that's the problem.",
">\n\nRight wingers want him to be a closeted drag queen so badly",
">\n\nI could never trust any man who goes into priesthood. Completely unnatural and deviant occupation rife with pedophiles.",
">\n\nThis MONSTER got 5 years?! \nThe CHILDREN being abused in the images will suffer for the rest of their lives!!\nI'm in favor of LIFE SENTENCES for child sex offenders. \nOr better yet, the DEATH PENALTY!!",
">\n\nReligion was invented by Man for Control of the Flock.You go to Confession and tell the priest everything so they can determine how to undress you.\nI was once a Catholic.....born, baptised, confirmed and educated in a Grammar school run by Irish Christian Brothers under the Order of Edmund Ignatius Rice......and now I'm an atheist.",
">\n\nHow come it is always ‘Christians’ who are involved in child sex abuse?",
">\n\nOf course he's a pedo, he's a priest!",
">\n\nYes millions of idiots keep donating billions to the church",
">\n\nNot simply donating, they bring their children along, indoctrinate them that the priest is the speaker of God, and that God can do no wrong, so anything the priest dose is holy and good. The priest even says so!\nAnd when the kids bring it up the first few times weird things happen? The parents tell them to shush. And so, the sacrifices continue, the parents make a show of not knowing, and things get worse for the children.\nAnd if the priest is reported, the church just moves them to a different parish.\nThe only difference between the taliban and the catholic church, is one of them advertises the child slaves as a benefit, while the other pretends it's not (but totally encourages it, top to bottom).",
">\n\nAnd who are the groomers again?",
">\n\nThis is what happens when you don’t recycle your printer papers.",
">\n\nI feel like this isn't oniony enough, everyone knows by now that priests are significantly more likely to be pedophiles than the general population.",
">\n\nSure, but “gets caught by leaving nudes on a printer” is a fairly onion-y end.",
">\n\nYa know you're right",
">\n\nI have a theory about the correlation between priests and pedophiles. This is my opinion based on conversations with a childhood friend (not a pedo) and is only my opinion but could explain why so many priests abuse children. Get your down votes ready. \nThese boys grow up in the church and it is all they know for the most part. When going through puberty we become attracted to a gender (male or female gay or straight sometimes somewhere in between) and more often a \"type\" as well (blonde brunette short tall etc). Our hormones drive us to seek companionship, intimacy, and ultimately procreation. \nThese boys growing up never develop this attraction to their peers but rather feel more comfortable around younger children and usually behave as mentors. The combination of love of church and disinterest in peers puts the thought in their heads that priesthood is their calling. It takes a long time and effort to become a priest. There are easier paths if a guy just wants to bang kids.\nPut together lack of sex or release of biological needs with access and constant contact with children and they are basically pushed over the edge.\nTo sum up, pedophiles don't become priests to molest children, they become priests because they don't realize they are pedophiles. This is just my opinion, and obviously there are also exceptions to this.\nPerhaps the solution is to get rid of this nonsense celibacy.",
">\n\nAlternative theory: pedophiles become priests because they know the Catholic Church will support and hide them from accountability. Plus, all those altar boys have been easy pickings for decades. \nOn the positive side, Catholic Churches are closing all over Missouri because of dwindling congregations.",
">\n\nThis is one crime I’ll never be able to fathom.",
">\n\nSo fucking sick advocating for this monster so he can maintain freedom?",
">\n\nThe church has been so infiltrated by Child abusers that they are currently rating worse than Satan Worshippers",
">\n\nCan we just fuck churches off now???",
">\n\nYour tithing had to go somewhere.",
">\n\nHow come republicans are not calling these people groomers?",
">\n\nIs anyone else picturing the scene in the first Scary Movie where the cop asks Anna Faris to look at some pictures?\nPriest hands out the pictures of himself along with the weekly pamphlet. Maybe the first reading is from the Song of Solomon...",
">\n\nOh shit. \nHas he been quietly shuffled to a new church yet?",
">\n\nI'm old enough that when I see \"slideshow\" I think of him arranging physical slides in a carousel to project on a screen, like the family trip to Disneyland. Maybe invite the neighbors over for cake.",
">\n\nLord above why is this a thing",
">\n\nYou mean not a drag queen?",
">\n\nActual groomers.",
">\n\nJust think the hands that wanked to kiddie pr0n put wafers on the tongues of everyone in that congregation...",
">\n\nLMAO. This slightly ambiguous headline had me thinking “who attended these slideshow presentations?”",
">\n\nOh look another pedophile catholic priest. Good job reinforcing that stereotype.",
">\n\nAnd we should take guidance from those who hide these atrocities so we can live a better life in the eyes of god.",
">\n\nFriendly reminder religion is a mistake that deserves to be taxed. If you threatened to tax zealots tomorrow child molestation by priests would drop to zero",
">\n\nmay your mother smile as you burn",
">\n\nThis is what happens when you have unchecked power for thousands of years.\nHorrifying.",
">\n\nDid he learn this behavior from a drag show? /s",
">\n\nReminds me of something Chris Rock said: \"Where do women find the porn? They don't find it in your hiding place, they find it in the VCR\"",
">\n\nHe was also probably saving up for a trip to Disney World.",
">\n\n\nincluding child pornography and images of child erotica.\n\nI want to know the difference but don't want to get on a watchlist by googling it.",
">\n\nWithout the word child there, there's a difference in degree. I'd say it's the same thing with that word in there just describing the subject depicted. Pornography is generally actual sex acts of some form or another. Erotica falls short of that, it may be arousing or suggestive. For example, a cabaret show may be erotica but it's certainly not pornography.",
">\n\nPriest? Church? Man in a tax evasion party house?",
">\n\nYet the church immediately moved him somewhere else as there was a daycare next door to the church, then offered to pay to have the priest under house arrest so that the child predator won't go to jail.",
">\n\nShittiest Ted Talk I’ve ever seen, honestly…",
">\n\nOnly five years?! \nUgh!",
">\n\nAnd they call LGBT+ people groomers. (eyeroll)",
">\n\nAnyone who has ever been to a church sadly knows this doesn't need to be in this sub for us to know it's a real story.",
">\n\nOh how nice. The Reverend pleaded for him not to be incarcerated. Because of fucking course he did.",
">\n\nCurious as to who he was presenting this to"
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"Slideshows????? What?\nMy man just opened up cp.ppt and added a few THOUSAND slides of kiddy porn????\nClippy: it looks like youre a depraved predator. Do you want to profane the church as well?",
">\n\nWell I always did believe Power Point was a creation of a malevolent entity.",
">\n\nTuring complete, no less!",
">\n\nBut can it run Doom?",
">\n\nAnything can run doom",
">\n\nBut can Doom run Doom?",
">\n\nDoom can run Doom because Doom runs Doom when Doom runs.",
">\n\nPeople don't run Doom like it is, but it Doom.",
">\n\nGonna take this moment to highly recommend the film Spotlight to any who haven’t seen it",
">\n\nCheck out the 2017 limited series on either Netflix or Prime: \"The Keepers\" about a Baltimore-area Catholic girls' school. Based on the experiences as told by some of the girls, now middle-aged women. It is NOT nice, will make you cry, will enrage you. But I commend the women who made this documentary for as painful as it was for the audience to watch, I can't imagine how they made it thru. And they brought it around to a decent ending, but wow....I think some of what happened in Baltimore bled over into the Spotlight story.\nLapsed Catholic. I cannot reconcile with the Church hierarchy over this because they have behaved satanically for far too long to make me believe they are holy in any way.",
">\n\nThere was a documentary that came out a year or two ago tbzg sounds similar but men who were molested as kids while in the church. \nI honestly don't know how anyone can still support the church. At all. If it was one priest, sure. It's sad it happened, but pedophiles will always exist and find ways to get to kids.\nBut with how often it happens and with how little the church cares? Nope. I never could be catholic even if I was Christian.",
">\n\nBecause saving souls bringing them into their cult is more valuable than the ones they crush. The Vatican last I heard had 7 pedos protecting by not complying with extradition requests. \nAny organization not willing to comply with the laws of the country where they have a tax exempt status should lose their exemption and title to any property they own. If you RICO cartel and mafia assets, then you can do so for these child abusers and their protective association. \nYou know the church owns most of Manhattan and isn't paying taxes? All that money and we have to tolerate this shit? Nah fuck them.",
">\n\nNude pix on the church printer . . . I can imagine the scene.\nSister Mary Michael: Yo, does anyone recognize this tallywhacker?\nFormer Alter Boy Brian: Yeah, that's Father Jim. I'd know that hairy mole anywhere.",
">\n\nThat's Tommy Turner's tallywhacker",
">\n\nIf Reddit still gave free awards, I'd give one to you for catching the reference.",
">\n\nWAIT when did they get rid of the free awards",
">\n\nguess this is how i found out. last i claimed mine is around last week, i think. i only claim once every two weeks to gild certain biweekly thread lul",
">\n\nAnd yet where are all the \"anti-groomers\" protesting these churches?",
">\n\nIt’s almost like it has never actually been about protecting children, and it’s always been about trying to demonize LGBT people",
">\n\nAt this point I am positive the religious right to life thing is about having more targets.",
">\n\nGlad 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?",
">\n\nAfter 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.",
">\n\nI 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.\nThere are also many who truly believe the schtick and just compartmentalize the bad stuff. Both are to blame regardless. Nobody gets a pass.",
">\n\nI could see that with some of the smaller denominations for sure.\nWhen 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.",
">\n\n*making another streak to the tally list wall\n*camera panning out to reveal a huge fucking wall coveres in streaks",
">\n\nMan 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.\nThat said. This man should burn for this",
">\n\nPriest? Pedo? Are you sure? This is unprecedented",
">\n\nCorrection! PedoPreist",
">\n\nNew name not necessary. If anything there should be a name for the unique priests that arent pedos.",
">\n\nI'm inclined to think the majority of priests aren't child predators themselves.\nThe 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.\nWay, way too many of them are pedo-enablers. All the way up...",
">\n\nThen that would mean that... Gasp\nSouth Park was right all along....\nSneaky little bastards didn't think I would notice....",
">\n\nWish I was surprised",
">\n\nYou make slideshows of images? \nEdit: \nOh wait I see what you mean. Yeah the pedophile priest thing is so expected that only the slideshow bit stood out",
">\n\nHoly hell. Priest have normalized pedophilia.",
">\n\nNot just priests. Protestant Christians have a major problem with sexual abuse too, particularly against children.\nAfter Major Investigation, Southern Baptists Confront the Abuse Crisis They Knew Was Coming\nDon't let the Evangelical pedo defenders get away with claiming that Catholicism is the only issue here. It isn't.",
">\n\n\nnone of them are immune to the depravity.\n\nAlmost implied, really.",
">\n\nCould 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?",
">\n\nA variety of factors:\n\nUnquestioned moral authority and intense trust from a large community who have all been taught to obey church authorities\nSupport from a massive extremely powerful institution that has covered up thousands of similar crimes\nStrictly forbidden to marry, have sex, or iirc even masturbate, making them view all sexual activities as similarly taboo for them\nEasy regular access to many children\nEasy ability to get alone time with children\nPriests are only held institutionally accountable to each other and to those with more authority in the church\nVictims 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\nChildren 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\nThe 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\nThe 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\n\nThat'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.”\nP.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.\nWant 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.\nEdit to add this excellent way to protect kids that churches consistently fight against:\n\n“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.\nchildren 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.”",
">\n\nSo this should be buried enough if I speak in general terms.\nYears back one of our pastors had to give up being a pastor. They didn't get into details of what he did but they did stress that kids were not involved. The whole church could be seen relaxing.",
">\n\n5 years for thousands of child porn images and videos? Seems pretty fucking light to me. This piece of shit should die in prison.",
">\n\n5 years and a ticket to heaven",
">\n\nHeaven? For him?",
">\n\nThat'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.",
">\n\nDon't you also have to be truly repentant for your sins, including making a good faith effort to keep from repeating them?",
">\n\nI would love for someone to answer this because I really want to know, too.",
">\n\nyes I'm pretty sure that's it. God sees people's hearts He should know the diff between true repentance and fake one",
">\n\nYes, assuming an all-powerful God existed, he’d be able to pretty easily know if you were truly sorry.",
">\n\nYeah but......... \nI'm just starting the religious apologist's sentence for them.",
">\n\nFor 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.",
">\n\nOne 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.",
">\n\nOnce I heard this theory, the acceptance by conservatives of people whose behavior is in direct conflict with their moral beliefs, made more sense.",
">\n\n5 holly maries and transfer\nafter 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.\nRev. 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.\"\nMcDevitt asked the presiding judge for \"mercy for Jim,\" and even offered for the congregation to pay to house him in lieu of imprisonment.\n\"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.\"\n\"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.\"",
">\n\nIn Australia at the moment there is a furore after the death of Cardinal George Pell who was convicted (then exonerated) of personally abusing children, but was found by a Royal Commission (that would be a special prosecutor for our American friends?) of enabling and protecting paedophile priests for decades.\nCan honestly say I have not been able to listen to the string of \"Christians\" praising this man in our media for the last few days without wanting to puke. Suffer the little children.",
">\n\nWith you there. At least there’s a lot of people calling his supporters out on this. Fuck Tony Abbott, John Howard and Andrew Bolt to name a few.",
">\n\nI 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!",
">\n\nr/PastorArrested (also includes Priests)",
">\n\nDon'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.",
">\n\nIf there is a god, wtf?",
">\n\nThere is no God. Religion is about control and money",
">\n\nAnd more money",
">\n\n\"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.\" \n- Rev. Patrick McDevitt, provincial superior for the Congregation of the Western Province \n\nEvery single member of that congregation is a horrible piece of shit",
">\n\nWhat 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?",
">\n\n“Drag queens are grooming our youth!!!”",
">\n\n\"I think we all know where people put on dresses and fuck kids\"\n-Trixie Mattel, 2022",
">\n\nKid “Bless me Father, for I have sinned”\nPadre “ call me, maybe?”",
">\n\nImagine my shock to discover that a priest has been involved in a sex scandal and one involving the exploitation of children, at that.",
">\n\nGOP: \"But wuttabout drag queens?!?!?!??!\"",
">\n\nDoing the Lords work 🙏🏾",
">\n\nTax-free",
">\n\nWhat's the deal with priests being so into pedophilia? Can't they look at milf pounds like normal people?",
">\n\nOh look... Another priest with child porn ... When do we get to start taxing the church?",
">\n\nr/pastorarrested",
">\n\nChurch is a scary place, especially for children.",
">\n\nI 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.",
">\n\nOnly 5 years. What a joke.",
">\n\n\nThe 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.\n\nIf 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.",
">\n\nNo one is suprised a priest is a pedophile. \nBut printing out yer nudes? That's odd.",
">\n\nI can think of a reason he printed it out. And I really don't like that reason.",
">\n\nI'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.",
">\n\nThe sheer audacity to do it at church where you work",
">\n\nAnd not a drag queen in sight...",
">\n\nThey do kinda wear dresses, though",
">\n\nToo many “coincidences” within this church to be anything other than systematic",
">\n\nPretty 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.",
">\n\n\nThe data often suggests numbers of pedophiles similar to the general population\n\none 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",
">\n\nYeah, 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.",
">\n\nI 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.",
">\n\nIt's so common for priests to be sickos",
">\n\nGross",
">\n\nAll he needs to do is repent, right?!?",
">\n\nA priest? With kiddie porn? I’ve never heard of such a thing!",
">\n\nRemember 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.",
">\n\n5 years that's all he got",
">\n\nThat's fucking disgusting. Misappropriation of office materials.",
">\n\nIt 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",
">\n\nIdiot 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.",
">\n\nso 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.",
">\n\nI 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 🤷♂️",
">\n\n5 years isnt nearly enough. Lock him up forever and a day.",
">\n\n~~Drag shows~~ Churches are not safe for children",
">\n\nI'm sure the religious Right will be out protesting him any second.\nRight? Right guys? Groomers and all this? Qanons? Where you guys at?\nHuh. Weird.",
">\n\nBut the dragqueens guys?!?!?!??!? /s",
">\n\nWeird that so many god loving people are actually just pedophiles. Wonder what they think god thinks of them. Fuck theism.",
">\n\nTheir god tells them to take the young girls as spoils of war. Their god is just as fucking depraved as they are.",
">\n\ntHaTs jUsT tHe oLd tEsTaMeNt tHoUgh.\ngOds mOraLiTy dOeSnt cHanGe, hE jUsT dEaLs wItH hUmAns diFFeReNtlY nOw. \nYeah when someone deals with people differently than they did before we generally call that \"a change.\"",
">\n\nAnd he wasn’t trans??? Maybe it’s been priests all along that governors should be banning. When will they correct their mistake? /s",
">\n\nDoesn'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...",
">\n\nIt's surprising. Who prints out their own nudes?",
">\n\nLock him up and throw away the keys",
">\n\nDarn priests, at least those protestant ministers keep it in the family",
">\n\nNot surprised.",
">\n\nThree hail marys and all is forgiven. What a load of bs",
">\n\nJust one bad apple, I’m sure.",
">\n\nLeast paedophilic priest",
">\n\n…slideshow?",
">\n\nGod works in mysterious ways ya fuckin chomo. As a priest, he of all people should have seen this coming...",
">\n\nIn other news, water is wet",
">\n\nOnly five years...",
">\n\n”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.” \nಠ_ಠ",
">\n\nI don’t remember this plotline during Doubt…",
">\n\nWe keep letting them get away with it, so they keep doing it. More obvious news at 10.",
">\n\n& once they found him out he got made a cardinal",
">\n\nHe should've kept them in the garage with his Corvette",
">\n\n5 years? If nothing else, using PowerPoint should have been an aggravating factor.",
">\n\nAnd you thought looking at Bob's family vacation pics was a bad time",
">\n\nWhen 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.",
">\n\nHow is the Roman Catholic Church not closed down for enabling and protecting child abusers",
">\n\nAre 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.",
">\n\nIt'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.",
">\n\npapabile!",
">\n\nLeft nudes on a shared printer? Rookie mistake.",
">\n\nTeach your priests just enough tech to effectively turn themselves in.",
">\n\nIsn't it something how the church decided to investigate themselves again. Keep it in the family, guys.\nI 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.",
">\n\nIs 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:\n1 - 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\n2 - 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)\n3 - 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.\nTL;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.",
">\n\nLet me guess.\nMoved to a different church at the other side of the country and that’s about it for consequences?",
">\n\nThose damned drag queens strike again.",
">\n\nI mean that’s kinda how they caught BTK",
">\n\nSo priests are still abusing kids after we didn't do anything to them the last few times we caught them? Color me surprised.",
">\n\n\nCourt 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.\"\n\n...\n\nDuring 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. \n\n...\n\nAnd 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. \n\nFuck everyone that allowed this scum to continue in a position of authority.",
">\n\nDon’t hear this happening at drag shows…j/s",
">\n\nHe put the PDF in pedofile",
">\n\nThis is Fucking ridiculous",
">\n\nNever forget who the actual groomers are",
">\n\nThe proud boys will be outside of churches \"protesting\" with guns now, right? right?",
">\n\nA priest being pedophile? But that is absolutely unheard of, say it isn't so!",
">\n\nYou sure this wasn't at a Trans drag show? GOP is sure this happens at Trans dragsl shows",
">\n\nExcommunicated by PowerPoint",
">\n\n5 years and a fine? FFS, that’s ridiculous.",
">\n\nPraise Jesus!",
">\n\nAnd the right thinks kids going to drag shows are the problem",
">\n\nAverage christian.",
">\n\nbut the drag queens are reading books to children in libraries! The madnessss",
">\n\nSo they moved him to a new church. This is what they have always done.",
">\n\nleast pedophilic priest:",
">\n\nThe dead ones dont hurt anyone.",
">\n\ninto the furnace he goes. theres no rehabbing people like this.",
">\n\nIt's always the ones you least expect..",
">\n\nOr in this case, the ones you MOST suspect",
">\n\nlol ya, I said that with sarcasm..",
">\n\nPray that he gets nut cancer.",
">\n\nNut cancer was once described to me as \"the common cold of cancers\". It has something like a 95% survival rate.\nHe deserves worse.",
">\n\nDidn't know that. Good nut fact for the day.",
">\n\nIt's definitely the drag queens reading to kids in libraries that's the problem.",
">\n\nRight wingers want him to be a closeted drag queen so badly",
">\n\nI could never trust any man who goes into priesthood. Completely unnatural and deviant occupation rife with pedophiles.",
">\n\nThis MONSTER got 5 years?! \nThe CHILDREN being abused in the images will suffer for the rest of their lives!!\nI'm in favor of LIFE SENTENCES for child sex offenders. \nOr better yet, the DEATH PENALTY!!",
">\n\nReligion was invented by Man for Control of the Flock.You go to Confession and tell the priest everything so they can determine how to undress you.\nI was once a Catholic.....born, baptised, confirmed and educated in a Grammar school run by Irish Christian Brothers under the Order of Edmund Ignatius Rice......and now I'm an atheist.",
">\n\nHow come it is always ‘Christians’ who are involved in child sex abuse?",
">\n\nOf course he's a pedo, he's a priest!",
">\n\nYes millions of idiots keep donating billions to the church",
">\n\nNot simply donating, they bring their children along, indoctrinate them that the priest is the speaker of God, and that God can do no wrong, so anything the priest dose is holy and good. The priest even says so!\nAnd when the kids bring it up the first few times weird things happen? The parents tell them to shush. And so, the sacrifices continue, the parents make a show of not knowing, and things get worse for the children.\nAnd if the priest is reported, the church just moves them to a different parish.\nThe only difference between the taliban and the catholic church, is one of them advertises the child slaves as a benefit, while the other pretends it's not (but totally encourages it, top to bottom).",
">\n\nAnd who are the groomers again?",
">\n\nThis is what happens when you don’t recycle your printer papers.",
">\n\nI feel like this isn't oniony enough, everyone knows by now that priests are significantly more likely to be pedophiles than the general population.",
">\n\nSure, but “gets caught by leaving nudes on a printer” is a fairly onion-y end.",
">\n\nYa know you're right",
">\n\nI have a theory about the correlation between priests and pedophiles. This is my opinion based on conversations with a childhood friend (not a pedo) and is only my opinion but could explain why so many priests abuse children. Get your down votes ready. \nThese boys grow up in the church and it is all they know for the most part. When going through puberty we become attracted to a gender (male or female gay or straight sometimes somewhere in between) and more often a \"type\" as well (blonde brunette short tall etc). Our hormones drive us to seek companionship, intimacy, and ultimately procreation. \nThese boys growing up never develop this attraction to their peers but rather feel more comfortable around younger children and usually behave as mentors. The combination of love of church and disinterest in peers puts the thought in their heads that priesthood is their calling. It takes a long time and effort to become a priest. There are easier paths if a guy just wants to bang kids.\nPut together lack of sex or release of biological needs with access and constant contact with children and they are basically pushed over the edge.\nTo sum up, pedophiles don't become priests to molest children, they become priests because they don't realize they are pedophiles. This is just my opinion, and obviously there are also exceptions to this.\nPerhaps the solution is to get rid of this nonsense celibacy.",
">\n\nAlternative theory: pedophiles become priests because they know the Catholic Church will support and hide them from accountability. Plus, all those altar boys have been easy pickings for decades. \nOn the positive side, Catholic Churches are closing all over Missouri because of dwindling congregations.",
">\n\nThis is one crime I’ll never be able to fathom.",
">\n\nSo fucking sick advocating for this monster so he can maintain freedom?",
">\n\nThe church has been so infiltrated by Child abusers that they are currently rating worse than Satan Worshippers",
">\n\nCan we just fuck churches off now???",
">\n\nYour tithing had to go somewhere.",
">\n\nHow come republicans are not calling these people groomers?",
">\n\nIs anyone else picturing the scene in the first Scary Movie where the cop asks Anna Faris to look at some pictures?\nPriest hands out the pictures of himself along with the weekly pamphlet. Maybe the first reading is from the Song of Solomon...",
">\n\nOh shit. \nHas he been quietly shuffled to a new church yet?",
">\n\nI'm old enough that when I see \"slideshow\" I think of him arranging physical slides in a carousel to project on a screen, like the family trip to Disneyland. Maybe invite the neighbors over for cake.",
">\n\nLord above why is this a thing",
">\n\nYou mean not a drag queen?",
">\n\nActual groomers.",
">\n\nJust think the hands that wanked to kiddie pr0n put wafers on the tongues of everyone in that congregation...",
">\n\nLMAO. This slightly ambiguous headline had me thinking “who attended these slideshow presentations?”",
">\n\nOh look another pedophile catholic priest. Good job reinforcing that stereotype.",
">\n\nAnd we should take guidance from those who hide these atrocities so we can live a better life in the eyes of god.",
">\n\nFriendly reminder religion is a mistake that deserves to be taxed. If you threatened to tax zealots tomorrow child molestation by priests would drop to zero",
">\n\nmay your mother smile as you burn",
">\n\nThis is what happens when you have unchecked power for thousands of years.\nHorrifying.",
">\n\nDid he learn this behavior from a drag show? /s",
">\n\nReminds me of something Chris Rock said: \"Where do women find the porn? They don't find it in your hiding place, they find it in the VCR\"",
">\n\nHe was also probably saving up for a trip to Disney World.",
">\n\n\nincluding child pornography and images of child erotica.\n\nI want to know the difference but don't want to get on a watchlist by googling it.",
">\n\nWithout the word child there, there's a difference in degree. I'd say it's the same thing with that word in there just describing the subject depicted. Pornography is generally actual sex acts of some form or another. Erotica falls short of that, it may be arousing or suggestive. For example, a cabaret show may be erotica but it's certainly not pornography.",
">\n\nPriest? Church? Man in a tax evasion party house?",
">\n\nYet the church immediately moved him somewhere else as there was a daycare next door to the church, then offered to pay to have the priest under house arrest so that the child predator won't go to jail.",
">\n\nShittiest Ted Talk I’ve ever seen, honestly…",
">\n\nOnly five years?! \nUgh!",
">\n\nAnd they call LGBT+ people groomers. (eyeroll)",
">\n\nAnyone who has ever been to a church sadly knows this doesn't need to be in this sub for us to know it's a real story.",
">\n\nOh how nice. The Reverend pleaded for him not to be incarcerated. Because of fucking course he did.",
">\n\nCurious as to who he was presenting this to",
">\n\nPunish these assholes they are smearing God's name"
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religion and sexual abuse. name a more iconic duo
why are any of these religions even allowed to exist any more
they have long since lost their meanings, and onlt serve to syphon money out of gullible people, and abuse their children
what is any of these religions actually adding to society any more? other than more perverted monsters | [
"Slideshows????? What?\nMy man just opened up cp.ppt and added a few THOUSAND slides of kiddy porn????\nClippy: it looks like youre a depraved predator. Do you want to profane the church as well?",
">\n\nWell I always did believe Power Point was a creation of a malevolent entity.",
">\n\nTuring complete, no less!",
">\n\nBut can it run Doom?",
">\n\nAnything can run doom",
">\n\nBut can Doom run Doom?",
">\n\nDoom can run Doom because Doom runs Doom when Doom runs.",
">\n\nPeople don't run Doom like it is, but it Doom.",
">\n\nGonna take this moment to highly recommend the film Spotlight to any who haven’t seen it",
">\n\nCheck out the 2017 limited series on either Netflix or Prime: \"The Keepers\" about a Baltimore-area Catholic girls' school. Based on the experiences as told by some of the girls, now middle-aged women. It is NOT nice, will make you cry, will enrage you. But I commend the women who made this documentary for as painful as it was for the audience to watch, I can't imagine how they made it thru. And they brought it around to a decent ending, but wow....I think some of what happened in Baltimore bled over into the Spotlight story.\nLapsed Catholic. I cannot reconcile with the Church hierarchy over this because they have behaved satanically for far too long to make me believe they are holy in any way.",
">\n\nThere was a documentary that came out a year or two ago tbzg sounds similar but men who were molested as kids while in the church. \nI honestly don't know how anyone can still support the church. At all. If it was one priest, sure. It's sad it happened, but pedophiles will always exist and find ways to get to kids.\nBut with how often it happens and with how little the church cares? Nope. I never could be catholic even if I was Christian.",
">\n\nBecause saving souls bringing them into their cult is more valuable than the ones they crush. The Vatican last I heard had 7 pedos protecting by not complying with extradition requests. \nAny organization not willing to comply with the laws of the country where they have a tax exempt status should lose their exemption and title to any property they own. If you RICO cartel and mafia assets, then you can do so for these child abusers and their protective association. \nYou know the church owns most of Manhattan and isn't paying taxes? All that money and we have to tolerate this shit? Nah fuck them.",
">\n\nNude pix on the church printer . . . I can imagine the scene.\nSister Mary Michael: Yo, does anyone recognize this tallywhacker?\nFormer Alter Boy Brian: Yeah, that's Father Jim. I'd know that hairy mole anywhere.",
">\n\nThat's Tommy Turner's tallywhacker",
">\n\nIf Reddit still gave free awards, I'd give one to you for catching the reference.",
">\n\nWAIT when did they get rid of the free awards",
">\n\nguess this is how i found out. last i claimed mine is around last week, i think. i only claim once every two weeks to gild certain biweekly thread lul",
">\n\nAnd yet where are all the \"anti-groomers\" protesting these churches?",
">\n\nIt’s almost like it has never actually been about protecting children, and it’s always been about trying to demonize LGBT people",
">\n\nAt this point I am positive the religious right to life thing is about having more targets.",
">\n\nGlad 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?",
">\n\nAfter 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.",
">\n\nI 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.\nThere are also many who truly believe the schtick and just compartmentalize the bad stuff. Both are to blame regardless. Nobody gets a pass.",
">\n\nI could see that with some of the smaller denominations for sure.\nWhen 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.",
">\n\n*making another streak to the tally list wall\n*camera panning out to reveal a huge fucking wall coveres in streaks",
">\n\nMan 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.\nThat said. This man should burn for this",
">\n\nPriest? Pedo? Are you sure? This is unprecedented",
">\n\nCorrection! PedoPreist",
">\n\nNew name not necessary. If anything there should be a name for the unique priests that arent pedos.",
">\n\nI'm inclined to think the majority of priests aren't child predators themselves.\nThe 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.\nWay, way too many of them are pedo-enablers. All the way up...",
">\n\nThen that would mean that... Gasp\nSouth Park was right all along....\nSneaky little bastards didn't think I would notice....",
">\n\nWish I was surprised",
">\n\nYou make slideshows of images? \nEdit: \nOh wait I see what you mean. Yeah the pedophile priest thing is so expected that only the slideshow bit stood out",
">\n\nHoly hell. Priest have normalized pedophilia.",
">\n\nNot just priests. Protestant Christians have a major problem with sexual abuse too, particularly against children.\nAfter Major Investigation, Southern Baptists Confront the Abuse Crisis They Knew Was Coming\nDon't let the Evangelical pedo defenders get away with claiming that Catholicism is the only issue here. It isn't.",
">\n\n\nnone of them are immune to the depravity.\n\nAlmost implied, really.",
">\n\nCould 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?",
">\n\nA variety of factors:\n\nUnquestioned moral authority and intense trust from a large community who have all been taught to obey church authorities\nSupport from a massive extremely powerful institution that has covered up thousands of similar crimes\nStrictly forbidden to marry, have sex, or iirc even masturbate, making them view all sexual activities as similarly taboo for them\nEasy regular access to many children\nEasy ability to get alone time with children\nPriests are only held institutionally accountable to each other and to those with more authority in the church\nVictims 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\nChildren 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\nThe 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\nThe 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\n\nThat'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.”\nP.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.\nWant 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.\nEdit to add this excellent way to protect kids that churches consistently fight against:\n\n“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.\nchildren 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.”",
">\n\nSo this should be buried enough if I speak in general terms.\nYears back one of our pastors had to give up being a pastor. They didn't get into details of what he did but they did stress that kids were not involved. The whole church could be seen relaxing.",
">\n\n5 years for thousands of child porn images and videos? Seems pretty fucking light to me. This piece of shit should die in prison.",
">\n\n5 years and a ticket to heaven",
">\n\nHeaven? For him?",
">\n\nThat'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.",
">\n\nDon't you also have to be truly repentant for your sins, including making a good faith effort to keep from repeating them?",
">\n\nI would love for someone to answer this because I really want to know, too.",
">\n\nyes I'm pretty sure that's it. God sees people's hearts He should know the diff between true repentance and fake one",
">\n\nYes, assuming an all-powerful God existed, he’d be able to pretty easily know if you were truly sorry.",
">\n\nYeah but......... \nI'm just starting the religious apologist's sentence for them.",
">\n\nFor 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.",
">\n\nOne 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.",
">\n\nOnce I heard this theory, the acceptance by conservatives of people whose behavior is in direct conflict with their moral beliefs, made more sense.",
">\n\n5 holly maries and transfer\nafter 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.\nRev. 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.\"\nMcDevitt asked the presiding judge for \"mercy for Jim,\" and even offered for the congregation to pay to house him in lieu of imprisonment.\n\"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.\"\n\"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.\"",
">\n\nIn Australia at the moment there is a furore after the death of Cardinal George Pell who was convicted (then exonerated) of personally abusing children, but was found by a Royal Commission (that would be a special prosecutor for our American friends?) of enabling and protecting paedophile priests for decades.\nCan honestly say I have not been able to listen to the string of \"Christians\" praising this man in our media for the last few days without wanting to puke. Suffer the little children.",
">\n\nWith you there. At least there’s a lot of people calling his supporters out on this. Fuck Tony Abbott, John Howard and Andrew Bolt to name a few.",
">\n\nI 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!",
">\n\nr/PastorArrested (also includes Priests)",
">\n\nDon'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.",
">\n\nIf there is a god, wtf?",
">\n\nThere is no God. Religion is about control and money",
">\n\nAnd more money",
">\n\n\"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.\" \n- Rev. Patrick McDevitt, provincial superior for the Congregation of the Western Province \n\nEvery single member of that congregation is a horrible piece of shit",
">\n\nWhat 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?",
">\n\n“Drag queens are grooming our youth!!!”",
">\n\n\"I think we all know where people put on dresses and fuck kids\"\n-Trixie Mattel, 2022",
">\n\nKid “Bless me Father, for I have sinned”\nPadre “ call me, maybe?”",
">\n\nImagine my shock to discover that a priest has been involved in a sex scandal and one involving the exploitation of children, at that.",
">\n\nGOP: \"But wuttabout drag queens?!?!?!??!\"",
">\n\nDoing the Lords work 🙏🏾",
">\n\nTax-free",
">\n\nWhat's the deal with priests being so into pedophilia? Can't they look at milf pounds like normal people?",
">\n\nOh look... Another priest with child porn ... When do we get to start taxing the church?",
">\n\nr/pastorarrested",
">\n\nChurch is a scary place, especially for children.",
">\n\nI 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.",
">\n\nOnly 5 years. What a joke.",
">\n\n\nThe 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.\n\nIf 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.",
">\n\nNo one is suprised a priest is a pedophile. \nBut printing out yer nudes? That's odd.",
">\n\nI can think of a reason he printed it out. And I really don't like that reason.",
">\n\nI'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.",
">\n\nThe sheer audacity to do it at church where you work",
">\n\nAnd not a drag queen in sight...",
">\n\nThey do kinda wear dresses, though",
">\n\nToo many “coincidences” within this church to be anything other than systematic",
">\n\nPretty 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.",
">\n\n\nThe data often suggests numbers of pedophiles similar to the general population\n\none 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",
">\n\nYeah, 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.",
">\n\nI 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.",
">\n\nIt's so common for priests to be sickos",
">\n\nGross",
">\n\nAll he needs to do is repent, right?!?",
">\n\nA priest? With kiddie porn? I’ve never heard of such a thing!",
">\n\nRemember 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.",
">\n\n5 years that's all he got",
">\n\nThat's fucking disgusting. Misappropriation of office materials.",
">\n\nIt 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",
">\n\nIdiot 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.",
">\n\nso 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.",
">\n\nI 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 🤷♂️",
">\n\n5 years isnt nearly enough. Lock him up forever and a day.",
">\n\n~~Drag shows~~ Churches are not safe for children",
">\n\nI'm sure the religious Right will be out protesting him any second.\nRight? Right guys? Groomers and all this? Qanons? Where you guys at?\nHuh. Weird.",
">\n\nBut the dragqueens guys?!?!?!??!? /s",
">\n\nWeird that so many god loving people are actually just pedophiles. Wonder what they think god thinks of them. Fuck theism.",
">\n\nTheir god tells them to take the young girls as spoils of war. Their god is just as fucking depraved as they are.",
">\n\ntHaTs jUsT tHe oLd tEsTaMeNt tHoUgh.\ngOds mOraLiTy dOeSnt cHanGe, hE jUsT dEaLs wItH hUmAns diFFeReNtlY nOw. \nYeah when someone deals with people differently than they did before we generally call that \"a change.\"",
">\n\nAnd he wasn’t trans??? Maybe it’s been priests all along that governors should be banning. When will they correct their mistake? /s",
">\n\nDoesn'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...",
">\n\nIt's surprising. Who prints out their own nudes?",
">\n\nLock him up and throw away the keys",
">\n\nDarn priests, at least those protestant ministers keep it in the family",
">\n\nNot surprised.",
">\n\nThree hail marys and all is forgiven. What a load of bs",
">\n\nJust one bad apple, I’m sure.",
">\n\nLeast paedophilic priest",
">\n\n…slideshow?",
">\n\nGod works in mysterious ways ya fuckin chomo. As a priest, he of all people should have seen this coming...",
">\n\nIn other news, water is wet",
">\n\nOnly five years...",
">\n\n”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.” \nಠ_ಠ",
">\n\nI don’t remember this plotline during Doubt…",
">\n\nWe keep letting them get away with it, so they keep doing it. More obvious news at 10.",
">\n\n& once they found him out he got made a cardinal",
">\n\nHe should've kept them in the garage with his Corvette",
">\n\n5 years? If nothing else, using PowerPoint should have been an aggravating factor.",
">\n\nAnd you thought looking at Bob's family vacation pics was a bad time",
">\n\nWhen 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.",
">\n\nHow is the Roman Catholic Church not closed down for enabling and protecting child abusers",
">\n\nAre 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.",
">\n\nIt'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.",
">\n\npapabile!",
">\n\nLeft nudes on a shared printer? Rookie mistake.",
">\n\nTeach your priests just enough tech to effectively turn themselves in.",
">\n\nIsn't it something how the church decided to investigate themselves again. Keep it in the family, guys.\nI 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.",
">\n\nIs 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:\n1 - 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\n2 - 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)\n3 - 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.\nTL;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.",
">\n\nLet me guess.\nMoved to a different church at the other side of the country and that’s about it for consequences?",
">\n\nThose damned drag queens strike again.",
">\n\nI mean that’s kinda how they caught BTK",
">\n\nSo priests are still abusing kids after we didn't do anything to them the last few times we caught them? Color me surprised.",
">\n\n\nCourt 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.\"\n\n...\n\nDuring 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. \n\n...\n\nAnd 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. \n\nFuck everyone that allowed this scum to continue in a position of authority.",
">\n\nDon’t hear this happening at drag shows…j/s",
">\n\nHe put the PDF in pedofile",
">\n\nThis is Fucking ridiculous",
">\n\nNever forget who the actual groomers are",
">\n\nThe proud boys will be outside of churches \"protesting\" with guns now, right? right?",
">\n\nA priest being pedophile? But that is absolutely unheard of, say it isn't so!",
">\n\nYou sure this wasn't at a Trans drag show? GOP is sure this happens at Trans dragsl shows",
">\n\nExcommunicated by PowerPoint",
">\n\n5 years and a fine? FFS, that’s ridiculous.",
">\n\nPraise Jesus!",
">\n\nAnd the right thinks kids going to drag shows are the problem",
">\n\nAverage christian.",
">\n\nbut the drag queens are reading books to children in libraries! The madnessss",
">\n\nSo they moved him to a new church. This is what they have always done.",
">\n\nleast pedophilic priest:",
">\n\nThe dead ones dont hurt anyone.",
">\n\ninto the furnace he goes. theres no rehabbing people like this.",
">\n\nIt's always the ones you least expect..",
">\n\nOr in this case, the ones you MOST suspect",
">\n\nlol ya, I said that with sarcasm..",
">\n\nPray that he gets nut cancer.",
">\n\nNut cancer was once described to me as \"the common cold of cancers\". It has something like a 95% survival rate.\nHe deserves worse.",
">\n\nDidn't know that. Good nut fact for the day.",
">\n\nIt's definitely the drag queens reading to kids in libraries that's the problem.",
">\n\nRight wingers want him to be a closeted drag queen so badly",
">\n\nI could never trust any man who goes into priesthood. Completely unnatural and deviant occupation rife with pedophiles.",
">\n\nThis MONSTER got 5 years?! \nThe CHILDREN being abused in the images will suffer for the rest of their lives!!\nI'm in favor of LIFE SENTENCES for child sex offenders. \nOr better yet, the DEATH PENALTY!!",
">\n\nReligion was invented by Man for Control of the Flock.You go to Confession and tell the priest everything so they can determine how to undress you.\nI was once a Catholic.....born, baptised, confirmed and educated in a Grammar school run by Irish Christian Brothers under the Order of Edmund Ignatius Rice......and now I'm an atheist.",
">\n\nHow come it is always ‘Christians’ who are involved in child sex abuse?",
">\n\nOf course he's a pedo, he's a priest!",
">\n\nYes millions of idiots keep donating billions to the church",
">\n\nNot simply donating, they bring their children along, indoctrinate them that the priest is the speaker of God, and that God can do no wrong, so anything the priest dose is holy and good. The priest even says so!\nAnd when the kids bring it up the first few times weird things happen? The parents tell them to shush. And so, the sacrifices continue, the parents make a show of not knowing, and things get worse for the children.\nAnd if the priest is reported, the church just moves them to a different parish.\nThe only difference between the taliban and the catholic church, is one of them advertises the child slaves as a benefit, while the other pretends it's not (but totally encourages it, top to bottom).",
">\n\nAnd who are the groomers again?",
">\n\nThis is what happens when you don’t recycle your printer papers.",
">\n\nI feel like this isn't oniony enough, everyone knows by now that priests are significantly more likely to be pedophiles than the general population.",
">\n\nSure, but “gets caught by leaving nudes on a printer” is a fairly onion-y end.",
">\n\nYa know you're right",
">\n\nI have a theory about the correlation between priests and pedophiles. This is my opinion based on conversations with a childhood friend (not a pedo) and is only my opinion but could explain why so many priests abuse children. Get your down votes ready. \nThese boys grow up in the church and it is all they know for the most part. When going through puberty we become attracted to a gender (male or female gay or straight sometimes somewhere in between) and more often a \"type\" as well (blonde brunette short tall etc). Our hormones drive us to seek companionship, intimacy, and ultimately procreation. \nThese boys growing up never develop this attraction to their peers but rather feel more comfortable around younger children and usually behave as mentors. The combination of love of church and disinterest in peers puts the thought in their heads that priesthood is their calling. It takes a long time and effort to become a priest. There are easier paths if a guy just wants to bang kids.\nPut together lack of sex or release of biological needs with access and constant contact with children and they are basically pushed over the edge.\nTo sum up, pedophiles don't become priests to molest children, they become priests because they don't realize they are pedophiles. This is just my opinion, and obviously there are also exceptions to this.\nPerhaps the solution is to get rid of this nonsense celibacy.",
">\n\nAlternative theory: pedophiles become priests because they know the Catholic Church will support and hide them from accountability. Plus, all those altar boys have been easy pickings for decades. \nOn the positive side, Catholic Churches are closing all over Missouri because of dwindling congregations.",
">\n\nThis is one crime I’ll never be able to fathom.",
">\n\nSo fucking sick advocating for this monster so he can maintain freedom?",
">\n\nThe church has been so infiltrated by Child abusers that they are currently rating worse than Satan Worshippers",
">\n\nCan we just fuck churches off now???",
">\n\nYour tithing had to go somewhere.",
">\n\nHow come republicans are not calling these people groomers?",
">\n\nIs anyone else picturing the scene in the first Scary Movie where the cop asks Anna Faris to look at some pictures?\nPriest hands out the pictures of himself along with the weekly pamphlet. Maybe the first reading is from the Song of Solomon...",
">\n\nOh shit. \nHas he been quietly shuffled to a new church yet?",
">\n\nI'm old enough that when I see \"slideshow\" I think of him arranging physical slides in a carousel to project on a screen, like the family trip to Disneyland. Maybe invite the neighbors over for cake.",
">\n\nLord above why is this a thing",
">\n\nYou mean not a drag queen?",
">\n\nActual groomers.",
">\n\nJust think the hands that wanked to kiddie pr0n put wafers on the tongues of everyone in that congregation...",
">\n\nLMAO. This slightly ambiguous headline had me thinking “who attended these slideshow presentations?”",
">\n\nOh look another pedophile catholic priest. Good job reinforcing that stereotype.",
">\n\nAnd we should take guidance from those who hide these atrocities so we can live a better life in the eyes of god.",
">\n\nFriendly reminder religion is a mistake that deserves to be taxed. If you threatened to tax zealots tomorrow child molestation by priests would drop to zero",
">\n\nmay your mother smile as you burn",
">\n\nThis is what happens when you have unchecked power for thousands of years.\nHorrifying.",
">\n\nDid he learn this behavior from a drag show? /s",
">\n\nReminds me of something Chris Rock said: \"Where do women find the porn? They don't find it in your hiding place, they find it in the VCR\"",
">\n\nHe was also probably saving up for a trip to Disney World.",
">\n\n\nincluding child pornography and images of child erotica.\n\nI want to know the difference but don't want to get on a watchlist by googling it.",
">\n\nWithout the word child there, there's a difference in degree. I'd say it's the same thing with that word in there just describing the subject depicted. Pornography is generally actual sex acts of some form or another. Erotica falls short of that, it may be arousing or suggestive. For example, a cabaret show may be erotica but it's certainly not pornography.",
">\n\nPriest? Church? Man in a tax evasion party house?",
">\n\nYet the church immediately moved him somewhere else as there was a daycare next door to the church, then offered to pay to have the priest under house arrest so that the child predator won't go to jail.",
">\n\nShittiest Ted Talk I’ve ever seen, honestly…",
">\n\nOnly five years?! \nUgh!",
">\n\nAnd they call LGBT+ people groomers. (eyeroll)",
">\n\nAnyone who has ever been to a church sadly knows this doesn't need to be in this sub for us to know it's a real story.",
">\n\nOh how nice. The Reverend pleaded for him not to be incarcerated. Because of fucking course he did.",
">\n\nCurious as to who he was presenting this to",
">\n\nPunish these assholes they are smearing God's name",
">\n\nStraight to (checks notes) your next parish!"
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"Slideshows????? What?\nMy man just opened up cp.ppt and added a few THOUSAND slides of kiddy porn????\nClippy: it looks like youre a depraved predator. Do you want to profane the church as well?",
">\n\nWell I always did believe Power Point was a creation of a malevolent entity.",
">\n\nTuring complete, no less!",
">\n\nBut can it run Doom?",
">\n\nAnything can run doom",
">\n\nBut can Doom run Doom?",
">\n\nDoom can run Doom because Doom runs Doom when Doom runs.",
">\n\nPeople don't run Doom like it is, but it Doom.",
">\n\nGonna take this moment to highly recommend the film Spotlight to any who haven’t seen it",
">\n\nCheck out the 2017 limited series on either Netflix or Prime: \"The Keepers\" about a Baltimore-area Catholic girls' school. Based on the experiences as told by some of the girls, now middle-aged women. It is NOT nice, will make you cry, will enrage you. But I commend the women who made this documentary for as painful as it was for the audience to watch, I can't imagine how they made it thru. And they brought it around to a decent ending, but wow....I think some of what happened in Baltimore bled over into the Spotlight story.\nLapsed Catholic. I cannot reconcile with the Church hierarchy over this because they have behaved satanically for far too long to make me believe they are holy in any way.",
">\n\nThere was a documentary that came out a year or two ago tbzg sounds similar but men who were molested as kids while in the church. \nI honestly don't know how anyone can still support the church. At all. If it was one priest, sure. It's sad it happened, but pedophiles will always exist and find ways to get to kids.\nBut with how often it happens and with how little the church cares? Nope. I never could be catholic even if I was Christian.",
">\n\nBecause saving souls bringing them into their cult is more valuable than the ones they crush. The Vatican last I heard had 7 pedos protecting by not complying with extradition requests. \nAny organization not willing to comply with the laws of the country where they have a tax exempt status should lose their exemption and title to any property they own. If you RICO cartel and mafia assets, then you can do so for these child abusers and their protective association. \nYou know the church owns most of Manhattan and isn't paying taxes? All that money and we have to tolerate this shit? Nah fuck them.",
">\n\nNude pix on the church printer . . . I can imagine the scene.\nSister Mary Michael: Yo, does anyone recognize this tallywhacker?\nFormer Alter Boy Brian: Yeah, that's Father Jim. I'd know that hairy mole anywhere.",
">\n\nThat's Tommy Turner's tallywhacker",
">\n\nIf Reddit still gave free awards, I'd give one to you for catching the reference.",
">\n\nWAIT when did they get rid of the free awards",
">\n\nguess this is how i found out. last i claimed mine is around last week, i think. i only claim once every two weeks to gild certain biweekly thread lul",
">\n\nAnd yet where are all the \"anti-groomers\" protesting these churches?",
">\n\nIt’s almost like it has never actually been about protecting children, and it’s always been about trying to demonize LGBT people",
">\n\nAt this point I am positive the religious right to life thing is about having more targets.",
">\n\nGlad 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?",
">\n\nAfter 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.",
">\n\nI 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.\nThere are also many who truly believe the schtick and just compartmentalize the bad stuff. Both are to blame regardless. Nobody gets a pass.",
">\n\nI could see that with some of the smaller denominations for sure.\nWhen 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.",
">\n\n*making another streak to the tally list wall\n*camera panning out to reveal a huge fucking wall coveres in streaks",
">\n\nMan 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.\nThat said. This man should burn for this",
">\n\nPriest? Pedo? Are you sure? This is unprecedented",
">\n\nCorrection! PedoPreist",
">\n\nNew name not necessary. If anything there should be a name for the unique priests that arent pedos.",
">\n\nI'm inclined to think the majority of priests aren't child predators themselves.\nThe 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.\nWay, way too many of them are pedo-enablers. All the way up...",
">\n\nThen that would mean that... Gasp\nSouth Park was right all along....\nSneaky little bastards didn't think I would notice....",
">\n\nWish I was surprised",
">\n\nYou make slideshows of images? \nEdit: \nOh wait I see what you mean. Yeah the pedophile priest thing is so expected that only the slideshow bit stood out",
">\n\nHoly hell. Priest have normalized pedophilia.",
">\n\nNot just priests. Protestant Christians have a major problem with sexual abuse too, particularly against children.\nAfter Major Investigation, Southern Baptists Confront the Abuse Crisis They Knew Was Coming\nDon't let the Evangelical pedo defenders get away with claiming that Catholicism is the only issue here. It isn't.",
">\n\n\nnone of them are immune to the depravity.\n\nAlmost implied, really.",
">\n\nCould 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?",
">\n\nA variety of factors:\n\nUnquestioned moral authority and intense trust from a large community who have all been taught to obey church authorities\nSupport from a massive extremely powerful institution that has covered up thousands of similar crimes\nStrictly forbidden to marry, have sex, or iirc even masturbate, making them view all sexual activities as similarly taboo for them\nEasy regular access to many children\nEasy ability to get alone time with children\nPriests are only held institutionally accountable to each other and to those with more authority in the church\nVictims 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\nChildren 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\nThe 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\nThe 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\n\nThat'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.”\nP.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.\nWant 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.\nEdit to add this excellent way to protect kids that churches consistently fight against:\n\n“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.\nchildren 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.”",
">\n\nSo this should be buried enough if I speak in general terms.\nYears back one of our pastors had to give up being a pastor. They didn't get into details of what he did but they did stress that kids were not involved. The whole church could be seen relaxing.",
">\n\n5 years for thousands of child porn images and videos? Seems pretty fucking light to me. This piece of shit should die in prison.",
">\n\n5 years and a ticket to heaven",
">\n\nHeaven? For him?",
">\n\nThat'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.",
">\n\nDon't you also have to be truly repentant for your sins, including making a good faith effort to keep from repeating them?",
">\n\nI would love for someone to answer this because I really want to know, too.",
">\n\nyes I'm pretty sure that's it. God sees people's hearts He should know the diff between true repentance and fake one",
">\n\nYes, assuming an all-powerful God existed, he’d be able to pretty easily know if you were truly sorry.",
">\n\nYeah but......... \nI'm just starting the religious apologist's sentence for them.",
">\n\nFor 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.",
">\n\nOne 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.",
">\n\nOnce I heard this theory, the acceptance by conservatives of people whose behavior is in direct conflict with their moral beliefs, made more sense.",
">\n\n5 holly maries and transfer\nafter 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.\nRev. 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.\"\nMcDevitt asked the presiding judge for \"mercy for Jim,\" and even offered for the congregation to pay to house him in lieu of imprisonment.\n\"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.\"\n\"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.\"",
">\n\nIn Australia at the moment there is a furore after the death of Cardinal George Pell who was convicted (then exonerated) of personally abusing children, but was found by a Royal Commission (that would be a special prosecutor for our American friends?) of enabling and protecting paedophile priests for decades.\nCan honestly say I have not been able to listen to the string of \"Christians\" praising this man in our media for the last few days without wanting to puke. Suffer the little children.",
">\n\nWith you there. At least there’s a lot of people calling his supporters out on this. Fuck Tony Abbott, John Howard and Andrew Bolt to name a few.",
">\n\nI 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!",
">\n\nr/PastorArrested (also includes Priests)",
">\n\nDon'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.",
">\n\nIf there is a god, wtf?",
">\n\nThere is no God. Religion is about control and money",
">\n\nAnd more money",
">\n\n\"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.\" \n- Rev. Patrick McDevitt, provincial superior for the Congregation of the Western Province \n\nEvery single member of that congregation is a horrible piece of shit",
">\n\nWhat 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?",
">\n\n“Drag queens are grooming our youth!!!”",
">\n\n\"I think we all know where people put on dresses and fuck kids\"\n-Trixie Mattel, 2022",
">\n\nKid “Bless me Father, for I have sinned”\nPadre “ call me, maybe?”",
">\n\nImagine my shock to discover that a priest has been involved in a sex scandal and one involving the exploitation of children, at that.",
">\n\nGOP: \"But wuttabout drag queens?!?!?!??!\"",
">\n\nDoing the Lords work 🙏🏾",
">\n\nTax-free",
">\n\nWhat's the deal with priests being so into pedophilia? Can't they look at milf pounds like normal people?",
">\n\nOh look... Another priest with child porn ... When do we get to start taxing the church?",
">\n\nr/pastorarrested",
">\n\nChurch is a scary place, especially for children.",
">\n\nI 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.",
">\n\nOnly 5 years. What a joke.",
">\n\n\nThe 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.\n\nIf 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.",
">\n\nNo one is suprised a priest is a pedophile. \nBut printing out yer nudes? That's odd.",
">\n\nI can think of a reason he printed it out. And I really don't like that reason.",
">\n\nI'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.",
">\n\nThe sheer audacity to do it at church where you work",
">\n\nAnd not a drag queen in sight...",
">\n\nThey do kinda wear dresses, though",
">\n\nToo many “coincidences” within this church to be anything other than systematic",
">\n\nPretty 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.",
">\n\n\nThe data often suggests numbers of pedophiles similar to the general population\n\none 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",
">\n\nYeah, 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.",
">\n\nI 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.",
">\n\nIt's so common for priests to be sickos",
">\n\nGross",
">\n\nAll he needs to do is repent, right?!?",
">\n\nA priest? With kiddie porn? I’ve never heard of such a thing!",
">\n\nRemember 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.",
">\n\n5 years that's all he got",
">\n\nThat's fucking disgusting. Misappropriation of office materials.",
">\n\nIt 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",
">\n\nIdiot 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.",
">\n\nso 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.",
">\n\nI 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 🤷♂️",
">\n\n5 years isnt nearly enough. Lock him up forever and a day.",
">\n\n~~Drag shows~~ Churches are not safe for children",
">\n\nI'm sure the religious Right will be out protesting him any second.\nRight? Right guys? Groomers and all this? Qanons? Where you guys at?\nHuh. Weird.",
">\n\nBut the dragqueens guys?!?!?!??!? /s",
">\n\nWeird that so many god loving people are actually just pedophiles. Wonder what they think god thinks of them. Fuck theism.",
">\n\nTheir god tells them to take the young girls as spoils of war. Their god is just as fucking depraved as they are.",
">\n\ntHaTs jUsT tHe oLd tEsTaMeNt tHoUgh.\ngOds mOraLiTy dOeSnt cHanGe, hE jUsT dEaLs wItH hUmAns diFFeReNtlY nOw. \nYeah when someone deals with people differently than they did before we generally call that \"a change.\"",
">\n\nAnd he wasn’t trans??? Maybe it’s been priests all along that governors should be banning. When will they correct their mistake? /s",
">\n\nDoesn'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...",
">\n\nIt's surprising. Who prints out their own nudes?",
">\n\nLock him up and throw away the keys",
">\n\nDarn priests, at least those protestant ministers keep it in the family",
">\n\nNot surprised.",
">\n\nThree hail marys and all is forgiven. What a load of bs",
">\n\nJust one bad apple, I’m sure.",
">\n\nLeast paedophilic priest",
">\n\n…slideshow?",
">\n\nGod works in mysterious ways ya fuckin chomo. As a priest, he of all people should have seen this coming...",
">\n\nIn other news, water is wet",
">\n\nOnly five years...",
">\n\n”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.” \nಠ_ಠ",
">\n\nI don’t remember this plotline during Doubt…",
">\n\nWe keep letting them get away with it, so they keep doing it. More obvious news at 10.",
">\n\n& once they found him out he got made a cardinal",
">\n\nHe should've kept them in the garage with his Corvette",
">\n\n5 years? If nothing else, using PowerPoint should have been an aggravating factor.",
">\n\nAnd you thought looking at Bob's family vacation pics was a bad time",
">\n\nWhen 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.",
">\n\nHow is the Roman Catholic Church not closed down for enabling and protecting child abusers",
">\n\nAre 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.",
">\n\nIt'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.",
">\n\npapabile!",
">\n\nLeft nudes on a shared printer? Rookie mistake.",
">\n\nTeach your priests just enough tech to effectively turn themselves in.",
">\n\nIsn't it something how the church decided to investigate themselves again. Keep it in the family, guys.\nI 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.",
">\n\nIs 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:\n1 - 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\n2 - 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)\n3 - 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.\nTL;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.",
">\n\nLet me guess.\nMoved to a different church at the other side of the country and that’s about it for consequences?",
">\n\nThose damned drag queens strike again.",
">\n\nI mean that’s kinda how they caught BTK",
">\n\nSo priests are still abusing kids after we didn't do anything to them the last few times we caught them? Color me surprised.",
">\n\n\nCourt 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.\"\n\n...\n\nDuring 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. \n\n...\n\nAnd 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. \n\nFuck everyone that allowed this scum to continue in a position of authority.",
">\n\nDon’t hear this happening at drag shows…j/s",
">\n\nHe put the PDF in pedofile",
">\n\nThis is Fucking ridiculous",
">\n\nNever forget who the actual groomers are",
">\n\nThe proud boys will be outside of churches \"protesting\" with guns now, right? right?",
">\n\nA priest being pedophile? But that is absolutely unheard of, say it isn't so!",
">\n\nYou sure this wasn't at a Trans drag show? GOP is sure this happens at Trans dragsl shows",
">\n\nExcommunicated by PowerPoint",
">\n\n5 years and a fine? FFS, that’s ridiculous.",
">\n\nPraise Jesus!",
">\n\nAnd the right thinks kids going to drag shows are the problem",
">\n\nAverage christian.",
">\n\nbut the drag queens are reading books to children in libraries! The madnessss",
">\n\nSo they moved him to a new church. This is what they have always done.",
">\n\nleast pedophilic priest:",
">\n\nThe dead ones dont hurt anyone.",
">\n\ninto the furnace he goes. theres no rehabbing people like this.",
">\n\nIt's always the ones you least expect..",
">\n\nOr in this case, the ones you MOST suspect",
">\n\nlol ya, I said that with sarcasm..",
">\n\nPray that he gets nut cancer.",
">\n\nNut cancer was once described to me as \"the common cold of cancers\". It has something like a 95% survival rate.\nHe deserves worse.",
">\n\nDidn't know that. Good nut fact for the day.",
">\n\nIt's definitely the drag queens reading to kids in libraries that's the problem.",
">\n\nRight wingers want him to be a closeted drag queen so badly",
">\n\nI could never trust any man who goes into priesthood. Completely unnatural and deviant occupation rife with pedophiles.",
">\n\nThis MONSTER got 5 years?! \nThe CHILDREN being abused in the images will suffer for the rest of their lives!!\nI'm in favor of LIFE SENTENCES for child sex offenders. \nOr better yet, the DEATH PENALTY!!",
">\n\nReligion was invented by Man for Control of the Flock.You go to Confession and tell the priest everything so they can determine how to undress you.\nI was once a Catholic.....born, baptised, confirmed and educated in a Grammar school run by Irish Christian Brothers under the Order of Edmund Ignatius Rice......and now I'm an atheist.",
">\n\nHow come it is always ‘Christians’ who are involved in child sex abuse?",
">\n\nOf course he's a pedo, he's a priest!",
">\n\nYes millions of idiots keep donating billions to the church",
">\n\nNot simply donating, they bring their children along, indoctrinate them that the priest is the speaker of God, and that God can do no wrong, so anything the priest dose is holy and good. The priest even says so!\nAnd when the kids bring it up the first few times weird things happen? The parents tell them to shush. And so, the sacrifices continue, the parents make a show of not knowing, and things get worse for the children.\nAnd if the priest is reported, the church just moves them to a different parish.\nThe only difference between the taliban and the catholic church, is one of them advertises the child slaves as a benefit, while the other pretends it's not (but totally encourages it, top to bottom).",
">\n\nAnd who are the groomers again?",
">\n\nThis is what happens when you don’t recycle your printer papers.",
">\n\nI feel like this isn't oniony enough, everyone knows by now that priests are significantly more likely to be pedophiles than the general population.",
">\n\nSure, but “gets caught by leaving nudes on a printer” is a fairly onion-y end.",
">\n\nYa know you're right",
">\n\nI have a theory about the correlation between priests and pedophiles. This is my opinion based on conversations with a childhood friend (not a pedo) and is only my opinion but could explain why so many priests abuse children. Get your down votes ready. \nThese boys grow up in the church and it is all they know for the most part. When going through puberty we become attracted to a gender (male or female gay or straight sometimes somewhere in between) and more often a \"type\" as well (blonde brunette short tall etc). Our hormones drive us to seek companionship, intimacy, and ultimately procreation. \nThese boys growing up never develop this attraction to their peers but rather feel more comfortable around younger children and usually behave as mentors. The combination of love of church and disinterest in peers puts the thought in their heads that priesthood is their calling. It takes a long time and effort to become a priest. There are easier paths if a guy just wants to bang kids.\nPut together lack of sex or release of biological needs with access and constant contact with children and they are basically pushed over the edge.\nTo sum up, pedophiles don't become priests to molest children, they become priests because they don't realize they are pedophiles. This is just my opinion, and obviously there are also exceptions to this.\nPerhaps the solution is to get rid of this nonsense celibacy.",
">\n\nAlternative theory: pedophiles become priests because they know the Catholic Church will support and hide them from accountability. Plus, all those altar boys have been easy pickings for decades. \nOn the positive side, Catholic Churches are closing all over Missouri because of dwindling congregations.",
">\n\nThis is one crime I’ll never be able to fathom.",
">\n\nSo fucking sick advocating for this monster so he can maintain freedom?",
">\n\nThe church has been so infiltrated by Child abusers that they are currently rating worse than Satan Worshippers",
">\n\nCan we just fuck churches off now???",
">\n\nYour tithing had to go somewhere.",
">\n\nHow come republicans are not calling these people groomers?",
">\n\nIs anyone else picturing the scene in the first Scary Movie where the cop asks Anna Faris to look at some pictures?\nPriest hands out the pictures of himself along with the weekly pamphlet. Maybe the first reading is from the Song of Solomon...",
">\n\nOh shit. \nHas he been quietly shuffled to a new church yet?",
">\n\nI'm old enough that when I see \"slideshow\" I think of him arranging physical slides in a carousel to project on a screen, like the family trip to Disneyland. Maybe invite the neighbors over for cake.",
">\n\nLord above why is this a thing",
">\n\nYou mean not a drag queen?",
">\n\nActual groomers.",
">\n\nJust think the hands that wanked to kiddie pr0n put wafers on the tongues of everyone in that congregation...",
">\n\nLMAO. This slightly ambiguous headline had me thinking “who attended these slideshow presentations?”",
">\n\nOh look another pedophile catholic priest. Good job reinforcing that stereotype.",
">\n\nAnd we should take guidance from those who hide these atrocities so we can live a better life in the eyes of god.",
">\n\nFriendly reminder religion is a mistake that deserves to be taxed. If you threatened to tax zealots tomorrow child molestation by priests would drop to zero",
">\n\nmay your mother smile as you burn",
">\n\nThis is what happens when you have unchecked power for thousands of years.\nHorrifying.",
">\n\nDid he learn this behavior from a drag show? /s",
">\n\nReminds me of something Chris Rock said: \"Where do women find the porn? They don't find it in your hiding place, they find it in the VCR\"",
">\n\nHe was also probably saving up for a trip to Disney World.",
">\n\n\nincluding child pornography and images of child erotica.\n\nI want to know the difference but don't want to get on a watchlist by googling it.",
">\n\nWithout the word child there, there's a difference in degree. I'd say it's the same thing with that word in there just describing the subject depicted. Pornography is generally actual sex acts of some form or another. Erotica falls short of that, it may be arousing or suggestive. For example, a cabaret show may be erotica but it's certainly not pornography.",
">\n\nPriest? Church? Man in a tax evasion party house?",
">\n\nYet the church immediately moved him somewhere else as there was a daycare next door to the church, then offered to pay to have the priest under house arrest so that the child predator won't go to jail.",
">\n\nShittiest Ted Talk I’ve ever seen, honestly…",
">\n\nOnly five years?! \nUgh!",
">\n\nAnd they call LGBT+ people groomers. (eyeroll)",
">\n\nAnyone who has ever been to a church sadly knows this doesn't need to be in this sub for us to know it's a real story.",
">\n\nOh how nice. The Reverend pleaded for him not to be incarcerated. Because of fucking course he did.",
">\n\nCurious as to who he was presenting this to",
">\n\nPunish these assholes they are smearing God's name",
">\n\nStraight to (checks notes) your next parish!",
">\n\nreligion and sexual abuse. name a more iconic duo\nwhy are any of these religions even allowed to exist any more\nthey have long since lost their meanings, and onlt serve to syphon money out of gullible people, and abuse their children\nwhat is any of these religions actually adding to society any more? other than more perverted monsters"
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"Slideshows????? What?\nMy man just opened up cp.ppt and added a few THOUSAND slides of kiddy porn????\nClippy: it looks like youre a depraved predator. Do you want to profane the church as well?",
">\n\nWell I always did believe Power Point was a creation of a malevolent entity.",
">\n\nTuring complete, no less!",
">\n\nBut can it run Doom?",
">\n\nAnything can run doom",
">\n\nBut can Doom run Doom?",
">\n\nDoom can run Doom because Doom runs Doom when Doom runs.",
">\n\nPeople don't run Doom like it is, but it Doom.",
">\n\nGonna take this moment to highly recommend the film Spotlight to any who haven’t seen it",
">\n\nCheck out the 2017 limited series on either Netflix or Prime: \"The Keepers\" about a Baltimore-area Catholic girls' school. Based on the experiences as told by some of the girls, now middle-aged women. It is NOT nice, will make you cry, will enrage you. But I commend the women who made this documentary for as painful as it was for the audience to watch, I can't imagine how they made it thru. And they brought it around to a decent ending, but wow....I think some of what happened in Baltimore bled over into the Spotlight story.\nLapsed Catholic. I cannot reconcile with the Church hierarchy over this because they have behaved satanically for far too long to make me believe they are holy in any way.",
">\n\nThere was a documentary that came out a year or two ago tbzg sounds similar but men who were molested as kids while in the church. \nI honestly don't know how anyone can still support the church. At all. If it was one priest, sure. It's sad it happened, but pedophiles will always exist and find ways to get to kids.\nBut with how often it happens and with how little the church cares? Nope. I never could be catholic even if I was Christian.",
">\n\nBecause saving souls bringing them into their cult is more valuable than the ones they crush. The Vatican last I heard had 7 pedos protecting by not complying with extradition requests. \nAny organization not willing to comply with the laws of the country where they have a tax exempt status should lose their exemption and title to any property they own. If you RICO cartel and mafia assets, then you can do so for these child abusers and their protective association. \nYou know the church owns most of Manhattan and isn't paying taxes? All that money and we have to tolerate this shit? Nah fuck them.",
">\n\nNude pix on the church printer . . . I can imagine the scene.\nSister Mary Michael: Yo, does anyone recognize this tallywhacker?\nFormer Alter Boy Brian: Yeah, that's Father Jim. I'd know that hairy mole anywhere.",
">\n\nThat's Tommy Turner's tallywhacker",
">\n\nIf Reddit still gave free awards, I'd give one to you for catching the reference.",
">\n\nWAIT when did they get rid of the free awards",
">\n\nguess this is how i found out. last i claimed mine is around last week, i think. i only claim once every two weeks to gild certain biweekly thread lul",
">\n\nAnd yet where are all the \"anti-groomers\" protesting these churches?",
">\n\nIt’s almost like it has never actually been about protecting children, and it’s always been about trying to demonize LGBT people",
">\n\nAt this point I am positive the religious right to life thing is about having more targets.",
">\n\nGlad 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?",
">\n\nAfter 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.",
">\n\nI 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.\nThere are also many who truly believe the schtick and just compartmentalize the bad stuff. Both are to blame regardless. Nobody gets a pass.",
">\n\nI could see that with some of the smaller denominations for sure.\nWhen 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.",
">\n\n*making another streak to the tally list wall\n*camera panning out to reveal a huge fucking wall coveres in streaks",
">\n\nMan 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.\nThat said. This man should burn for this",
">\n\nPriest? Pedo? Are you sure? This is unprecedented",
">\n\nCorrection! PedoPreist",
">\n\nNew name not necessary. If anything there should be a name for the unique priests that arent pedos.",
">\n\nI'm inclined to think the majority of priests aren't child predators themselves.\nThe 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.\nWay, way too many of them are pedo-enablers. All the way up...",
">\n\nThen that would mean that... Gasp\nSouth Park was right all along....\nSneaky little bastards didn't think I would notice....",
">\n\nWish I was surprised",
">\n\nYou make slideshows of images? \nEdit: \nOh wait I see what you mean. Yeah the pedophile priest thing is so expected that only the slideshow bit stood out",
">\n\nHoly hell. Priest have normalized pedophilia.",
">\n\nNot just priests. Protestant Christians have a major problem with sexual abuse too, particularly against children.\nAfter Major Investigation, Southern Baptists Confront the Abuse Crisis They Knew Was Coming\nDon't let the Evangelical pedo defenders get away with claiming that Catholicism is the only issue here. It isn't.",
">\n\n\nnone of them are immune to the depravity.\n\nAlmost implied, really.",
">\n\nCould 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?",
">\n\nA variety of factors:\n\nUnquestioned moral authority and intense trust from a large community who have all been taught to obey church authorities\nSupport from a massive extremely powerful institution that has covered up thousands of similar crimes\nStrictly forbidden to marry, have sex, or iirc even masturbate, making them view all sexual activities as similarly taboo for them\nEasy regular access to many children\nEasy ability to get alone time with children\nPriests are only held institutionally accountable to each other and to those with more authority in the church\nVictims 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\nChildren 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\nThe 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\nThe 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\n\nThat'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.”\nP.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.\nWant 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.\nEdit to add this excellent way to protect kids that churches consistently fight against:\n\n“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.\nchildren 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.”",
">\n\nSo this should be buried enough if I speak in general terms.\nYears back one of our pastors had to give up being a pastor. They didn't get into details of what he did but they did stress that kids were not involved. The whole church could be seen relaxing.",
">\n\n5 years for thousands of child porn images and videos? Seems pretty fucking light to me. This piece of shit should die in prison.",
">\n\n5 years and a ticket to heaven",
">\n\nHeaven? For him?",
">\n\nThat'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.",
">\n\nDon't you also have to be truly repentant for your sins, including making a good faith effort to keep from repeating them?",
">\n\nI would love for someone to answer this because I really want to know, too.",
">\n\nyes I'm pretty sure that's it. God sees people's hearts He should know the diff between true repentance and fake one",
">\n\nYes, assuming an all-powerful God existed, he’d be able to pretty easily know if you were truly sorry.",
">\n\nYeah but......... \nI'm just starting the religious apologist's sentence for them.",
">\n\nFor 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.",
">\n\nOne 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.",
">\n\nOnce I heard this theory, the acceptance by conservatives of people whose behavior is in direct conflict with their moral beliefs, made more sense.",
">\n\n5 holly maries and transfer\nafter 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.\nRev. 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.\"\nMcDevitt asked the presiding judge for \"mercy for Jim,\" and even offered for the congregation to pay to house him in lieu of imprisonment.\n\"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.\"\n\"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.\"",
">\n\nIn Australia at the moment there is a furore after the death of Cardinal George Pell who was convicted (then exonerated) of personally abusing children, but was found by a Royal Commission (that would be a special prosecutor for our American friends?) of enabling and protecting paedophile priests for decades.\nCan honestly say I have not been able to listen to the string of \"Christians\" praising this man in our media for the last few days without wanting to puke. Suffer the little children.",
">\n\nWith you there. At least there’s a lot of people calling his supporters out on this. Fuck Tony Abbott, John Howard and Andrew Bolt to name a few.",
">\n\nI 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!",
">\n\nr/PastorArrested (also includes Priests)",
">\n\nDon'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.",
">\n\nIf there is a god, wtf?",
">\n\nThere is no God. Religion is about control and money",
">\n\nAnd more money",
">\n\n\"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.\" \n- Rev. Patrick McDevitt, provincial superior for the Congregation of the Western Province \n\nEvery single member of that congregation is a horrible piece of shit",
">\n\nWhat 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?",
">\n\n“Drag queens are grooming our youth!!!”",
">\n\n\"I think we all know where people put on dresses and fuck kids\"\n-Trixie Mattel, 2022",
">\n\nKid “Bless me Father, for I have sinned”\nPadre “ call me, maybe?”",
">\n\nImagine my shock to discover that a priest has been involved in a sex scandal and one involving the exploitation of children, at that.",
">\n\nGOP: \"But wuttabout drag queens?!?!?!??!\"",
">\n\nDoing the Lords work 🙏🏾",
">\n\nTax-free",
">\n\nWhat's the deal with priests being so into pedophilia? Can't they look at milf pounds like normal people?",
">\n\nOh look... Another priest with child porn ... When do we get to start taxing the church?",
">\n\nr/pastorarrested",
">\n\nChurch is a scary place, especially for children.",
">\n\nI 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.",
">\n\nOnly 5 years. What a joke.",
">\n\n\nThe 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.\n\nIf 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.",
">\n\nNo one is suprised a priest is a pedophile. \nBut printing out yer nudes? That's odd.",
">\n\nI can think of a reason he printed it out. And I really don't like that reason.",
">\n\nI'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.",
">\n\nThe sheer audacity to do it at church where you work",
">\n\nAnd not a drag queen in sight...",
">\n\nThey do kinda wear dresses, though",
">\n\nToo many “coincidences” within this church to be anything other than systematic",
">\n\nPretty 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.",
">\n\n\nThe data often suggests numbers of pedophiles similar to the general population\n\none 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",
">\n\nYeah, 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.",
">\n\nI 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.",
">\n\nIt's so common for priests to be sickos",
">\n\nGross",
">\n\nAll he needs to do is repent, right?!?",
">\n\nA priest? With kiddie porn? I’ve never heard of such a thing!",
">\n\nRemember 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.",
">\n\n5 years that's all he got",
">\n\nThat's fucking disgusting. Misappropriation of office materials.",
">\n\nIt 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",
">\n\nIdiot 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.",
">\n\nso 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.",
">\n\nI 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 🤷♂️",
">\n\n5 years isnt nearly enough. Lock him up forever and a day.",
">\n\n~~Drag shows~~ Churches are not safe for children",
">\n\nI'm sure the religious Right will be out protesting him any second.\nRight? Right guys? Groomers and all this? Qanons? Where you guys at?\nHuh. Weird.",
">\n\nBut the dragqueens guys?!?!?!??!? /s",
">\n\nWeird that so many god loving people are actually just pedophiles. Wonder what they think god thinks of them. Fuck theism.",
">\n\nTheir god tells them to take the young girls as spoils of war. Their god is just as fucking depraved as they are.",
">\n\ntHaTs jUsT tHe oLd tEsTaMeNt tHoUgh.\ngOds mOraLiTy dOeSnt cHanGe, hE jUsT dEaLs wItH hUmAns diFFeReNtlY nOw. \nYeah when someone deals with people differently than they did before we generally call that \"a change.\"",
">\n\nAnd he wasn’t trans??? Maybe it’s been priests all along that governors should be banning. When will they correct their mistake? /s",
">\n\nDoesn'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...",
">\n\nIt's surprising. Who prints out their own nudes?",
">\n\nLock him up and throw away the keys",
">\n\nDarn priests, at least those protestant ministers keep it in the family",
">\n\nNot surprised.",
">\n\nThree hail marys and all is forgiven. What a load of bs",
">\n\nJust one bad apple, I’m sure.",
">\n\nLeast paedophilic priest",
">\n\n…slideshow?",
">\n\nGod works in mysterious ways ya fuckin chomo. As a priest, he of all people should have seen this coming...",
">\n\nIn other news, water is wet",
">\n\nOnly five years...",
">\n\n”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.” \nಠ_ಠ",
">\n\nI don’t remember this plotline during Doubt…",
">\n\nWe keep letting them get away with it, so they keep doing it. More obvious news at 10.",
">\n\n& once they found him out he got made a cardinal",
">\n\nHe should've kept them in the garage with his Corvette",
">\n\n5 years? If nothing else, using PowerPoint should have been an aggravating factor.",
">\n\nAnd you thought looking at Bob's family vacation pics was a bad time",
">\n\nWhen 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.",
">\n\nHow is the Roman Catholic Church not closed down for enabling and protecting child abusers",
">\n\nAre 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.",
">\n\nIt'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.",
">\n\npapabile!",
">\n\nLeft nudes on a shared printer? Rookie mistake.",
">\n\nTeach your priests just enough tech to effectively turn themselves in.",
">\n\nIsn't it something how the church decided to investigate themselves again. Keep it in the family, guys.\nI 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.",
">\n\nIs 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:\n1 - 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\n2 - 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)\n3 - 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.\nTL;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.",
">\n\nLet me guess.\nMoved to a different church at the other side of the country and that’s about it for consequences?",
">\n\nThose damned drag queens strike again.",
">\n\nI mean that’s kinda how they caught BTK",
">\n\nSo priests are still abusing kids after we didn't do anything to them the last few times we caught them? Color me surprised.",
">\n\n\nCourt 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.\"\n\n...\n\nDuring 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. \n\n...\n\nAnd 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. \n\nFuck everyone that allowed this scum to continue in a position of authority.",
">\n\nDon’t hear this happening at drag shows…j/s",
">\n\nHe put the PDF in pedofile",
">\n\nThis is Fucking ridiculous",
">\n\nNever forget who the actual groomers are",
">\n\nThe proud boys will be outside of churches \"protesting\" with guns now, right? right?",
">\n\nA priest being pedophile? But that is absolutely unheard of, say it isn't so!",
">\n\nYou sure this wasn't at a Trans drag show? GOP is sure this happens at Trans dragsl shows",
">\n\nExcommunicated by PowerPoint",
">\n\n5 years and a fine? FFS, that’s ridiculous.",
">\n\nPraise Jesus!",
">\n\nAnd the right thinks kids going to drag shows are the problem",
">\n\nAverage christian.",
">\n\nbut the drag queens are reading books to children in libraries! The madnessss",
">\n\nSo they moved him to a new church. This is what they have always done.",
">\n\nleast pedophilic priest:",
">\n\nThe dead ones dont hurt anyone.",
">\n\ninto the furnace he goes. theres no rehabbing people like this.",
">\n\nIt's always the ones you least expect..",
">\n\nOr in this case, the ones you MOST suspect",
">\n\nlol ya, I said that with sarcasm..",
">\n\nPray that he gets nut cancer.",
">\n\nNut cancer was once described to me as \"the common cold of cancers\". It has something like a 95% survival rate.\nHe deserves worse.",
">\n\nDidn't know that. Good nut fact for the day.",
">\n\nIt's definitely the drag queens reading to kids in libraries that's the problem.",
">\n\nRight wingers want him to be a closeted drag queen so badly",
">\n\nI could never trust any man who goes into priesthood. Completely unnatural and deviant occupation rife with pedophiles.",
">\n\nThis MONSTER got 5 years?! \nThe CHILDREN being abused in the images will suffer for the rest of their lives!!\nI'm in favor of LIFE SENTENCES for child sex offenders. \nOr better yet, the DEATH PENALTY!!",
">\n\nReligion was invented by Man for Control of the Flock.You go to Confession and tell the priest everything so they can determine how to undress you.\nI was once a Catholic.....born, baptised, confirmed and educated in a Grammar school run by Irish Christian Brothers under the Order of Edmund Ignatius Rice......and now I'm an atheist.",
">\n\nHow come it is always ‘Christians’ who are involved in child sex abuse?",
">\n\nOf course he's a pedo, he's a priest!",
">\n\nYes millions of idiots keep donating billions to the church",
">\n\nNot simply donating, they bring their children along, indoctrinate them that the priest is the speaker of God, and that God can do no wrong, so anything the priest dose is holy and good. The priest even says so!\nAnd when the kids bring it up the first few times weird things happen? The parents tell them to shush. And so, the sacrifices continue, the parents make a show of not knowing, and things get worse for the children.\nAnd if the priest is reported, the church just moves them to a different parish.\nThe only difference between the taliban and the catholic church, is one of them advertises the child slaves as a benefit, while the other pretends it's not (but totally encourages it, top to bottom).",
">\n\nAnd who are the groomers again?",
">\n\nThis is what happens when you don’t recycle your printer papers.",
">\n\nI feel like this isn't oniony enough, everyone knows by now that priests are significantly more likely to be pedophiles than the general population.",
">\n\nSure, but “gets caught by leaving nudes on a printer” is a fairly onion-y end.",
">\n\nYa know you're right",
">\n\nI have a theory about the correlation between priests and pedophiles. This is my opinion based on conversations with a childhood friend (not a pedo) and is only my opinion but could explain why so many priests abuse children. Get your down votes ready. \nThese boys grow up in the church and it is all they know for the most part. When going through puberty we become attracted to a gender (male or female gay or straight sometimes somewhere in between) and more often a \"type\" as well (blonde brunette short tall etc). Our hormones drive us to seek companionship, intimacy, and ultimately procreation. \nThese boys growing up never develop this attraction to their peers but rather feel more comfortable around younger children and usually behave as mentors. The combination of love of church and disinterest in peers puts the thought in their heads that priesthood is their calling. It takes a long time and effort to become a priest. There are easier paths if a guy just wants to bang kids.\nPut together lack of sex or release of biological needs with access and constant contact with children and they are basically pushed over the edge.\nTo sum up, pedophiles don't become priests to molest children, they become priests because they don't realize they are pedophiles. This is just my opinion, and obviously there are also exceptions to this.\nPerhaps the solution is to get rid of this nonsense celibacy.",
">\n\nAlternative theory: pedophiles become priests because they know the Catholic Church will support and hide them from accountability. Plus, all those altar boys have been easy pickings for decades. \nOn the positive side, Catholic Churches are closing all over Missouri because of dwindling congregations.",
">\n\nThis is one crime I’ll never be able to fathom.",
">\n\nSo fucking sick advocating for this monster so he can maintain freedom?",
">\n\nThe church has been so infiltrated by Child abusers that they are currently rating worse than Satan Worshippers",
">\n\nCan we just fuck churches off now???",
">\n\nYour tithing had to go somewhere.",
">\n\nHow come republicans are not calling these people groomers?",
">\n\nIs anyone else picturing the scene in the first Scary Movie where the cop asks Anna Faris to look at some pictures?\nPriest hands out the pictures of himself along with the weekly pamphlet. Maybe the first reading is from the Song of Solomon...",
">\n\nOh shit. \nHas he been quietly shuffled to a new church yet?",
">\n\nI'm old enough that when I see \"slideshow\" I think of him arranging physical slides in a carousel to project on a screen, like the family trip to Disneyland. Maybe invite the neighbors over for cake.",
">\n\nLord above why is this a thing",
">\n\nYou mean not a drag queen?",
">\n\nActual groomers.",
">\n\nJust think the hands that wanked to kiddie pr0n put wafers on the tongues of everyone in that congregation...",
">\n\nLMAO. This slightly ambiguous headline had me thinking “who attended these slideshow presentations?”",
">\n\nOh look another pedophile catholic priest. Good job reinforcing that stereotype.",
">\n\nAnd we should take guidance from those who hide these atrocities so we can live a better life in the eyes of god.",
">\n\nFriendly reminder religion is a mistake that deserves to be taxed. If you threatened to tax zealots tomorrow child molestation by priests would drop to zero",
">\n\nmay your mother smile as you burn",
">\n\nThis is what happens when you have unchecked power for thousands of years.\nHorrifying.",
">\n\nDid he learn this behavior from a drag show? /s",
">\n\nReminds me of something Chris Rock said: \"Where do women find the porn? They don't find it in your hiding place, they find it in the VCR\"",
">\n\nHe was also probably saving up for a trip to Disney World.",
">\n\n\nincluding child pornography and images of child erotica.\n\nI want to know the difference but don't want to get on a watchlist by googling it.",
">\n\nWithout the word child there, there's a difference in degree. I'd say it's the same thing with that word in there just describing the subject depicted. Pornography is generally actual sex acts of some form or another. Erotica falls short of that, it may be arousing or suggestive. For example, a cabaret show may be erotica but it's certainly not pornography.",
">\n\nPriest? Church? Man in a tax evasion party house?",
">\n\nYet the church immediately moved him somewhere else as there was a daycare next door to the church, then offered to pay to have the priest under house arrest so that the child predator won't go to jail.",
">\n\nShittiest Ted Talk I’ve ever seen, honestly…",
">\n\nOnly five years?! \nUgh!",
">\n\nAnd they call LGBT+ people groomers. (eyeroll)",
">\n\nAnyone who has ever been to a church sadly knows this doesn't need to be in this sub for us to know it's a real story.",
">\n\nOh how nice. The Reverend pleaded for him not to be incarcerated. Because of fucking course he did.",
">\n\nCurious as to who he was presenting this to",
">\n\nPunish these assholes they are smearing God's name",
">\n\nStraight to (checks notes) your next parish!",
">\n\nreligion and sexual abuse. name a more iconic duo\nwhy are any of these religions even allowed to exist any more\nthey have long since lost their meanings, and onlt serve to syphon money out of gullible people, and abuse their children\nwhat is any of these religions actually adding to society any more? other than more perverted monsters",
">\n\nHe’s not the only one"
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"Slideshows????? What?\nMy man just opened up cp.ppt and added a few THOUSAND slides of kiddy porn????\nClippy: it looks like youre a depraved predator. Do you want to profane the church as well?",
">\n\nWell I always did believe Power Point was a creation of a malevolent entity.",
">\n\nTuring complete, no less!",
">\n\nBut can it run Doom?",
">\n\nAnything can run doom",
">\n\nBut can Doom run Doom?",
">\n\nDoom can run Doom because Doom runs Doom when Doom runs.",
">\n\nPeople don't run Doom like it is, but it Doom.",
">\n\nGonna take this moment to highly recommend the film Spotlight to any who haven’t seen it",
">\n\nCheck out the 2017 limited series on either Netflix or Prime: \"The Keepers\" about a Baltimore-area Catholic girls' school. Based on the experiences as told by some of the girls, now middle-aged women. It is NOT nice, will make you cry, will enrage you. But I commend the women who made this documentary for as painful as it was for the audience to watch, I can't imagine how they made it thru. And they brought it around to a decent ending, but wow....I think some of what happened in Baltimore bled over into the Spotlight story.\nLapsed Catholic. I cannot reconcile with the Church hierarchy over this because they have behaved satanically for far too long to make me believe they are holy in any way.",
">\n\nThere was a documentary that came out a year or two ago tbzg sounds similar but men who were molested as kids while in the church. \nI honestly don't know how anyone can still support the church. At all. If it was one priest, sure. It's sad it happened, but pedophiles will always exist and find ways to get to kids.\nBut with how often it happens and with how little the church cares? Nope. I never could be catholic even if I was Christian.",
">\n\nBecause saving souls bringing them into their cult is more valuable than the ones they crush. The Vatican last I heard had 7 pedos protecting by not complying with extradition requests. \nAny organization not willing to comply with the laws of the country where they have a tax exempt status should lose their exemption and title to any property they own. If you RICO cartel and mafia assets, then you can do so for these child abusers and their protective association. \nYou know the church owns most of Manhattan and isn't paying taxes? All that money and we have to tolerate this shit? Nah fuck them.",
">\n\nNude pix on the church printer . . . I can imagine the scene.\nSister Mary Michael: Yo, does anyone recognize this tallywhacker?\nFormer Alter Boy Brian: Yeah, that's Father Jim. I'd know that hairy mole anywhere.",
">\n\nThat's Tommy Turner's tallywhacker",
">\n\nIf Reddit still gave free awards, I'd give one to you for catching the reference.",
">\n\nWAIT when did they get rid of the free awards",
">\n\nguess this is how i found out. last i claimed mine is around last week, i think. i only claim once every two weeks to gild certain biweekly thread lul",
">\n\nAnd yet where are all the \"anti-groomers\" protesting these churches?",
">\n\nIt’s almost like it has never actually been about protecting children, and it’s always been about trying to demonize LGBT people",
">\n\nAt this point I am positive the religious right to life thing is about having more targets.",
">\n\nGlad 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?",
">\n\nAfter 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.",
">\n\nI 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.\nThere are also many who truly believe the schtick and just compartmentalize the bad stuff. Both are to blame regardless. Nobody gets a pass.",
">\n\nI could see that with some of the smaller denominations for sure.\nWhen 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.",
">\n\n*making another streak to the tally list wall\n*camera panning out to reveal a huge fucking wall coveres in streaks",
">\n\nMan 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.\nThat said. This man should burn for this",
">\n\nPriest? Pedo? Are you sure? This is unprecedented",
">\n\nCorrection! PedoPreist",
">\n\nNew name not necessary. If anything there should be a name for the unique priests that arent pedos.",
">\n\nI'm inclined to think the majority of priests aren't child predators themselves.\nThe 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.\nWay, way too many of them are pedo-enablers. All the way up...",
">\n\nThen that would mean that... Gasp\nSouth Park was right all along....\nSneaky little bastards didn't think I would notice....",
">\n\nWish I was surprised",
">\n\nYou make slideshows of images? \nEdit: \nOh wait I see what you mean. Yeah the pedophile priest thing is so expected that only the slideshow bit stood out",
">\n\nHoly hell. Priest have normalized pedophilia.",
">\n\nNot just priests. Protestant Christians have a major problem with sexual abuse too, particularly against children.\nAfter Major Investigation, Southern Baptists Confront the Abuse Crisis They Knew Was Coming\nDon't let the Evangelical pedo defenders get away with claiming that Catholicism is the only issue here. It isn't.",
">\n\n\nnone of them are immune to the depravity.\n\nAlmost implied, really.",
">\n\nCould 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?",
">\n\nA variety of factors:\n\nUnquestioned moral authority and intense trust from a large community who have all been taught to obey church authorities\nSupport from a massive extremely powerful institution that has covered up thousands of similar crimes\nStrictly forbidden to marry, have sex, or iirc even masturbate, making them view all sexual activities as similarly taboo for them\nEasy regular access to many children\nEasy ability to get alone time with children\nPriests are only held institutionally accountable to each other and to those with more authority in the church\nVictims 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\nChildren 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\nThe 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\nThe 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\n\nThat'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.”\nP.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.\nWant 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.\nEdit to add this excellent way to protect kids that churches consistently fight against:\n\n“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.\nchildren 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.”",
">\n\nSo this should be buried enough if I speak in general terms.\nYears back one of our pastors had to give up being a pastor. They didn't get into details of what he did but they did stress that kids were not involved. The whole church could be seen relaxing.",
">\n\n5 years for thousands of child porn images and videos? Seems pretty fucking light to me. This piece of shit should die in prison.",
">\n\n5 years and a ticket to heaven",
">\n\nHeaven? For him?",
">\n\nThat'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.",
">\n\nDon't you also have to be truly repentant for your sins, including making a good faith effort to keep from repeating them?",
">\n\nI would love for someone to answer this because I really want to know, too.",
">\n\nyes I'm pretty sure that's it. God sees people's hearts He should know the diff between true repentance and fake one",
">\n\nYes, assuming an all-powerful God existed, he’d be able to pretty easily know if you were truly sorry.",
">\n\nYeah but......... \nI'm just starting the religious apologist's sentence for them.",
">\n\nFor 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.",
">\n\nOne 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.",
">\n\nOnce I heard this theory, the acceptance by conservatives of people whose behavior is in direct conflict with their moral beliefs, made more sense.",
">\n\n5 holly maries and transfer\nafter 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.\nRev. 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.\"\nMcDevitt asked the presiding judge for \"mercy for Jim,\" and even offered for the congregation to pay to house him in lieu of imprisonment.\n\"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.\"\n\"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.\"",
">\n\nIn Australia at the moment there is a furore after the death of Cardinal George Pell who was convicted (then exonerated) of personally abusing children, but was found by a Royal Commission (that would be a special prosecutor for our American friends?) of enabling and protecting paedophile priests for decades.\nCan honestly say I have not been able to listen to the string of \"Christians\" praising this man in our media for the last few days without wanting to puke. Suffer the little children.",
">\n\nWith you there. At least there’s a lot of people calling his supporters out on this. Fuck Tony Abbott, John Howard and Andrew Bolt to name a few.",
">\n\nI 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!",
">\n\nr/PastorArrested (also includes Priests)",
">\n\nDon'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.",
">\n\nIf there is a god, wtf?",
">\n\nThere is no God. Religion is about control and money",
">\n\nAnd more money",
">\n\n\"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.\" \n- Rev. Patrick McDevitt, provincial superior for the Congregation of the Western Province \n\nEvery single member of that congregation is a horrible piece of shit",
">\n\nWhat 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?",
">\n\n“Drag queens are grooming our youth!!!”",
">\n\n\"I think we all know where people put on dresses and fuck kids\"\n-Trixie Mattel, 2022",
">\n\nKid “Bless me Father, for I have sinned”\nPadre “ call me, maybe?”",
">\n\nImagine my shock to discover that a priest has been involved in a sex scandal and one involving the exploitation of children, at that.",
">\n\nGOP: \"But wuttabout drag queens?!?!?!??!\"",
">\n\nDoing the Lords work 🙏🏾",
">\n\nTax-free",
">\n\nWhat's the deal with priests being so into pedophilia? Can't they look at milf pounds like normal people?",
">\n\nOh look... Another priest with child porn ... When do we get to start taxing the church?",
">\n\nr/pastorarrested",
">\n\nChurch is a scary place, especially for children.",
">\n\nI 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.",
">\n\nOnly 5 years. What a joke.",
">\n\n\nThe 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.\n\nIf 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.",
">\n\nNo one is suprised a priest is a pedophile. \nBut printing out yer nudes? That's odd.",
">\n\nI can think of a reason he printed it out. And I really don't like that reason.",
">\n\nI'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.",
">\n\nThe sheer audacity to do it at church where you work",
">\n\nAnd not a drag queen in sight...",
">\n\nThey do kinda wear dresses, though",
">\n\nToo many “coincidences” within this church to be anything other than systematic",
">\n\nPretty 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.",
">\n\n\nThe data often suggests numbers of pedophiles similar to the general population\n\none 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",
">\n\nYeah, 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.",
">\n\nI 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.",
">\n\nIt's so common for priests to be sickos",
">\n\nGross",
">\n\nAll he needs to do is repent, right?!?",
">\n\nA priest? With kiddie porn? I’ve never heard of such a thing!",
">\n\nRemember 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.",
">\n\n5 years that's all he got",
">\n\nThat's fucking disgusting. Misappropriation of office materials.",
">\n\nIt 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",
">\n\nIdiot 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.",
">\n\nso 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.",
">\n\nI 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 🤷♂️",
">\n\n5 years isnt nearly enough. Lock him up forever and a day.",
">\n\n~~Drag shows~~ Churches are not safe for children",
">\n\nI'm sure the religious Right will be out protesting him any second.\nRight? Right guys? Groomers and all this? Qanons? Where you guys at?\nHuh. Weird.",
">\n\nBut the dragqueens guys?!?!?!??!? /s",
">\n\nWeird that so many god loving people are actually just pedophiles. Wonder what they think god thinks of them. Fuck theism.",
">\n\nTheir god tells them to take the young girls as spoils of war. Their god is just as fucking depraved as they are.",
">\n\ntHaTs jUsT tHe oLd tEsTaMeNt tHoUgh.\ngOds mOraLiTy dOeSnt cHanGe, hE jUsT dEaLs wItH hUmAns diFFeReNtlY nOw. \nYeah when someone deals with people differently than they did before we generally call that \"a change.\"",
">\n\nAnd he wasn’t trans??? Maybe it’s been priests all along that governors should be banning. When will they correct their mistake? /s",
">\n\nDoesn'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...",
">\n\nIt's surprising. Who prints out their own nudes?",
">\n\nLock him up and throw away the keys",
">\n\nDarn priests, at least those protestant ministers keep it in the family",
">\n\nNot surprised.",
">\n\nThree hail marys and all is forgiven. What a load of bs",
">\n\nJust one bad apple, I’m sure.",
">\n\nLeast paedophilic priest",
">\n\n…slideshow?",
">\n\nGod works in mysterious ways ya fuckin chomo. As a priest, he of all people should have seen this coming...",
">\n\nIn other news, water is wet",
">\n\nOnly five years...",
">\n\n”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.” \nಠ_ಠ",
">\n\nI don’t remember this plotline during Doubt…",
">\n\nWe keep letting them get away with it, so they keep doing it. More obvious news at 10.",
">\n\n& once they found him out he got made a cardinal",
">\n\nHe should've kept them in the garage with his Corvette",
">\n\n5 years? If nothing else, using PowerPoint should have been an aggravating factor.",
">\n\nAnd you thought looking at Bob's family vacation pics was a bad time",
">\n\nWhen 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.",
">\n\nHow is the Roman Catholic Church not closed down for enabling and protecting child abusers",
">\n\nAre 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.",
">\n\nIt'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.",
">\n\npapabile!",
">\n\nLeft nudes on a shared printer? Rookie mistake.",
">\n\nTeach your priests just enough tech to effectively turn themselves in.",
">\n\nIsn't it something how the church decided to investigate themselves again. Keep it in the family, guys.\nI 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.",
">\n\nIs 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:\n1 - 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\n2 - 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)\n3 - 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.\nTL;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.",
">\n\nLet me guess.\nMoved to a different church at the other side of the country and that’s about it for consequences?",
">\n\nThose damned drag queens strike again.",
">\n\nI mean that’s kinda how they caught BTK",
">\n\nSo priests are still abusing kids after we didn't do anything to them the last few times we caught them? Color me surprised.",
">\n\n\nCourt 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.\"\n\n...\n\nDuring 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. \n\n...\n\nAnd 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. \n\nFuck everyone that allowed this scum to continue in a position of authority.",
">\n\nDon’t hear this happening at drag shows…j/s",
">\n\nHe put the PDF in pedofile",
">\n\nThis is Fucking ridiculous",
">\n\nNever forget who the actual groomers are",
">\n\nThe proud boys will be outside of churches \"protesting\" with guns now, right? right?",
">\n\nA priest being pedophile? But that is absolutely unheard of, say it isn't so!",
">\n\nYou sure this wasn't at a Trans drag show? GOP is sure this happens at Trans dragsl shows",
">\n\nExcommunicated by PowerPoint",
">\n\n5 years and a fine? FFS, that’s ridiculous.",
">\n\nPraise Jesus!",
">\n\nAnd the right thinks kids going to drag shows are the problem",
">\n\nAverage christian.",
">\n\nbut the drag queens are reading books to children in libraries! The madnessss",
">\n\nSo they moved him to a new church. This is what they have always done.",
">\n\nleast pedophilic priest:",
">\n\nThe dead ones dont hurt anyone.",
">\n\ninto the furnace he goes. theres no rehabbing people like this.",
">\n\nIt's always the ones you least expect..",
">\n\nOr in this case, the ones you MOST suspect",
">\n\nlol ya, I said that with sarcasm..",
">\n\nPray that he gets nut cancer.",
">\n\nNut cancer was once described to me as \"the common cold of cancers\". It has something like a 95% survival rate.\nHe deserves worse.",
">\n\nDidn't know that. Good nut fact for the day.",
">\n\nIt's definitely the drag queens reading to kids in libraries that's the problem.",
">\n\nRight wingers want him to be a closeted drag queen so badly",
">\n\nI could never trust any man who goes into priesthood. Completely unnatural and deviant occupation rife with pedophiles.",
">\n\nThis MONSTER got 5 years?! \nThe CHILDREN being abused in the images will suffer for the rest of their lives!!\nI'm in favor of LIFE SENTENCES for child sex offenders. \nOr better yet, the DEATH PENALTY!!",
">\n\nReligion was invented by Man for Control of the Flock.You go to Confession and tell the priest everything so they can determine how to undress you.\nI was once a Catholic.....born, baptised, confirmed and educated in a Grammar school run by Irish Christian Brothers under the Order of Edmund Ignatius Rice......and now I'm an atheist.",
">\n\nHow come it is always ‘Christians’ who are involved in child sex abuse?",
">\n\nOf course he's a pedo, he's a priest!",
">\n\nYes millions of idiots keep donating billions to the church",
">\n\nNot simply donating, they bring their children along, indoctrinate them that the priest is the speaker of God, and that God can do no wrong, so anything the priest dose is holy and good. The priest even says so!\nAnd when the kids bring it up the first few times weird things happen? The parents tell them to shush. And so, the sacrifices continue, the parents make a show of not knowing, and things get worse for the children.\nAnd if the priest is reported, the church just moves them to a different parish.\nThe only difference between the taliban and the catholic church, is one of them advertises the child slaves as a benefit, while the other pretends it's not (but totally encourages it, top to bottom).",
">\n\nAnd who are the groomers again?",
">\n\nThis is what happens when you don’t recycle your printer papers.",
">\n\nI feel like this isn't oniony enough, everyone knows by now that priests are significantly more likely to be pedophiles than the general population.",
">\n\nSure, but “gets caught by leaving nudes on a printer” is a fairly onion-y end.",
">\n\nYa know you're right",
">\n\nI have a theory about the correlation between priests and pedophiles. This is my opinion based on conversations with a childhood friend (not a pedo) and is only my opinion but could explain why so many priests abuse children. Get your down votes ready. \nThese boys grow up in the church and it is all they know for the most part. When going through puberty we become attracted to a gender (male or female gay or straight sometimes somewhere in between) and more often a \"type\" as well (blonde brunette short tall etc). Our hormones drive us to seek companionship, intimacy, and ultimately procreation. \nThese boys growing up never develop this attraction to their peers but rather feel more comfortable around younger children and usually behave as mentors. The combination of love of church and disinterest in peers puts the thought in their heads that priesthood is their calling. It takes a long time and effort to become a priest. There are easier paths if a guy just wants to bang kids.\nPut together lack of sex or release of biological needs with access and constant contact with children and they are basically pushed over the edge.\nTo sum up, pedophiles don't become priests to molest children, they become priests because they don't realize they are pedophiles. This is just my opinion, and obviously there are also exceptions to this.\nPerhaps the solution is to get rid of this nonsense celibacy.",
">\n\nAlternative theory: pedophiles become priests because they know the Catholic Church will support and hide them from accountability. Plus, all those altar boys have been easy pickings for decades. \nOn the positive side, Catholic Churches are closing all over Missouri because of dwindling congregations.",
">\n\nThis is one crime I’ll never be able to fathom.",
">\n\nSo fucking sick advocating for this monster so he can maintain freedom?",
">\n\nThe church has been so infiltrated by Child abusers that they are currently rating worse than Satan Worshippers",
">\n\nCan we just fuck churches off now???",
">\n\nYour tithing had to go somewhere.",
">\n\nHow come republicans are not calling these people groomers?",
">\n\nIs anyone else picturing the scene in the first Scary Movie where the cop asks Anna Faris to look at some pictures?\nPriest hands out the pictures of himself along with the weekly pamphlet. Maybe the first reading is from the Song of Solomon...",
">\n\nOh shit. \nHas he been quietly shuffled to a new church yet?",
">\n\nI'm old enough that when I see \"slideshow\" I think of him arranging physical slides in a carousel to project on a screen, like the family trip to Disneyland. Maybe invite the neighbors over for cake.",
">\n\nLord above why is this a thing",
">\n\nYou mean not a drag queen?",
">\n\nActual groomers.",
">\n\nJust think the hands that wanked to kiddie pr0n put wafers on the tongues of everyone in that congregation...",
">\n\nLMAO. This slightly ambiguous headline had me thinking “who attended these slideshow presentations?”",
">\n\nOh look another pedophile catholic priest. Good job reinforcing that stereotype.",
">\n\nAnd we should take guidance from those who hide these atrocities so we can live a better life in the eyes of god.",
">\n\nFriendly reminder religion is a mistake that deserves to be taxed. If you threatened to tax zealots tomorrow child molestation by priests would drop to zero",
">\n\nmay your mother smile as you burn",
">\n\nThis is what happens when you have unchecked power for thousands of years.\nHorrifying.",
">\n\nDid he learn this behavior from a drag show? /s",
">\n\nReminds me of something Chris Rock said: \"Where do women find the porn? They don't find it in your hiding place, they find it in the VCR\"",
">\n\nHe was also probably saving up for a trip to Disney World.",
">\n\n\nincluding child pornography and images of child erotica.\n\nI want to know the difference but don't want to get on a watchlist by googling it.",
">\n\nWithout the word child there, there's a difference in degree. I'd say it's the same thing with that word in there just describing the subject depicted. Pornography is generally actual sex acts of some form or another. Erotica falls short of that, it may be arousing or suggestive. For example, a cabaret show may be erotica but it's certainly not pornography.",
">\n\nPriest? Church? Man in a tax evasion party house?",
">\n\nYet the church immediately moved him somewhere else as there was a daycare next door to the church, then offered to pay to have the priest under house arrest so that the child predator won't go to jail.",
">\n\nShittiest Ted Talk I’ve ever seen, honestly…",
">\n\nOnly five years?! \nUgh!",
">\n\nAnd they call LGBT+ people groomers. (eyeroll)",
">\n\nAnyone who has ever been to a church sadly knows this doesn't need to be in this sub for us to know it's a real story.",
">\n\nOh how nice. The Reverend pleaded for him not to be incarcerated. Because of fucking course he did.",
">\n\nCurious as to who he was presenting this to",
">\n\nPunish these assholes they are smearing God's name",
">\n\nStraight to (checks notes) your next parish!",
">\n\nreligion and sexual abuse. name a more iconic duo\nwhy are any of these religions even allowed to exist any more\nthey have long since lost their meanings, and onlt serve to syphon money out of gullible people, and abuse their children\nwhat is any of these religions actually adding to society any more? other than more perverted monsters",
">\n\nHe’s not the only one",
">\n\nWhy is no big tv news channel talking about this?"
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"Slideshows????? What?\nMy man just opened up cp.ppt and added a few THOUSAND slides of kiddy porn????\nClippy: it looks like youre a depraved predator. Do you want to profane the church as well?",
">\n\nWell I always did believe Power Point was a creation of a malevolent entity.",
">\n\nTuring complete, no less!",
">\n\nBut can it run Doom?",
">\n\nAnything can run doom",
">\n\nBut can Doom run Doom?",
">\n\nDoom can run Doom because Doom runs Doom when Doom runs.",
">\n\nPeople don't run Doom like it is, but it Doom.",
">\n\nGonna take this moment to highly recommend the film Spotlight to any who haven’t seen it",
">\n\nCheck out the 2017 limited series on either Netflix or Prime: \"The Keepers\" about a Baltimore-area Catholic girls' school. Based on the experiences as told by some of the girls, now middle-aged women. It is NOT nice, will make you cry, will enrage you. But I commend the women who made this documentary for as painful as it was for the audience to watch, I can't imagine how they made it thru. And they brought it around to a decent ending, but wow....I think some of what happened in Baltimore bled over into the Spotlight story.\nLapsed Catholic. I cannot reconcile with the Church hierarchy over this because they have behaved satanically for far too long to make me believe they are holy in any way.",
">\n\nThere was a documentary that came out a year or two ago tbzg sounds similar but men who were molested as kids while in the church. \nI honestly don't know how anyone can still support the church. At all. If it was one priest, sure. It's sad it happened, but pedophiles will always exist and find ways to get to kids.\nBut with how often it happens and with how little the church cares? Nope. I never could be catholic even if I was Christian.",
">\n\nBecause saving souls bringing them into their cult is more valuable than the ones they crush. The Vatican last I heard had 7 pedos protecting by not complying with extradition requests. \nAny organization not willing to comply with the laws of the country where they have a tax exempt status should lose their exemption and title to any property they own. If you RICO cartel and mafia assets, then you can do so for these child abusers and their protective association. \nYou know the church owns most of Manhattan and isn't paying taxes? All that money and we have to tolerate this shit? Nah fuck them.",
">\n\nNude pix on the church printer . . . I can imagine the scene.\nSister Mary Michael: Yo, does anyone recognize this tallywhacker?\nFormer Alter Boy Brian: Yeah, that's Father Jim. I'd know that hairy mole anywhere.",
">\n\nThat's Tommy Turner's tallywhacker",
">\n\nIf Reddit still gave free awards, I'd give one to you for catching the reference.",
">\n\nWAIT when did they get rid of the free awards",
">\n\nguess this is how i found out. last i claimed mine is around last week, i think. i only claim once every two weeks to gild certain biweekly thread lul",
">\n\nAnd yet where are all the \"anti-groomers\" protesting these churches?",
">\n\nIt’s almost like it has never actually been about protecting children, and it’s always been about trying to demonize LGBT people",
">\n\nAt this point I am positive the religious right to life thing is about having more targets.",
">\n\nGlad 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?",
">\n\nAfter 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.",
">\n\nI 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.\nThere are also many who truly believe the schtick and just compartmentalize the bad stuff. Both are to blame regardless. Nobody gets a pass.",
">\n\nI could see that with some of the smaller denominations for sure.\nWhen 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.",
">\n\n*making another streak to the tally list wall\n*camera panning out to reveal a huge fucking wall coveres in streaks",
">\n\nMan 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.\nThat said. This man should burn for this",
">\n\nPriest? Pedo? Are you sure? This is unprecedented",
">\n\nCorrection! PedoPreist",
">\n\nNew name not necessary. If anything there should be a name for the unique priests that arent pedos.",
">\n\nI'm inclined to think the majority of priests aren't child predators themselves.\nThe 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.\nWay, way too many of them are pedo-enablers. All the way up...",
">\n\nThen that would mean that... Gasp\nSouth Park was right all along....\nSneaky little bastards didn't think I would notice....",
">\n\nWish I was surprised",
">\n\nYou make slideshows of images? \nEdit: \nOh wait I see what you mean. Yeah the pedophile priest thing is so expected that only the slideshow bit stood out",
">\n\nHoly hell. Priest have normalized pedophilia.",
">\n\nNot just priests. Protestant Christians have a major problem with sexual abuse too, particularly against children.\nAfter Major Investigation, Southern Baptists Confront the Abuse Crisis They Knew Was Coming\nDon't let the Evangelical pedo defenders get away with claiming that Catholicism is the only issue here. It isn't.",
">\n\n\nnone of them are immune to the depravity.\n\nAlmost implied, really.",
">\n\nCould 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?",
">\n\nA variety of factors:\n\nUnquestioned moral authority and intense trust from a large community who have all been taught to obey church authorities\nSupport from a massive extremely powerful institution that has covered up thousands of similar crimes\nStrictly forbidden to marry, have sex, or iirc even masturbate, making them view all sexual activities as similarly taboo for them\nEasy regular access to many children\nEasy ability to get alone time with children\nPriests are only held institutionally accountable to each other and to those with more authority in the church\nVictims 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\nChildren 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\nThe 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\nThe 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\n\nThat'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.”\nP.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.\nWant 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.\nEdit to add this excellent way to protect kids that churches consistently fight against:\n\n“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.\nchildren 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.”",
">\n\nSo this should be buried enough if I speak in general terms.\nYears back one of our pastors had to give up being a pastor. They didn't get into details of what he did but they did stress that kids were not involved. The whole church could be seen relaxing.",
">\n\n5 years for thousands of child porn images and videos? Seems pretty fucking light to me. This piece of shit should die in prison.",
">\n\n5 years and a ticket to heaven",
">\n\nHeaven? For him?",
">\n\nThat'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.",
">\n\nDon't you also have to be truly repentant for your sins, including making a good faith effort to keep from repeating them?",
">\n\nI would love for someone to answer this because I really want to know, too.",
">\n\nyes I'm pretty sure that's it. God sees people's hearts He should know the diff between true repentance and fake one",
">\n\nYes, assuming an all-powerful God existed, he’d be able to pretty easily know if you were truly sorry.",
">\n\nYeah but......... \nI'm just starting the religious apologist's sentence for them.",
">\n\nFor 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.",
">\n\nOne 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.",
">\n\nOnce I heard this theory, the acceptance by conservatives of people whose behavior is in direct conflict with their moral beliefs, made more sense.",
">\n\n5 holly maries and transfer\nafter 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.\nRev. 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.\"\nMcDevitt asked the presiding judge for \"mercy for Jim,\" and even offered for the congregation to pay to house him in lieu of imprisonment.\n\"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.\"\n\"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.\"",
">\n\nIn Australia at the moment there is a furore after the death of Cardinal George Pell who was convicted (then exonerated) of personally abusing children, but was found by a Royal Commission (that would be a special prosecutor for our American friends?) of enabling and protecting paedophile priests for decades.\nCan honestly say I have not been able to listen to the string of \"Christians\" praising this man in our media for the last few days without wanting to puke. Suffer the little children.",
">\n\nWith you there. At least there’s a lot of people calling his supporters out on this. Fuck Tony Abbott, John Howard and Andrew Bolt to name a few.",
">\n\nI 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!",
">\n\nr/PastorArrested (also includes Priests)",
">\n\nDon'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.",
">\n\nIf there is a god, wtf?",
">\n\nThere is no God. Religion is about control and money",
">\n\nAnd more money",
">\n\n\"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.\" \n- Rev. Patrick McDevitt, provincial superior for the Congregation of the Western Province \n\nEvery single member of that congregation is a horrible piece of shit",
">\n\nWhat 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?",
">\n\n“Drag queens are grooming our youth!!!”",
">\n\n\"I think we all know where people put on dresses and fuck kids\"\n-Trixie Mattel, 2022",
">\n\nKid “Bless me Father, for I have sinned”\nPadre “ call me, maybe?”",
">\n\nImagine my shock to discover that a priest has been involved in a sex scandal and one involving the exploitation of children, at that.",
">\n\nGOP: \"But wuttabout drag queens?!?!?!??!\"",
">\n\nDoing the Lords work 🙏🏾",
">\n\nTax-free",
">\n\nWhat's the deal with priests being so into pedophilia? Can't they look at milf pounds like normal people?",
">\n\nOh look... Another priest with child porn ... When do we get to start taxing the church?",
">\n\nr/pastorarrested",
">\n\nChurch is a scary place, especially for children.",
">\n\nI 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.",
">\n\nOnly 5 years. What a joke.",
">\n\n\nThe 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.\n\nIf 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.",
">\n\nNo one is suprised a priest is a pedophile. \nBut printing out yer nudes? That's odd.",
">\n\nI can think of a reason he printed it out. And I really don't like that reason.",
">\n\nI'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.",
">\n\nThe sheer audacity to do it at church where you work",
">\n\nAnd not a drag queen in sight...",
">\n\nThey do kinda wear dresses, though",
">\n\nToo many “coincidences” within this church to be anything other than systematic",
">\n\nPretty 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.",
">\n\n\nThe data often suggests numbers of pedophiles similar to the general population\n\none 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",
">\n\nYeah, 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.",
">\n\nI 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.",
">\n\nIt's so common for priests to be sickos",
">\n\nGross",
">\n\nAll he needs to do is repent, right?!?",
">\n\nA priest? With kiddie porn? I’ve never heard of such a thing!",
">\n\nRemember 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.",
">\n\n5 years that's all he got",
">\n\nThat's fucking disgusting. Misappropriation of office materials.",
">\n\nIt 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",
">\n\nIdiot 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.",
">\n\nso 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.",
">\n\nI 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 🤷♂️",
">\n\n5 years isnt nearly enough. Lock him up forever and a day.",
">\n\n~~Drag shows~~ Churches are not safe for children",
">\n\nI'm sure the religious Right will be out protesting him any second.\nRight? Right guys? Groomers and all this? Qanons? Where you guys at?\nHuh. Weird.",
">\n\nBut the dragqueens guys?!?!?!??!? /s",
">\n\nWeird that so many god loving people are actually just pedophiles. Wonder what they think god thinks of them. Fuck theism.",
">\n\nTheir god tells them to take the young girls as spoils of war. Their god is just as fucking depraved as they are.",
">\n\ntHaTs jUsT tHe oLd tEsTaMeNt tHoUgh.\ngOds mOraLiTy dOeSnt cHanGe, hE jUsT dEaLs wItH hUmAns diFFeReNtlY nOw. \nYeah when someone deals with people differently than they did before we generally call that \"a change.\"",
">\n\nAnd he wasn’t trans??? Maybe it’s been priests all along that governors should be banning. When will they correct their mistake? /s",
">\n\nDoesn'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...",
">\n\nIt's surprising. Who prints out their own nudes?",
">\n\nLock him up and throw away the keys",
">\n\nDarn priests, at least those protestant ministers keep it in the family",
">\n\nNot surprised.",
">\n\nThree hail marys and all is forgiven. What a load of bs",
">\n\nJust one bad apple, I’m sure.",
">\n\nLeast paedophilic priest",
">\n\n…slideshow?",
">\n\nGod works in mysterious ways ya fuckin chomo. As a priest, he of all people should have seen this coming...",
">\n\nIn other news, water is wet",
">\n\nOnly five years...",
">\n\n”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.” \nಠ_ಠ",
">\n\nI don’t remember this plotline during Doubt…",
">\n\nWe keep letting them get away with it, so they keep doing it. More obvious news at 10.",
">\n\n& once they found him out he got made a cardinal",
">\n\nHe should've kept them in the garage with his Corvette",
">\n\n5 years? If nothing else, using PowerPoint should have been an aggravating factor.",
">\n\nAnd you thought looking at Bob's family vacation pics was a bad time",
">\n\nWhen 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.",
">\n\nHow is the Roman Catholic Church not closed down for enabling and protecting child abusers",
">\n\nAre 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.",
">\n\nIt'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.",
">\n\npapabile!",
">\n\nLeft nudes on a shared printer? Rookie mistake.",
">\n\nTeach your priests just enough tech to effectively turn themselves in.",
">\n\nIsn't it something how the church decided to investigate themselves again. Keep it in the family, guys.\nI 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.",
">\n\nIs 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:\n1 - 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\n2 - 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)\n3 - 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.\nTL;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.",
">\n\nLet me guess.\nMoved to a different church at the other side of the country and that’s about it for consequences?",
">\n\nThose damned drag queens strike again.",
">\n\nI mean that’s kinda how they caught BTK",
">\n\nSo priests are still abusing kids after we didn't do anything to them the last few times we caught them? Color me surprised.",
">\n\n\nCourt 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.\"\n\n...\n\nDuring 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. \n\n...\n\nAnd 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. \n\nFuck everyone that allowed this scum to continue in a position of authority.",
">\n\nDon’t hear this happening at drag shows…j/s",
">\n\nHe put the PDF in pedofile",
">\n\nThis is Fucking ridiculous",
">\n\nNever forget who the actual groomers are",
">\n\nThe proud boys will be outside of churches \"protesting\" with guns now, right? right?",
">\n\nA priest being pedophile? But that is absolutely unheard of, say it isn't so!",
">\n\nYou sure this wasn't at a Trans drag show? GOP is sure this happens at Trans dragsl shows",
">\n\nExcommunicated by PowerPoint",
">\n\n5 years and a fine? FFS, that’s ridiculous.",
">\n\nPraise Jesus!",
">\n\nAnd the right thinks kids going to drag shows are the problem",
">\n\nAverage christian.",
">\n\nbut the drag queens are reading books to children in libraries! The madnessss",
">\n\nSo they moved him to a new church. This is what they have always done.",
">\n\nleast pedophilic priest:",
">\n\nThe dead ones dont hurt anyone.",
">\n\ninto the furnace he goes. theres no rehabbing people like this.",
">\n\nIt's always the ones you least expect..",
">\n\nOr in this case, the ones you MOST suspect",
">\n\nlol ya, I said that with sarcasm..",
">\n\nPray that he gets nut cancer.",
">\n\nNut cancer was once described to me as \"the common cold of cancers\". It has something like a 95% survival rate.\nHe deserves worse.",
">\n\nDidn't know that. Good nut fact for the day.",
">\n\nIt's definitely the drag queens reading to kids in libraries that's the problem.",
">\n\nRight wingers want him to be a closeted drag queen so badly",
">\n\nI could never trust any man who goes into priesthood. Completely unnatural and deviant occupation rife with pedophiles.",
">\n\nThis MONSTER got 5 years?! \nThe CHILDREN being abused in the images will suffer for the rest of their lives!!\nI'm in favor of LIFE SENTENCES for child sex offenders. \nOr better yet, the DEATH PENALTY!!",
">\n\nReligion was invented by Man for Control of the Flock.You go to Confession and tell the priest everything so they can determine how to undress you.\nI was once a Catholic.....born, baptised, confirmed and educated in a Grammar school run by Irish Christian Brothers under the Order of Edmund Ignatius Rice......and now I'm an atheist.",
">\n\nHow come it is always ‘Christians’ who are involved in child sex abuse?",
">\n\nOf course he's a pedo, he's a priest!",
">\n\nYes millions of idiots keep donating billions to the church",
">\n\nNot simply donating, they bring their children along, indoctrinate them that the priest is the speaker of God, and that God can do no wrong, so anything the priest dose is holy and good. The priest even says so!\nAnd when the kids bring it up the first few times weird things happen? The parents tell them to shush. And so, the sacrifices continue, the parents make a show of not knowing, and things get worse for the children.\nAnd if the priest is reported, the church just moves them to a different parish.\nThe only difference between the taliban and the catholic church, is one of them advertises the child slaves as a benefit, while the other pretends it's not (but totally encourages it, top to bottom).",
">\n\nAnd who are the groomers again?",
">\n\nThis is what happens when you don’t recycle your printer papers.",
">\n\nI feel like this isn't oniony enough, everyone knows by now that priests are significantly more likely to be pedophiles than the general population.",
">\n\nSure, but “gets caught by leaving nudes on a printer” is a fairly onion-y end.",
">\n\nYa know you're right",
">\n\nI have a theory about the correlation between priests and pedophiles. This is my opinion based on conversations with a childhood friend (not a pedo) and is only my opinion but could explain why so many priests abuse children. Get your down votes ready. \nThese boys grow up in the church and it is all they know for the most part. When going through puberty we become attracted to a gender (male or female gay or straight sometimes somewhere in between) and more often a \"type\" as well (blonde brunette short tall etc). Our hormones drive us to seek companionship, intimacy, and ultimately procreation. \nThese boys growing up never develop this attraction to their peers but rather feel more comfortable around younger children and usually behave as mentors. The combination of love of church and disinterest in peers puts the thought in their heads that priesthood is their calling. It takes a long time and effort to become a priest. There are easier paths if a guy just wants to bang kids.\nPut together lack of sex or release of biological needs with access and constant contact with children and they are basically pushed over the edge.\nTo sum up, pedophiles don't become priests to molest children, they become priests because they don't realize they are pedophiles. This is just my opinion, and obviously there are also exceptions to this.\nPerhaps the solution is to get rid of this nonsense celibacy.",
">\n\nAlternative theory: pedophiles become priests because they know the Catholic Church will support and hide them from accountability. Plus, all those altar boys have been easy pickings for decades. \nOn the positive side, Catholic Churches are closing all over Missouri because of dwindling congregations.",
">\n\nThis is one crime I’ll never be able to fathom.",
">\n\nSo fucking sick advocating for this monster so he can maintain freedom?",
">\n\nThe church has been so infiltrated by Child abusers that they are currently rating worse than Satan Worshippers",
">\n\nCan we just fuck churches off now???",
">\n\nYour tithing had to go somewhere.",
">\n\nHow come republicans are not calling these people groomers?",
">\n\nIs anyone else picturing the scene in the first Scary Movie where the cop asks Anna Faris to look at some pictures?\nPriest hands out the pictures of himself along with the weekly pamphlet. Maybe the first reading is from the Song of Solomon...",
">\n\nOh shit. \nHas he been quietly shuffled to a new church yet?",
">\n\nI'm old enough that when I see \"slideshow\" I think of him arranging physical slides in a carousel to project on a screen, like the family trip to Disneyland. Maybe invite the neighbors over for cake.",
">\n\nLord above why is this a thing",
">\n\nYou mean not a drag queen?",
">\n\nActual groomers.",
">\n\nJust think the hands that wanked to kiddie pr0n put wafers on the tongues of everyone in that congregation...",
">\n\nLMAO. This slightly ambiguous headline had me thinking “who attended these slideshow presentations?”",
">\n\nOh look another pedophile catholic priest. Good job reinforcing that stereotype.",
">\n\nAnd we should take guidance from those who hide these atrocities so we can live a better life in the eyes of god.",
">\n\nFriendly reminder religion is a mistake that deserves to be taxed. If you threatened to tax zealots tomorrow child molestation by priests would drop to zero",
">\n\nmay your mother smile as you burn",
">\n\nThis is what happens when you have unchecked power for thousands of years.\nHorrifying.",
">\n\nDid he learn this behavior from a drag show? /s",
">\n\nReminds me of something Chris Rock said: \"Where do women find the porn? They don't find it in your hiding place, they find it in the VCR\"",
">\n\nHe was also probably saving up for a trip to Disney World.",
">\n\n\nincluding child pornography and images of child erotica.\n\nI want to know the difference but don't want to get on a watchlist by googling it.",
">\n\nWithout the word child there, there's a difference in degree. I'd say it's the same thing with that word in there just describing the subject depicted. Pornography is generally actual sex acts of some form or another. Erotica falls short of that, it may be arousing or suggestive. For example, a cabaret show may be erotica but it's certainly not pornography.",
">\n\nPriest? Church? Man in a tax evasion party house?",
">\n\nYet the church immediately moved him somewhere else as there was a daycare next door to the church, then offered to pay to have the priest under house arrest so that the child predator won't go to jail.",
">\n\nShittiest Ted Talk I’ve ever seen, honestly…",
">\n\nOnly five years?! \nUgh!",
">\n\nAnd they call LGBT+ people groomers. (eyeroll)",
">\n\nAnyone who has ever been to a church sadly knows this doesn't need to be in this sub for us to know it's a real story.",
">\n\nOh how nice. The Reverend pleaded for him not to be incarcerated. Because of fucking course he did.",
">\n\nCurious as to who he was presenting this to",
">\n\nPunish these assholes they are smearing God's name",
">\n\nStraight to (checks notes) your next parish!",
">\n\nreligion and sexual abuse. name a more iconic duo\nwhy are any of these religions even allowed to exist any more\nthey have long since lost their meanings, and onlt serve to syphon money out of gullible people, and abuse their children\nwhat is any of these religions actually adding to society any more? other than more perverted monsters",
">\n\nHe’s not the only one",
">\n\nWhy is no big tv news channel talking about this?",
">\n\nAsked that he not go to prison & that his congregation pay to house him? Fuck the church. That's almost the most disgusting part of this"
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"Slideshows????? What?\nMy man just opened up cp.ppt and added a few THOUSAND slides of kiddy porn????\nClippy: it looks like youre a depraved predator. Do you want to profane the church as well?",
">\n\nWell I always did believe Power Point was a creation of a malevolent entity.",
">\n\nTuring complete, no less!",
">\n\nBut can it run Doom?",
">\n\nAnything can run doom",
">\n\nBut can Doom run Doom?",
">\n\nDoom can run Doom because Doom runs Doom when Doom runs.",
">\n\nPeople don't run Doom like it is, but it Doom.",
">\n\nGonna take this moment to highly recommend the film Spotlight to any who haven’t seen it",
">\n\nCheck out the 2017 limited series on either Netflix or Prime: \"The Keepers\" about a Baltimore-area Catholic girls' school. Based on the experiences as told by some of the girls, now middle-aged women. It is NOT nice, will make you cry, will enrage you. But I commend the women who made this documentary for as painful as it was for the audience to watch, I can't imagine how they made it thru. And they brought it around to a decent ending, but wow....I think some of what happened in Baltimore bled over into the Spotlight story.\nLapsed Catholic. I cannot reconcile with the Church hierarchy over this because they have behaved satanically for far too long to make me believe they are holy in any way.",
">\n\nThere was a documentary that came out a year or two ago tbzg sounds similar but men who were molested as kids while in the church. \nI honestly don't know how anyone can still support the church. At all. If it was one priest, sure. It's sad it happened, but pedophiles will always exist and find ways to get to kids.\nBut with how often it happens and with how little the church cares? Nope. I never could be catholic even if I was Christian.",
">\n\nBecause saving souls bringing them into their cult is more valuable than the ones they crush. The Vatican last I heard had 7 pedos protecting by not complying with extradition requests. \nAny organization not willing to comply with the laws of the country where they have a tax exempt status should lose their exemption and title to any property they own. If you RICO cartel and mafia assets, then you can do so for these child abusers and their protective association. \nYou know the church owns most of Manhattan and isn't paying taxes? All that money and we have to tolerate this shit? Nah fuck them.",
">\n\nNude pix on the church printer . . . I can imagine the scene.\nSister Mary Michael: Yo, does anyone recognize this tallywhacker?\nFormer Alter Boy Brian: Yeah, that's Father Jim. I'd know that hairy mole anywhere.",
">\n\nThat's Tommy Turner's tallywhacker",
">\n\nIf Reddit still gave free awards, I'd give one to you for catching the reference.",
">\n\nWAIT when did they get rid of the free awards",
">\n\nguess this is how i found out. last i claimed mine is around last week, i think. i only claim once every two weeks to gild certain biweekly thread lul",
">\n\nAnd yet where are all the \"anti-groomers\" protesting these churches?",
">\n\nIt’s almost like it has never actually been about protecting children, and it’s always been about trying to demonize LGBT people",
">\n\nAt this point I am positive the religious right to life thing is about having more targets.",
">\n\nGlad 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?",
">\n\nAfter 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.",
">\n\nI 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.\nThere are also many who truly believe the schtick and just compartmentalize the bad stuff. Both are to blame regardless. Nobody gets a pass.",
">\n\nI could see that with some of the smaller denominations for sure.\nWhen 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.",
">\n\n*making another streak to the tally list wall\n*camera panning out to reveal a huge fucking wall coveres in streaks",
">\n\nMan 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.\nThat said. This man should burn for this",
">\n\nPriest? Pedo? Are you sure? This is unprecedented",
">\n\nCorrection! PedoPreist",
">\n\nNew name not necessary. If anything there should be a name for the unique priests that arent pedos.",
">\n\nI'm inclined to think the majority of priests aren't child predators themselves.\nThe 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.\nWay, way too many of them are pedo-enablers. All the way up...",
">\n\nThen that would mean that... Gasp\nSouth Park was right all along....\nSneaky little bastards didn't think I would notice....",
">\n\nWish I was surprised",
">\n\nYou make slideshows of images? \nEdit: \nOh wait I see what you mean. Yeah the pedophile priest thing is so expected that only the slideshow bit stood out",
">\n\nHoly hell. Priest have normalized pedophilia.",
">\n\nNot just priests. Protestant Christians have a major problem with sexual abuse too, particularly against children.\nAfter Major Investigation, Southern Baptists Confront the Abuse Crisis They Knew Was Coming\nDon't let the Evangelical pedo defenders get away with claiming that Catholicism is the only issue here. It isn't.",
">\n\n\nnone of them are immune to the depravity.\n\nAlmost implied, really.",
">\n\nCould 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?",
">\n\nA variety of factors:\n\nUnquestioned moral authority and intense trust from a large community who have all been taught to obey church authorities\nSupport from a massive extremely powerful institution that has covered up thousands of similar crimes\nStrictly forbidden to marry, have sex, or iirc even masturbate, making them view all sexual activities as similarly taboo for them\nEasy regular access to many children\nEasy ability to get alone time with children\nPriests are only held institutionally accountable to each other and to those with more authority in the church\nVictims 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\nChildren 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\nThe 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\nThe 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\n\nThat'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.”\nP.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.\nWant 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.\nEdit to add this excellent way to protect kids that churches consistently fight against:\n\n“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.\nchildren 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.”",
">\n\nSo this should be buried enough if I speak in general terms.\nYears back one of our pastors had to give up being a pastor. They didn't get into details of what he did but they did stress that kids were not involved. The whole church could be seen relaxing.",
">\n\n5 years for thousands of child porn images and videos? Seems pretty fucking light to me. This piece of shit should die in prison.",
">\n\n5 years and a ticket to heaven",
">\n\nHeaven? For him?",
">\n\nThat'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.",
">\n\nDon't you also have to be truly repentant for your sins, including making a good faith effort to keep from repeating them?",
">\n\nI would love for someone to answer this because I really want to know, too.",
">\n\nyes I'm pretty sure that's it. God sees people's hearts He should know the diff between true repentance and fake one",
">\n\nYes, assuming an all-powerful God existed, he’d be able to pretty easily know if you were truly sorry.",
">\n\nYeah but......... \nI'm just starting the religious apologist's sentence for them.",
">\n\nFor 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.",
">\n\nOne 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.",
">\n\nOnce I heard this theory, the acceptance by conservatives of people whose behavior is in direct conflict with their moral beliefs, made more sense.",
">\n\n5 holly maries and transfer\nafter 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.\nRev. 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.\"\nMcDevitt asked the presiding judge for \"mercy for Jim,\" and even offered for the congregation to pay to house him in lieu of imprisonment.\n\"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.\"\n\"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.\"",
">\n\nIn Australia at the moment there is a furore after the death of Cardinal George Pell who was convicted (then exonerated) of personally abusing children, but was found by a Royal Commission (that would be a special prosecutor for our American friends?) of enabling and protecting paedophile priests for decades.\nCan honestly say I have not been able to listen to the string of \"Christians\" praising this man in our media for the last few days without wanting to puke. Suffer the little children.",
">\n\nWith you there. At least there’s a lot of people calling his supporters out on this. Fuck Tony Abbott, John Howard and Andrew Bolt to name a few.",
">\n\nI 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!",
">\n\nr/PastorArrested (also includes Priests)",
">\n\nDon'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.",
">\n\nIf there is a god, wtf?",
">\n\nThere is no God. Religion is about control and money",
">\n\nAnd more money",
">\n\n\"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.\" \n- Rev. Patrick McDevitt, provincial superior for the Congregation of the Western Province \n\nEvery single member of that congregation is a horrible piece of shit",
">\n\nWhat 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?",
">\n\n“Drag queens are grooming our youth!!!”",
">\n\n\"I think we all know where people put on dresses and fuck kids\"\n-Trixie Mattel, 2022",
">\n\nKid “Bless me Father, for I have sinned”\nPadre “ call me, maybe?”",
">\n\nImagine my shock to discover that a priest has been involved in a sex scandal and one involving the exploitation of children, at that.",
">\n\nGOP: \"But wuttabout drag queens?!?!?!??!\"",
">\n\nDoing the Lords work 🙏🏾",
">\n\nTax-free",
">\n\nWhat's the deal with priests being so into pedophilia? Can't they look at milf pounds like normal people?",
">\n\nOh look... Another priest with child porn ... When do we get to start taxing the church?",
">\n\nr/pastorarrested",
">\n\nChurch is a scary place, especially for children.",
">\n\nI 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.",
">\n\nOnly 5 years. What a joke.",
">\n\n\nThe 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.\n\nIf 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.",
">\n\nNo one is suprised a priest is a pedophile. \nBut printing out yer nudes? That's odd.",
">\n\nI can think of a reason he printed it out. And I really don't like that reason.",
">\n\nI'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.",
">\n\nThe sheer audacity to do it at church where you work",
">\n\nAnd not a drag queen in sight...",
">\n\nThey do kinda wear dresses, though",
">\n\nToo many “coincidences” within this church to be anything other than systematic",
">\n\nPretty 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.",
">\n\n\nThe data often suggests numbers of pedophiles similar to the general population\n\none 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",
">\n\nYeah, 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.",
">\n\nI 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.",
">\n\nIt's so common for priests to be sickos",
">\n\nGross",
">\n\nAll he needs to do is repent, right?!?",
">\n\nA priest? With kiddie porn? I’ve never heard of such a thing!",
">\n\nRemember 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.",
">\n\n5 years that's all he got",
">\n\nThat's fucking disgusting. Misappropriation of office materials.",
">\n\nIt 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",
">\n\nIdiot 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.",
">\n\nso 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.",
">\n\nI 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 🤷♂️",
">\n\n5 years isnt nearly enough. Lock him up forever and a day.",
">\n\n~~Drag shows~~ Churches are not safe for children",
">\n\nI'm sure the religious Right will be out protesting him any second.\nRight? Right guys? Groomers and all this? Qanons? Where you guys at?\nHuh. Weird.",
">\n\nBut the dragqueens guys?!?!?!??!? /s",
">\n\nWeird that so many god loving people are actually just pedophiles. Wonder what they think god thinks of them. Fuck theism.",
">\n\nTheir god tells them to take the young girls as spoils of war. Their god is just as fucking depraved as they are.",
">\n\ntHaTs jUsT tHe oLd tEsTaMeNt tHoUgh.\ngOds mOraLiTy dOeSnt cHanGe, hE jUsT dEaLs wItH hUmAns diFFeReNtlY nOw. \nYeah when someone deals with people differently than they did before we generally call that \"a change.\"",
">\n\nAnd he wasn’t trans??? Maybe it’s been priests all along that governors should be banning. When will they correct their mistake? /s",
">\n\nDoesn'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...",
">\n\nIt's surprising. Who prints out their own nudes?",
">\n\nLock him up and throw away the keys",
">\n\nDarn priests, at least those protestant ministers keep it in the family",
">\n\nNot surprised.",
">\n\nThree hail marys and all is forgiven. What a load of bs",
">\n\nJust one bad apple, I’m sure.",
">\n\nLeast paedophilic priest",
">\n\n…slideshow?",
">\n\nGod works in mysterious ways ya fuckin chomo. As a priest, he of all people should have seen this coming...",
">\n\nIn other news, water is wet",
">\n\nOnly five years...",
">\n\n”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.” \nಠ_ಠ",
">\n\nI don’t remember this plotline during Doubt…",
">\n\nWe keep letting them get away with it, so they keep doing it. More obvious news at 10.",
">\n\n& once they found him out he got made a cardinal",
">\n\nHe should've kept them in the garage with his Corvette",
">\n\n5 years? If nothing else, using PowerPoint should have been an aggravating factor.",
">\n\nAnd you thought looking at Bob's family vacation pics was a bad time",
">\n\nWhen 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.",
">\n\nHow is the Roman Catholic Church not closed down for enabling and protecting child abusers",
">\n\nAre 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.",
">\n\nIt'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.",
">\n\npapabile!",
">\n\nLeft nudes on a shared printer? Rookie mistake.",
">\n\nTeach your priests just enough tech to effectively turn themselves in.",
">\n\nIsn't it something how the church decided to investigate themselves again. Keep it in the family, guys.\nI 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.",
">\n\nIs 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:\n1 - 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\n2 - 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)\n3 - 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.\nTL;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.",
">\n\nLet me guess.\nMoved to a different church at the other side of the country and that’s about it for consequences?",
">\n\nThose damned drag queens strike again.",
">\n\nI mean that’s kinda how they caught BTK",
">\n\nSo priests are still abusing kids after we didn't do anything to them the last few times we caught them? Color me surprised.",
">\n\n\nCourt 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.\"\n\n...\n\nDuring 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. \n\n...\n\nAnd 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. \n\nFuck everyone that allowed this scum to continue in a position of authority.",
">\n\nDon’t hear this happening at drag shows…j/s",
">\n\nHe put the PDF in pedofile",
">\n\nThis is Fucking ridiculous",
">\n\nNever forget who the actual groomers are",
">\n\nThe proud boys will be outside of churches \"protesting\" with guns now, right? right?",
">\n\nA priest being pedophile? But that is absolutely unheard of, say it isn't so!",
">\n\nYou sure this wasn't at a Trans drag show? GOP is sure this happens at Trans dragsl shows",
">\n\nExcommunicated by PowerPoint",
">\n\n5 years and a fine? FFS, that’s ridiculous.",
">\n\nPraise Jesus!",
">\n\nAnd the right thinks kids going to drag shows are the problem",
">\n\nAverage christian.",
">\n\nbut the drag queens are reading books to children in libraries! The madnessss",
">\n\nSo they moved him to a new church. This is what they have always done.",
">\n\nleast pedophilic priest:",
">\n\nThe dead ones dont hurt anyone.",
">\n\ninto the furnace he goes. theres no rehabbing people like this.",
">\n\nIt's always the ones you least expect..",
">\n\nOr in this case, the ones you MOST suspect",
">\n\nlol ya, I said that with sarcasm..",
">\n\nPray that he gets nut cancer.",
">\n\nNut cancer was once described to me as \"the common cold of cancers\". It has something like a 95% survival rate.\nHe deserves worse.",
">\n\nDidn't know that. Good nut fact for the day.",
">\n\nIt's definitely the drag queens reading to kids in libraries that's the problem.",
">\n\nRight wingers want him to be a closeted drag queen so badly",
">\n\nI could never trust any man who goes into priesthood. Completely unnatural and deviant occupation rife with pedophiles.",
">\n\nThis MONSTER got 5 years?! \nThe CHILDREN being abused in the images will suffer for the rest of their lives!!\nI'm in favor of LIFE SENTENCES for child sex offenders. \nOr better yet, the DEATH PENALTY!!",
">\n\nReligion was invented by Man for Control of the Flock.You go to Confession and tell the priest everything so they can determine how to undress you.\nI was once a Catholic.....born, baptised, confirmed and educated in a Grammar school run by Irish Christian Brothers under the Order of Edmund Ignatius Rice......and now I'm an atheist.",
">\n\nHow come it is always ‘Christians’ who are involved in child sex abuse?",
">\n\nOf course he's a pedo, he's a priest!",
">\n\nYes millions of idiots keep donating billions to the church",
">\n\nNot simply donating, they bring their children along, indoctrinate them that the priest is the speaker of God, and that God can do no wrong, so anything the priest dose is holy and good. The priest even says so!\nAnd when the kids bring it up the first few times weird things happen? The parents tell them to shush. And so, the sacrifices continue, the parents make a show of not knowing, and things get worse for the children.\nAnd if the priest is reported, the church just moves them to a different parish.\nThe only difference between the taliban and the catholic church, is one of them advertises the child slaves as a benefit, while the other pretends it's not (but totally encourages it, top to bottom).",
">\n\nAnd who are the groomers again?",
">\n\nThis is what happens when you don’t recycle your printer papers.",
">\n\nI feel like this isn't oniony enough, everyone knows by now that priests are significantly more likely to be pedophiles than the general population.",
">\n\nSure, but “gets caught by leaving nudes on a printer” is a fairly onion-y end.",
">\n\nYa know you're right",
">\n\nI have a theory about the correlation between priests and pedophiles. This is my opinion based on conversations with a childhood friend (not a pedo) and is only my opinion but could explain why so many priests abuse children. Get your down votes ready. \nThese boys grow up in the church and it is all they know for the most part. When going through puberty we become attracted to a gender (male or female gay or straight sometimes somewhere in between) and more often a \"type\" as well (blonde brunette short tall etc). Our hormones drive us to seek companionship, intimacy, and ultimately procreation. \nThese boys growing up never develop this attraction to their peers but rather feel more comfortable around younger children and usually behave as mentors. The combination of love of church and disinterest in peers puts the thought in their heads that priesthood is their calling. It takes a long time and effort to become a priest. There are easier paths if a guy just wants to bang kids.\nPut together lack of sex or release of biological needs with access and constant contact with children and they are basically pushed over the edge.\nTo sum up, pedophiles don't become priests to molest children, they become priests because they don't realize they are pedophiles. This is just my opinion, and obviously there are also exceptions to this.\nPerhaps the solution is to get rid of this nonsense celibacy.",
">\n\nAlternative theory: pedophiles become priests because they know the Catholic Church will support and hide them from accountability. Plus, all those altar boys have been easy pickings for decades. \nOn the positive side, Catholic Churches are closing all over Missouri because of dwindling congregations.",
">\n\nThis is one crime I’ll never be able to fathom.",
">\n\nSo fucking sick advocating for this monster so he can maintain freedom?",
">\n\nThe church has been so infiltrated by Child abusers that they are currently rating worse than Satan Worshippers",
">\n\nCan we just fuck churches off now???",
">\n\nYour tithing had to go somewhere.",
">\n\nHow come republicans are not calling these people groomers?",
">\n\nIs anyone else picturing the scene in the first Scary Movie where the cop asks Anna Faris to look at some pictures?\nPriest hands out the pictures of himself along with the weekly pamphlet. Maybe the first reading is from the Song of Solomon...",
">\n\nOh shit. \nHas he been quietly shuffled to a new church yet?",
">\n\nI'm old enough that when I see \"slideshow\" I think of him arranging physical slides in a carousel to project on a screen, like the family trip to Disneyland. Maybe invite the neighbors over for cake.",
">\n\nLord above why is this a thing",
">\n\nYou mean not a drag queen?",
">\n\nActual groomers.",
">\n\nJust think the hands that wanked to kiddie pr0n put wafers on the tongues of everyone in that congregation...",
">\n\nLMAO. This slightly ambiguous headline had me thinking “who attended these slideshow presentations?”",
">\n\nOh look another pedophile catholic priest. Good job reinforcing that stereotype.",
">\n\nAnd we should take guidance from those who hide these atrocities so we can live a better life in the eyes of god.",
">\n\nFriendly reminder religion is a mistake that deserves to be taxed. If you threatened to tax zealots tomorrow child molestation by priests would drop to zero",
">\n\nmay your mother smile as you burn",
">\n\nThis is what happens when you have unchecked power for thousands of years.\nHorrifying.",
">\n\nDid he learn this behavior from a drag show? /s",
">\n\nReminds me of something Chris Rock said: \"Where do women find the porn? They don't find it in your hiding place, they find it in the VCR\"",
">\n\nHe was also probably saving up for a trip to Disney World.",
">\n\n\nincluding child pornography and images of child erotica.\n\nI want to know the difference but don't want to get on a watchlist by googling it.",
">\n\nWithout the word child there, there's a difference in degree. I'd say it's the same thing with that word in there just describing the subject depicted. Pornography is generally actual sex acts of some form or another. Erotica falls short of that, it may be arousing or suggestive. For example, a cabaret show may be erotica but it's certainly not pornography.",
">\n\nPriest? Church? Man in a tax evasion party house?",
">\n\nYet the church immediately moved him somewhere else as there was a daycare next door to the church, then offered to pay to have the priest under house arrest so that the child predator won't go to jail.",
">\n\nShittiest Ted Talk I’ve ever seen, honestly…",
">\n\nOnly five years?! \nUgh!",
">\n\nAnd they call LGBT+ people groomers. (eyeroll)",
">\n\nAnyone who has ever been to a church sadly knows this doesn't need to be in this sub for us to know it's a real story.",
">\n\nOh how nice. The Reverend pleaded for him not to be incarcerated. Because of fucking course he did.",
">\n\nCurious as to who he was presenting this to",
">\n\nPunish these assholes they are smearing God's name",
">\n\nStraight to (checks notes) your next parish!",
">\n\nreligion and sexual abuse. name a more iconic duo\nwhy are any of these religions even allowed to exist any more\nthey have long since lost their meanings, and onlt serve to syphon money out of gullible people, and abuse their children\nwhat is any of these religions actually adding to society any more? other than more perverted monsters",
">\n\nHe’s not the only one",
">\n\nWhy is no big tv news channel talking about this?",
">\n\nAsked that he not go to prison & that his congregation pay to house him? Fuck the church. That's almost the most disgusting part of this",
">\n\nSo are we talking a pptx or an old-school film Rolodex version? Both are messed up, but one takes A LOT more effort."
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"Slideshows????? What?\nMy man just opened up cp.ppt and added a few THOUSAND slides of kiddy porn????\nClippy: it looks like youre a depraved predator. Do you want to profane the church as well?",
">\n\nWell I always did believe Power Point was a creation of a malevolent entity.",
">\n\nTuring complete, no less!",
">\n\nBut can it run Doom?",
">\n\nAnything can run doom",
">\n\nBut can Doom run Doom?",
">\n\nDoom can run Doom because Doom runs Doom when Doom runs.",
">\n\nPeople don't run Doom like it is, but it Doom.",
">\n\nGonna take this moment to highly recommend the film Spotlight to any who haven’t seen it",
">\n\nCheck out the 2017 limited series on either Netflix or Prime: \"The Keepers\" about a Baltimore-area Catholic girls' school. Based on the experiences as told by some of the girls, now middle-aged women. It is NOT nice, will make you cry, will enrage you. But I commend the women who made this documentary for as painful as it was for the audience to watch, I can't imagine how they made it thru. And they brought it around to a decent ending, but wow....I think some of what happened in Baltimore bled over into the Spotlight story.\nLapsed Catholic. I cannot reconcile with the Church hierarchy over this because they have behaved satanically for far too long to make me believe they are holy in any way.",
">\n\nThere was a documentary that came out a year or two ago tbzg sounds similar but men who were molested as kids while in the church. \nI honestly don't know how anyone can still support the church. At all. If it was one priest, sure. It's sad it happened, but pedophiles will always exist and find ways to get to kids.\nBut with how often it happens and with how little the church cares? Nope. I never could be catholic even if I was Christian.",
">\n\nBecause saving souls bringing them into their cult is more valuable than the ones they crush. The Vatican last I heard had 7 pedos protecting by not complying with extradition requests. \nAny organization not willing to comply with the laws of the country where they have a tax exempt status should lose their exemption and title to any property they own. If you RICO cartel and mafia assets, then you can do so for these child abusers and their protective association. \nYou know the church owns most of Manhattan and isn't paying taxes? All that money and we have to tolerate this shit? Nah fuck them.",
">\n\nNude pix on the church printer . . . I can imagine the scene.\nSister Mary Michael: Yo, does anyone recognize this tallywhacker?\nFormer Alter Boy Brian: Yeah, that's Father Jim. I'd know that hairy mole anywhere.",
">\n\nThat's Tommy Turner's tallywhacker",
">\n\nIf Reddit still gave free awards, I'd give one to you for catching the reference.",
">\n\nWAIT when did they get rid of the free awards",
">\n\nguess this is how i found out. last i claimed mine is around last week, i think. i only claim once every two weeks to gild certain biweekly thread lul",
">\n\nAnd yet where are all the \"anti-groomers\" protesting these churches?",
">\n\nIt’s almost like it has never actually been about protecting children, and it’s always been about trying to demonize LGBT people",
">\n\nAt this point I am positive the religious right to life thing is about having more targets.",
">\n\nGlad 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?",
">\n\nAfter 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.",
">\n\nI 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.\nThere are also many who truly believe the schtick and just compartmentalize the bad stuff. Both are to blame regardless. Nobody gets a pass.",
">\n\nI could see that with some of the smaller denominations for sure.\nWhen 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.",
">\n\n*making another streak to the tally list wall\n*camera panning out to reveal a huge fucking wall coveres in streaks",
">\n\nMan 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.\nThat said. This man should burn for this",
">\n\nPriest? Pedo? Are you sure? This is unprecedented",
">\n\nCorrection! PedoPreist",
">\n\nNew name not necessary. If anything there should be a name for the unique priests that arent pedos.",
">\n\nI'm inclined to think the majority of priests aren't child predators themselves.\nThe 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.\nWay, way too many of them are pedo-enablers. All the way up...",
">\n\nThen that would mean that... Gasp\nSouth Park was right all along....\nSneaky little bastards didn't think I would notice....",
">\n\nWish I was surprised",
">\n\nYou make slideshows of images? \nEdit: \nOh wait I see what you mean. Yeah the pedophile priest thing is so expected that only the slideshow bit stood out",
">\n\nHoly hell. Priest have normalized pedophilia.",
">\n\nNot just priests. Protestant Christians have a major problem with sexual abuse too, particularly against children.\nAfter Major Investigation, Southern Baptists Confront the Abuse Crisis They Knew Was Coming\nDon't let the Evangelical pedo defenders get away with claiming that Catholicism is the only issue here. It isn't.",
">\n\n\nnone of them are immune to the depravity.\n\nAlmost implied, really.",
">\n\nCould 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?",
">\n\nA variety of factors:\n\nUnquestioned moral authority and intense trust from a large community who have all been taught to obey church authorities\nSupport from a massive extremely powerful institution that has covered up thousands of similar crimes\nStrictly forbidden to marry, have sex, or iirc even masturbate, making them view all sexual activities as similarly taboo for them\nEasy regular access to many children\nEasy ability to get alone time with children\nPriests are only held institutionally accountable to each other and to those with more authority in the church\nVictims 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\nChildren 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\nThe 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\nThe 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\n\nThat'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.”\nP.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.\nWant 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.\nEdit to add this excellent way to protect kids that churches consistently fight against:\n\n“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.\nchildren 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.”",
">\n\nSo this should be buried enough if I speak in general terms.\nYears back one of our pastors had to give up being a pastor. They didn't get into details of what he did but they did stress that kids were not involved. The whole church could be seen relaxing.",
">\n\n5 years for thousands of child porn images and videos? Seems pretty fucking light to me. This piece of shit should die in prison.",
">\n\n5 years and a ticket to heaven",
">\n\nHeaven? For him?",
">\n\nThat'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.",
">\n\nDon't you also have to be truly repentant for your sins, including making a good faith effort to keep from repeating them?",
">\n\nI would love for someone to answer this because I really want to know, too.",
">\n\nyes I'm pretty sure that's it. God sees people's hearts He should know the diff between true repentance and fake one",
">\n\nYes, assuming an all-powerful God existed, he’d be able to pretty easily know if you were truly sorry.",
">\n\nYeah but......... \nI'm just starting the religious apologist's sentence for them.",
">\n\nFor 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.",
">\n\nOne 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.",
">\n\nOnce I heard this theory, the acceptance by conservatives of people whose behavior is in direct conflict with their moral beliefs, made more sense.",
">\n\n5 holly maries and transfer\nafter 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.\nRev. 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.\"\nMcDevitt asked the presiding judge for \"mercy for Jim,\" and even offered for the congregation to pay to house him in lieu of imprisonment.\n\"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.\"\n\"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.\"",
">\n\nIn Australia at the moment there is a furore after the death of Cardinal George Pell who was convicted (then exonerated) of personally abusing children, but was found by a Royal Commission (that would be a special prosecutor for our American friends?) of enabling and protecting paedophile priests for decades.\nCan honestly say I have not been able to listen to the string of \"Christians\" praising this man in our media for the last few days without wanting to puke. Suffer the little children.",
">\n\nWith you there. At least there’s a lot of people calling his supporters out on this. Fuck Tony Abbott, John Howard and Andrew Bolt to name a few.",
">\n\nI 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!",
">\n\nr/PastorArrested (also includes Priests)",
">\n\nDon'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.",
">\n\nIf there is a god, wtf?",
">\n\nThere is no God. Religion is about control and money",
">\n\nAnd more money",
">\n\n\"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.\" \n- Rev. Patrick McDevitt, provincial superior for the Congregation of the Western Province \n\nEvery single member of that congregation is a horrible piece of shit",
">\n\nWhat 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?",
">\n\n“Drag queens are grooming our youth!!!”",
">\n\n\"I think we all know where people put on dresses and fuck kids\"\n-Trixie Mattel, 2022",
">\n\nKid “Bless me Father, for I have sinned”\nPadre “ call me, maybe?”",
">\n\nImagine my shock to discover that a priest has been involved in a sex scandal and one involving the exploitation of children, at that.",
">\n\nGOP: \"But wuttabout drag queens?!?!?!??!\"",
">\n\nDoing the Lords work 🙏🏾",
">\n\nTax-free",
">\n\nWhat's the deal with priests being so into pedophilia? Can't they look at milf pounds like normal people?",
">\n\nOh look... Another priest with child porn ... When do we get to start taxing the church?",
">\n\nr/pastorarrested",
">\n\nChurch is a scary place, especially for children.",
">\n\nI 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.",
">\n\nOnly 5 years. What a joke.",
">\n\n\nThe 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.\n\nIf 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.",
">\n\nNo one is suprised a priest is a pedophile. \nBut printing out yer nudes? That's odd.",
">\n\nI can think of a reason he printed it out. And I really don't like that reason.",
">\n\nI'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.",
">\n\nThe sheer audacity to do it at church where you work",
">\n\nAnd not a drag queen in sight...",
">\n\nThey do kinda wear dresses, though",
">\n\nToo many “coincidences” within this church to be anything other than systematic",
">\n\nPretty 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.",
">\n\n\nThe data often suggests numbers of pedophiles similar to the general population\n\none 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",
">\n\nYeah, 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.",
">\n\nI 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.",
">\n\nIt's so common for priests to be sickos",
">\n\nGross",
">\n\nAll he needs to do is repent, right?!?",
">\n\nA priest? With kiddie porn? I’ve never heard of such a thing!",
">\n\nRemember 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.",
">\n\n5 years that's all he got",
">\n\nThat's fucking disgusting. Misappropriation of office materials.",
">\n\nIt 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",
">\n\nIdiot 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.",
">\n\nso 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.",
">\n\nI 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 🤷♂️",
">\n\n5 years isnt nearly enough. Lock him up forever and a day.",
">\n\n~~Drag shows~~ Churches are not safe for children",
">\n\nI'm sure the religious Right will be out protesting him any second.\nRight? Right guys? Groomers and all this? Qanons? Where you guys at?\nHuh. Weird.",
">\n\nBut the dragqueens guys?!?!?!??!? /s",
">\n\nWeird that so many god loving people are actually just pedophiles. Wonder what they think god thinks of them. Fuck theism.",
">\n\nTheir god tells them to take the young girls as spoils of war. Their god is just as fucking depraved as they are.",
">\n\ntHaTs jUsT tHe oLd tEsTaMeNt tHoUgh.\ngOds mOraLiTy dOeSnt cHanGe, hE jUsT dEaLs wItH hUmAns diFFeReNtlY nOw. \nYeah when someone deals with people differently than they did before we generally call that \"a change.\"",
">\n\nAnd he wasn’t trans??? Maybe it’s been priests all along that governors should be banning. When will they correct their mistake? /s",
">\n\nDoesn'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...",
">\n\nIt's surprising. Who prints out their own nudes?",
">\n\nLock him up and throw away the keys",
">\n\nDarn priests, at least those protestant ministers keep it in the family",
">\n\nNot surprised.",
">\n\nThree hail marys and all is forgiven. What a load of bs",
">\n\nJust one bad apple, I’m sure.",
">\n\nLeast paedophilic priest",
">\n\n…slideshow?",
">\n\nGod works in mysterious ways ya fuckin chomo. As a priest, he of all people should have seen this coming...",
">\n\nIn other news, water is wet",
">\n\nOnly five years...",
">\n\n”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.” \nಠ_ಠ",
">\n\nI don’t remember this plotline during Doubt…",
">\n\nWe keep letting them get away with it, so they keep doing it. More obvious news at 10.",
">\n\n& once they found him out he got made a cardinal",
">\n\nHe should've kept them in the garage with his Corvette",
">\n\n5 years? If nothing else, using PowerPoint should have been an aggravating factor.",
">\n\nAnd you thought looking at Bob's family vacation pics was a bad time",
">\n\nWhen 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.",
">\n\nHow is the Roman Catholic Church not closed down for enabling and protecting child abusers",
">\n\nAre 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.",
">\n\nIt'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.",
">\n\npapabile!",
">\n\nLeft nudes on a shared printer? Rookie mistake.",
">\n\nTeach your priests just enough tech to effectively turn themselves in.",
">\n\nIsn't it something how the church decided to investigate themselves again. Keep it in the family, guys.\nI 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.",
">\n\nIs 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:\n1 - 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\n2 - 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)\n3 - 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.\nTL;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.",
">\n\nLet me guess.\nMoved to a different church at the other side of the country and that’s about it for consequences?",
">\n\nThose damned drag queens strike again.",
">\n\nI mean that’s kinda how they caught BTK",
">\n\nSo priests are still abusing kids after we didn't do anything to them the last few times we caught them? Color me surprised.",
">\n\n\nCourt 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.\"\n\n...\n\nDuring 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. \n\n...\n\nAnd 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. \n\nFuck everyone that allowed this scum to continue in a position of authority.",
">\n\nDon’t hear this happening at drag shows…j/s",
">\n\nHe put the PDF in pedofile",
">\n\nThis is Fucking ridiculous",
">\n\nNever forget who the actual groomers are",
">\n\nThe proud boys will be outside of churches \"protesting\" with guns now, right? right?",
">\n\nA priest being pedophile? But that is absolutely unheard of, say it isn't so!",
">\n\nYou sure this wasn't at a Trans drag show? GOP is sure this happens at Trans dragsl shows",
">\n\nExcommunicated by PowerPoint",
">\n\n5 years and a fine? FFS, that’s ridiculous.",
">\n\nPraise Jesus!",
">\n\nAnd the right thinks kids going to drag shows are the problem",
">\n\nAverage christian.",
">\n\nbut the drag queens are reading books to children in libraries! The madnessss",
">\n\nSo they moved him to a new church. This is what they have always done.",
">\n\nleast pedophilic priest:",
">\n\nThe dead ones dont hurt anyone.",
">\n\ninto the furnace he goes. theres no rehabbing people like this.",
">\n\nIt's always the ones you least expect..",
">\n\nOr in this case, the ones you MOST suspect",
">\n\nlol ya, I said that with sarcasm..",
">\n\nPray that he gets nut cancer.",
">\n\nNut cancer was once described to me as \"the common cold of cancers\". It has something like a 95% survival rate.\nHe deserves worse.",
">\n\nDidn't know that. Good nut fact for the day.",
">\n\nIt's definitely the drag queens reading to kids in libraries that's the problem.",
">\n\nRight wingers want him to be a closeted drag queen so badly",
">\n\nI could never trust any man who goes into priesthood. Completely unnatural and deviant occupation rife with pedophiles.",
">\n\nThis MONSTER got 5 years?! \nThe CHILDREN being abused in the images will suffer for the rest of their lives!!\nI'm in favor of LIFE SENTENCES for child sex offenders. \nOr better yet, the DEATH PENALTY!!",
">\n\nReligion was invented by Man for Control of the Flock.You go to Confession and tell the priest everything so they can determine how to undress you.\nI was once a Catholic.....born, baptised, confirmed and educated in a Grammar school run by Irish Christian Brothers under the Order of Edmund Ignatius Rice......and now I'm an atheist.",
">\n\nHow come it is always ‘Christians’ who are involved in child sex abuse?",
">\n\nOf course he's a pedo, he's a priest!",
">\n\nYes millions of idiots keep donating billions to the church",
">\n\nNot simply donating, they bring their children along, indoctrinate them that the priest is the speaker of God, and that God can do no wrong, so anything the priest dose is holy and good. The priest even says so!\nAnd when the kids bring it up the first few times weird things happen? The parents tell them to shush. And so, the sacrifices continue, the parents make a show of not knowing, and things get worse for the children.\nAnd if the priest is reported, the church just moves them to a different parish.\nThe only difference between the taliban and the catholic church, is one of them advertises the child slaves as a benefit, while the other pretends it's not (but totally encourages it, top to bottom).",
">\n\nAnd who are the groomers again?",
">\n\nThis is what happens when you don’t recycle your printer papers.",
">\n\nI feel like this isn't oniony enough, everyone knows by now that priests are significantly more likely to be pedophiles than the general population.",
">\n\nSure, but “gets caught by leaving nudes on a printer” is a fairly onion-y end.",
">\n\nYa know you're right",
">\n\nI have a theory about the correlation between priests and pedophiles. This is my opinion based on conversations with a childhood friend (not a pedo) and is only my opinion but could explain why so many priests abuse children. Get your down votes ready. \nThese boys grow up in the church and it is all they know for the most part. When going through puberty we become attracted to a gender (male or female gay or straight sometimes somewhere in between) and more often a \"type\" as well (blonde brunette short tall etc). Our hormones drive us to seek companionship, intimacy, and ultimately procreation. \nThese boys growing up never develop this attraction to their peers but rather feel more comfortable around younger children and usually behave as mentors. The combination of love of church and disinterest in peers puts the thought in their heads that priesthood is their calling. It takes a long time and effort to become a priest. There are easier paths if a guy just wants to bang kids.\nPut together lack of sex or release of biological needs with access and constant contact with children and they are basically pushed over the edge.\nTo sum up, pedophiles don't become priests to molest children, they become priests because they don't realize they are pedophiles. This is just my opinion, and obviously there are also exceptions to this.\nPerhaps the solution is to get rid of this nonsense celibacy.",
">\n\nAlternative theory: pedophiles become priests because they know the Catholic Church will support and hide them from accountability. Plus, all those altar boys have been easy pickings for decades. \nOn the positive side, Catholic Churches are closing all over Missouri because of dwindling congregations.",
">\n\nThis is one crime I’ll never be able to fathom.",
">\n\nSo fucking sick advocating for this monster so he can maintain freedom?",
">\n\nThe church has been so infiltrated by Child abusers that they are currently rating worse than Satan Worshippers",
">\n\nCan we just fuck churches off now???",
">\n\nYour tithing had to go somewhere.",
">\n\nHow come republicans are not calling these people groomers?",
">\n\nIs anyone else picturing the scene in the first Scary Movie where the cop asks Anna Faris to look at some pictures?\nPriest hands out the pictures of himself along with the weekly pamphlet. Maybe the first reading is from the Song of Solomon...",
">\n\nOh shit. \nHas he been quietly shuffled to a new church yet?",
">\n\nI'm old enough that when I see \"slideshow\" I think of him arranging physical slides in a carousel to project on a screen, like the family trip to Disneyland. Maybe invite the neighbors over for cake.",
">\n\nLord above why is this a thing",
">\n\nYou mean not a drag queen?",
">\n\nActual groomers.",
">\n\nJust think the hands that wanked to kiddie pr0n put wafers on the tongues of everyone in that congregation...",
">\n\nLMAO. This slightly ambiguous headline had me thinking “who attended these slideshow presentations?”",
">\n\nOh look another pedophile catholic priest. Good job reinforcing that stereotype.",
">\n\nAnd we should take guidance from those who hide these atrocities so we can live a better life in the eyes of god.",
">\n\nFriendly reminder religion is a mistake that deserves to be taxed. If you threatened to tax zealots tomorrow child molestation by priests would drop to zero",
">\n\nmay your mother smile as you burn",
">\n\nThis is what happens when you have unchecked power for thousands of years.\nHorrifying.",
">\n\nDid he learn this behavior from a drag show? /s",
">\n\nReminds me of something Chris Rock said: \"Where do women find the porn? They don't find it in your hiding place, they find it in the VCR\"",
">\n\nHe was also probably saving up for a trip to Disney World.",
">\n\n\nincluding child pornography and images of child erotica.\n\nI want to know the difference but don't want to get on a watchlist by googling it.",
">\n\nWithout the word child there, there's a difference in degree. I'd say it's the same thing with that word in there just describing the subject depicted. Pornography is generally actual sex acts of some form or another. Erotica falls short of that, it may be arousing or suggestive. For example, a cabaret show may be erotica but it's certainly not pornography.",
">\n\nPriest? Church? Man in a tax evasion party house?",
">\n\nYet the church immediately moved him somewhere else as there was a daycare next door to the church, then offered to pay to have the priest under house arrest so that the child predator won't go to jail.",
">\n\nShittiest Ted Talk I’ve ever seen, honestly…",
">\n\nOnly five years?! \nUgh!",
">\n\nAnd they call LGBT+ people groomers. (eyeroll)",
">\n\nAnyone who has ever been to a church sadly knows this doesn't need to be in this sub for us to know it's a real story.",
">\n\nOh how nice. The Reverend pleaded for him not to be incarcerated. Because of fucking course he did.",
">\n\nCurious as to who he was presenting this to",
">\n\nPunish these assholes they are smearing God's name",
">\n\nStraight to (checks notes) your next parish!",
">\n\nreligion and sexual abuse. name a more iconic duo\nwhy are any of these religions even allowed to exist any more\nthey have long since lost their meanings, and onlt serve to syphon money out of gullible people, and abuse their children\nwhat is any of these religions actually adding to society any more? other than more perverted monsters",
">\n\nHe’s not the only one",
">\n\nWhy is no big tv news channel talking about this?",
">\n\nAsked that he not go to prison & that his congregation pay to house him? Fuck the church. That's almost the most disgusting part of this",
">\n\nSo are we talking a pptx or an old-school film Rolodex version? Both are messed up, but one takes A LOT more effort.",
">\n\nThe catholic church is of Satan."
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"Slideshows????? What?\nMy man just opened up cp.ppt and added a few THOUSAND slides of kiddy porn????\nClippy: it looks like youre a depraved predator. Do you want to profane the church as well?",
">\n\nWell I always did believe Power Point was a creation of a malevolent entity.",
">\n\nTuring complete, no less!",
">\n\nBut can it run Doom?",
">\n\nAnything can run doom",
">\n\nBut can Doom run Doom?",
">\n\nDoom can run Doom because Doom runs Doom when Doom runs.",
">\n\nPeople don't run Doom like it is, but it Doom.",
">\n\nGonna take this moment to highly recommend the film Spotlight to any who haven’t seen it",
">\n\nCheck out the 2017 limited series on either Netflix or Prime: \"The Keepers\" about a Baltimore-area Catholic girls' school. Based on the experiences as told by some of the girls, now middle-aged women. It is NOT nice, will make you cry, will enrage you. But I commend the women who made this documentary for as painful as it was for the audience to watch, I can't imagine how they made it thru. And they brought it around to a decent ending, but wow....I think some of what happened in Baltimore bled over into the Spotlight story.\nLapsed Catholic. I cannot reconcile with the Church hierarchy over this because they have behaved satanically for far too long to make me believe they are holy in any way.",
">\n\nThere was a documentary that came out a year or two ago tbzg sounds similar but men who were molested as kids while in the church. \nI honestly don't know how anyone can still support the church. At all. If it was one priest, sure. It's sad it happened, but pedophiles will always exist and find ways to get to kids.\nBut with how often it happens and with how little the church cares? Nope. I never could be catholic even if I was Christian.",
">\n\nBecause saving souls bringing them into their cult is more valuable than the ones they crush. The Vatican last I heard had 7 pedos protecting by not complying with extradition requests. \nAny organization not willing to comply with the laws of the country where they have a tax exempt status should lose their exemption and title to any property they own. If you RICO cartel and mafia assets, then you can do so for these child abusers and their protective association. \nYou know the church owns most of Manhattan and isn't paying taxes? All that money and we have to tolerate this shit? Nah fuck them.",
">\n\nNude pix on the church printer . . . I can imagine the scene.\nSister Mary Michael: Yo, does anyone recognize this tallywhacker?\nFormer Alter Boy Brian: Yeah, that's Father Jim. I'd know that hairy mole anywhere.",
">\n\nThat's Tommy Turner's tallywhacker",
">\n\nIf Reddit still gave free awards, I'd give one to you for catching the reference.",
">\n\nWAIT when did they get rid of the free awards",
">\n\nguess this is how i found out. last i claimed mine is around last week, i think. i only claim once every two weeks to gild certain biweekly thread lul",
">\n\nAnd yet where are all the \"anti-groomers\" protesting these churches?",
">\n\nIt’s almost like it has never actually been about protecting children, and it’s always been about trying to demonize LGBT people",
">\n\nAt this point I am positive the religious right to life thing is about having more targets.",
">\n\nGlad 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?",
">\n\nAfter 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.",
">\n\nI 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.\nThere are also many who truly believe the schtick and just compartmentalize the bad stuff. Both are to blame regardless. Nobody gets a pass.",
">\n\nI could see that with some of the smaller denominations for sure.\nWhen 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.",
">\n\n*making another streak to the tally list wall\n*camera panning out to reveal a huge fucking wall coveres in streaks",
">\n\nMan 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.\nThat said. This man should burn for this",
">\n\nPriest? Pedo? Are you sure? This is unprecedented",
">\n\nCorrection! PedoPreist",
">\n\nNew name not necessary. If anything there should be a name for the unique priests that arent pedos.",
">\n\nI'm inclined to think the majority of priests aren't child predators themselves.\nThe 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.\nWay, way too many of them are pedo-enablers. All the way up...",
">\n\nThen that would mean that... Gasp\nSouth Park was right all along....\nSneaky little bastards didn't think I would notice....",
">\n\nWish I was surprised",
">\n\nYou make slideshows of images? \nEdit: \nOh wait I see what you mean. Yeah the pedophile priest thing is so expected that only the slideshow bit stood out",
">\n\nHoly hell. Priest have normalized pedophilia.",
">\n\nNot just priests. Protestant Christians have a major problem with sexual abuse too, particularly against children.\nAfter Major Investigation, Southern Baptists Confront the Abuse Crisis They Knew Was Coming\nDon't let the Evangelical pedo defenders get away with claiming that Catholicism is the only issue here. It isn't.",
">\n\n\nnone of them are immune to the depravity.\n\nAlmost implied, really.",
">\n\nCould 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?",
">\n\nA variety of factors:\n\nUnquestioned moral authority and intense trust from a large community who have all been taught to obey church authorities\nSupport from a massive extremely powerful institution that has covered up thousands of similar crimes\nStrictly forbidden to marry, have sex, or iirc even masturbate, making them view all sexual activities as similarly taboo for them\nEasy regular access to many children\nEasy ability to get alone time with children\nPriests are only held institutionally accountable to each other and to those with more authority in the church\nVictims 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\nChildren 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\nThe 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\nThe 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\n\nThat'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.”\nP.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.\nWant 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.\nEdit to add this excellent way to protect kids that churches consistently fight against:\n\n“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.\nchildren 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.”",
">\n\nSo this should be buried enough if I speak in general terms.\nYears back one of our pastors had to give up being a pastor. They didn't get into details of what he did but they did stress that kids were not involved. The whole church could be seen relaxing.",
">\n\n5 years for thousands of child porn images and videos? Seems pretty fucking light to me. This piece of shit should die in prison.",
">\n\n5 years and a ticket to heaven",
">\n\nHeaven? For him?",
">\n\nThat'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.",
">\n\nDon't you also have to be truly repentant for your sins, including making a good faith effort to keep from repeating them?",
">\n\nI would love for someone to answer this because I really want to know, too.",
">\n\nyes I'm pretty sure that's it. God sees people's hearts He should know the diff between true repentance and fake one",
">\n\nYes, assuming an all-powerful God existed, he’d be able to pretty easily know if you were truly sorry.",
">\n\nYeah but......... \nI'm just starting the religious apologist's sentence for them.",
">\n\nFor 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.",
">\n\nOne 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.",
">\n\nOnce I heard this theory, the acceptance by conservatives of people whose behavior is in direct conflict with their moral beliefs, made more sense.",
">\n\n5 holly maries and transfer\nafter 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.\nRev. 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.\"\nMcDevitt asked the presiding judge for \"mercy for Jim,\" and even offered for the congregation to pay to house him in lieu of imprisonment.\n\"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.\"\n\"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.\"",
">\n\nIn Australia at the moment there is a furore after the death of Cardinal George Pell who was convicted (then exonerated) of personally abusing children, but was found by a Royal Commission (that would be a special prosecutor for our American friends?) of enabling and protecting paedophile priests for decades.\nCan honestly say I have not been able to listen to the string of \"Christians\" praising this man in our media for the last few days without wanting to puke. Suffer the little children.",
">\n\nWith you there. At least there’s a lot of people calling his supporters out on this. Fuck Tony Abbott, John Howard and Andrew Bolt to name a few.",
">\n\nI 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!",
">\n\nr/PastorArrested (also includes Priests)",
">\n\nDon'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.",
">\n\nIf there is a god, wtf?",
">\n\nThere is no God. Religion is about control and money",
">\n\nAnd more money",
">\n\n\"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.\" \n- Rev. Patrick McDevitt, provincial superior for the Congregation of the Western Province \n\nEvery single member of that congregation is a horrible piece of shit",
">\n\nWhat 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?",
">\n\n“Drag queens are grooming our youth!!!”",
">\n\n\"I think we all know where people put on dresses and fuck kids\"\n-Trixie Mattel, 2022",
">\n\nKid “Bless me Father, for I have sinned”\nPadre “ call me, maybe?”",
">\n\nImagine my shock to discover that a priest has been involved in a sex scandal and one involving the exploitation of children, at that.",
">\n\nGOP: \"But wuttabout drag queens?!?!?!??!\"",
">\n\nDoing the Lords work 🙏🏾",
">\n\nTax-free",
">\n\nWhat's the deal with priests being so into pedophilia? Can't they look at milf pounds like normal people?",
">\n\nOh look... Another priest with child porn ... When do we get to start taxing the church?",
">\n\nr/pastorarrested",
">\n\nChurch is a scary place, especially for children.",
">\n\nI 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.",
">\n\nOnly 5 years. What a joke.",
">\n\n\nThe 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.\n\nIf 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.",
">\n\nNo one is suprised a priest is a pedophile. \nBut printing out yer nudes? That's odd.",
">\n\nI can think of a reason he printed it out. And I really don't like that reason.",
">\n\nI'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.",
">\n\nThe sheer audacity to do it at church where you work",
">\n\nAnd not a drag queen in sight...",
">\n\nThey do kinda wear dresses, though",
">\n\nToo many “coincidences” within this church to be anything other than systematic",
">\n\nPretty 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.",
">\n\n\nThe data often suggests numbers of pedophiles similar to the general population\n\none 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",
">\n\nYeah, 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.",
">\n\nI 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.",
">\n\nIt's so common for priests to be sickos",
">\n\nGross",
">\n\nAll he needs to do is repent, right?!?",
">\n\nA priest? With kiddie porn? I’ve never heard of such a thing!",
">\n\nRemember 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.",
">\n\n5 years that's all he got",
">\n\nThat's fucking disgusting. Misappropriation of office materials.",
">\n\nIt 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",
">\n\nIdiot 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.",
">\n\nso 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.",
">\n\nI 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 🤷♂️",
">\n\n5 years isnt nearly enough. Lock him up forever and a day.",
">\n\n~~Drag shows~~ Churches are not safe for children",
">\n\nI'm sure the religious Right will be out protesting him any second.\nRight? Right guys? Groomers and all this? Qanons? Where you guys at?\nHuh. Weird.",
">\n\nBut the dragqueens guys?!?!?!??!? /s",
">\n\nWeird that so many god loving people are actually just pedophiles. Wonder what they think god thinks of them. Fuck theism.",
">\n\nTheir god tells them to take the young girls as spoils of war. Their god is just as fucking depraved as they are.",
">\n\ntHaTs jUsT tHe oLd tEsTaMeNt tHoUgh.\ngOds mOraLiTy dOeSnt cHanGe, hE jUsT dEaLs wItH hUmAns diFFeReNtlY nOw. \nYeah when someone deals with people differently than they did before we generally call that \"a change.\"",
">\n\nAnd he wasn’t trans??? Maybe it’s been priests all along that governors should be banning. When will they correct their mistake? /s",
">\n\nDoesn'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...",
">\n\nIt's surprising. Who prints out their own nudes?",
">\n\nLock him up and throw away the keys",
">\n\nDarn priests, at least those protestant ministers keep it in the family",
">\n\nNot surprised.",
">\n\nThree hail marys and all is forgiven. What a load of bs",
">\n\nJust one bad apple, I’m sure.",
">\n\nLeast paedophilic priest",
">\n\n…slideshow?",
">\n\nGod works in mysterious ways ya fuckin chomo. As a priest, he of all people should have seen this coming...",
">\n\nIn other news, water is wet",
">\n\nOnly five years...",
">\n\n”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.” \nಠ_ಠ",
">\n\nI don’t remember this plotline during Doubt…",
">\n\nWe keep letting them get away with it, so they keep doing it. More obvious news at 10.",
">\n\n& once they found him out he got made a cardinal",
">\n\nHe should've kept them in the garage with his Corvette",
">\n\n5 years? If nothing else, using PowerPoint should have been an aggravating factor.",
">\n\nAnd you thought looking at Bob's family vacation pics was a bad time",
">\n\nWhen 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.",
">\n\nHow is the Roman Catholic Church not closed down for enabling and protecting child abusers",
">\n\nAre 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.",
">\n\nIt'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.",
">\n\npapabile!",
">\n\nLeft nudes on a shared printer? Rookie mistake.",
">\n\nTeach your priests just enough tech to effectively turn themselves in.",
">\n\nIsn't it something how the church decided to investigate themselves again. Keep it in the family, guys.\nI 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.",
">\n\nIs 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:\n1 - 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\n2 - 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)\n3 - 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.\nTL;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.",
">\n\nLet me guess.\nMoved to a different church at the other side of the country and that’s about it for consequences?",
">\n\nThose damned drag queens strike again.",
">\n\nI mean that’s kinda how they caught BTK",
">\n\nSo priests are still abusing kids after we didn't do anything to them the last few times we caught them? Color me surprised.",
">\n\n\nCourt 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.\"\n\n...\n\nDuring 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. \n\n...\n\nAnd 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. \n\nFuck everyone that allowed this scum to continue in a position of authority.",
">\n\nDon’t hear this happening at drag shows…j/s",
">\n\nHe put the PDF in pedofile",
">\n\nThis is Fucking ridiculous",
">\n\nNever forget who the actual groomers are",
">\n\nThe proud boys will be outside of churches \"protesting\" with guns now, right? right?",
">\n\nA priest being pedophile? But that is absolutely unheard of, say it isn't so!",
">\n\nYou sure this wasn't at a Trans drag show? GOP is sure this happens at Trans dragsl shows",
">\n\nExcommunicated by PowerPoint",
">\n\n5 years and a fine? FFS, that’s ridiculous.",
">\n\nPraise Jesus!",
">\n\nAnd the right thinks kids going to drag shows are the problem",
">\n\nAverage christian.",
">\n\nbut the drag queens are reading books to children in libraries! The madnessss",
">\n\nSo they moved him to a new church. This is what they have always done.",
">\n\nleast pedophilic priest:",
">\n\nThe dead ones dont hurt anyone.",
">\n\ninto the furnace he goes. theres no rehabbing people like this.",
">\n\nIt's always the ones you least expect..",
">\n\nOr in this case, the ones you MOST suspect",
">\n\nlol ya, I said that with sarcasm..",
">\n\nPray that he gets nut cancer.",
">\n\nNut cancer was once described to me as \"the common cold of cancers\". It has something like a 95% survival rate.\nHe deserves worse.",
">\n\nDidn't know that. Good nut fact for the day.",
">\n\nIt's definitely the drag queens reading to kids in libraries that's the problem.",
">\n\nRight wingers want him to be a closeted drag queen so badly",
">\n\nI could never trust any man who goes into priesthood. Completely unnatural and deviant occupation rife with pedophiles.",
">\n\nThis MONSTER got 5 years?! \nThe CHILDREN being abused in the images will suffer for the rest of their lives!!\nI'm in favor of LIFE SENTENCES for child sex offenders. \nOr better yet, the DEATH PENALTY!!",
">\n\nReligion was invented by Man for Control of the Flock.You go to Confession and tell the priest everything so they can determine how to undress you.\nI was once a Catholic.....born, baptised, confirmed and educated in a Grammar school run by Irish Christian Brothers under the Order of Edmund Ignatius Rice......and now I'm an atheist.",
">\n\nHow come it is always ‘Christians’ who are involved in child sex abuse?",
">\n\nOf course he's a pedo, he's a priest!",
">\n\nYes millions of idiots keep donating billions to the church",
">\n\nNot simply donating, they bring their children along, indoctrinate them that the priest is the speaker of God, and that God can do no wrong, so anything the priest dose is holy and good. The priest even says so!\nAnd when the kids bring it up the first few times weird things happen? The parents tell them to shush. And so, the sacrifices continue, the parents make a show of not knowing, and things get worse for the children.\nAnd if the priest is reported, the church just moves them to a different parish.\nThe only difference between the taliban and the catholic church, is one of them advertises the child slaves as a benefit, while the other pretends it's not (but totally encourages it, top to bottom).",
">\n\nAnd who are the groomers again?",
">\n\nThis is what happens when you don’t recycle your printer papers.",
">\n\nI feel like this isn't oniony enough, everyone knows by now that priests are significantly more likely to be pedophiles than the general population.",
">\n\nSure, but “gets caught by leaving nudes on a printer” is a fairly onion-y end.",
">\n\nYa know you're right",
">\n\nI have a theory about the correlation between priests and pedophiles. This is my opinion based on conversations with a childhood friend (not a pedo) and is only my opinion but could explain why so many priests abuse children. Get your down votes ready. \nThese boys grow up in the church and it is all they know for the most part. When going through puberty we become attracted to a gender (male or female gay or straight sometimes somewhere in between) and more often a \"type\" as well (blonde brunette short tall etc). Our hormones drive us to seek companionship, intimacy, and ultimately procreation. \nThese boys growing up never develop this attraction to their peers but rather feel more comfortable around younger children and usually behave as mentors. The combination of love of church and disinterest in peers puts the thought in their heads that priesthood is their calling. It takes a long time and effort to become a priest. There are easier paths if a guy just wants to bang kids.\nPut together lack of sex or release of biological needs with access and constant contact with children and they are basically pushed over the edge.\nTo sum up, pedophiles don't become priests to molest children, they become priests because they don't realize they are pedophiles. This is just my opinion, and obviously there are also exceptions to this.\nPerhaps the solution is to get rid of this nonsense celibacy.",
">\n\nAlternative theory: pedophiles become priests because they know the Catholic Church will support and hide them from accountability. Plus, all those altar boys have been easy pickings for decades. \nOn the positive side, Catholic Churches are closing all over Missouri because of dwindling congregations.",
">\n\nThis is one crime I’ll never be able to fathom.",
">\n\nSo fucking sick advocating for this monster so he can maintain freedom?",
">\n\nThe church has been so infiltrated by Child abusers that they are currently rating worse than Satan Worshippers",
">\n\nCan we just fuck churches off now???",
">\n\nYour tithing had to go somewhere.",
">\n\nHow come republicans are not calling these people groomers?",
">\n\nIs anyone else picturing the scene in the first Scary Movie where the cop asks Anna Faris to look at some pictures?\nPriest hands out the pictures of himself along with the weekly pamphlet. Maybe the first reading is from the Song of Solomon...",
">\n\nOh shit. \nHas he been quietly shuffled to a new church yet?",
">\n\nI'm old enough that when I see \"slideshow\" I think of him arranging physical slides in a carousel to project on a screen, like the family trip to Disneyland. Maybe invite the neighbors over for cake.",
">\n\nLord above why is this a thing",
">\n\nYou mean not a drag queen?",
">\n\nActual groomers.",
">\n\nJust think the hands that wanked to kiddie pr0n put wafers on the tongues of everyone in that congregation...",
">\n\nLMAO. This slightly ambiguous headline had me thinking “who attended these slideshow presentations?”",
">\n\nOh look another pedophile catholic priest. Good job reinforcing that stereotype.",
">\n\nAnd we should take guidance from those who hide these atrocities so we can live a better life in the eyes of god.",
">\n\nFriendly reminder religion is a mistake that deserves to be taxed. If you threatened to tax zealots tomorrow child molestation by priests would drop to zero",
">\n\nmay your mother smile as you burn",
">\n\nThis is what happens when you have unchecked power for thousands of years.\nHorrifying.",
">\n\nDid he learn this behavior from a drag show? /s",
">\n\nReminds me of something Chris Rock said: \"Where do women find the porn? They don't find it in your hiding place, they find it in the VCR\"",
">\n\nHe was also probably saving up for a trip to Disney World.",
">\n\n\nincluding child pornography and images of child erotica.\n\nI want to know the difference but don't want to get on a watchlist by googling it.",
">\n\nWithout the word child there, there's a difference in degree. I'd say it's the same thing with that word in there just describing the subject depicted. Pornography is generally actual sex acts of some form or another. Erotica falls short of that, it may be arousing or suggestive. For example, a cabaret show may be erotica but it's certainly not pornography.",
">\n\nPriest? Church? Man in a tax evasion party house?",
">\n\nYet the church immediately moved him somewhere else as there was a daycare next door to the church, then offered to pay to have the priest under house arrest so that the child predator won't go to jail.",
">\n\nShittiest Ted Talk I’ve ever seen, honestly…",
">\n\nOnly five years?! \nUgh!",
">\n\nAnd they call LGBT+ people groomers. (eyeroll)",
">\n\nAnyone who has ever been to a church sadly knows this doesn't need to be in this sub for us to know it's a real story.",
">\n\nOh how nice. The Reverend pleaded for him not to be incarcerated. Because of fucking course he did.",
">\n\nCurious as to who he was presenting this to",
">\n\nPunish these assholes they are smearing God's name",
">\n\nStraight to (checks notes) your next parish!",
">\n\nreligion and sexual abuse. name a more iconic duo\nwhy are any of these religions even allowed to exist any more\nthey have long since lost their meanings, and onlt serve to syphon money out of gullible people, and abuse their children\nwhat is any of these religions actually adding to society any more? other than more perverted monsters",
">\n\nHe’s not the only one",
">\n\nWhy is no big tv news channel talking about this?",
">\n\nAsked that he not go to prison & that his congregation pay to house him? Fuck the church. That's almost the most disgusting part of this",
">\n\nSo are we talking a pptx or an old-school film Rolodex version? Both are messed up, but one takes A LOT more effort.",
">\n\nThe catholic church is of Satan.",
">\n\nFaith is of \"Satan.\" The idea that assuming you might be wrong is morally wrong produces some of the worst people imaginable. And that applies to secular ideologies that require looking down on those who disagree or are unsure too."
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"Slideshows????? What?\nMy man just opened up cp.ppt and added a few THOUSAND slides of kiddy porn????\nClippy: it looks like youre a depraved predator. Do you want to profane the church as well?",
">\n\nWell I always did believe Power Point was a creation of a malevolent entity.",
">\n\nTuring complete, no less!",
">\n\nBut can it run Doom?",
">\n\nAnything can run doom",
">\n\nBut can Doom run Doom?",
">\n\nDoom can run Doom because Doom runs Doom when Doom runs.",
">\n\nPeople don't run Doom like it is, but it Doom.",
">\n\nGonna take this moment to highly recommend the film Spotlight to any who haven’t seen it",
">\n\nCheck out the 2017 limited series on either Netflix or Prime: \"The Keepers\" about a Baltimore-area Catholic girls' school. Based on the experiences as told by some of the girls, now middle-aged women. It is NOT nice, will make you cry, will enrage you. But I commend the women who made this documentary for as painful as it was for the audience to watch, I can't imagine how they made it thru. And they brought it around to a decent ending, but wow....I think some of what happened in Baltimore bled over into the Spotlight story.\nLapsed Catholic. I cannot reconcile with the Church hierarchy over this because they have behaved satanically for far too long to make me believe they are holy in any way.",
">\n\nThere was a documentary that came out a year or two ago tbzg sounds similar but men who were molested as kids while in the church. \nI honestly don't know how anyone can still support the church. At all. If it was one priest, sure. It's sad it happened, but pedophiles will always exist and find ways to get to kids.\nBut with how often it happens and with how little the church cares? Nope. I never could be catholic even if I was Christian.",
">\n\nBecause saving souls bringing them into their cult is more valuable than the ones they crush. The Vatican last I heard had 7 pedos protecting by not complying with extradition requests. \nAny organization not willing to comply with the laws of the country where they have a tax exempt status should lose their exemption and title to any property they own. If you RICO cartel and mafia assets, then you can do so for these child abusers and their protective association. \nYou know the church owns most of Manhattan and isn't paying taxes? All that money and we have to tolerate this shit? Nah fuck them.",
">\n\nNude pix on the church printer . . . I can imagine the scene.\nSister Mary Michael: Yo, does anyone recognize this tallywhacker?\nFormer Alter Boy Brian: Yeah, that's Father Jim. I'd know that hairy mole anywhere.",
">\n\nThat's Tommy Turner's tallywhacker",
">\n\nIf Reddit still gave free awards, I'd give one to you for catching the reference.",
">\n\nWAIT when did they get rid of the free awards",
">\n\nguess this is how i found out. last i claimed mine is around last week, i think. i only claim once every two weeks to gild certain biweekly thread lul",
">\n\nAnd yet where are all the \"anti-groomers\" protesting these churches?",
">\n\nIt’s almost like it has never actually been about protecting children, and it’s always been about trying to demonize LGBT people",
">\n\nAt this point I am positive the religious right to life thing is about having more targets.",
">\n\nGlad 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?",
">\n\nAfter 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.",
">\n\nI 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.\nThere are also many who truly believe the schtick and just compartmentalize the bad stuff. Both are to blame regardless. Nobody gets a pass.",
">\n\nI could see that with some of the smaller denominations for sure.\nWhen 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.",
">\n\n*making another streak to the tally list wall\n*camera panning out to reveal a huge fucking wall coveres in streaks",
">\n\nMan 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.\nThat said. This man should burn for this",
">\n\nPriest? Pedo? Are you sure? This is unprecedented",
">\n\nCorrection! PedoPreist",
">\n\nNew name not necessary. If anything there should be a name for the unique priests that arent pedos.",
">\n\nI'm inclined to think the majority of priests aren't child predators themselves.\nThe 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.\nWay, way too many of them are pedo-enablers. All the way up...",
">\n\nThen that would mean that... Gasp\nSouth Park was right all along....\nSneaky little bastards didn't think I would notice....",
">\n\nWish I was surprised",
">\n\nYou make slideshows of images? \nEdit: \nOh wait I see what you mean. Yeah the pedophile priest thing is so expected that only the slideshow bit stood out",
">\n\nHoly hell. Priest have normalized pedophilia.",
">\n\nNot just priests. Protestant Christians have a major problem with sexual abuse too, particularly against children.\nAfter Major Investigation, Southern Baptists Confront the Abuse Crisis They Knew Was Coming\nDon't let the Evangelical pedo defenders get away with claiming that Catholicism is the only issue here. It isn't.",
">\n\n\nnone of them are immune to the depravity.\n\nAlmost implied, really.",
">\n\nCould 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?",
">\n\nA variety of factors:\n\nUnquestioned moral authority and intense trust from a large community who have all been taught to obey church authorities\nSupport from a massive extremely powerful institution that has covered up thousands of similar crimes\nStrictly forbidden to marry, have sex, or iirc even masturbate, making them view all sexual activities as similarly taboo for them\nEasy regular access to many children\nEasy ability to get alone time with children\nPriests are only held institutionally accountable to each other and to those with more authority in the church\nVictims 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\nChildren 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\nThe 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\nThe 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\n\nThat'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.”\nP.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.\nWant 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.\nEdit to add this excellent way to protect kids that churches consistently fight against:\n\n“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.\nchildren 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.”",
">\n\nSo this should be buried enough if I speak in general terms.\nYears back one of our pastors had to give up being a pastor. They didn't get into details of what he did but they did stress that kids were not involved. The whole church could be seen relaxing.",
">\n\n5 years for thousands of child porn images and videos? Seems pretty fucking light to me. This piece of shit should die in prison.",
">\n\n5 years and a ticket to heaven",
">\n\nHeaven? For him?",
">\n\nThat'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.",
">\n\nDon't you also have to be truly repentant for your sins, including making a good faith effort to keep from repeating them?",
">\n\nI would love for someone to answer this because I really want to know, too.",
">\n\nyes I'm pretty sure that's it. God sees people's hearts He should know the diff between true repentance and fake one",
">\n\nYes, assuming an all-powerful God existed, he’d be able to pretty easily know if you were truly sorry.",
">\n\nYeah but......... \nI'm just starting the religious apologist's sentence for them.",
">\n\nFor 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.",
">\n\nOne 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.",
">\n\nOnce I heard this theory, the acceptance by conservatives of people whose behavior is in direct conflict with their moral beliefs, made more sense.",
">\n\n5 holly maries and transfer\nafter 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.\nRev. 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.\"\nMcDevitt asked the presiding judge for \"mercy for Jim,\" and even offered for the congregation to pay to house him in lieu of imprisonment.\n\"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.\"\n\"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.\"",
">\n\nIn Australia at the moment there is a furore after the death of Cardinal George Pell who was convicted (then exonerated) of personally abusing children, but was found by a Royal Commission (that would be a special prosecutor for our American friends?) of enabling and protecting paedophile priests for decades.\nCan honestly say I have not been able to listen to the string of \"Christians\" praising this man in our media for the last few days without wanting to puke. Suffer the little children.",
">\n\nWith you there. At least there’s a lot of people calling his supporters out on this. Fuck Tony Abbott, John Howard and Andrew Bolt to name a few.",
">\n\nI 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!",
">\n\nr/PastorArrested (also includes Priests)",
">\n\nDon'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.",
">\n\nIf there is a god, wtf?",
">\n\nThere is no God. Religion is about control and money",
">\n\nAnd more money",
">\n\n\"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.\" \n- Rev. Patrick McDevitt, provincial superior for the Congregation of the Western Province \n\nEvery single member of that congregation is a horrible piece of shit",
">\n\nWhat 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?",
">\n\n“Drag queens are grooming our youth!!!”",
">\n\n\"I think we all know where people put on dresses and fuck kids\"\n-Trixie Mattel, 2022",
">\n\nKid “Bless me Father, for I have sinned”\nPadre “ call me, maybe?”",
">\n\nImagine my shock to discover that a priest has been involved in a sex scandal and one involving the exploitation of children, at that.",
">\n\nGOP: \"But wuttabout drag queens?!?!?!??!\"",
">\n\nDoing the Lords work 🙏🏾",
">\n\nTax-free",
">\n\nWhat's the deal with priests being so into pedophilia? Can't they look at milf pounds like normal people?",
">\n\nOh look... Another priest with child porn ... When do we get to start taxing the church?",
">\n\nr/pastorarrested",
">\n\nChurch is a scary place, especially for children.",
">\n\nI 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.",
">\n\nOnly 5 years. What a joke.",
">\n\n\nThe 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.\n\nIf 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.",
">\n\nNo one is suprised a priest is a pedophile. \nBut printing out yer nudes? That's odd.",
">\n\nI can think of a reason he printed it out. And I really don't like that reason.",
">\n\nI'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.",
">\n\nThe sheer audacity to do it at church where you work",
">\n\nAnd not a drag queen in sight...",
">\n\nThey do kinda wear dresses, though",
">\n\nToo many “coincidences” within this church to be anything other than systematic",
">\n\nPretty 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.",
">\n\n\nThe data often suggests numbers of pedophiles similar to the general population\n\none 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",
">\n\nYeah, 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.",
">\n\nI 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.",
">\n\nIt's so common for priests to be sickos",
">\n\nGross",
">\n\nAll he needs to do is repent, right?!?",
">\n\nA priest? With kiddie porn? I’ve never heard of such a thing!",
">\n\nRemember 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.",
">\n\n5 years that's all he got",
">\n\nThat's fucking disgusting. Misappropriation of office materials.",
">\n\nIt 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",
">\n\nIdiot 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.",
">\n\nso 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.",
">\n\nI 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 🤷♂️",
">\n\n5 years isnt nearly enough. Lock him up forever and a day.",
">\n\n~~Drag shows~~ Churches are not safe for children",
">\n\nI'm sure the religious Right will be out protesting him any second.\nRight? Right guys? Groomers and all this? Qanons? Where you guys at?\nHuh. Weird.",
">\n\nBut the dragqueens guys?!?!?!??!? /s",
">\n\nWeird that so many god loving people are actually just pedophiles. Wonder what they think god thinks of them. Fuck theism.",
">\n\nTheir god tells them to take the young girls as spoils of war. Their god is just as fucking depraved as they are.",
">\n\ntHaTs jUsT tHe oLd tEsTaMeNt tHoUgh.\ngOds mOraLiTy dOeSnt cHanGe, hE jUsT dEaLs wItH hUmAns diFFeReNtlY nOw. \nYeah when someone deals with people differently than they did before we generally call that \"a change.\"",
">\n\nAnd he wasn’t trans??? Maybe it’s been priests all along that governors should be banning. When will they correct their mistake? /s",
">\n\nDoesn'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...",
">\n\nIt's surprising. Who prints out their own nudes?",
">\n\nLock him up and throw away the keys",
">\n\nDarn priests, at least those protestant ministers keep it in the family",
">\n\nNot surprised.",
">\n\nThree hail marys and all is forgiven. What a load of bs",
">\n\nJust one bad apple, I’m sure.",
">\n\nLeast paedophilic priest",
">\n\n…slideshow?",
">\n\nGod works in mysterious ways ya fuckin chomo. As a priest, he of all people should have seen this coming...",
">\n\nIn other news, water is wet",
">\n\nOnly five years...",
">\n\n”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.” \nಠ_ಠ",
">\n\nI don’t remember this plotline during Doubt…",
">\n\nWe keep letting them get away with it, so they keep doing it. More obvious news at 10.",
">\n\n& once they found him out he got made a cardinal",
">\n\nHe should've kept them in the garage with his Corvette",
">\n\n5 years? If nothing else, using PowerPoint should have been an aggravating factor.",
">\n\nAnd you thought looking at Bob's family vacation pics was a bad time",
">\n\nWhen 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.",
">\n\nHow is the Roman Catholic Church not closed down for enabling and protecting child abusers",
">\n\nAre 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.",
">\n\nIt'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.",
">\n\npapabile!",
">\n\nLeft nudes on a shared printer? Rookie mistake.",
">\n\nTeach your priests just enough tech to effectively turn themselves in.",
">\n\nIsn't it something how the church decided to investigate themselves again. Keep it in the family, guys.\nI 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.",
">\n\nIs 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:\n1 - 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\n2 - 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)\n3 - 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.\nTL;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.",
">\n\nLet me guess.\nMoved to a different church at the other side of the country and that’s about it for consequences?",
">\n\nThose damned drag queens strike again.",
">\n\nI mean that’s kinda how they caught BTK",
">\n\nSo priests are still abusing kids after we didn't do anything to them the last few times we caught them? Color me surprised.",
">\n\n\nCourt 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.\"\n\n...\n\nDuring 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. \n\n...\n\nAnd 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. \n\nFuck everyone that allowed this scum to continue in a position of authority.",
">\n\nDon’t hear this happening at drag shows…j/s",
">\n\nHe put the PDF in pedofile",
">\n\nThis is Fucking ridiculous",
">\n\nNever forget who the actual groomers are",
">\n\nThe proud boys will be outside of churches \"protesting\" with guns now, right? right?",
">\n\nA priest being pedophile? But that is absolutely unheard of, say it isn't so!",
">\n\nYou sure this wasn't at a Trans drag show? GOP is sure this happens at Trans dragsl shows",
">\n\nExcommunicated by PowerPoint",
">\n\n5 years and a fine? FFS, that’s ridiculous.",
">\n\nPraise Jesus!",
">\n\nAnd the right thinks kids going to drag shows are the problem",
">\n\nAverage christian.",
">\n\nbut the drag queens are reading books to children in libraries! The madnessss",
">\n\nSo they moved him to a new church. This is what they have always done.",
">\n\nleast pedophilic priest:",
">\n\nThe dead ones dont hurt anyone.",
">\n\ninto the furnace he goes. theres no rehabbing people like this.",
">\n\nIt's always the ones you least expect..",
">\n\nOr in this case, the ones you MOST suspect",
">\n\nlol ya, I said that with sarcasm..",
">\n\nPray that he gets nut cancer.",
">\n\nNut cancer was once described to me as \"the common cold of cancers\". It has something like a 95% survival rate.\nHe deserves worse.",
">\n\nDidn't know that. Good nut fact for the day.",
">\n\nIt's definitely the drag queens reading to kids in libraries that's the problem.",
">\n\nRight wingers want him to be a closeted drag queen so badly",
">\n\nI could never trust any man who goes into priesthood. Completely unnatural and deviant occupation rife with pedophiles.",
">\n\nThis MONSTER got 5 years?! \nThe CHILDREN being abused in the images will suffer for the rest of their lives!!\nI'm in favor of LIFE SENTENCES for child sex offenders. \nOr better yet, the DEATH PENALTY!!",
">\n\nReligion was invented by Man for Control of the Flock.You go to Confession and tell the priest everything so they can determine how to undress you.\nI was once a Catholic.....born, baptised, confirmed and educated in a Grammar school run by Irish Christian Brothers under the Order of Edmund Ignatius Rice......and now I'm an atheist.",
">\n\nHow come it is always ‘Christians’ who are involved in child sex abuse?",
">\n\nOf course he's a pedo, he's a priest!",
">\n\nYes millions of idiots keep donating billions to the church",
">\n\nNot simply donating, they bring their children along, indoctrinate them that the priest is the speaker of God, and that God can do no wrong, so anything the priest dose is holy and good. The priest even says so!\nAnd when the kids bring it up the first few times weird things happen? The parents tell them to shush. And so, the sacrifices continue, the parents make a show of not knowing, and things get worse for the children.\nAnd if the priest is reported, the church just moves them to a different parish.\nThe only difference between the taliban and the catholic church, is one of them advertises the child slaves as a benefit, while the other pretends it's not (but totally encourages it, top to bottom).",
">\n\nAnd who are the groomers again?",
">\n\nThis is what happens when you don’t recycle your printer papers.",
">\n\nI feel like this isn't oniony enough, everyone knows by now that priests are significantly more likely to be pedophiles than the general population.",
">\n\nSure, but “gets caught by leaving nudes on a printer” is a fairly onion-y end.",
">\n\nYa know you're right",
">\n\nI have a theory about the correlation between priests and pedophiles. This is my opinion based on conversations with a childhood friend (not a pedo) and is only my opinion but could explain why so many priests abuse children. Get your down votes ready. \nThese boys grow up in the church and it is all they know for the most part. When going through puberty we become attracted to a gender (male or female gay or straight sometimes somewhere in between) and more often a \"type\" as well (blonde brunette short tall etc). Our hormones drive us to seek companionship, intimacy, and ultimately procreation. \nThese boys growing up never develop this attraction to their peers but rather feel more comfortable around younger children and usually behave as mentors. The combination of love of church and disinterest in peers puts the thought in their heads that priesthood is their calling. It takes a long time and effort to become a priest. There are easier paths if a guy just wants to bang kids.\nPut together lack of sex or release of biological needs with access and constant contact with children and they are basically pushed over the edge.\nTo sum up, pedophiles don't become priests to molest children, they become priests because they don't realize they are pedophiles. This is just my opinion, and obviously there are also exceptions to this.\nPerhaps the solution is to get rid of this nonsense celibacy.",
">\n\nAlternative theory: pedophiles become priests because they know the Catholic Church will support and hide them from accountability. Plus, all those altar boys have been easy pickings for decades. \nOn the positive side, Catholic Churches are closing all over Missouri because of dwindling congregations.",
">\n\nThis is one crime I’ll never be able to fathom.",
">\n\nSo fucking sick advocating for this monster so he can maintain freedom?",
">\n\nThe church has been so infiltrated by Child abusers that they are currently rating worse than Satan Worshippers",
">\n\nCan we just fuck churches off now???",
">\n\nYour tithing had to go somewhere.",
">\n\nHow come republicans are not calling these people groomers?",
">\n\nIs anyone else picturing the scene in the first Scary Movie where the cop asks Anna Faris to look at some pictures?\nPriest hands out the pictures of himself along with the weekly pamphlet. Maybe the first reading is from the Song of Solomon...",
">\n\nOh shit. \nHas he been quietly shuffled to a new church yet?",
">\n\nI'm old enough that when I see \"slideshow\" I think of him arranging physical slides in a carousel to project on a screen, like the family trip to Disneyland. Maybe invite the neighbors over for cake.",
">\n\nLord above why is this a thing",
">\n\nYou mean not a drag queen?",
">\n\nActual groomers.",
">\n\nJust think the hands that wanked to kiddie pr0n put wafers on the tongues of everyone in that congregation...",
">\n\nLMAO. This slightly ambiguous headline had me thinking “who attended these slideshow presentations?”",
">\n\nOh look another pedophile catholic priest. Good job reinforcing that stereotype.",
">\n\nAnd we should take guidance from those who hide these atrocities so we can live a better life in the eyes of god.",
">\n\nFriendly reminder religion is a mistake that deserves to be taxed. If you threatened to tax zealots tomorrow child molestation by priests would drop to zero",
">\n\nmay your mother smile as you burn",
">\n\nThis is what happens when you have unchecked power for thousands of years.\nHorrifying.",
">\n\nDid he learn this behavior from a drag show? /s",
">\n\nReminds me of something Chris Rock said: \"Where do women find the porn? They don't find it in your hiding place, they find it in the VCR\"",
">\n\nHe was also probably saving up for a trip to Disney World.",
">\n\n\nincluding child pornography and images of child erotica.\n\nI want to know the difference but don't want to get on a watchlist by googling it.",
">\n\nWithout the word child there, there's a difference in degree. I'd say it's the same thing with that word in there just describing the subject depicted. Pornography is generally actual sex acts of some form or another. Erotica falls short of that, it may be arousing or suggestive. For example, a cabaret show may be erotica but it's certainly not pornography.",
">\n\nPriest? Church? Man in a tax evasion party house?",
">\n\nYet the church immediately moved him somewhere else as there was a daycare next door to the church, then offered to pay to have the priest under house arrest so that the child predator won't go to jail.",
">\n\nShittiest Ted Talk I’ve ever seen, honestly…",
">\n\nOnly five years?! \nUgh!",
">\n\nAnd they call LGBT+ people groomers. (eyeroll)",
">\n\nAnyone who has ever been to a church sadly knows this doesn't need to be in this sub for us to know it's a real story.",
">\n\nOh how nice. The Reverend pleaded for him not to be incarcerated. Because of fucking course he did.",
">\n\nCurious as to who he was presenting this to",
">\n\nPunish these assholes they are smearing God's name",
">\n\nStraight to (checks notes) your next parish!",
">\n\nreligion and sexual abuse. name a more iconic duo\nwhy are any of these religions even allowed to exist any more\nthey have long since lost their meanings, and onlt serve to syphon money out of gullible people, and abuse their children\nwhat is any of these religions actually adding to society any more? other than more perverted monsters",
">\n\nHe’s not the only one",
">\n\nWhy is no big tv news channel talking about this?",
">\n\nAsked that he not go to prison & that his congregation pay to house him? Fuck the church. That's almost the most disgusting part of this",
">\n\nSo are we talking a pptx or an old-school film Rolodex version? Both are messed up, but one takes A LOT more effort.",
">\n\nThe catholic church is of Satan.",
">\n\nFaith is of \"Satan.\" The idea that assuming you might be wrong is morally wrong produces some of the worst people imaginable. And that applies to secular ideologies that require looking down on those who disagree or are unsure too.",
">\n\nAge of priest over/under 50\nWhat yall got?\nI have the over."
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Right for some reason i read it as slide show meaning projectors haha. I forgot Powerpoint presentations are a thing. | [
"Slideshows????? What?\nMy man just opened up cp.ppt and added a few THOUSAND slides of kiddy porn????\nClippy: it looks like youre a depraved predator. Do you want to profane the church as well?",
">\n\nWell I always did believe Power Point was a creation of a malevolent entity.",
">\n\nTuring complete, no less!",
">\n\nBut can it run Doom?",
">\n\nAnything can run doom",
">\n\nBut can Doom run Doom?",
">\n\nDoom can run Doom because Doom runs Doom when Doom runs.",
">\n\nPeople don't run Doom like it is, but it Doom.",
">\n\nGonna take this moment to highly recommend the film Spotlight to any who haven’t seen it",
">\n\nCheck out the 2017 limited series on either Netflix or Prime: \"The Keepers\" about a Baltimore-area Catholic girls' school. Based on the experiences as told by some of the girls, now middle-aged women. It is NOT nice, will make you cry, will enrage you. But I commend the women who made this documentary for as painful as it was for the audience to watch, I can't imagine how they made it thru. And they brought it around to a decent ending, but wow....I think some of what happened in Baltimore bled over into the Spotlight story.\nLapsed Catholic. I cannot reconcile with the Church hierarchy over this because they have behaved satanically for far too long to make me believe they are holy in any way.",
">\n\nThere was a documentary that came out a year or two ago tbzg sounds similar but men who were molested as kids while in the church. \nI honestly don't know how anyone can still support the church. At all. If it was one priest, sure. It's sad it happened, but pedophiles will always exist and find ways to get to kids.\nBut with how often it happens and with how little the church cares? Nope. I never could be catholic even if I was Christian.",
">\n\nBecause saving souls bringing them into their cult is more valuable than the ones they crush. The Vatican last I heard had 7 pedos protecting by not complying with extradition requests. \nAny organization not willing to comply with the laws of the country where they have a tax exempt status should lose their exemption and title to any property they own. If you RICO cartel and mafia assets, then you can do so for these child abusers and their protective association. \nYou know the church owns most of Manhattan and isn't paying taxes? All that money and we have to tolerate this shit? Nah fuck them.",
">\n\nNude pix on the church printer . . . I can imagine the scene.\nSister Mary Michael: Yo, does anyone recognize this tallywhacker?\nFormer Alter Boy Brian: Yeah, that's Father Jim. I'd know that hairy mole anywhere.",
">\n\nThat's Tommy Turner's tallywhacker",
">\n\nIf Reddit still gave free awards, I'd give one to you for catching the reference.",
">\n\nWAIT when did they get rid of the free awards",
">\n\nguess this is how i found out. last i claimed mine is around last week, i think. i only claim once every two weeks to gild certain biweekly thread lul",
">\n\nAnd yet where are all the \"anti-groomers\" protesting these churches?",
">\n\nIt’s almost like it has never actually been about protecting children, and it’s always been about trying to demonize LGBT people",
">\n\nAt this point I am positive the religious right to life thing is about having more targets.",
">\n\nGlad 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?",
">\n\nAfter 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.",
">\n\nI 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.\nThere are also many who truly believe the schtick and just compartmentalize the bad stuff. Both are to blame regardless. Nobody gets a pass.",
">\n\nI could see that with some of the smaller denominations for sure.\nWhen 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.",
">\n\n*making another streak to the tally list wall\n*camera panning out to reveal a huge fucking wall coveres in streaks",
">\n\nMan 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.\nThat said. This man should burn for this",
">\n\nPriest? Pedo? Are you sure? This is unprecedented",
">\n\nCorrection! PedoPreist",
">\n\nNew name not necessary. If anything there should be a name for the unique priests that arent pedos.",
">\n\nI'm inclined to think the majority of priests aren't child predators themselves.\nThe 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.\nWay, way too many of them are pedo-enablers. All the way up...",
">\n\nThen that would mean that... Gasp\nSouth Park was right all along....\nSneaky little bastards didn't think I would notice....",
">\n\nWish I was surprised",
">\n\nYou make slideshows of images? \nEdit: \nOh wait I see what you mean. Yeah the pedophile priest thing is so expected that only the slideshow bit stood out",
">\n\nHoly hell. Priest have normalized pedophilia.",
">\n\nNot just priests. Protestant Christians have a major problem with sexual abuse too, particularly against children.\nAfter Major Investigation, Southern Baptists Confront the Abuse Crisis They Knew Was Coming\nDon't let the Evangelical pedo defenders get away with claiming that Catholicism is the only issue here. It isn't.",
">\n\n\nnone of them are immune to the depravity.\n\nAlmost implied, really.",
">\n\nCould 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?",
">\n\nA variety of factors:\n\nUnquestioned moral authority and intense trust from a large community who have all been taught to obey church authorities\nSupport from a massive extremely powerful institution that has covered up thousands of similar crimes\nStrictly forbidden to marry, have sex, or iirc even masturbate, making them view all sexual activities as similarly taboo for them\nEasy regular access to many children\nEasy ability to get alone time with children\nPriests are only held institutionally accountable to each other and to those with more authority in the church\nVictims 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\nChildren 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\nThe 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\nThe 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\n\nThat'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.”\nP.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.\nWant 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.\nEdit to add this excellent way to protect kids that churches consistently fight against:\n\n“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.\nchildren 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.”",
">\n\nSo this should be buried enough if I speak in general terms.\nYears back one of our pastors had to give up being a pastor. They didn't get into details of what he did but they did stress that kids were not involved. The whole church could be seen relaxing.",
">\n\n5 years for thousands of child porn images and videos? Seems pretty fucking light to me. This piece of shit should die in prison.",
">\n\n5 years and a ticket to heaven",
">\n\nHeaven? For him?",
">\n\nThat'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.",
">\n\nDon't you also have to be truly repentant for your sins, including making a good faith effort to keep from repeating them?",
">\n\nI would love for someone to answer this because I really want to know, too.",
">\n\nyes I'm pretty sure that's it. God sees people's hearts He should know the diff between true repentance and fake one",
">\n\nYes, assuming an all-powerful God existed, he’d be able to pretty easily know if you were truly sorry.",
">\n\nYeah but......... \nI'm just starting the religious apologist's sentence for them.",
">\n\nFor 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.",
">\n\nOne 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.",
">\n\nOnce I heard this theory, the acceptance by conservatives of people whose behavior is in direct conflict with their moral beliefs, made more sense.",
">\n\n5 holly maries and transfer\nafter 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.\nRev. 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.\"\nMcDevitt asked the presiding judge for \"mercy for Jim,\" and even offered for the congregation to pay to house him in lieu of imprisonment.\n\"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.\"\n\"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.\"",
">\n\nIn Australia at the moment there is a furore after the death of Cardinal George Pell who was convicted (then exonerated) of personally abusing children, but was found by a Royal Commission (that would be a special prosecutor for our American friends?) of enabling and protecting paedophile priests for decades.\nCan honestly say I have not been able to listen to the string of \"Christians\" praising this man in our media for the last few days without wanting to puke. Suffer the little children.",
">\n\nWith you there. At least there’s a lot of people calling his supporters out on this. Fuck Tony Abbott, John Howard and Andrew Bolt to name a few.",
">\n\nI 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!",
">\n\nr/PastorArrested (also includes Priests)",
">\n\nDon'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.",
">\n\nIf there is a god, wtf?",
">\n\nThere is no God. Religion is about control and money",
">\n\nAnd more money",
">\n\n\"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.\" \n- Rev. Patrick McDevitt, provincial superior for the Congregation of the Western Province \n\nEvery single member of that congregation is a horrible piece of shit",
">\n\nWhat 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?",
">\n\n“Drag queens are grooming our youth!!!”",
">\n\n\"I think we all know where people put on dresses and fuck kids\"\n-Trixie Mattel, 2022",
">\n\nKid “Bless me Father, for I have sinned”\nPadre “ call me, maybe?”",
">\n\nImagine my shock to discover that a priest has been involved in a sex scandal and one involving the exploitation of children, at that.",
">\n\nGOP: \"But wuttabout drag queens?!?!?!??!\"",
">\n\nDoing the Lords work 🙏🏾",
">\n\nTax-free",
">\n\nWhat's the deal with priests being so into pedophilia? Can't they look at milf pounds like normal people?",
">\n\nOh look... Another priest with child porn ... When do we get to start taxing the church?",
">\n\nr/pastorarrested",
">\n\nChurch is a scary place, especially for children.",
">\n\nI 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.",
">\n\nOnly 5 years. What a joke.",
">\n\n\nThe 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.\n\nIf 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.",
">\n\nNo one is suprised a priest is a pedophile. \nBut printing out yer nudes? That's odd.",
">\n\nI can think of a reason he printed it out. And I really don't like that reason.",
">\n\nI'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.",
">\n\nThe sheer audacity to do it at church where you work",
">\n\nAnd not a drag queen in sight...",
">\n\nThey do kinda wear dresses, though",
">\n\nToo many “coincidences” within this church to be anything other than systematic",
">\n\nPretty 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.",
">\n\n\nThe data often suggests numbers of pedophiles similar to the general population\n\none 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",
">\n\nYeah, 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.",
">\n\nI 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.",
">\n\nIt's so common for priests to be sickos",
">\n\nGross",
">\n\nAll he needs to do is repent, right?!?",
">\n\nA priest? With kiddie porn? I’ve never heard of such a thing!",
">\n\nRemember 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.",
">\n\n5 years that's all he got",
">\n\nThat's fucking disgusting. Misappropriation of office materials.",
">\n\nIt 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",
">\n\nIdiot 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.",
">\n\nso 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.",
">\n\nI 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 🤷♂️",
">\n\n5 years isnt nearly enough. Lock him up forever and a day.",
">\n\n~~Drag shows~~ Churches are not safe for children",
">\n\nI'm sure the religious Right will be out protesting him any second.\nRight? Right guys? Groomers and all this? Qanons? Where you guys at?\nHuh. Weird.",
">\n\nBut the dragqueens guys?!?!?!??!? /s",
">\n\nWeird that so many god loving people are actually just pedophiles. Wonder what they think god thinks of them. Fuck theism.",
">\n\nTheir god tells them to take the young girls as spoils of war. Their god is just as fucking depraved as they are.",
">\n\ntHaTs jUsT tHe oLd tEsTaMeNt tHoUgh.\ngOds mOraLiTy dOeSnt cHanGe, hE jUsT dEaLs wItH hUmAns diFFeReNtlY nOw. \nYeah when someone deals with people differently than they did before we generally call that \"a change.\"",
">\n\nAnd he wasn’t trans??? Maybe it’s been priests all along that governors should be banning. When will they correct their mistake? /s",
">\n\nDoesn'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...",
">\n\nIt's surprising. Who prints out their own nudes?",
">\n\nLock him up and throw away the keys",
">\n\nDarn priests, at least those protestant ministers keep it in the family",
">\n\nNot surprised.",
">\n\nThree hail marys and all is forgiven. What a load of bs",
">\n\nJust one bad apple, I’m sure.",
">\n\nLeast paedophilic priest",
">\n\n…slideshow?",
">\n\nGod works in mysterious ways ya fuckin chomo. As a priest, he of all people should have seen this coming...",
">\n\nIn other news, water is wet",
">\n\nOnly five years...",
">\n\n”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.” \nಠ_ಠ",
">\n\nI don’t remember this plotline during Doubt…",
">\n\nWe keep letting them get away with it, so they keep doing it. More obvious news at 10.",
">\n\n& once they found him out he got made a cardinal",
">\n\nHe should've kept them in the garage with his Corvette",
">\n\n5 years? If nothing else, using PowerPoint should have been an aggravating factor.",
">\n\nAnd you thought looking at Bob's family vacation pics was a bad time",
">\n\nWhen 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.",
">\n\nHow is the Roman Catholic Church not closed down for enabling and protecting child abusers",
">\n\nAre 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.",
">\n\nIt'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.",
">\n\npapabile!",
">\n\nLeft nudes on a shared printer? Rookie mistake.",
">\n\nTeach your priests just enough tech to effectively turn themselves in.",
">\n\nIsn't it something how the church decided to investigate themselves again. Keep it in the family, guys.\nI 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.",
">\n\nIs 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:\n1 - 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\n2 - 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)\n3 - 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.\nTL;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.",
">\n\nLet me guess.\nMoved to a different church at the other side of the country and that’s about it for consequences?",
">\n\nThose damned drag queens strike again.",
">\n\nI mean that’s kinda how they caught BTK",
">\n\nSo priests are still abusing kids after we didn't do anything to them the last few times we caught them? Color me surprised.",
">\n\n\nCourt 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.\"\n\n...\n\nDuring 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. \n\n...\n\nAnd 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. \n\nFuck everyone that allowed this scum to continue in a position of authority.",
">\n\nDon’t hear this happening at drag shows…j/s",
">\n\nHe put the PDF in pedofile",
">\n\nThis is Fucking ridiculous",
">\n\nNever forget who the actual groomers are",
">\n\nThe proud boys will be outside of churches \"protesting\" with guns now, right? right?",
">\n\nA priest being pedophile? But that is absolutely unheard of, say it isn't so!",
">\n\nYou sure this wasn't at a Trans drag show? GOP is sure this happens at Trans dragsl shows",
">\n\nExcommunicated by PowerPoint",
">\n\n5 years and a fine? FFS, that’s ridiculous.",
">\n\nPraise Jesus!",
">\n\nAnd the right thinks kids going to drag shows are the problem",
">\n\nAverage christian.",
">\n\nbut the drag queens are reading books to children in libraries! The madnessss",
">\n\nSo they moved him to a new church. This is what they have always done.",
">\n\nleast pedophilic priest:",
">\n\nThe dead ones dont hurt anyone.",
">\n\ninto the furnace he goes. theres no rehabbing people like this.",
">\n\nIt's always the ones you least expect..",
">\n\nOr in this case, the ones you MOST suspect",
">\n\nlol ya, I said that with sarcasm..",
">\n\nPray that he gets nut cancer.",
">\n\nNut cancer was once described to me as \"the common cold of cancers\". It has something like a 95% survival rate.\nHe deserves worse.",
">\n\nDidn't know that. Good nut fact for the day.",
">\n\nIt's definitely the drag queens reading to kids in libraries that's the problem.",
">\n\nRight wingers want him to be a closeted drag queen so badly",
">\n\nI could never trust any man who goes into priesthood. Completely unnatural and deviant occupation rife with pedophiles.",
">\n\nThis MONSTER got 5 years?! \nThe CHILDREN being abused in the images will suffer for the rest of their lives!!\nI'm in favor of LIFE SENTENCES for child sex offenders. \nOr better yet, the DEATH PENALTY!!",
">\n\nReligion was invented by Man for Control of the Flock.You go to Confession and tell the priest everything so they can determine how to undress you.\nI was once a Catholic.....born, baptised, confirmed and educated in a Grammar school run by Irish Christian Brothers under the Order of Edmund Ignatius Rice......and now I'm an atheist.",
">\n\nHow come it is always ‘Christians’ who are involved in child sex abuse?",
">\n\nOf course he's a pedo, he's a priest!",
">\n\nYes millions of idiots keep donating billions to the church",
">\n\nNot simply donating, they bring their children along, indoctrinate them that the priest is the speaker of God, and that God can do no wrong, so anything the priest dose is holy and good. The priest even says so!\nAnd when the kids bring it up the first few times weird things happen? The parents tell them to shush. And so, the sacrifices continue, the parents make a show of not knowing, and things get worse for the children.\nAnd if the priest is reported, the church just moves them to a different parish.\nThe only difference between the taliban and the catholic church, is one of them advertises the child slaves as a benefit, while the other pretends it's not (but totally encourages it, top to bottom).",
">\n\nAnd who are the groomers again?",
">\n\nThis is what happens when you don’t recycle your printer papers.",
">\n\nI feel like this isn't oniony enough, everyone knows by now that priests are significantly more likely to be pedophiles than the general population.",
">\n\nSure, but “gets caught by leaving nudes on a printer” is a fairly onion-y end.",
">\n\nYa know you're right",
">\n\nI have a theory about the correlation between priests and pedophiles. This is my opinion based on conversations with a childhood friend (not a pedo) and is only my opinion but could explain why so many priests abuse children. Get your down votes ready. \nThese boys grow up in the church and it is all they know for the most part. When going through puberty we become attracted to a gender (male or female gay or straight sometimes somewhere in between) and more often a \"type\" as well (blonde brunette short tall etc). Our hormones drive us to seek companionship, intimacy, and ultimately procreation. \nThese boys growing up never develop this attraction to their peers but rather feel more comfortable around younger children and usually behave as mentors. The combination of love of church and disinterest in peers puts the thought in their heads that priesthood is their calling. It takes a long time and effort to become a priest. There are easier paths if a guy just wants to bang kids.\nPut together lack of sex or release of biological needs with access and constant contact with children and they are basically pushed over the edge.\nTo sum up, pedophiles don't become priests to molest children, they become priests because they don't realize they are pedophiles. This is just my opinion, and obviously there are also exceptions to this.\nPerhaps the solution is to get rid of this nonsense celibacy.",
">\n\nAlternative theory: pedophiles become priests because they know the Catholic Church will support and hide them from accountability. Plus, all those altar boys have been easy pickings for decades. \nOn the positive side, Catholic Churches are closing all over Missouri because of dwindling congregations.",
">\n\nThis is one crime I’ll never be able to fathom.",
">\n\nSo fucking sick advocating for this monster so he can maintain freedom?",
">\n\nThe church has been so infiltrated by Child abusers that they are currently rating worse than Satan Worshippers",
">\n\nCan we just fuck churches off now???",
">\n\nYour tithing had to go somewhere.",
">\n\nHow come republicans are not calling these people groomers?",
">\n\nIs anyone else picturing the scene in the first Scary Movie where the cop asks Anna Faris to look at some pictures?\nPriest hands out the pictures of himself along with the weekly pamphlet. Maybe the first reading is from the Song of Solomon...",
">\n\nOh shit. \nHas he been quietly shuffled to a new church yet?",
">\n\nI'm old enough that when I see \"slideshow\" I think of him arranging physical slides in a carousel to project on a screen, like the family trip to Disneyland. Maybe invite the neighbors over for cake.",
">\n\nLord above why is this a thing",
">\n\nYou mean not a drag queen?",
">\n\nActual groomers.",
">\n\nJust think the hands that wanked to kiddie pr0n put wafers on the tongues of everyone in that congregation...",
">\n\nLMAO. This slightly ambiguous headline had me thinking “who attended these slideshow presentations?”",
">\n\nOh look another pedophile catholic priest. Good job reinforcing that stereotype.",
">\n\nAnd we should take guidance from those who hide these atrocities so we can live a better life in the eyes of god.",
">\n\nFriendly reminder religion is a mistake that deserves to be taxed. If you threatened to tax zealots tomorrow child molestation by priests would drop to zero",
">\n\nmay your mother smile as you burn",
">\n\nThis is what happens when you have unchecked power for thousands of years.\nHorrifying.",
">\n\nDid he learn this behavior from a drag show? /s",
">\n\nReminds me of something Chris Rock said: \"Where do women find the porn? They don't find it in your hiding place, they find it in the VCR\"",
">\n\nHe was also probably saving up for a trip to Disney World.",
">\n\n\nincluding child pornography and images of child erotica.\n\nI want to know the difference but don't want to get on a watchlist by googling it.",
">\n\nWithout the word child there, there's a difference in degree. I'd say it's the same thing with that word in there just describing the subject depicted. Pornography is generally actual sex acts of some form or another. Erotica falls short of that, it may be arousing or suggestive. For example, a cabaret show may be erotica but it's certainly not pornography.",
">\n\nPriest? Church? Man in a tax evasion party house?",
">\n\nYet the church immediately moved him somewhere else as there was a daycare next door to the church, then offered to pay to have the priest under house arrest so that the child predator won't go to jail.",
">\n\nShittiest Ted Talk I’ve ever seen, honestly…",
">\n\nOnly five years?! \nUgh!",
">\n\nAnd they call LGBT+ people groomers. (eyeroll)",
">\n\nAnyone who has ever been to a church sadly knows this doesn't need to be in this sub for us to know it's a real story.",
">\n\nOh how nice. The Reverend pleaded for him not to be incarcerated. Because of fucking course he did.",
">\n\nCurious as to who he was presenting this to",
">\n\nPunish these assholes they are smearing God's name",
">\n\nStraight to (checks notes) your next parish!",
">\n\nreligion and sexual abuse. name a more iconic duo\nwhy are any of these religions even allowed to exist any more\nthey have long since lost their meanings, and onlt serve to syphon money out of gullible people, and abuse their children\nwhat is any of these religions actually adding to society any more? other than more perverted monsters",
">\n\nHe’s not the only one",
">\n\nWhy is no big tv news channel talking about this?",
">\n\nAsked that he not go to prison & that his congregation pay to house him? Fuck the church. That's almost the most disgusting part of this",
">\n\nSo are we talking a pptx or an old-school film Rolodex version? Both are messed up, but one takes A LOT more effort.",
">\n\nThe catholic church is of Satan.",
">\n\nFaith is of \"Satan.\" The idea that assuming you might be wrong is morally wrong produces some of the worst people imaginable. And that applies to secular ideologies that require looking down on those who disagree or are unsure too.",
">\n\nAge of priest over/under 50\nWhat yall got?\nI have the over.",
">\n\nOnly 5 years?"
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The congregation still requested he be spared incarceration and remain in their facility. Truly unbelievable. | [
"Slideshows????? What?\nMy man just opened up cp.ppt and added a few THOUSAND slides of kiddy porn????\nClippy: it looks like youre a depraved predator. Do you want to profane the church as well?",
">\n\nWell I always did believe Power Point was a creation of a malevolent entity.",
">\n\nTuring complete, no less!",
">\n\nBut can it run Doom?",
">\n\nAnything can run doom",
">\n\nBut can Doom run Doom?",
">\n\nDoom can run Doom because Doom runs Doom when Doom runs.",
">\n\nPeople don't run Doom like it is, but it Doom.",
">\n\nGonna take this moment to highly recommend the film Spotlight to any who haven’t seen it",
">\n\nCheck out the 2017 limited series on either Netflix or Prime: \"The Keepers\" about a Baltimore-area Catholic girls' school. Based on the experiences as told by some of the girls, now middle-aged women. It is NOT nice, will make you cry, will enrage you. But I commend the women who made this documentary for as painful as it was for the audience to watch, I can't imagine how they made it thru. And they brought it around to a decent ending, but wow....I think some of what happened in Baltimore bled over into the Spotlight story.\nLapsed Catholic. I cannot reconcile with the Church hierarchy over this because they have behaved satanically for far too long to make me believe they are holy in any way.",
">\n\nThere was a documentary that came out a year or two ago tbzg sounds similar but men who were molested as kids while in the church. \nI honestly don't know how anyone can still support the church. At all. If it was one priest, sure. It's sad it happened, but pedophiles will always exist and find ways to get to kids.\nBut with how often it happens and with how little the church cares? Nope. I never could be catholic even if I was Christian.",
">\n\nBecause saving souls bringing them into their cult is more valuable than the ones they crush. The Vatican last I heard had 7 pedos protecting by not complying with extradition requests. \nAny organization not willing to comply with the laws of the country where they have a tax exempt status should lose their exemption and title to any property they own. If you RICO cartel and mafia assets, then you can do so for these child abusers and their protective association. \nYou know the church owns most of Manhattan and isn't paying taxes? All that money and we have to tolerate this shit? Nah fuck them.",
">\n\nNude pix on the church printer . . . I can imagine the scene.\nSister Mary Michael: Yo, does anyone recognize this tallywhacker?\nFormer Alter Boy Brian: Yeah, that's Father Jim. I'd know that hairy mole anywhere.",
">\n\nThat's Tommy Turner's tallywhacker",
">\n\nIf Reddit still gave free awards, I'd give one to you for catching the reference.",
">\n\nWAIT when did they get rid of the free awards",
">\n\nguess this is how i found out. last i claimed mine is around last week, i think. i only claim once every two weeks to gild certain biweekly thread lul",
">\n\nAnd yet where are all the \"anti-groomers\" protesting these churches?",
">\n\nIt’s almost like it has never actually been about protecting children, and it’s always been about trying to demonize LGBT people",
">\n\nAt this point I am positive the religious right to life thing is about having more targets.",
">\n\nGlad 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?",
">\n\nAfter 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.",
">\n\nI 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.\nThere are also many who truly believe the schtick and just compartmentalize the bad stuff. Both are to blame regardless. Nobody gets a pass.",
">\n\nI could see that with some of the smaller denominations for sure.\nWhen 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.",
">\n\n*making another streak to the tally list wall\n*camera panning out to reveal a huge fucking wall coveres in streaks",
">\n\nMan 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.\nThat said. This man should burn for this",
">\n\nPriest? Pedo? Are you sure? This is unprecedented",
">\n\nCorrection! PedoPreist",
">\n\nNew name not necessary. If anything there should be a name for the unique priests that arent pedos.",
">\n\nI'm inclined to think the majority of priests aren't child predators themselves.\nThe 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.\nWay, way too many of them are pedo-enablers. All the way up...",
">\n\nThen that would mean that... Gasp\nSouth Park was right all along....\nSneaky little bastards didn't think I would notice....",
">\n\nWish I was surprised",
">\n\nYou make slideshows of images? \nEdit: \nOh wait I see what you mean. Yeah the pedophile priest thing is so expected that only the slideshow bit stood out",
">\n\nHoly hell. Priest have normalized pedophilia.",
">\n\nNot just priests. Protestant Christians have a major problem with sexual abuse too, particularly against children.\nAfter Major Investigation, Southern Baptists Confront the Abuse Crisis They Knew Was Coming\nDon't let the Evangelical pedo defenders get away with claiming that Catholicism is the only issue here. It isn't.",
">\n\n\nnone of them are immune to the depravity.\n\nAlmost implied, really.",
">\n\nCould 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?",
">\n\nA variety of factors:\n\nUnquestioned moral authority and intense trust from a large community who have all been taught to obey church authorities\nSupport from a massive extremely powerful institution that has covered up thousands of similar crimes\nStrictly forbidden to marry, have sex, or iirc even masturbate, making them view all sexual activities as similarly taboo for them\nEasy regular access to many children\nEasy ability to get alone time with children\nPriests are only held institutionally accountable to each other and to those with more authority in the church\nVictims 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\nChildren 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\nThe 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\nThe 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\n\nThat'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.”\nP.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.\nWant 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.\nEdit to add this excellent way to protect kids that churches consistently fight against:\n\n“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.\nchildren 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.”",
">\n\nSo this should be buried enough if I speak in general terms.\nYears back one of our pastors had to give up being a pastor. They didn't get into details of what he did but they did stress that kids were not involved. The whole church could be seen relaxing.",
">\n\n5 years for thousands of child porn images and videos? Seems pretty fucking light to me. This piece of shit should die in prison.",
">\n\n5 years and a ticket to heaven",
">\n\nHeaven? For him?",
">\n\nThat'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.",
">\n\nDon't you also have to be truly repentant for your sins, including making a good faith effort to keep from repeating them?",
">\n\nI would love for someone to answer this because I really want to know, too.",
">\n\nyes I'm pretty sure that's it. God sees people's hearts He should know the diff between true repentance and fake one",
">\n\nYes, assuming an all-powerful God existed, he’d be able to pretty easily know if you were truly sorry.",
">\n\nYeah but......... \nI'm just starting the religious apologist's sentence for them.",
">\n\nFor 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.",
">\n\nOne 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.",
">\n\nOnce I heard this theory, the acceptance by conservatives of people whose behavior is in direct conflict with their moral beliefs, made more sense.",
">\n\n5 holly maries and transfer\nafter 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.\nRev. 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.\"\nMcDevitt asked the presiding judge for \"mercy for Jim,\" and even offered for the congregation to pay to house him in lieu of imprisonment.\n\"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.\"\n\"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.\"",
">\n\nIn Australia at the moment there is a furore after the death of Cardinal George Pell who was convicted (then exonerated) of personally abusing children, but was found by a Royal Commission (that would be a special prosecutor for our American friends?) of enabling and protecting paedophile priests for decades.\nCan honestly say I have not been able to listen to the string of \"Christians\" praising this man in our media for the last few days without wanting to puke. Suffer the little children.",
">\n\nWith you there. At least there’s a lot of people calling his supporters out on this. Fuck Tony Abbott, John Howard and Andrew Bolt to name a few.",
">\n\nI 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!",
">\n\nr/PastorArrested (also includes Priests)",
">\n\nDon'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.",
">\n\nIf there is a god, wtf?",
">\n\nThere is no God. Religion is about control and money",
">\n\nAnd more money",
">\n\n\"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.\" \n- Rev. Patrick McDevitt, provincial superior for the Congregation of the Western Province \n\nEvery single member of that congregation is a horrible piece of shit",
">\n\nWhat 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?",
">\n\n“Drag queens are grooming our youth!!!”",
">\n\n\"I think we all know where people put on dresses and fuck kids\"\n-Trixie Mattel, 2022",
">\n\nKid “Bless me Father, for I have sinned”\nPadre “ call me, maybe?”",
">\n\nImagine my shock to discover that a priest has been involved in a sex scandal and one involving the exploitation of children, at that.",
">\n\nGOP: \"But wuttabout drag queens?!?!?!??!\"",
">\n\nDoing the Lords work 🙏🏾",
">\n\nTax-free",
">\n\nWhat's the deal with priests being so into pedophilia? Can't they look at milf pounds like normal people?",
">\n\nOh look... Another priest with child porn ... When do we get to start taxing the church?",
">\n\nr/pastorarrested",
">\n\nChurch is a scary place, especially for children.",
">\n\nI 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.",
">\n\nOnly 5 years. What a joke.",
">\n\n\nThe 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.\n\nIf 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.",
">\n\nNo one is suprised a priest is a pedophile. \nBut printing out yer nudes? That's odd.",
">\n\nI can think of a reason he printed it out. And I really don't like that reason.",
">\n\nI'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.",
">\n\nThe sheer audacity to do it at church where you work",
">\n\nAnd not a drag queen in sight...",
">\n\nThey do kinda wear dresses, though",
">\n\nToo many “coincidences” within this church to be anything other than systematic",
">\n\nPretty 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.",
">\n\n\nThe data often suggests numbers of pedophiles similar to the general population\n\none 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",
">\n\nYeah, 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.",
">\n\nI 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.",
">\n\nIt's so common for priests to be sickos",
">\n\nGross",
">\n\nAll he needs to do is repent, right?!?",
">\n\nA priest? With kiddie porn? I’ve never heard of such a thing!",
">\n\nRemember 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.",
">\n\n5 years that's all he got",
">\n\nThat's fucking disgusting. Misappropriation of office materials.",
">\n\nIt 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",
">\n\nIdiot 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.",
">\n\nso 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.",
">\n\nI 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 🤷♂️",
">\n\n5 years isnt nearly enough. Lock him up forever and a day.",
">\n\n~~Drag shows~~ Churches are not safe for children",
">\n\nI'm sure the religious Right will be out protesting him any second.\nRight? Right guys? Groomers and all this? Qanons? Where you guys at?\nHuh. Weird.",
">\n\nBut the dragqueens guys?!?!?!??!? /s",
">\n\nWeird that so many god loving people are actually just pedophiles. Wonder what they think god thinks of them. Fuck theism.",
">\n\nTheir god tells them to take the young girls as spoils of war. Their god is just as fucking depraved as they are.",
">\n\ntHaTs jUsT tHe oLd tEsTaMeNt tHoUgh.\ngOds mOraLiTy dOeSnt cHanGe, hE jUsT dEaLs wItH hUmAns diFFeReNtlY nOw. \nYeah when someone deals with people differently than they did before we generally call that \"a change.\"",
">\n\nAnd he wasn’t trans??? Maybe it’s been priests all along that governors should be banning. When will they correct their mistake? /s",
">\n\nDoesn'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...",
">\n\nIt's surprising. Who prints out their own nudes?",
">\n\nLock him up and throw away the keys",
">\n\nDarn priests, at least those protestant ministers keep it in the family",
">\n\nNot surprised.",
">\n\nThree hail marys and all is forgiven. What a load of bs",
">\n\nJust one bad apple, I’m sure.",
">\n\nLeast paedophilic priest",
">\n\n…slideshow?",
">\n\nGod works in mysterious ways ya fuckin chomo. As a priest, he of all people should have seen this coming...",
">\n\nIn other news, water is wet",
">\n\nOnly five years...",
">\n\n”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.” \nಠ_ಠ",
">\n\nI don’t remember this plotline during Doubt…",
">\n\nWe keep letting them get away with it, so they keep doing it. More obvious news at 10.",
">\n\n& once they found him out he got made a cardinal",
">\n\nHe should've kept them in the garage with his Corvette",
">\n\n5 years? If nothing else, using PowerPoint should have been an aggravating factor.",
">\n\nAnd you thought looking at Bob's family vacation pics was a bad time",
">\n\nWhen 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.",
">\n\nHow is the Roman Catholic Church not closed down for enabling and protecting child abusers",
">\n\nAre 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.",
">\n\nIt'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.",
">\n\npapabile!",
">\n\nLeft nudes on a shared printer? Rookie mistake.",
">\n\nTeach your priests just enough tech to effectively turn themselves in.",
">\n\nIsn't it something how the church decided to investigate themselves again. Keep it in the family, guys.\nI 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.",
">\n\nIs 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:\n1 - 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\n2 - 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)\n3 - 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.\nTL;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.",
">\n\nLet me guess.\nMoved to a different church at the other side of the country and that’s about it for consequences?",
">\n\nThose damned drag queens strike again.",
">\n\nI mean that’s kinda how they caught BTK",
">\n\nSo priests are still abusing kids after we didn't do anything to them the last few times we caught them? Color me surprised.",
">\n\n\nCourt 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.\"\n\n...\n\nDuring 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. \n\n...\n\nAnd 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. \n\nFuck everyone that allowed this scum to continue in a position of authority.",
">\n\nDon’t hear this happening at drag shows…j/s",
">\n\nHe put the PDF in pedofile",
">\n\nThis is Fucking ridiculous",
">\n\nNever forget who the actual groomers are",
">\n\nThe proud boys will be outside of churches \"protesting\" with guns now, right? right?",
">\n\nA priest being pedophile? But that is absolutely unheard of, say it isn't so!",
">\n\nYou sure this wasn't at a Trans drag show? GOP is sure this happens at Trans dragsl shows",
">\n\nExcommunicated by PowerPoint",
">\n\n5 years and a fine? FFS, that’s ridiculous.",
">\n\nPraise Jesus!",
">\n\nAnd the right thinks kids going to drag shows are the problem",
">\n\nAverage christian.",
">\n\nbut the drag queens are reading books to children in libraries! The madnessss",
">\n\nSo they moved him to a new church. This is what they have always done.",
">\n\nleast pedophilic priest:",
">\n\nThe dead ones dont hurt anyone.",
">\n\ninto the furnace he goes. theres no rehabbing people like this.",
">\n\nIt's always the ones you least expect..",
">\n\nOr in this case, the ones you MOST suspect",
">\n\nlol ya, I said that with sarcasm..",
">\n\nPray that he gets nut cancer.",
">\n\nNut cancer was once described to me as \"the common cold of cancers\". It has something like a 95% survival rate.\nHe deserves worse.",
">\n\nDidn't know that. Good nut fact for the day.",
">\n\nIt's definitely the drag queens reading to kids in libraries that's the problem.",
">\n\nRight wingers want him to be a closeted drag queen so badly",
">\n\nI could never trust any man who goes into priesthood. Completely unnatural and deviant occupation rife with pedophiles.",
">\n\nThis MONSTER got 5 years?! \nThe CHILDREN being abused in the images will suffer for the rest of their lives!!\nI'm in favor of LIFE SENTENCES for child sex offenders. \nOr better yet, the DEATH PENALTY!!",
">\n\nReligion was invented by Man for Control of the Flock.You go to Confession and tell the priest everything so they can determine how to undress you.\nI was once a Catholic.....born, baptised, confirmed and educated in a Grammar school run by Irish Christian Brothers under the Order of Edmund Ignatius Rice......and now I'm an atheist.",
">\n\nHow come it is always ‘Christians’ who are involved in child sex abuse?",
">\n\nOf course he's a pedo, he's a priest!",
">\n\nYes millions of idiots keep donating billions to the church",
">\n\nNot simply donating, they bring their children along, indoctrinate them that the priest is the speaker of God, and that God can do no wrong, so anything the priest dose is holy and good. The priest even says so!\nAnd when the kids bring it up the first few times weird things happen? The parents tell them to shush. And so, the sacrifices continue, the parents make a show of not knowing, and things get worse for the children.\nAnd if the priest is reported, the church just moves them to a different parish.\nThe only difference between the taliban and the catholic church, is one of them advertises the child slaves as a benefit, while the other pretends it's not (but totally encourages it, top to bottom).",
">\n\nAnd who are the groomers again?",
">\n\nThis is what happens when you don’t recycle your printer papers.",
">\n\nI feel like this isn't oniony enough, everyone knows by now that priests are significantly more likely to be pedophiles than the general population.",
">\n\nSure, but “gets caught by leaving nudes on a printer” is a fairly onion-y end.",
">\n\nYa know you're right",
">\n\nI have a theory about the correlation between priests and pedophiles. This is my opinion based on conversations with a childhood friend (not a pedo) and is only my opinion but could explain why so many priests abuse children. Get your down votes ready. \nThese boys grow up in the church and it is all they know for the most part. When going through puberty we become attracted to a gender (male or female gay or straight sometimes somewhere in between) and more often a \"type\" as well (blonde brunette short tall etc). Our hormones drive us to seek companionship, intimacy, and ultimately procreation. \nThese boys growing up never develop this attraction to their peers but rather feel more comfortable around younger children and usually behave as mentors. The combination of love of church and disinterest in peers puts the thought in their heads that priesthood is their calling. It takes a long time and effort to become a priest. There are easier paths if a guy just wants to bang kids.\nPut together lack of sex or release of biological needs with access and constant contact with children and they are basically pushed over the edge.\nTo sum up, pedophiles don't become priests to molest children, they become priests because they don't realize they are pedophiles. This is just my opinion, and obviously there are also exceptions to this.\nPerhaps the solution is to get rid of this nonsense celibacy.",
">\n\nAlternative theory: pedophiles become priests because they know the Catholic Church will support and hide them from accountability. Plus, all those altar boys have been easy pickings for decades. \nOn the positive side, Catholic Churches are closing all over Missouri because of dwindling congregations.",
">\n\nThis is one crime I’ll never be able to fathom.",
">\n\nSo fucking sick advocating for this monster so he can maintain freedom?",
">\n\nThe church has been so infiltrated by Child abusers that they are currently rating worse than Satan Worshippers",
">\n\nCan we just fuck churches off now???",
">\n\nYour tithing had to go somewhere.",
">\n\nHow come republicans are not calling these people groomers?",
">\n\nIs anyone else picturing the scene in the first Scary Movie where the cop asks Anna Faris to look at some pictures?\nPriest hands out the pictures of himself along with the weekly pamphlet. Maybe the first reading is from the Song of Solomon...",
">\n\nOh shit. \nHas he been quietly shuffled to a new church yet?",
">\n\nI'm old enough that when I see \"slideshow\" I think of him arranging physical slides in a carousel to project on a screen, like the family trip to Disneyland. Maybe invite the neighbors over for cake.",
">\n\nLord above why is this a thing",
">\n\nYou mean not a drag queen?",
">\n\nActual groomers.",
">\n\nJust think the hands that wanked to kiddie pr0n put wafers on the tongues of everyone in that congregation...",
">\n\nLMAO. This slightly ambiguous headline had me thinking “who attended these slideshow presentations?”",
">\n\nOh look another pedophile catholic priest. Good job reinforcing that stereotype.",
">\n\nAnd we should take guidance from those who hide these atrocities so we can live a better life in the eyes of god.",
">\n\nFriendly reminder religion is a mistake that deserves to be taxed. If you threatened to tax zealots tomorrow child molestation by priests would drop to zero",
">\n\nmay your mother smile as you burn",
">\n\nThis is what happens when you have unchecked power for thousands of years.\nHorrifying.",
">\n\nDid he learn this behavior from a drag show? /s",
">\n\nReminds me of something Chris Rock said: \"Where do women find the porn? They don't find it in your hiding place, they find it in the VCR\"",
">\n\nHe was also probably saving up for a trip to Disney World.",
">\n\n\nincluding child pornography and images of child erotica.\n\nI want to know the difference but don't want to get on a watchlist by googling it.",
">\n\nWithout the word child there, there's a difference in degree. I'd say it's the same thing with that word in there just describing the subject depicted. Pornography is generally actual sex acts of some form or another. Erotica falls short of that, it may be arousing or suggestive. For example, a cabaret show may be erotica but it's certainly not pornography.",
">\n\nPriest? Church? Man in a tax evasion party house?",
">\n\nYet the church immediately moved him somewhere else as there was a daycare next door to the church, then offered to pay to have the priest under house arrest so that the child predator won't go to jail.",
">\n\nShittiest Ted Talk I’ve ever seen, honestly…",
">\n\nOnly five years?! \nUgh!",
">\n\nAnd they call LGBT+ people groomers. (eyeroll)",
">\n\nAnyone who has ever been to a church sadly knows this doesn't need to be in this sub for us to know it's a real story.",
">\n\nOh how nice. The Reverend pleaded for him not to be incarcerated. Because of fucking course he did.",
">\n\nCurious as to who he was presenting this to",
">\n\nPunish these assholes they are smearing God's name",
">\n\nStraight to (checks notes) your next parish!",
">\n\nreligion and sexual abuse. name a more iconic duo\nwhy are any of these religions even allowed to exist any more\nthey have long since lost their meanings, and onlt serve to syphon money out of gullible people, and abuse their children\nwhat is any of these religions actually adding to society any more? other than more perverted monsters",
">\n\nHe’s not the only one",
">\n\nWhy is no big tv news channel talking about this?",
">\n\nAsked that he not go to prison & that his congregation pay to house him? Fuck the church. That's almost the most disgusting part of this",
">\n\nSo are we talking a pptx or an old-school film Rolodex version? Both are messed up, but one takes A LOT more effort.",
">\n\nThe catholic church is of Satan.",
">\n\nFaith is of \"Satan.\" The idea that assuming you might be wrong is morally wrong produces some of the worst people imaginable. And that applies to secular ideologies that require looking down on those who disagree or are unsure too.",
">\n\nAge of priest over/under 50\nWhat yall got?\nI have the over.",
">\n\nOnly 5 years?",
">\n\nRight for some reason i read it as slide show meaning projectors haha. I forgot Powerpoint presentations are a thing."
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"Slideshows????? What?\nMy man just opened up cp.ppt and added a few THOUSAND slides of kiddy porn????\nClippy: it looks like youre a depraved predator. Do you want to profane the church as well?",
">\n\nWell I always did believe Power Point was a creation of a malevolent entity.",
">\n\nTuring complete, no less!",
">\n\nBut can it run Doom?",
">\n\nAnything can run doom",
">\n\nBut can Doom run Doom?",
">\n\nDoom can run Doom because Doom runs Doom when Doom runs.",
">\n\nPeople don't run Doom like it is, but it Doom.",
">\n\nGonna take this moment to highly recommend the film Spotlight to any who haven’t seen it",
">\n\nCheck out the 2017 limited series on either Netflix or Prime: \"The Keepers\" about a Baltimore-area Catholic girls' school. Based on the experiences as told by some of the girls, now middle-aged women. It is NOT nice, will make you cry, will enrage you. But I commend the women who made this documentary for as painful as it was for the audience to watch, I can't imagine how they made it thru. And they brought it around to a decent ending, but wow....I think some of what happened in Baltimore bled over into the Spotlight story.\nLapsed Catholic. I cannot reconcile with the Church hierarchy over this because they have behaved satanically for far too long to make me believe they are holy in any way.",
">\n\nThere was a documentary that came out a year or two ago tbzg sounds similar but men who were molested as kids while in the church. \nI honestly don't know how anyone can still support the church. At all. If it was one priest, sure. It's sad it happened, but pedophiles will always exist and find ways to get to kids.\nBut with how often it happens and with how little the church cares? Nope. I never could be catholic even if I was Christian.",
">\n\nBecause saving souls bringing them into their cult is more valuable than the ones they crush. The Vatican last I heard had 7 pedos protecting by not complying with extradition requests. \nAny organization not willing to comply with the laws of the country where they have a tax exempt status should lose their exemption and title to any property they own. If you RICO cartel and mafia assets, then you can do so for these child abusers and their protective association. \nYou know the church owns most of Manhattan and isn't paying taxes? All that money and we have to tolerate this shit? Nah fuck them.",
">\n\nNude pix on the church printer . . . I can imagine the scene.\nSister Mary Michael: Yo, does anyone recognize this tallywhacker?\nFormer Alter Boy Brian: Yeah, that's Father Jim. I'd know that hairy mole anywhere.",
">\n\nThat's Tommy Turner's tallywhacker",
">\n\nIf Reddit still gave free awards, I'd give one to you for catching the reference.",
">\n\nWAIT when did they get rid of the free awards",
">\n\nguess this is how i found out. last i claimed mine is around last week, i think. i only claim once every two weeks to gild certain biweekly thread lul",
">\n\nAnd yet where are all the \"anti-groomers\" protesting these churches?",
">\n\nIt’s almost like it has never actually been about protecting children, and it’s always been about trying to demonize LGBT people",
">\n\nAt this point I am positive the religious right to life thing is about having more targets.",
">\n\nGlad 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?",
">\n\nAfter 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.",
">\n\nI 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.\nThere are also many who truly believe the schtick and just compartmentalize the bad stuff. Both are to blame regardless. Nobody gets a pass.",
">\n\nI could see that with some of the smaller denominations for sure.\nWhen 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.",
">\n\n*making another streak to the tally list wall\n*camera panning out to reveal a huge fucking wall coveres in streaks",
">\n\nMan 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.\nThat said. This man should burn for this",
">\n\nPriest? Pedo? Are you sure? This is unprecedented",
">\n\nCorrection! PedoPreist",
">\n\nNew name not necessary. If anything there should be a name for the unique priests that arent pedos.",
">\n\nI'm inclined to think the majority of priests aren't child predators themselves.\nThe 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.\nWay, way too many of them are pedo-enablers. All the way up...",
">\n\nThen that would mean that... Gasp\nSouth Park was right all along....\nSneaky little bastards didn't think I would notice....",
">\n\nWish I was surprised",
">\n\nYou make slideshows of images? \nEdit: \nOh wait I see what you mean. Yeah the pedophile priest thing is so expected that only the slideshow bit stood out",
">\n\nHoly hell. Priest have normalized pedophilia.",
">\n\nNot just priests. Protestant Christians have a major problem with sexual abuse too, particularly against children.\nAfter Major Investigation, Southern Baptists Confront the Abuse Crisis They Knew Was Coming\nDon't let the Evangelical pedo defenders get away with claiming that Catholicism is the only issue here. It isn't.",
">\n\n\nnone of them are immune to the depravity.\n\nAlmost implied, really.",
">\n\nCould 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?",
">\n\nA variety of factors:\n\nUnquestioned moral authority and intense trust from a large community who have all been taught to obey church authorities\nSupport from a massive extremely powerful institution that has covered up thousands of similar crimes\nStrictly forbidden to marry, have sex, or iirc even masturbate, making them view all sexual activities as similarly taboo for them\nEasy regular access to many children\nEasy ability to get alone time with children\nPriests are only held institutionally accountable to each other and to those with more authority in the church\nVictims 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\nChildren 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\nThe 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\nThe 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\n\nThat'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.”\nP.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.\nWant 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.\nEdit to add this excellent way to protect kids that churches consistently fight against:\n\n“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.\nchildren 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.”",
">\n\nSo this should be buried enough if I speak in general terms.\nYears back one of our pastors had to give up being a pastor. They didn't get into details of what he did but they did stress that kids were not involved. The whole church could be seen relaxing.",
">\n\n5 years for thousands of child porn images and videos? Seems pretty fucking light to me. This piece of shit should die in prison.",
">\n\n5 years and a ticket to heaven",
">\n\nHeaven? For him?",
">\n\nThat'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.",
">\n\nDon't you also have to be truly repentant for your sins, including making a good faith effort to keep from repeating them?",
">\n\nI would love for someone to answer this because I really want to know, too.",
">\n\nyes I'm pretty sure that's it. God sees people's hearts He should know the diff between true repentance and fake one",
">\n\nYes, assuming an all-powerful God existed, he’d be able to pretty easily know if you were truly sorry.",
">\n\nYeah but......... \nI'm just starting the religious apologist's sentence for them.",
">\n\nFor 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.",
">\n\nOne 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.",
">\n\nOnce I heard this theory, the acceptance by conservatives of people whose behavior is in direct conflict with their moral beliefs, made more sense.",
">\n\n5 holly maries and transfer\nafter 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.\nRev. 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.\"\nMcDevitt asked the presiding judge for \"mercy for Jim,\" and even offered for the congregation to pay to house him in lieu of imprisonment.\n\"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.\"\n\"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.\"",
">\n\nIn Australia at the moment there is a furore after the death of Cardinal George Pell who was convicted (then exonerated) of personally abusing children, but was found by a Royal Commission (that would be a special prosecutor for our American friends?) of enabling and protecting paedophile priests for decades.\nCan honestly say I have not been able to listen to the string of \"Christians\" praising this man in our media for the last few days without wanting to puke. Suffer the little children.",
">\n\nWith you there. At least there’s a lot of people calling his supporters out on this. Fuck Tony Abbott, John Howard and Andrew Bolt to name a few.",
">\n\nI 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!",
">\n\nr/PastorArrested (also includes Priests)",
">\n\nDon'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.",
">\n\nIf there is a god, wtf?",
">\n\nThere is no God. Religion is about control and money",
">\n\nAnd more money",
">\n\n\"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.\" \n- Rev. Patrick McDevitt, provincial superior for the Congregation of the Western Province \n\nEvery single member of that congregation is a horrible piece of shit",
">\n\nWhat 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?",
">\n\n“Drag queens are grooming our youth!!!”",
">\n\n\"I think we all know where people put on dresses and fuck kids\"\n-Trixie Mattel, 2022",
">\n\nKid “Bless me Father, for I have sinned”\nPadre “ call me, maybe?”",
">\n\nImagine my shock to discover that a priest has been involved in a sex scandal and one involving the exploitation of children, at that.",
">\n\nGOP: \"But wuttabout drag queens?!?!?!??!\"",
">\n\nDoing the Lords work 🙏🏾",
">\n\nTax-free",
">\n\nWhat's the deal with priests being so into pedophilia? Can't they look at milf pounds like normal people?",
">\n\nOh look... Another priest with child porn ... When do we get to start taxing the church?",
">\n\nr/pastorarrested",
">\n\nChurch is a scary place, especially for children.",
">\n\nI 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.",
">\n\nOnly 5 years. What a joke.",
">\n\n\nThe 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.\n\nIf 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.",
">\n\nNo one is suprised a priest is a pedophile. \nBut printing out yer nudes? That's odd.",
">\n\nI can think of a reason he printed it out. And I really don't like that reason.",
">\n\nI'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.",
">\n\nThe sheer audacity to do it at church where you work",
">\n\nAnd not a drag queen in sight...",
">\n\nThey do kinda wear dresses, though",
">\n\nToo many “coincidences” within this church to be anything other than systematic",
">\n\nPretty 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.",
">\n\n\nThe data often suggests numbers of pedophiles similar to the general population\n\none 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",
">\n\nYeah, 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.",
">\n\nI 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.",
">\n\nIt's so common for priests to be sickos",
">\n\nGross",
">\n\nAll he needs to do is repent, right?!?",
">\n\nA priest? With kiddie porn? I’ve never heard of such a thing!",
">\n\nRemember 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.",
">\n\n5 years that's all he got",
">\n\nThat's fucking disgusting. Misappropriation of office materials.",
">\n\nIt 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",
">\n\nIdiot 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.",
">\n\nso 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.",
">\n\nI 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 🤷♂️",
">\n\n5 years isnt nearly enough. Lock him up forever and a day.",
">\n\n~~Drag shows~~ Churches are not safe for children",
">\n\nI'm sure the religious Right will be out protesting him any second.\nRight? Right guys? Groomers and all this? Qanons? Where you guys at?\nHuh. Weird.",
">\n\nBut the dragqueens guys?!?!?!??!? /s",
">\n\nWeird that so many god loving people are actually just pedophiles. Wonder what they think god thinks of them. Fuck theism.",
">\n\nTheir god tells them to take the young girls as spoils of war. Their god is just as fucking depraved as they are.",
">\n\ntHaTs jUsT tHe oLd tEsTaMeNt tHoUgh.\ngOds mOraLiTy dOeSnt cHanGe, hE jUsT dEaLs wItH hUmAns diFFeReNtlY nOw. \nYeah when someone deals with people differently than they did before we generally call that \"a change.\"",
">\n\nAnd he wasn’t trans??? Maybe it’s been priests all along that governors should be banning. When will they correct their mistake? /s",
">\n\nDoesn'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...",
">\n\nIt's surprising. Who prints out their own nudes?",
">\n\nLock him up and throw away the keys",
">\n\nDarn priests, at least those protestant ministers keep it in the family",
">\n\nNot surprised.",
">\n\nThree hail marys and all is forgiven. What a load of bs",
">\n\nJust one bad apple, I’m sure.",
">\n\nLeast paedophilic priest",
">\n\n…slideshow?",
">\n\nGod works in mysterious ways ya fuckin chomo. As a priest, he of all people should have seen this coming...",
">\n\nIn other news, water is wet",
">\n\nOnly five years...",
">\n\n”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.” \nಠ_ಠ",
">\n\nI don’t remember this plotline during Doubt…",
">\n\nWe keep letting them get away with it, so they keep doing it. More obvious news at 10.",
">\n\n& once they found him out he got made a cardinal",
">\n\nHe should've kept them in the garage with his Corvette",
">\n\n5 years? If nothing else, using PowerPoint should have been an aggravating factor.",
">\n\nAnd you thought looking at Bob's family vacation pics was a bad time",
">\n\nWhen 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.",
">\n\nHow is the Roman Catholic Church not closed down for enabling and protecting child abusers",
">\n\nAre 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.",
">\n\nIt'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.",
">\n\npapabile!",
">\n\nLeft nudes on a shared printer? Rookie mistake.",
">\n\nTeach your priests just enough tech to effectively turn themselves in.",
">\n\nIsn't it something how the church decided to investigate themselves again. Keep it in the family, guys.\nI 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.",
">\n\nIs 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:\n1 - 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\n2 - 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)\n3 - 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.\nTL;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.",
">\n\nLet me guess.\nMoved to a different church at the other side of the country and that’s about it for consequences?",
">\n\nThose damned drag queens strike again.",
">\n\nI mean that’s kinda how they caught BTK",
">\n\nSo priests are still abusing kids after we didn't do anything to them the last few times we caught them? Color me surprised.",
">\n\n\nCourt 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.\"\n\n...\n\nDuring 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. \n\n...\n\nAnd 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. \n\nFuck everyone that allowed this scum to continue in a position of authority.",
">\n\nDon’t hear this happening at drag shows…j/s",
">\n\nHe put the PDF in pedofile",
">\n\nThis is Fucking ridiculous",
">\n\nNever forget who the actual groomers are",
">\n\nThe proud boys will be outside of churches \"protesting\" with guns now, right? right?",
">\n\nA priest being pedophile? But that is absolutely unheard of, say it isn't so!",
">\n\nYou sure this wasn't at a Trans drag show? GOP is sure this happens at Trans dragsl shows",
">\n\nExcommunicated by PowerPoint",
">\n\n5 years and a fine? FFS, that’s ridiculous.",
">\n\nPraise Jesus!",
">\n\nAnd the right thinks kids going to drag shows are the problem",
">\n\nAverage christian.",
">\n\nbut the drag queens are reading books to children in libraries! The madnessss",
">\n\nSo they moved him to a new church. This is what they have always done.",
">\n\nleast pedophilic priest:",
">\n\nThe dead ones dont hurt anyone.",
">\n\ninto the furnace he goes. theres no rehabbing people like this.",
">\n\nIt's always the ones you least expect..",
">\n\nOr in this case, the ones you MOST suspect",
">\n\nlol ya, I said that with sarcasm..",
">\n\nPray that he gets nut cancer.",
">\n\nNut cancer was once described to me as \"the common cold of cancers\". It has something like a 95% survival rate.\nHe deserves worse.",
">\n\nDidn't know that. Good nut fact for the day.",
">\n\nIt's definitely the drag queens reading to kids in libraries that's the problem.",
">\n\nRight wingers want him to be a closeted drag queen so badly",
">\n\nI could never trust any man who goes into priesthood. Completely unnatural and deviant occupation rife with pedophiles.",
">\n\nThis MONSTER got 5 years?! \nThe CHILDREN being abused in the images will suffer for the rest of their lives!!\nI'm in favor of LIFE SENTENCES for child sex offenders. \nOr better yet, the DEATH PENALTY!!",
">\n\nReligion was invented by Man for Control of the Flock.You go to Confession and tell the priest everything so they can determine how to undress you.\nI was once a Catholic.....born, baptised, confirmed and educated in a Grammar school run by Irish Christian Brothers under the Order of Edmund Ignatius Rice......and now I'm an atheist.",
">\n\nHow come it is always ‘Christians’ who are involved in child sex abuse?",
">\n\nOf course he's a pedo, he's a priest!",
">\n\nYes millions of idiots keep donating billions to the church",
">\n\nNot simply donating, they bring their children along, indoctrinate them that the priest is the speaker of God, and that God can do no wrong, so anything the priest dose is holy and good. The priest even says so!\nAnd when the kids bring it up the first few times weird things happen? The parents tell them to shush. And so, the sacrifices continue, the parents make a show of not knowing, and things get worse for the children.\nAnd if the priest is reported, the church just moves them to a different parish.\nThe only difference between the taliban and the catholic church, is one of them advertises the child slaves as a benefit, while the other pretends it's not (but totally encourages it, top to bottom).",
">\n\nAnd who are the groomers again?",
">\n\nThis is what happens when you don’t recycle your printer papers.",
">\n\nI feel like this isn't oniony enough, everyone knows by now that priests are significantly more likely to be pedophiles than the general population.",
">\n\nSure, but “gets caught by leaving nudes on a printer” is a fairly onion-y end.",
">\n\nYa know you're right",
">\n\nI have a theory about the correlation between priests and pedophiles. This is my opinion based on conversations with a childhood friend (not a pedo) and is only my opinion but could explain why so many priests abuse children. Get your down votes ready. \nThese boys grow up in the church and it is all they know for the most part. When going through puberty we become attracted to a gender (male or female gay or straight sometimes somewhere in between) and more often a \"type\" as well (blonde brunette short tall etc). Our hormones drive us to seek companionship, intimacy, and ultimately procreation. \nThese boys growing up never develop this attraction to their peers but rather feel more comfortable around younger children and usually behave as mentors. The combination of love of church and disinterest in peers puts the thought in their heads that priesthood is their calling. It takes a long time and effort to become a priest. There are easier paths if a guy just wants to bang kids.\nPut together lack of sex or release of biological needs with access and constant contact with children and they are basically pushed over the edge.\nTo sum up, pedophiles don't become priests to molest children, they become priests because they don't realize they are pedophiles. This is just my opinion, and obviously there are also exceptions to this.\nPerhaps the solution is to get rid of this nonsense celibacy.",
">\n\nAlternative theory: pedophiles become priests because they know the Catholic Church will support and hide them from accountability. Plus, all those altar boys have been easy pickings for decades. \nOn the positive side, Catholic Churches are closing all over Missouri because of dwindling congregations.",
">\n\nThis is one crime I’ll never be able to fathom.",
">\n\nSo fucking sick advocating for this monster so he can maintain freedom?",
">\n\nThe church has been so infiltrated by Child abusers that they are currently rating worse than Satan Worshippers",
">\n\nCan we just fuck churches off now???",
">\n\nYour tithing had to go somewhere.",
">\n\nHow come republicans are not calling these people groomers?",
">\n\nIs anyone else picturing the scene in the first Scary Movie where the cop asks Anna Faris to look at some pictures?\nPriest hands out the pictures of himself along with the weekly pamphlet. Maybe the first reading is from the Song of Solomon...",
">\n\nOh shit. \nHas he been quietly shuffled to a new church yet?",
">\n\nI'm old enough that when I see \"slideshow\" I think of him arranging physical slides in a carousel to project on a screen, like the family trip to Disneyland. Maybe invite the neighbors over for cake.",
">\n\nLord above why is this a thing",
">\n\nYou mean not a drag queen?",
">\n\nActual groomers.",
">\n\nJust think the hands that wanked to kiddie pr0n put wafers on the tongues of everyone in that congregation...",
">\n\nLMAO. This slightly ambiguous headline had me thinking “who attended these slideshow presentations?”",
">\n\nOh look another pedophile catholic priest. Good job reinforcing that stereotype.",
">\n\nAnd we should take guidance from those who hide these atrocities so we can live a better life in the eyes of god.",
">\n\nFriendly reminder religion is a mistake that deserves to be taxed. If you threatened to tax zealots tomorrow child molestation by priests would drop to zero",
">\n\nmay your mother smile as you burn",
">\n\nThis is what happens when you have unchecked power for thousands of years.\nHorrifying.",
">\n\nDid he learn this behavior from a drag show? /s",
">\n\nReminds me of something Chris Rock said: \"Where do women find the porn? They don't find it in your hiding place, they find it in the VCR\"",
">\n\nHe was also probably saving up for a trip to Disney World.",
">\n\n\nincluding child pornography and images of child erotica.\n\nI want to know the difference but don't want to get on a watchlist by googling it.",
">\n\nWithout the word child there, there's a difference in degree. I'd say it's the same thing with that word in there just describing the subject depicted. Pornography is generally actual sex acts of some form or another. Erotica falls short of that, it may be arousing or suggestive. For example, a cabaret show may be erotica but it's certainly not pornography.",
">\n\nPriest? Church? Man in a tax evasion party house?",
">\n\nYet the church immediately moved him somewhere else as there was a daycare next door to the church, then offered to pay to have the priest under house arrest so that the child predator won't go to jail.",
">\n\nShittiest Ted Talk I’ve ever seen, honestly…",
">\n\nOnly five years?! \nUgh!",
">\n\nAnd they call LGBT+ people groomers. (eyeroll)",
">\n\nAnyone who has ever been to a church sadly knows this doesn't need to be in this sub for us to know it's a real story.",
">\n\nOh how nice. The Reverend pleaded for him not to be incarcerated. Because of fucking course he did.",
">\n\nCurious as to who he was presenting this to",
">\n\nPunish these assholes they are smearing God's name",
">\n\nStraight to (checks notes) your next parish!",
">\n\nreligion and sexual abuse. name a more iconic duo\nwhy are any of these religions even allowed to exist any more\nthey have long since lost their meanings, and onlt serve to syphon money out of gullible people, and abuse their children\nwhat is any of these religions actually adding to society any more? other than more perverted monsters",
">\n\nHe’s not the only one",
">\n\nWhy is no big tv news channel talking about this?",
">\n\nAsked that he not go to prison & that his congregation pay to house him? Fuck the church. That's almost the most disgusting part of this",
">\n\nSo are we talking a pptx or an old-school film Rolodex version? Both are messed up, but one takes A LOT more effort.",
">\n\nThe catholic church is of Satan.",
">\n\nFaith is of \"Satan.\" The idea that assuming you might be wrong is morally wrong produces some of the worst people imaginable. And that applies to secular ideologies that require looking down on those who disagree or are unsure too.",
">\n\nAge of priest over/under 50\nWhat yall got?\nI have the over.",
">\n\nOnly 5 years?",
">\n\nRight for some reason i read it as slide show meaning projectors haha. I forgot Powerpoint presentations are a thing.",
">\n\nThe congregation still requested he be spared incarceration and remain in their facility. Truly unbelievable."
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"Slideshows????? What?\nMy man just opened up cp.ppt and added a few THOUSAND slides of kiddy porn????\nClippy: it looks like youre a depraved predator. Do you want to profane the church as well?",
">\n\nWell I always did believe Power Point was a creation of a malevolent entity.",
">\n\nTuring complete, no less!",
">\n\nBut can it run Doom?",
">\n\nAnything can run doom",
">\n\nBut can Doom run Doom?",
">\n\nDoom can run Doom because Doom runs Doom when Doom runs.",
">\n\nPeople don't run Doom like it is, but it Doom.",
">\n\nGonna take this moment to highly recommend the film Spotlight to any who haven’t seen it",
">\n\nCheck out the 2017 limited series on either Netflix or Prime: \"The Keepers\" about a Baltimore-area Catholic girls' school. Based on the experiences as told by some of the girls, now middle-aged women. It is NOT nice, will make you cry, will enrage you. But I commend the women who made this documentary for as painful as it was for the audience to watch, I can't imagine how they made it thru. And they brought it around to a decent ending, but wow....I think some of what happened in Baltimore bled over into the Spotlight story.\nLapsed Catholic. I cannot reconcile with the Church hierarchy over this because they have behaved satanically for far too long to make me believe they are holy in any way.",
">\n\nThere was a documentary that came out a year or two ago tbzg sounds similar but men who were molested as kids while in the church. \nI honestly don't know how anyone can still support the church. At all. If it was one priest, sure. It's sad it happened, but pedophiles will always exist and find ways to get to kids.\nBut with how often it happens and with how little the church cares? Nope. I never could be catholic even if I was Christian.",
">\n\nBecause saving souls bringing them into their cult is more valuable than the ones they crush. The Vatican last I heard had 7 pedos protecting by not complying with extradition requests. \nAny organization not willing to comply with the laws of the country where they have a tax exempt status should lose their exemption and title to any property they own. If you RICO cartel and mafia assets, then you can do so for these child abusers and their protective association. \nYou know the church owns most of Manhattan and isn't paying taxes? All that money and we have to tolerate this shit? Nah fuck them.",
">\n\nNude pix on the church printer . . . I can imagine the scene.\nSister Mary Michael: Yo, does anyone recognize this tallywhacker?\nFormer Alter Boy Brian: Yeah, that's Father Jim. I'd know that hairy mole anywhere.",
">\n\nThat's Tommy Turner's tallywhacker",
">\n\nIf Reddit still gave free awards, I'd give one to you for catching the reference.",
">\n\nWAIT when did they get rid of the free awards",
">\n\nguess this is how i found out. last i claimed mine is around last week, i think. i only claim once every two weeks to gild certain biweekly thread lul",
">\n\nAnd yet where are all the \"anti-groomers\" protesting these churches?",
">\n\nIt’s almost like it has never actually been about protecting children, and it’s always been about trying to demonize LGBT people",
">\n\nAt this point I am positive the religious right to life thing is about having more targets.",
">\n\nGlad 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?",
">\n\nAfter 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.",
">\n\nI 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.\nThere are also many who truly believe the schtick and just compartmentalize the bad stuff. Both are to blame regardless. Nobody gets a pass.",
">\n\nI could see that with some of the smaller denominations for sure.\nWhen 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.",
">\n\n*making another streak to the tally list wall\n*camera panning out to reveal a huge fucking wall coveres in streaks",
">\n\nMan 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.\nThat said. This man should burn for this",
">\n\nPriest? Pedo? Are you sure? This is unprecedented",
">\n\nCorrection! PedoPreist",
">\n\nNew name not necessary. If anything there should be a name for the unique priests that arent pedos.",
">\n\nI'm inclined to think the majority of priests aren't child predators themselves.\nThe 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.\nWay, way too many of them are pedo-enablers. All the way up...",
">\n\nThen that would mean that... Gasp\nSouth Park was right all along....\nSneaky little bastards didn't think I would notice....",
">\n\nWish I was surprised",
">\n\nYou make slideshows of images? \nEdit: \nOh wait I see what you mean. Yeah the pedophile priest thing is so expected that only the slideshow bit stood out",
">\n\nHoly hell. Priest have normalized pedophilia.",
">\n\nNot just priests. Protestant Christians have a major problem with sexual abuse too, particularly against children.\nAfter Major Investigation, Southern Baptists Confront the Abuse Crisis They Knew Was Coming\nDon't let the Evangelical pedo defenders get away with claiming that Catholicism is the only issue here. It isn't.",
">\n\n\nnone of them are immune to the depravity.\n\nAlmost implied, really.",
">\n\nCould 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?",
">\n\nA variety of factors:\n\nUnquestioned moral authority and intense trust from a large community who have all been taught to obey church authorities\nSupport from a massive extremely powerful institution that has covered up thousands of similar crimes\nStrictly forbidden to marry, have sex, or iirc even masturbate, making them view all sexual activities as similarly taboo for them\nEasy regular access to many children\nEasy ability to get alone time with children\nPriests are only held institutionally accountable to each other and to those with more authority in the church\nVictims 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\nChildren 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\nThe 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\nThe 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\n\nThat'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.”\nP.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.\nWant 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.\nEdit to add this excellent way to protect kids that churches consistently fight against:\n\n“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.\nchildren 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.”",
">\n\nSo this should be buried enough if I speak in general terms.\nYears back one of our pastors had to give up being a pastor. They didn't get into details of what he did but they did stress that kids were not involved. The whole church could be seen relaxing.",
">\n\n5 years for thousands of child porn images and videos? Seems pretty fucking light to me. This piece of shit should die in prison.",
">\n\n5 years and a ticket to heaven",
">\n\nHeaven? For him?",
">\n\nThat'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.",
">\n\nDon't you also have to be truly repentant for your sins, including making a good faith effort to keep from repeating them?",
">\n\nI would love for someone to answer this because I really want to know, too.",
">\n\nyes I'm pretty sure that's it. God sees people's hearts He should know the diff between true repentance and fake one",
">\n\nYes, assuming an all-powerful God existed, he’d be able to pretty easily know if you were truly sorry.",
">\n\nYeah but......... \nI'm just starting the religious apologist's sentence for them.",
">\n\nFor 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.",
">\n\nOne 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.",
">\n\nOnce I heard this theory, the acceptance by conservatives of people whose behavior is in direct conflict with their moral beliefs, made more sense.",
">\n\n5 holly maries and transfer\nafter 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.\nRev. 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.\"\nMcDevitt asked the presiding judge for \"mercy for Jim,\" and even offered for the congregation to pay to house him in lieu of imprisonment.\n\"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.\"\n\"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.\"",
">\n\nIn Australia at the moment there is a furore after the death of Cardinal George Pell who was convicted (then exonerated) of personally abusing children, but was found by a Royal Commission (that would be a special prosecutor for our American friends?) of enabling and protecting paedophile priests for decades.\nCan honestly say I have not been able to listen to the string of \"Christians\" praising this man in our media for the last few days without wanting to puke. Suffer the little children.",
">\n\nWith you there. At least there’s a lot of people calling his supporters out on this. Fuck Tony Abbott, John Howard and Andrew Bolt to name a few.",
">\n\nI 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!",
">\n\nr/PastorArrested (also includes Priests)",
">\n\nDon'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.",
">\n\nIf there is a god, wtf?",
">\n\nThere is no God. Religion is about control and money",
">\n\nAnd more money",
">\n\n\"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.\" \n- Rev. Patrick McDevitt, provincial superior for the Congregation of the Western Province \n\nEvery single member of that congregation is a horrible piece of shit",
">\n\nWhat 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?",
">\n\n“Drag queens are grooming our youth!!!”",
">\n\n\"I think we all know where people put on dresses and fuck kids\"\n-Trixie Mattel, 2022",
">\n\nKid “Bless me Father, for I have sinned”\nPadre “ call me, maybe?”",
">\n\nImagine my shock to discover that a priest has been involved in a sex scandal and one involving the exploitation of children, at that.",
">\n\nGOP: \"But wuttabout drag queens?!?!?!??!\"",
">\n\nDoing the Lords work 🙏🏾",
">\n\nTax-free",
">\n\nWhat's the deal with priests being so into pedophilia? Can't they look at milf pounds like normal people?",
">\n\nOh look... Another priest with child porn ... When do we get to start taxing the church?",
">\n\nr/pastorarrested",
">\n\nChurch is a scary place, especially for children.",
">\n\nI 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.",
">\n\nOnly 5 years. What a joke.",
">\n\n\nThe 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.\n\nIf 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.",
">\n\nNo one is suprised a priest is a pedophile. \nBut printing out yer nudes? That's odd.",
">\n\nI can think of a reason he printed it out. And I really don't like that reason.",
">\n\nI'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.",
">\n\nThe sheer audacity to do it at church where you work",
">\n\nAnd not a drag queen in sight...",
">\n\nThey do kinda wear dresses, though",
">\n\nToo many “coincidences” within this church to be anything other than systematic",
">\n\nPretty 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.",
">\n\n\nThe data often suggests numbers of pedophiles similar to the general population\n\none 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",
">\n\nYeah, 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.",
">\n\nI 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.",
">\n\nIt's so common for priests to be sickos",
">\n\nGross",
">\n\nAll he needs to do is repent, right?!?",
">\n\nA priest? With kiddie porn? I’ve never heard of such a thing!",
">\n\nRemember 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.",
">\n\n5 years that's all he got",
">\n\nThat's fucking disgusting. Misappropriation of office materials.",
">\n\nIt 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",
">\n\nIdiot 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.",
">\n\nso 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.",
">\n\nI 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 🤷♂️",
">\n\n5 years isnt nearly enough. Lock him up forever and a day.",
">\n\n~~Drag shows~~ Churches are not safe for children",
">\n\nI'm sure the religious Right will be out protesting him any second.\nRight? Right guys? Groomers and all this? Qanons? Where you guys at?\nHuh. Weird.",
">\n\nBut the dragqueens guys?!?!?!??!? /s",
">\n\nWeird that so many god loving people are actually just pedophiles. Wonder what they think god thinks of them. Fuck theism.",
">\n\nTheir god tells them to take the young girls as spoils of war. Their god is just as fucking depraved as they are.",
">\n\ntHaTs jUsT tHe oLd tEsTaMeNt tHoUgh.\ngOds mOraLiTy dOeSnt cHanGe, hE jUsT dEaLs wItH hUmAns diFFeReNtlY nOw. \nYeah when someone deals with people differently than they did before we generally call that \"a change.\"",
">\n\nAnd he wasn’t trans??? Maybe it’s been priests all along that governors should be banning. When will they correct their mistake? /s",
">\n\nDoesn'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...",
">\n\nIt's surprising. Who prints out their own nudes?",
">\n\nLock him up and throw away the keys",
">\n\nDarn priests, at least those protestant ministers keep it in the family",
">\n\nNot surprised.",
">\n\nThree hail marys and all is forgiven. What a load of bs",
">\n\nJust one bad apple, I’m sure.",
">\n\nLeast paedophilic priest",
">\n\n…slideshow?",
">\n\nGod works in mysterious ways ya fuckin chomo. As a priest, he of all people should have seen this coming...",
">\n\nIn other news, water is wet",
">\n\nOnly five years...",
">\n\n”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.” \nಠ_ಠ",
">\n\nI don’t remember this plotline during Doubt…",
">\n\nWe keep letting them get away with it, so they keep doing it. More obvious news at 10.",
">\n\n& once they found him out he got made a cardinal",
">\n\nHe should've kept them in the garage with his Corvette",
">\n\n5 years? If nothing else, using PowerPoint should have been an aggravating factor.",
">\n\nAnd you thought looking at Bob's family vacation pics was a bad time",
">\n\nWhen 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.",
">\n\nHow is the Roman Catholic Church not closed down for enabling and protecting child abusers",
">\n\nAre 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.",
">\n\nIt'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.",
">\n\npapabile!",
">\n\nLeft nudes on a shared printer? Rookie mistake.",
">\n\nTeach your priests just enough tech to effectively turn themselves in.",
">\n\nIsn't it something how the church decided to investigate themselves again. Keep it in the family, guys.\nI 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.",
">\n\nIs 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:\n1 - 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\n2 - 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)\n3 - 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.\nTL;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.",
">\n\nLet me guess.\nMoved to a different church at the other side of the country and that’s about it for consequences?",
">\n\nThose damned drag queens strike again.",
">\n\nI mean that’s kinda how they caught BTK",
">\n\nSo priests are still abusing kids after we didn't do anything to them the last few times we caught them? Color me surprised.",
">\n\n\nCourt 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.\"\n\n...\n\nDuring 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. \n\n...\n\nAnd 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. \n\nFuck everyone that allowed this scum to continue in a position of authority.",
">\n\nDon’t hear this happening at drag shows…j/s",
">\n\nHe put the PDF in pedofile",
">\n\nThis is Fucking ridiculous",
">\n\nNever forget who the actual groomers are",
">\n\nThe proud boys will be outside of churches \"protesting\" with guns now, right? right?",
">\n\nA priest being pedophile? But that is absolutely unheard of, say it isn't so!",
">\n\nYou sure this wasn't at a Trans drag show? GOP is sure this happens at Trans dragsl shows",
">\n\nExcommunicated by PowerPoint",
">\n\n5 years and a fine? FFS, that’s ridiculous.",
">\n\nPraise Jesus!",
">\n\nAnd the right thinks kids going to drag shows are the problem",
">\n\nAverage christian.",
">\n\nbut the drag queens are reading books to children in libraries! The madnessss",
">\n\nSo they moved him to a new church. This is what they have always done.",
">\n\nleast pedophilic priest:",
">\n\nThe dead ones dont hurt anyone.",
">\n\ninto the furnace he goes. theres no rehabbing people like this.",
">\n\nIt's always the ones you least expect..",
">\n\nOr in this case, the ones you MOST suspect",
">\n\nlol ya, I said that with sarcasm..",
">\n\nPray that he gets nut cancer.",
">\n\nNut cancer was once described to me as \"the common cold of cancers\". It has something like a 95% survival rate.\nHe deserves worse.",
">\n\nDidn't know that. Good nut fact for the day.",
">\n\nIt's definitely the drag queens reading to kids in libraries that's the problem.",
">\n\nRight wingers want him to be a closeted drag queen so badly",
">\n\nI could never trust any man who goes into priesthood. Completely unnatural and deviant occupation rife with pedophiles.",
">\n\nThis MONSTER got 5 years?! \nThe CHILDREN being abused in the images will suffer for the rest of their lives!!\nI'm in favor of LIFE SENTENCES for child sex offenders. \nOr better yet, the DEATH PENALTY!!",
">\n\nReligion was invented by Man for Control of the Flock.You go to Confession and tell the priest everything so they can determine how to undress you.\nI was once a Catholic.....born, baptised, confirmed and educated in a Grammar school run by Irish Christian Brothers under the Order of Edmund Ignatius Rice......and now I'm an atheist.",
">\n\nHow come it is always ‘Christians’ who are involved in child sex abuse?",
">\n\nOf course he's a pedo, he's a priest!",
">\n\nYes millions of idiots keep donating billions to the church",
">\n\nNot simply donating, they bring their children along, indoctrinate them that the priest is the speaker of God, and that God can do no wrong, so anything the priest dose is holy and good. The priest even says so!\nAnd when the kids bring it up the first few times weird things happen? The parents tell them to shush. And so, the sacrifices continue, the parents make a show of not knowing, and things get worse for the children.\nAnd if the priest is reported, the church just moves them to a different parish.\nThe only difference between the taliban and the catholic church, is one of them advertises the child slaves as a benefit, while the other pretends it's not (but totally encourages it, top to bottom).",
">\n\nAnd who are the groomers again?",
">\n\nThis is what happens when you don’t recycle your printer papers.",
">\n\nI feel like this isn't oniony enough, everyone knows by now that priests are significantly more likely to be pedophiles than the general population.",
">\n\nSure, but “gets caught by leaving nudes on a printer” is a fairly onion-y end.",
">\n\nYa know you're right",
">\n\nI have a theory about the correlation between priests and pedophiles. This is my opinion based on conversations with a childhood friend (not a pedo) and is only my opinion but could explain why so many priests abuse children. Get your down votes ready. \nThese boys grow up in the church and it is all they know for the most part. When going through puberty we become attracted to a gender (male or female gay or straight sometimes somewhere in between) and more often a \"type\" as well (blonde brunette short tall etc). Our hormones drive us to seek companionship, intimacy, and ultimately procreation. \nThese boys growing up never develop this attraction to their peers but rather feel more comfortable around younger children and usually behave as mentors. The combination of love of church and disinterest in peers puts the thought in their heads that priesthood is their calling. It takes a long time and effort to become a priest. There are easier paths if a guy just wants to bang kids.\nPut together lack of sex or release of biological needs with access and constant contact with children and they are basically pushed over the edge.\nTo sum up, pedophiles don't become priests to molest children, they become priests because they don't realize they are pedophiles. This is just my opinion, and obviously there are also exceptions to this.\nPerhaps the solution is to get rid of this nonsense celibacy.",
">\n\nAlternative theory: pedophiles become priests because they know the Catholic Church will support and hide them from accountability. Plus, all those altar boys have been easy pickings for decades. \nOn the positive side, Catholic Churches are closing all over Missouri because of dwindling congregations.",
">\n\nThis is one crime I’ll never be able to fathom.",
">\n\nSo fucking sick advocating for this monster so he can maintain freedom?",
">\n\nThe church has been so infiltrated by Child abusers that they are currently rating worse than Satan Worshippers",
">\n\nCan we just fuck churches off now???",
">\n\nYour tithing had to go somewhere.",
">\n\nHow come republicans are not calling these people groomers?",
">\n\nIs anyone else picturing the scene in the first Scary Movie where the cop asks Anna Faris to look at some pictures?\nPriest hands out the pictures of himself along with the weekly pamphlet. Maybe the first reading is from the Song of Solomon...",
">\n\nOh shit. \nHas he been quietly shuffled to a new church yet?",
">\n\nI'm old enough that when I see \"slideshow\" I think of him arranging physical slides in a carousel to project on a screen, like the family trip to Disneyland. Maybe invite the neighbors over for cake.",
">\n\nLord above why is this a thing",
">\n\nYou mean not a drag queen?",
">\n\nActual groomers.",
">\n\nJust think the hands that wanked to kiddie pr0n put wafers on the tongues of everyone in that congregation...",
">\n\nLMAO. This slightly ambiguous headline had me thinking “who attended these slideshow presentations?”",
">\n\nOh look another pedophile catholic priest. Good job reinforcing that stereotype.",
">\n\nAnd we should take guidance from those who hide these atrocities so we can live a better life in the eyes of god.",
">\n\nFriendly reminder religion is a mistake that deserves to be taxed. If you threatened to tax zealots tomorrow child molestation by priests would drop to zero",
">\n\nmay your mother smile as you burn",
">\n\nThis is what happens when you have unchecked power for thousands of years.\nHorrifying.",
">\n\nDid he learn this behavior from a drag show? /s",
">\n\nReminds me of something Chris Rock said: \"Where do women find the porn? They don't find it in your hiding place, they find it in the VCR\"",
">\n\nHe was also probably saving up for a trip to Disney World.",
">\n\n\nincluding child pornography and images of child erotica.\n\nI want to know the difference but don't want to get on a watchlist by googling it.",
">\n\nWithout the word child there, there's a difference in degree. I'd say it's the same thing with that word in there just describing the subject depicted. Pornography is generally actual sex acts of some form or another. Erotica falls short of that, it may be arousing or suggestive. For example, a cabaret show may be erotica but it's certainly not pornography.",
">\n\nPriest? Church? Man in a tax evasion party house?",
">\n\nYet the church immediately moved him somewhere else as there was a daycare next door to the church, then offered to pay to have the priest under house arrest so that the child predator won't go to jail.",
">\n\nShittiest Ted Talk I’ve ever seen, honestly…",
">\n\nOnly five years?! \nUgh!",
">\n\nAnd they call LGBT+ people groomers. (eyeroll)",
">\n\nAnyone who has ever been to a church sadly knows this doesn't need to be in this sub for us to know it's a real story.",
">\n\nOh how nice. The Reverend pleaded for him not to be incarcerated. Because of fucking course he did.",
">\n\nCurious as to who he was presenting this to",
">\n\nPunish these assholes they are smearing God's name",
">\n\nStraight to (checks notes) your next parish!",
">\n\nreligion and sexual abuse. name a more iconic duo\nwhy are any of these religions even allowed to exist any more\nthey have long since lost their meanings, and onlt serve to syphon money out of gullible people, and abuse their children\nwhat is any of these religions actually adding to society any more? other than more perverted monsters",
">\n\nHe’s not the only one",
">\n\nWhy is no big tv news channel talking about this?",
">\n\nAsked that he not go to prison & that his congregation pay to house him? Fuck the church. That's almost the most disgusting part of this",
">\n\nSo are we talking a pptx or an old-school film Rolodex version? Both are messed up, but one takes A LOT more effort.",
">\n\nThe catholic church is of Satan.",
">\n\nFaith is of \"Satan.\" The idea that assuming you might be wrong is morally wrong produces some of the worst people imaginable. And that applies to secular ideologies that require looking down on those who disagree or are unsure too.",
">\n\nAge of priest over/under 50\nWhat yall got?\nI have the over.",
">\n\nOnly 5 years?",
">\n\nRight for some reason i read it as slide show meaning projectors haha. I forgot Powerpoint presentations are a thing.",
">\n\nThe congregation still requested he be spared incarceration and remain in their facility. Truly unbelievable.",
">\n\nThose damn drag queens framed him"
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"Slideshows????? What?\nMy man just opened up cp.ppt and added a few THOUSAND slides of kiddy porn????\nClippy: it looks like youre a depraved predator. Do you want to profane the church as well?",
">\n\nWell I always did believe Power Point was a creation of a malevolent entity.",
">\n\nTuring complete, no less!",
">\n\nBut can it run Doom?",
">\n\nAnything can run doom",
">\n\nBut can Doom run Doom?",
">\n\nDoom can run Doom because Doom runs Doom when Doom runs.",
">\n\nPeople don't run Doom like it is, but it Doom.",
">\n\nGonna take this moment to highly recommend the film Spotlight to any who haven’t seen it",
">\n\nCheck out the 2017 limited series on either Netflix or Prime: \"The Keepers\" about a Baltimore-area Catholic girls' school. Based on the experiences as told by some of the girls, now middle-aged women. It is NOT nice, will make you cry, will enrage you. But I commend the women who made this documentary for as painful as it was for the audience to watch, I can't imagine how they made it thru. And they brought it around to a decent ending, but wow....I think some of what happened in Baltimore bled over into the Spotlight story.\nLapsed Catholic. I cannot reconcile with the Church hierarchy over this because they have behaved satanically for far too long to make me believe they are holy in any way.",
">\n\nThere was a documentary that came out a year or two ago tbzg sounds similar but men who were molested as kids while in the church. \nI honestly don't know how anyone can still support the church. At all. If it was one priest, sure. It's sad it happened, but pedophiles will always exist and find ways to get to kids.\nBut with how often it happens and with how little the church cares? Nope. I never could be catholic even if I was Christian.",
">\n\nBecause saving souls bringing them into their cult is more valuable than the ones they crush. The Vatican last I heard had 7 pedos protecting by not complying with extradition requests. \nAny organization not willing to comply with the laws of the country where they have a tax exempt status should lose their exemption and title to any property they own. If you RICO cartel and mafia assets, then you can do so for these child abusers and their protective association. \nYou know the church owns most of Manhattan and isn't paying taxes? All that money and we have to tolerate this shit? Nah fuck them.",
">\n\nNude pix on the church printer . . . I can imagine the scene.\nSister Mary Michael: Yo, does anyone recognize this tallywhacker?\nFormer Alter Boy Brian: Yeah, that's Father Jim. I'd know that hairy mole anywhere.",
">\n\nThat's Tommy Turner's tallywhacker",
">\n\nIf Reddit still gave free awards, I'd give one to you for catching the reference.",
">\n\nWAIT when did they get rid of the free awards",
">\n\nguess this is how i found out. last i claimed mine is around last week, i think. i only claim once every two weeks to gild certain biweekly thread lul",
">\n\nAnd yet where are all the \"anti-groomers\" protesting these churches?",
">\n\nIt’s almost like it has never actually been about protecting children, and it’s always been about trying to demonize LGBT people",
">\n\nAt this point I am positive the religious right to life thing is about having more targets.",
">\n\nGlad 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?",
">\n\nAfter 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.",
">\n\nI 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.\nThere are also many who truly believe the schtick and just compartmentalize the bad stuff. Both are to blame regardless. Nobody gets a pass.",
">\n\nI could see that with some of the smaller denominations for sure.\nWhen 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.",
">\n\n*making another streak to the tally list wall\n*camera panning out to reveal a huge fucking wall coveres in streaks",
">\n\nMan 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.\nThat said. This man should burn for this",
">\n\nPriest? Pedo? Are you sure? This is unprecedented",
">\n\nCorrection! PedoPreist",
">\n\nNew name not necessary. If anything there should be a name for the unique priests that arent pedos.",
">\n\nI'm inclined to think the majority of priests aren't child predators themselves.\nThe 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.\nWay, way too many of them are pedo-enablers. All the way up...",
">\n\nThen that would mean that... Gasp\nSouth Park was right all along....\nSneaky little bastards didn't think I would notice....",
">\n\nWish I was surprised",
">\n\nYou make slideshows of images? \nEdit: \nOh wait I see what you mean. Yeah the pedophile priest thing is so expected that only the slideshow bit stood out",
">\n\nHoly hell. Priest have normalized pedophilia.",
">\n\nNot just priests. Protestant Christians have a major problem with sexual abuse too, particularly against children.\nAfter Major Investigation, Southern Baptists Confront the Abuse Crisis They Knew Was Coming\nDon't let the Evangelical pedo defenders get away with claiming that Catholicism is the only issue here. It isn't.",
">\n\n\nnone of them are immune to the depravity.\n\nAlmost implied, really.",
">\n\nCould 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?",
">\n\nA variety of factors:\n\nUnquestioned moral authority and intense trust from a large community who have all been taught to obey church authorities\nSupport from a massive extremely powerful institution that has covered up thousands of similar crimes\nStrictly forbidden to marry, have sex, or iirc even masturbate, making them view all sexual activities as similarly taboo for them\nEasy regular access to many children\nEasy ability to get alone time with children\nPriests are only held institutionally accountable to each other and to those with more authority in the church\nVictims 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\nChildren 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\nThe 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\nThe 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\n\nThat'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.”\nP.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.\nWant 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.\nEdit to add this excellent way to protect kids that churches consistently fight against:\n\n“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.\nchildren 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.”",
">\n\nSo this should be buried enough if I speak in general terms.\nYears back one of our pastors had to give up being a pastor. They didn't get into details of what he did but they did stress that kids were not involved. The whole church could be seen relaxing.",
">\n\n5 years for thousands of child porn images and videos? Seems pretty fucking light to me. This piece of shit should die in prison.",
">\n\n5 years and a ticket to heaven",
">\n\nHeaven? For him?",
">\n\nThat'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.",
">\n\nDon't you also have to be truly repentant for your sins, including making a good faith effort to keep from repeating them?",
">\n\nI would love for someone to answer this because I really want to know, too.",
">\n\nyes I'm pretty sure that's it. God sees people's hearts He should know the diff between true repentance and fake one",
">\n\nYes, assuming an all-powerful God existed, he’d be able to pretty easily know if you were truly sorry.",
">\n\nYeah but......... \nI'm just starting the religious apologist's sentence for them.",
">\n\nFor 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.",
">\n\nOne 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.",
">\n\nOnce I heard this theory, the acceptance by conservatives of people whose behavior is in direct conflict with their moral beliefs, made more sense.",
">\n\n5 holly maries and transfer\nafter 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.\nRev. 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.\"\nMcDevitt asked the presiding judge for \"mercy for Jim,\" and even offered for the congregation to pay to house him in lieu of imprisonment.\n\"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.\"\n\"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.\"",
">\n\nIn Australia at the moment there is a furore after the death of Cardinal George Pell who was convicted (then exonerated) of personally abusing children, but was found by a Royal Commission (that would be a special prosecutor for our American friends?) of enabling and protecting paedophile priests for decades.\nCan honestly say I have not been able to listen to the string of \"Christians\" praising this man in our media for the last few days without wanting to puke. Suffer the little children.",
">\n\nWith you there. At least there’s a lot of people calling his supporters out on this. Fuck Tony Abbott, John Howard and Andrew Bolt to name a few.",
">\n\nI 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!",
">\n\nr/PastorArrested (also includes Priests)",
">\n\nDon'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.",
">\n\nIf there is a god, wtf?",
">\n\nThere is no God. Religion is about control and money",
">\n\nAnd more money",
">\n\n\"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.\" \n- Rev. Patrick McDevitt, provincial superior for the Congregation of the Western Province \n\nEvery single member of that congregation is a horrible piece of shit",
">\n\nWhat 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?",
">\n\n“Drag queens are grooming our youth!!!”",
">\n\n\"I think we all know where people put on dresses and fuck kids\"\n-Trixie Mattel, 2022",
">\n\nKid “Bless me Father, for I have sinned”\nPadre “ call me, maybe?”",
">\n\nImagine my shock to discover that a priest has been involved in a sex scandal and one involving the exploitation of children, at that.",
">\n\nGOP: \"But wuttabout drag queens?!?!?!??!\"",
">\n\nDoing the Lords work 🙏🏾",
">\n\nTax-free",
">\n\nWhat's the deal with priests being so into pedophilia? Can't they look at milf pounds like normal people?",
">\n\nOh look... Another priest with child porn ... When do we get to start taxing the church?",
">\n\nr/pastorarrested",
">\n\nChurch is a scary place, especially for children.",
">\n\nI 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.",
">\n\nOnly 5 years. What a joke.",
">\n\n\nThe 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.\n\nIf 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.",
">\n\nNo one is suprised a priest is a pedophile. \nBut printing out yer nudes? That's odd.",
">\n\nI can think of a reason he printed it out. And I really don't like that reason.",
">\n\nI'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.",
">\n\nThe sheer audacity to do it at church where you work",
">\n\nAnd not a drag queen in sight...",
">\n\nThey do kinda wear dresses, though",
">\n\nToo many “coincidences” within this church to be anything other than systematic",
">\n\nPretty 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.",
">\n\n\nThe data often suggests numbers of pedophiles similar to the general population\n\none 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",
">\n\nYeah, 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.",
">\n\nI 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.",
">\n\nIt's so common for priests to be sickos",
">\n\nGross",
">\n\nAll he needs to do is repent, right?!?",
">\n\nA priest? With kiddie porn? I’ve never heard of such a thing!",
">\n\nRemember 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.",
">\n\n5 years that's all he got",
">\n\nThat's fucking disgusting. Misappropriation of office materials.",
">\n\nIt 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",
">\n\nIdiot 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.",
">\n\nso 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.",
">\n\nI 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 🤷♂️",
">\n\n5 years isnt nearly enough. Lock him up forever and a day.",
">\n\n~~Drag shows~~ Churches are not safe for children",
">\n\nI'm sure the religious Right will be out protesting him any second.\nRight? Right guys? Groomers and all this? Qanons? Where you guys at?\nHuh. Weird.",
">\n\nBut the dragqueens guys?!?!?!??!? /s",
">\n\nWeird that so many god loving people are actually just pedophiles. Wonder what they think god thinks of them. Fuck theism.",
">\n\nTheir god tells them to take the young girls as spoils of war. Their god is just as fucking depraved as they are.",
">\n\ntHaTs jUsT tHe oLd tEsTaMeNt tHoUgh.\ngOds mOraLiTy dOeSnt cHanGe, hE jUsT dEaLs wItH hUmAns diFFeReNtlY nOw. \nYeah when someone deals with people differently than they did before we generally call that \"a change.\"",
">\n\nAnd he wasn’t trans??? Maybe it’s been priests all along that governors should be banning. When will they correct their mistake? /s",
">\n\nDoesn'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...",
">\n\nIt's surprising. Who prints out their own nudes?",
">\n\nLock him up and throw away the keys",
">\n\nDarn priests, at least those protestant ministers keep it in the family",
">\n\nNot surprised.",
">\n\nThree hail marys and all is forgiven. What a load of bs",
">\n\nJust one bad apple, I’m sure.",
">\n\nLeast paedophilic priest",
">\n\n…slideshow?",
">\n\nGod works in mysterious ways ya fuckin chomo. As a priest, he of all people should have seen this coming...",
">\n\nIn other news, water is wet",
">\n\nOnly five years...",
">\n\n”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.” \nಠ_ಠ",
">\n\nI don’t remember this plotline during Doubt…",
">\n\nWe keep letting them get away with it, so they keep doing it. More obvious news at 10.",
">\n\n& once they found him out he got made a cardinal",
">\n\nHe should've kept them in the garage with his Corvette",
">\n\n5 years? If nothing else, using PowerPoint should have been an aggravating factor.",
">\n\nAnd you thought looking at Bob's family vacation pics was a bad time",
">\n\nWhen 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.",
">\n\nHow is the Roman Catholic Church not closed down for enabling and protecting child abusers",
">\n\nAre 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.",
">\n\nIt'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.",
">\n\npapabile!",
">\n\nLeft nudes on a shared printer? Rookie mistake.",
">\n\nTeach your priests just enough tech to effectively turn themselves in.",
">\n\nIsn't it something how the church decided to investigate themselves again. Keep it in the family, guys.\nI 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.",
">\n\nIs 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:\n1 - 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\n2 - 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)\n3 - 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.\nTL;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.",
">\n\nLet me guess.\nMoved to a different church at the other side of the country and that’s about it for consequences?",
">\n\nThose damned drag queens strike again.",
">\n\nI mean that’s kinda how they caught BTK",
">\n\nSo priests are still abusing kids after we didn't do anything to them the last few times we caught them? Color me surprised.",
">\n\n\nCourt 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.\"\n\n...\n\nDuring 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. \n\n...\n\nAnd 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. \n\nFuck everyone that allowed this scum to continue in a position of authority.",
">\n\nDon’t hear this happening at drag shows…j/s",
">\n\nHe put the PDF in pedofile",
">\n\nThis is Fucking ridiculous",
">\n\nNever forget who the actual groomers are",
">\n\nThe proud boys will be outside of churches \"protesting\" with guns now, right? right?",
">\n\nA priest being pedophile? But that is absolutely unheard of, say it isn't so!",
">\n\nYou sure this wasn't at a Trans drag show? GOP is sure this happens at Trans dragsl shows",
">\n\nExcommunicated by PowerPoint",
">\n\n5 years and a fine? FFS, that’s ridiculous.",
">\n\nPraise Jesus!",
">\n\nAnd the right thinks kids going to drag shows are the problem",
">\n\nAverage christian.",
">\n\nbut the drag queens are reading books to children in libraries! The madnessss",
">\n\nSo they moved him to a new church. This is what they have always done.",
">\n\nleast pedophilic priest:",
">\n\nThe dead ones dont hurt anyone.",
">\n\ninto the furnace he goes. theres no rehabbing people like this.",
">\n\nIt's always the ones you least expect..",
">\n\nOr in this case, the ones you MOST suspect",
">\n\nlol ya, I said that with sarcasm..",
">\n\nPray that he gets nut cancer.",
">\n\nNut cancer was once described to me as \"the common cold of cancers\". It has something like a 95% survival rate.\nHe deserves worse.",
">\n\nDidn't know that. Good nut fact for the day.",
">\n\nIt's definitely the drag queens reading to kids in libraries that's the problem.",
">\n\nRight wingers want him to be a closeted drag queen so badly",
">\n\nI could never trust any man who goes into priesthood. Completely unnatural and deviant occupation rife with pedophiles.",
">\n\nThis MONSTER got 5 years?! \nThe CHILDREN being abused in the images will suffer for the rest of their lives!!\nI'm in favor of LIFE SENTENCES for child sex offenders. \nOr better yet, the DEATH PENALTY!!",
">\n\nReligion was invented by Man for Control of the Flock.You go to Confession and tell the priest everything so they can determine how to undress you.\nI was once a Catholic.....born, baptised, confirmed and educated in a Grammar school run by Irish Christian Brothers under the Order of Edmund Ignatius Rice......and now I'm an atheist.",
">\n\nHow come it is always ‘Christians’ who are involved in child sex abuse?",
">\n\nOf course he's a pedo, he's a priest!",
">\n\nYes millions of idiots keep donating billions to the church",
">\n\nNot simply donating, they bring their children along, indoctrinate them that the priest is the speaker of God, and that God can do no wrong, so anything the priest dose is holy and good. The priest even says so!\nAnd when the kids bring it up the first few times weird things happen? The parents tell them to shush. And so, the sacrifices continue, the parents make a show of not knowing, and things get worse for the children.\nAnd if the priest is reported, the church just moves them to a different parish.\nThe only difference between the taliban and the catholic church, is one of them advertises the child slaves as a benefit, while the other pretends it's not (but totally encourages it, top to bottom).",
">\n\nAnd who are the groomers again?",
">\n\nThis is what happens when you don’t recycle your printer papers.",
">\n\nI feel like this isn't oniony enough, everyone knows by now that priests are significantly more likely to be pedophiles than the general population.",
">\n\nSure, but “gets caught by leaving nudes on a printer” is a fairly onion-y end.",
">\n\nYa know you're right",
">\n\nI have a theory about the correlation between priests and pedophiles. This is my opinion based on conversations with a childhood friend (not a pedo) and is only my opinion but could explain why so many priests abuse children. Get your down votes ready. \nThese boys grow up in the church and it is all they know for the most part. When going through puberty we become attracted to a gender (male or female gay or straight sometimes somewhere in between) and more often a \"type\" as well (blonde brunette short tall etc). Our hormones drive us to seek companionship, intimacy, and ultimately procreation. \nThese boys growing up never develop this attraction to their peers but rather feel more comfortable around younger children and usually behave as mentors. The combination of love of church and disinterest in peers puts the thought in their heads that priesthood is their calling. It takes a long time and effort to become a priest. There are easier paths if a guy just wants to bang kids.\nPut together lack of sex or release of biological needs with access and constant contact with children and they are basically pushed over the edge.\nTo sum up, pedophiles don't become priests to molest children, they become priests because they don't realize they are pedophiles. This is just my opinion, and obviously there are also exceptions to this.\nPerhaps the solution is to get rid of this nonsense celibacy.",
">\n\nAlternative theory: pedophiles become priests because they know the Catholic Church will support and hide them from accountability. Plus, all those altar boys have been easy pickings for decades. \nOn the positive side, Catholic Churches are closing all over Missouri because of dwindling congregations.",
">\n\nThis is one crime I’ll never be able to fathom.",
">\n\nSo fucking sick advocating for this monster so he can maintain freedom?",
">\n\nThe church has been so infiltrated by Child abusers that they are currently rating worse than Satan Worshippers",
">\n\nCan we just fuck churches off now???",
">\n\nYour tithing had to go somewhere.",
">\n\nHow come republicans are not calling these people groomers?",
">\n\nIs anyone else picturing the scene in the first Scary Movie where the cop asks Anna Faris to look at some pictures?\nPriest hands out the pictures of himself along with the weekly pamphlet. Maybe the first reading is from the Song of Solomon...",
">\n\nOh shit. \nHas he been quietly shuffled to a new church yet?",
">\n\nI'm old enough that when I see \"slideshow\" I think of him arranging physical slides in a carousel to project on a screen, like the family trip to Disneyland. Maybe invite the neighbors over for cake.",
">\n\nLord above why is this a thing",
">\n\nYou mean not a drag queen?",
">\n\nActual groomers.",
">\n\nJust think the hands that wanked to kiddie pr0n put wafers on the tongues of everyone in that congregation...",
">\n\nLMAO. This slightly ambiguous headline had me thinking “who attended these slideshow presentations?”",
">\n\nOh look another pedophile catholic priest. Good job reinforcing that stereotype.",
">\n\nAnd we should take guidance from those who hide these atrocities so we can live a better life in the eyes of god.",
">\n\nFriendly reminder religion is a mistake that deserves to be taxed. If you threatened to tax zealots tomorrow child molestation by priests would drop to zero",
">\n\nmay your mother smile as you burn",
">\n\nThis is what happens when you have unchecked power for thousands of years.\nHorrifying.",
">\n\nDid he learn this behavior from a drag show? /s",
">\n\nReminds me of something Chris Rock said: \"Where do women find the porn? They don't find it in your hiding place, they find it in the VCR\"",
">\n\nHe was also probably saving up for a trip to Disney World.",
">\n\n\nincluding child pornography and images of child erotica.\n\nI want to know the difference but don't want to get on a watchlist by googling it.",
">\n\nWithout the word child there, there's a difference in degree. I'd say it's the same thing with that word in there just describing the subject depicted. Pornography is generally actual sex acts of some form or another. Erotica falls short of that, it may be arousing or suggestive. For example, a cabaret show may be erotica but it's certainly not pornography.",
">\n\nPriest? Church? Man in a tax evasion party house?",
">\n\nYet the church immediately moved him somewhere else as there was a daycare next door to the church, then offered to pay to have the priest under house arrest so that the child predator won't go to jail.",
">\n\nShittiest Ted Talk I’ve ever seen, honestly…",
">\n\nOnly five years?! \nUgh!",
">\n\nAnd they call LGBT+ people groomers. (eyeroll)",
">\n\nAnyone who has ever been to a church sadly knows this doesn't need to be in this sub for us to know it's a real story.",
">\n\nOh how nice. The Reverend pleaded for him not to be incarcerated. Because of fucking course he did.",
">\n\nCurious as to who he was presenting this to",
">\n\nPunish these assholes they are smearing God's name",
">\n\nStraight to (checks notes) your next parish!",
">\n\nreligion and sexual abuse. name a more iconic duo\nwhy are any of these religions even allowed to exist any more\nthey have long since lost their meanings, and onlt serve to syphon money out of gullible people, and abuse their children\nwhat is any of these religions actually adding to society any more? other than more perverted monsters",
">\n\nHe’s not the only one",
">\n\nWhy is no big tv news channel talking about this?",
">\n\nAsked that he not go to prison & that his congregation pay to house him? Fuck the church. That's almost the most disgusting part of this",
">\n\nSo are we talking a pptx or an old-school film Rolodex version? Both are messed up, but one takes A LOT more effort.",
">\n\nThe catholic church is of Satan.",
">\n\nFaith is of \"Satan.\" The idea that assuming you might be wrong is morally wrong produces some of the worst people imaginable. And that applies to secular ideologies that require looking down on those who disagree or are unsure too.",
">\n\nAge of priest over/under 50\nWhat yall got?\nI have the over.",
">\n\nOnly 5 years?",
">\n\nRight for some reason i read it as slide show meaning projectors haha. I forgot Powerpoint presentations are a thing.",
">\n\nThe congregation still requested he be spared incarceration and remain in their facility. Truly unbelievable.",
">\n\nThose damn drag queens framed him",
">\n\nThey really put a lot of effort into not saying that he was catholic in that article."
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"Slideshows????? What?\nMy man just opened up cp.ppt and added a few THOUSAND slides of kiddy porn????\nClippy: it looks like youre a depraved predator. Do you want to profane the church as well?",
">\n\nWell I always did believe Power Point was a creation of a malevolent entity.",
">\n\nTuring complete, no less!",
">\n\nBut can it run Doom?",
">\n\nAnything can run doom",
">\n\nBut can Doom run Doom?",
">\n\nDoom can run Doom because Doom runs Doom when Doom runs.",
">\n\nPeople don't run Doom like it is, but it Doom.",
">\n\nGonna take this moment to highly recommend the film Spotlight to any who haven’t seen it",
">\n\nCheck out the 2017 limited series on either Netflix or Prime: \"The Keepers\" about a Baltimore-area Catholic girls' school. Based on the experiences as told by some of the girls, now middle-aged women. It is NOT nice, will make you cry, will enrage you. But I commend the women who made this documentary for as painful as it was for the audience to watch, I can't imagine how they made it thru. And they brought it around to a decent ending, but wow....I think some of what happened in Baltimore bled over into the Spotlight story.\nLapsed Catholic. I cannot reconcile with the Church hierarchy over this because they have behaved satanically for far too long to make me believe they are holy in any way.",
">\n\nThere was a documentary that came out a year or two ago tbzg sounds similar but men who were molested as kids while in the church. \nI honestly don't know how anyone can still support the church. At all. If it was one priest, sure. It's sad it happened, but pedophiles will always exist and find ways to get to kids.\nBut with how often it happens and with how little the church cares? Nope. I never could be catholic even if I was Christian.",
">\n\nBecause saving souls bringing them into their cult is more valuable than the ones they crush. The Vatican last I heard had 7 pedos protecting by not complying with extradition requests. \nAny organization not willing to comply with the laws of the country where they have a tax exempt status should lose their exemption and title to any property they own. If you RICO cartel and mafia assets, then you can do so for these child abusers and their protective association. \nYou know the church owns most of Manhattan and isn't paying taxes? All that money and we have to tolerate this shit? Nah fuck them.",
">\n\nNude pix on the church printer . . . I can imagine the scene.\nSister Mary Michael: Yo, does anyone recognize this tallywhacker?\nFormer Alter Boy Brian: Yeah, that's Father Jim. I'd know that hairy mole anywhere.",
">\n\nThat's Tommy Turner's tallywhacker",
">\n\nIf Reddit still gave free awards, I'd give one to you for catching the reference.",
">\n\nWAIT when did they get rid of the free awards",
">\n\nguess this is how i found out. last i claimed mine is around last week, i think. i only claim once every two weeks to gild certain biweekly thread lul",
">\n\nAnd yet where are all the \"anti-groomers\" protesting these churches?",
">\n\nIt’s almost like it has never actually been about protecting children, and it’s always been about trying to demonize LGBT people",
">\n\nAt this point I am positive the religious right to life thing is about having more targets.",
">\n\nGlad 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?",
">\n\nAfter 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.",
">\n\nI 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.\nThere are also many who truly believe the schtick and just compartmentalize the bad stuff. Both are to blame regardless. Nobody gets a pass.",
">\n\nI could see that with some of the smaller denominations for sure.\nWhen 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.",
">\n\n*making another streak to the tally list wall\n*camera panning out to reveal a huge fucking wall coveres in streaks",
">\n\nMan 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.\nThat said. This man should burn for this",
">\n\nPriest? Pedo? Are you sure? This is unprecedented",
">\n\nCorrection! PedoPreist",
">\n\nNew name not necessary. If anything there should be a name for the unique priests that arent pedos.",
">\n\nI'm inclined to think the majority of priests aren't child predators themselves.\nThe 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.\nWay, way too many of them are pedo-enablers. All the way up...",
">\n\nThen that would mean that... Gasp\nSouth Park was right all along....\nSneaky little bastards didn't think I would notice....",
">\n\nWish I was surprised",
">\n\nYou make slideshows of images? \nEdit: \nOh wait I see what you mean. Yeah the pedophile priest thing is so expected that only the slideshow bit stood out",
">\n\nHoly hell. Priest have normalized pedophilia.",
">\n\nNot just priests. Protestant Christians have a major problem with sexual abuse too, particularly against children.\nAfter Major Investigation, Southern Baptists Confront the Abuse Crisis They Knew Was Coming\nDon't let the Evangelical pedo defenders get away with claiming that Catholicism is the only issue here. It isn't.",
">\n\n\nnone of them are immune to the depravity.\n\nAlmost implied, really.",
">\n\nCould 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?",
">\n\nA variety of factors:\n\nUnquestioned moral authority and intense trust from a large community who have all been taught to obey church authorities\nSupport from a massive extremely powerful institution that has covered up thousands of similar crimes\nStrictly forbidden to marry, have sex, or iirc even masturbate, making them view all sexual activities as similarly taboo for them\nEasy regular access to many children\nEasy ability to get alone time with children\nPriests are only held institutionally accountable to each other and to those with more authority in the church\nVictims 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\nChildren 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\nThe 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\nThe 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\n\nThat'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.”\nP.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.\nWant 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.\nEdit to add this excellent way to protect kids that churches consistently fight against:\n\n“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.\nchildren 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.”",
">\n\nSo this should be buried enough if I speak in general terms.\nYears back one of our pastors had to give up being a pastor. They didn't get into details of what he did but they did stress that kids were not involved. The whole church could be seen relaxing.",
">\n\n5 years for thousands of child porn images and videos? Seems pretty fucking light to me. This piece of shit should die in prison.",
">\n\n5 years and a ticket to heaven",
">\n\nHeaven? For him?",
">\n\nThat'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.",
">\n\nDon't you also have to be truly repentant for your sins, including making a good faith effort to keep from repeating them?",
">\n\nI would love for someone to answer this because I really want to know, too.",
">\n\nyes I'm pretty sure that's it. God sees people's hearts He should know the diff between true repentance and fake one",
">\n\nYes, assuming an all-powerful God existed, he’d be able to pretty easily know if you were truly sorry.",
">\n\nYeah but......... \nI'm just starting the religious apologist's sentence for them.",
">\n\nFor 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.",
">\n\nOne 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.",
">\n\nOnce I heard this theory, the acceptance by conservatives of people whose behavior is in direct conflict with their moral beliefs, made more sense.",
">\n\n5 holly maries and transfer\nafter 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.\nRev. 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.\"\nMcDevitt asked the presiding judge for \"mercy for Jim,\" and even offered for the congregation to pay to house him in lieu of imprisonment.\n\"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.\"\n\"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.\"",
">\n\nIn Australia at the moment there is a furore after the death of Cardinal George Pell who was convicted (then exonerated) of personally abusing children, but was found by a Royal Commission (that would be a special prosecutor for our American friends?) of enabling and protecting paedophile priests for decades.\nCan honestly say I have not been able to listen to the string of \"Christians\" praising this man in our media for the last few days without wanting to puke. Suffer the little children.",
">\n\nWith you there. At least there’s a lot of people calling his supporters out on this. Fuck Tony Abbott, John Howard and Andrew Bolt to name a few.",
">\n\nI 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!",
">\n\nr/PastorArrested (also includes Priests)",
">\n\nDon'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.",
">\n\nIf there is a god, wtf?",
">\n\nThere is no God. Religion is about control and money",
">\n\nAnd more money",
">\n\n\"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.\" \n- Rev. Patrick McDevitt, provincial superior for the Congregation of the Western Province \n\nEvery single member of that congregation is a horrible piece of shit",
">\n\nWhat 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?",
">\n\n“Drag queens are grooming our youth!!!”",
">\n\n\"I think we all know where people put on dresses and fuck kids\"\n-Trixie Mattel, 2022",
">\n\nKid “Bless me Father, for I have sinned”\nPadre “ call me, maybe?”",
">\n\nImagine my shock to discover that a priest has been involved in a sex scandal and one involving the exploitation of children, at that.",
">\n\nGOP: \"But wuttabout drag queens?!?!?!??!\"",
">\n\nDoing the Lords work 🙏🏾",
">\n\nTax-free",
">\n\nWhat's the deal with priests being so into pedophilia? Can't they look at milf pounds like normal people?",
">\n\nOh look... Another priest with child porn ... When do we get to start taxing the church?",
">\n\nr/pastorarrested",
">\n\nChurch is a scary place, especially for children.",
">\n\nI 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.",
">\n\nOnly 5 years. What a joke.",
">\n\n\nThe 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.\n\nIf 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.",
">\n\nNo one is suprised a priest is a pedophile. \nBut printing out yer nudes? That's odd.",
">\n\nI can think of a reason he printed it out. And I really don't like that reason.",
">\n\nI'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.",
">\n\nThe sheer audacity to do it at church where you work",
">\n\nAnd not a drag queen in sight...",
">\n\nThey do kinda wear dresses, though",
">\n\nToo many “coincidences” within this church to be anything other than systematic",
">\n\nPretty 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.",
">\n\n\nThe data often suggests numbers of pedophiles similar to the general population\n\none 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",
">\n\nYeah, 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.",
">\n\nI 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.",
">\n\nIt's so common for priests to be sickos",
">\n\nGross",
">\n\nAll he needs to do is repent, right?!?",
">\n\nA priest? With kiddie porn? I’ve never heard of such a thing!",
">\n\nRemember 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.",
">\n\n5 years that's all he got",
">\n\nThat's fucking disgusting. Misappropriation of office materials.",
">\n\nIt 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",
">\n\nIdiot 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.",
">\n\nso 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.",
">\n\nI 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 🤷♂️",
">\n\n5 years isnt nearly enough. Lock him up forever and a day.",
">\n\n~~Drag shows~~ Churches are not safe for children",
">\n\nI'm sure the religious Right will be out protesting him any second.\nRight? Right guys? Groomers and all this? Qanons? Where you guys at?\nHuh. Weird.",
">\n\nBut the dragqueens guys?!?!?!??!? /s",
">\n\nWeird that so many god loving people are actually just pedophiles. Wonder what they think god thinks of them. Fuck theism.",
">\n\nTheir god tells them to take the young girls as spoils of war. Their god is just as fucking depraved as they are.",
">\n\ntHaTs jUsT tHe oLd tEsTaMeNt tHoUgh.\ngOds mOraLiTy dOeSnt cHanGe, hE jUsT dEaLs wItH hUmAns diFFeReNtlY nOw. \nYeah when someone deals with people differently than they did before we generally call that \"a change.\"",
">\n\nAnd he wasn’t trans??? Maybe it’s been priests all along that governors should be banning. When will they correct their mistake? /s",
">\n\nDoesn'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...",
">\n\nIt's surprising. Who prints out their own nudes?",
">\n\nLock him up and throw away the keys",
">\n\nDarn priests, at least those protestant ministers keep it in the family",
">\n\nNot surprised.",
">\n\nThree hail marys and all is forgiven. What a load of bs",
">\n\nJust one bad apple, I’m sure.",
">\n\nLeast paedophilic priest",
">\n\n…slideshow?",
">\n\nGod works in mysterious ways ya fuckin chomo. As a priest, he of all people should have seen this coming...",
">\n\nIn other news, water is wet",
">\n\nOnly five years...",
">\n\n”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.” \nಠ_ಠ",
">\n\nI don’t remember this plotline during Doubt…",
">\n\nWe keep letting them get away with it, so they keep doing it. More obvious news at 10.",
">\n\n& once they found him out he got made a cardinal",
">\n\nHe should've kept them in the garage with his Corvette",
">\n\n5 years? If nothing else, using PowerPoint should have been an aggravating factor.",
">\n\nAnd you thought looking at Bob's family vacation pics was a bad time",
">\n\nWhen 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.",
">\n\nHow is the Roman Catholic Church not closed down for enabling and protecting child abusers",
">\n\nAre 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.",
">\n\nIt'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.",
">\n\npapabile!",
">\n\nLeft nudes on a shared printer? Rookie mistake.",
">\n\nTeach your priests just enough tech to effectively turn themselves in.",
">\n\nIsn't it something how the church decided to investigate themselves again. Keep it in the family, guys.\nI 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.",
">\n\nIs 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:\n1 - 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\n2 - 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)\n3 - 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.\nTL;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.",
">\n\nLet me guess.\nMoved to a different church at the other side of the country and that’s about it for consequences?",
">\n\nThose damned drag queens strike again.",
">\n\nI mean that’s kinda how they caught BTK",
">\n\nSo priests are still abusing kids after we didn't do anything to them the last few times we caught them? Color me surprised.",
">\n\n\nCourt 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.\"\n\n...\n\nDuring 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. \n\n...\n\nAnd 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. \n\nFuck everyone that allowed this scum to continue in a position of authority.",
">\n\nDon’t hear this happening at drag shows…j/s",
">\n\nHe put the PDF in pedofile",
">\n\nThis is Fucking ridiculous",
">\n\nNever forget who the actual groomers are",
">\n\nThe proud boys will be outside of churches \"protesting\" with guns now, right? right?",
">\n\nA priest being pedophile? But that is absolutely unheard of, say it isn't so!",
">\n\nYou sure this wasn't at a Trans drag show? GOP is sure this happens at Trans dragsl shows",
">\n\nExcommunicated by PowerPoint",
">\n\n5 years and a fine? FFS, that’s ridiculous.",
">\n\nPraise Jesus!",
">\n\nAnd the right thinks kids going to drag shows are the problem",
">\n\nAverage christian.",
">\n\nbut the drag queens are reading books to children in libraries! The madnessss",
">\n\nSo they moved him to a new church. This is what they have always done.",
">\n\nleast pedophilic priest:",
">\n\nThe dead ones dont hurt anyone.",
">\n\ninto the furnace he goes. theres no rehabbing people like this.",
">\n\nIt's always the ones you least expect..",
">\n\nOr in this case, the ones you MOST suspect",
">\n\nlol ya, I said that with sarcasm..",
">\n\nPray that he gets nut cancer.",
">\n\nNut cancer was once described to me as \"the common cold of cancers\". It has something like a 95% survival rate.\nHe deserves worse.",
">\n\nDidn't know that. Good nut fact for the day.",
">\n\nIt's definitely the drag queens reading to kids in libraries that's the problem.",
">\n\nRight wingers want him to be a closeted drag queen so badly",
">\n\nI could never trust any man who goes into priesthood. Completely unnatural and deviant occupation rife with pedophiles.",
">\n\nThis MONSTER got 5 years?! \nThe CHILDREN being abused in the images will suffer for the rest of their lives!!\nI'm in favor of LIFE SENTENCES for child sex offenders. \nOr better yet, the DEATH PENALTY!!",
">\n\nReligion was invented by Man for Control of the Flock.You go to Confession and tell the priest everything so they can determine how to undress you.\nI was once a Catholic.....born, baptised, confirmed and educated in a Grammar school run by Irish Christian Brothers under the Order of Edmund Ignatius Rice......and now I'm an atheist.",
">\n\nHow come it is always ‘Christians’ who are involved in child sex abuse?",
">\n\nOf course he's a pedo, he's a priest!",
">\n\nYes millions of idiots keep donating billions to the church",
">\n\nNot simply donating, they bring their children along, indoctrinate them that the priest is the speaker of God, and that God can do no wrong, so anything the priest dose is holy and good. The priest even says so!\nAnd when the kids bring it up the first few times weird things happen? The parents tell them to shush. And so, the sacrifices continue, the parents make a show of not knowing, and things get worse for the children.\nAnd if the priest is reported, the church just moves them to a different parish.\nThe only difference between the taliban and the catholic church, is one of them advertises the child slaves as a benefit, while the other pretends it's not (but totally encourages it, top to bottom).",
">\n\nAnd who are the groomers again?",
">\n\nThis is what happens when you don’t recycle your printer papers.",
">\n\nI feel like this isn't oniony enough, everyone knows by now that priests are significantly more likely to be pedophiles than the general population.",
">\n\nSure, but “gets caught by leaving nudes on a printer” is a fairly onion-y end.",
">\n\nYa know you're right",
">\n\nI have a theory about the correlation between priests and pedophiles. This is my opinion based on conversations with a childhood friend (not a pedo) and is only my opinion but could explain why so many priests abuse children. Get your down votes ready. \nThese boys grow up in the church and it is all they know for the most part. When going through puberty we become attracted to a gender (male or female gay or straight sometimes somewhere in between) and more often a \"type\" as well (blonde brunette short tall etc). Our hormones drive us to seek companionship, intimacy, and ultimately procreation. \nThese boys growing up never develop this attraction to their peers but rather feel more comfortable around younger children and usually behave as mentors. The combination of love of church and disinterest in peers puts the thought in their heads that priesthood is their calling. It takes a long time and effort to become a priest. There are easier paths if a guy just wants to bang kids.\nPut together lack of sex or release of biological needs with access and constant contact with children and they are basically pushed over the edge.\nTo sum up, pedophiles don't become priests to molest children, they become priests because they don't realize they are pedophiles. This is just my opinion, and obviously there are also exceptions to this.\nPerhaps the solution is to get rid of this nonsense celibacy.",
">\n\nAlternative theory: pedophiles become priests because they know the Catholic Church will support and hide them from accountability. Plus, all those altar boys have been easy pickings for decades. \nOn the positive side, Catholic Churches are closing all over Missouri because of dwindling congregations.",
">\n\nThis is one crime I’ll never be able to fathom.",
">\n\nSo fucking sick advocating for this monster so he can maintain freedom?",
">\n\nThe church has been so infiltrated by Child abusers that they are currently rating worse than Satan Worshippers",
">\n\nCan we just fuck churches off now???",
">\n\nYour tithing had to go somewhere.",
">\n\nHow come republicans are not calling these people groomers?",
">\n\nIs anyone else picturing the scene in the first Scary Movie where the cop asks Anna Faris to look at some pictures?\nPriest hands out the pictures of himself along with the weekly pamphlet. Maybe the first reading is from the Song of Solomon...",
">\n\nOh shit. \nHas he been quietly shuffled to a new church yet?",
">\n\nI'm old enough that when I see \"slideshow\" I think of him arranging physical slides in a carousel to project on a screen, like the family trip to Disneyland. Maybe invite the neighbors over for cake.",
">\n\nLord above why is this a thing",
">\n\nYou mean not a drag queen?",
">\n\nActual groomers.",
">\n\nJust think the hands that wanked to kiddie pr0n put wafers on the tongues of everyone in that congregation...",
">\n\nLMAO. This slightly ambiguous headline had me thinking “who attended these slideshow presentations?”",
">\n\nOh look another pedophile catholic priest. Good job reinforcing that stereotype.",
">\n\nAnd we should take guidance from those who hide these atrocities so we can live a better life in the eyes of god.",
">\n\nFriendly reminder religion is a mistake that deserves to be taxed. If you threatened to tax zealots tomorrow child molestation by priests would drop to zero",
">\n\nmay your mother smile as you burn",
">\n\nThis is what happens when you have unchecked power for thousands of years.\nHorrifying.",
">\n\nDid he learn this behavior from a drag show? /s",
">\n\nReminds me of something Chris Rock said: \"Where do women find the porn? They don't find it in your hiding place, they find it in the VCR\"",
">\n\nHe was also probably saving up for a trip to Disney World.",
">\n\n\nincluding child pornography and images of child erotica.\n\nI want to know the difference but don't want to get on a watchlist by googling it.",
">\n\nWithout the word child there, there's a difference in degree. I'd say it's the same thing with that word in there just describing the subject depicted. Pornography is generally actual sex acts of some form or another. Erotica falls short of that, it may be arousing or suggestive. For example, a cabaret show may be erotica but it's certainly not pornography.",
">\n\nPriest? Church? Man in a tax evasion party house?",
">\n\nYet the church immediately moved him somewhere else as there was a daycare next door to the church, then offered to pay to have the priest under house arrest so that the child predator won't go to jail.",
">\n\nShittiest Ted Talk I’ve ever seen, honestly…",
">\n\nOnly five years?! \nUgh!",
">\n\nAnd they call LGBT+ people groomers. (eyeroll)",
">\n\nAnyone who has ever been to a church sadly knows this doesn't need to be in this sub for us to know it's a real story.",
">\n\nOh how nice. The Reverend pleaded for him not to be incarcerated. Because of fucking course he did.",
">\n\nCurious as to who he was presenting this to",
">\n\nPunish these assholes they are smearing God's name",
">\n\nStraight to (checks notes) your next parish!",
">\n\nreligion and sexual abuse. name a more iconic duo\nwhy are any of these religions even allowed to exist any more\nthey have long since lost their meanings, and onlt serve to syphon money out of gullible people, and abuse their children\nwhat is any of these religions actually adding to society any more? other than more perverted monsters",
">\n\nHe’s not the only one",
">\n\nWhy is no big tv news channel talking about this?",
">\n\nAsked that he not go to prison & that his congregation pay to house him? Fuck the church. That's almost the most disgusting part of this",
">\n\nSo are we talking a pptx or an old-school film Rolodex version? Both are messed up, but one takes A LOT more effort.",
">\n\nThe catholic church is of Satan.",
">\n\nFaith is of \"Satan.\" The idea that assuming you might be wrong is morally wrong produces some of the worst people imaginable. And that applies to secular ideologies that require looking down on those who disagree or are unsure too.",
">\n\nAge of priest over/under 50\nWhat yall got?\nI have the over.",
">\n\nOnly 5 years?",
">\n\nRight for some reason i read it as slide show meaning projectors haha. I forgot Powerpoint presentations are a thing.",
">\n\nThe congregation still requested he be spared incarceration and remain in their facility. Truly unbelievable.",
">\n\nThose damn drag queens framed him",
">\n\nThey really put a lot of effort into not saying that he was catholic in that article.",
">\n\nWonder what congregation hes been moved to now?"
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"Slideshows????? What?\nMy man just opened up cp.ppt and added a few THOUSAND slides of kiddy porn????\nClippy: it looks like youre a depraved predator. Do you want to profane the church as well?",
">\n\nWell I always did believe Power Point was a creation of a malevolent entity.",
">\n\nTuring complete, no less!",
">\n\nBut can it run Doom?",
">\n\nAnything can run doom",
">\n\nBut can Doom run Doom?",
">\n\nDoom can run Doom because Doom runs Doom when Doom runs.",
">\n\nPeople don't run Doom like it is, but it Doom.",
">\n\nGonna take this moment to highly recommend the film Spotlight to any who haven’t seen it",
">\n\nCheck out the 2017 limited series on either Netflix or Prime: \"The Keepers\" about a Baltimore-area Catholic girls' school. Based on the experiences as told by some of the girls, now middle-aged women. It is NOT nice, will make you cry, will enrage you. But I commend the women who made this documentary for as painful as it was for the audience to watch, I can't imagine how they made it thru. And they brought it around to a decent ending, but wow....I think some of what happened in Baltimore bled over into the Spotlight story.\nLapsed Catholic. I cannot reconcile with the Church hierarchy over this because they have behaved satanically for far too long to make me believe they are holy in any way.",
">\n\nThere was a documentary that came out a year or two ago tbzg sounds similar but men who were molested as kids while in the church. \nI honestly don't know how anyone can still support the church. At all. If it was one priest, sure. It's sad it happened, but pedophiles will always exist and find ways to get to kids.\nBut with how often it happens and with how little the church cares? Nope. I never could be catholic even if I was Christian.",
">\n\nBecause saving souls bringing them into their cult is more valuable than the ones they crush. The Vatican last I heard had 7 pedos protecting by not complying with extradition requests. \nAny organization not willing to comply with the laws of the country where they have a tax exempt status should lose their exemption and title to any property they own. If you RICO cartel and mafia assets, then you can do so for these child abusers and their protective association. \nYou know the church owns most of Manhattan and isn't paying taxes? All that money and we have to tolerate this shit? Nah fuck them.",
">\n\nNude pix on the church printer . . . I can imagine the scene.\nSister Mary Michael: Yo, does anyone recognize this tallywhacker?\nFormer Alter Boy Brian: Yeah, that's Father Jim. I'd know that hairy mole anywhere.",
">\n\nThat's Tommy Turner's tallywhacker",
">\n\nIf Reddit still gave free awards, I'd give one to you for catching the reference.",
">\n\nWAIT when did they get rid of the free awards",
">\n\nguess this is how i found out. last i claimed mine is around last week, i think. i only claim once every two weeks to gild certain biweekly thread lul",
">\n\nAnd yet where are all the \"anti-groomers\" protesting these churches?",
">\n\nIt’s almost like it has never actually been about protecting children, and it’s always been about trying to demonize LGBT people",
">\n\nAt this point I am positive the religious right to life thing is about having more targets.",
">\n\nGlad 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?",
">\n\nAfter 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.",
">\n\nI 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.\nThere are also many who truly believe the schtick and just compartmentalize the bad stuff. Both are to blame regardless. Nobody gets a pass.",
">\n\nI could see that with some of the smaller denominations for sure.\nWhen 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.",
">\n\n*making another streak to the tally list wall\n*camera panning out to reveal a huge fucking wall coveres in streaks",
">\n\nMan 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.\nThat said. This man should burn for this",
">\n\nPriest? Pedo? Are you sure? This is unprecedented",
">\n\nCorrection! PedoPreist",
">\n\nNew name not necessary. If anything there should be a name for the unique priests that arent pedos.",
">\n\nI'm inclined to think the majority of priests aren't child predators themselves.\nThe 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.\nWay, way too many of them are pedo-enablers. All the way up...",
">\n\nThen that would mean that... Gasp\nSouth Park was right all along....\nSneaky little bastards didn't think I would notice....",
">\n\nWish I was surprised",
">\n\nYou make slideshows of images? \nEdit: \nOh wait I see what you mean. Yeah the pedophile priest thing is so expected that only the slideshow bit stood out",
">\n\nHoly hell. Priest have normalized pedophilia.",
">\n\nNot just priests. Protestant Christians have a major problem with sexual abuse too, particularly against children.\nAfter Major Investigation, Southern Baptists Confront the Abuse Crisis They Knew Was Coming\nDon't let the Evangelical pedo defenders get away with claiming that Catholicism is the only issue here. It isn't.",
">\n\n\nnone of them are immune to the depravity.\n\nAlmost implied, really.",
">\n\nCould 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?",
">\n\nA variety of factors:\n\nUnquestioned moral authority and intense trust from a large community who have all been taught to obey church authorities\nSupport from a massive extremely powerful institution that has covered up thousands of similar crimes\nStrictly forbidden to marry, have sex, or iirc even masturbate, making them view all sexual activities as similarly taboo for them\nEasy regular access to many children\nEasy ability to get alone time with children\nPriests are only held institutionally accountable to each other and to those with more authority in the church\nVictims 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\nChildren 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\nThe 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\nThe 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\n\nThat'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.”\nP.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.\nWant 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.\nEdit to add this excellent way to protect kids that churches consistently fight against:\n\n“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.\nchildren 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.”",
">\n\nSo this should be buried enough if I speak in general terms.\nYears back one of our pastors had to give up being a pastor. They didn't get into details of what he did but they did stress that kids were not involved. The whole church could be seen relaxing.",
">\n\n5 years for thousands of child porn images and videos? Seems pretty fucking light to me. This piece of shit should die in prison.",
">\n\n5 years and a ticket to heaven",
">\n\nHeaven? For him?",
">\n\nThat'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.",
">\n\nDon't you also have to be truly repentant for your sins, including making a good faith effort to keep from repeating them?",
">\n\nI would love for someone to answer this because I really want to know, too.",
">\n\nyes I'm pretty sure that's it. God sees people's hearts He should know the diff between true repentance and fake one",
">\n\nYes, assuming an all-powerful God existed, he’d be able to pretty easily know if you were truly sorry.",
">\n\nYeah but......... \nI'm just starting the religious apologist's sentence for them.",
">\n\nFor 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.",
">\n\nOne 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.",
">\n\nOnce I heard this theory, the acceptance by conservatives of people whose behavior is in direct conflict with their moral beliefs, made more sense.",
">\n\n5 holly maries and transfer\nafter 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.\nRev. 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.\"\nMcDevitt asked the presiding judge for \"mercy for Jim,\" and even offered for the congregation to pay to house him in lieu of imprisonment.\n\"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.\"\n\"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.\"",
">\n\nIn Australia at the moment there is a furore after the death of Cardinal George Pell who was convicted (then exonerated) of personally abusing children, but was found by a Royal Commission (that would be a special prosecutor for our American friends?) of enabling and protecting paedophile priests for decades.\nCan honestly say I have not been able to listen to the string of \"Christians\" praising this man in our media for the last few days without wanting to puke. Suffer the little children.",
">\n\nWith you there. At least there’s a lot of people calling his supporters out on this. Fuck Tony Abbott, John Howard and Andrew Bolt to name a few.",
">\n\nI 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!",
">\n\nr/PastorArrested (also includes Priests)",
">\n\nDon'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.",
">\n\nIf there is a god, wtf?",
">\n\nThere is no God. Religion is about control and money",
">\n\nAnd more money",
">\n\n\"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.\" \n- Rev. Patrick McDevitt, provincial superior for the Congregation of the Western Province \n\nEvery single member of that congregation is a horrible piece of shit",
">\n\nWhat 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?",
">\n\n“Drag queens are grooming our youth!!!”",
">\n\n\"I think we all know where people put on dresses and fuck kids\"\n-Trixie Mattel, 2022",
">\n\nKid “Bless me Father, for I have sinned”\nPadre “ call me, maybe?”",
">\n\nImagine my shock to discover that a priest has been involved in a sex scandal and one involving the exploitation of children, at that.",
">\n\nGOP: \"But wuttabout drag queens?!?!?!??!\"",
">\n\nDoing the Lords work 🙏🏾",
">\n\nTax-free",
">\n\nWhat's the deal with priests being so into pedophilia? Can't they look at milf pounds like normal people?",
">\n\nOh look... Another priest with child porn ... When do we get to start taxing the church?",
">\n\nr/pastorarrested",
">\n\nChurch is a scary place, especially for children.",
">\n\nI 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.",
">\n\nOnly 5 years. What a joke.",
">\n\n\nThe 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.\n\nIf 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.",
">\n\nNo one is suprised a priest is a pedophile. \nBut printing out yer nudes? That's odd.",
">\n\nI can think of a reason he printed it out. And I really don't like that reason.",
">\n\nI'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.",
">\n\nThe sheer audacity to do it at church where you work",
">\n\nAnd not a drag queen in sight...",
">\n\nThey do kinda wear dresses, though",
">\n\nToo many “coincidences” within this church to be anything other than systematic",
">\n\nPretty 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.",
">\n\n\nThe data often suggests numbers of pedophiles similar to the general population\n\none 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",
">\n\nYeah, 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.",
">\n\nI 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.",
">\n\nIt's so common for priests to be sickos",
">\n\nGross",
">\n\nAll he needs to do is repent, right?!?",
">\n\nA priest? With kiddie porn? I’ve never heard of such a thing!",
">\n\nRemember 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.",
">\n\n5 years that's all he got",
">\n\nThat's fucking disgusting. Misappropriation of office materials.",
">\n\nIt 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",
">\n\nIdiot 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.",
">\n\nso 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.",
">\n\nI 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 🤷♂️",
">\n\n5 years isnt nearly enough. Lock him up forever and a day.",
">\n\n~~Drag shows~~ Churches are not safe for children",
">\n\nI'm sure the religious Right will be out protesting him any second.\nRight? Right guys? Groomers and all this? Qanons? Where you guys at?\nHuh. Weird.",
">\n\nBut the dragqueens guys?!?!?!??!? /s",
">\n\nWeird that so many god loving people are actually just pedophiles. Wonder what they think god thinks of them. Fuck theism.",
">\n\nTheir god tells them to take the young girls as spoils of war. Their god is just as fucking depraved as they are.",
">\n\ntHaTs jUsT tHe oLd tEsTaMeNt tHoUgh.\ngOds mOraLiTy dOeSnt cHanGe, hE jUsT dEaLs wItH hUmAns diFFeReNtlY nOw. \nYeah when someone deals with people differently than they did before we generally call that \"a change.\"",
">\n\nAnd he wasn’t trans??? Maybe it’s been priests all along that governors should be banning. When will they correct their mistake? /s",
">\n\nDoesn'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...",
">\n\nIt's surprising. Who prints out their own nudes?",
">\n\nLock him up and throw away the keys",
">\n\nDarn priests, at least those protestant ministers keep it in the family",
">\n\nNot surprised.",
">\n\nThree hail marys and all is forgiven. What a load of bs",
">\n\nJust one bad apple, I’m sure.",
">\n\nLeast paedophilic priest",
">\n\n…slideshow?",
">\n\nGod works in mysterious ways ya fuckin chomo. As a priest, he of all people should have seen this coming...",
">\n\nIn other news, water is wet",
">\n\nOnly five years...",
">\n\n”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.” \nಠ_ಠ",
">\n\nI don’t remember this plotline during Doubt…",
">\n\nWe keep letting them get away with it, so they keep doing it. More obvious news at 10.",
">\n\n& once they found him out he got made a cardinal",
">\n\nHe should've kept them in the garage with his Corvette",
">\n\n5 years? If nothing else, using PowerPoint should have been an aggravating factor.",
">\n\nAnd you thought looking at Bob's family vacation pics was a bad time",
">\n\nWhen 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.",
">\n\nHow is the Roman Catholic Church not closed down for enabling and protecting child abusers",
">\n\nAre 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.",
">\n\nIt'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.",
">\n\npapabile!",
">\n\nLeft nudes on a shared printer? Rookie mistake.",
">\n\nTeach your priests just enough tech to effectively turn themselves in.",
">\n\nIsn't it something how the church decided to investigate themselves again. Keep it in the family, guys.\nI 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.",
">\n\nIs 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:\n1 - 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\n2 - 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)\n3 - 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.\nTL;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.",
">\n\nLet me guess.\nMoved to a different church at the other side of the country and that’s about it for consequences?",
">\n\nThose damned drag queens strike again.",
">\n\nI mean that’s kinda how they caught BTK",
">\n\nSo priests are still abusing kids after we didn't do anything to them the last few times we caught them? Color me surprised.",
">\n\n\nCourt 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.\"\n\n...\n\nDuring 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. \n\n...\n\nAnd 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. \n\nFuck everyone that allowed this scum to continue in a position of authority.",
">\n\nDon’t hear this happening at drag shows…j/s",
">\n\nHe put the PDF in pedofile",
">\n\nThis is Fucking ridiculous",
">\n\nNever forget who the actual groomers are",
">\n\nThe proud boys will be outside of churches \"protesting\" with guns now, right? right?",
">\n\nA priest being pedophile? But that is absolutely unheard of, say it isn't so!",
">\n\nYou sure this wasn't at a Trans drag show? GOP is sure this happens at Trans dragsl shows",
">\n\nExcommunicated by PowerPoint",
">\n\n5 years and a fine? FFS, that’s ridiculous.",
">\n\nPraise Jesus!",
">\n\nAnd the right thinks kids going to drag shows are the problem",
">\n\nAverage christian.",
">\n\nbut the drag queens are reading books to children in libraries! The madnessss",
">\n\nSo they moved him to a new church. This is what they have always done.",
">\n\nleast pedophilic priest:",
">\n\nThe dead ones dont hurt anyone.",
">\n\ninto the furnace he goes. theres no rehabbing people like this.",
">\n\nIt's always the ones you least expect..",
">\n\nOr in this case, the ones you MOST suspect",
">\n\nlol ya, I said that with sarcasm..",
">\n\nPray that he gets nut cancer.",
">\n\nNut cancer was once described to me as \"the common cold of cancers\". It has something like a 95% survival rate.\nHe deserves worse.",
">\n\nDidn't know that. Good nut fact for the day.",
">\n\nIt's definitely the drag queens reading to kids in libraries that's the problem.",
">\n\nRight wingers want him to be a closeted drag queen so badly",
">\n\nI could never trust any man who goes into priesthood. Completely unnatural and deviant occupation rife with pedophiles.",
">\n\nThis MONSTER got 5 years?! \nThe CHILDREN being abused in the images will suffer for the rest of their lives!!\nI'm in favor of LIFE SENTENCES for child sex offenders. \nOr better yet, the DEATH PENALTY!!",
">\n\nReligion was invented by Man for Control of the Flock.You go to Confession and tell the priest everything so they can determine how to undress you.\nI was once a Catholic.....born, baptised, confirmed and educated in a Grammar school run by Irish Christian Brothers under the Order of Edmund Ignatius Rice......and now I'm an atheist.",
">\n\nHow come it is always ‘Christians’ who are involved in child sex abuse?",
">\n\nOf course he's a pedo, he's a priest!",
">\n\nYes millions of idiots keep donating billions to the church",
">\n\nNot simply donating, they bring their children along, indoctrinate them that the priest is the speaker of God, and that God can do no wrong, so anything the priest dose is holy and good. The priest even says so!\nAnd when the kids bring it up the first few times weird things happen? The parents tell them to shush. And so, the sacrifices continue, the parents make a show of not knowing, and things get worse for the children.\nAnd if the priest is reported, the church just moves them to a different parish.\nThe only difference between the taliban and the catholic church, is one of them advertises the child slaves as a benefit, while the other pretends it's not (but totally encourages it, top to bottom).",
">\n\nAnd who are the groomers again?",
">\n\nThis is what happens when you don’t recycle your printer papers.",
">\n\nI feel like this isn't oniony enough, everyone knows by now that priests are significantly more likely to be pedophiles than the general population.",
">\n\nSure, but “gets caught by leaving nudes on a printer” is a fairly onion-y end.",
">\n\nYa know you're right",
">\n\nI have a theory about the correlation between priests and pedophiles. This is my opinion based on conversations with a childhood friend (not a pedo) and is only my opinion but could explain why so many priests abuse children. Get your down votes ready. \nThese boys grow up in the church and it is all they know for the most part. When going through puberty we become attracted to a gender (male or female gay or straight sometimes somewhere in between) and more often a \"type\" as well (blonde brunette short tall etc). Our hormones drive us to seek companionship, intimacy, and ultimately procreation. \nThese boys growing up never develop this attraction to their peers but rather feel more comfortable around younger children and usually behave as mentors. The combination of love of church and disinterest in peers puts the thought in their heads that priesthood is their calling. It takes a long time and effort to become a priest. There are easier paths if a guy just wants to bang kids.\nPut together lack of sex or release of biological needs with access and constant contact with children and they are basically pushed over the edge.\nTo sum up, pedophiles don't become priests to molest children, they become priests because they don't realize they are pedophiles. This is just my opinion, and obviously there are also exceptions to this.\nPerhaps the solution is to get rid of this nonsense celibacy.",
">\n\nAlternative theory: pedophiles become priests because they know the Catholic Church will support and hide them from accountability. Plus, all those altar boys have been easy pickings for decades. \nOn the positive side, Catholic Churches are closing all over Missouri because of dwindling congregations.",
">\n\nThis is one crime I’ll never be able to fathom.",
">\n\nSo fucking sick advocating for this monster so he can maintain freedom?",
">\n\nThe church has been so infiltrated by Child abusers that they are currently rating worse than Satan Worshippers",
">\n\nCan we just fuck churches off now???",
">\n\nYour tithing had to go somewhere.",
">\n\nHow come republicans are not calling these people groomers?",
">\n\nIs anyone else picturing the scene in the first Scary Movie where the cop asks Anna Faris to look at some pictures?\nPriest hands out the pictures of himself along with the weekly pamphlet. Maybe the first reading is from the Song of Solomon...",
">\n\nOh shit. \nHas he been quietly shuffled to a new church yet?",
">\n\nI'm old enough that when I see \"slideshow\" I think of him arranging physical slides in a carousel to project on a screen, like the family trip to Disneyland. Maybe invite the neighbors over for cake.",
">\n\nLord above why is this a thing",
">\n\nYou mean not a drag queen?",
">\n\nActual groomers.",
">\n\nJust think the hands that wanked to kiddie pr0n put wafers on the tongues of everyone in that congregation...",
">\n\nLMAO. This slightly ambiguous headline had me thinking “who attended these slideshow presentations?”",
">\n\nOh look another pedophile catholic priest. Good job reinforcing that stereotype.",
">\n\nAnd we should take guidance from those who hide these atrocities so we can live a better life in the eyes of god.",
">\n\nFriendly reminder religion is a mistake that deserves to be taxed. If you threatened to tax zealots tomorrow child molestation by priests would drop to zero",
">\n\nmay your mother smile as you burn",
">\n\nThis is what happens when you have unchecked power for thousands of years.\nHorrifying.",
">\n\nDid he learn this behavior from a drag show? /s",
">\n\nReminds me of something Chris Rock said: \"Where do women find the porn? They don't find it in your hiding place, they find it in the VCR\"",
">\n\nHe was also probably saving up for a trip to Disney World.",
">\n\n\nincluding child pornography and images of child erotica.\n\nI want to know the difference but don't want to get on a watchlist by googling it.",
">\n\nWithout the word child there, there's a difference in degree. I'd say it's the same thing with that word in there just describing the subject depicted. Pornography is generally actual sex acts of some form or another. Erotica falls short of that, it may be arousing or suggestive. For example, a cabaret show may be erotica but it's certainly not pornography.",
">\n\nPriest? Church? Man in a tax evasion party house?",
">\n\nYet the church immediately moved him somewhere else as there was a daycare next door to the church, then offered to pay to have the priest under house arrest so that the child predator won't go to jail.",
">\n\nShittiest Ted Talk I’ve ever seen, honestly…",
">\n\nOnly five years?! \nUgh!",
">\n\nAnd they call LGBT+ people groomers. (eyeroll)",
">\n\nAnyone who has ever been to a church sadly knows this doesn't need to be in this sub for us to know it's a real story.",
">\n\nOh how nice. The Reverend pleaded for him not to be incarcerated. Because of fucking course he did.",
">\n\nCurious as to who he was presenting this to",
">\n\nPunish these assholes they are smearing God's name",
">\n\nStraight to (checks notes) your next parish!",
">\n\nreligion and sexual abuse. name a more iconic duo\nwhy are any of these religions even allowed to exist any more\nthey have long since lost their meanings, and onlt serve to syphon money out of gullible people, and abuse their children\nwhat is any of these religions actually adding to society any more? other than more perverted monsters",
">\n\nHe’s not the only one",
">\n\nWhy is no big tv news channel talking about this?",
">\n\nAsked that he not go to prison & that his congregation pay to house him? Fuck the church. That's almost the most disgusting part of this",
">\n\nSo are we talking a pptx or an old-school film Rolodex version? Both are messed up, but one takes A LOT more effort.",
">\n\nThe catholic church is of Satan.",
">\n\nFaith is of \"Satan.\" The idea that assuming you might be wrong is morally wrong produces some of the worst people imaginable. And that applies to secular ideologies that require looking down on those who disagree or are unsure too.",
">\n\nAge of priest over/under 50\nWhat yall got?\nI have the over.",
">\n\nOnly 5 years?",
">\n\nRight for some reason i read it as slide show meaning projectors haha. I forgot Powerpoint presentations are a thing.",
">\n\nThe congregation still requested he be spared incarceration and remain in their facility. Truly unbelievable.",
">\n\nThose damn drag queens framed him",
">\n\nThey really put a lot of effort into not saying that he was catholic in that article.",
">\n\nWonder what congregation hes been moved to now?",
">\n\nAny outrage from republicans? Will they arm themselves and storm the churches?....... Didn't think so."
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"Slideshows????? What?\nMy man just opened up cp.ppt and added a few THOUSAND slides of kiddy porn????\nClippy: it looks like youre a depraved predator. Do you want to profane the church as well?",
">\n\nWell I always did believe Power Point was a creation of a malevolent entity.",
">\n\nTuring complete, no less!",
">\n\nBut can it run Doom?",
">\n\nAnything can run doom",
">\n\nBut can Doom run Doom?",
">\n\nDoom can run Doom because Doom runs Doom when Doom runs.",
">\n\nPeople don't run Doom like it is, but it Doom.",
">\n\nGonna take this moment to highly recommend the film Spotlight to any who haven’t seen it",
">\n\nCheck out the 2017 limited series on either Netflix or Prime: \"The Keepers\" about a Baltimore-area Catholic girls' school. Based on the experiences as told by some of the girls, now middle-aged women. It is NOT nice, will make you cry, will enrage you. But I commend the women who made this documentary for as painful as it was for the audience to watch, I can't imagine how they made it thru. And they brought it around to a decent ending, but wow....I think some of what happened in Baltimore bled over into the Spotlight story.\nLapsed Catholic. I cannot reconcile with the Church hierarchy over this because they have behaved satanically for far too long to make me believe they are holy in any way.",
">\n\nThere was a documentary that came out a year or two ago tbzg sounds similar but men who were molested as kids while in the church. \nI honestly don't know how anyone can still support the church. At all. If it was one priest, sure. It's sad it happened, but pedophiles will always exist and find ways to get to kids.\nBut with how often it happens and with how little the church cares? Nope. I never could be catholic even if I was Christian.",
">\n\nBecause saving souls bringing them into their cult is more valuable than the ones they crush. The Vatican last I heard had 7 pedos protecting by not complying with extradition requests. \nAny organization not willing to comply with the laws of the country where they have a tax exempt status should lose their exemption and title to any property they own. If you RICO cartel and mafia assets, then you can do so for these child abusers and their protective association. \nYou know the church owns most of Manhattan and isn't paying taxes? All that money and we have to tolerate this shit? Nah fuck them.",
">\n\nNude pix on the church printer . . . I can imagine the scene.\nSister Mary Michael: Yo, does anyone recognize this tallywhacker?\nFormer Alter Boy Brian: Yeah, that's Father Jim. I'd know that hairy mole anywhere.",
">\n\nThat's Tommy Turner's tallywhacker",
">\n\nIf Reddit still gave free awards, I'd give one to you for catching the reference.",
">\n\nWAIT when did they get rid of the free awards",
">\n\nguess this is how i found out. last i claimed mine is around last week, i think. i only claim once every two weeks to gild certain biweekly thread lul",
">\n\nAnd yet where are all the \"anti-groomers\" protesting these churches?",
">\n\nIt’s almost like it has never actually been about protecting children, and it’s always been about trying to demonize LGBT people",
">\n\nAt this point I am positive the religious right to life thing is about having more targets.",
">\n\nGlad 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?",
">\n\nAfter 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.",
">\n\nI 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.\nThere are also many who truly believe the schtick and just compartmentalize the bad stuff. Both are to blame regardless. Nobody gets a pass.",
">\n\nI could see that with some of the smaller denominations for sure.\nWhen 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.",
">\n\n*making another streak to the tally list wall\n*camera panning out to reveal a huge fucking wall coveres in streaks",
">\n\nMan 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.\nThat said. This man should burn for this",
">\n\nPriest? Pedo? Are you sure? This is unprecedented",
">\n\nCorrection! PedoPreist",
">\n\nNew name not necessary. If anything there should be a name for the unique priests that arent pedos.",
">\n\nI'm inclined to think the majority of priests aren't child predators themselves.\nThe 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.\nWay, way too many of them are pedo-enablers. All the way up...",
">\n\nThen that would mean that... Gasp\nSouth Park was right all along....\nSneaky little bastards didn't think I would notice....",
">\n\nWish I was surprised",
">\n\nYou make slideshows of images? \nEdit: \nOh wait I see what you mean. Yeah the pedophile priest thing is so expected that only the slideshow bit stood out",
">\n\nHoly hell. Priest have normalized pedophilia.",
">\n\nNot just priests. Protestant Christians have a major problem with sexual abuse too, particularly against children.\nAfter Major Investigation, Southern Baptists Confront the Abuse Crisis They Knew Was Coming\nDon't let the Evangelical pedo defenders get away with claiming that Catholicism is the only issue here. It isn't.",
">\n\n\nnone of them are immune to the depravity.\n\nAlmost implied, really.",
">\n\nCould 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?",
">\n\nA variety of factors:\n\nUnquestioned moral authority and intense trust from a large community who have all been taught to obey church authorities\nSupport from a massive extremely powerful institution that has covered up thousands of similar crimes\nStrictly forbidden to marry, have sex, or iirc even masturbate, making them view all sexual activities as similarly taboo for them\nEasy regular access to many children\nEasy ability to get alone time with children\nPriests are only held institutionally accountable to each other and to those with more authority in the church\nVictims 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\nChildren 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\nThe 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\nThe 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\n\nThat'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.”\nP.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.\nWant 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.\nEdit to add this excellent way to protect kids that churches consistently fight against:\n\n“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.\nchildren 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.”",
">\n\nSo this should be buried enough if I speak in general terms.\nYears back one of our pastors had to give up being a pastor. They didn't get into details of what he did but they did stress that kids were not involved. The whole church could be seen relaxing.",
">\n\n5 years for thousands of child porn images and videos? Seems pretty fucking light to me. This piece of shit should die in prison.",
">\n\n5 years and a ticket to heaven",
">\n\nHeaven? For him?",
">\n\nThat'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.",
">\n\nDon't you also have to be truly repentant for your sins, including making a good faith effort to keep from repeating them?",
">\n\nI would love for someone to answer this because I really want to know, too.",
">\n\nyes I'm pretty sure that's it. God sees people's hearts He should know the diff between true repentance and fake one",
">\n\nYes, assuming an all-powerful God existed, he’d be able to pretty easily know if you were truly sorry.",
">\n\nYeah but......... \nI'm just starting the religious apologist's sentence for them.",
">\n\nFor 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.",
">\n\nOne 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.",
">\n\nOnce I heard this theory, the acceptance by conservatives of people whose behavior is in direct conflict with their moral beliefs, made more sense.",
">\n\n5 holly maries and transfer\nafter 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.\nRev. 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.\"\nMcDevitt asked the presiding judge for \"mercy for Jim,\" and even offered for the congregation to pay to house him in lieu of imprisonment.\n\"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.\"\n\"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.\"",
">\n\nIn Australia at the moment there is a furore after the death of Cardinal George Pell who was convicted (then exonerated) of personally abusing children, but was found by a Royal Commission (that would be a special prosecutor for our American friends?) of enabling and protecting paedophile priests for decades.\nCan honestly say I have not been able to listen to the string of \"Christians\" praising this man in our media for the last few days without wanting to puke. Suffer the little children.",
">\n\nWith you there. At least there’s a lot of people calling his supporters out on this. Fuck Tony Abbott, John Howard and Andrew Bolt to name a few.",
">\n\nI 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!",
">\n\nr/PastorArrested (also includes Priests)",
">\n\nDon'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.",
">\n\nIf there is a god, wtf?",
">\n\nThere is no God. Religion is about control and money",
">\n\nAnd more money",
">\n\n\"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.\" \n- Rev. Patrick McDevitt, provincial superior for the Congregation of the Western Province \n\nEvery single member of that congregation is a horrible piece of shit",
">\n\nWhat 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?",
">\n\n“Drag queens are grooming our youth!!!”",
">\n\n\"I think we all know where people put on dresses and fuck kids\"\n-Trixie Mattel, 2022",
">\n\nKid “Bless me Father, for I have sinned”\nPadre “ call me, maybe?”",
">\n\nImagine my shock to discover that a priest has been involved in a sex scandal and one involving the exploitation of children, at that.",
">\n\nGOP: \"But wuttabout drag queens?!?!?!??!\"",
">\n\nDoing the Lords work 🙏🏾",
">\n\nTax-free",
">\n\nWhat's the deal with priests being so into pedophilia? Can't they look at milf pounds like normal people?",
">\n\nOh look... Another priest with child porn ... When do we get to start taxing the church?",
">\n\nr/pastorarrested",
">\n\nChurch is a scary place, especially for children.",
">\n\nI 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.",
">\n\nOnly 5 years. What a joke.",
">\n\n\nThe 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.\n\nIf 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.",
">\n\nNo one is suprised a priest is a pedophile. \nBut printing out yer nudes? That's odd.",
">\n\nI can think of a reason he printed it out. And I really don't like that reason.",
">\n\nI'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.",
">\n\nThe sheer audacity to do it at church where you work",
">\n\nAnd not a drag queen in sight...",
">\n\nThey do kinda wear dresses, though",
">\n\nToo many “coincidences” within this church to be anything other than systematic",
">\n\nPretty 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.",
">\n\n\nThe data often suggests numbers of pedophiles similar to the general population\n\none 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",
">\n\nYeah, 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.",
">\n\nI 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.",
">\n\nIt's so common for priests to be sickos",
">\n\nGross",
">\n\nAll he needs to do is repent, right?!?",
">\n\nA priest? With kiddie porn? I’ve never heard of such a thing!",
">\n\nRemember 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.",
">\n\n5 years that's all he got",
">\n\nThat's fucking disgusting. Misappropriation of office materials.",
">\n\nIt 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",
">\n\nIdiot 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.",
">\n\nso 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.",
">\n\nI 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 🤷♂️",
">\n\n5 years isnt nearly enough. Lock him up forever and a day.",
">\n\n~~Drag shows~~ Churches are not safe for children",
">\n\nI'm sure the religious Right will be out protesting him any second.\nRight? Right guys? Groomers and all this? Qanons? Where you guys at?\nHuh. Weird.",
">\n\nBut the dragqueens guys?!?!?!??!? /s",
">\n\nWeird that so many god loving people are actually just pedophiles. Wonder what they think god thinks of them. Fuck theism.",
">\n\nTheir god tells them to take the young girls as spoils of war. Their god is just as fucking depraved as they are.",
">\n\ntHaTs jUsT tHe oLd tEsTaMeNt tHoUgh.\ngOds mOraLiTy dOeSnt cHanGe, hE jUsT dEaLs wItH hUmAns diFFeReNtlY nOw. \nYeah when someone deals with people differently than they did before we generally call that \"a change.\"",
">\n\nAnd he wasn’t trans??? Maybe it’s been priests all along that governors should be banning. When will they correct their mistake? /s",
">\n\nDoesn'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...",
">\n\nIt's surprising. Who prints out their own nudes?",
">\n\nLock him up and throw away the keys",
">\n\nDarn priests, at least those protestant ministers keep it in the family",
">\n\nNot surprised.",
">\n\nThree hail marys and all is forgiven. What a load of bs",
">\n\nJust one bad apple, I’m sure.",
">\n\nLeast paedophilic priest",
">\n\n…slideshow?",
">\n\nGod works in mysterious ways ya fuckin chomo. As a priest, he of all people should have seen this coming...",
">\n\nIn other news, water is wet",
">\n\nOnly five years...",
">\n\n”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.” \nಠ_ಠ",
">\n\nI don’t remember this plotline during Doubt…",
">\n\nWe keep letting them get away with it, so they keep doing it. More obvious news at 10.",
">\n\n& once they found him out he got made a cardinal",
">\n\nHe should've kept them in the garage with his Corvette",
">\n\n5 years? If nothing else, using PowerPoint should have been an aggravating factor.",
">\n\nAnd you thought looking at Bob's family vacation pics was a bad time",
">\n\nWhen 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.",
">\n\nHow is the Roman Catholic Church not closed down for enabling and protecting child abusers",
">\n\nAre 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.",
">\n\nIt'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.",
">\n\npapabile!",
">\n\nLeft nudes on a shared printer? Rookie mistake.",
">\n\nTeach your priests just enough tech to effectively turn themselves in.",
">\n\nIsn't it something how the church decided to investigate themselves again. Keep it in the family, guys.\nI 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.",
">\n\nIs 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:\n1 - 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\n2 - 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)\n3 - 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.\nTL;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.",
">\n\nLet me guess.\nMoved to a different church at the other side of the country and that’s about it for consequences?",
">\n\nThose damned drag queens strike again.",
">\n\nI mean that’s kinda how they caught BTK",
">\n\nSo priests are still abusing kids after we didn't do anything to them the last few times we caught them? Color me surprised.",
">\n\n\nCourt 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.\"\n\n...\n\nDuring 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. \n\n...\n\nAnd 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. \n\nFuck everyone that allowed this scum to continue in a position of authority.",
">\n\nDon’t hear this happening at drag shows…j/s",
">\n\nHe put the PDF in pedofile",
">\n\nThis is Fucking ridiculous",
">\n\nNever forget who the actual groomers are",
">\n\nThe proud boys will be outside of churches \"protesting\" with guns now, right? right?",
">\n\nA priest being pedophile? But that is absolutely unheard of, say it isn't so!",
">\n\nYou sure this wasn't at a Trans drag show? GOP is sure this happens at Trans dragsl shows",
">\n\nExcommunicated by PowerPoint",
">\n\n5 years and a fine? FFS, that’s ridiculous.",
">\n\nPraise Jesus!",
">\n\nAnd the right thinks kids going to drag shows are the problem",
">\n\nAverage christian.",
">\n\nbut the drag queens are reading books to children in libraries! The madnessss",
">\n\nSo they moved him to a new church. This is what they have always done.",
">\n\nleast pedophilic priest:",
">\n\nThe dead ones dont hurt anyone.",
">\n\ninto the furnace he goes. theres no rehabbing people like this.",
">\n\nIt's always the ones you least expect..",
">\n\nOr in this case, the ones you MOST suspect",
">\n\nlol ya, I said that with sarcasm..",
">\n\nPray that he gets nut cancer.",
">\n\nNut cancer was once described to me as \"the common cold of cancers\". It has something like a 95% survival rate.\nHe deserves worse.",
">\n\nDidn't know that. Good nut fact for the day.",
">\n\nIt's definitely the drag queens reading to kids in libraries that's the problem.",
">\n\nRight wingers want him to be a closeted drag queen so badly",
">\n\nI could never trust any man who goes into priesthood. Completely unnatural and deviant occupation rife with pedophiles.",
">\n\nThis MONSTER got 5 years?! \nThe CHILDREN being abused in the images will suffer for the rest of their lives!!\nI'm in favor of LIFE SENTENCES for child sex offenders. \nOr better yet, the DEATH PENALTY!!",
">\n\nReligion was invented by Man for Control of the Flock.You go to Confession and tell the priest everything so they can determine how to undress you.\nI was once a Catholic.....born, baptised, confirmed and educated in a Grammar school run by Irish Christian Brothers under the Order of Edmund Ignatius Rice......and now I'm an atheist.",
">\n\nHow come it is always ‘Christians’ who are involved in child sex abuse?",
">\n\nOf course he's a pedo, he's a priest!",
">\n\nYes millions of idiots keep donating billions to the church",
">\n\nNot simply donating, they bring their children along, indoctrinate them that the priest is the speaker of God, and that God can do no wrong, so anything the priest dose is holy and good. The priest even says so!\nAnd when the kids bring it up the first few times weird things happen? The parents tell them to shush. And so, the sacrifices continue, the parents make a show of not knowing, and things get worse for the children.\nAnd if the priest is reported, the church just moves them to a different parish.\nThe only difference between the taliban and the catholic church, is one of them advertises the child slaves as a benefit, while the other pretends it's not (but totally encourages it, top to bottom).",
">\n\nAnd who are the groomers again?",
">\n\nThis is what happens when you don’t recycle your printer papers.",
">\n\nI feel like this isn't oniony enough, everyone knows by now that priests are significantly more likely to be pedophiles than the general population.",
">\n\nSure, but “gets caught by leaving nudes on a printer” is a fairly onion-y end.",
">\n\nYa know you're right",
">\n\nI have a theory about the correlation between priests and pedophiles. This is my opinion based on conversations with a childhood friend (not a pedo) and is only my opinion but could explain why so many priests abuse children. Get your down votes ready. \nThese boys grow up in the church and it is all they know for the most part. When going through puberty we become attracted to a gender (male or female gay or straight sometimes somewhere in between) and more often a \"type\" as well (blonde brunette short tall etc). Our hormones drive us to seek companionship, intimacy, and ultimately procreation. \nThese boys growing up never develop this attraction to their peers but rather feel more comfortable around younger children and usually behave as mentors. The combination of love of church and disinterest in peers puts the thought in their heads that priesthood is their calling. It takes a long time and effort to become a priest. There are easier paths if a guy just wants to bang kids.\nPut together lack of sex or release of biological needs with access and constant contact with children and they are basically pushed over the edge.\nTo sum up, pedophiles don't become priests to molest children, they become priests because they don't realize they are pedophiles. This is just my opinion, and obviously there are also exceptions to this.\nPerhaps the solution is to get rid of this nonsense celibacy.",
">\n\nAlternative theory: pedophiles become priests because they know the Catholic Church will support and hide them from accountability. Plus, all those altar boys have been easy pickings for decades. \nOn the positive side, Catholic Churches are closing all over Missouri because of dwindling congregations.",
">\n\nThis is one crime I’ll never be able to fathom.",
">\n\nSo fucking sick advocating for this monster so he can maintain freedom?",
">\n\nThe church has been so infiltrated by Child abusers that they are currently rating worse than Satan Worshippers",
">\n\nCan we just fuck churches off now???",
">\n\nYour tithing had to go somewhere.",
">\n\nHow come republicans are not calling these people groomers?",
">\n\nIs anyone else picturing the scene in the first Scary Movie where the cop asks Anna Faris to look at some pictures?\nPriest hands out the pictures of himself along with the weekly pamphlet. Maybe the first reading is from the Song of Solomon...",
">\n\nOh shit. \nHas he been quietly shuffled to a new church yet?",
">\n\nI'm old enough that when I see \"slideshow\" I think of him arranging physical slides in a carousel to project on a screen, like the family trip to Disneyland. Maybe invite the neighbors over for cake.",
">\n\nLord above why is this a thing",
">\n\nYou mean not a drag queen?",
">\n\nActual groomers.",
">\n\nJust think the hands that wanked to kiddie pr0n put wafers on the tongues of everyone in that congregation...",
">\n\nLMAO. This slightly ambiguous headline had me thinking “who attended these slideshow presentations?”",
">\n\nOh look another pedophile catholic priest. Good job reinforcing that stereotype.",
">\n\nAnd we should take guidance from those who hide these atrocities so we can live a better life in the eyes of god.",
">\n\nFriendly reminder religion is a mistake that deserves to be taxed. If you threatened to tax zealots tomorrow child molestation by priests would drop to zero",
">\n\nmay your mother smile as you burn",
">\n\nThis is what happens when you have unchecked power for thousands of years.\nHorrifying.",
">\n\nDid he learn this behavior from a drag show? /s",
">\n\nReminds me of something Chris Rock said: \"Where do women find the porn? They don't find it in your hiding place, they find it in the VCR\"",
">\n\nHe was also probably saving up for a trip to Disney World.",
">\n\n\nincluding child pornography and images of child erotica.\n\nI want to know the difference but don't want to get on a watchlist by googling it.",
">\n\nWithout the word child there, there's a difference in degree. I'd say it's the same thing with that word in there just describing the subject depicted. Pornography is generally actual sex acts of some form or another. Erotica falls short of that, it may be arousing or suggestive. For example, a cabaret show may be erotica but it's certainly not pornography.",
">\n\nPriest? Church? Man in a tax evasion party house?",
">\n\nYet the church immediately moved him somewhere else as there was a daycare next door to the church, then offered to pay to have the priest under house arrest so that the child predator won't go to jail.",
">\n\nShittiest Ted Talk I’ve ever seen, honestly…",
">\n\nOnly five years?! \nUgh!",
">\n\nAnd they call LGBT+ people groomers. (eyeroll)",
">\n\nAnyone who has ever been to a church sadly knows this doesn't need to be in this sub for us to know it's a real story.",
">\n\nOh how nice. The Reverend pleaded for him not to be incarcerated. Because of fucking course he did.",
">\n\nCurious as to who he was presenting this to",
">\n\nPunish these assholes they are smearing God's name",
">\n\nStraight to (checks notes) your next parish!",
">\n\nreligion and sexual abuse. name a more iconic duo\nwhy are any of these religions even allowed to exist any more\nthey have long since lost their meanings, and onlt serve to syphon money out of gullible people, and abuse their children\nwhat is any of these religions actually adding to society any more? other than more perverted monsters",
">\n\nHe’s not the only one",
">\n\nWhy is no big tv news channel talking about this?",
">\n\nAsked that he not go to prison & that his congregation pay to house him? Fuck the church. That's almost the most disgusting part of this",
">\n\nSo are we talking a pptx or an old-school film Rolodex version? Both are messed up, but one takes A LOT more effort.",
">\n\nThe catholic church is of Satan.",
">\n\nFaith is of \"Satan.\" The idea that assuming you might be wrong is morally wrong produces some of the worst people imaginable. And that applies to secular ideologies that require looking down on those who disagree or are unsure too.",
">\n\nAge of priest over/under 50\nWhat yall got?\nI have the over.",
">\n\nOnly 5 years?",
">\n\nRight for some reason i read it as slide show meaning projectors haha. I forgot Powerpoint presentations are a thing.",
">\n\nThe congregation still requested he be spared incarceration and remain in their facility. Truly unbelievable.",
">\n\nThose damn drag queens framed him",
">\n\nThey really put a lot of effort into not saying that he was catholic in that article.",
">\n\nWonder what congregation hes been moved to now?",
">\n\nAny outrage from republicans? Will they arm themselves and storm the churches?....... Didn't think so.",
">\n\nA Christian pedophile? Who could have guessed?"
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I appreciate that the church cooperated and turned him in. However, the fact they wanted to pay to house him, out of the parish coffers, is insane. He deserves incarceration and certainly not a retirement paid for by parishioners of the church he victimized. Smh, a great step for the church, if only as a PR exercise, would be to strongly condemn this sort of behavior AND strongly punish it. Defrock and excommunicate any priest who does this. It’s a very easy choice that frankly could help reinstill a little confidence in the church. | [
"Slideshows????? What?\nMy man just opened up cp.ppt and added a few THOUSAND slides of kiddy porn????\nClippy: it looks like youre a depraved predator. Do you want to profane the church as well?",
">\n\nWell I always did believe Power Point was a creation of a malevolent entity.",
">\n\nTuring complete, no less!",
">\n\nBut can it run Doom?",
">\n\nAnything can run doom",
">\n\nBut can Doom run Doom?",
">\n\nDoom can run Doom because Doom runs Doom when Doom runs.",
">\n\nPeople don't run Doom like it is, but it Doom.",
">\n\nGonna take this moment to highly recommend the film Spotlight to any who haven’t seen it",
">\n\nCheck out the 2017 limited series on either Netflix or Prime: \"The Keepers\" about a Baltimore-area Catholic girls' school. Based on the experiences as told by some of the girls, now middle-aged women. It is NOT nice, will make you cry, will enrage you. But I commend the women who made this documentary for as painful as it was for the audience to watch, I can't imagine how they made it thru. And they brought it around to a decent ending, but wow....I think some of what happened in Baltimore bled over into the Spotlight story.\nLapsed Catholic. I cannot reconcile with the Church hierarchy over this because they have behaved satanically for far too long to make me believe they are holy in any way.",
">\n\nThere was a documentary that came out a year or two ago tbzg sounds similar but men who were molested as kids while in the church. \nI honestly don't know how anyone can still support the church. At all. If it was one priest, sure. It's sad it happened, but pedophiles will always exist and find ways to get to kids.\nBut with how often it happens and with how little the church cares? Nope. I never could be catholic even if I was Christian.",
">\n\nBecause saving souls bringing them into their cult is more valuable than the ones they crush. The Vatican last I heard had 7 pedos protecting by not complying with extradition requests. \nAny organization not willing to comply with the laws of the country where they have a tax exempt status should lose their exemption and title to any property they own. If you RICO cartel and mafia assets, then you can do so for these child abusers and their protective association. \nYou know the church owns most of Manhattan and isn't paying taxes? All that money and we have to tolerate this shit? Nah fuck them.",
">\n\nNude pix on the church printer . . . I can imagine the scene.\nSister Mary Michael: Yo, does anyone recognize this tallywhacker?\nFormer Alter Boy Brian: Yeah, that's Father Jim. I'd know that hairy mole anywhere.",
">\n\nThat's Tommy Turner's tallywhacker",
">\n\nIf Reddit still gave free awards, I'd give one to you for catching the reference.",
">\n\nWAIT when did they get rid of the free awards",
">\n\nguess this is how i found out. last i claimed mine is around last week, i think. i only claim once every two weeks to gild certain biweekly thread lul",
">\n\nAnd yet where are all the \"anti-groomers\" protesting these churches?",
">\n\nIt’s almost like it has never actually been about protecting children, and it’s always been about trying to demonize LGBT people",
">\n\nAt this point I am positive the religious right to life thing is about having more targets.",
">\n\nGlad 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?",
">\n\nAfter 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.",
">\n\nI 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.\nThere are also many who truly believe the schtick and just compartmentalize the bad stuff. Both are to blame regardless. Nobody gets a pass.",
">\n\nI could see that with some of the smaller denominations for sure.\nWhen 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.",
">\n\n*making another streak to the tally list wall\n*camera panning out to reveal a huge fucking wall coveres in streaks",
">\n\nMan 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.\nThat said. This man should burn for this",
">\n\nPriest? Pedo? Are you sure? This is unprecedented",
">\n\nCorrection! PedoPreist",
">\n\nNew name not necessary. If anything there should be a name for the unique priests that arent pedos.",
">\n\nI'm inclined to think the majority of priests aren't child predators themselves.\nThe 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.\nWay, way too many of them are pedo-enablers. All the way up...",
">\n\nThen that would mean that... Gasp\nSouth Park was right all along....\nSneaky little bastards didn't think I would notice....",
">\n\nWish I was surprised",
">\n\nYou make slideshows of images? \nEdit: \nOh wait I see what you mean. Yeah the pedophile priest thing is so expected that only the slideshow bit stood out",
">\n\nHoly hell. Priest have normalized pedophilia.",
">\n\nNot just priests. Protestant Christians have a major problem with sexual abuse too, particularly against children.\nAfter Major Investigation, Southern Baptists Confront the Abuse Crisis They Knew Was Coming\nDon't let the Evangelical pedo defenders get away with claiming that Catholicism is the only issue here. It isn't.",
">\n\n\nnone of them are immune to the depravity.\n\nAlmost implied, really.",
">\n\nCould 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?",
">\n\nA variety of factors:\n\nUnquestioned moral authority and intense trust from a large community who have all been taught to obey church authorities\nSupport from a massive extremely powerful institution that has covered up thousands of similar crimes\nStrictly forbidden to marry, have sex, or iirc even masturbate, making them view all sexual activities as similarly taboo for them\nEasy regular access to many children\nEasy ability to get alone time with children\nPriests are only held institutionally accountable to each other and to those with more authority in the church\nVictims 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\nChildren 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\nThe 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\nThe 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\n\nThat'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.”\nP.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.\nWant 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.\nEdit to add this excellent way to protect kids that churches consistently fight against:\n\n“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.\nchildren 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.”",
">\n\nSo this should be buried enough if I speak in general terms.\nYears back one of our pastors had to give up being a pastor. They didn't get into details of what he did but they did stress that kids were not involved. The whole church could be seen relaxing.",
">\n\n5 years for thousands of child porn images and videos? Seems pretty fucking light to me. This piece of shit should die in prison.",
">\n\n5 years and a ticket to heaven",
">\n\nHeaven? For him?",
">\n\nThat'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.",
">\n\nDon't you also have to be truly repentant for your sins, including making a good faith effort to keep from repeating them?",
">\n\nI would love for someone to answer this because I really want to know, too.",
">\n\nyes I'm pretty sure that's it. God sees people's hearts He should know the diff between true repentance and fake one",
">\n\nYes, assuming an all-powerful God existed, he’d be able to pretty easily know if you were truly sorry.",
">\n\nYeah but......... \nI'm just starting the religious apologist's sentence for them.",
">\n\nFor 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.",
">\n\nOne 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.",
">\n\nOnce I heard this theory, the acceptance by conservatives of people whose behavior is in direct conflict with their moral beliefs, made more sense.",
">\n\n5 holly maries and transfer\nafter 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.\nRev. 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.\"\nMcDevitt asked the presiding judge for \"mercy for Jim,\" and even offered for the congregation to pay to house him in lieu of imprisonment.\n\"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.\"\n\"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.\"",
">\n\nIn Australia at the moment there is a furore after the death of Cardinal George Pell who was convicted (then exonerated) of personally abusing children, but was found by a Royal Commission (that would be a special prosecutor for our American friends?) of enabling and protecting paedophile priests for decades.\nCan honestly say I have not been able to listen to the string of \"Christians\" praising this man in our media for the last few days without wanting to puke. Suffer the little children.",
">\n\nWith you there. At least there’s a lot of people calling his supporters out on this. Fuck Tony Abbott, John Howard and Andrew Bolt to name a few.",
">\n\nI 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!",
">\n\nr/PastorArrested (also includes Priests)",
">\n\nDon'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.",
">\n\nIf there is a god, wtf?",
">\n\nThere is no God. Religion is about control and money",
">\n\nAnd more money",
">\n\n\"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.\" \n- Rev. Patrick McDevitt, provincial superior for the Congregation of the Western Province \n\nEvery single member of that congregation is a horrible piece of shit",
">\n\nWhat 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?",
">\n\n“Drag queens are grooming our youth!!!”",
">\n\n\"I think we all know where people put on dresses and fuck kids\"\n-Trixie Mattel, 2022",
">\n\nKid “Bless me Father, for I have sinned”\nPadre “ call me, maybe?”",
">\n\nImagine my shock to discover that a priest has been involved in a sex scandal and one involving the exploitation of children, at that.",
">\n\nGOP: \"But wuttabout drag queens?!?!?!??!\"",
">\n\nDoing the Lords work 🙏🏾",
">\n\nTax-free",
">\n\nWhat's the deal with priests being so into pedophilia? Can't they look at milf pounds like normal people?",
">\n\nOh look... Another priest with child porn ... When do we get to start taxing the church?",
">\n\nr/pastorarrested",
">\n\nChurch is a scary place, especially for children.",
">\n\nI 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.",
">\n\nOnly 5 years. What a joke.",
">\n\n\nThe 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.\n\nIf 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.",
">\n\nNo one is suprised a priest is a pedophile. \nBut printing out yer nudes? That's odd.",
">\n\nI can think of a reason he printed it out. And I really don't like that reason.",
">\n\nI'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.",
">\n\nThe sheer audacity to do it at church where you work",
">\n\nAnd not a drag queen in sight...",
">\n\nThey do kinda wear dresses, though",
">\n\nToo many “coincidences” within this church to be anything other than systematic",
">\n\nPretty 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.",
">\n\n\nThe data often suggests numbers of pedophiles similar to the general population\n\none 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",
">\n\nYeah, 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.",
">\n\nI 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.",
">\n\nIt's so common for priests to be sickos",
">\n\nGross",
">\n\nAll he needs to do is repent, right?!?",
">\n\nA priest? With kiddie porn? I’ve never heard of such a thing!",
">\n\nRemember 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.",
">\n\n5 years that's all he got",
">\n\nThat's fucking disgusting. Misappropriation of office materials.",
">\n\nIt 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",
">\n\nIdiot 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.",
">\n\nso 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.",
">\n\nI 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 🤷♂️",
">\n\n5 years isnt nearly enough. Lock him up forever and a day.",
">\n\n~~Drag shows~~ Churches are not safe for children",
">\n\nI'm sure the religious Right will be out protesting him any second.\nRight? Right guys? Groomers and all this? Qanons? Where you guys at?\nHuh. Weird.",
">\n\nBut the dragqueens guys?!?!?!??!? /s",
">\n\nWeird that so many god loving people are actually just pedophiles. Wonder what they think god thinks of them. Fuck theism.",
">\n\nTheir god tells them to take the young girls as spoils of war. Their god is just as fucking depraved as they are.",
">\n\ntHaTs jUsT tHe oLd tEsTaMeNt tHoUgh.\ngOds mOraLiTy dOeSnt cHanGe, hE jUsT dEaLs wItH hUmAns diFFeReNtlY nOw. \nYeah when someone deals with people differently than they did before we generally call that \"a change.\"",
">\n\nAnd he wasn’t trans??? Maybe it’s been priests all along that governors should be banning. When will they correct their mistake? /s",
">\n\nDoesn'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...",
">\n\nIt's surprising. Who prints out their own nudes?",
">\n\nLock him up and throw away the keys",
">\n\nDarn priests, at least those protestant ministers keep it in the family",
">\n\nNot surprised.",
">\n\nThree hail marys and all is forgiven. What a load of bs",
">\n\nJust one bad apple, I’m sure.",
">\n\nLeast paedophilic priest",
">\n\n…slideshow?",
">\n\nGod works in mysterious ways ya fuckin chomo. As a priest, he of all people should have seen this coming...",
">\n\nIn other news, water is wet",
">\n\nOnly five years...",
">\n\n”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.” \nಠ_ಠ",
">\n\nI don’t remember this plotline during Doubt…",
">\n\nWe keep letting them get away with it, so they keep doing it. More obvious news at 10.",
">\n\n& once they found him out he got made a cardinal",
">\n\nHe should've kept them in the garage with his Corvette",
">\n\n5 years? If nothing else, using PowerPoint should have been an aggravating factor.",
">\n\nAnd you thought looking at Bob's family vacation pics was a bad time",
">\n\nWhen 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.",
">\n\nHow is the Roman Catholic Church not closed down for enabling and protecting child abusers",
">\n\nAre 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.",
">\n\nIt'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.",
">\n\npapabile!",
">\n\nLeft nudes on a shared printer? Rookie mistake.",
">\n\nTeach your priests just enough tech to effectively turn themselves in.",
">\n\nIsn't it something how the church decided to investigate themselves again. Keep it in the family, guys.\nI 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.",
">\n\nIs 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:\n1 - 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\n2 - 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)\n3 - 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.\nTL;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.",
">\n\nLet me guess.\nMoved to a different church at the other side of the country and that’s about it for consequences?",
">\n\nThose damned drag queens strike again.",
">\n\nI mean that’s kinda how they caught BTK",
">\n\nSo priests are still abusing kids after we didn't do anything to them the last few times we caught them? Color me surprised.",
">\n\n\nCourt 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.\"\n\n...\n\nDuring 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. \n\n...\n\nAnd 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. \n\nFuck everyone that allowed this scum to continue in a position of authority.",
">\n\nDon’t hear this happening at drag shows…j/s",
">\n\nHe put the PDF in pedofile",
">\n\nThis is Fucking ridiculous",
">\n\nNever forget who the actual groomers are",
">\n\nThe proud boys will be outside of churches \"protesting\" with guns now, right? right?",
">\n\nA priest being pedophile? But that is absolutely unheard of, say it isn't so!",
">\n\nYou sure this wasn't at a Trans drag show? GOP is sure this happens at Trans dragsl shows",
">\n\nExcommunicated by PowerPoint",
">\n\n5 years and a fine? FFS, that’s ridiculous.",
">\n\nPraise Jesus!",
">\n\nAnd the right thinks kids going to drag shows are the problem",
">\n\nAverage christian.",
">\n\nbut the drag queens are reading books to children in libraries! The madnessss",
">\n\nSo they moved him to a new church. This is what they have always done.",
">\n\nleast pedophilic priest:",
">\n\nThe dead ones dont hurt anyone.",
">\n\ninto the furnace he goes. theres no rehabbing people like this.",
">\n\nIt's always the ones you least expect..",
">\n\nOr in this case, the ones you MOST suspect",
">\n\nlol ya, I said that with sarcasm..",
">\n\nPray that he gets nut cancer.",
">\n\nNut cancer was once described to me as \"the common cold of cancers\". It has something like a 95% survival rate.\nHe deserves worse.",
">\n\nDidn't know that. Good nut fact for the day.",
">\n\nIt's definitely the drag queens reading to kids in libraries that's the problem.",
">\n\nRight wingers want him to be a closeted drag queen so badly",
">\n\nI could never trust any man who goes into priesthood. Completely unnatural and deviant occupation rife with pedophiles.",
">\n\nThis MONSTER got 5 years?! \nThe CHILDREN being abused in the images will suffer for the rest of their lives!!\nI'm in favor of LIFE SENTENCES for child sex offenders. \nOr better yet, the DEATH PENALTY!!",
">\n\nReligion was invented by Man for Control of the Flock.You go to Confession and tell the priest everything so they can determine how to undress you.\nI was once a Catholic.....born, baptised, confirmed and educated in a Grammar school run by Irish Christian Brothers under the Order of Edmund Ignatius Rice......and now I'm an atheist.",
">\n\nHow come it is always ‘Christians’ who are involved in child sex abuse?",
">\n\nOf course he's a pedo, he's a priest!",
">\n\nYes millions of idiots keep donating billions to the church",
">\n\nNot simply donating, they bring their children along, indoctrinate them that the priest is the speaker of God, and that God can do no wrong, so anything the priest dose is holy and good. The priest even says so!\nAnd when the kids bring it up the first few times weird things happen? The parents tell them to shush. And so, the sacrifices continue, the parents make a show of not knowing, and things get worse for the children.\nAnd if the priest is reported, the church just moves them to a different parish.\nThe only difference between the taliban and the catholic church, is one of them advertises the child slaves as a benefit, while the other pretends it's not (but totally encourages it, top to bottom).",
">\n\nAnd who are the groomers again?",
">\n\nThis is what happens when you don’t recycle your printer papers.",
">\n\nI feel like this isn't oniony enough, everyone knows by now that priests are significantly more likely to be pedophiles than the general population.",
">\n\nSure, but “gets caught by leaving nudes on a printer” is a fairly onion-y end.",
">\n\nYa know you're right",
">\n\nI have a theory about the correlation between priests and pedophiles. This is my opinion based on conversations with a childhood friend (not a pedo) and is only my opinion but could explain why so many priests abuse children. Get your down votes ready. \nThese boys grow up in the church and it is all they know for the most part. When going through puberty we become attracted to a gender (male or female gay or straight sometimes somewhere in between) and more often a \"type\" as well (blonde brunette short tall etc). Our hormones drive us to seek companionship, intimacy, and ultimately procreation. \nThese boys growing up never develop this attraction to their peers but rather feel more comfortable around younger children and usually behave as mentors. The combination of love of church and disinterest in peers puts the thought in their heads that priesthood is their calling. It takes a long time and effort to become a priest. There are easier paths if a guy just wants to bang kids.\nPut together lack of sex or release of biological needs with access and constant contact with children and they are basically pushed over the edge.\nTo sum up, pedophiles don't become priests to molest children, they become priests because they don't realize they are pedophiles. This is just my opinion, and obviously there are also exceptions to this.\nPerhaps the solution is to get rid of this nonsense celibacy.",
">\n\nAlternative theory: pedophiles become priests because they know the Catholic Church will support and hide them from accountability. Plus, all those altar boys have been easy pickings for decades. \nOn the positive side, Catholic Churches are closing all over Missouri because of dwindling congregations.",
">\n\nThis is one crime I’ll never be able to fathom.",
">\n\nSo fucking sick advocating for this monster so he can maintain freedom?",
">\n\nThe church has been so infiltrated by Child abusers that they are currently rating worse than Satan Worshippers",
">\n\nCan we just fuck churches off now???",
">\n\nYour tithing had to go somewhere.",
">\n\nHow come republicans are not calling these people groomers?",
">\n\nIs anyone else picturing the scene in the first Scary Movie where the cop asks Anna Faris to look at some pictures?\nPriest hands out the pictures of himself along with the weekly pamphlet. Maybe the first reading is from the Song of Solomon...",
">\n\nOh shit. \nHas he been quietly shuffled to a new church yet?",
">\n\nI'm old enough that when I see \"slideshow\" I think of him arranging physical slides in a carousel to project on a screen, like the family trip to Disneyland. Maybe invite the neighbors over for cake.",
">\n\nLord above why is this a thing",
">\n\nYou mean not a drag queen?",
">\n\nActual groomers.",
">\n\nJust think the hands that wanked to kiddie pr0n put wafers on the tongues of everyone in that congregation...",
">\n\nLMAO. This slightly ambiguous headline had me thinking “who attended these slideshow presentations?”",
">\n\nOh look another pedophile catholic priest. Good job reinforcing that stereotype.",
">\n\nAnd we should take guidance from those who hide these atrocities so we can live a better life in the eyes of god.",
">\n\nFriendly reminder religion is a mistake that deserves to be taxed. If you threatened to tax zealots tomorrow child molestation by priests would drop to zero",
">\n\nmay your mother smile as you burn",
">\n\nThis is what happens when you have unchecked power for thousands of years.\nHorrifying.",
">\n\nDid he learn this behavior from a drag show? /s",
">\n\nReminds me of something Chris Rock said: \"Where do women find the porn? They don't find it in your hiding place, they find it in the VCR\"",
">\n\nHe was also probably saving up for a trip to Disney World.",
">\n\n\nincluding child pornography and images of child erotica.\n\nI want to know the difference but don't want to get on a watchlist by googling it.",
">\n\nWithout the word child there, there's a difference in degree. I'd say it's the same thing with that word in there just describing the subject depicted. Pornography is generally actual sex acts of some form or another. Erotica falls short of that, it may be arousing or suggestive. For example, a cabaret show may be erotica but it's certainly not pornography.",
">\n\nPriest? Church? Man in a tax evasion party house?",
">\n\nYet the church immediately moved him somewhere else as there was a daycare next door to the church, then offered to pay to have the priest under house arrest so that the child predator won't go to jail.",
">\n\nShittiest Ted Talk I’ve ever seen, honestly…",
">\n\nOnly five years?! \nUgh!",
">\n\nAnd they call LGBT+ people groomers. (eyeroll)",
">\n\nAnyone who has ever been to a church sadly knows this doesn't need to be in this sub for us to know it's a real story.",
">\n\nOh how nice. The Reverend pleaded for him not to be incarcerated. Because of fucking course he did.",
">\n\nCurious as to who he was presenting this to",
">\n\nPunish these assholes they are smearing God's name",
">\n\nStraight to (checks notes) your next parish!",
">\n\nreligion and sexual abuse. name a more iconic duo\nwhy are any of these religions even allowed to exist any more\nthey have long since lost their meanings, and onlt serve to syphon money out of gullible people, and abuse their children\nwhat is any of these religions actually adding to society any more? other than more perverted monsters",
">\n\nHe’s not the only one",
">\n\nWhy is no big tv news channel talking about this?",
">\n\nAsked that he not go to prison & that his congregation pay to house him? Fuck the church. That's almost the most disgusting part of this",
">\n\nSo are we talking a pptx or an old-school film Rolodex version? Both are messed up, but one takes A LOT more effort.",
">\n\nThe catholic church is of Satan.",
">\n\nFaith is of \"Satan.\" The idea that assuming you might be wrong is morally wrong produces some of the worst people imaginable. And that applies to secular ideologies that require looking down on those who disagree or are unsure too.",
">\n\nAge of priest over/under 50\nWhat yall got?\nI have the over.",
">\n\nOnly 5 years?",
">\n\nRight for some reason i read it as slide show meaning projectors haha. I forgot Powerpoint presentations are a thing.",
">\n\nThe congregation still requested he be spared incarceration and remain in their facility. Truly unbelievable.",
">\n\nThose damn drag queens framed him",
">\n\nThey really put a lot of effort into not saying that he was catholic in that article.",
">\n\nWonder what congregation hes been moved to now?",
">\n\nAny outrage from republicans? Will they arm themselves and storm the churches?....... Didn't think so.",
">\n\nA Christian pedophile? Who could have guessed?",
">\n\nIm shocked! Shocked I say!\nWell... not that shocked."
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"Slideshows????? What?\nMy man just opened up cp.ppt and added a few THOUSAND slides of kiddy porn????\nClippy: it looks like youre a depraved predator. Do you want to profane the church as well?",
">\n\nWell I always did believe Power Point was a creation of a malevolent entity.",
">\n\nTuring complete, no less!",
">\n\nBut can it run Doom?",
">\n\nAnything can run doom",
">\n\nBut can Doom run Doom?",
">\n\nDoom can run Doom because Doom runs Doom when Doom runs.",
">\n\nPeople don't run Doom like it is, but it Doom.",
">\n\nGonna take this moment to highly recommend the film Spotlight to any who haven’t seen it",
">\n\nCheck out the 2017 limited series on either Netflix or Prime: \"The Keepers\" about a Baltimore-area Catholic girls' school. Based on the experiences as told by some of the girls, now middle-aged women. It is NOT nice, will make you cry, will enrage you. But I commend the women who made this documentary for as painful as it was for the audience to watch, I can't imagine how they made it thru. And they brought it around to a decent ending, but wow....I think some of what happened in Baltimore bled over into the Spotlight story.\nLapsed Catholic. I cannot reconcile with the Church hierarchy over this because they have behaved satanically for far too long to make me believe they are holy in any way.",
">\n\nThere was a documentary that came out a year or two ago tbzg sounds similar but men who were molested as kids while in the church. \nI honestly don't know how anyone can still support the church. At all. If it was one priest, sure. It's sad it happened, but pedophiles will always exist and find ways to get to kids.\nBut with how often it happens and with how little the church cares? Nope. I never could be catholic even if I was Christian.",
">\n\nBecause saving souls bringing them into their cult is more valuable than the ones they crush. The Vatican last I heard had 7 pedos protecting by not complying with extradition requests. \nAny organization not willing to comply with the laws of the country where they have a tax exempt status should lose their exemption and title to any property they own. If you RICO cartel and mafia assets, then you can do so for these child abusers and their protective association. \nYou know the church owns most of Manhattan and isn't paying taxes? All that money and we have to tolerate this shit? Nah fuck them.",
">\n\nNude pix on the church printer . . . I can imagine the scene.\nSister Mary Michael: Yo, does anyone recognize this tallywhacker?\nFormer Alter Boy Brian: Yeah, that's Father Jim. I'd know that hairy mole anywhere.",
">\n\nThat's Tommy Turner's tallywhacker",
">\n\nIf Reddit still gave free awards, I'd give one to you for catching the reference.",
">\n\nWAIT when did they get rid of the free awards",
">\n\nguess this is how i found out. last i claimed mine is around last week, i think. i only claim once every two weeks to gild certain biweekly thread lul",
">\n\nAnd yet where are all the \"anti-groomers\" protesting these churches?",
">\n\nIt’s almost like it has never actually been about protecting children, and it’s always been about trying to demonize LGBT people",
">\n\nAt this point I am positive the religious right to life thing is about having more targets.",
">\n\nGlad 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?",
">\n\nAfter 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.",
">\n\nI 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.\nThere are also many who truly believe the schtick and just compartmentalize the bad stuff. Both are to blame regardless. Nobody gets a pass.",
">\n\nI could see that with some of the smaller denominations for sure.\nWhen 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.",
">\n\n*making another streak to the tally list wall\n*camera panning out to reveal a huge fucking wall coveres in streaks",
">\n\nMan 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.\nThat said. This man should burn for this",
">\n\nPriest? Pedo? Are you sure? This is unprecedented",
">\n\nCorrection! PedoPreist",
">\n\nNew name not necessary. If anything there should be a name for the unique priests that arent pedos.",
">\n\nI'm inclined to think the majority of priests aren't child predators themselves.\nThe 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.\nWay, way too many of them are pedo-enablers. All the way up...",
">\n\nThen that would mean that... Gasp\nSouth Park was right all along....\nSneaky little bastards didn't think I would notice....",
">\n\nWish I was surprised",
">\n\nYou make slideshows of images? \nEdit: \nOh wait I see what you mean. Yeah the pedophile priest thing is so expected that only the slideshow bit stood out",
">\n\nHoly hell. Priest have normalized pedophilia.",
">\n\nNot just priests. Protestant Christians have a major problem with sexual abuse too, particularly against children.\nAfter Major Investigation, Southern Baptists Confront the Abuse Crisis They Knew Was Coming\nDon't let the Evangelical pedo defenders get away with claiming that Catholicism is the only issue here. It isn't.",
">\n\n\nnone of them are immune to the depravity.\n\nAlmost implied, really.",
">\n\nCould 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?",
">\n\nA variety of factors:\n\nUnquestioned moral authority and intense trust from a large community who have all been taught to obey church authorities\nSupport from a massive extremely powerful institution that has covered up thousands of similar crimes\nStrictly forbidden to marry, have sex, or iirc even masturbate, making them view all sexual activities as similarly taboo for them\nEasy regular access to many children\nEasy ability to get alone time with children\nPriests are only held institutionally accountable to each other and to those with more authority in the church\nVictims 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\nChildren 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\nThe 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\nThe 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\n\nThat'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.”\nP.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.\nWant 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.\nEdit to add this excellent way to protect kids that churches consistently fight against:\n\n“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.\nchildren 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.”",
">\n\nSo this should be buried enough if I speak in general terms.\nYears back one of our pastors had to give up being a pastor. They didn't get into details of what he did but they did stress that kids were not involved. The whole church could be seen relaxing.",
">\n\n5 years for thousands of child porn images and videos? Seems pretty fucking light to me. This piece of shit should die in prison.",
">\n\n5 years and a ticket to heaven",
">\n\nHeaven? For him?",
">\n\nThat'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.",
">\n\nDon't you also have to be truly repentant for your sins, including making a good faith effort to keep from repeating them?",
">\n\nI would love for someone to answer this because I really want to know, too.",
">\n\nyes I'm pretty sure that's it. God sees people's hearts He should know the diff between true repentance and fake one",
">\n\nYes, assuming an all-powerful God existed, he’d be able to pretty easily know if you were truly sorry.",
">\n\nYeah but......... \nI'm just starting the religious apologist's sentence for them.",
">\n\nFor 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.",
">\n\nOne 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.",
">\n\nOnce I heard this theory, the acceptance by conservatives of people whose behavior is in direct conflict with their moral beliefs, made more sense.",
">\n\n5 holly maries and transfer\nafter 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.\nRev. 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.\"\nMcDevitt asked the presiding judge for \"mercy for Jim,\" and even offered for the congregation to pay to house him in lieu of imprisonment.\n\"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.\"\n\"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.\"",
">\n\nIn Australia at the moment there is a furore after the death of Cardinal George Pell who was convicted (then exonerated) of personally abusing children, but was found by a Royal Commission (that would be a special prosecutor for our American friends?) of enabling and protecting paedophile priests for decades.\nCan honestly say I have not been able to listen to the string of \"Christians\" praising this man in our media for the last few days without wanting to puke. Suffer the little children.",
">\n\nWith you there. At least there’s a lot of people calling his supporters out on this. Fuck Tony Abbott, John Howard and Andrew Bolt to name a few.",
">\n\nI 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!",
">\n\nr/PastorArrested (also includes Priests)",
">\n\nDon'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.",
">\n\nIf there is a god, wtf?",
">\n\nThere is no God. Religion is about control and money",
">\n\nAnd more money",
">\n\n\"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.\" \n- Rev. Patrick McDevitt, provincial superior for the Congregation of the Western Province \n\nEvery single member of that congregation is a horrible piece of shit",
">\n\nWhat 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?",
">\n\n“Drag queens are grooming our youth!!!”",
">\n\n\"I think we all know where people put on dresses and fuck kids\"\n-Trixie Mattel, 2022",
">\n\nKid “Bless me Father, for I have sinned”\nPadre “ call me, maybe?”",
">\n\nImagine my shock to discover that a priest has been involved in a sex scandal and one involving the exploitation of children, at that.",
">\n\nGOP: \"But wuttabout drag queens?!?!?!??!\"",
">\n\nDoing the Lords work 🙏🏾",
">\n\nTax-free",
">\n\nWhat's the deal with priests being so into pedophilia? Can't they look at milf pounds like normal people?",
">\n\nOh look... Another priest with child porn ... When do we get to start taxing the church?",
">\n\nr/pastorarrested",
">\n\nChurch is a scary place, especially for children.",
">\n\nI 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.",
">\n\nOnly 5 years. What a joke.",
">\n\n\nThe 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.\n\nIf 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.",
">\n\nNo one is suprised a priest is a pedophile. \nBut printing out yer nudes? That's odd.",
">\n\nI can think of a reason he printed it out. And I really don't like that reason.",
">\n\nI'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.",
">\n\nThe sheer audacity to do it at church where you work",
">\n\nAnd not a drag queen in sight...",
">\n\nThey do kinda wear dresses, though",
">\n\nToo many “coincidences” within this church to be anything other than systematic",
">\n\nPretty 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.",
">\n\n\nThe data often suggests numbers of pedophiles similar to the general population\n\none 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",
">\n\nYeah, 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.",
">\n\nI 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.",
">\n\nIt's so common for priests to be sickos",
">\n\nGross",
">\n\nAll he needs to do is repent, right?!?",
">\n\nA priest? With kiddie porn? I’ve never heard of such a thing!",
">\n\nRemember 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.",
">\n\n5 years that's all he got",
">\n\nThat's fucking disgusting. Misappropriation of office materials.",
">\n\nIt 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",
">\n\nIdiot 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.",
">\n\nso 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.",
">\n\nI 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 🤷♂️",
">\n\n5 years isnt nearly enough. Lock him up forever and a day.",
">\n\n~~Drag shows~~ Churches are not safe for children",
">\n\nI'm sure the religious Right will be out protesting him any second.\nRight? Right guys? Groomers and all this? Qanons? Where you guys at?\nHuh. Weird.",
">\n\nBut the dragqueens guys?!?!?!??!? /s",
">\n\nWeird that so many god loving people are actually just pedophiles. Wonder what they think god thinks of them. Fuck theism.",
">\n\nTheir god tells them to take the young girls as spoils of war. Their god is just as fucking depraved as they are.",
">\n\ntHaTs jUsT tHe oLd tEsTaMeNt tHoUgh.\ngOds mOraLiTy dOeSnt cHanGe, hE jUsT dEaLs wItH hUmAns diFFeReNtlY nOw. \nYeah when someone deals with people differently than they did before we generally call that \"a change.\"",
">\n\nAnd he wasn’t trans??? Maybe it’s been priests all along that governors should be banning. When will they correct their mistake? /s",
">\n\nDoesn'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...",
">\n\nIt's surprising. Who prints out their own nudes?",
">\n\nLock him up and throw away the keys",
">\n\nDarn priests, at least those protestant ministers keep it in the family",
">\n\nNot surprised.",
">\n\nThree hail marys and all is forgiven. What a load of bs",
">\n\nJust one bad apple, I’m sure.",
">\n\nLeast paedophilic priest",
">\n\n…slideshow?",
">\n\nGod works in mysterious ways ya fuckin chomo. As a priest, he of all people should have seen this coming...",
">\n\nIn other news, water is wet",
">\n\nOnly five years...",
">\n\n”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.” \nಠ_ಠ",
">\n\nI don’t remember this plotline during Doubt…",
">\n\nWe keep letting them get away with it, so they keep doing it. More obvious news at 10.",
">\n\n& once they found him out he got made a cardinal",
">\n\nHe should've kept them in the garage with his Corvette",
">\n\n5 years? If nothing else, using PowerPoint should have been an aggravating factor.",
">\n\nAnd you thought looking at Bob's family vacation pics was a bad time",
">\n\nWhen 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.",
">\n\nHow is the Roman Catholic Church not closed down for enabling and protecting child abusers",
">\n\nAre 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.",
">\n\nIt'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.",
">\n\npapabile!",
">\n\nLeft nudes on a shared printer? Rookie mistake.",
">\n\nTeach your priests just enough tech to effectively turn themselves in.",
">\n\nIsn't it something how the church decided to investigate themselves again. Keep it in the family, guys.\nI 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.",
">\n\nIs 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:\n1 - 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\n2 - 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)\n3 - 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.\nTL;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.",
">\n\nLet me guess.\nMoved to a different church at the other side of the country and that’s about it for consequences?",
">\n\nThose damned drag queens strike again.",
">\n\nI mean that’s kinda how they caught BTK",
">\n\nSo priests are still abusing kids after we didn't do anything to them the last few times we caught them? Color me surprised.",
">\n\n\nCourt 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.\"\n\n...\n\nDuring 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. \n\n...\n\nAnd 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. \n\nFuck everyone that allowed this scum to continue in a position of authority.",
">\n\nDon’t hear this happening at drag shows…j/s",
">\n\nHe put the PDF in pedofile",
">\n\nThis is Fucking ridiculous",
">\n\nNever forget who the actual groomers are",
">\n\nThe proud boys will be outside of churches \"protesting\" with guns now, right? right?",
">\n\nA priest being pedophile? But that is absolutely unheard of, say it isn't so!",
">\n\nYou sure this wasn't at a Trans drag show? GOP is sure this happens at Trans dragsl shows",
">\n\nExcommunicated by PowerPoint",
">\n\n5 years and a fine? FFS, that’s ridiculous.",
">\n\nPraise Jesus!",
">\n\nAnd the right thinks kids going to drag shows are the problem",
">\n\nAverage christian.",
">\n\nbut the drag queens are reading books to children in libraries! The madnessss",
">\n\nSo they moved him to a new church. This is what they have always done.",
">\n\nleast pedophilic priest:",
">\n\nThe dead ones dont hurt anyone.",
">\n\ninto the furnace he goes. theres no rehabbing people like this.",
">\n\nIt's always the ones you least expect..",
">\n\nOr in this case, the ones you MOST suspect",
">\n\nlol ya, I said that with sarcasm..",
">\n\nPray that he gets nut cancer.",
">\n\nNut cancer was once described to me as \"the common cold of cancers\". It has something like a 95% survival rate.\nHe deserves worse.",
">\n\nDidn't know that. Good nut fact for the day.",
">\n\nIt's definitely the drag queens reading to kids in libraries that's the problem.",
">\n\nRight wingers want him to be a closeted drag queen so badly",
">\n\nI could never trust any man who goes into priesthood. Completely unnatural and deviant occupation rife with pedophiles.",
">\n\nThis MONSTER got 5 years?! \nThe CHILDREN being abused in the images will suffer for the rest of their lives!!\nI'm in favor of LIFE SENTENCES for child sex offenders. \nOr better yet, the DEATH PENALTY!!",
">\n\nReligion was invented by Man for Control of the Flock.You go to Confession and tell the priest everything so they can determine how to undress you.\nI was once a Catholic.....born, baptised, confirmed and educated in a Grammar school run by Irish Christian Brothers under the Order of Edmund Ignatius Rice......and now I'm an atheist.",
">\n\nHow come it is always ‘Christians’ who are involved in child sex abuse?",
">\n\nOf course he's a pedo, he's a priest!",
">\n\nYes millions of idiots keep donating billions to the church",
">\n\nNot simply donating, they bring their children along, indoctrinate them that the priest is the speaker of God, and that God can do no wrong, so anything the priest dose is holy and good. The priest even says so!\nAnd when the kids bring it up the first few times weird things happen? The parents tell them to shush. And so, the sacrifices continue, the parents make a show of not knowing, and things get worse for the children.\nAnd if the priest is reported, the church just moves them to a different parish.\nThe only difference between the taliban and the catholic church, is one of them advertises the child slaves as a benefit, while the other pretends it's not (but totally encourages it, top to bottom).",
">\n\nAnd who are the groomers again?",
">\n\nThis is what happens when you don’t recycle your printer papers.",
">\n\nI feel like this isn't oniony enough, everyone knows by now that priests are significantly more likely to be pedophiles than the general population.",
">\n\nSure, but “gets caught by leaving nudes on a printer” is a fairly onion-y end.",
">\n\nYa know you're right",
">\n\nI have a theory about the correlation between priests and pedophiles. This is my opinion based on conversations with a childhood friend (not a pedo) and is only my opinion but could explain why so many priests abuse children. Get your down votes ready. \nThese boys grow up in the church and it is all they know for the most part. When going through puberty we become attracted to a gender (male or female gay or straight sometimes somewhere in between) and more often a \"type\" as well (blonde brunette short tall etc). Our hormones drive us to seek companionship, intimacy, and ultimately procreation. \nThese boys growing up never develop this attraction to their peers but rather feel more comfortable around younger children and usually behave as mentors. The combination of love of church and disinterest in peers puts the thought in their heads that priesthood is their calling. It takes a long time and effort to become a priest. There are easier paths if a guy just wants to bang kids.\nPut together lack of sex or release of biological needs with access and constant contact with children and they are basically pushed over the edge.\nTo sum up, pedophiles don't become priests to molest children, they become priests because they don't realize they are pedophiles. This is just my opinion, and obviously there are also exceptions to this.\nPerhaps the solution is to get rid of this nonsense celibacy.",
">\n\nAlternative theory: pedophiles become priests because they know the Catholic Church will support and hide them from accountability. Plus, all those altar boys have been easy pickings for decades. \nOn the positive side, Catholic Churches are closing all over Missouri because of dwindling congregations.",
">\n\nThis is one crime I’ll never be able to fathom.",
">\n\nSo fucking sick advocating for this monster so he can maintain freedom?",
">\n\nThe church has been so infiltrated by Child abusers that they are currently rating worse than Satan Worshippers",
">\n\nCan we just fuck churches off now???",
">\n\nYour tithing had to go somewhere.",
">\n\nHow come republicans are not calling these people groomers?",
">\n\nIs anyone else picturing the scene in the first Scary Movie where the cop asks Anna Faris to look at some pictures?\nPriest hands out the pictures of himself along with the weekly pamphlet. Maybe the first reading is from the Song of Solomon...",
">\n\nOh shit. \nHas he been quietly shuffled to a new church yet?",
">\n\nI'm old enough that when I see \"slideshow\" I think of him arranging physical slides in a carousel to project on a screen, like the family trip to Disneyland. Maybe invite the neighbors over for cake.",
">\n\nLord above why is this a thing",
">\n\nYou mean not a drag queen?",
">\n\nActual groomers.",
">\n\nJust think the hands that wanked to kiddie pr0n put wafers on the tongues of everyone in that congregation...",
">\n\nLMAO. This slightly ambiguous headline had me thinking “who attended these slideshow presentations?”",
">\n\nOh look another pedophile catholic priest. Good job reinforcing that stereotype.",
">\n\nAnd we should take guidance from those who hide these atrocities so we can live a better life in the eyes of god.",
">\n\nFriendly reminder religion is a mistake that deserves to be taxed. If you threatened to tax zealots tomorrow child molestation by priests would drop to zero",
">\n\nmay your mother smile as you burn",
">\n\nThis is what happens when you have unchecked power for thousands of years.\nHorrifying.",
">\n\nDid he learn this behavior from a drag show? /s",
">\n\nReminds me of something Chris Rock said: \"Where do women find the porn? They don't find it in your hiding place, they find it in the VCR\"",
">\n\nHe was also probably saving up for a trip to Disney World.",
">\n\n\nincluding child pornography and images of child erotica.\n\nI want to know the difference but don't want to get on a watchlist by googling it.",
">\n\nWithout the word child there, there's a difference in degree. I'd say it's the same thing with that word in there just describing the subject depicted. Pornography is generally actual sex acts of some form or another. Erotica falls short of that, it may be arousing or suggestive. For example, a cabaret show may be erotica but it's certainly not pornography.",
">\n\nPriest? Church? Man in a tax evasion party house?",
">\n\nYet the church immediately moved him somewhere else as there was a daycare next door to the church, then offered to pay to have the priest under house arrest so that the child predator won't go to jail.",
">\n\nShittiest Ted Talk I’ve ever seen, honestly…",
">\n\nOnly five years?! \nUgh!",
">\n\nAnd they call LGBT+ people groomers. (eyeroll)",
">\n\nAnyone who has ever been to a church sadly knows this doesn't need to be in this sub for us to know it's a real story.",
">\n\nOh how nice. The Reverend pleaded for him not to be incarcerated. Because of fucking course he did.",
">\n\nCurious as to who he was presenting this to",
">\n\nPunish these assholes they are smearing God's name",
">\n\nStraight to (checks notes) your next parish!",
">\n\nreligion and sexual abuse. name a more iconic duo\nwhy are any of these religions even allowed to exist any more\nthey have long since lost their meanings, and onlt serve to syphon money out of gullible people, and abuse their children\nwhat is any of these religions actually adding to society any more? other than more perverted monsters",
">\n\nHe’s not the only one",
">\n\nWhy is no big tv news channel talking about this?",
">\n\nAsked that he not go to prison & that his congregation pay to house him? Fuck the church. That's almost the most disgusting part of this",
">\n\nSo are we talking a pptx or an old-school film Rolodex version? Both are messed up, but one takes A LOT more effort.",
">\n\nThe catholic church is of Satan.",
">\n\nFaith is of \"Satan.\" The idea that assuming you might be wrong is morally wrong produces some of the worst people imaginable. And that applies to secular ideologies that require looking down on those who disagree or are unsure too.",
">\n\nAge of priest over/under 50\nWhat yall got?\nI have the over.",
">\n\nOnly 5 years?",
">\n\nRight for some reason i read it as slide show meaning projectors haha. I forgot Powerpoint presentations are a thing.",
">\n\nThe congregation still requested he be spared incarceration and remain in their facility. Truly unbelievable.",
">\n\nThose damn drag queens framed him",
">\n\nThey really put a lot of effort into not saying that he was catholic in that article.",
">\n\nWonder what congregation hes been moved to now?",
">\n\nAny outrage from republicans? Will they arm themselves and storm the churches?....... Didn't think so.",
">\n\nA Christian pedophile? Who could have guessed?",
">\n\nIm shocked! Shocked I say!\nWell... not that shocked.",
">\n\nI appreciate that the church cooperated and turned him in. However, the fact they wanted to pay to house him, out of the parish coffers, is insane. He deserves incarceration and certainly not a retirement paid for by parishioners of the church he victimized. Smh, a great step for the church, if only as a PR exercise, would be to strongly condemn this sort of behavior AND strongly punish it. Defrock and excommunicate any priest who does this. It’s a very easy choice that frankly could help reinstill a little confidence in the church."
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"Slideshows????? What?\nMy man just opened up cp.ppt and added a few THOUSAND slides of kiddy porn????\nClippy: it looks like youre a depraved predator. Do you want to profane the church as well?",
">\n\nWell I always did believe Power Point was a creation of a malevolent entity.",
">\n\nTuring complete, no less!",
">\n\nBut can it run Doom?",
">\n\nAnything can run doom",
">\n\nBut can Doom run Doom?",
">\n\nDoom can run Doom because Doom runs Doom when Doom runs.",
">\n\nPeople don't run Doom like it is, but it Doom.",
">\n\nGonna take this moment to highly recommend the film Spotlight to any who haven’t seen it",
">\n\nCheck out the 2017 limited series on either Netflix or Prime: \"The Keepers\" about a Baltimore-area Catholic girls' school. Based on the experiences as told by some of the girls, now middle-aged women. It is NOT nice, will make you cry, will enrage you. But I commend the women who made this documentary for as painful as it was for the audience to watch, I can't imagine how they made it thru. And they brought it around to a decent ending, but wow....I think some of what happened in Baltimore bled over into the Spotlight story.\nLapsed Catholic. I cannot reconcile with the Church hierarchy over this because they have behaved satanically for far too long to make me believe they are holy in any way.",
">\n\nThere was a documentary that came out a year or two ago tbzg sounds similar but men who were molested as kids while in the church. \nI honestly don't know how anyone can still support the church. At all. If it was one priest, sure. It's sad it happened, but pedophiles will always exist and find ways to get to kids.\nBut with how often it happens and with how little the church cares? Nope. I never could be catholic even if I was Christian.",
">\n\nBecause saving souls bringing them into their cult is more valuable than the ones they crush. The Vatican last I heard had 7 pedos protecting by not complying with extradition requests. \nAny organization not willing to comply with the laws of the country where they have a tax exempt status should lose their exemption and title to any property they own. If you RICO cartel and mafia assets, then you can do so for these child abusers and their protective association. \nYou know the church owns most of Manhattan and isn't paying taxes? All that money and we have to tolerate this shit? Nah fuck them.",
">\n\nNude pix on the church printer . . . I can imagine the scene.\nSister Mary Michael: Yo, does anyone recognize this tallywhacker?\nFormer Alter Boy Brian: Yeah, that's Father Jim. I'd know that hairy mole anywhere.",
">\n\nThat's Tommy Turner's tallywhacker",
">\n\nIf Reddit still gave free awards, I'd give one to you for catching the reference.",
">\n\nWAIT when did they get rid of the free awards",
">\n\nguess this is how i found out. last i claimed mine is around last week, i think. i only claim once every two weeks to gild certain biweekly thread lul",
">\n\nAnd yet where are all the \"anti-groomers\" protesting these churches?",
">\n\nIt’s almost like it has never actually been about protecting children, and it’s always been about trying to demonize LGBT people",
">\n\nAt this point I am positive the religious right to life thing is about having more targets.",
">\n\nGlad 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?",
">\n\nAfter 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.",
">\n\nI 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.\nThere are also many who truly believe the schtick and just compartmentalize the bad stuff. Both are to blame regardless. Nobody gets a pass.",
">\n\nI could see that with some of the smaller denominations for sure.\nWhen 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.",
">\n\n*making another streak to the tally list wall\n*camera panning out to reveal a huge fucking wall coveres in streaks",
">\n\nMan 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.\nThat said. This man should burn for this",
">\n\nPriest? Pedo? Are you sure? This is unprecedented",
">\n\nCorrection! PedoPreist",
">\n\nNew name not necessary. If anything there should be a name for the unique priests that arent pedos.",
">\n\nI'm inclined to think the majority of priests aren't child predators themselves.\nThe 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.\nWay, way too many of them are pedo-enablers. All the way up...",
">\n\nThen that would mean that... Gasp\nSouth Park was right all along....\nSneaky little bastards didn't think I would notice....",
">\n\nWish I was surprised",
">\n\nYou make slideshows of images? \nEdit: \nOh wait I see what you mean. Yeah the pedophile priest thing is so expected that only the slideshow bit stood out",
">\n\nHoly hell. Priest have normalized pedophilia.",
">\n\nNot just priests. Protestant Christians have a major problem with sexual abuse too, particularly against children.\nAfter Major Investigation, Southern Baptists Confront the Abuse Crisis They Knew Was Coming\nDon't let the Evangelical pedo defenders get away with claiming that Catholicism is the only issue here. It isn't.",
">\n\n\nnone of them are immune to the depravity.\n\nAlmost implied, really.",
">\n\nCould 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?",
">\n\nA variety of factors:\n\nUnquestioned moral authority and intense trust from a large community who have all been taught to obey church authorities\nSupport from a massive extremely powerful institution that has covered up thousands of similar crimes\nStrictly forbidden to marry, have sex, or iirc even masturbate, making them view all sexual activities as similarly taboo for them\nEasy regular access to many children\nEasy ability to get alone time with children\nPriests are only held institutionally accountable to each other and to those with more authority in the church\nVictims 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\nChildren 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\nThe 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\nThe 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\n\nThat'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.”\nP.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.\nWant 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.\nEdit to add this excellent way to protect kids that churches consistently fight against:\n\n“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.\nchildren 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.”",
">\n\nSo this should be buried enough if I speak in general terms.\nYears back one of our pastors had to give up being a pastor. They didn't get into details of what he did but they did stress that kids were not involved. The whole church could be seen relaxing.",
">\n\n5 years for thousands of child porn images and videos? Seems pretty fucking light to me. This piece of shit should die in prison.",
">\n\n5 years and a ticket to heaven",
">\n\nHeaven? For him?",
">\n\nThat'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.",
">\n\nDon't you also have to be truly repentant for your sins, including making a good faith effort to keep from repeating them?",
">\n\nI would love for someone to answer this because I really want to know, too.",
">\n\nyes I'm pretty sure that's it. God sees people's hearts He should know the diff between true repentance and fake one",
">\n\nYes, assuming an all-powerful God existed, he’d be able to pretty easily know if you were truly sorry.",
">\n\nYeah but......... \nI'm just starting the religious apologist's sentence for them.",
">\n\nFor 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.",
">\n\nOne 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.",
">\n\nOnce I heard this theory, the acceptance by conservatives of people whose behavior is in direct conflict with their moral beliefs, made more sense.",
">\n\n5 holly maries and transfer\nafter 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.\nRev. 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.\"\nMcDevitt asked the presiding judge for \"mercy for Jim,\" and even offered for the congregation to pay to house him in lieu of imprisonment.\n\"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.\"\n\"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.\"",
">\n\nIn Australia at the moment there is a furore after the death of Cardinal George Pell who was convicted (then exonerated) of personally abusing children, but was found by a Royal Commission (that would be a special prosecutor for our American friends?) of enabling and protecting paedophile priests for decades.\nCan honestly say I have not been able to listen to the string of \"Christians\" praising this man in our media for the last few days without wanting to puke. Suffer the little children.",
">\n\nWith you there. At least there’s a lot of people calling his supporters out on this. Fuck Tony Abbott, John Howard and Andrew Bolt to name a few.",
">\n\nI 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!",
">\n\nr/PastorArrested (also includes Priests)",
">\n\nDon'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.",
">\n\nIf there is a god, wtf?",
">\n\nThere is no God. Religion is about control and money",
">\n\nAnd more money",
">\n\n\"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.\" \n- Rev. Patrick McDevitt, provincial superior for the Congregation of the Western Province \n\nEvery single member of that congregation is a horrible piece of shit",
">\n\nWhat 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?",
">\n\n“Drag queens are grooming our youth!!!”",
">\n\n\"I think we all know where people put on dresses and fuck kids\"\n-Trixie Mattel, 2022",
">\n\nKid “Bless me Father, for I have sinned”\nPadre “ call me, maybe?”",
">\n\nImagine my shock to discover that a priest has been involved in a sex scandal and one involving the exploitation of children, at that.",
">\n\nGOP: \"But wuttabout drag queens?!?!?!??!\"",
">\n\nDoing the Lords work 🙏🏾",
">\n\nTax-free",
">\n\nWhat's the deal with priests being so into pedophilia? Can't they look at milf pounds like normal people?",
">\n\nOh look... Another priest with child porn ... When do we get to start taxing the church?",
">\n\nr/pastorarrested",
">\n\nChurch is a scary place, especially for children.",
">\n\nI 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.",
">\n\nOnly 5 years. What a joke.",
">\n\n\nThe 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.\n\nIf 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.",
">\n\nNo one is suprised a priest is a pedophile. \nBut printing out yer nudes? That's odd.",
">\n\nI can think of a reason he printed it out. And I really don't like that reason.",
">\n\nI'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.",
">\n\nThe sheer audacity to do it at church where you work",
">\n\nAnd not a drag queen in sight...",
">\n\nThey do kinda wear dresses, though",
">\n\nToo many “coincidences” within this church to be anything other than systematic",
">\n\nPretty 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.",
">\n\n\nThe data often suggests numbers of pedophiles similar to the general population\n\none 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",
">\n\nYeah, 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.",
">\n\nI 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.",
">\n\nIt's so common for priests to be sickos",
">\n\nGross",
">\n\nAll he needs to do is repent, right?!?",
">\n\nA priest? With kiddie porn? I’ve never heard of such a thing!",
">\n\nRemember 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.",
">\n\n5 years that's all he got",
">\n\nThat's fucking disgusting. Misappropriation of office materials.",
">\n\nIt 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",
">\n\nIdiot 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.",
">\n\nso 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.",
">\n\nI 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 🤷♂️",
">\n\n5 years isnt nearly enough. Lock him up forever and a day.",
">\n\n~~Drag shows~~ Churches are not safe for children",
">\n\nI'm sure the religious Right will be out protesting him any second.\nRight? Right guys? Groomers and all this? Qanons? Where you guys at?\nHuh. Weird.",
">\n\nBut the dragqueens guys?!?!?!??!? /s",
">\n\nWeird that so many god loving people are actually just pedophiles. Wonder what they think god thinks of them. Fuck theism.",
">\n\nTheir god tells them to take the young girls as spoils of war. Their god is just as fucking depraved as they are.",
">\n\ntHaTs jUsT tHe oLd tEsTaMeNt tHoUgh.\ngOds mOraLiTy dOeSnt cHanGe, hE jUsT dEaLs wItH hUmAns diFFeReNtlY nOw. \nYeah when someone deals with people differently than they did before we generally call that \"a change.\"",
">\n\nAnd he wasn’t trans??? Maybe it’s been priests all along that governors should be banning. When will they correct their mistake? /s",
">\n\nDoesn'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...",
">\n\nIt's surprising. Who prints out their own nudes?",
">\n\nLock him up and throw away the keys",
">\n\nDarn priests, at least those protestant ministers keep it in the family",
">\n\nNot surprised.",
">\n\nThree hail marys and all is forgiven. What a load of bs",
">\n\nJust one bad apple, I’m sure.",
">\n\nLeast paedophilic priest",
">\n\n…slideshow?",
">\n\nGod works in mysterious ways ya fuckin chomo. As a priest, he of all people should have seen this coming...",
">\n\nIn other news, water is wet",
">\n\nOnly five years...",
">\n\n”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.” \nಠ_ಠ",
">\n\nI don’t remember this plotline during Doubt…",
">\n\nWe keep letting them get away with it, so they keep doing it. More obvious news at 10.",
">\n\n& once they found him out he got made a cardinal",
">\n\nHe should've kept them in the garage with his Corvette",
">\n\n5 years? If nothing else, using PowerPoint should have been an aggravating factor.",
">\n\nAnd you thought looking at Bob's family vacation pics was a bad time",
">\n\nWhen 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.",
">\n\nHow is the Roman Catholic Church not closed down for enabling and protecting child abusers",
">\n\nAre 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.",
">\n\nIt'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.",
">\n\npapabile!",
">\n\nLeft nudes on a shared printer? Rookie mistake.",
">\n\nTeach your priests just enough tech to effectively turn themselves in.",
">\n\nIsn't it something how the church decided to investigate themselves again. Keep it in the family, guys.\nI 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.",
">\n\nIs 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:\n1 - 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\n2 - 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)\n3 - 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.\nTL;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.",
">\n\nLet me guess.\nMoved to a different church at the other side of the country and that’s about it for consequences?",
">\n\nThose damned drag queens strike again.",
">\n\nI mean that’s kinda how they caught BTK",
">\n\nSo priests are still abusing kids after we didn't do anything to them the last few times we caught them? Color me surprised.",
">\n\n\nCourt 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.\"\n\n...\n\nDuring 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. \n\n...\n\nAnd 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. \n\nFuck everyone that allowed this scum to continue in a position of authority.",
">\n\nDon’t hear this happening at drag shows…j/s",
">\n\nHe put the PDF in pedofile",
">\n\nThis is Fucking ridiculous",
">\n\nNever forget who the actual groomers are",
">\n\nThe proud boys will be outside of churches \"protesting\" with guns now, right? right?",
">\n\nA priest being pedophile? But that is absolutely unheard of, say it isn't so!",
">\n\nYou sure this wasn't at a Trans drag show? GOP is sure this happens at Trans dragsl shows",
">\n\nExcommunicated by PowerPoint",
">\n\n5 years and a fine? FFS, that’s ridiculous.",
">\n\nPraise Jesus!",
">\n\nAnd the right thinks kids going to drag shows are the problem",
">\n\nAverage christian.",
">\n\nbut the drag queens are reading books to children in libraries! The madnessss",
">\n\nSo they moved him to a new church. This is what they have always done.",
">\n\nleast pedophilic priest:",
">\n\nThe dead ones dont hurt anyone.",
">\n\ninto the furnace he goes. theres no rehabbing people like this.",
">\n\nIt's always the ones you least expect..",
">\n\nOr in this case, the ones you MOST suspect",
">\n\nlol ya, I said that with sarcasm..",
">\n\nPray that he gets nut cancer.",
">\n\nNut cancer was once described to me as \"the common cold of cancers\". It has something like a 95% survival rate.\nHe deserves worse.",
">\n\nDidn't know that. Good nut fact for the day.",
">\n\nIt's definitely the drag queens reading to kids in libraries that's the problem.",
">\n\nRight wingers want him to be a closeted drag queen so badly",
">\n\nI could never trust any man who goes into priesthood. Completely unnatural and deviant occupation rife with pedophiles.",
">\n\nThis MONSTER got 5 years?! \nThe CHILDREN being abused in the images will suffer for the rest of their lives!!\nI'm in favor of LIFE SENTENCES for child sex offenders. \nOr better yet, the DEATH PENALTY!!",
">\n\nReligion was invented by Man for Control of the Flock.You go to Confession and tell the priest everything so they can determine how to undress you.\nI was once a Catholic.....born, baptised, confirmed and educated in a Grammar school run by Irish Christian Brothers under the Order of Edmund Ignatius Rice......and now I'm an atheist.",
">\n\nHow come it is always ‘Christians’ who are involved in child sex abuse?",
">\n\nOf course he's a pedo, he's a priest!",
">\n\nYes millions of idiots keep donating billions to the church",
">\n\nNot simply donating, they bring their children along, indoctrinate them that the priest is the speaker of God, and that God can do no wrong, so anything the priest dose is holy and good. The priest even says so!\nAnd when the kids bring it up the first few times weird things happen? The parents tell them to shush. And so, the sacrifices continue, the parents make a show of not knowing, and things get worse for the children.\nAnd if the priest is reported, the church just moves them to a different parish.\nThe only difference between the taliban and the catholic church, is one of them advertises the child slaves as a benefit, while the other pretends it's not (but totally encourages it, top to bottom).",
">\n\nAnd who are the groomers again?",
">\n\nThis is what happens when you don’t recycle your printer papers.",
">\n\nI feel like this isn't oniony enough, everyone knows by now that priests are significantly more likely to be pedophiles than the general population.",
">\n\nSure, but “gets caught by leaving nudes on a printer” is a fairly onion-y end.",
">\n\nYa know you're right",
">\n\nI have a theory about the correlation between priests and pedophiles. This is my opinion based on conversations with a childhood friend (not a pedo) and is only my opinion but could explain why so many priests abuse children. Get your down votes ready. \nThese boys grow up in the church and it is all they know for the most part. When going through puberty we become attracted to a gender (male or female gay or straight sometimes somewhere in between) and more often a \"type\" as well (blonde brunette short tall etc). Our hormones drive us to seek companionship, intimacy, and ultimately procreation. \nThese boys growing up never develop this attraction to their peers but rather feel more comfortable around younger children and usually behave as mentors. The combination of love of church and disinterest in peers puts the thought in their heads that priesthood is their calling. It takes a long time and effort to become a priest. There are easier paths if a guy just wants to bang kids.\nPut together lack of sex or release of biological needs with access and constant contact with children and they are basically pushed over the edge.\nTo sum up, pedophiles don't become priests to molest children, they become priests because they don't realize they are pedophiles. This is just my opinion, and obviously there are also exceptions to this.\nPerhaps the solution is to get rid of this nonsense celibacy.",
">\n\nAlternative theory: pedophiles become priests because they know the Catholic Church will support and hide them from accountability. Plus, all those altar boys have been easy pickings for decades. \nOn the positive side, Catholic Churches are closing all over Missouri because of dwindling congregations.",
">\n\nThis is one crime I’ll never be able to fathom.",
">\n\nSo fucking sick advocating for this monster so he can maintain freedom?",
">\n\nThe church has been so infiltrated by Child abusers that they are currently rating worse than Satan Worshippers",
">\n\nCan we just fuck churches off now???",
">\n\nYour tithing had to go somewhere.",
">\n\nHow come republicans are not calling these people groomers?",
">\n\nIs anyone else picturing the scene in the first Scary Movie where the cop asks Anna Faris to look at some pictures?\nPriest hands out the pictures of himself along with the weekly pamphlet. Maybe the first reading is from the Song of Solomon...",
">\n\nOh shit. \nHas he been quietly shuffled to a new church yet?",
">\n\nI'm old enough that when I see \"slideshow\" I think of him arranging physical slides in a carousel to project on a screen, like the family trip to Disneyland. Maybe invite the neighbors over for cake.",
">\n\nLord above why is this a thing",
">\n\nYou mean not a drag queen?",
">\n\nActual groomers.",
">\n\nJust think the hands that wanked to kiddie pr0n put wafers on the tongues of everyone in that congregation...",
">\n\nLMAO. This slightly ambiguous headline had me thinking “who attended these slideshow presentations?”",
">\n\nOh look another pedophile catholic priest. Good job reinforcing that stereotype.",
">\n\nAnd we should take guidance from those who hide these atrocities so we can live a better life in the eyes of god.",
">\n\nFriendly reminder religion is a mistake that deserves to be taxed. If you threatened to tax zealots tomorrow child molestation by priests would drop to zero",
">\n\nmay your mother smile as you burn",
">\n\nThis is what happens when you have unchecked power for thousands of years.\nHorrifying.",
">\n\nDid he learn this behavior from a drag show? /s",
">\n\nReminds me of something Chris Rock said: \"Where do women find the porn? They don't find it in your hiding place, they find it in the VCR\"",
">\n\nHe was also probably saving up for a trip to Disney World.",
">\n\n\nincluding child pornography and images of child erotica.\n\nI want to know the difference but don't want to get on a watchlist by googling it.",
">\n\nWithout the word child there, there's a difference in degree. I'd say it's the same thing with that word in there just describing the subject depicted. Pornography is generally actual sex acts of some form or another. Erotica falls short of that, it may be arousing or suggestive. For example, a cabaret show may be erotica but it's certainly not pornography.",
">\n\nPriest? Church? Man in a tax evasion party house?",
">\n\nYet the church immediately moved him somewhere else as there was a daycare next door to the church, then offered to pay to have the priest under house arrest so that the child predator won't go to jail.",
">\n\nShittiest Ted Talk I’ve ever seen, honestly…",
">\n\nOnly five years?! \nUgh!",
">\n\nAnd they call LGBT+ people groomers. (eyeroll)",
">\n\nAnyone who has ever been to a church sadly knows this doesn't need to be in this sub for us to know it's a real story.",
">\n\nOh how nice. The Reverend pleaded for him not to be incarcerated. Because of fucking course he did.",
">\n\nCurious as to who he was presenting this to",
">\n\nPunish these assholes they are smearing God's name",
">\n\nStraight to (checks notes) your next parish!",
">\n\nreligion and sexual abuse. name a more iconic duo\nwhy are any of these religions even allowed to exist any more\nthey have long since lost their meanings, and onlt serve to syphon money out of gullible people, and abuse their children\nwhat is any of these religions actually adding to society any more? other than more perverted monsters",
">\n\nHe’s not the only one",
">\n\nWhy is no big tv news channel talking about this?",
">\n\nAsked that he not go to prison & that his congregation pay to house him? Fuck the church. That's almost the most disgusting part of this",
">\n\nSo are we talking a pptx or an old-school film Rolodex version? Both are messed up, but one takes A LOT more effort.",
">\n\nThe catholic church is of Satan.",
">\n\nFaith is of \"Satan.\" The idea that assuming you might be wrong is morally wrong produces some of the worst people imaginable. And that applies to secular ideologies that require looking down on those who disagree or are unsure too.",
">\n\nAge of priest over/under 50\nWhat yall got?\nI have the over.",
">\n\nOnly 5 years?",
">\n\nRight for some reason i read it as slide show meaning projectors haha. I forgot Powerpoint presentations are a thing.",
">\n\nThe congregation still requested he be spared incarceration and remain in their facility. Truly unbelievable.",
">\n\nThose damn drag queens framed him",
">\n\nThey really put a lot of effort into not saying that he was catholic in that article.",
">\n\nWonder what congregation hes been moved to now?",
">\n\nAny outrage from republicans? Will they arm themselves and storm the churches?....... Didn't think so.",
">\n\nA Christian pedophile? Who could have guessed?",
">\n\nIm shocked! Shocked I say!\nWell... not that shocked.",
">\n\nI appreciate that the church cooperated and turned him in. However, the fact they wanted to pay to house him, out of the parish coffers, is insane. He deserves incarceration and certainly not a retirement paid for by parishioners of the church he victimized. Smh, a great step for the church, if only as a PR exercise, would be to strongly condemn this sort of behavior AND strongly punish it. Defrock and excommunicate any priest who does this. It’s a very easy choice that frankly could help reinstill a little confidence in the church.",
">\n\nOFF WITH HIS GOD DAMNED FUCKING HEAD"
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"Slideshows????? What?\nMy man just opened up cp.ppt and added a few THOUSAND slides of kiddy porn????\nClippy: it looks like youre a depraved predator. Do you want to profane the church as well?",
">\n\nWell I always did believe Power Point was a creation of a malevolent entity.",
">\n\nTuring complete, no less!",
">\n\nBut can it run Doom?",
">\n\nAnything can run doom",
">\n\nBut can Doom run Doom?",
">\n\nDoom can run Doom because Doom runs Doom when Doom runs.",
">\n\nPeople don't run Doom like it is, but it Doom.",
">\n\nGonna take this moment to highly recommend the film Spotlight to any who haven’t seen it",
">\n\nCheck out the 2017 limited series on either Netflix or Prime: \"The Keepers\" about a Baltimore-area Catholic girls' school. Based on the experiences as told by some of the girls, now middle-aged women. It is NOT nice, will make you cry, will enrage you. But I commend the women who made this documentary for as painful as it was for the audience to watch, I can't imagine how they made it thru. And they brought it around to a decent ending, but wow....I think some of what happened in Baltimore bled over into the Spotlight story.\nLapsed Catholic. I cannot reconcile with the Church hierarchy over this because they have behaved satanically for far too long to make me believe they are holy in any way.",
">\n\nThere was a documentary that came out a year or two ago tbzg sounds similar but men who were molested as kids while in the church. \nI honestly don't know how anyone can still support the church. At all. If it was one priest, sure. It's sad it happened, but pedophiles will always exist and find ways to get to kids.\nBut with how often it happens and with how little the church cares? Nope. I never could be catholic even if I was Christian.",
">\n\nBecause saving souls bringing them into their cult is more valuable than the ones they crush. The Vatican last I heard had 7 pedos protecting by not complying with extradition requests. \nAny organization not willing to comply with the laws of the country where they have a tax exempt status should lose their exemption and title to any property they own. If you RICO cartel and mafia assets, then you can do so for these child abusers and their protective association. \nYou know the church owns most of Manhattan and isn't paying taxes? All that money and we have to tolerate this shit? Nah fuck them.",
">\n\nNude pix on the church printer . . . I can imagine the scene.\nSister Mary Michael: Yo, does anyone recognize this tallywhacker?\nFormer Alter Boy Brian: Yeah, that's Father Jim. I'd know that hairy mole anywhere.",
">\n\nThat's Tommy Turner's tallywhacker",
">\n\nIf Reddit still gave free awards, I'd give one to you for catching the reference.",
">\n\nWAIT when did they get rid of the free awards",
">\n\nguess this is how i found out. last i claimed mine is around last week, i think. i only claim once every two weeks to gild certain biweekly thread lul",
">\n\nAnd yet where are all the \"anti-groomers\" protesting these churches?",
">\n\nIt’s almost like it has never actually been about protecting children, and it’s always been about trying to demonize LGBT people",
">\n\nAt this point I am positive the religious right to life thing is about having more targets.",
">\n\nGlad 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?",
">\n\nAfter 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.",
">\n\nI 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.\nThere are also many who truly believe the schtick and just compartmentalize the bad stuff. Both are to blame regardless. Nobody gets a pass.",
">\n\nI could see that with some of the smaller denominations for sure.\nWhen 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.",
">\n\n*making another streak to the tally list wall\n*camera panning out to reveal a huge fucking wall coveres in streaks",
">\n\nMan 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.\nThat said. This man should burn for this",
">\n\nPriest? Pedo? Are you sure? This is unprecedented",
">\n\nCorrection! PedoPreist",
">\n\nNew name not necessary. If anything there should be a name for the unique priests that arent pedos.",
">\n\nI'm inclined to think the majority of priests aren't child predators themselves.\nThe 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.\nWay, way too many of them are pedo-enablers. All the way up...",
">\n\nThen that would mean that... Gasp\nSouth Park was right all along....\nSneaky little bastards didn't think I would notice....",
">\n\nWish I was surprised",
">\n\nYou make slideshows of images? \nEdit: \nOh wait I see what you mean. Yeah the pedophile priest thing is so expected that only the slideshow bit stood out",
">\n\nHoly hell. Priest have normalized pedophilia.",
">\n\nNot just priests. Protestant Christians have a major problem with sexual abuse too, particularly against children.\nAfter Major Investigation, Southern Baptists Confront the Abuse Crisis They Knew Was Coming\nDon't let the Evangelical pedo defenders get away with claiming that Catholicism is the only issue here. It isn't.",
">\n\n\nnone of them are immune to the depravity.\n\nAlmost implied, really.",
">\n\nCould 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?",
">\n\nA variety of factors:\n\nUnquestioned moral authority and intense trust from a large community who have all been taught to obey church authorities\nSupport from a massive extremely powerful institution that has covered up thousands of similar crimes\nStrictly forbidden to marry, have sex, or iirc even masturbate, making them view all sexual activities as similarly taboo for them\nEasy regular access to many children\nEasy ability to get alone time with children\nPriests are only held institutionally accountable to each other and to those with more authority in the church\nVictims 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\nChildren 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\nThe 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\nThe 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\n\nThat'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.”\nP.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.\nWant 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.\nEdit to add this excellent way to protect kids that churches consistently fight against:\n\n“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.\nchildren 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.”",
">\n\nSo this should be buried enough if I speak in general terms.\nYears back one of our pastors had to give up being a pastor. They didn't get into details of what he did but they did stress that kids were not involved. The whole church could be seen relaxing.",
">\n\n5 years for thousands of child porn images and videos? Seems pretty fucking light to me. This piece of shit should die in prison.",
">\n\n5 years and a ticket to heaven",
">\n\nHeaven? For him?",
">\n\nThat'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.",
">\n\nDon't you also have to be truly repentant for your sins, including making a good faith effort to keep from repeating them?",
">\n\nI would love for someone to answer this because I really want to know, too.",
">\n\nyes I'm pretty sure that's it. God sees people's hearts He should know the diff between true repentance and fake one",
">\n\nYes, assuming an all-powerful God existed, he’d be able to pretty easily know if you were truly sorry.",
">\n\nYeah but......... \nI'm just starting the religious apologist's sentence for them.",
">\n\nFor 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.",
">\n\nOne 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.",
">\n\nOnce I heard this theory, the acceptance by conservatives of people whose behavior is in direct conflict with their moral beliefs, made more sense.",
">\n\n5 holly maries and transfer\nafter 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.\nRev. 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.\"\nMcDevitt asked the presiding judge for \"mercy for Jim,\" and even offered for the congregation to pay to house him in lieu of imprisonment.\n\"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.\"\n\"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.\"",
">\n\nIn Australia at the moment there is a furore after the death of Cardinal George Pell who was convicted (then exonerated) of personally abusing children, but was found by a Royal Commission (that would be a special prosecutor for our American friends?) of enabling and protecting paedophile priests for decades.\nCan honestly say I have not been able to listen to the string of \"Christians\" praising this man in our media for the last few days without wanting to puke. Suffer the little children.",
">\n\nWith you there. At least there’s a lot of people calling his supporters out on this. Fuck Tony Abbott, John Howard and Andrew Bolt to name a few.",
">\n\nI 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!",
">\n\nr/PastorArrested (also includes Priests)",
">\n\nDon'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.",
">\n\nIf there is a god, wtf?",
">\n\nThere is no God. Religion is about control and money",
">\n\nAnd more money",
">\n\n\"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.\" \n- Rev. Patrick McDevitt, provincial superior for the Congregation of the Western Province \n\nEvery single member of that congregation is a horrible piece of shit",
">\n\nWhat 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?",
">\n\n“Drag queens are grooming our youth!!!”",
">\n\n\"I think we all know where people put on dresses and fuck kids\"\n-Trixie Mattel, 2022",
">\n\nKid “Bless me Father, for I have sinned”\nPadre “ call me, maybe?”",
">\n\nImagine my shock to discover that a priest has been involved in a sex scandal and one involving the exploitation of children, at that.",
">\n\nGOP: \"But wuttabout drag queens?!?!?!??!\"",
">\n\nDoing the Lords work 🙏🏾",
">\n\nTax-free",
">\n\nWhat's the deal with priests being so into pedophilia? Can't they look at milf pounds like normal people?",
">\n\nOh look... Another priest with child porn ... When do we get to start taxing the church?",
">\n\nr/pastorarrested",
">\n\nChurch is a scary place, especially for children.",
">\n\nI 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.",
">\n\nOnly 5 years. What a joke.",
">\n\n\nThe 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.\n\nIf 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.",
">\n\nNo one is suprised a priest is a pedophile. \nBut printing out yer nudes? That's odd.",
">\n\nI can think of a reason he printed it out. And I really don't like that reason.",
">\n\nI'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.",
">\n\nThe sheer audacity to do it at church where you work",
">\n\nAnd not a drag queen in sight...",
">\n\nThey do kinda wear dresses, though",
">\n\nToo many “coincidences” within this church to be anything other than systematic",
">\n\nPretty 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.",
">\n\n\nThe data often suggests numbers of pedophiles similar to the general population\n\none 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",
">\n\nYeah, 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.",
">\n\nI 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.",
">\n\nIt's so common for priests to be sickos",
">\n\nGross",
">\n\nAll he needs to do is repent, right?!?",
">\n\nA priest? With kiddie porn? I’ve never heard of such a thing!",
">\n\nRemember 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.",
">\n\n5 years that's all he got",
">\n\nThat's fucking disgusting. Misappropriation of office materials.",
">\n\nIt 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",
">\n\nIdiot 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.",
">\n\nso 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.",
">\n\nI 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 🤷♂️",
">\n\n5 years isnt nearly enough. Lock him up forever and a day.",
">\n\n~~Drag shows~~ Churches are not safe for children",
">\n\nI'm sure the religious Right will be out protesting him any second.\nRight? Right guys? Groomers and all this? Qanons? Where you guys at?\nHuh. Weird.",
">\n\nBut the dragqueens guys?!?!?!??!? /s",
">\n\nWeird that so many god loving people are actually just pedophiles. Wonder what they think god thinks of them. Fuck theism.",
">\n\nTheir god tells them to take the young girls as spoils of war. Their god is just as fucking depraved as they are.",
">\n\ntHaTs jUsT tHe oLd tEsTaMeNt tHoUgh.\ngOds mOraLiTy dOeSnt cHanGe, hE jUsT dEaLs wItH hUmAns diFFeReNtlY nOw. \nYeah when someone deals with people differently than they did before we generally call that \"a change.\"",
">\n\nAnd he wasn’t trans??? Maybe it’s been priests all along that governors should be banning. When will they correct their mistake? /s",
">\n\nDoesn'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...",
">\n\nIt's surprising. Who prints out their own nudes?",
">\n\nLock him up and throw away the keys",
">\n\nDarn priests, at least those protestant ministers keep it in the family",
">\n\nNot surprised.",
">\n\nThree hail marys and all is forgiven. What a load of bs",
">\n\nJust one bad apple, I’m sure.",
">\n\nLeast paedophilic priest",
">\n\n…slideshow?",
">\n\nGod works in mysterious ways ya fuckin chomo. As a priest, he of all people should have seen this coming...",
">\n\nIn other news, water is wet",
">\n\nOnly five years...",
">\n\n”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.” \nಠ_ಠ",
">\n\nI don’t remember this plotline during Doubt…",
">\n\nWe keep letting them get away with it, so they keep doing it. More obvious news at 10.",
">\n\n& once they found him out he got made a cardinal",
">\n\nHe should've kept them in the garage with his Corvette",
">\n\n5 years? If nothing else, using PowerPoint should have been an aggravating factor.",
">\n\nAnd you thought looking at Bob's family vacation pics was a bad time",
">\n\nWhen 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.",
">\n\nHow is the Roman Catholic Church not closed down for enabling and protecting child abusers",
">\n\nAre 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.",
">\n\nIt'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.",
">\n\npapabile!",
">\n\nLeft nudes on a shared printer? Rookie mistake.",
">\n\nTeach your priests just enough tech to effectively turn themselves in.",
">\n\nIsn't it something how the church decided to investigate themselves again. Keep it in the family, guys.\nI 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.",
">\n\nIs 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:\n1 - 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\n2 - 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)\n3 - 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.\nTL;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.",
">\n\nLet me guess.\nMoved to a different church at the other side of the country and that’s about it for consequences?",
">\n\nThose damned drag queens strike again.",
">\n\nI mean that’s kinda how they caught BTK",
">\n\nSo priests are still abusing kids after we didn't do anything to them the last few times we caught them? Color me surprised.",
">\n\n\nCourt 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.\"\n\n...\n\nDuring 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. \n\n...\n\nAnd 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. \n\nFuck everyone that allowed this scum to continue in a position of authority.",
">\n\nDon’t hear this happening at drag shows…j/s",
">\n\nHe put the PDF in pedofile",
">\n\nThis is Fucking ridiculous",
">\n\nNever forget who the actual groomers are",
">\n\nThe proud boys will be outside of churches \"protesting\" with guns now, right? right?",
">\n\nA priest being pedophile? But that is absolutely unheard of, say it isn't so!",
">\n\nYou sure this wasn't at a Trans drag show? GOP is sure this happens at Trans dragsl shows",
">\n\nExcommunicated by PowerPoint",
">\n\n5 years and a fine? FFS, that’s ridiculous.",
">\n\nPraise Jesus!",
">\n\nAnd the right thinks kids going to drag shows are the problem",
">\n\nAverage christian.",
">\n\nbut the drag queens are reading books to children in libraries! The madnessss",
">\n\nSo they moved him to a new church. This is what they have always done.",
">\n\nleast pedophilic priest:",
">\n\nThe dead ones dont hurt anyone.",
">\n\ninto the furnace he goes. theres no rehabbing people like this.",
">\n\nIt's always the ones you least expect..",
">\n\nOr in this case, the ones you MOST suspect",
">\n\nlol ya, I said that with sarcasm..",
">\n\nPray that he gets nut cancer.",
">\n\nNut cancer was once described to me as \"the common cold of cancers\". It has something like a 95% survival rate.\nHe deserves worse.",
">\n\nDidn't know that. Good nut fact for the day.",
">\n\nIt's definitely the drag queens reading to kids in libraries that's the problem.",
">\n\nRight wingers want him to be a closeted drag queen so badly",
">\n\nI could never trust any man who goes into priesthood. Completely unnatural and deviant occupation rife with pedophiles.",
">\n\nThis MONSTER got 5 years?! \nThe CHILDREN being abused in the images will suffer for the rest of their lives!!\nI'm in favor of LIFE SENTENCES for child sex offenders. \nOr better yet, the DEATH PENALTY!!",
">\n\nReligion was invented by Man for Control of the Flock.You go to Confession and tell the priest everything so they can determine how to undress you.\nI was once a Catholic.....born, baptised, confirmed and educated in a Grammar school run by Irish Christian Brothers under the Order of Edmund Ignatius Rice......and now I'm an atheist.",
">\n\nHow come it is always ‘Christians’ who are involved in child sex abuse?",
">\n\nOf course he's a pedo, he's a priest!",
">\n\nYes millions of idiots keep donating billions to the church",
">\n\nNot simply donating, they bring their children along, indoctrinate them that the priest is the speaker of God, and that God can do no wrong, so anything the priest dose is holy and good. The priest even says so!\nAnd when the kids bring it up the first few times weird things happen? The parents tell them to shush. And so, the sacrifices continue, the parents make a show of not knowing, and things get worse for the children.\nAnd if the priest is reported, the church just moves them to a different parish.\nThe only difference between the taliban and the catholic church, is one of them advertises the child slaves as a benefit, while the other pretends it's not (but totally encourages it, top to bottom).",
">\n\nAnd who are the groomers again?",
">\n\nThis is what happens when you don’t recycle your printer papers.",
">\n\nI feel like this isn't oniony enough, everyone knows by now that priests are significantly more likely to be pedophiles than the general population.",
">\n\nSure, but “gets caught by leaving nudes on a printer” is a fairly onion-y end.",
">\n\nYa know you're right",
">\n\nI have a theory about the correlation between priests and pedophiles. This is my opinion based on conversations with a childhood friend (not a pedo) and is only my opinion but could explain why so many priests abuse children. Get your down votes ready. \nThese boys grow up in the church and it is all they know for the most part. When going through puberty we become attracted to a gender (male or female gay or straight sometimes somewhere in between) and more often a \"type\" as well (blonde brunette short tall etc). Our hormones drive us to seek companionship, intimacy, and ultimately procreation. \nThese boys growing up never develop this attraction to their peers but rather feel more comfortable around younger children and usually behave as mentors. The combination of love of church and disinterest in peers puts the thought in their heads that priesthood is their calling. It takes a long time and effort to become a priest. There are easier paths if a guy just wants to bang kids.\nPut together lack of sex or release of biological needs with access and constant contact with children and they are basically pushed over the edge.\nTo sum up, pedophiles don't become priests to molest children, they become priests because they don't realize they are pedophiles. This is just my opinion, and obviously there are also exceptions to this.\nPerhaps the solution is to get rid of this nonsense celibacy.",
">\n\nAlternative theory: pedophiles become priests because they know the Catholic Church will support and hide them from accountability. Plus, all those altar boys have been easy pickings for decades. \nOn the positive side, Catholic Churches are closing all over Missouri because of dwindling congregations.",
">\n\nThis is one crime I’ll never be able to fathom.",
">\n\nSo fucking sick advocating for this monster so he can maintain freedom?",
">\n\nThe church has been so infiltrated by Child abusers that they are currently rating worse than Satan Worshippers",
">\n\nCan we just fuck churches off now???",
">\n\nYour tithing had to go somewhere.",
">\n\nHow come republicans are not calling these people groomers?",
">\n\nIs anyone else picturing the scene in the first Scary Movie where the cop asks Anna Faris to look at some pictures?\nPriest hands out the pictures of himself along with the weekly pamphlet. Maybe the first reading is from the Song of Solomon...",
">\n\nOh shit. \nHas he been quietly shuffled to a new church yet?",
">\n\nI'm old enough that when I see \"slideshow\" I think of him arranging physical slides in a carousel to project on a screen, like the family trip to Disneyland. Maybe invite the neighbors over for cake.",
">\n\nLord above why is this a thing",
">\n\nYou mean not a drag queen?",
">\n\nActual groomers.",
">\n\nJust think the hands that wanked to kiddie pr0n put wafers on the tongues of everyone in that congregation...",
">\n\nLMAO. This slightly ambiguous headline had me thinking “who attended these slideshow presentations?”",
">\n\nOh look another pedophile catholic priest. Good job reinforcing that stereotype.",
">\n\nAnd we should take guidance from those who hide these atrocities so we can live a better life in the eyes of god.",
">\n\nFriendly reminder religion is a mistake that deserves to be taxed. If you threatened to tax zealots tomorrow child molestation by priests would drop to zero",
">\n\nmay your mother smile as you burn",
">\n\nThis is what happens when you have unchecked power for thousands of years.\nHorrifying.",
">\n\nDid he learn this behavior from a drag show? /s",
">\n\nReminds me of something Chris Rock said: \"Where do women find the porn? They don't find it in your hiding place, they find it in the VCR\"",
">\n\nHe was also probably saving up for a trip to Disney World.",
">\n\n\nincluding child pornography and images of child erotica.\n\nI want to know the difference but don't want to get on a watchlist by googling it.",
">\n\nWithout the word child there, there's a difference in degree. I'd say it's the same thing with that word in there just describing the subject depicted. Pornography is generally actual sex acts of some form or another. Erotica falls short of that, it may be arousing or suggestive. For example, a cabaret show may be erotica but it's certainly not pornography.",
">\n\nPriest? Church? Man in a tax evasion party house?",
">\n\nYet the church immediately moved him somewhere else as there was a daycare next door to the church, then offered to pay to have the priest under house arrest so that the child predator won't go to jail.",
">\n\nShittiest Ted Talk I’ve ever seen, honestly…",
">\n\nOnly five years?! \nUgh!",
">\n\nAnd they call LGBT+ people groomers. (eyeroll)",
">\n\nAnyone who has ever been to a church sadly knows this doesn't need to be in this sub for us to know it's a real story.",
">\n\nOh how nice. The Reverend pleaded for him not to be incarcerated. Because of fucking course he did.",
">\n\nCurious as to who he was presenting this to",
">\n\nPunish these assholes they are smearing God's name",
">\n\nStraight to (checks notes) your next parish!",
">\n\nreligion and sexual abuse. name a more iconic duo\nwhy are any of these religions even allowed to exist any more\nthey have long since lost their meanings, and onlt serve to syphon money out of gullible people, and abuse their children\nwhat is any of these religions actually adding to society any more? other than more perverted monsters",
">\n\nHe’s not the only one",
">\n\nWhy is no big tv news channel talking about this?",
">\n\nAsked that he not go to prison & that his congregation pay to house him? Fuck the church. That's almost the most disgusting part of this",
">\n\nSo are we talking a pptx or an old-school film Rolodex version? Both are messed up, but one takes A LOT more effort.",
">\n\nThe catholic church is of Satan.",
">\n\nFaith is of \"Satan.\" The idea that assuming you might be wrong is morally wrong produces some of the worst people imaginable. And that applies to secular ideologies that require looking down on those who disagree or are unsure too.",
">\n\nAge of priest over/under 50\nWhat yall got?\nI have the over.",
">\n\nOnly 5 years?",
">\n\nRight for some reason i read it as slide show meaning projectors haha. I forgot Powerpoint presentations are a thing.",
">\n\nThe congregation still requested he be spared incarceration and remain in their facility. Truly unbelievable.",
">\n\nThose damn drag queens framed him",
">\n\nThey really put a lot of effort into not saying that he was catholic in that article.",
">\n\nWonder what congregation hes been moved to now?",
">\n\nAny outrage from republicans? Will they arm themselves and storm the churches?....... Didn't think so.",
">\n\nA Christian pedophile? Who could have guessed?",
">\n\nIm shocked! Shocked I say!\nWell... not that shocked.",
">\n\nI appreciate that the church cooperated and turned him in. However, the fact they wanted to pay to house him, out of the parish coffers, is insane. He deserves incarceration and certainly not a retirement paid for by parishioners of the church he victimized. Smh, a great step for the church, if only as a PR exercise, would be to strongly condemn this sort of behavior AND strongly punish it. Defrock and excommunicate any priest who does this. It’s a very easy choice that frankly could help reinstill a little confidence in the church.",
">\n\nOFF WITH HIS GOD DAMNED FUCKING HEAD",
">\n\nWhy so quick and painless?"
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"Slideshows????? What?\nMy man just opened up cp.ppt and added a few THOUSAND slides of kiddy porn????\nClippy: it looks like youre a depraved predator. Do you want to profane the church as well?",
">\n\nWell I always did believe Power Point was a creation of a malevolent entity.",
">\n\nTuring complete, no less!",
">\n\nBut can it run Doom?",
">\n\nAnything can run doom",
">\n\nBut can Doom run Doom?",
">\n\nDoom can run Doom because Doom runs Doom when Doom runs.",
">\n\nPeople don't run Doom like it is, but it Doom.",
">\n\nGonna take this moment to highly recommend the film Spotlight to any who haven’t seen it",
">\n\nCheck out the 2017 limited series on either Netflix or Prime: \"The Keepers\" about a Baltimore-area Catholic girls' school. Based on the experiences as told by some of the girls, now middle-aged women. It is NOT nice, will make you cry, will enrage you. But I commend the women who made this documentary for as painful as it was for the audience to watch, I can't imagine how they made it thru. And they brought it around to a decent ending, but wow....I think some of what happened in Baltimore bled over into the Spotlight story.\nLapsed Catholic. I cannot reconcile with the Church hierarchy over this because they have behaved satanically for far too long to make me believe they are holy in any way.",
">\n\nThere was a documentary that came out a year or two ago tbzg sounds similar but men who were molested as kids while in the church. \nI honestly don't know how anyone can still support the church. At all. If it was one priest, sure. It's sad it happened, but pedophiles will always exist and find ways to get to kids.\nBut with how often it happens and with how little the church cares? Nope. I never could be catholic even if I was Christian.",
">\n\nBecause saving souls bringing them into their cult is more valuable than the ones they crush. The Vatican last I heard had 7 pedos protecting by not complying with extradition requests. \nAny organization not willing to comply with the laws of the country where they have a tax exempt status should lose their exemption and title to any property they own. If you RICO cartel and mafia assets, then you can do so for these child abusers and their protective association. \nYou know the church owns most of Manhattan and isn't paying taxes? All that money and we have to tolerate this shit? Nah fuck them.",
">\n\nNude pix on the church printer . . . I can imagine the scene.\nSister Mary Michael: Yo, does anyone recognize this tallywhacker?\nFormer Alter Boy Brian: Yeah, that's Father Jim. I'd know that hairy mole anywhere.",
">\n\nThat's Tommy Turner's tallywhacker",
">\n\nIf Reddit still gave free awards, I'd give one to you for catching the reference.",
">\n\nWAIT when did they get rid of the free awards",
">\n\nguess this is how i found out. last i claimed mine is around last week, i think. i only claim once every two weeks to gild certain biweekly thread lul",
">\n\nAnd yet where are all the \"anti-groomers\" protesting these churches?",
">\n\nIt’s almost like it has never actually been about protecting children, and it’s always been about trying to demonize LGBT people",
">\n\nAt this point I am positive the religious right to life thing is about having more targets.",
">\n\nGlad 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?",
">\n\nAfter 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.",
">\n\nI 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.\nThere are also many who truly believe the schtick and just compartmentalize the bad stuff. Both are to blame regardless. Nobody gets a pass.",
">\n\nI could see that with some of the smaller denominations for sure.\nWhen 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.",
">\n\n*making another streak to the tally list wall\n*camera panning out to reveal a huge fucking wall coveres in streaks",
">\n\nMan 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.\nThat said. This man should burn for this",
">\n\nPriest? Pedo? Are you sure? This is unprecedented",
">\n\nCorrection! PedoPreist",
">\n\nNew name not necessary. If anything there should be a name for the unique priests that arent pedos.",
">\n\nI'm inclined to think the majority of priests aren't child predators themselves.\nThe 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.\nWay, way too many of them are pedo-enablers. All the way up...",
">\n\nThen that would mean that... Gasp\nSouth Park was right all along....\nSneaky little bastards didn't think I would notice....",
">\n\nWish I was surprised",
">\n\nYou make slideshows of images? \nEdit: \nOh wait I see what you mean. Yeah the pedophile priest thing is so expected that only the slideshow bit stood out",
">\n\nHoly hell. Priest have normalized pedophilia.",
">\n\nNot just priests. Protestant Christians have a major problem with sexual abuse too, particularly against children.\nAfter Major Investigation, Southern Baptists Confront the Abuse Crisis They Knew Was Coming\nDon't let the Evangelical pedo defenders get away with claiming that Catholicism is the only issue here. It isn't.",
">\n\n\nnone of them are immune to the depravity.\n\nAlmost implied, really.",
">\n\nCould 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?",
">\n\nA variety of factors:\n\nUnquestioned moral authority and intense trust from a large community who have all been taught to obey church authorities\nSupport from a massive extremely powerful institution that has covered up thousands of similar crimes\nStrictly forbidden to marry, have sex, or iirc even masturbate, making them view all sexual activities as similarly taboo for them\nEasy regular access to many children\nEasy ability to get alone time with children\nPriests are only held institutionally accountable to each other and to those with more authority in the church\nVictims 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\nChildren 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\nThe 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\nThe 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\n\nThat'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.”\nP.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.\nWant 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.\nEdit to add this excellent way to protect kids that churches consistently fight against:\n\n“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.\nchildren 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.”",
">\n\nSo this should be buried enough if I speak in general terms.\nYears back one of our pastors had to give up being a pastor. They didn't get into details of what he did but they did stress that kids were not involved. The whole church could be seen relaxing.",
">\n\n5 years for thousands of child porn images and videos? Seems pretty fucking light to me. This piece of shit should die in prison.",
">\n\n5 years and a ticket to heaven",
">\n\nHeaven? For him?",
">\n\nThat'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.",
">\n\nDon't you also have to be truly repentant for your sins, including making a good faith effort to keep from repeating them?",
">\n\nI would love for someone to answer this because I really want to know, too.",
">\n\nyes I'm pretty sure that's it. God sees people's hearts He should know the diff between true repentance and fake one",
">\n\nYes, assuming an all-powerful God existed, he’d be able to pretty easily know if you were truly sorry.",
">\n\nYeah but......... \nI'm just starting the religious apologist's sentence for them.",
">\n\nFor 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.",
">\n\nOne 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.",
">\n\nOnce I heard this theory, the acceptance by conservatives of people whose behavior is in direct conflict with their moral beliefs, made more sense.",
">\n\n5 holly maries and transfer\nafter 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.\nRev. 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.\"\nMcDevitt asked the presiding judge for \"mercy for Jim,\" and even offered for the congregation to pay to house him in lieu of imprisonment.\n\"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.\"\n\"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.\"",
">\n\nIn Australia at the moment there is a furore after the death of Cardinal George Pell who was convicted (then exonerated) of personally abusing children, but was found by a Royal Commission (that would be a special prosecutor for our American friends?) of enabling and protecting paedophile priests for decades.\nCan honestly say I have not been able to listen to the string of \"Christians\" praising this man in our media for the last few days without wanting to puke. Suffer the little children.",
">\n\nWith you there. At least there’s a lot of people calling his supporters out on this. Fuck Tony Abbott, John Howard and Andrew Bolt to name a few.",
">\n\nI 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!",
">\n\nr/PastorArrested (also includes Priests)",
">\n\nDon'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.",
">\n\nIf there is a god, wtf?",
">\n\nThere is no God. Religion is about control and money",
">\n\nAnd more money",
">\n\n\"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.\" \n- Rev. Patrick McDevitt, provincial superior for the Congregation of the Western Province \n\nEvery single member of that congregation is a horrible piece of shit",
">\n\nWhat 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?",
">\n\n“Drag queens are grooming our youth!!!”",
">\n\n\"I think we all know where people put on dresses and fuck kids\"\n-Trixie Mattel, 2022",
">\n\nKid “Bless me Father, for I have sinned”\nPadre “ call me, maybe?”",
">\n\nImagine my shock to discover that a priest has been involved in a sex scandal and one involving the exploitation of children, at that.",
">\n\nGOP: \"But wuttabout drag queens?!?!?!??!\"",
">\n\nDoing the Lords work 🙏🏾",
">\n\nTax-free",
">\n\nWhat's the deal with priests being so into pedophilia? Can't they look at milf pounds like normal people?",
">\n\nOh look... Another priest with child porn ... When do we get to start taxing the church?",
">\n\nr/pastorarrested",
">\n\nChurch is a scary place, especially for children.",
">\n\nI 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.",
">\n\nOnly 5 years. What a joke.",
">\n\n\nThe 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.\n\nIf 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.",
">\n\nNo one is suprised a priest is a pedophile. \nBut printing out yer nudes? That's odd.",
">\n\nI can think of a reason he printed it out. And I really don't like that reason.",
">\n\nI'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.",
">\n\nThe sheer audacity to do it at church where you work",
">\n\nAnd not a drag queen in sight...",
">\n\nThey do kinda wear dresses, though",
">\n\nToo many “coincidences” within this church to be anything other than systematic",
">\n\nPretty 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.",
">\n\n\nThe data often suggests numbers of pedophiles similar to the general population\n\none 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",
">\n\nYeah, 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.",
">\n\nI 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.",
">\n\nIt's so common for priests to be sickos",
">\n\nGross",
">\n\nAll he needs to do is repent, right?!?",
">\n\nA priest? With kiddie porn? I’ve never heard of such a thing!",
">\n\nRemember 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.",
">\n\n5 years that's all he got",
">\n\nThat's fucking disgusting. Misappropriation of office materials.",
">\n\nIt 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",
">\n\nIdiot 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.",
">\n\nso 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.",
">\n\nI 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 🤷♂️",
">\n\n5 years isnt nearly enough. Lock him up forever and a day.",
">\n\n~~Drag shows~~ Churches are not safe for children",
">\n\nI'm sure the religious Right will be out protesting him any second.\nRight? Right guys? Groomers and all this? Qanons? Where you guys at?\nHuh. Weird.",
">\n\nBut the dragqueens guys?!?!?!??!? /s",
">\n\nWeird that so many god loving people are actually just pedophiles. Wonder what they think god thinks of them. Fuck theism.",
">\n\nTheir god tells them to take the young girls as spoils of war. Their god is just as fucking depraved as they are.",
">\n\ntHaTs jUsT tHe oLd tEsTaMeNt tHoUgh.\ngOds mOraLiTy dOeSnt cHanGe, hE jUsT dEaLs wItH hUmAns diFFeReNtlY nOw. \nYeah when someone deals with people differently than they did before we generally call that \"a change.\"",
">\n\nAnd he wasn’t trans??? Maybe it’s been priests all along that governors should be banning. When will they correct their mistake? /s",
">\n\nDoesn'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...",
">\n\nIt's surprising. Who prints out their own nudes?",
">\n\nLock him up and throw away the keys",
">\n\nDarn priests, at least those protestant ministers keep it in the family",
">\n\nNot surprised.",
">\n\nThree hail marys and all is forgiven. What a load of bs",
">\n\nJust one bad apple, I’m sure.",
">\n\nLeast paedophilic priest",
">\n\n…slideshow?",
">\n\nGod works in mysterious ways ya fuckin chomo. As a priest, he of all people should have seen this coming...",
">\n\nIn other news, water is wet",
">\n\nOnly five years...",
">\n\n”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.” \nಠ_ಠ",
">\n\nI don’t remember this plotline during Doubt…",
">\n\nWe keep letting them get away with it, so they keep doing it. More obvious news at 10.",
">\n\n& once they found him out he got made a cardinal",
">\n\nHe should've kept them in the garage with his Corvette",
">\n\n5 years? If nothing else, using PowerPoint should have been an aggravating factor.",
">\n\nAnd you thought looking at Bob's family vacation pics was a bad time",
">\n\nWhen 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.",
">\n\nHow is the Roman Catholic Church not closed down for enabling and protecting child abusers",
">\n\nAre 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.",
">\n\nIt'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.",
">\n\npapabile!",
">\n\nLeft nudes on a shared printer? Rookie mistake.",
">\n\nTeach your priests just enough tech to effectively turn themselves in.",
">\n\nIsn't it something how the church decided to investigate themselves again. Keep it in the family, guys.\nI 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.",
">\n\nIs 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:\n1 - 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\n2 - 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)\n3 - 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.\nTL;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.",
">\n\nLet me guess.\nMoved to a different church at the other side of the country and that’s about it for consequences?",
">\n\nThose damned drag queens strike again.",
">\n\nI mean that’s kinda how they caught BTK",
">\n\nSo priests are still abusing kids after we didn't do anything to them the last few times we caught them? Color me surprised.",
">\n\n\nCourt 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.\"\n\n...\n\nDuring 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. \n\n...\n\nAnd 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. \n\nFuck everyone that allowed this scum to continue in a position of authority.",
">\n\nDon’t hear this happening at drag shows…j/s",
">\n\nHe put the PDF in pedofile",
">\n\nThis is Fucking ridiculous",
">\n\nNever forget who the actual groomers are",
">\n\nThe proud boys will be outside of churches \"protesting\" with guns now, right? right?",
">\n\nA priest being pedophile? But that is absolutely unheard of, say it isn't so!",
">\n\nYou sure this wasn't at a Trans drag show? GOP is sure this happens at Trans dragsl shows",
">\n\nExcommunicated by PowerPoint",
">\n\n5 years and a fine? FFS, that’s ridiculous.",
">\n\nPraise Jesus!",
">\n\nAnd the right thinks kids going to drag shows are the problem",
">\n\nAverage christian.",
">\n\nbut the drag queens are reading books to children in libraries! The madnessss",
">\n\nSo they moved him to a new church. This is what they have always done.",
">\n\nleast pedophilic priest:",
">\n\nThe dead ones dont hurt anyone.",
">\n\ninto the furnace he goes. theres no rehabbing people like this.",
">\n\nIt's always the ones you least expect..",
">\n\nOr in this case, the ones you MOST suspect",
">\n\nlol ya, I said that with sarcasm..",
">\n\nPray that he gets nut cancer.",
">\n\nNut cancer was once described to me as \"the common cold of cancers\". It has something like a 95% survival rate.\nHe deserves worse.",
">\n\nDidn't know that. Good nut fact for the day.",
">\n\nIt's definitely the drag queens reading to kids in libraries that's the problem.",
">\n\nRight wingers want him to be a closeted drag queen so badly",
">\n\nI could never trust any man who goes into priesthood. Completely unnatural and deviant occupation rife with pedophiles.",
">\n\nThis MONSTER got 5 years?! \nThe CHILDREN being abused in the images will suffer for the rest of their lives!!\nI'm in favor of LIFE SENTENCES for child sex offenders. \nOr better yet, the DEATH PENALTY!!",
">\n\nReligion was invented by Man for Control of the Flock.You go to Confession and tell the priest everything so they can determine how to undress you.\nI was once a Catholic.....born, baptised, confirmed and educated in a Grammar school run by Irish Christian Brothers under the Order of Edmund Ignatius Rice......and now I'm an atheist.",
">\n\nHow come it is always ‘Christians’ who are involved in child sex abuse?",
">\n\nOf course he's a pedo, he's a priest!",
">\n\nYes millions of idiots keep donating billions to the church",
">\n\nNot simply donating, they bring their children along, indoctrinate them that the priest is the speaker of God, and that God can do no wrong, so anything the priest dose is holy and good. The priest even says so!\nAnd when the kids bring it up the first few times weird things happen? The parents tell them to shush. And so, the sacrifices continue, the parents make a show of not knowing, and things get worse for the children.\nAnd if the priest is reported, the church just moves them to a different parish.\nThe only difference between the taliban and the catholic church, is one of them advertises the child slaves as a benefit, while the other pretends it's not (but totally encourages it, top to bottom).",
">\n\nAnd who are the groomers again?",
">\n\nThis is what happens when you don’t recycle your printer papers.",
">\n\nI feel like this isn't oniony enough, everyone knows by now that priests are significantly more likely to be pedophiles than the general population.",
">\n\nSure, but “gets caught by leaving nudes on a printer” is a fairly onion-y end.",
">\n\nYa know you're right",
">\n\nI have a theory about the correlation between priests and pedophiles. This is my opinion based on conversations with a childhood friend (not a pedo) and is only my opinion but could explain why so many priests abuse children. Get your down votes ready. \nThese boys grow up in the church and it is all they know for the most part. When going through puberty we become attracted to a gender (male or female gay or straight sometimes somewhere in between) and more often a \"type\" as well (blonde brunette short tall etc). Our hormones drive us to seek companionship, intimacy, and ultimately procreation. \nThese boys growing up never develop this attraction to their peers but rather feel more comfortable around younger children and usually behave as mentors. The combination of love of church and disinterest in peers puts the thought in their heads that priesthood is their calling. It takes a long time and effort to become a priest. There are easier paths if a guy just wants to bang kids.\nPut together lack of sex or release of biological needs with access and constant contact with children and they are basically pushed over the edge.\nTo sum up, pedophiles don't become priests to molest children, they become priests because they don't realize they are pedophiles. This is just my opinion, and obviously there are also exceptions to this.\nPerhaps the solution is to get rid of this nonsense celibacy.",
">\n\nAlternative theory: pedophiles become priests because they know the Catholic Church will support and hide them from accountability. Plus, all those altar boys have been easy pickings for decades. \nOn the positive side, Catholic Churches are closing all over Missouri because of dwindling congregations.",
">\n\nThis is one crime I’ll never be able to fathom.",
">\n\nSo fucking sick advocating for this monster so he can maintain freedom?",
">\n\nThe church has been so infiltrated by Child abusers that they are currently rating worse than Satan Worshippers",
">\n\nCan we just fuck churches off now???",
">\n\nYour tithing had to go somewhere.",
">\n\nHow come republicans are not calling these people groomers?",
">\n\nIs anyone else picturing the scene in the first Scary Movie where the cop asks Anna Faris to look at some pictures?\nPriest hands out the pictures of himself along with the weekly pamphlet. Maybe the first reading is from the Song of Solomon...",
">\n\nOh shit. \nHas he been quietly shuffled to a new church yet?",
">\n\nI'm old enough that when I see \"slideshow\" I think of him arranging physical slides in a carousel to project on a screen, like the family trip to Disneyland. Maybe invite the neighbors over for cake.",
">\n\nLord above why is this a thing",
">\n\nYou mean not a drag queen?",
">\n\nActual groomers.",
">\n\nJust think the hands that wanked to kiddie pr0n put wafers on the tongues of everyone in that congregation...",
">\n\nLMAO. This slightly ambiguous headline had me thinking “who attended these slideshow presentations?”",
">\n\nOh look another pedophile catholic priest. Good job reinforcing that stereotype.",
">\n\nAnd we should take guidance from those who hide these atrocities so we can live a better life in the eyes of god.",
">\n\nFriendly reminder religion is a mistake that deserves to be taxed. If you threatened to tax zealots tomorrow child molestation by priests would drop to zero",
">\n\nmay your mother smile as you burn",
">\n\nThis is what happens when you have unchecked power for thousands of years.\nHorrifying.",
">\n\nDid he learn this behavior from a drag show? /s",
">\n\nReminds me of something Chris Rock said: \"Where do women find the porn? They don't find it in your hiding place, they find it in the VCR\"",
">\n\nHe was also probably saving up for a trip to Disney World.",
">\n\n\nincluding child pornography and images of child erotica.\n\nI want to know the difference but don't want to get on a watchlist by googling it.",
">\n\nWithout the word child there, there's a difference in degree. I'd say it's the same thing with that word in there just describing the subject depicted. Pornography is generally actual sex acts of some form or another. Erotica falls short of that, it may be arousing or suggestive. For example, a cabaret show may be erotica but it's certainly not pornography.",
">\n\nPriest? Church? Man in a tax evasion party house?",
">\n\nYet the church immediately moved him somewhere else as there was a daycare next door to the church, then offered to pay to have the priest under house arrest so that the child predator won't go to jail.",
">\n\nShittiest Ted Talk I’ve ever seen, honestly…",
">\n\nOnly five years?! \nUgh!",
">\n\nAnd they call LGBT+ people groomers. (eyeroll)",
">\n\nAnyone who has ever been to a church sadly knows this doesn't need to be in this sub for us to know it's a real story.",
">\n\nOh how nice. The Reverend pleaded for him not to be incarcerated. Because of fucking course he did.",
">\n\nCurious as to who he was presenting this to",
">\n\nPunish these assholes they are smearing God's name",
">\n\nStraight to (checks notes) your next parish!",
">\n\nreligion and sexual abuse. name a more iconic duo\nwhy are any of these religions even allowed to exist any more\nthey have long since lost their meanings, and onlt serve to syphon money out of gullible people, and abuse their children\nwhat is any of these religions actually adding to society any more? other than more perverted monsters",
">\n\nHe’s not the only one",
">\n\nWhy is no big tv news channel talking about this?",
">\n\nAsked that he not go to prison & that his congregation pay to house him? Fuck the church. That's almost the most disgusting part of this",
">\n\nSo are we talking a pptx or an old-school film Rolodex version? Both are messed up, but one takes A LOT more effort.",
">\n\nThe catholic church is of Satan.",
">\n\nFaith is of \"Satan.\" The idea that assuming you might be wrong is morally wrong produces some of the worst people imaginable. And that applies to secular ideologies that require looking down on those who disagree or are unsure too.",
">\n\nAge of priest over/under 50\nWhat yall got?\nI have the over.",
">\n\nOnly 5 years?",
">\n\nRight for some reason i read it as slide show meaning projectors haha. I forgot Powerpoint presentations are a thing.",
">\n\nThe congregation still requested he be spared incarceration and remain in their facility. Truly unbelievable.",
">\n\nThose damn drag queens framed him",
">\n\nThey really put a lot of effort into not saying that he was catholic in that article.",
">\n\nWonder what congregation hes been moved to now?",
">\n\nAny outrage from republicans? Will they arm themselves and storm the churches?....... Didn't think so.",
">\n\nA Christian pedophile? Who could have guessed?",
">\n\nIm shocked! Shocked I say!\nWell... not that shocked.",
">\n\nI appreciate that the church cooperated and turned him in. However, the fact they wanted to pay to house him, out of the parish coffers, is insane. He deserves incarceration and certainly not a retirement paid for by parishioners of the church he victimized. Smh, a great step for the church, if only as a PR exercise, would be to strongly condemn this sort of behavior AND strongly punish it. Defrock and excommunicate any priest who does this. It’s a very easy choice that frankly could help reinstill a little confidence in the church.",
">\n\nOFF WITH HIS GOD DAMNED FUCKING HEAD",
">\n\nWhy so quick and painless?",
">\n\nYou know you’re actually right.. OFF WITH HIS GOD DAMNED FUCKING HEAD WITH A RUSTY PAPERCLIP"
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"Slideshows????? What?\nMy man just opened up cp.ppt and added a few THOUSAND slides of kiddy porn????\nClippy: it looks like youre a depraved predator. Do you want to profane the church as well?",
">\n\nWell I always did believe Power Point was a creation of a malevolent entity.",
">\n\nTuring complete, no less!",
">\n\nBut can it run Doom?",
">\n\nAnything can run doom",
">\n\nBut can Doom run Doom?",
">\n\nDoom can run Doom because Doom runs Doom when Doom runs.",
">\n\nPeople don't run Doom like it is, but it Doom.",
">\n\nGonna take this moment to highly recommend the film Spotlight to any who haven’t seen it",
">\n\nCheck out the 2017 limited series on either Netflix or Prime: \"The Keepers\" about a Baltimore-area Catholic girls' school. Based on the experiences as told by some of the girls, now middle-aged women. It is NOT nice, will make you cry, will enrage you. But I commend the women who made this documentary for as painful as it was for the audience to watch, I can't imagine how they made it thru. And they brought it around to a decent ending, but wow....I think some of what happened in Baltimore bled over into the Spotlight story.\nLapsed Catholic. I cannot reconcile with the Church hierarchy over this because they have behaved satanically for far too long to make me believe they are holy in any way.",
">\n\nThere was a documentary that came out a year or two ago tbzg sounds similar but men who were molested as kids while in the church. \nI honestly don't know how anyone can still support the church. At all. If it was one priest, sure. It's sad it happened, but pedophiles will always exist and find ways to get to kids.\nBut with how often it happens and with how little the church cares? Nope. I never could be catholic even if I was Christian.",
">\n\nBecause saving souls bringing them into their cult is more valuable than the ones they crush. The Vatican last I heard had 7 pedos protecting by not complying with extradition requests. \nAny organization not willing to comply with the laws of the country where they have a tax exempt status should lose their exemption and title to any property they own. If you RICO cartel and mafia assets, then you can do so for these child abusers and their protective association. \nYou know the church owns most of Manhattan and isn't paying taxes? All that money and we have to tolerate this shit? Nah fuck them.",
">\n\nNude pix on the church printer . . . I can imagine the scene.\nSister Mary Michael: Yo, does anyone recognize this tallywhacker?\nFormer Alter Boy Brian: Yeah, that's Father Jim. I'd know that hairy mole anywhere.",
">\n\nThat's Tommy Turner's tallywhacker",
">\n\nIf Reddit still gave free awards, I'd give one to you for catching the reference.",
">\n\nWAIT when did they get rid of the free awards",
">\n\nguess this is how i found out. last i claimed mine is around last week, i think. i only claim once every two weeks to gild certain biweekly thread lul",
">\n\nAnd yet where are all the \"anti-groomers\" protesting these churches?",
">\n\nIt’s almost like it has never actually been about protecting children, and it’s always been about trying to demonize LGBT people",
">\n\nAt this point I am positive the religious right to life thing is about having more targets.",
">\n\nGlad 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?",
">\n\nAfter 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.",
">\n\nI 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.\nThere are also many who truly believe the schtick and just compartmentalize the bad stuff. Both are to blame regardless. Nobody gets a pass.",
">\n\nI could see that with some of the smaller denominations for sure.\nWhen 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.",
">\n\n*making another streak to the tally list wall\n*camera panning out to reveal a huge fucking wall coveres in streaks",
">\n\nMan 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.\nThat said. This man should burn for this",
">\n\nPriest? Pedo? Are you sure? This is unprecedented",
">\n\nCorrection! PedoPreist",
">\n\nNew name not necessary. If anything there should be a name for the unique priests that arent pedos.",
">\n\nI'm inclined to think the majority of priests aren't child predators themselves.\nThe 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.\nWay, way too many of them are pedo-enablers. All the way up...",
">\n\nThen that would mean that... Gasp\nSouth Park was right all along....\nSneaky little bastards didn't think I would notice....",
">\n\nWish I was surprised",
">\n\nYou make slideshows of images? \nEdit: \nOh wait I see what you mean. Yeah the pedophile priest thing is so expected that only the slideshow bit stood out",
">\n\nHoly hell. Priest have normalized pedophilia.",
">\n\nNot just priests. Protestant Christians have a major problem with sexual abuse too, particularly against children.\nAfter Major Investigation, Southern Baptists Confront the Abuse Crisis They Knew Was Coming\nDon't let the Evangelical pedo defenders get away with claiming that Catholicism is the only issue here. It isn't.",
">\n\n\nnone of them are immune to the depravity.\n\nAlmost implied, really.",
">\n\nCould 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?",
">\n\nA variety of factors:\n\nUnquestioned moral authority and intense trust from a large community who have all been taught to obey church authorities\nSupport from a massive extremely powerful institution that has covered up thousands of similar crimes\nStrictly forbidden to marry, have sex, or iirc even masturbate, making them view all sexual activities as similarly taboo for them\nEasy regular access to many children\nEasy ability to get alone time with children\nPriests are only held institutionally accountable to each other and to those with more authority in the church\nVictims 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\nChildren 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\nThe 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\nThe 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\n\nThat'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.”\nP.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.\nWant 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.\nEdit to add this excellent way to protect kids that churches consistently fight against:\n\n“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.\nchildren 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.”",
">\n\nSo this should be buried enough if I speak in general terms.\nYears back one of our pastors had to give up being a pastor. They didn't get into details of what he did but they did stress that kids were not involved. The whole church could be seen relaxing.",
">\n\n5 years for thousands of child porn images and videos? Seems pretty fucking light to me. This piece of shit should die in prison.",
">\n\n5 years and a ticket to heaven",
">\n\nHeaven? For him?",
">\n\nThat'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.",
">\n\nDon't you also have to be truly repentant for your sins, including making a good faith effort to keep from repeating them?",
">\n\nI would love for someone to answer this because I really want to know, too.",
">\n\nyes I'm pretty sure that's it. God sees people's hearts He should know the diff between true repentance and fake one",
">\n\nYes, assuming an all-powerful God existed, he’d be able to pretty easily know if you were truly sorry.",
">\n\nYeah but......... \nI'm just starting the religious apologist's sentence for them.",
">\n\nFor 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.",
">\n\nOne 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.",
">\n\nOnce I heard this theory, the acceptance by conservatives of people whose behavior is in direct conflict with their moral beliefs, made more sense.",
">\n\n5 holly maries and transfer\nafter 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.\nRev. 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.\"\nMcDevitt asked the presiding judge for \"mercy for Jim,\" and even offered for the congregation to pay to house him in lieu of imprisonment.\n\"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.\"\n\"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.\"",
">\n\nIn Australia at the moment there is a furore after the death of Cardinal George Pell who was convicted (then exonerated) of personally abusing children, but was found by a Royal Commission (that would be a special prosecutor for our American friends?) of enabling and protecting paedophile priests for decades.\nCan honestly say I have not been able to listen to the string of \"Christians\" praising this man in our media for the last few days without wanting to puke. Suffer the little children.",
">\n\nWith you there. At least there’s a lot of people calling his supporters out on this. Fuck Tony Abbott, John Howard and Andrew Bolt to name a few.",
">\n\nI 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!",
">\n\nr/PastorArrested (also includes Priests)",
">\n\nDon'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.",
">\n\nIf there is a god, wtf?",
">\n\nThere is no God. Religion is about control and money",
">\n\nAnd more money",
">\n\n\"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.\" \n- Rev. Patrick McDevitt, provincial superior for the Congregation of the Western Province \n\nEvery single member of that congregation is a horrible piece of shit",
">\n\nWhat 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?",
">\n\n“Drag queens are grooming our youth!!!”",
">\n\n\"I think we all know where people put on dresses and fuck kids\"\n-Trixie Mattel, 2022",
">\n\nKid “Bless me Father, for I have sinned”\nPadre “ call me, maybe?”",
">\n\nImagine my shock to discover that a priest has been involved in a sex scandal and one involving the exploitation of children, at that.",
">\n\nGOP: \"But wuttabout drag queens?!?!?!??!\"",
">\n\nDoing the Lords work 🙏🏾",
">\n\nTax-free",
">\n\nWhat's the deal with priests being so into pedophilia? Can't they look at milf pounds like normal people?",
">\n\nOh look... Another priest with child porn ... When do we get to start taxing the church?",
">\n\nr/pastorarrested",
">\n\nChurch is a scary place, especially for children.",
">\n\nI 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.",
">\n\nOnly 5 years. What a joke.",
">\n\n\nThe 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.\n\nIf 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.",
">\n\nNo one is suprised a priest is a pedophile. \nBut printing out yer nudes? That's odd.",
">\n\nI can think of a reason he printed it out. And I really don't like that reason.",
">\n\nI'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.",
">\n\nThe sheer audacity to do it at church where you work",
">\n\nAnd not a drag queen in sight...",
">\n\nThey do kinda wear dresses, though",
">\n\nToo many “coincidences” within this church to be anything other than systematic",
">\n\nPretty 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.",
">\n\n\nThe data often suggests numbers of pedophiles similar to the general population\n\none 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",
">\n\nYeah, 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.",
">\n\nI 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.",
">\n\nIt's so common for priests to be sickos",
">\n\nGross",
">\n\nAll he needs to do is repent, right?!?",
">\n\nA priest? With kiddie porn? I’ve never heard of such a thing!",
">\n\nRemember 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.",
">\n\n5 years that's all he got",
">\n\nThat's fucking disgusting. Misappropriation of office materials.",
">\n\nIt 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",
">\n\nIdiot 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.",
">\n\nso 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.",
">\n\nI 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 🤷♂️",
">\n\n5 years isnt nearly enough. Lock him up forever and a day.",
">\n\n~~Drag shows~~ Churches are not safe for children",
">\n\nI'm sure the religious Right will be out protesting him any second.\nRight? Right guys? Groomers and all this? Qanons? Where you guys at?\nHuh. Weird.",
">\n\nBut the dragqueens guys?!?!?!??!? /s",
">\n\nWeird that so many god loving people are actually just pedophiles. Wonder what they think god thinks of them. Fuck theism.",
">\n\nTheir god tells them to take the young girls as spoils of war. Their god is just as fucking depraved as they are.",
">\n\ntHaTs jUsT tHe oLd tEsTaMeNt tHoUgh.\ngOds mOraLiTy dOeSnt cHanGe, hE jUsT dEaLs wItH hUmAns diFFeReNtlY nOw. \nYeah when someone deals with people differently than they did before we generally call that \"a change.\"",
">\n\nAnd he wasn’t trans??? Maybe it’s been priests all along that governors should be banning. When will they correct their mistake? /s",
">\n\nDoesn'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...",
">\n\nIt's surprising. Who prints out their own nudes?",
">\n\nLock him up and throw away the keys",
">\n\nDarn priests, at least those protestant ministers keep it in the family",
">\n\nNot surprised.",
">\n\nThree hail marys and all is forgiven. What a load of bs",
">\n\nJust one bad apple, I’m sure.",
">\n\nLeast paedophilic priest",
">\n\n…slideshow?",
">\n\nGod works in mysterious ways ya fuckin chomo. As a priest, he of all people should have seen this coming...",
">\n\nIn other news, water is wet",
">\n\nOnly five years...",
">\n\n”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.” \nಠ_ಠ",
">\n\nI don’t remember this plotline during Doubt…",
">\n\nWe keep letting them get away with it, so they keep doing it. More obvious news at 10.",
">\n\n& once they found him out he got made a cardinal",
">\n\nHe should've kept them in the garage with his Corvette",
">\n\n5 years? If nothing else, using PowerPoint should have been an aggravating factor.",
">\n\nAnd you thought looking at Bob's family vacation pics was a bad time",
">\n\nWhen 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.",
">\n\nHow is the Roman Catholic Church not closed down for enabling and protecting child abusers",
">\n\nAre 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.",
">\n\nIt'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.",
">\n\npapabile!",
">\n\nLeft nudes on a shared printer? Rookie mistake.",
">\n\nTeach your priests just enough tech to effectively turn themselves in.",
">\n\nIsn't it something how the church decided to investigate themselves again. Keep it in the family, guys.\nI 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.",
">\n\nIs 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:\n1 - 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\n2 - 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)\n3 - 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.\nTL;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.",
">\n\nLet me guess.\nMoved to a different church at the other side of the country and that’s about it for consequences?",
">\n\nThose damned drag queens strike again.",
">\n\nI mean that’s kinda how they caught BTK",
">\n\nSo priests are still abusing kids after we didn't do anything to them the last few times we caught them? Color me surprised.",
">\n\n\nCourt 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.\"\n\n...\n\nDuring 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. \n\n...\n\nAnd 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. \n\nFuck everyone that allowed this scum to continue in a position of authority.",
">\n\nDon’t hear this happening at drag shows…j/s",
">\n\nHe put the PDF in pedofile",
">\n\nThis is Fucking ridiculous",
">\n\nNever forget who the actual groomers are",
">\n\nThe proud boys will be outside of churches \"protesting\" with guns now, right? right?",
">\n\nA priest being pedophile? But that is absolutely unheard of, say it isn't so!",
">\n\nYou sure this wasn't at a Trans drag show? GOP is sure this happens at Trans dragsl shows",
">\n\nExcommunicated by PowerPoint",
">\n\n5 years and a fine? FFS, that’s ridiculous.",
">\n\nPraise Jesus!",
">\n\nAnd the right thinks kids going to drag shows are the problem",
">\n\nAverage christian.",
">\n\nbut the drag queens are reading books to children in libraries! The madnessss",
">\n\nSo they moved him to a new church. This is what they have always done.",
">\n\nleast pedophilic priest:",
">\n\nThe dead ones dont hurt anyone.",
">\n\ninto the furnace he goes. theres no rehabbing people like this.",
">\n\nIt's always the ones you least expect..",
">\n\nOr in this case, the ones you MOST suspect",
">\n\nlol ya, I said that with sarcasm..",
">\n\nPray that he gets nut cancer.",
">\n\nNut cancer was once described to me as \"the common cold of cancers\". It has something like a 95% survival rate.\nHe deserves worse.",
">\n\nDidn't know that. Good nut fact for the day.",
">\n\nIt's definitely the drag queens reading to kids in libraries that's the problem.",
">\n\nRight wingers want him to be a closeted drag queen so badly",
">\n\nI could never trust any man who goes into priesthood. Completely unnatural and deviant occupation rife with pedophiles.",
">\n\nThis MONSTER got 5 years?! \nThe CHILDREN being abused in the images will suffer for the rest of their lives!!\nI'm in favor of LIFE SENTENCES for child sex offenders. \nOr better yet, the DEATH PENALTY!!",
">\n\nReligion was invented by Man for Control of the Flock.You go to Confession and tell the priest everything so they can determine how to undress you.\nI was once a Catholic.....born, baptised, confirmed and educated in a Grammar school run by Irish Christian Brothers under the Order of Edmund Ignatius Rice......and now I'm an atheist.",
">\n\nHow come it is always ‘Christians’ who are involved in child sex abuse?",
">\n\nOf course he's a pedo, he's a priest!",
">\n\nYes millions of idiots keep donating billions to the church",
">\n\nNot simply donating, they bring their children along, indoctrinate them that the priest is the speaker of God, and that God can do no wrong, so anything the priest dose is holy and good. The priest even says so!\nAnd when the kids bring it up the first few times weird things happen? The parents tell them to shush. And so, the sacrifices continue, the parents make a show of not knowing, and things get worse for the children.\nAnd if the priest is reported, the church just moves them to a different parish.\nThe only difference between the taliban and the catholic church, is one of them advertises the child slaves as a benefit, while the other pretends it's not (but totally encourages it, top to bottom).",
">\n\nAnd who are the groomers again?",
">\n\nThis is what happens when you don’t recycle your printer papers.",
">\n\nI feel like this isn't oniony enough, everyone knows by now that priests are significantly more likely to be pedophiles than the general population.",
">\n\nSure, but “gets caught by leaving nudes on a printer” is a fairly onion-y end.",
">\n\nYa know you're right",
">\n\nI have a theory about the correlation between priests and pedophiles. This is my opinion based on conversations with a childhood friend (not a pedo) and is only my opinion but could explain why so many priests abuse children. Get your down votes ready. \nThese boys grow up in the church and it is all they know for the most part. When going through puberty we become attracted to a gender (male or female gay or straight sometimes somewhere in between) and more often a \"type\" as well (blonde brunette short tall etc). Our hormones drive us to seek companionship, intimacy, and ultimately procreation. \nThese boys growing up never develop this attraction to their peers but rather feel more comfortable around younger children and usually behave as mentors. The combination of love of church and disinterest in peers puts the thought in their heads that priesthood is their calling. It takes a long time and effort to become a priest. There are easier paths if a guy just wants to bang kids.\nPut together lack of sex or release of biological needs with access and constant contact with children and they are basically pushed over the edge.\nTo sum up, pedophiles don't become priests to molest children, they become priests because they don't realize they are pedophiles. This is just my opinion, and obviously there are also exceptions to this.\nPerhaps the solution is to get rid of this nonsense celibacy.",
">\n\nAlternative theory: pedophiles become priests because they know the Catholic Church will support and hide them from accountability. Plus, all those altar boys have been easy pickings for decades. \nOn the positive side, Catholic Churches are closing all over Missouri because of dwindling congregations.",
">\n\nThis is one crime I’ll never be able to fathom.",
">\n\nSo fucking sick advocating for this monster so he can maintain freedom?",
">\n\nThe church has been so infiltrated by Child abusers that they are currently rating worse than Satan Worshippers",
">\n\nCan we just fuck churches off now???",
">\n\nYour tithing had to go somewhere.",
">\n\nHow come republicans are not calling these people groomers?",
">\n\nIs anyone else picturing the scene in the first Scary Movie where the cop asks Anna Faris to look at some pictures?\nPriest hands out the pictures of himself along with the weekly pamphlet. Maybe the first reading is from the Song of Solomon...",
">\n\nOh shit. \nHas he been quietly shuffled to a new church yet?",
">\n\nI'm old enough that when I see \"slideshow\" I think of him arranging physical slides in a carousel to project on a screen, like the family trip to Disneyland. Maybe invite the neighbors over for cake.",
">\n\nLord above why is this a thing",
">\n\nYou mean not a drag queen?",
">\n\nActual groomers.",
">\n\nJust think the hands that wanked to kiddie pr0n put wafers on the tongues of everyone in that congregation...",
">\n\nLMAO. This slightly ambiguous headline had me thinking “who attended these slideshow presentations?”",
">\n\nOh look another pedophile catholic priest. Good job reinforcing that stereotype.",
">\n\nAnd we should take guidance from those who hide these atrocities so we can live a better life in the eyes of god.",
">\n\nFriendly reminder religion is a mistake that deserves to be taxed. If you threatened to tax zealots tomorrow child molestation by priests would drop to zero",
">\n\nmay your mother smile as you burn",
">\n\nThis is what happens when you have unchecked power for thousands of years.\nHorrifying.",
">\n\nDid he learn this behavior from a drag show? /s",
">\n\nReminds me of something Chris Rock said: \"Where do women find the porn? They don't find it in your hiding place, they find it in the VCR\"",
">\n\nHe was also probably saving up for a trip to Disney World.",
">\n\n\nincluding child pornography and images of child erotica.\n\nI want to know the difference but don't want to get on a watchlist by googling it.",
">\n\nWithout the word child there, there's a difference in degree. I'd say it's the same thing with that word in there just describing the subject depicted. Pornography is generally actual sex acts of some form or another. Erotica falls short of that, it may be arousing or suggestive. For example, a cabaret show may be erotica but it's certainly not pornography.",
">\n\nPriest? Church? Man in a tax evasion party house?",
">\n\nYet the church immediately moved him somewhere else as there was a daycare next door to the church, then offered to pay to have the priest under house arrest so that the child predator won't go to jail.",
">\n\nShittiest Ted Talk I’ve ever seen, honestly…",
">\n\nOnly five years?! \nUgh!",
">\n\nAnd they call LGBT+ people groomers. (eyeroll)",
">\n\nAnyone who has ever been to a church sadly knows this doesn't need to be in this sub for us to know it's a real story.",
">\n\nOh how nice. The Reverend pleaded for him not to be incarcerated. Because of fucking course he did.",
">\n\nCurious as to who he was presenting this to",
">\n\nPunish these assholes they are smearing God's name",
">\n\nStraight to (checks notes) your next parish!",
">\n\nreligion and sexual abuse. name a more iconic duo\nwhy are any of these religions even allowed to exist any more\nthey have long since lost their meanings, and onlt serve to syphon money out of gullible people, and abuse their children\nwhat is any of these religions actually adding to society any more? other than more perverted monsters",
">\n\nHe’s not the only one",
">\n\nWhy is no big tv news channel talking about this?",
">\n\nAsked that he not go to prison & that his congregation pay to house him? Fuck the church. That's almost the most disgusting part of this",
">\n\nSo are we talking a pptx or an old-school film Rolodex version? Both are messed up, but one takes A LOT more effort.",
">\n\nThe catholic church is of Satan.",
">\n\nFaith is of \"Satan.\" The idea that assuming you might be wrong is morally wrong produces some of the worst people imaginable. And that applies to secular ideologies that require looking down on those who disagree or are unsure too.",
">\n\nAge of priest over/under 50\nWhat yall got?\nI have the over.",
">\n\nOnly 5 years?",
">\n\nRight for some reason i read it as slide show meaning projectors haha. I forgot Powerpoint presentations are a thing.",
">\n\nThe congregation still requested he be spared incarceration and remain in their facility. Truly unbelievable.",
">\n\nThose damn drag queens framed him",
">\n\nThey really put a lot of effort into not saying that he was catholic in that article.",
">\n\nWonder what congregation hes been moved to now?",
">\n\nAny outrage from republicans? Will they arm themselves and storm the churches?....... Didn't think so.",
">\n\nA Christian pedophile? Who could have guessed?",
">\n\nIm shocked! Shocked I say!\nWell... not that shocked.",
">\n\nI appreciate that the church cooperated and turned him in. However, the fact they wanted to pay to house him, out of the parish coffers, is insane. He deserves incarceration and certainly not a retirement paid for by parishioners of the church he victimized. Smh, a great step for the church, if only as a PR exercise, would be to strongly condemn this sort of behavior AND strongly punish it. Defrock and excommunicate any priest who does this. It’s a very easy choice that frankly could help reinstill a little confidence in the church.",
">\n\nOFF WITH HIS GOD DAMNED FUCKING HEAD",
">\n\nWhy so quick and painless?",
">\n\nYou know you’re actually right.. OFF WITH HIS GOD DAMNED FUCKING HEAD WITH A RUSTY PAPERCLIP",
">\n\nRight to jail"
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"Slideshows????? What?\nMy man just opened up cp.ppt and added a few THOUSAND slides of kiddy porn????\nClippy: it looks like youre a depraved predator. Do you want to profane the church as well?",
">\n\nWell I always did believe Power Point was a creation of a malevolent entity.",
">\n\nTuring complete, no less!",
">\n\nBut can it run Doom?",
">\n\nAnything can run doom",
">\n\nBut can Doom run Doom?",
">\n\nDoom can run Doom because Doom runs Doom when Doom runs.",
">\n\nPeople don't run Doom like it is, but it Doom.",
">\n\nGonna take this moment to highly recommend the film Spotlight to any who haven’t seen it",
">\n\nCheck out the 2017 limited series on either Netflix or Prime: \"The Keepers\" about a Baltimore-area Catholic girls' school. Based on the experiences as told by some of the girls, now middle-aged women. It is NOT nice, will make you cry, will enrage you. But I commend the women who made this documentary for as painful as it was for the audience to watch, I can't imagine how they made it thru. And they brought it around to a decent ending, but wow....I think some of what happened in Baltimore bled over into the Spotlight story.\nLapsed Catholic. I cannot reconcile with the Church hierarchy over this because they have behaved satanically for far too long to make me believe they are holy in any way.",
">\n\nThere was a documentary that came out a year or two ago tbzg sounds similar but men who were molested as kids while in the church. \nI honestly don't know how anyone can still support the church. At all. If it was one priest, sure. It's sad it happened, but pedophiles will always exist and find ways to get to kids.\nBut with how often it happens and with how little the church cares? Nope. I never could be catholic even if I was Christian.",
">\n\nBecause saving souls bringing them into their cult is more valuable than the ones they crush. The Vatican last I heard had 7 pedos protecting by not complying with extradition requests. \nAny organization not willing to comply with the laws of the country where they have a tax exempt status should lose their exemption and title to any property they own. If you RICO cartel and mafia assets, then you can do so for these child abusers and their protective association. \nYou know the church owns most of Manhattan and isn't paying taxes? All that money and we have to tolerate this shit? Nah fuck them.",
">\n\nNude pix on the church printer . . . I can imagine the scene.\nSister Mary Michael: Yo, does anyone recognize this tallywhacker?\nFormer Alter Boy Brian: Yeah, that's Father Jim. I'd know that hairy mole anywhere.",
">\n\nThat's Tommy Turner's tallywhacker",
">\n\nIf Reddit still gave free awards, I'd give one to you for catching the reference.",
">\n\nWAIT when did they get rid of the free awards",
">\n\nguess this is how i found out. last i claimed mine is around last week, i think. i only claim once every two weeks to gild certain biweekly thread lul",
">\n\nAnd yet where are all the \"anti-groomers\" protesting these churches?",
">\n\nIt’s almost like it has never actually been about protecting children, and it’s always been about trying to demonize LGBT people",
">\n\nAt this point I am positive the religious right to life thing is about having more targets.",
">\n\nGlad 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?",
">\n\nAfter 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.",
">\n\nI 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.\nThere are also many who truly believe the schtick and just compartmentalize the bad stuff. Both are to blame regardless. Nobody gets a pass.",
">\n\nI could see that with some of the smaller denominations for sure.\nWhen 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.",
">\n\n*making another streak to the tally list wall\n*camera panning out to reveal a huge fucking wall coveres in streaks",
">\n\nMan 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.\nThat said. This man should burn for this",
">\n\nPriest? Pedo? Are you sure? This is unprecedented",
">\n\nCorrection! PedoPreist",
">\n\nNew name not necessary. If anything there should be a name for the unique priests that arent pedos.",
">\n\nI'm inclined to think the majority of priests aren't child predators themselves.\nThe 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.\nWay, way too many of them are pedo-enablers. All the way up...",
">\n\nThen that would mean that... Gasp\nSouth Park was right all along....\nSneaky little bastards didn't think I would notice....",
">\n\nWish I was surprised",
">\n\nYou make slideshows of images? \nEdit: \nOh wait I see what you mean. Yeah the pedophile priest thing is so expected that only the slideshow bit stood out",
">\n\nHoly hell. Priest have normalized pedophilia.",
">\n\nNot just priests. Protestant Christians have a major problem with sexual abuse too, particularly against children.\nAfter Major Investigation, Southern Baptists Confront the Abuse Crisis They Knew Was Coming\nDon't let the Evangelical pedo defenders get away with claiming that Catholicism is the only issue here. It isn't.",
">\n\n\nnone of them are immune to the depravity.\n\nAlmost implied, really.",
">\n\nCould 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?",
">\n\nA variety of factors:\n\nUnquestioned moral authority and intense trust from a large community who have all been taught to obey church authorities\nSupport from a massive extremely powerful institution that has covered up thousands of similar crimes\nStrictly forbidden to marry, have sex, or iirc even masturbate, making them view all sexual activities as similarly taboo for them\nEasy regular access to many children\nEasy ability to get alone time with children\nPriests are only held institutionally accountable to each other and to those with more authority in the church\nVictims 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\nChildren 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\nThe 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\nThe 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\n\nThat'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.”\nP.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.\nWant 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.\nEdit to add this excellent way to protect kids that churches consistently fight against:\n\n“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.\nchildren 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.”",
">\n\nSo this should be buried enough if I speak in general terms.\nYears back one of our pastors had to give up being a pastor. They didn't get into details of what he did but they did stress that kids were not involved. The whole church could be seen relaxing.",
">\n\n5 years for thousands of child porn images and videos? Seems pretty fucking light to me. This piece of shit should die in prison.",
">\n\n5 years and a ticket to heaven",
">\n\nHeaven? For him?",
">\n\nThat'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.",
">\n\nDon't you also have to be truly repentant for your sins, including making a good faith effort to keep from repeating them?",
">\n\nI would love for someone to answer this because I really want to know, too.",
">\n\nyes I'm pretty sure that's it. God sees people's hearts He should know the diff between true repentance and fake one",
">\n\nYes, assuming an all-powerful God existed, he’d be able to pretty easily know if you were truly sorry.",
">\n\nYeah but......... \nI'm just starting the religious apologist's sentence for them.",
">\n\nFor 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.",
">\n\nOne 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.",
">\n\nOnce I heard this theory, the acceptance by conservatives of people whose behavior is in direct conflict with their moral beliefs, made more sense.",
">\n\n5 holly maries and transfer\nafter 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.\nRev. 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.\"\nMcDevitt asked the presiding judge for \"mercy for Jim,\" and even offered for the congregation to pay to house him in lieu of imprisonment.\n\"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.\"\n\"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.\"",
">\n\nIn Australia at the moment there is a furore after the death of Cardinal George Pell who was convicted (then exonerated) of personally abusing children, but was found by a Royal Commission (that would be a special prosecutor for our American friends?) of enabling and protecting paedophile priests for decades.\nCan honestly say I have not been able to listen to the string of \"Christians\" praising this man in our media for the last few days without wanting to puke. Suffer the little children.",
">\n\nWith you there. At least there’s a lot of people calling his supporters out on this. Fuck Tony Abbott, John Howard and Andrew Bolt to name a few.",
">\n\nI 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!",
">\n\nr/PastorArrested (also includes Priests)",
">\n\nDon'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.",
">\n\nIf there is a god, wtf?",
">\n\nThere is no God. Religion is about control and money",
">\n\nAnd more money",
">\n\n\"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.\" \n- Rev. Patrick McDevitt, provincial superior for the Congregation of the Western Province \n\nEvery single member of that congregation is a horrible piece of shit",
">\n\nWhat 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?",
">\n\n“Drag queens are grooming our youth!!!”",
">\n\n\"I think we all know where people put on dresses and fuck kids\"\n-Trixie Mattel, 2022",
">\n\nKid “Bless me Father, for I have sinned”\nPadre “ call me, maybe?”",
">\n\nImagine my shock to discover that a priest has been involved in a sex scandal and one involving the exploitation of children, at that.",
">\n\nGOP: \"But wuttabout drag queens?!?!?!??!\"",
">\n\nDoing the Lords work 🙏🏾",
">\n\nTax-free",
">\n\nWhat's the deal with priests being so into pedophilia? Can't they look at milf pounds like normal people?",
">\n\nOh look... Another priest with child porn ... When do we get to start taxing the church?",
">\n\nr/pastorarrested",
">\n\nChurch is a scary place, especially for children.",
">\n\nI 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.",
">\n\nOnly 5 years. What a joke.",
">\n\n\nThe 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.\n\nIf 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.",
">\n\nNo one is suprised a priest is a pedophile. \nBut printing out yer nudes? That's odd.",
">\n\nI can think of a reason he printed it out. And I really don't like that reason.",
">\n\nI'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.",
">\n\nThe sheer audacity to do it at church where you work",
">\n\nAnd not a drag queen in sight...",
">\n\nThey do kinda wear dresses, though",
">\n\nToo many “coincidences” within this church to be anything other than systematic",
">\n\nPretty 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.",
">\n\n\nThe data often suggests numbers of pedophiles similar to the general population\n\none 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",
">\n\nYeah, 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.",
">\n\nI 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.",
">\n\nIt's so common for priests to be sickos",
">\n\nGross",
">\n\nAll he needs to do is repent, right?!?",
">\n\nA priest? With kiddie porn? I’ve never heard of such a thing!",
">\n\nRemember 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.",
">\n\n5 years that's all he got",
">\n\nThat's fucking disgusting. Misappropriation of office materials.",
">\n\nIt 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",
">\n\nIdiot 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.",
">\n\nso 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.",
">\n\nI 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 🤷♂️",
">\n\n5 years isnt nearly enough. Lock him up forever and a day.",
">\n\n~~Drag shows~~ Churches are not safe for children",
">\n\nI'm sure the religious Right will be out protesting him any second.\nRight? Right guys? Groomers and all this? Qanons? Where you guys at?\nHuh. Weird.",
">\n\nBut the dragqueens guys?!?!?!??!? /s",
">\n\nWeird that so many god loving people are actually just pedophiles. Wonder what they think god thinks of them. Fuck theism.",
">\n\nTheir god tells them to take the young girls as spoils of war. Their god is just as fucking depraved as they are.",
">\n\ntHaTs jUsT tHe oLd tEsTaMeNt tHoUgh.\ngOds mOraLiTy dOeSnt cHanGe, hE jUsT dEaLs wItH hUmAns diFFeReNtlY nOw. \nYeah when someone deals with people differently than they did before we generally call that \"a change.\"",
">\n\nAnd he wasn’t trans??? Maybe it’s been priests all along that governors should be banning. When will they correct their mistake? /s",
">\n\nDoesn'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...",
">\n\nIt's surprising. Who prints out their own nudes?",
">\n\nLock him up and throw away the keys",
">\n\nDarn priests, at least those protestant ministers keep it in the family",
">\n\nNot surprised.",
">\n\nThree hail marys and all is forgiven. What a load of bs",
">\n\nJust one bad apple, I’m sure.",
">\n\nLeast paedophilic priest",
">\n\n…slideshow?",
">\n\nGod works in mysterious ways ya fuckin chomo. As a priest, he of all people should have seen this coming...",
">\n\nIn other news, water is wet",
">\n\nOnly five years...",
">\n\n”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.” \nಠ_ಠ",
">\n\nI don’t remember this plotline during Doubt…",
">\n\nWe keep letting them get away with it, so they keep doing it. More obvious news at 10.",
">\n\n& once they found him out he got made a cardinal",
">\n\nHe should've kept them in the garage with his Corvette",
">\n\n5 years? If nothing else, using PowerPoint should have been an aggravating factor.",
">\n\nAnd you thought looking at Bob's family vacation pics was a bad time",
">\n\nWhen 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.",
">\n\nHow is the Roman Catholic Church not closed down for enabling and protecting child abusers",
">\n\nAre 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.",
">\n\nIt'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.",
">\n\npapabile!",
">\n\nLeft nudes on a shared printer? Rookie mistake.",
">\n\nTeach your priests just enough tech to effectively turn themselves in.",
">\n\nIsn't it something how the church decided to investigate themselves again. Keep it in the family, guys.\nI 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.",
">\n\nIs 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:\n1 - 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\n2 - 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)\n3 - 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.\nTL;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.",
">\n\nLet me guess.\nMoved to a different church at the other side of the country and that’s about it for consequences?",
">\n\nThose damned drag queens strike again.",
">\n\nI mean that’s kinda how they caught BTK",
">\n\nSo priests are still abusing kids after we didn't do anything to them the last few times we caught them? Color me surprised.",
">\n\n\nCourt 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.\"\n\n...\n\nDuring 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. \n\n...\n\nAnd 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. \n\nFuck everyone that allowed this scum to continue in a position of authority.",
">\n\nDon’t hear this happening at drag shows…j/s",
">\n\nHe put the PDF in pedofile",
">\n\nThis is Fucking ridiculous",
">\n\nNever forget who the actual groomers are",
">\n\nThe proud boys will be outside of churches \"protesting\" with guns now, right? right?",
">\n\nA priest being pedophile? But that is absolutely unheard of, say it isn't so!",
">\n\nYou sure this wasn't at a Trans drag show? GOP is sure this happens at Trans dragsl shows",
">\n\nExcommunicated by PowerPoint",
">\n\n5 years and a fine? FFS, that’s ridiculous.",
">\n\nPraise Jesus!",
">\n\nAnd the right thinks kids going to drag shows are the problem",
">\n\nAverage christian.",
">\n\nbut the drag queens are reading books to children in libraries! The madnessss",
">\n\nSo they moved him to a new church. This is what they have always done.",
">\n\nleast pedophilic priest:",
">\n\nThe dead ones dont hurt anyone.",
">\n\ninto the furnace he goes. theres no rehabbing people like this.",
">\n\nIt's always the ones you least expect..",
">\n\nOr in this case, the ones you MOST suspect",
">\n\nlol ya, I said that with sarcasm..",
">\n\nPray that he gets nut cancer.",
">\n\nNut cancer was once described to me as \"the common cold of cancers\". It has something like a 95% survival rate.\nHe deserves worse.",
">\n\nDidn't know that. Good nut fact for the day.",
">\n\nIt's definitely the drag queens reading to kids in libraries that's the problem.",
">\n\nRight wingers want him to be a closeted drag queen so badly",
">\n\nI could never trust any man who goes into priesthood. Completely unnatural and deviant occupation rife with pedophiles.",
">\n\nThis MONSTER got 5 years?! \nThe CHILDREN being abused in the images will suffer for the rest of their lives!!\nI'm in favor of LIFE SENTENCES for child sex offenders. \nOr better yet, the DEATH PENALTY!!",
">\n\nReligion was invented by Man for Control of the Flock.You go to Confession and tell the priest everything so they can determine how to undress you.\nI was once a Catholic.....born, baptised, confirmed and educated in a Grammar school run by Irish Christian Brothers under the Order of Edmund Ignatius Rice......and now I'm an atheist.",
">\n\nHow come it is always ‘Christians’ who are involved in child sex abuse?",
">\n\nOf course he's a pedo, he's a priest!",
">\n\nYes millions of idiots keep donating billions to the church",
">\n\nNot simply donating, they bring their children along, indoctrinate them that the priest is the speaker of God, and that God can do no wrong, so anything the priest dose is holy and good. The priest even says so!\nAnd when the kids bring it up the first few times weird things happen? The parents tell them to shush. And so, the sacrifices continue, the parents make a show of not knowing, and things get worse for the children.\nAnd if the priest is reported, the church just moves them to a different parish.\nThe only difference between the taliban and the catholic church, is one of them advertises the child slaves as a benefit, while the other pretends it's not (but totally encourages it, top to bottom).",
">\n\nAnd who are the groomers again?",
">\n\nThis is what happens when you don’t recycle your printer papers.",
">\n\nI feel like this isn't oniony enough, everyone knows by now that priests are significantly more likely to be pedophiles than the general population.",
">\n\nSure, but “gets caught by leaving nudes on a printer” is a fairly onion-y end.",
">\n\nYa know you're right",
">\n\nI have a theory about the correlation between priests and pedophiles. This is my opinion based on conversations with a childhood friend (not a pedo) and is only my opinion but could explain why so many priests abuse children. Get your down votes ready. \nThese boys grow up in the church and it is all they know for the most part. When going through puberty we become attracted to a gender (male or female gay or straight sometimes somewhere in between) and more often a \"type\" as well (blonde brunette short tall etc). Our hormones drive us to seek companionship, intimacy, and ultimately procreation. \nThese boys growing up never develop this attraction to their peers but rather feel more comfortable around younger children and usually behave as mentors. The combination of love of church and disinterest in peers puts the thought in their heads that priesthood is their calling. It takes a long time and effort to become a priest. There are easier paths if a guy just wants to bang kids.\nPut together lack of sex or release of biological needs with access and constant contact with children and they are basically pushed over the edge.\nTo sum up, pedophiles don't become priests to molest children, they become priests because they don't realize they are pedophiles. This is just my opinion, and obviously there are also exceptions to this.\nPerhaps the solution is to get rid of this nonsense celibacy.",
">\n\nAlternative theory: pedophiles become priests because they know the Catholic Church will support and hide them from accountability. Plus, all those altar boys have been easy pickings for decades. \nOn the positive side, Catholic Churches are closing all over Missouri because of dwindling congregations.",
">\n\nThis is one crime I’ll never be able to fathom.",
">\n\nSo fucking sick advocating for this monster so he can maintain freedom?",
">\n\nThe church has been so infiltrated by Child abusers that they are currently rating worse than Satan Worshippers",
">\n\nCan we just fuck churches off now???",
">\n\nYour tithing had to go somewhere.",
">\n\nHow come republicans are not calling these people groomers?",
">\n\nIs anyone else picturing the scene in the first Scary Movie where the cop asks Anna Faris to look at some pictures?\nPriest hands out the pictures of himself along with the weekly pamphlet. Maybe the first reading is from the Song of Solomon...",
">\n\nOh shit. \nHas he been quietly shuffled to a new church yet?",
">\n\nI'm old enough that when I see \"slideshow\" I think of him arranging physical slides in a carousel to project on a screen, like the family trip to Disneyland. Maybe invite the neighbors over for cake.",
">\n\nLord above why is this a thing",
">\n\nYou mean not a drag queen?",
">\n\nActual groomers.",
">\n\nJust think the hands that wanked to kiddie pr0n put wafers on the tongues of everyone in that congregation...",
">\n\nLMAO. This slightly ambiguous headline had me thinking “who attended these slideshow presentations?”",
">\n\nOh look another pedophile catholic priest. Good job reinforcing that stereotype.",
">\n\nAnd we should take guidance from those who hide these atrocities so we can live a better life in the eyes of god.",
">\n\nFriendly reminder religion is a mistake that deserves to be taxed. If you threatened to tax zealots tomorrow child molestation by priests would drop to zero",
">\n\nmay your mother smile as you burn",
">\n\nThis is what happens when you have unchecked power for thousands of years.\nHorrifying.",
">\n\nDid he learn this behavior from a drag show? /s",
">\n\nReminds me of something Chris Rock said: \"Where do women find the porn? They don't find it in your hiding place, they find it in the VCR\"",
">\n\nHe was also probably saving up for a trip to Disney World.",
">\n\n\nincluding child pornography and images of child erotica.\n\nI want to know the difference but don't want to get on a watchlist by googling it.",
">\n\nWithout the word child there, there's a difference in degree. I'd say it's the same thing with that word in there just describing the subject depicted. Pornography is generally actual sex acts of some form or another. Erotica falls short of that, it may be arousing or suggestive. For example, a cabaret show may be erotica but it's certainly not pornography.",
">\n\nPriest? Church? Man in a tax evasion party house?",
">\n\nYet the church immediately moved him somewhere else as there was a daycare next door to the church, then offered to pay to have the priest under house arrest so that the child predator won't go to jail.",
">\n\nShittiest Ted Talk I’ve ever seen, honestly…",
">\n\nOnly five years?! \nUgh!",
">\n\nAnd they call LGBT+ people groomers. (eyeroll)",
">\n\nAnyone who has ever been to a church sadly knows this doesn't need to be in this sub for us to know it's a real story.",
">\n\nOh how nice. The Reverend pleaded for him not to be incarcerated. Because of fucking course he did.",
">\n\nCurious as to who he was presenting this to",
">\n\nPunish these assholes they are smearing God's name",
">\n\nStraight to (checks notes) your next parish!",
">\n\nreligion and sexual abuse. name a more iconic duo\nwhy are any of these religions even allowed to exist any more\nthey have long since lost their meanings, and onlt serve to syphon money out of gullible people, and abuse their children\nwhat is any of these religions actually adding to society any more? other than more perverted monsters",
">\n\nHe’s not the only one",
">\n\nWhy is no big tv news channel talking about this?",
">\n\nAsked that he not go to prison & that his congregation pay to house him? Fuck the church. That's almost the most disgusting part of this",
">\n\nSo are we talking a pptx or an old-school film Rolodex version? Both are messed up, but one takes A LOT more effort.",
">\n\nThe catholic church is of Satan.",
">\n\nFaith is of \"Satan.\" The idea that assuming you might be wrong is morally wrong produces some of the worst people imaginable. And that applies to secular ideologies that require looking down on those who disagree or are unsure too.",
">\n\nAge of priest over/under 50\nWhat yall got?\nI have the over.",
">\n\nOnly 5 years?",
">\n\nRight for some reason i read it as slide show meaning projectors haha. I forgot Powerpoint presentations are a thing.",
">\n\nThe congregation still requested he be spared incarceration and remain in their facility. Truly unbelievable.",
">\n\nThose damn drag queens framed him",
">\n\nThey really put a lot of effort into not saying that he was catholic in that article.",
">\n\nWonder what congregation hes been moved to now?",
">\n\nAny outrage from republicans? Will they arm themselves and storm the churches?....... Didn't think so.",
">\n\nA Christian pedophile? Who could have guessed?",
">\n\nIm shocked! Shocked I say!\nWell... not that shocked.",
">\n\nI appreciate that the church cooperated and turned him in. However, the fact they wanted to pay to house him, out of the parish coffers, is insane. He deserves incarceration and certainly not a retirement paid for by parishioners of the church he victimized. Smh, a great step for the church, if only as a PR exercise, would be to strongly condemn this sort of behavior AND strongly punish it. Defrock and excommunicate any priest who does this. It’s a very easy choice that frankly could help reinstill a little confidence in the church.",
">\n\nOFF WITH HIS GOD DAMNED FUCKING HEAD",
">\n\nWhy so quick and painless?",
">\n\nYou know you’re actually right.. OFF WITH HIS GOD DAMNED FUCKING HEAD WITH A RUSTY PAPERCLIP",
">\n\nRight to jail",
">\n\nToday on why religious institutions should be abolished"
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"Slideshows????? What?\nMy man just opened up cp.ppt and added a few THOUSAND slides of kiddy porn????\nClippy: it looks like youre a depraved predator. Do you want to profane the church as well?",
">\n\nWell I always did believe Power Point was a creation of a malevolent entity.",
">\n\nTuring complete, no less!",
">\n\nBut can it run Doom?",
">\n\nAnything can run doom",
">\n\nBut can Doom run Doom?",
">\n\nDoom can run Doom because Doom runs Doom when Doom runs.",
">\n\nPeople don't run Doom like it is, but it Doom.",
">\n\nGonna take this moment to highly recommend the film Spotlight to any who haven’t seen it",
">\n\nCheck out the 2017 limited series on either Netflix or Prime: \"The Keepers\" about a Baltimore-area Catholic girls' school. Based on the experiences as told by some of the girls, now middle-aged women. It is NOT nice, will make you cry, will enrage you. But I commend the women who made this documentary for as painful as it was for the audience to watch, I can't imagine how they made it thru. And they brought it around to a decent ending, but wow....I think some of what happened in Baltimore bled over into the Spotlight story.\nLapsed Catholic. I cannot reconcile with the Church hierarchy over this because they have behaved satanically for far too long to make me believe they are holy in any way.",
">\n\nThere was a documentary that came out a year or two ago tbzg sounds similar but men who were molested as kids while in the church. \nI honestly don't know how anyone can still support the church. At all. If it was one priest, sure. It's sad it happened, but pedophiles will always exist and find ways to get to kids.\nBut with how often it happens and with how little the church cares? Nope. I never could be catholic even if I was Christian.",
">\n\nBecause saving souls bringing them into their cult is more valuable than the ones they crush. The Vatican last I heard had 7 pedos protecting by not complying with extradition requests. \nAny organization not willing to comply with the laws of the country where they have a tax exempt status should lose their exemption and title to any property they own. If you RICO cartel and mafia assets, then you can do so for these child abusers and their protective association. \nYou know the church owns most of Manhattan and isn't paying taxes? All that money and we have to tolerate this shit? Nah fuck them.",
">\n\nNude pix on the church printer . . . I can imagine the scene.\nSister Mary Michael: Yo, does anyone recognize this tallywhacker?\nFormer Alter Boy Brian: Yeah, that's Father Jim. I'd know that hairy mole anywhere.",
">\n\nThat's Tommy Turner's tallywhacker",
">\n\nIf Reddit still gave free awards, I'd give one to you for catching the reference.",
">\n\nWAIT when did they get rid of the free awards",
">\n\nguess this is how i found out. last i claimed mine is around last week, i think. i only claim once every two weeks to gild certain biweekly thread lul",
">\n\nAnd yet where are all the \"anti-groomers\" protesting these churches?",
">\n\nIt’s almost like it has never actually been about protecting children, and it’s always been about trying to demonize LGBT people",
">\n\nAt this point I am positive the religious right to life thing is about having more targets.",
">\n\nGlad 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?",
">\n\nAfter 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.",
">\n\nI 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.\nThere are also many who truly believe the schtick and just compartmentalize the bad stuff. Both are to blame regardless. Nobody gets a pass.",
">\n\nI could see that with some of the smaller denominations for sure.\nWhen 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.",
">\n\n*making another streak to the tally list wall\n*camera panning out to reveal a huge fucking wall coveres in streaks",
">\n\nMan 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.\nThat said. This man should burn for this",
">\n\nPriest? Pedo? Are you sure? This is unprecedented",
">\n\nCorrection! PedoPreist",
">\n\nNew name not necessary. If anything there should be a name for the unique priests that arent pedos.",
">\n\nI'm inclined to think the majority of priests aren't child predators themselves.\nThe 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.\nWay, way too many of them are pedo-enablers. All the way up...",
">\n\nThen that would mean that... Gasp\nSouth Park was right all along....\nSneaky little bastards didn't think I would notice....",
">\n\nWish I was surprised",
">\n\nYou make slideshows of images? \nEdit: \nOh wait I see what you mean. Yeah the pedophile priest thing is so expected that only the slideshow bit stood out",
">\n\nHoly hell. Priest have normalized pedophilia.",
">\n\nNot just priests. Protestant Christians have a major problem with sexual abuse too, particularly against children.\nAfter Major Investigation, Southern Baptists Confront the Abuse Crisis They Knew Was Coming\nDon't let the Evangelical pedo defenders get away with claiming that Catholicism is the only issue here. It isn't.",
">\n\n\nnone of them are immune to the depravity.\n\nAlmost implied, really.",
">\n\nCould 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?",
">\n\nA variety of factors:\n\nUnquestioned moral authority and intense trust from a large community who have all been taught to obey church authorities\nSupport from a massive extremely powerful institution that has covered up thousands of similar crimes\nStrictly forbidden to marry, have sex, or iirc even masturbate, making them view all sexual activities as similarly taboo for them\nEasy regular access to many children\nEasy ability to get alone time with children\nPriests are only held institutionally accountable to each other and to those with more authority in the church\nVictims 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\nChildren 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\nThe 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\nThe 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\n\nThat'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.”\nP.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.\nWant 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.\nEdit to add this excellent way to protect kids that churches consistently fight against:\n\n“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.\nchildren 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.”",
">\n\nSo this should be buried enough if I speak in general terms.\nYears back one of our pastors had to give up being a pastor. They didn't get into details of what he did but they did stress that kids were not involved. The whole church could be seen relaxing.",
">\n\n5 years for thousands of child porn images and videos? Seems pretty fucking light to me. This piece of shit should die in prison.",
">\n\n5 years and a ticket to heaven",
">\n\nHeaven? For him?",
">\n\nThat'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.",
">\n\nDon't you also have to be truly repentant for your sins, including making a good faith effort to keep from repeating them?",
">\n\nI would love for someone to answer this because I really want to know, too.",
">\n\nyes I'm pretty sure that's it. God sees people's hearts He should know the diff between true repentance and fake one",
">\n\nYes, assuming an all-powerful God existed, he’d be able to pretty easily know if you were truly sorry.",
">\n\nYeah but......... \nI'm just starting the religious apologist's sentence for them.",
">\n\nFor 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.",
">\n\nOne 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.",
">\n\nOnce I heard this theory, the acceptance by conservatives of people whose behavior is in direct conflict with their moral beliefs, made more sense.",
">\n\n5 holly maries and transfer\nafter 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.\nRev. 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.\"\nMcDevitt asked the presiding judge for \"mercy for Jim,\" and even offered for the congregation to pay to house him in lieu of imprisonment.\n\"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.\"\n\"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.\"",
">\n\nIn Australia at the moment there is a furore after the death of Cardinal George Pell who was convicted (then exonerated) of personally abusing children, but was found by a Royal Commission (that would be a special prosecutor for our American friends?) of enabling and protecting paedophile priests for decades.\nCan honestly say I have not been able to listen to the string of \"Christians\" praising this man in our media for the last few days without wanting to puke. Suffer the little children.",
">\n\nWith you there. At least there’s a lot of people calling his supporters out on this. Fuck Tony Abbott, John Howard and Andrew Bolt to name a few.",
">\n\nI 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!",
">\n\nr/PastorArrested (also includes Priests)",
">\n\nDon'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.",
">\n\nIf there is a god, wtf?",
">\n\nThere is no God. Religion is about control and money",
">\n\nAnd more money",
">\n\n\"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.\" \n- Rev. Patrick McDevitt, provincial superior for the Congregation of the Western Province \n\nEvery single member of that congregation is a horrible piece of shit",
">\n\nWhat 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?",
">\n\n“Drag queens are grooming our youth!!!”",
">\n\n\"I think we all know where people put on dresses and fuck kids\"\n-Trixie Mattel, 2022",
">\n\nKid “Bless me Father, for I have sinned”\nPadre “ call me, maybe?”",
">\n\nImagine my shock to discover that a priest has been involved in a sex scandal and one involving the exploitation of children, at that.",
">\n\nGOP: \"But wuttabout drag queens?!?!?!??!\"",
">\n\nDoing the Lords work 🙏🏾",
">\n\nTax-free",
">\n\nWhat's the deal with priests being so into pedophilia? Can't they look at milf pounds like normal people?",
">\n\nOh look... Another priest with child porn ... When do we get to start taxing the church?",
">\n\nr/pastorarrested",
">\n\nChurch is a scary place, especially for children.",
">\n\nI 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.",
">\n\nOnly 5 years. What a joke.",
">\n\n\nThe 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.\n\nIf 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.",
">\n\nNo one is suprised a priest is a pedophile. \nBut printing out yer nudes? That's odd.",
">\n\nI can think of a reason he printed it out. And I really don't like that reason.",
">\n\nI'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.",
">\n\nThe sheer audacity to do it at church where you work",
">\n\nAnd not a drag queen in sight...",
">\n\nThey do kinda wear dresses, though",
">\n\nToo many “coincidences” within this church to be anything other than systematic",
">\n\nPretty 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.",
">\n\n\nThe data often suggests numbers of pedophiles similar to the general population\n\none 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",
">\n\nYeah, 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.",
">\n\nI 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.",
">\n\nIt's so common for priests to be sickos",
">\n\nGross",
">\n\nAll he needs to do is repent, right?!?",
">\n\nA priest? With kiddie porn? I’ve never heard of such a thing!",
">\n\nRemember 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.",
">\n\n5 years that's all he got",
">\n\nThat's fucking disgusting. Misappropriation of office materials.",
">\n\nIt 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",
">\n\nIdiot 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.",
">\n\nso 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.",
">\n\nI 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 🤷♂️",
">\n\n5 years isnt nearly enough. Lock him up forever and a day.",
">\n\n~~Drag shows~~ Churches are not safe for children",
">\n\nI'm sure the religious Right will be out protesting him any second.\nRight? Right guys? Groomers and all this? Qanons? Where you guys at?\nHuh. Weird.",
">\n\nBut the dragqueens guys?!?!?!??!? /s",
">\n\nWeird that so many god loving people are actually just pedophiles. Wonder what they think god thinks of them. Fuck theism.",
">\n\nTheir god tells them to take the young girls as spoils of war. Their god is just as fucking depraved as they are.",
">\n\ntHaTs jUsT tHe oLd tEsTaMeNt tHoUgh.\ngOds mOraLiTy dOeSnt cHanGe, hE jUsT dEaLs wItH hUmAns diFFeReNtlY nOw. \nYeah when someone deals with people differently than they did before we generally call that \"a change.\"",
">\n\nAnd he wasn’t trans??? Maybe it’s been priests all along that governors should be banning. When will they correct their mistake? /s",
">\n\nDoesn'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...",
">\n\nIt's surprising. Who prints out their own nudes?",
">\n\nLock him up and throw away the keys",
">\n\nDarn priests, at least those protestant ministers keep it in the family",
">\n\nNot surprised.",
">\n\nThree hail marys and all is forgiven. What a load of bs",
">\n\nJust one bad apple, I’m sure.",
">\n\nLeast paedophilic priest",
">\n\n…slideshow?",
">\n\nGod works in mysterious ways ya fuckin chomo. As a priest, he of all people should have seen this coming...",
">\n\nIn other news, water is wet",
">\n\nOnly five years...",
">\n\n”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.” \nಠ_ಠ",
">\n\nI don’t remember this plotline during Doubt…",
">\n\nWe keep letting them get away with it, so they keep doing it. More obvious news at 10.",
">\n\n& once they found him out he got made a cardinal",
">\n\nHe should've kept them in the garage with his Corvette",
">\n\n5 years? If nothing else, using PowerPoint should have been an aggravating factor.",
">\n\nAnd you thought looking at Bob's family vacation pics was a bad time",
">\n\nWhen 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.",
">\n\nHow is the Roman Catholic Church not closed down for enabling and protecting child abusers",
">\n\nAre 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.",
">\n\nIt'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.",
">\n\npapabile!",
">\n\nLeft nudes on a shared printer? Rookie mistake.",
">\n\nTeach your priests just enough tech to effectively turn themselves in.",
">\n\nIsn't it something how the church decided to investigate themselves again. Keep it in the family, guys.\nI 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.",
">\n\nIs 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:\n1 - 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\n2 - 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)\n3 - 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.\nTL;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.",
">\n\nLet me guess.\nMoved to a different church at the other side of the country and that’s about it for consequences?",
">\n\nThose damned drag queens strike again.",
">\n\nI mean that’s kinda how they caught BTK",
">\n\nSo priests are still abusing kids after we didn't do anything to them the last few times we caught them? Color me surprised.",
">\n\n\nCourt 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.\"\n\n...\n\nDuring 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. \n\n...\n\nAnd 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. \n\nFuck everyone that allowed this scum to continue in a position of authority.",
">\n\nDon’t hear this happening at drag shows…j/s",
">\n\nHe put the PDF in pedofile",
">\n\nThis is Fucking ridiculous",
">\n\nNever forget who the actual groomers are",
">\n\nThe proud boys will be outside of churches \"protesting\" with guns now, right? right?",
">\n\nA priest being pedophile? But that is absolutely unheard of, say it isn't so!",
">\n\nYou sure this wasn't at a Trans drag show? GOP is sure this happens at Trans dragsl shows",
">\n\nExcommunicated by PowerPoint",
">\n\n5 years and a fine? FFS, that’s ridiculous.",
">\n\nPraise Jesus!",
">\n\nAnd the right thinks kids going to drag shows are the problem",
">\n\nAverage christian.",
">\n\nbut the drag queens are reading books to children in libraries! The madnessss",
">\n\nSo they moved him to a new church. This is what they have always done.",
">\n\nleast pedophilic priest:",
">\n\nThe dead ones dont hurt anyone.",
">\n\ninto the furnace he goes. theres no rehabbing people like this.",
">\n\nIt's always the ones you least expect..",
">\n\nOr in this case, the ones you MOST suspect",
">\n\nlol ya, I said that with sarcasm..",
">\n\nPray that he gets nut cancer.",
">\n\nNut cancer was once described to me as \"the common cold of cancers\". It has something like a 95% survival rate.\nHe deserves worse.",
">\n\nDidn't know that. Good nut fact for the day.",
">\n\nIt's definitely the drag queens reading to kids in libraries that's the problem.",
">\n\nRight wingers want him to be a closeted drag queen so badly",
">\n\nI could never trust any man who goes into priesthood. Completely unnatural and deviant occupation rife with pedophiles.",
">\n\nThis MONSTER got 5 years?! \nThe CHILDREN being abused in the images will suffer for the rest of their lives!!\nI'm in favor of LIFE SENTENCES for child sex offenders. \nOr better yet, the DEATH PENALTY!!",
">\n\nReligion was invented by Man for Control of the Flock.You go to Confession and tell the priest everything so they can determine how to undress you.\nI was once a Catholic.....born, baptised, confirmed and educated in a Grammar school run by Irish Christian Brothers under the Order of Edmund Ignatius Rice......and now I'm an atheist.",
">\n\nHow come it is always ‘Christians’ who are involved in child sex abuse?",
">\n\nOf course he's a pedo, he's a priest!",
">\n\nYes millions of idiots keep donating billions to the church",
">\n\nNot simply donating, they bring their children along, indoctrinate them that the priest is the speaker of God, and that God can do no wrong, so anything the priest dose is holy and good. The priest even says so!\nAnd when the kids bring it up the first few times weird things happen? The parents tell them to shush. And so, the sacrifices continue, the parents make a show of not knowing, and things get worse for the children.\nAnd if the priest is reported, the church just moves them to a different parish.\nThe only difference between the taliban and the catholic church, is one of them advertises the child slaves as a benefit, while the other pretends it's not (but totally encourages it, top to bottom).",
">\n\nAnd who are the groomers again?",
">\n\nThis is what happens when you don’t recycle your printer papers.",
">\n\nI feel like this isn't oniony enough, everyone knows by now that priests are significantly more likely to be pedophiles than the general population.",
">\n\nSure, but “gets caught by leaving nudes on a printer” is a fairly onion-y end.",
">\n\nYa know you're right",
">\n\nI have a theory about the correlation between priests and pedophiles. This is my opinion based on conversations with a childhood friend (not a pedo) and is only my opinion but could explain why so many priests abuse children. Get your down votes ready. \nThese boys grow up in the church and it is all they know for the most part. When going through puberty we become attracted to a gender (male or female gay or straight sometimes somewhere in between) and more often a \"type\" as well (blonde brunette short tall etc). Our hormones drive us to seek companionship, intimacy, and ultimately procreation. \nThese boys growing up never develop this attraction to their peers but rather feel more comfortable around younger children and usually behave as mentors. The combination of love of church and disinterest in peers puts the thought in their heads that priesthood is their calling. It takes a long time and effort to become a priest. There are easier paths if a guy just wants to bang kids.\nPut together lack of sex or release of biological needs with access and constant contact with children and they are basically pushed over the edge.\nTo sum up, pedophiles don't become priests to molest children, they become priests because they don't realize they are pedophiles. This is just my opinion, and obviously there are also exceptions to this.\nPerhaps the solution is to get rid of this nonsense celibacy.",
">\n\nAlternative theory: pedophiles become priests because they know the Catholic Church will support and hide them from accountability. Plus, all those altar boys have been easy pickings for decades. \nOn the positive side, Catholic Churches are closing all over Missouri because of dwindling congregations.",
">\n\nThis is one crime I’ll never be able to fathom.",
">\n\nSo fucking sick advocating for this monster so he can maintain freedom?",
">\n\nThe church has been so infiltrated by Child abusers that they are currently rating worse than Satan Worshippers",
">\n\nCan we just fuck churches off now???",
">\n\nYour tithing had to go somewhere.",
">\n\nHow come republicans are not calling these people groomers?",
">\n\nIs anyone else picturing the scene in the first Scary Movie where the cop asks Anna Faris to look at some pictures?\nPriest hands out the pictures of himself along with the weekly pamphlet. Maybe the first reading is from the Song of Solomon...",
">\n\nOh shit. \nHas he been quietly shuffled to a new church yet?",
">\n\nI'm old enough that when I see \"slideshow\" I think of him arranging physical slides in a carousel to project on a screen, like the family trip to Disneyland. Maybe invite the neighbors over for cake.",
">\n\nLord above why is this a thing",
">\n\nYou mean not a drag queen?",
">\n\nActual groomers.",
">\n\nJust think the hands that wanked to kiddie pr0n put wafers on the tongues of everyone in that congregation...",
">\n\nLMAO. This slightly ambiguous headline had me thinking “who attended these slideshow presentations?”",
">\n\nOh look another pedophile catholic priest. Good job reinforcing that stereotype.",
">\n\nAnd we should take guidance from those who hide these atrocities so we can live a better life in the eyes of god.",
">\n\nFriendly reminder religion is a mistake that deserves to be taxed. If you threatened to tax zealots tomorrow child molestation by priests would drop to zero",
">\n\nmay your mother smile as you burn",
">\n\nThis is what happens when you have unchecked power for thousands of years.\nHorrifying.",
">\n\nDid he learn this behavior from a drag show? /s",
">\n\nReminds me of something Chris Rock said: \"Where do women find the porn? They don't find it in your hiding place, they find it in the VCR\"",
">\n\nHe was also probably saving up for a trip to Disney World.",
">\n\n\nincluding child pornography and images of child erotica.\n\nI want to know the difference but don't want to get on a watchlist by googling it.",
">\n\nWithout the word child there, there's a difference in degree. I'd say it's the same thing with that word in there just describing the subject depicted. Pornography is generally actual sex acts of some form or another. Erotica falls short of that, it may be arousing or suggestive. For example, a cabaret show may be erotica but it's certainly not pornography.",
">\n\nPriest? Church? Man in a tax evasion party house?",
">\n\nYet the church immediately moved him somewhere else as there was a daycare next door to the church, then offered to pay to have the priest under house arrest so that the child predator won't go to jail.",
">\n\nShittiest Ted Talk I’ve ever seen, honestly…",
">\n\nOnly five years?! \nUgh!",
">\n\nAnd they call LGBT+ people groomers. (eyeroll)",
">\n\nAnyone who has ever been to a church sadly knows this doesn't need to be in this sub for us to know it's a real story.",
">\n\nOh how nice. The Reverend pleaded for him not to be incarcerated. Because of fucking course he did.",
">\n\nCurious as to who he was presenting this to",
">\n\nPunish these assholes they are smearing God's name",
">\n\nStraight to (checks notes) your next parish!",
">\n\nreligion and sexual abuse. name a more iconic duo\nwhy are any of these religions even allowed to exist any more\nthey have long since lost their meanings, and onlt serve to syphon money out of gullible people, and abuse their children\nwhat is any of these religions actually adding to society any more? other than more perverted monsters",
">\n\nHe’s not the only one",
">\n\nWhy is no big tv news channel talking about this?",
">\n\nAsked that he not go to prison & that his congregation pay to house him? Fuck the church. That's almost the most disgusting part of this",
">\n\nSo are we talking a pptx or an old-school film Rolodex version? Both are messed up, but one takes A LOT more effort.",
">\n\nThe catholic church is of Satan.",
">\n\nFaith is of \"Satan.\" The idea that assuming you might be wrong is morally wrong produces some of the worst people imaginable. And that applies to secular ideologies that require looking down on those who disagree or are unsure too.",
">\n\nAge of priest over/under 50\nWhat yall got?\nI have the over.",
">\n\nOnly 5 years?",
">\n\nRight for some reason i read it as slide show meaning projectors haha. I forgot Powerpoint presentations are a thing.",
">\n\nThe congregation still requested he be spared incarceration and remain in their facility. Truly unbelievable.",
">\n\nThose damn drag queens framed him",
">\n\nThey really put a lot of effort into not saying that he was catholic in that article.",
">\n\nWonder what congregation hes been moved to now?",
">\n\nAny outrage from republicans? Will they arm themselves and storm the churches?....... Didn't think so.",
">\n\nA Christian pedophile? Who could have guessed?",
">\n\nIm shocked! Shocked I say!\nWell... not that shocked.",
">\n\nI appreciate that the church cooperated and turned him in. However, the fact they wanted to pay to house him, out of the parish coffers, is insane. He deserves incarceration and certainly not a retirement paid for by parishioners of the church he victimized. Smh, a great step for the church, if only as a PR exercise, would be to strongly condemn this sort of behavior AND strongly punish it. Defrock and excommunicate any priest who does this. It’s a very easy choice that frankly could help reinstill a little confidence in the church.",
">\n\nOFF WITH HIS GOD DAMNED FUCKING HEAD",
">\n\nWhy so quick and painless?",
">\n\nYou know you’re actually right.. OFF WITH HIS GOD DAMNED FUCKING HEAD WITH A RUSTY PAPERCLIP",
">\n\nRight to jail",
">\n\nToday on why religious institutions should be abolished",
">\n\nAnd the right won't say a thing about this man."
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"Slideshows????? What?\nMy man just opened up cp.ppt and added a few THOUSAND slides of kiddy porn????\nClippy: it looks like youre a depraved predator. Do you want to profane the church as well?",
">\n\nWell I always did believe Power Point was a creation of a malevolent entity.",
">\n\nTuring complete, no less!",
">\n\nBut can it run Doom?",
">\n\nAnything can run doom",
">\n\nBut can Doom run Doom?",
">\n\nDoom can run Doom because Doom runs Doom when Doom runs.",
">\n\nPeople don't run Doom like it is, but it Doom.",
">\n\nGonna take this moment to highly recommend the film Spotlight to any who haven’t seen it",
">\n\nCheck out the 2017 limited series on either Netflix or Prime: \"The Keepers\" about a Baltimore-area Catholic girls' school. Based on the experiences as told by some of the girls, now middle-aged women. It is NOT nice, will make you cry, will enrage you. But I commend the women who made this documentary for as painful as it was for the audience to watch, I can't imagine how they made it thru. And they brought it around to a decent ending, but wow....I think some of what happened in Baltimore bled over into the Spotlight story.\nLapsed Catholic. I cannot reconcile with the Church hierarchy over this because they have behaved satanically for far too long to make me believe they are holy in any way.",
">\n\nThere was a documentary that came out a year or two ago tbzg sounds similar but men who were molested as kids while in the church. \nI honestly don't know how anyone can still support the church. At all. If it was one priest, sure. It's sad it happened, but pedophiles will always exist and find ways to get to kids.\nBut with how often it happens and with how little the church cares? Nope. I never could be catholic even if I was Christian.",
">\n\nBecause saving souls bringing them into their cult is more valuable than the ones they crush. The Vatican last I heard had 7 pedos protecting by not complying with extradition requests. \nAny organization not willing to comply with the laws of the country where they have a tax exempt status should lose their exemption and title to any property they own. If you RICO cartel and mafia assets, then you can do so for these child abusers and their protective association. \nYou know the church owns most of Manhattan and isn't paying taxes? All that money and we have to tolerate this shit? Nah fuck them.",
">\n\nNude pix on the church printer . . . I can imagine the scene.\nSister Mary Michael: Yo, does anyone recognize this tallywhacker?\nFormer Alter Boy Brian: Yeah, that's Father Jim. I'd know that hairy mole anywhere.",
">\n\nThat's Tommy Turner's tallywhacker",
">\n\nIf Reddit still gave free awards, I'd give one to you for catching the reference.",
">\n\nWAIT when did they get rid of the free awards",
">\n\nguess this is how i found out. last i claimed mine is around last week, i think. i only claim once every two weeks to gild certain biweekly thread lul",
">\n\nAnd yet where are all the \"anti-groomers\" protesting these churches?",
">\n\nIt’s almost like it has never actually been about protecting children, and it’s always been about trying to demonize LGBT people",
">\n\nAt this point I am positive the religious right to life thing is about having more targets.",
">\n\nGlad 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?",
">\n\nAfter 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.",
">\n\nI 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.\nThere are also many who truly believe the schtick and just compartmentalize the bad stuff. Both are to blame regardless. Nobody gets a pass.",
">\n\nI could see that with some of the smaller denominations for sure.\nWhen 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.",
">\n\n*making another streak to the tally list wall\n*camera panning out to reveal a huge fucking wall coveres in streaks",
">\n\nMan 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.\nThat said. This man should burn for this",
">\n\nPriest? Pedo? Are you sure? This is unprecedented",
">\n\nCorrection! PedoPreist",
">\n\nNew name not necessary. If anything there should be a name for the unique priests that arent pedos.",
">\n\nI'm inclined to think the majority of priests aren't child predators themselves.\nThe 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.\nWay, way too many of them are pedo-enablers. All the way up...",
">\n\nThen that would mean that... Gasp\nSouth Park was right all along....\nSneaky little bastards didn't think I would notice....",
">\n\nWish I was surprised",
">\n\nYou make slideshows of images? \nEdit: \nOh wait I see what you mean. Yeah the pedophile priest thing is so expected that only the slideshow bit stood out",
">\n\nHoly hell. Priest have normalized pedophilia.",
">\n\nNot just priests. Protestant Christians have a major problem with sexual abuse too, particularly against children.\nAfter Major Investigation, Southern Baptists Confront the Abuse Crisis They Knew Was Coming\nDon't let the Evangelical pedo defenders get away with claiming that Catholicism is the only issue here. It isn't.",
">\n\n\nnone of them are immune to the depravity.\n\nAlmost implied, really.",
">\n\nCould 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?",
">\n\nA variety of factors:\n\nUnquestioned moral authority and intense trust from a large community who have all been taught to obey church authorities\nSupport from a massive extremely powerful institution that has covered up thousands of similar crimes\nStrictly forbidden to marry, have sex, or iirc even masturbate, making them view all sexual activities as similarly taboo for them\nEasy regular access to many children\nEasy ability to get alone time with children\nPriests are only held institutionally accountable to each other and to those with more authority in the church\nVictims 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\nChildren 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\nThe 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\nThe 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\n\nThat'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.”\nP.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.\nWant 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.\nEdit to add this excellent way to protect kids that churches consistently fight against:\n\n“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.\nchildren 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.”",
">\n\nSo this should be buried enough if I speak in general terms.\nYears back one of our pastors had to give up being a pastor. They didn't get into details of what he did but they did stress that kids were not involved. The whole church could be seen relaxing.",
">\n\n5 years for thousands of child porn images and videos? Seems pretty fucking light to me. This piece of shit should die in prison.",
">\n\n5 years and a ticket to heaven",
">\n\nHeaven? For him?",
">\n\nThat'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.",
">\n\nDon't you also have to be truly repentant for your sins, including making a good faith effort to keep from repeating them?",
">\n\nI would love for someone to answer this because I really want to know, too.",
">\n\nyes I'm pretty sure that's it. God sees people's hearts He should know the diff between true repentance and fake one",
">\n\nYes, assuming an all-powerful God existed, he’d be able to pretty easily know if you were truly sorry.",
">\n\nYeah but......... \nI'm just starting the religious apologist's sentence for them.",
">\n\nFor 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.",
">\n\nOne 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.",
">\n\nOnce I heard this theory, the acceptance by conservatives of people whose behavior is in direct conflict with their moral beliefs, made more sense.",
">\n\n5 holly maries and transfer\nafter 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.\nRev. 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.\"\nMcDevitt asked the presiding judge for \"mercy for Jim,\" and even offered for the congregation to pay to house him in lieu of imprisonment.\n\"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.\"\n\"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.\"",
">\n\nIn Australia at the moment there is a furore after the death of Cardinal George Pell who was convicted (then exonerated) of personally abusing children, but was found by a Royal Commission (that would be a special prosecutor for our American friends?) of enabling and protecting paedophile priests for decades.\nCan honestly say I have not been able to listen to the string of \"Christians\" praising this man in our media for the last few days without wanting to puke. Suffer the little children.",
">\n\nWith you there. At least there’s a lot of people calling his supporters out on this. Fuck Tony Abbott, John Howard and Andrew Bolt to name a few.",
">\n\nI 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!",
">\n\nr/PastorArrested (also includes Priests)",
">\n\nDon'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.",
">\n\nIf there is a god, wtf?",
">\n\nThere is no God. Religion is about control and money",
">\n\nAnd more money",
">\n\n\"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.\" \n- Rev. Patrick McDevitt, provincial superior for the Congregation of the Western Province \n\nEvery single member of that congregation is a horrible piece of shit",
">\n\nWhat 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?",
">\n\n“Drag queens are grooming our youth!!!”",
">\n\n\"I think we all know where people put on dresses and fuck kids\"\n-Trixie Mattel, 2022",
">\n\nKid “Bless me Father, for I have sinned”\nPadre “ call me, maybe?”",
">\n\nImagine my shock to discover that a priest has been involved in a sex scandal and one involving the exploitation of children, at that.",
">\n\nGOP: \"But wuttabout drag queens?!?!?!??!\"",
">\n\nDoing the Lords work 🙏🏾",
">\n\nTax-free",
">\n\nWhat's the deal with priests being so into pedophilia? Can't they look at milf pounds like normal people?",
">\n\nOh look... Another priest with child porn ... When do we get to start taxing the church?",
">\n\nr/pastorarrested",
">\n\nChurch is a scary place, especially for children.",
">\n\nI 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.",
">\n\nOnly 5 years. What a joke.",
">\n\n\nThe 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.\n\nIf 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.",
">\n\nNo one is suprised a priest is a pedophile. \nBut printing out yer nudes? That's odd.",
">\n\nI can think of a reason he printed it out. And I really don't like that reason.",
">\n\nI'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.",
">\n\nThe sheer audacity to do it at church where you work",
">\n\nAnd not a drag queen in sight...",
">\n\nThey do kinda wear dresses, though",
">\n\nToo many “coincidences” within this church to be anything other than systematic",
">\n\nPretty 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.",
">\n\n\nThe data often suggests numbers of pedophiles similar to the general population\n\none 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",
">\n\nYeah, 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.",
">\n\nI 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.",
">\n\nIt's so common for priests to be sickos",
">\n\nGross",
">\n\nAll he needs to do is repent, right?!?",
">\n\nA priest? With kiddie porn? I’ve never heard of such a thing!",
">\n\nRemember 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.",
">\n\n5 years that's all he got",
">\n\nThat's fucking disgusting. Misappropriation of office materials.",
">\n\nIt 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",
">\n\nIdiot 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.",
">\n\nso 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.",
">\n\nI 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 🤷♂️",
">\n\n5 years isnt nearly enough. Lock him up forever and a day.",
">\n\n~~Drag shows~~ Churches are not safe for children",
">\n\nI'm sure the religious Right will be out protesting him any second.\nRight? Right guys? Groomers and all this? Qanons? Where you guys at?\nHuh. Weird.",
">\n\nBut the dragqueens guys?!?!?!??!? /s",
">\n\nWeird that so many god loving people are actually just pedophiles. Wonder what they think god thinks of them. Fuck theism.",
">\n\nTheir god tells them to take the young girls as spoils of war. Their god is just as fucking depraved as they are.",
">\n\ntHaTs jUsT tHe oLd tEsTaMeNt tHoUgh.\ngOds mOraLiTy dOeSnt cHanGe, hE jUsT dEaLs wItH hUmAns diFFeReNtlY nOw. \nYeah when someone deals with people differently than they did before we generally call that \"a change.\"",
">\n\nAnd he wasn’t trans??? Maybe it’s been priests all along that governors should be banning. When will they correct their mistake? /s",
">\n\nDoesn'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...",
">\n\nIt's surprising. Who prints out their own nudes?",
">\n\nLock him up and throw away the keys",
">\n\nDarn priests, at least those protestant ministers keep it in the family",
">\n\nNot surprised.",
">\n\nThree hail marys and all is forgiven. What a load of bs",
">\n\nJust one bad apple, I’m sure.",
">\n\nLeast paedophilic priest",
">\n\n…slideshow?",
">\n\nGod works in mysterious ways ya fuckin chomo. As a priest, he of all people should have seen this coming...",
">\n\nIn other news, water is wet",
">\n\nOnly five years...",
">\n\n”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.” \nಠ_ಠ",
">\n\nI don’t remember this plotline during Doubt…",
">\n\nWe keep letting them get away with it, so they keep doing it. More obvious news at 10.",
">\n\n& once they found him out he got made a cardinal",
">\n\nHe should've kept them in the garage with his Corvette",
">\n\n5 years? If nothing else, using PowerPoint should have been an aggravating factor.",
">\n\nAnd you thought looking at Bob's family vacation pics was a bad time",
">\n\nWhen 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.",
">\n\nHow is the Roman Catholic Church not closed down for enabling and protecting child abusers",
">\n\nAre 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.",
">\n\nIt'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.",
">\n\npapabile!",
">\n\nLeft nudes on a shared printer? Rookie mistake.",
">\n\nTeach your priests just enough tech to effectively turn themselves in.",
">\n\nIsn't it something how the church decided to investigate themselves again. Keep it in the family, guys.\nI 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.",
">\n\nIs 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:\n1 - 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\n2 - 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)\n3 - 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.\nTL;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.",
">\n\nLet me guess.\nMoved to a different church at the other side of the country and that’s about it for consequences?",
">\n\nThose damned drag queens strike again.",
">\n\nI mean that’s kinda how they caught BTK",
">\n\nSo priests are still abusing kids after we didn't do anything to them the last few times we caught them? Color me surprised.",
">\n\n\nCourt 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.\"\n\n...\n\nDuring 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. \n\n...\n\nAnd 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. \n\nFuck everyone that allowed this scum to continue in a position of authority.",
">\n\nDon’t hear this happening at drag shows…j/s",
">\n\nHe put the PDF in pedofile",
">\n\nThis is Fucking ridiculous",
">\n\nNever forget who the actual groomers are",
">\n\nThe proud boys will be outside of churches \"protesting\" with guns now, right? right?",
">\n\nA priest being pedophile? But that is absolutely unheard of, say it isn't so!",
">\n\nYou sure this wasn't at a Trans drag show? GOP is sure this happens at Trans dragsl shows",
">\n\nExcommunicated by PowerPoint",
">\n\n5 years and a fine? FFS, that’s ridiculous.",
">\n\nPraise Jesus!",
">\n\nAnd the right thinks kids going to drag shows are the problem",
">\n\nAverage christian.",
">\n\nbut the drag queens are reading books to children in libraries! The madnessss",
">\n\nSo they moved him to a new church. This is what they have always done.",
">\n\nleast pedophilic priest:",
">\n\nThe dead ones dont hurt anyone.",
">\n\ninto the furnace he goes. theres no rehabbing people like this.",
">\n\nIt's always the ones you least expect..",
">\n\nOr in this case, the ones you MOST suspect",
">\n\nlol ya, I said that with sarcasm..",
">\n\nPray that he gets nut cancer.",
">\n\nNut cancer was once described to me as \"the common cold of cancers\". It has something like a 95% survival rate.\nHe deserves worse.",
">\n\nDidn't know that. Good nut fact for the day.",
">\n\nIt's definitely the drag queens reading to kids in libraries that's the problem.",
">\n\nRight wingers want him to be a closeted drag queen so badly",
">\n\nI could never trust any man who goes into priesthood. Completely unnatural and deviant occupation rife with pedophiles.",
">\n\nThis MONSTER got 5 years?! \nThe CHILDREN being abused in the images will suffer for the rest of their lives!!\nI'm in favor of LIFE SENTENCES for child sex offenders. \nOr better yet, the DEATH PENALTY!!",
">\n\nReligion was invented by Man for Control of the Flock.You go to Confession and tell the priest everything so they can determine how to undress you.\nI was once a Catholic.....born, baptised, confirmed and educated in a Grammar school run by Irish Christian Brothers under the Order of Edmund Ignatius Rice......and now I'm an atheist.",
">\n\nHow come it is always ‘Christians’ who are involved in child sex abuse?",
">\n\nOf course he's a pedo, he's a priest!",
">\n\nYes millions of idiots keep donating billions to the church",
">\n\nNot simply donating, they bring their children along, indoctrinate them that the priest is the speaker of God, and that God can do no wrong, so anything the priest dose is holy and good. The priest even says so!\nAnd when the kids bring it up the first few times weird things happen? The parents tell them to shush. And so, the sacrifices continue, the parents make a show of not knowing, and things get worse for the children.\nAnd if the priest is reported, the church just moves them to a different parish.\nThe only difference between the taliban and the catholic church, is one of them advertises the child slaves as a benefit, while the other pretends it's not (but totally encourages it, top to bottom).",
">\n\nAnd who are the groomers again?",
">\n\nThis is what happens when you don’t recycle your printer papers.",
">\n\nI feel like this isn't oniony enough, everyone knows by now that priests are significantly more likely to be pedophiles than the general population.",
">\n\nSure, but “gets caught by leaving nudes on a printer” is a fairly onion-y end.",
">\n\nYa know you're right",
">\n\nI have a theory about the correlation between priests and pedophiles. This is my opinion based on conversations with a childhood friend (not a pedo) and is only my opinion but could explain why so many priests abuse children. Get your down votes ready. \nThese boys grow up in the church and it is all they know for the most part. When going through puberty we become attracted to a gender (male or female gay or straight sometimes somewhere in between) and more often a \"type\" as well (blonde brunette short tall etc). Our hormones drive us to seek companionship, intimacy, and ultimately procreation. \nThese boys growing up never develop this attraction to their peers but rather feel more comfortable around younger children and usually behave as mentors. The combination of love of church and disinterest in peers puts the thought in their heads that priesthood is their calling. It takes a long time and effort to become a priest. There are easier paths if a guy just wants to bang kids.\nPut together lack of sex or release of biological needs with access and constant contact with children and they are basically pushed over the edge.\nTo sum up, pedophiles don't become priests to molest children, they become priests because they don't realize they are pedophiles. This is just my opinion, and obviously there are also exceptions to this.\nPerhaps the solution is to get rid of this nonsense celibacy.",
">\n\nAlternative theory: pedophiles become priests because they know the Catholic Church will support and hide them from accountability. Plus, all those altar boys have been easy pickings for decades. \nOn the positive side, Catholic Churches are closing all over Missouri because of dwindling congregations.",
">\n\nThis is one crime I’ll never be able to fathom.",
">\n\nSo fucking sick advocating for this monster so he can maintain freedom?",
">\n\nThe church has been so infiltrated by Child abusers that they are currently rating worse than Satan Worshippers",
">\n\nCan we just fuck churches off now???",
">\n\nYour tithing had to go somewhere.",
">\n\nHow come republicans are not calling these people groomers?",
">\n\nIs anyone else picturing the scene in the first Scary Movie where the cop asks Anna Faris to look at some pictures?\nPriest hands out the pictures of himself along with the weekly pamphlet. Maybe the first reading is from the Song of Solomon...",
">\n\nOh shit. \nHas he been quietly shuffled to a new church yet?",
">\n\nI'm old enough that when I see \"slideshow\" I think of him arranging physical slides in a carousel to project on a screen, like the family trip to Disneyland. Maybe invite the neighbors over for cake.",
">\n\nLord above why is this a thing",
">\n\nYou mean not a drag queen?",
">\n\nActual groomers.",
">\n\nJust think the hands that wanked to kiddie pr0n put wafers on the tongues of everyone in that congregation...",
">\n\nLMAO. This slightly ambiguous headline had me thinking “who attended these slideshow presentations?”",
">\n\nOh look another pedophile catholic priest. Good job reinforcing that stereotype.",
">\n\nAnd we should take guidance from those who hide these atrocities so we can live a better life in the eyes of god.",
">\n\nFriendly reminder religion is a mistake that deserves to be taxed. If you threatened to tax zealots tomorrow child molestation by priests would drop to zero",
">\n\nmay your mother smile as you burn",
">\n\nThis is what happens when you have unchecked power for thousands of years.\nHorrifying.",
">\n\nDid he learn this behavior from a drag show? /s",
">\n\nReminds me of something Chris Rock said: \"Where do women find the porn? They don't find it in your hiding place, they find it in the VCR\"",
">\n\nHe was also probably saving up for a trip to Disney World.",
">\n\n\nincluding child pornography and images of child erotica.\n\nI want to know the difference but don't want to get on a watchlist by googling it.",
">\n\nWithout the word child there, there's a difference in degree. I'd say it's the same thing with that word in there just describing the subject depicted. Pornography is generally actual sex acts of some form or another. Erotica falls short of that, it may be arousing or suggestive. For example, a cabaret show may be erotica but it's certainly not pornography.",
">\n\nPriest? Church? Man in a tax evasion party house?",
">\n\nYet the church immediately moved him somewhere else as there was a daycare next door to the church, then offered to pay to have the priest under house arrest so that the child predator won't go to jail.",
">\n\nShittiest Ted Talk I’ve ever seen, honestly…",
">\n\nOnly five years?! \nUgh!",
">\n\nAnd they call LGBT+ people groomers. (eyeroll)",
">\n\nAnyone who has ever been to a church sadly knows this doesn't need to be in this sub for us to know it's a real story.",
">\n\nOh how nice. The Reverend pleaded for him not to be incarcerated. Because of fucking course he did.",
">\n\nCurious as to who he was presenting this to",
">\n\nPunish these assholes they are smearing God's name",
">\n\nStraight to (checks notes) your next parish!",
">\n\nreligion and sexual abuse. name a more iconic duo\nwhy are any of these religions even allowed to exist any more\nthey have long since lost their meanings, and onlt serve to syphon money out of gullible people, and abuse their children\nwhat is any of these religions actually adding to society any more? other than more perverted monsters",
">\n\nHe’s not the only one",
">\n\nWhy is no big tv news channel talking about this?",
">\n\nAsked that he not go to prison & that his congregation pay to house him? Fuck the church. That's almost the most disgusting part of this",
">\n\nSo are we talking a pptx or an old-school film Rolodex version? Both are messed up, but one takes A LOT more effort.",
">\n\nThe catholic church is of Satan.",
">\n\nFaith is of \"Satan.\" The idea that assuming you might be wrong is morally wrong produces some of the worst people imaginable. And that applies to secular ideologies that require looking down on those who disagree or are unsure too.",
">\n\nAge of priest over/under 50\nWhat yall got?\nI have the over.",
">\n\nOnly 5 years?",
">\n\nRight for some reason i read it as slide show meaning projectors haha. I forgot Powerpoint presentations are a thing.",
">\n\nThe congregation still requested he be spared incarceration and remain in their facility. Truly unbelievable.",
">\n\nThose damn drag queens framed him",
">\n\nThey really put a lot of effort into not saying that he was catholic in that article.",
">\n\nWonder what congregation hes been moved to now?",
">\n\nAny outrage from republicans? Will they arm themselves and storm the churches?....... Didn't think so.",
">\n\nA Christian pedophile? Who could have guessed?",
">\n\nIm shocked! Shocked I say!\nWell... not that shocked.",
">\n\nI appreciate that the church cooperated and turned him in. However, the fact they wanted to pay to house him, out of the parish coffers, is insane. He deserves incarceration and certainly not a retirement paid for by parishioners of the church he victimized. Smh, a great step for the church, if only as a PR exercise, would be to strongly condemn this sort of behavior AND strongly punish it. Defrock and excommunicate any priest who does this. It’s a very easy choice that frankly could help reinstill a little confidence in the church.",
">\n\nOFF WITH HIS GOD DAMNED FUCKING HEAD",
">\n\nWhy so quick and painless?",
">\n\nYou know you’re actually right.. OFF WITH HIS GOD DAMNED FUCKING HEAD WITH A RUSTY PAPERCLIP",
">\n\nRight to jail",
">\n\nToday on why religious institutions should be abolished",
">\n\nAnd the right won't say a thing about this man.",
">\n\nHow Catholics still a thing ?"
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The provincial says everything right…he doesn’t excuse the guy, doesn’t obfuscate what he did or what it’s gravely evil…right up until he asks for house arrest. Fuck that. Whatever the harshest penalty allowed is, do that. | [
"Slideshows????? What?\nMy man just opened up cp.ppt and added a few THOUSAND slides of kiddy porn????\nClippy: it looks like youre a depraved predator. Do you want to profane the church as well?",
">\n\nWell I always did believe Power Point was a creation of a malevolent entity.",
">\n\nTuring complete, no less!",
">\n\nBut can it run Doom?",
">\n\nAnything can run doom",
">\n\nBut can Doom run Doom?",
">\n\nDoom can run Doom because Doom runs Doom when Doom runs.",
">\n\nPeople don't run Doom like it is, but it Doom.",
">\n\nGonna take this moment to highly recommend the film Spotlight to any who haven’t seen it",
">\n\nCheck out the 2017 limited series on either Netflix or Prime: \"The Keepers\" about a Baltimore-area Catholic girls' school. Based on the experiences as told by some of the girls, now middle-aged women. It is NOT nice, will make you cry, will enrage you. But I commend the women who made this documentary for as painful as it was for the audience to watch, I can't imagine how they made it thru. And they brought it around to a decent ending, but wow....I think some of what happened in Baltimore bled over into the Spotlight story.\nLapsed Catholic. I cannot reconcile with the Church hierarchy over this because they have behaved satanically for far too long to make me believe they are holy in any way.",
">\n\nThere was a documentary that came out a year or two ago tbzg sounds similar but men who were molested as kids while in the church. \nI honestly don't know how anyone can still support the church. At all. If it was one priest, sure. It's sad it happened, but pedophiles will always exist and find ways to get to kids.\nBut with how often it happens and with how little the church cares? Nope. I never could be catholic even if I was Christian.",
">\n\nBecause saving souls bringing them into their cult is more valuable than the ones they crush. The Vatican last I heard had 7 pedos protecting by not complying with extradition requests. \nAny organization not willing to comply with the laws of the country where they have a tax exempt status should lose their exemption and title to any property they own. If you RICO cartel and mafia assets, then you can do so for these child abusers and their protective association. \nYou know the church owns most of Manhattan and isn't paying taxes? All that money and we have to tolerate this shit? Nah fuck them.",
">\n\nNude pix on the church printer . . . I can imagine the scene.\nSister Mary Michael: Yo, does anyone recognize this tallywhacker?\nFormer Alter Boy Brian: Yeah, that's Father Jim. I'd know that hairy mole anywhere.",
">\n\nThat's Tommy Turner's tallywhacker",
">\n\nIf Reddit still gave free awards, I'd give one to you for catching the reference.",
">\n\nWAIT when did they get rid of the free awards",
">\n\nguess this is how i found out. last i claimed mine is around last week, i think. i only claim once every two weeks to gild certain biweekly thread lul",
">\n\nAnd yet where are all the \"anti-groomers\" protesting these churches?",
">\n\nIt’s almost like it has never actually been about protecting children, and it’s always been about trying to demonize LGBT people",
">\n\nAt this point I am positive the religious right to life thing is about having more targets.",
">\n\nGlad 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?",
">\n\nAfter 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.",
">\n\nI 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.\nThere are also many who truly believe the schtick and just compartmentalize the bad stuff. Both are to blame regardless. Nobody gets a pass.",
">\n\nI could see that with some of the smaller denominations for sure.\nWhen 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.",
">\n\n*making another streak to the tally list wall\n*camera panning out to reveal a huge fucking wall coveres in streaks",
">\n\nMan 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.\nThat said. This man should burn for this",
">\n\nPriest? Pedo? Are you sure? This is unprecedented",
">\n\nCorrection! PedoPreist",
">\n\nNew name not necessary. If anything there should be a name for the unique priests that arent pedos.",
">\n\nI'm inclined to think the majority of priests aren't child predators themselves.\nThe 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.\nWay, way too many of them are pedo-enablers. All the way up...",
">\n\nThen that would mean that... Gasp\nSouth Park was right all along....\nSneaky little bastards didn't think I would notice....",
">\n\nWish I was surprised",
">\n\nYou make slideshows of images? \nEdit: \nOh wait I see what you mean. Yeah the pedophile priest thing is so expected that only the slideshow bit stood out",
">\n\nHoly hell. Priest have normalized pedophilia.",
">\n\nNot just priests. Protestant Christians have a major problem with sexual abuse too, particularly against children.\nAfter Major Investigation, Southern Baptists Confront the Abuse Crisis They Knew Was Coming\nDon't let the Evangelical pedo defenders get away with claiming that Catholicism is the only issue here. It isn't.",
">\n\n\nnone of them are immune to the depravity.\n\nAlmost implied, really.",
">\n\nCould 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?",
">\n\nA variety of factors:\n\nUnquestioned moral authority and intense trust from a large community who have all been taught to obey church authorities\nSupport from a massive extremely powerful institution that has covered up thousands of similar crimes\nStrictly forbidden to marry, have sex, or iirc even masturbate, making them view all sexual activities as similarly taboo for them\nEasy regular access to many children\nEasy ability to get alone time with children\nPriests are only held institutionally accountable to each other and to those with more authority in the church\nVictims 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\nChildren 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\nThe 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\nThe 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\n\nThat'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.”\nP.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.\nWant 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.\nEdit to add this excellent way to protect kids that churches consistently fight against:\n\n“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.\nchildren 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.”",
">\n\nSo this should be buried enough if I speak in general terms.\nYears back one of our pastors had to give up being a pastor. They didn't get into details of what he did but they did stress that kids were not involved. The whole church could be seen relaxing.",
">\n\n5 years for thousands of child porn images and videos? Seems pretty fucking light to me. This piece of shit should die in prison.",
">\n\n5 years and a ticket to heaven",
">\n\nHeaven? For him?",
">\n\nThat'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.",
">\n\nDon't you also have to be truly repentant for your sins, including making a good faith effort to keep from repeating them?",
">\n\nI would love for someone to answer this because I really want to know, too.",
">\n\nyes I'm pretty sure that's it. God sees people's hearts He should know the diff between true repentance and fake one",
">\n\nYes, assuming an all-powerful God existed, he’d be able to pretty easily know if you were truly sorry.",
">\n\nYeah but......... \nI'm just starting the religious apologist's sentence for them.",
">\n\nFor 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.",
">\n\nOne 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.",
">\n\nOnce I heard this theory, the acceptance by conservatives of people whose behavior is in direct conflict with their moral beliefs, made more sense.",
">\n\n5 holly maries and transfer\nafter 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.\nRev. 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.\"\nMcDevitt asked the presiding judge for \"mercy for Jim,\" and even offered for the congregation to pay to house him in lieu of imprisonment.\n\"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.\"\n\"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.\"",
">\n\nIn Australia at the moment there is a furore after the death of Cardinal George Pell who was convicted (then exonerated) of personally abusing children, but was found by a Royal Commission (that would be a special prosecutor for our American friends?) of enabling and protecting paedophile priests for decades.\nCan honestly say I have not been able to listen to the string of \"Christians\" praising this man in our media for the last few days without wanting to puke. Suffer the little children.",
">\n\nWith you there. At least there’s a lot of people calling his supporters out on this. Fuck Tony Abbott, John Howard and Andrew Bolt to name a few.",
">\n\nI 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!",
">\n\nr/PastorArrested (also includes Priests)",
">\n\nDon'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.",
">\n\nIf there is a god, wtf?",
">\n\nThere is no God. Religion is about control and money",
">\n\nAnd more money",
">\n\n\"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.\" \n- Rev. Patrick McDevitt, provincial superior for the Congregation of the Western Province \n\nEvery single member of that congregation is a horrible piece of shit",
">\n\nWhat 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?",
">\n\n“Drag queens are grooming our youth!!!”",
">\n\n\"I think we all know where people put on dresses and fuck kids\"\n-Trixie Mattel, 2022",
">\n\nKid “Bless me Father, for I have sinned”\nPadre “ call me, maybe?”",
">\n\nImagine my shock to discover that a priest has been involved in a sex scandal and one involving the exploitation of children, at that.",
">\n\nGOP: \"But wuttabout drag queens?!?!?!??!\"",
">\n\nDoing the Lords work 🙏🏾",
">\n\nTax-free",
">\n\nWhat's the deal with priests being so into pedophilia? Can't they look at milf pounds like normal people?",
">\n\nOh look... Another priest with child porn ... When do we get to start taxing the church?",
">\n\nr/pastorarrested",
">\n\nChurch is a scary place, especially for children.",
">\n\nI 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.",
">\n\nOnly 5 years. What a joke.",
">\n\n\nThe 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.\n\nIf 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.",
">\n\nNo one is suprised a priest is a pedophile. \nBut printing out yer nudes? That's odd.",
">\n\nI can think of a reason he printed it out. And I really don't like that reason.",
">\n\nI'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.",
">\n\nThe sheer audacity to do it at church where you work",
">\n\nAnd not a drag queen in sight...",
">\n\nThey do kinda wear dresses, though",
">\n\nToo many “coincidences” within this church to be anything other than systematic",
">\n\nPretty 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.",
">\n\n\nThe data often suggests numbers of pedophiles similar to the general population\n\none 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",
">\n\nYeah, 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.",
">\n\nI 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.",
">\n\nIt's so common for priests to be sickos",
">\n\nGross",
">\n\nAll he needs to do is repent, right?!?",
">\n\nA priest? With kiddie porn? I’ve never heard of such a thing!",
">\n\nRemember 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.",
">\n\n5 years that's all he got",
">\n\nThat's fucking disgusting. Misappropriation of office materials.",
">\n\nIt 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",
">\n\nIdiot 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.",
">\n\nso 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.",
">\n\nI 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 🤷♂️",
">\n\n5 years isnt nearly enough. Lock him up forever and a day.",
">\n\n~~Drag shows~~ Churches are not safe for children",
">\n\nI'm sure the religious Right will be out protesting him any second.\nRight? Right guys? Groomers and all this? Qanons? Where you guys at?\nHuh. Weird.",
">\n\nBut the dragqueens guys?!?!?!??!? /s",
">\n\nWeird that so many god loving people are actually just pedophiles. Wonder what they think god thinks of them. Fuck theism.",
">\n\nTheir god tells them to take the young girls as spoils of war. Their god is just as fucking depraved as they are.",
">\n\ntHaTs jUsT tHe oLd tEsTaMeNt tHoUgh.\ngOds mOraLiTy dOeSnt cHanGe, hE jUsT dEaLs wItH hUmAns diFFeReNtlY nOw. \nYeah when someone deals with people differently than they did before we generally call that \"a change.\"",
">\n\nAnd he wasn’t trans??? Maybe it’s been priests all along that governors should be banning. When will they correct their mistake? /s",
">\n\nDoesn'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...",
">\n\nIt's surprising. Who prints out their own nudes?",
">\n\nLock him up and throw away the keys",
">\n\nDarn priests, at least those protestant ministers keep it in the family",
">\n\nNot surprised.",
">\n\nThree hail marys and all is forgiven. What a load of bs",
">\n\nJust one bad apple, I’m sure.",
">\n\nLeast paedophilic priest",
">\n\n…slideshow?",
">\n\nGod works in mysterious ways ya fuckin chomo. As a priest, he of all people should have seen this coming...",
">\n\nIn other news, water is wet",
">\n\nOnly five years...",
">\n\n”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.” \nಠ_ಠ",
">\n\nI don’t remember this plotline during Doubt…",
">\n\nWe keep letting them get away with it, so they keep doing it. More obvious news at 10.",
">\n\n& once they found him out he got made a cardinal",
">\n\nHe should've kept them in the garage with his Corvette",
">\n\n5 years? If nothing else, using PowerPoint should have been an aggravating factor.",
">\n\nAnd you thought looking at Bob's family vacation pics was a bad time",
">\n\nWhen 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.",
">\n\nHow is the Roman Catholic Church not closed down for enabling and protecting child abusers",
">\n\nAre 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.",
">\n\nIt'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.",
">\n\npapabile!",
">\n\nLeft nudes on a shared printer? Rookie mistake.",
">\n\nTeach your priests just enough tech to effectively turn themselves in.",
">\n\nIsn't it something how the church decided to investigate themselves again. Keep it in the family, guys.\nI 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.",
">\n\nIs 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:\n1 - 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\n2 - 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)\n3 - 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.\nTL;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.",
">\n\nLet me guess.\nMoved to a different church at the other side of the country and that’s about it for consequences?",
">\n\nThose damned drag queens strike again.",
">\n\nI mean that’s kinda how they caught BTK",
">\n\nSo priests are still abusing kids after we didn't do anything to them the last few times we caught them? Color me surprised.",
">\n\n\nCourt 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.\"\n\n...\n\nDuring 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. \n\n...\n\nAnd 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. \n\nFuck everyone that allowed this scum to continue in a position of authority.",
">\n\nDon’t hear this happening at drag shows…j/s",
">\n\nHe put the PDF in pedofile",
">\n\nThis is Fucking ridiculous",
">\n\nNever forget who the actual groomers are",
">\n\nThe proud boys will be outside of churches \"protesting\" with guns now, right? right?",
">\n\nA priest being pedophile? But that is absolutely unheard of, say it isn't so!",
">\n\nYou sure this wasn't at a Trans drag show? GOP is sure this happens at Trans dragsl shows",
">\n\nExcommunicated by PowerPoint",
">\n\n5 years and a fine? FFS, that’s ridiculous.",
">\n\nPraise Jesus!",
">\n\nAnd the right thinks kids going to drag shows are the problem",
">\n\nAverage christian.",
">\n\nbut the drag queens are reading books to children in libraries! The madnessss",
">\n\nSo they moved him to a new church. This is what they have always done.",
">\n\nleast pedophilic priest:",
">\n\nThe dead ones dont hurt anyone.",
">\n\ninto the furnace he goes. theres no rehabbing people like this.",
">\n\nIt's always the ones you least expect..",
">\n\nOr in this case, the ones you MOST suspect",
">\n\nlol ya, I said that with sarcasm..",
">\n\nPray that he gets nut cancer.",
">\n\nNut cancer was once described to me as \"the common cold of cancers\". It has something like a 95% survival rate.\nHe deserves worse.",
">\n\nDidn't know that. Good nut fact for the day.",
">\n\nIt's definitely the drag queens reading to kids in libraries that's the problem.",
">\n\nRight wingers want him to be a closeted drag queen so badly",
">\n\nI could never trust any man who goes into priesthood. Completely unnatural and deviant occupation rife with pedophiles.",
">\n\nThis MONSTER got 5 years?! \nThe CHILDREN being abused in the images will suffer for the rest of their lives!!\nI'm in favor of LIFE SENTENCES for child sex offenders. \nOr better yet, the DEATH PENALTY!!",
">\n\nReligion was invented by Man for Control of the Flock.You go to Confession and tell the priest everything so they can determine how to undress you.\nI was once a Catholic.....born, baptised, confirmed and educated in a Grammar school run by Irish Christian Brothers under the Order of Edmund Ignatius Rice......and now I'm an atheist.",
">\n\nHow come it is always ‘Christians’ who are involved in child sex abuse?",
">\n\nOf course he's a pedo, he's a priest!",
">\n\nYes millions of idiots keep donating billions to the church",
">\n\nNot simply donating, they bring their children along, indoctrinate them that the priest is the speaker of God, and that God can do no wrong, so anything the priest dose is holy and good. The priest even says so!\nAnd when the kids bring it up the first few times weird things happen? The parents tell them to shush. And so, the sacrifices continue, the parents make a show of not knowing, and things get worse for the children.\nAnd if the priest is reported, the church just moves them to a different parish.\nThe only difference between the taliban and the catholic church, is one of them advertises the child slaves as a benefit, while the other pretends it's not (but totally encourages it, top to bottom).",
">\n\nAnd who are the groomers again?",
">\n\nThis is what happens when you don’t recycle your printer papers.",
">\n\nI feel like this isn't oniony enough, everyone knows by now that priests are significantly more likely to be pedophiles than the general population.",
">\n\nSure, but “gets caught by leaving nudes on a printer” is a fairly onion-y end.",
">\n\nYa know you're right",
">\n\nI have a theory about the correlation between priests and pedophiles. This is my opinion based on conversations with a childhood friend (not a pedo) and is only my opinion but could explain why so many priests abuse children. Get your down votes ready. \nThese boys grow up in the church and it is all they know for the most part. When going through puberty we become attracted to a gender (male or female gay or straight sometimes somewhere in between) and more often a \"type\" as well (blonde brunette short tall etc). Our hormones drive us to seek companionship, intimacy, and ultimately procreation. \nThese boys growing up never develop this attraction to their peers but rather feel more comfortable around younger children and usually behave as mentors. The combination of love of church and disinterest in peers puts the thought in their heads that priesthood is their calling. It takes a long time and effort to become a priest. There are easier paths if a guy just wants to bang kids.\nPut together lack of sex or release of biological needs with access and constant contact with children and they are basically pushed over the edge.\nTo sum up, pedophiles don't become priests to molest children, they become priests because they don't realize they are pedophiles. This is just my opinion, and obviously there are also exceptions to this.\nPerhaps the solution is to get rid of this nonsense celibacy.",
">\n\nAlternative theory: pedophiles become priests because they know the Catholic Church will support and hide them from accountability. Plus, all those altar boys have been easy pickings for decades. \nOn the positive side, Catholic Churches are closing all over Missouri because of dwindling congregations.",
">\n\nThis is one crime I’ll never be able to fathom.",
">\n\nSo fucking sick advocating for this monster so he can maintain freedom?",
">\n\nThe church has been so infiltrated by Child abusers that they are currently rating worse than Satan Worshippers",
">\n\nCan we just fuck churches off now???",
">\n\nYour tithing had to go somewhere.",
">\n\nHow come republicans are not calling these people groomers?",
">\n\nIs anyone else picturing the scene in the first Scary Movie where the cop asks Anna Faris to look at some pictures?\nPriest hands out the pictures of himself along with the weekly pamphlet. Maybe the first reading is from the Song of Solomon...",
">\n\nOh shit. \nHas he been quietly shuffled to a new church yet?",
">\n\nI'm old enough that when I see \"slideshow\" I think of him arranging physical slides in a carousel to project on a screen, like the family trip to Disneyland. Maybe invite the neighbors over for cake.",
">\n\nLord above why is this a thing",
">\n\nYou mean not a drag queen?",
">\n\nActual groomers.",
">\n\nJust think the hands that wanked to kiddie pr0n put wafers on the tongues of everyone in that congregation...",
">\n\nLMAO. This slightly ambiguous headline had me thinking “who attended these slideshow presentations?”",
">\n\nOh look another pedophile catholic priest. Good job reinforcing that stereotype.",
">\n\nAnd we should take guidance from those who hide these atrocities so we can live a better life in the eyes of god.",
">\n\nFriendly reminder religion is a mistake that deserves to be taxed. If you threatened to tax zealots tomorrow child molestation by priests would drop to zero",
">\n\nmay your mother smile as you burn",
">\n\nThis is what happens when you have unchecked power for thousands of years.\nHorrifying.",
">\n\nDid he learn this behavior from a drag show? /s",
">\n\nReminds me of something Chris Rock said: \"Where do women find the porn? They don't find it in your hiding place, they find it in the VCR\"",
">\n\nHe was also probably saving up for a trip to Disney World.",
">\n\n\nincluding child pornography and images of child erotica.\n\nI want to know the difference but don't want to get on a watchlist by googling it.",
">\n\nWithout the word child there, there's a difference in degree. I'd say it's the same thing with that word in there just describing the subject depicted. Pornography is generally actual sex acts of some form or another. Erotica falls short of that, it may be arousing or suggestive. For example, a cabaret show may be erotica but it's certainly not pornography.",
">\n\nPriest? Church? Man in a tax evasion party house?",
">\n\nYet the church immediately moved him somewhere else as there was a daycare next door to the church, then offered to pay to have the priest under house arrest so that the child predator won't go to jail.",
">\n\nShittiest Ted Talk I’ve ever seen, honestly…",
">\n\nOnly five years?! \nUgh!",
">\n\nAnd they call LGBT+ people groomers. (eyeroll)",
">\n\nAnyone who has ever been to a church sadly knows this doesn't need to be in this sub for us to know it's a real story.",
">\n\nOh how nice. The Reverend pleaded for him not to be incarcerated. Because of fucking course he did.",
">\n\nCurious as to who he was presenting this to",
">\n\nPunish these assholes they are smearing God's name",
">\n\nStraight to (checks notes) your next parish!",
">\n\nreligion and sexual abuse. name a more iconic duo\nwhy are any of these religions even allowed to exist any more\nthey have long since lost their meanings, and onlt serve to syphon money out of gullible people, and abuse their children\nwhat is any of these religions actually adding to society any more? other than more perverted monsters",
">\n\nHe’s not the only one",
">\n\nWhy is no big tv news channel talking about this?",
">\n\nAsked that he not go to prison & that his congregation pay to house him? Fuck the church. That's almost the most disgusting part of this",
">\n\nSo are we talking a pptx or an old-school film Rolodex version? Both are messed up, but one takes A LOT more effort.",
">\n\nThe catholic church is of Satan.",
">\n\nFaith is of \"Satan.\" The idea that assuming you might be wrong is morally wrong produces some of the worst people imaginable. And that applies to secular ideologies that require looking down on those who disagree or are unsure too.",
">\n\nAge of priest over/under 50\nWhat yall got?\nI have the over.",
">\n\nOnly 5 years?",
">\n\nRight for some reason i read it as slide show meaning projectors haha. I forgot Powerpoint presentations are a thing.",
">\n\nThe congregation still requested he be spared incarceration and remain in their facility. Truly unbelievable.",
">\n\nThose damn drag queens framed him",
">\n\nThey really put a lot of effort into not saying that he was catholic in that article.",
">\n\nWonder what congregation hes been moved to now?",
">\n\nAny outrage from republicans? Will they arm themselves and storm the churches?....... Didn't think so.",
">\n\nA Christian pedophile? Who could have guessed?",
">\n\nIm shocked! Shocked I say!\nWell... not that shocked.",
">\n\nI appreciate that the church cooperated and turned him in. However, the fact they wanted to pay to house him, out of the parish coffers, is insane. He deserves incarceration and certainly not a retirement paid for by parishioners of the church he victimized. Smh, a great step for the church, if only as a PR exercise, would be to strongly condemn this sort of behavior AND strongly punish it. Defrock and excommunicate any priest who does this. It’s a very easy choice that frankly could help reinstill a little confidence in the church.",
">\n\nOFF WITH HIS GOD DAMNED FUCKING HEAD",
">\n\nWhy so quick and painless?",
">\n\nYou know you’re actually right.. OFF WITH HIS GOD DAMNED FUCKING HEAD WITH A RUSTY PAPERCLIP",
">\n\nRight to jail",
">\n\nToday on why religious institutions should be abolished",
">\n\nAnd the right won't say a thing about this man.",
">\n\nHow Catholics still a thing ?",
">\n\nAnd the Church will cover it up or just say they are very sorry 🤬"
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"Slideshows????? What?\nMy man just opened up cp.ppt and added a few THOUSAND slides of kiddy porn????\nClippy: it looks like youre a depraved predator. Do you want to profane the church as well?",
">\n\nWell I always did believe Power Point was a creation of a malevolent entity.",
">\n\nTuring complete, no less!",
">\n\nBut can it run Doom?",
">\n\nAnything can run doom",
">\n\nBut can Doom run Doom?",
">\n\nDoom can run Doom because Doom runs Doom when Doom runs.",
">\n\nPeople don't run Doom like it is, but it Doom.",
">\n\nGonna take this moment to highly recommend the film Spotlight to any who haven’t seen it",
">\n\nCheck out the 2017 limited series on either Netflix or Prime: \"The Keepers\" about a Baltimore-area Catholic girls' school. Based on the experiences as told by some of the girls, now middle-aged women. It is NOT nice, will make you cry, will enrage you. But I commend the women who made this documentary for as painful as it was for the audience to watch, I can't imagine how they made it thru. And they brought it around to a decent ending, but wow....I think some of what happened in Baltimore bled over into the Spotlight story.\nLapsed Catholic. I cannot reconcile with the Church hierarchy over this because they have behaved satanically for far too long to make me believe they are holy in any way.",
">\n\nThere was a documentary that came out a year or two ago tbzg sounds similar but men who were molested as kids while in the church. \nI honestly don't know how anyone can still support the church. At all. If it was one priest, sure. It's sad it happened, but pedophiles will always exist and find ways to get to kids.\nBut with how often it happens and with how little the church cares? Nope. I never could be catholic even if I was Christian.",
">\n\nBecause saving souls bringing them into their cult is more valuable than the ones they crush. The Vatican last I heard had 7 pedos protecting by not complying with extradition requests. \nAny organization not willing to comply with the laws of the country where they have a tax exempt status should lose their exemption and title to any property they own. If you RICO cartel and mafia assets, then you can do so for these child abusers and their protective association. \nYou know the church owns most of Manhattan and isn't paying taxes? All that money and we have to tolerate this shit? Nah fuck them.",
">\n\nNude pix on the church printer . . . I can imagine the scene.\nSister Mary Michael: Yo, does anyone recognize this tallywhacker?\nFormer Alter Boy Brian: Yeah, that's Father Jim. I'd know that hairy mole anywhere.",
">\n\nThat's Tommy Turner's tallywhacker",
">\n\nIf Reddit still gave free awards, I'd give one to you for catching the reference.",
">\n\nWAIT when did they get rid of the free awards",
">\n\nguess this is how i found out. last i claimed mine is around last week, i think. i only claim once every two weeks to gild certain biweekly thread lul",
">\n\nAnd yet where are all the \"anti-groomers\" protesting these churches?",
">\n\nIt’s almost like it has never actually been about protecting children, and it’s always been about trying to demonize LGBT people",
">\n\nAt this point I am positive the religious right to life thing is about having more targets.",
">\n\nGlad 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?",
">\n\nAfter 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.",
">\n\nI 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.\nThere are also many who truly believe the schtick and just compartmentalize the bad stuff. Both are to blame regardless. Nobody gets a pass.",
">\n\nI could see that with some of the smaller denominations for sure.\nWhen 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.",
">\n\n*making another streak to the tally list wall\n*camera panning out to reveal a huge fucking wall coveres in streaks",
">\n\nMan 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.\nThat said. This man should burn for this",
">\n\nPriest? Pedo? Are you sure? This is unprecedented",
">\n\nCorrection! PedoPreist",
">\n\nNew name not necessary. If anything there should be a name for the unique priests that arent pedos.",
">\n\nI'm inclined to think the majority of priests aren't child predators themselves.\nThe 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.\nWay, way too many of them are pedo-enablers. All the way up...",
">\n\nThen that would mean that... Gasp\nSouth Park was right all along....\nSneaky little bastards didn't think I would notice....",
">\n\nWish I was surprised",
">\n\nYou make slideshows of images? \nEdit: \nOh wait I see what you mean. Yeah the pedophile priest thing is so expected that only the slideshow bit stood out",
">\n\nHoly hell. Priest have normalized pedophilia.",
">\n\nNot just priests. Protestant Christians have a major problem with sexual abuse too, particularly against children.\nAfter Major Investigation, Southern Baptists Confront the Abuse Crisis They Knew Was Coming\nDon't let the Evangelical pedo defenders get away with claiming that Catholicism is the only issue here. It isn't.",
">\n\n\nnone of them are immune to the depravity.\n\nAlmost implied, really.",
">\n\nCould 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?",
">\n\nA variety of factors:\n\nUnquestioned moral authority and intense trust from a large community who have all been taught to obey church authorities\nSupport from a massive extremely powerful institution that has covered up thousands of similar crimes\nStrictly forbidden to marry, have sex, or iirc even masturbate, making them view all sexual activities as similarly taboo for them\nEasy regular access to many children\nEasy ability to get alone time with children\nPriests are only held institutionally accountable to each other and to those with more authority in the church\nVictims 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\nChildren 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\nThe 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\nThe 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\n\nThat'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.”\nP.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.\nWant 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.\nEdit to add this excellent way to protect kids that churches consistently fight against:\n\n“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.\nchildren 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.”",
">\n\nSo this should be buried enough if I speak in general terms.\nYears back one of our pastors had to give up being a pastor. They didn't get into details of what he did but they did stress that kids were not involved. The whole church could be seen relaxing.",
">\n\n5 years for thousands of child porn images and videos? Seems pretty fucking light to me. This piece of shit should die in prison.",
">\n\n5 years and a ticket to heaven",
">\n\nHeaven? For him?",
">\n\nThat'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.",
">\n\nDon't you also have to be truly repentant for your sins, including making a good faith effort to keep from repeating them?",
">\n\nI would love for someone to answer this because I really want to know, too.",
">\n\nyes I'm pretty sure that's it. God sees people's hearts He should know the diff between true repentance and fake one",
">\n\nYes, assuming an all-powerful God existed, he’d be able to pretty easily know if you were truly sorry.",
">\n\nYeah but......... \nI'm just starting the religious apologist's sentence for them.",
">\n\nFor 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.",
">\n\nOne 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.",
">\n\nOnce I heard this theory, the acceptance by conservatives of people whose behavior is in direct conflict with their moral beliefs, made more sense.",
">\n\n5 holly maries and transfer\nafter 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.\nRev. 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.\"\nMcDevitt asked the presiding judge for \"mercy for Jim,\" and even offered for the congregation to pay to house him in lieu of imprisonment.\n\"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.\"\n\"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.\"",
">\n\nIn Australia at the moment there is a furore after the death of Cardinal George Pell who was convicted (then exonerated) of personally abusing children, but was found by a Royal Commission (that would be a special prosecutor for our American friends?) of enabling and protecting paedophile priests for decades.\nCan honestly say I have not been able to listen to the string of \"Christians\" praising this man in our media for the last few days without wanting to puke. Suffer the little children.",
">\n\nWith you there. At least there’s a lot of people calling his supporters out on this. Fuck Tony Abbott, John Howard and Andrew Bolt to name a few.",
">\n\nI 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!",
">\n\nr/PastorArrested (also includes Priests)",
">\n\nDon'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.",
">\n\nIf there is a god, wtf?",
">\n\nThere is no God. Religion is about control and money",
">\n\nAnd more money",
">\n\n\"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.\" \n- Rev. Patrick McDevitt, provincial superior for the Congregation of the Western Province \n\nEvery single member of that congregation is a horrible piece of shit",
">\n\nWhat 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?",
">\n\n“Drag queens are grooming our youth!!!”",
">\n\n\"I think we all know where people put on dresses and fuck kids\"\n-Trixie Mattel, 2022",
">\n\nKid “Bless me Father, for I have sinned”\nPadre “ call me, maybe?”",
">\n\nImagine my shock to discover that a priest has been involved in a sex scandal and one involving the exploitation of children, at that.",
">\n\nGOP: \"But wuttabout drag queens?!?!?!??!\"",
">\n\nDoing the Lords work 🙏🏾",
">\n\nTax-free",
">\n\nWhat's the deal with priests being so into pedophilia? Can't they look at milf pounds like normal people?",
">\n\nOh look... Another priest with child porn ... When do we get to start taxing the church?",
">\n\nr/pastorarrested",
">\n\nChurch is a scary place, especially for children.",
">\n\nI 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.",
">\n\nOnly 5 years. What a joke.",
">\n\n\nThe 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.\n\nIf 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.",
">\n\nNo one is suprised a priest is a pedophile. \nBut printing out yer nudes? That's odd.",
">\n\nI can think of a reason he printed it out. And I really don't like that reason.",
">\n\nI'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.",
">\n\nThe sheer audacity to do it at church where you work",
">\n\nAnd not a drag queen in sight...",
">\n\nThey do kinda wear dresses, though",
">\n\nToo many “coincidences” within this church to be anything other than systematic",
">\n\nPretty 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.",
">\n\n\nThe data often suggests numbers of pedophiles similar to the general population\n\none 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",
">\n\nYeah, 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.",
">\n\nI 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.",
">\n\nIt's so common for priests to be sickos",
">\n\nGross",
">\n\nAll he needs to do is repent, right?!?",
">\n\nA priest? With kiddie porn? I’ve never heard of such a thing!",
">\n\nRemember 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.",
">\n\n5 years that's all he got",
">\n\nThat's fucking disgusting. Misappropriation of office materials.",
">\n\nIt 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",
">\n\nIdiot 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.",
">\n\nso 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.",
">\n\nI 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 🤷♂️",
">\n\n5 years isnt nearly enough. Lock him up forever and a day.",
">\n\n~~Drag shows~~ Churches are not safe for children",
">\n\nI'm sure the religious Right will be out protesting him any second.\nRight? Right guys? Groomers and all this? Qanons? Where you guys at?\nHuh. Weird.",
">\n\nBut the dragqueens guys?!?!?!??!? /s",
">\n\nWeird that so many god loving people are actually just pedophiles. Wonder what they think god thinks of them. Fuck theism.",
">\n\nTheir god tells them to take the young girls as spoils of war. Their god is just as fucking depraved as they are.",
">\n\ntHaTs jUsT tHe oLd tEsTaMeNt tHoUgh.\ngOds mOraLiTy dOeSnt cHanGe, hE jUsT dEaLs wItH hUmAns diFFeReNtlY nOw. \nYeah when someone deals with people differently than they did before we generally call that \"a change.\"",
">\n\nAnd he wasn’t trans??? Maybe it’s been priests all along that governors should be banning. When will they correct their mistake? /s",
">\n\nDoesn'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...",
">\n\nIt's surprising. Who prints out their own nudes?",
">\n\nLock him up and throw away the keys",
">\n\nDarn priests, at least those protestant ministers keep it in the family",
">\n\nNot surprised.",
">\n\nThree hail marys and all is forgiven. What a load of bs",
">\n\nJust one bad apple, I’m sure.",
">\n\nLeast paedophilic priest",
">\n\n…slideshow?",
">\n\nGod works in mysterious ways ya fuckin chomo. As a priest, he of all people should have seen this coming...",
">\n\nIn other news, water is wet",
">\n\nOnly five years...",
">\n\n”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.” \nಠ_ಠ",
">\n\nI don’t remember this plotline during Doubt…",
">\n\nWe keep letting them get away with it, so they keep doing it. More obvious news at 10.",
">\n\n& once they found him out he got made a cardinal",
">\n\nHe should've kept them in the garage with his Corvette",
">\n\n5 years? If nothing else, using PowerPoint should have been an aggravating factor.",
">\n\nAnd you thought looking at Bob's family vacation pics was a bad time",
">\n\nWhen 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.",
">\n\nHow is the Roman Catholic Church not closed down for enabling and protecting child abusers",
">\n\nAre 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.",
">\n\nIt'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.",
">\n\npapabile!",
">\n\nLeft nudes on a shared printer? Rookie mistake.",
">\n\nTeach your priests just enough tech to effectively turn themselves in.",
">\n\nIsn't it something how the church decided to investigate themselves again. Keep it in the family, guys.\nI 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.",
">\n\nIs 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:\n1 - 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\n2 - 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)\n3 - 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.\nTL;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.",
">\n\nLet me guess.\nMoved to a different church at the other side of the country and that’s about it for consequences?",
">\n\nThose damned drag queens strike again.",
">\n\nI mean that’s kinda how they caught BTK",
">\n\nSo priests are still abusing kids after we didn't do anything to them the last few times we caught them? Color me surprised.",
">\n\n\nCourt 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.\"\n\n...\n\nDuring 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. \n\n...\n\nAnd 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. \n\nFuck everyone that allowed this scum to continue in a position of authority.",
">\n\nDon’t hear this happening at drag shows…j/s",
">\n\nHe put the PDF in pedofile",
">\n\nThis is Fucking ridiculous",
">\n\nNever forget who the actual groomers are",
">\n\nThe proud boys will be outside of churches \"protesting\" with guns now, right? right?",
">\n\nA priest being pedophile? But that is absolutely unheard of, say it isn't so!",
">\n\nYou sure this wasn't at a Trans drag show? GOP is sure this happens at Trans dragsl shows",
">\n\nExcommunicated by PowerPoint",
">\n\n5 years and a fine? FFS, that’s ridiculous.",
">\n\nPraise Jesus!",
">\n\nAnd the right thinks kids going to drag shows are the problem",
">\n\nAverage christian.",
">\n\nbut the drag queens are reading books to children in libraries! The madnessss",
">\n\nSo they moved him to a new church. This is what they have always done.",
">\n\nleast pedophilic priest:",
">\n\nThe dead ones dont hurt anyone.",
">\n\ninto the furnace he goes. theres no rehabbing people like this.",
">\n\nIt's always the ones you least expect..",
">\n\nOr in this case, the ones you MOST suspect",
">\n\nlol ya, I said that with sarcasm..",
">\n\nPray that he gets nut cancer.",
">\n\nNut cancer was once described to me as \"the common cold of cancers\". It has something like a 95% survival rate.\nHe deserves worse.",
">\n\nDidn't know that. Good nut fact for the day.",
">\n\nIt's definitely the drag queens reading to kids in libraries that's the problem.",
">\n\nRight wingers want him to be a closeted drag queen so badly",
">\n\nI could never trust any man who goes into priesthood. Completely unnatural and deviant occupation rife with pedophiles.",
">\n\nThis MONSTER got 5 years?! \nThe CHILDREN being abused in the images will suffer for the rest of their lives!!\nI'm in favor of LIFE SENTENCES for child sex offenders. \nOr better yet, the DEATH PENALTY!!",
">\n\nReligion was invented by Man for Control of the Flock.You go to Confession and tell the priest everything so they can determine how to undress you.\nI was once a Catholic.....born, baptised, confirmed and educated in a Grammar school run by Irish Christian Brothers under the Order of Edmund Ignatius Rice......and now I'm an atheist.",
">\n\nHow come it is always ‘Christians’ who are involved in child sex abuse?",
">\n\nOf course he's a pedo, he's a priest!",
">\n\nYes millions of idiots keep donating billions to the church",
">\n\nNot simply donating, they bring their children along, indoctrinate them that the priest is the speaker of God, and that God can do no wrong, so anything the priest dose is holy and good. The priest even says so!\nAnd when the kids bring it up the first few times weird things happen? The parents tell them to shush. And so, the sacrifices continue, the parents make a show of not knowing, and things get worse for the children.\nAnd if the priest is reported, the church just moves them to a different parish.\nThe only difference between the taliban and the catholic church, is one of them advertises the child slaves as a benefit, while the other pretends it's not (but totally encourages it, top to bottom).",
">\n\nAnd who are the groomers again?",
">\n\nThis is what happens when you don’t recycle your printer papers.",
">\n\nI feel like this isn't oniony enough, everyone knows by now that priests are significantly more likely to be pedophiles than the general population.",
">\n\nSure, but “gets caught by leaving nudes on a printer” is a fairly onion-y end.",
">\n\nYa know you're right",
">\n\nI have a theory about the correlation between priests and pedophiles. This is my opinion based on conversations with a childhood friend (not a pedo) and is only my opinion but could explain why so many priests abuse children. Get your down votes ready. \nThese boys grow up in the church and it is all they know for the most part. When going through puberty we become attracted to a gender (male or female gay or straight sometimes somewhere in between) and more often a \"type\" as well (blonde brunette short tall etc). Our hormones drive us to seek companionship, intimacy, and ultimately procreation. \nThese boys growing up never develop this attraction to their peers but rather feel more comfortable around younger children and usually behave as mentors. The combination of love of church and disinterest in peers puts the thought in their heads that priesthood is their calling. It takes a long time and effort to become a priest. There are easier paths if a guy just wants to bang kids.\nPut together lack of sex or release of biological needs with access and constant contact with children and they are basically pushed over the edge.\nTo sum up, pedophiles don't become priests to molest children, they become priests because they don't realize they are pedophiles. This is just my opinion, and obviously there are also exceptions to this.\nPerhaps the solution is to get rid of this nonsense celibacy.",
">\n\nAlternative theory: pedophiles become priests because they know the Catholic Church will support and hide them from accountability. Plus, all those altar boys have been easy pickings for decades. \nOn the positive side, Catholic Churches are closing all over Missouri because of dwindling congregations.",
">\n\nThis is one crime I’ll never be able to fathom.",
">\n\nSo fucking sick advocating for this monster so he can maintain freedom?",
">\n\nThe church has been so infiltrated by Child abusers that they are currently rating worse than Satan Worshippers",
">\n\nCan we just fuck churches off now???",
">\n\nYour tithing had to go somewhere.",
">\n\nHow come republicans are not calling these people groomers?",
">\n\nIs anyone else picturing the scene in the first Scary Movie where the cop asks Anna Faris to look at some pictures?\nPriest hands out the pictures of himself along with the weekly pamphlet. Maybe the first reading is from the Song of Solomon...",
">\n\nOh shit. \nHas he been quietly shuffled to a new church yet?",
">\n\nI'm old enough that when I see \"slideshow\" I think of him arranging physical slides in a carousel to project on a screen, like the family trip to Disneyland. Maybe invite the neighbors over for cake.",
">\n\nLord above why is this a thing",
">\n\nYou mean not a drag queen?",
">\n\nActual groomers.",
">\n\nJust think the hands that wanked to kiddie pr0n put wafers on the tongues of everyone in that congregation...",
">\n\nLMAO. This slightly ambiguous headline had me thinking “who attended these slideshow presentations?”",
">\n\nOh look another pedophile catholic priest. Good job reinforcing that stereotype.",
">\n\nAnd we should take guidance from those who hide these atrocities so we can live a better life in the eyes of god.",
">\n\nFriendly reminder religion is a mistake that deserves to be taxed. If you threatened to tax zealots tomorrow child molestation by priests would drop to zero",
">\n\nmay your mother smile as you burn",
">\n\nThis is what happens when you have unchecked power for thousands of years.\nHorrifying.",
">\n\nDid he learn this behavior from a drag show? /s",
">\n\nReminds me of something Chris Rock said: \"Where do women find the porn? They don't find it in your hiding place, they find it in the VCR\"",
">\n\nHe was also probably saving up for a trip to Disney World.",
">\n\n\nincluding child pornography and images of child erotica.\n\nI want to know the difference but don't want to get on a watchlist by googling it.",
">\n\nWithout the word child there, there's a difference in degree. I'd say it's the same thing with that word in there just describing the subject depicted. Pornography is generally actual sex acts of some form or another. Erotica falls short of that, it may be arousing or suggestive. For example, a cabaret show may be erotica but it's certainly not pornography.",
">\n\nPriest? Church? Man in a tax evasion party house?",
">\n\nYet the church immediately moved him somewhere else as there was a daycare next door to the church, then offered to pay to have the priest under house arrest so that the child predator won't go to jail.",
">\n\nShittiest Ted Talk I’ve ever seen, honestly…",
">\n\nOnly five years?! \nUgh!",
">\n\nAnd they call LGBT+ people groomers. (eyeroll)",
">\n\nAnyone who has ever been to a church sadly knows this doesn't need to be in this sub for us to know it's a real story.",
">\n\nOh how nice. The Reverend pleaded for him not to be incarcerated. Because of fucking course he did.",
">\n\nCurious as to who he was presenting this to",
">\n\nPunish these assholes they are smearing God's name",
">\n\nStraight to (checks notes) your next parish!",
">\n\nreligion and sexual abuse. name a more iconic duo\nwhy are any of these religions even allowed to exist any more\nthey have long since lost their meanings, and onlt serve to syphon money out of gullible people, and abuse their children\nwhat is any of these religions actually adding to society any more? other than more perverted monsters",
">\n\nHe’s not the only one",
">\n\nWhy is no big tv news channel talking about this?",
">\n\nAsked that he not go to prison & that his congregation pay to house him? Fuck the church. That's almost the most disgusting part of this",
">\n\nSo are we talking a pptx or an old-school film Rolodex version? Both are messed up, but one takes A LOT more effort.",
">\n\nThe catholic church is of Satan.",
">\n\nFaith is of \"Satan.\" The idea that assuming you might be wrong is morally wrong produces some of the worst people imaginable. And that applies to secular ideologies that require looking down on those who disagree or are unsure too.",
">\n\nAge of priest over/under 50\nWhat yall got?\nI have the over.",
">\n\nOnly 5 years?",
">\n\nRight for some reason i read it as slide show meaning projectors haha. I forgot Powerpoint presentations are a thing.",
">\n\nThe congregation still requested he be spared incarceration and remain in their facility. Truly unbelievable.",
">\n\nThose damn drag queens framed him",
">\n\nThey really put a lot of effort into not saying that he was catholic in that article.",
">\n\nWonder what congregation hes been moved to now?",
">\n\nAny outrage from republicans? Will they arm themselves and storm the churches?....... Didn't think so.",
">\n\nA Christian pedophile? Who could have guessed?",
">\n\nIm shocked! Shocked I say!\nWell... not that shocked.",
">\n\nI appreciate that the church cooperated and turned him in. However, the fact they wanted to pay to house him, out of the parish coffers, is insane. He deserves incarceration and certainly not a retirement paid for by parishioners of the church he victimized. Smh, a great step for the church, if only as a PR exercise, would be to strongly condemn this sort of behavior AND strongly punish it. Defrock and excommunicate any priest who does this. It’s a very easy choice that frankly could help reinstill a little confidence in the church.",
">\n\nOFF WITH HIS GOD DAMNED FUCKING HEAD",
">\n\nWhy so quick and painless?",
">\n\nYou know you’re actually right.. OFF WITH HIS GOD DAMNED FUCKING HEAD WITH A RUSTY PAPERCLIP",
">\n\nRight to jail",
">\n\nToday on why religious institutions should be abolished",
">\n\nAnd the right won't say a thing about this man.",
">\n\nHow Catholics still a thing ?",
">\n\nAnd the Church will cover it up or just say they are very sorry 🤬",
">\n\nThe provincial says everything right…he doesn’t excuse the guy, doesn’t obfuscate what he did or what it’s gravely evil…right up until he asks for house arrest. Fuck that. Whatever the harshest penalty allowed is, do that."
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"Slideshows????? What?\nMy man just opened up cp.ppt and added a few THOUSAND slides of kiddy porn????\nClippy: it looks like youre a depraved predator. Do you want to profane the church as well?",
">\n\nWell I always did believe Power Point was a creation of a malevolent entity.",
">\n\nTuring complete, no less!",
">\n\nBut can it run Doom?",
">\n\nAnything can run doom",
">\n\nBut can Doom run Doom?",
">\n\nDoom can run Doom because Doom runs Doom when Doom runs.",
">\n\nPeople don't run Doom like it is, but it Doom.",
">\n\nGonna take this moment to highly recommend the film Spotlight to any who haven’t seen it",
">\n\nCheck out the 2017 limited series on either Netflix or Prime: \"The Keepers\" about a Baltimore-area Catholic girls' school. Based on the experiences as told by some of the girls, now middle-aged women. It is NOT nice, will make you cry, will enrage you. But I commend the women who made this documentary for as painful as it was for the audience to watch, I can't imagine how they made it thru. And they brought it around to a decent ending, but wow....I think some of what happened in Baltimore bled over into the Spotlight story.\nLapsed Catholic. I cannot reconcile with the Church hierarchy over this because they have behaved satanically for far too long to make me believe they are holy in any way.",
">\n\nThere was a documentary that came out a year or two ago tbzg sounds similar but men who were molested as kids while in the church. \nI honestly don't know how anyone can still support the church. At all. If it was one priest, sure. It's sad it happened, but pedophiles will always exist and find ways to get to kids.\nBut with how often it happens and with how little the church cares? Nope. I never could be catholic even if I was Christian.",
">\n\nBecause saving souls bringing them into their cult is more valuable than the ones they crush. The Vatican last I heard had 7 pedos protecting by not complying with extradition requests. \nAny organization not willing to comply with the laws of the country where they have a tax exempt status should lose their exemption and title to any property they own. If you RICO cartel and mafia assets, then you can do so for these child abusers and their protective association. \nYou know the church owns most of Manhattan and isn't paying taxes? All that money and we have to tolerate this shit? Nah fuck them.",
">\n\nNude pix on the church printer . . . I can imagine the scene.\nSister Mary Michael: Yo, does anyone recognize this tallywhacker?\nFormer Alter Boy Brian: Yeah, that's Father Jim. I'd know that hairy mole anywhere.",
">\n\nThat's Tommy Turner's tallywhacker",
">\n\nIf Reddit still gave free awards, I'd give one to you for catching the reference.",
">\n\nWAIT when did they get rid of the free awards",
">\n\nguess this is how i found out. last i claimed mine is around last week, i think. i only claim once every two weeks to gild certain biweekly thread lul",
">\n\nAnd yet where are all the \"anti-groomers\" protesting these churches?",
">\n\nIt’s almost like it has never actually been about protecting children, and it’s always been about trying to demonize LGBT people",
">\n\nAt this point I am positive the religious right to life thing is about having more targets.",
">\n\nGlad 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?",
">\n\nAfter 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.",
">\n\nI 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.\nThere are also many who truly believe the schtick and just compartmentalize the bad stuff. Both are to blame regardless. Nobody gets a pass.",
">\n\nI could see that with some of the smaller denominations for sure.\nWhen 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.",
">\n\n*making another streak to the tally list wall\n*camera panning out to reveal a huge fucking wall coveres in streaks",
">\n\nMan 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.\nThat said. This man should burn for this",
">\n\nPriest? Pedo? Are you sure? This is unprecedented",
">\n\nCorrection! PedoPreist",
">\n\nNew name not necessary. If anything there should be a name for the unique priests that arent pedos.",
">\n\nI'm inclined to think the majority of priests aren't child predators themselves.\nThe 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.\nWay, way too many of them are pedo-enablers. All the way up...",
">\n\nThen that would mean that... Gasp\nSouth Park was right all along....\nSneaky little bastards didn't think I would notice....",
">\n\nWish I was surprised",
">\n\nYou make slideshows of images? \nEdit: \nOh wait I see what you mean. Yeah the pedophile priest thing is so expected that only the slideshow bit stood out",
">\n\nHoly hell. Priest have normalized pedophilia.",
">\n\nNot just priests. Protestant Christians have a major problem with sexual abuse too, particularly against children.\nAfter Major Investigation, Southern Baptists Confront the Abuse Crisis They Knew Was Coming\nDon't let the Evangelical pedo defenders get away with claiming that Catholicism is the only issue here. It isn't.",
">\n\n\nnone of them are immune to the depravity.\n\nAlmost implied, really.",
">\n\nCould 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?",
">\n\nA variety of factors:\n\nUnquestioned moral authority and intense trust from a large community who have all been taught to obey church authorities\nSupport from a massive extremely powerful institution that has covered up thousands of similar crimes\nStrictly forbidden to marry, have sex, or iirc even masturbate, making them view all sexual activities as similarly taboo for them\nEasy regular access to many children\nEasy ability to get alone time with children\nPriests are only held institutionally accountable to each other and to those with more authority in the church\nVictims 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\nChildren 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\nThe 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\nThe 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\n\nThat'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.”\nP.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.\nWant 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.\nEdit to add this excellent way to protect kids that churches consistently fight against:\n\n“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.\nchildren 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.”",
">\n\nSo this should be buried enough if I speak in general terms.\nYears back one of our pastors had to give up being a pastor. They didn't get into details of what he did but they did stress that kids were not involved. The whole church could be seen relaxing.",
">\n\n5 years for thousands of child porn images and videos? Seems pretty fucking light to me. This piece of shit should die in prison.",
">\n\n5 years and a ticket to heaven",
">\n\nHeaven? For him?",
">\n\nThat'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.",
">\n\nDon't you also have to be truly repentant for your sins, including making a good faith effort to keep from repeating them?",
">\n\nI would love for someone to answer this because I really want to know, too.",
">\n\nyes I'm pretty sure that's it. God sees people's hearts He should know the diff between true repentance and fake one",
">\n\nYes, assuming an all-powerful God existed, he’d be able to pretty easily know if you were truly sorry.",
">\n\nYeah but......... \nI'm just starting the religious apologist's sentence for them.",
">\n\nFor 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.",
">\n\nOne 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.",
">\n\nOnce I heard this theory, the acceptance by conservatives of people whose behavior is in direct conflict with their moral beliefs, made more sense.",
">\n\n5 holly maries and transfer\nafter 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.\nRev. 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.\"\nMcDevitt asked the presiding judge for \"mercy for Jim,\" and even offered for the congregation to pay to house him in lieu of imprisonment.\n\"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.\"\n\"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.\"",
">\n\nIn Australia at the moment there is a furore after the death of Cardinal George Pell who was convicted (then exonerated) of personally abusing children, but was found by a Royal Commission (that would be a special prosecutor for our American friends?) of enabling and protecting paedophile priests for decades.\nCan honestly say I have not been able to listen to the string of \"Christians\" praising this man in our media for the last few days without wanting to puke. Suffer the little children.",
">\n\nWith you there. At least there’s a lot of people calling his supporters out on this. Fuck Tony Abbott, John Howard and Andrew Bolt to name a few.",
">\n\nI 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!",
">\n\nr/PastorArrested (also includes Priests)",
">\n\nDon'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.",
">\n\nIf there is a god, wtf?",
">\n\nThere is no God. Religion is about control and money",
">\n\nAnd more money",
">\n\n\"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.\" \n- Rev. Patrick McDevitt, provincial superior for the Congregation of the Western Province \n\nEvery single member of that congregation is a horrible piece of shit",
">\n\nWhat 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?",
">\n\n“Drag queens are grooming our youth!!!”",
">\n\n\"I think we all know where people put on dresses and fuck kids\"\n-Trixie Mattel, 2022",
">\n\nKid “Bless me Father, for I have sinned”\nPadre “ call me, maybe?”",
">\n\nImagine my shock to discover that a priest has been involved in a sex scandal and one involving the exploitation of children, at that.",
">\n\nGOP: \"But wuttabout drag queens?!?!?!??!\"",
">\n\nDoing the Lords work 🙏🏾",
">\n\nTax-free",
">\n\nWhat's the deal with priests being so into pedophilia? Can't they look at milf pounds like normal people?",
">\n\nOh look... Another priest with child porn ... When do we get to start taxing the church?",
">\n\nr/pastorarrested",
">\n\nChurch is a scary place, especially for children.",
">\n\nI 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.",
">\n\nOnly 5 years. What a joke.",
">\n\n\nThe 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.\n\nIf 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.",
">\n\nNo one is suprised a priest is a pedophile. \nBut printing out yer nudes? That's odd.",
">\n\nI can think of a reason he printed it out. And I really don't like that reason.",
">\n\nI'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.",
">\n\nThe sheer audacity to do it at church where you work",
">\n\nAnd not a drag queen in sight...",
">\n\nThey do kinda wear dresses, though",
">\n\nToo many “coincidences” within this church to be anything other than systematic",
">\n\nPretty 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.",
">\n\n\nThe data often suggests numbers of pedophiles similar to the general population\n\none 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",
">\n\nYeah, 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.",
">\n\nI 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.",
">\n\nIt's so common for priests to be sickos",
">\n\nGross",
">\n\nAll he needs to do is repent, right?!?",
">\n\nA priest? With kiddie porn? I’ve never heard of such a thing!",
">\n\nRemember 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.",
">\n\n5 years that's all he got",
">\n\nThat's fucking disgusting. Misappropriation of office materials.",
">\n\nIt 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",
">\n\nIdiot 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.",
">\n\nso 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.",
">\n\nI 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 🤷♂️",
">\n\n5 years isnt nearly enough. Lock him up forever and a day.",
">\n\n~~Drag shows~~ Churches are not safe for children",
">\n\nI'm sure the religious Right will be out protesting him any second.\nRight? Right guys? Groomers and all this? Qanons? Where you guys at?\nHuh. Weird.",
">\n\nBut the dragqueens guys?!?!?!??!? /s",
">\n\nWeird that so many god loving people are actually just pedophiles. Wonder what they think god thinks of them. Fuck theism.",
">\n\nTheir god tells them to take the young girls as spoils of war. Their god is just as fucking depraved as they are.",
">\n\ntHaTs jUsT tHe oLd tEsTaMeNt tHoUgh.\ngOds mOraLiTy dOeSnt cHanGe, hE jUsT dEaLs wItH hUmAns diFFeReNtlY nOw. \nYeah when someone deals with people differently than they did before we generally call that \"a change.\"",
">\n\nAnd he wasn’t trans??? Maybe it’s been priests all along that governors should be banning. When will they correct their mistake? /s",
">\n\nDoesn'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...",
">\n\nIt's surprising. Who prints out their own nudes?",
">\n\nLock him up and throw away the keys",
">\n\nDarn priests, at least those protestant ministers keep it in the family",
">\n\nNot surprised.",
">\n\nThree hail marys and all is forgiven. What a load of bs",
">\n\nJust one bad apple, I’m sure.",
">\n\nLeast paedophilic priest",
">\n\n…slideshow?",
">\n\nGod works in mysterious ways ya fuckin chomo. As a priest, he of all people should have seen this coming...",
">\n\nIn other news, water is wet",
">\n\nOnly five years...",
">\n\n”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.” \nಠ_ಠ",
">\n\nI don’t remember this plotline during Doubt…",
">\n\nWe keep letting them get away with it, so they keep doing it. More obvious news at 10.",
">\n\n& once they found him out he got made a cardinal",
">\n\nHe should've kept them in the garage with his Corvette",
">\n\n5 years? If nothing else, using PowerPoint should have been an aggravating factor.",
">\n\nAnd you thought looking at Bob's family vacation pics was a bad time",
">\n\nWhen 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.",
">\n\nHow is the Roman Catholic Church not closed down for enabling and protecting child abusers",
">\n\nAre 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.",
">\n\nIt'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.",
">\n\npapabile!",
">\n\nLeft nudes on a shared printer? Rookie mistake.",
">\n\nTeach your priests just enough tech to effectively turn themselves in.",
">\n\nIsn't it something how the church decided to investigate themselves again. Keep it in the family, guys.\nI 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.",
">\n\nIs 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:\n1 - 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\n2 - 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)\n3 - 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.\nTL;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.",
">\n\nLet me guess.\nMoved to a different church at the other side of the country and that’s about it for consequences?",
">\n\nThose damned drag queens strike again.",
">\n\nI mean that’s kinda how they caught BTK",
">\n\nSo priests are still abusing kids after we didn't do anything to them the last few times we caught them? Color me surprised.",
">\n\n\nCourt 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.\"\n\n...\n\nDuring 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. \n\n...\n\nAnd 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. \n\nFuck everyone that allowed this scum to continue in a position of authority.",
">\n\nDon’t hear this happening at drag shows…j/s",
">\n\nHe put the PDF in pedofile",
">\n\nThis is Fucking ridiculous",
">\n\nNever forget who the actual groomers are",
">\n\nThe proud boys will be outside of churches \"protesting\" with guns now, right? right?",
">\n\nA priest being pedophile? But that is absolutely unheard of, say it isn't so!",
">\n\nYou sure this wasn't at a Trans drag show? GOP is sure this happens at Trans dragsl shows",
">\n\nExcommunicated by PowerPoint",
">\n\n5 years and a fine? FFS, that’s ridiculous.",
">\n\nPraise Jesus!",
">\n\nAnd the right thinks kids going to drag shows are the problem",
">\n\nAverage christian.",
">\n\nbut the drag queens are reading books to children in libraries! The madnessss",
">\n\nSo they moved him to a new church. This is what they have always done.",
">\n\nleast pedophilic priest:",
">\n\nThe dead ones dont hurt anyone.",
">\n\ninto the furnace he goes. theres no rehabbing people like this.",
">\n\nIt's always the ones you least expect..",
">\n\nOr in this case, the ones you MOST suspect",
">\n\nlol ya, I said that with sarcasm..",
">\n\nPray that he gets nut cancer.",
">\n\nNut cancer was once described to me as \"the common cold of cancers\". It has something like a 95% survival rate.\nHe deserves worse.",
">\n\nDidn't know that. Good nut fact for the day.",
">\n\nIt's definitely the drag queens reading to kids in libraries that's the problem.",
">\n\nRight wingers want him to be a closeted drag queen so badly",
">\n\nI could never trust any man who goes into priesthood. Completely unnatural and deviant occupation rife with pedophiles.",
">\n\nThis MONSTER got 5 years?! \nThe CHILDREN being abused in the images will suffer for the rest of their lives!!\nI'm in favor of LIFE SENTENCES for child sex offenders. \nOr better yet, the DEATH PENALTY!!",
">\n\nReligion was invented by Man for Control of the Flock.You go to Confession and tell the priest everything so they can determine how to undress you.\nI was once a Catholic.....born, baptised, confirmed and educated in a Grammar school run by Irish Christian Brothers under the Order of Edmund Ignatius Rice......and now I'm an atheist.",
">\n\nHow come it is always ‘Christians’ who are involved in child sex abuse?",
">\n\nOf course he's a pedo, he's a priest!",
">\n\nYes millions of idiots keep donating billions to the church",
">\n\nNot simply donating, they bring their children along, indoctrinate them that the priest is the speaker of God, and that God can do no wrong, so anything the priest dose is holy and good. The priest even says so!\nAnd when the kids bring it up the first few times weird things happen? The parents tell them to shush. And so, the sacrifices continue, the parents make a show of not knowing, and things get worse for the children.\nAnd if the priest is reported, the church just moves them to a different parish.\nThe only difference between the taliban and the catholic church, is one of them advertises the child slaves as a benefit, while the other pretends it's not (but totally encourages it, top to bottom).",
">\n\nAnd who are the groomers again?",
">\n\nThis is what happens when you don’t recycle your printer papers.",
">\n\nI feel like this isn't oniony enough, everyone knows by now that priests are significantly more likely to be pedophiles than the general population.",
">\n\nSure, but “gets caught by leaving nudes on a printer” is a fairly onion-y end.",
">\n\nYa know you're right",
">\n\nI have a theory about the correlation between priests and pedophiles. This is my opinion based on conversations with a childhood friend (not a pedo) and is only my opinion but could explain why so many priests abuse children. Get your down votes ready. \nThese boys grow up in the church and it is all they know for the most part. When going through puberty we become attracted to a gender (male or female gay or straight sometimes somewhere in between) and more often a \"type\" as well (blonde brunette short tall etc). Our hormones drive us to seek companionship, intimacy, and ultimately procreation. \nThese boys growing up never develop this attraction to their peers but rather feel more comfortable around younger children and usually behave as mentors. The combination of love of church and disinterest in peers puts the thought in their heads that priesthood is their calling. It takes a long time and effort to become a priest. There are easier paths if a guy just wants to bang kids.\nPut together lack of sex or release of biological needs with access and constant contact with children and they are basically pushed over the edge.\nTo sum up, pedophiles don't become priests to molest children, they become priests because they don't realize they are pedophiles. This is just my opinion, and obviously there are also exceptions to this.\nPerhaps the solution is to get rid of this nonsense celibacy.",
">\n\nAlternative theory: pedophiles become priests because they know the Catholic Church will support and hide them from accountability. Plus, all those altar boys have been easy pickings for decades. \nOn the positive side, Catholic Churches are closing all over Missouri because of dwindling congregations.",
">\n\nThis is one crime I’ll never be able to fathom.",
">\n\nSo fucking sick advocating for this monster so he can maintain freedom?",
">\n\nThe church has been so infiltrated by Child abusers that they are currently rating worse than Satan Worshippers",
">\n\nCan we just fuck churches off now???",
">\n\nYour tithing had to go somewhere.",
">\n\nHow come republicans are not calling these people groomers?",
">\n\nIs anyone else picturing the scene in the first Scary Movie where the cop asks Anna Faris to look at some pictures?\nPriest hands out the pictures of himself along with the weekly pamphlet. Maybe the first reading is from the Song of Solomon...",
">\n\nOh shit. \nHas he been quietly shuffled to a new church yet?",
">\n\nI'm old enough that when I see \"slideshow\" I think of him arranging physical slides in a carousel to project on a screen, like the family trip to Disneyland. Maybe invite the neighbors over for cake.",
">\n\nLord above why is this a thing",
">\n\nYou mean not a drag queen?",
">\n\nActual groomers.",
">\n\nJust think the hands that wanked to kiddie pr0n put wafers on the tongues of everyone in that congregation...",
">\n\nLMAO. This slightly ambiguous headline had me thinking “who attended these slideshow presentations?”",
">\n\nOh look another pedophile catholic priest. Good job reinforcing that stereotype.",
">\n\nAnd we should take guidance from those who hide these atrocities so we can live a better life in the eyes of god.",
">\n\nFriendly reminder religion is a mistake that deserves to be taxed. If you threatened to tax zealots tomorrow child molestation by priests would drop to zero",
">\n\nmay your mother smile as you burn",
">\n\nThis is what happens when you have unchecked power for thousands of years.\nHorrifying.",
">\n\nDid he learn this behavior from a drag show? /s",
">\n\nReminds me of something Chris Rock said: \"Where do women find the porn? They don't find it in your hiding place, they find it in the VCR\"",
">\n\nHe was also probably saving up for a trip to Disney World.",
">\n\n\nincluding child pornography and images of child erotica.\n\nI want to know the difference but don't want to get on a watchlist by googling it.",
">\n\nWithout the word child there, there's a difference in degree. I'd say it's the same thing with that word in there just describing the subject depicted. Pornography is generally actual sex acts of some form or another. Erotica falls short of that, it may be arousing or suggestive. For example, a cabaret show may be erotica but it's certainly not pornography.",
">\n\nPriest? Church? Man in a tax evasion party house?",
">\n\nYet the church immediately moved him somewhere else as there was a daycare next door to the church, then offered to pay to have the priest under house arrest so that the child predator won't go to jail.",
">\n\nShittiest Ted Talk I’ve ever seen, honestly…",
">\n\nOnly five years?! \nUgh!",
">\n\nAnd they call LGBT+ people groomers. (eyeroll)",
">\n\nAnyone who has ever been to a church sadly knows this doesn't need to be in this sub for us to know it's a real story.",
">\n\nOh how nice. The Reverend pleaded for him not to be incarcerated. Because of fucking course he did.",
">\n\nCurious as to who he was presenting this to",
">\n\nPunish these assholes they are smearing God's name",
">\n\nStraight to (checks notes) your next parish!",
">\n\nreligion and sexual abuse. name a more iconic duo\nwhy are any of these religions even allowed to exist any more\nthey have long since lost their meanings, and onlt serve to syphon money out of gullible people, and abuse their children\nwhat is any of these religions actually adding to society any more? other than more perverted monsters",
">\n\nHe’s not the only one",
">\n\nWhy is no big tv news channel talking about this?",
">\n\nAsked that he not go to prison & that his congregation pay to house him? Fuck the church. That's almost the most disgusting part of this",
">\n\nSo are we talking a pptx or an old-school film Rolodex version? Both are messed up, but one takes A LOT more effort.",
">\n\nThe catholic church is of Satan.",
">\n\nFaith is of \"Satan.\" The idea that assuming you might be wrong is morally wrong produces some of the worst people imaginable. And that applies to secular ideologies that require looking down on those who disagree or are unsure too.",
">\n\nAge of priest over/under 50\nWhat yall got?\nI have the over.",
">\n\nOnly 5 years?",
">\n\nRight for some reason i read it as slide show meaning projectors haha. I forgot Powerpoint presentations are a thing.",
">\n\nThe congregation still requested he be spared incarceration and remain in their facility. Truly unbelievable.",
">\n\nThose damn drag queens framed him",
">\n\nThey really put a lot of effort into not saying that he was catholic in that article.",
">\n\nWonder what congregation hes been moved to now?",
">\n\nAny outrage from republicans? Will they arm themselves and storm the churches?....... Didn't think so.",
">\n\nA Christian pedophile? Who could have guessed?",
">\n\nIm shocked! Shocked I say!\nWell... not that shocked.",
">\n\nI appreciate that the church cooperated and turned him in. However, the fact they wanted to pay to house him, out of the parish coffers, is insane. He deserves incarceration and certainly not a retirement paid for by parishioners of the church he victimized. Smh, a great step for the church, if only as a PR exercise, would be to strongly condemn this sort of behavior AND strongly punish it. Defrock and excommunicate any priest who does this. It’s a very easy choice that frankly could help reinstill a little confidence in the church.",
">\n\nOFF WITH HIS GOD DAMNED FUCKING HEAD",
">\n\nWhy so quick and painless?",
">\n\nYou know you’re actually right.. OFF WITH HIS GOD DAMNED FUCKING HEAD WITH A RUSTY PAPERCLIP",
">\n\nRight to jail",
">\n\nToday on why religious institutions should be abolished",
">\n\nAnd the right won't say a thing about this man.",
">\n\nHow Catholics still a thing ?",
">\n\nAnd the Church will cover it up or just say they are very sorry 🤬",
">\n\nThe provincial says everything right…he doesn’t excuse the guy, doesn’t obfuscate what he did or what it’s gravely evil…right up until he asks for house arrest. Fuck that. Whatever the harshest penalty allowed is, do that.",
">\n\nSo just regular church stuff really"
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"Slideshows????? What?\nMy man just opened up cp.ppt and added a few THOUSAND slides of kiddy porn????\nClippy: it looks like youre a depraved predator. Do you want to profane the church as well?",
">\n\nWell I always did believe Power Point was a creation of a malevolent entity.",
">\n\nTuring complete, no less!",
">\n\nBut can it run Doom?",
">\n\nAnything can run doom",
">\n\nBut can Doom run Doom?",
">\n\nDoom can run Doom because Doom runs Doom when Doom runs.",
">\n\nPeople don't run Doom like it is, but it Doom.",
">\n\nGonna take this moment to highly recommend the film Spotlight to any who haven’t seen it",
">\n\nCheck out the 2017 limited series on either Netflix or Prime: \"The Keepers\" about a Baltimore-area Catholic girls' school. Based on the experiences as told by some of the girls, now middle-aged women. It is NOT nice, will make you cry, will enrage you. But I commend the women who made this documentary for as painful as it was for the audience to watch, I can't imagine how they made it thru. And they brought it around to a decent ending, but wow....I think some of what happened in Baltimore bled over into the Spotlight story.\nLapsed Catholic. I cannot reconcile with the Church hierarchy over this because they have behaved satanically for far too long to make me believe they are holy in any way.",
">\n\nThere was a documentary that came out a year or two ago tbzg sounds similar but men who were molested as kids while in the church. \nI honestly don't know how anyone can still support the church. At all. If it was one priest, sure. It's sad it happened, but pedophiles will always exist and find ways to get to kids.\nBut with how often it happens and with how little the church cares? Nope. I never could be catholic even if I was Christian.",
">\n\nBecause saving souls bringing them into their cult is more valuable than the ones they crush. The Vatican last I heard had 7 pedos protecting by not complying with extradition requests. \nAny organization not willing to comply with the laws of the country where they have a tax exempt status should lose their exemption and title to any property they own. If you RICO cartel and mafia assets, then you can do so for these child abusers and their protective association. \nYou know the church owns most of Manhattan and isn't paying taxes? All that money and we have to tolerate this shit? Nah fuck them.",
">\n\nNude pix on the church printer . . . I can imagine the scene.\nSister Mary Michael: Yo, does anyone recognize this tallywhacker?\nFormer Alter Boy Brian: Yeah, that's Father Jim. I'd know that hairy mole anywhere.",
">\n\nThat's Tommy Turner's tallywhacker",
">\n\nIf Reddit still gave free awards, I'd give one to you for catching the reference.",
">\n\nWAIT when did they get rid of the free awards",
">\n\nguess this is how i found out. last i claimed mine is around last week, i think. i only claim once every two weeks to gild certain biweekly thread lul",
">\n\nAnd yet where are all the \"anti-groomers\" protesting these churches?",
">\n\nIt’s almost like it has never actually been about protecting children, and it’s always been about trying to demonize LGBT people",
">\n\nAt this point I am positive the religious right to life thing is about having more targets.",
">\n\nGlad 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?",
">\n\nAfter 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.",
">\n\nI 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.\nThere are also many who truly believe the schtick and just compartmentalize the bad stuff. Both are to blame regardless. Nobody gets a pass.",
">\n\nI could see that with some of the smaller denominations for sure.\nWhen 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.",
">\n\n*making another streak to the tally list wall\n*camera panning out to reveal a huge fucking wall coveres in streaks",
">\n\nMan 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.\nThat said. This man should burn for this",
">\n\nPriest? Pedo? Are you sure? This is unprecedented",
">\n\nCorrection! PedoPreist",
">\n\nNew name not necessary. If anything there should be a name for the unique priests that arent pedos.",
">\n\nI'm inclined to think the majority of priests aren't child predators themselves.\nThe 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.\nWay, way too many of them are pedo-enablers. All the way up...",
">\n\nThen that would mean that... Gasp\nSouth Park was right all along....\nSneaky little bastards didn't think I would notice....",
">\n\nWish I was surprised",
">\n\nYou make slideshows of images? \nEdit: \nOh wait I see what you mean. Yeah the pedophile priest thing is so expected that only the slideshow bit stood out",
">\n\nHoly hell. Priest have normalized pedophilia.",
">\n\nNot just priests. Protestant Christians have a major problem with sexual abuse too, particularly against children.\nAfter Major Investigation, Southern Baptists Confront the Abuse Crisis They Knew Was Coming\nDon't let the Evangelical pedo defenders get away with claiming that Catholicism is the only issue here. It isn't.",
">\n\n\nnone of them are immune to the depravity.\n\nAlmost implied, really.",
">\n\nCould 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?",
">\n\nA variety of factors:\n\nUnquestioned moral authority and intense trust from a large community who have all been taught to obey church authorities\nSupport from a massive extremely powerful institution that has covered up thousands of similar crimes\nStrictly forbidden to marry, have sex, or iirc even masturbate, making them view all sexual activities as similarly taboo for them\nEasy regular access to many children\nEasy ability to get alone time with children\nPriests are only held institutionally accountable to each other and to those with more authority in the church\nVictims 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\nChildren 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\nThe 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\nThe 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\n\nThat'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.”\nP.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.\nWant 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.\nEdit to add this excellent way to protect kids that churches consistently fight against:\n\n“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.\nchildren 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.”",
">\n\nSo this should be buried enough if I speak in general terms.\nYears back one of our pastors had to give up being a pastor. They didn't get into details of what he did but they did stress that kids were not involved. The whole church could be seen relaxing.",
">\n\n5 years for thousands of child porn images and videos? Seems pretty fucking light to me. This piece of shit should die in prison.",
">\n\n5 years and a ticket to heaven",
">\n\nHeaven? For him?",
">\n\nThat'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.",
">\n\nDon't you also have to be truly repentant for your sins, including making a good faith effort to keep from repeating them?",
">\n\nI would love for someone to answer this because I really want to know, too.",
">\n\nyes I'm pretty sure that's it. God sees people's hearts He should know the diff between true repentance and fake one",
">\n\nYes, assuming an all-powerful God existed, he’d be able to pretty easily know if you were truly sorry.",
">\n\nYeah but......... \nI'm just starting the religious apologist's sentence for them.",
">\n\nFor 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.",
">\n\nOne 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.",
">\n\nOnce I heard this theory, the acceptance by conservatives of people whose behavior is in direct conflict with their moral beliefs, made more sense.",
">\n\n5 holly maries and transfer\nafter 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.\nRev. 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.\"\nMcDevitt asked the presiding judge for \"mercy for Jim,\" and even offered for the congregation to pay to house him in lieu of imprisonment.\n\"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.\"\n\"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.\"",
">\n\nIn Australia at the moment there is a furore after the death of Cardinal George Pell who was convicted (then exonerated) of personally abusing children, but was found by a Royal Commission (that would be a special prosecutor for our American friends?) of enabling and protecting paedophile priests for decades.\nCan honestly say I have not been able to listen to the string of \"Christians\" praising this man in our media for the last few days without wanting to puke. Suffer the little children.",
">\n\nWith you there. At least there’s a lot of people calling his supporters out on this. Fuck Tony Abbott, John Howard and Andrew Bolt to name a few.",
">\n\nI 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!",
">\n\nr/PastorArrested (also includes Priests)",
">\n\nDon'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.",
">\n\nIf there is a god, wtf?",
">\n\nThere is no God. Religion is about control and money",
">\n\nAnd more money",
">\n\n\"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.\" \n- Rev. Patrick McDevitt, provincial superior for the Congregation of the Western Province \n\nEvery single member of that congregation is a horrible piece of shit",
">\n\nWhat 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?",
">\n\n“Drag queens are grooming our youth!!!”",
">\n\n\"I think we all know where people put on dresses and fuck kids\"\n-Trixie Mattel, 2022",
">\n\nKid “Bless me Father, for I have sinned”\nPadre “ call me, maybe?”",
">\n\nImagine my shock to discover that a priest has been involved in a sex scandal and one involving the exploitation of children, at that.",
">\n\nGOP: \"But wuttabout drag queens?!?!?!??!\"",
">\n\nDoing the Lords work 🙏🏾",
">\n\nTax-free",
">\n\nWhat's the deal with priests being so into pedophilia? Can't they look at milf pounds like normal people?",
">\n\nOh look... Another priest with child porn ... When do we get to start taxing the church?",
">\n\nr/pastorarrested",
">\n\nChurch is a scary place, especially for children.",
">\n\nI 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.",
">\n\nOnly 5 years. What a joke.",
">\n\n\nThe 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.\n\nIf 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.",
">\n\nNo one is suprised a priest is a pedophile. \nBut printing out yer nudes? That's odd.",
">\n\nI can think of a reason he printed it out. And I really don't like that reason.",
">\n\nI'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.",
">\n\nThe sheer audacity to do it at church where you work",
">\n\nAnd not a drag queen in sight...",
">\n\nThey do kinda wear dresses, though",
">\n\nToo many “coincidences” within this church to be anything other than systematic",
">\n\nPretty 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.",
">\n\n\nThe data often suggests numbers of pedophiles similar to the general population\n\none 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",
">\n\nYeah, 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.",
">\n\nI 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.",
">\n\nIt's so common for priests to be sickos",
">\n\nGross",
">\n\nAll he needs to do is repent, right?!?",
">\n\nA priest? With kiddie porn? I’ve never heard of such a thing!",
">\n\nRemember 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.",
">\n\n5 years that's all he got",
">\n\nThat's fucking disgusting. Misappropriation of office materials.",
">\n\nIt 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",
">\n\nIdiot 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.",
">\n\nso 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.",
">\n\nI 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 🤷♂️",
">\n\n5 years isnt nearly enough. Lock him up forever and a day.",
">\n\n~~Drag shows~~ Churches are not safe for children",
">\n\nI'm sure the religious Right will be out protesting him any second.\nRight? Right guys? Groomers and all this? Qanons? Where you guys at?\nHuh. Weird.",
">\n\nBut the dragqueens guys?!?!?!??!? /s",
">\n\nWeird that so many god loving people are actually just pedophiles. Wonder what they think god thinks of them. Fuck theism.",
">\n\nTheir god tells them to take the young girls as spoils of war. Their god is just as fucking depraved as they are.",
">\n\ntHaTs jUsT tHe oLd tEsTaMeNt tHoUgh.\ngOds mOraLiTy dOeSnt cHanGe, hE jUsT dEaLs wItH hUmAns diFFeReNtlY nOw. \nYeah when someone deals with people differently than they did before we generally call that \"a change.\"",
">\n\nAnd he wasn’t trans??? Maybe it’s been priests all along that governors should be banning. When will they correct their mistake? /s",
">\n\nDoesn'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...",
">\n\nIt's surprising. Who prints out their own nudes?",
">\n\nLock him up and throw away the keys",
">\n\nDarn priests, at least those protestant ministers keep it in the family",
">\n\nNot surprised.",
">\n\nThree hail marys and all is forgiven. What a load of bs",
">\n\nJust one bad apple, I’m sure.",
">\n\nLeast paedophilic priest",
">\n\n…slideshow?",
">\n\nGod works in mysterious ways ya fuckin chomo. As a priest, he of all people should have seen this coming...",
">\n\nIn other news, water is wet",
">\n\nOnly five years...",
">\n\n”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.” \nಠ_ಠ",
">\n\nI don’t remember this plotline during Doubt…",
">\n\nWe keep letting them get away with it, so they keep doing it. More obvious news at 10.",
">\n\n& once they found him out he got made a cardinal",
">\n\nHe should've kept them in the garage with his Corvette",
">\n\n5 years? If nothing else, using PowerPoint should have been an aggravating factor.",
">\n\nAnd you thought looking at Bob's family vacation pics was a bad time",
">\n\nWhen 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.",
">\n\nHow is the Roman Catholic Church not closed down for enabling and protecting child abusers",
">\n\nAre 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.",
">\n\nIt'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.",
">\n\npapabile!",
">\n\nLeft nudes on a shared printer? Rookie mistake.",
">\n\nTeach your priests just enough tech to effectively turn themselves in.",
">\n\nIsn't it something how the church decided to investigate themselves again. Keep it in the family, guys.\nI 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.",
">\n\nIs 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:\n1 - 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\n2 - 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)\n3 - 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.\nTL;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.",
">\n\nLet me guess.\nMoved to a different church at the other side of the country and that’s about it for consequences?",
">\n\nThose damned drag queens strike again.",
">\n\nI mean that’s kinda how they caught BTK",
">\n\nSo priests are still abusing kids after we didn't do anything to them the last few times we caught them? Color me surprised.",
">\n\n\nCourt 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.\"\n\n...\n\nDuring 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. \n\n...\n\nAnd 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. \n\nFuck everyone that allowed this scum to continue in a position of authority.",
">\n\nDon’t hear this happening at drag shows…j/s",
">\n\nHe put the PDF in pedofile",
">\n\nThis is Fucking ridiculous",
">\n\nNever forget who the actual groomers are",
">\n\nThe proud boys will be outside of churches \"protesting\" with guns now, right? right?",
">\n\nA priest being pedophile? But that is absolutely unheard of, say it isn't so!",
">\n\nYou sure this wasn't at a Trans drag show? GOP is sure this happens at Trans dragsl shows",
">\n\nExcommunicated by PowerPoint",
">\n\n5 years and a fine? FFS, that’s ridiculous.",
">\n\nPraise Jesus!",
">\n\nAnd the right thinks kids going to drag shows are the problem",
">\n\nAverage christian.",
">\n\nbut the drag queens are reading books to children in libraries! The madnessss",
">\n\nSo they moved him to a new church. This is what they have always done.",
">\n\nleast pedophilic priest:",
">\n\nThe dead ones dont hurt anyone.",
">\n\ninto the furnace he goes. theres no rehabbing people like this.",
">\n\nIt's always the ones you least expect..",
">\n\nOr in this case, the ones you MOST suspect",
">\n\nlol ya, I said that with sarcasm..",
">\n\nPray that he gets nut cancer.",
">\n\nNut cancer was once described to me as \"the common cold of cancers\". It has something like a 95% survival rate.\nHe deserves worse.",
">\n\nDidn't know that. Good nut fact for the day.",
">\n\nIt's definitely the drag queens reading to kids in libraries that's the problem.",
">\n\nRight wingers want him to be a closeted drag queen so badly",
">\n\nI could never trust any man who goes into priesthood. Completely unnatural and deviant occupation rife with pedophiles.",
">\n\nThis MONSTER got 5 years?! \nThe CHILDREN being abused in the images will suffer for the rest of their lives!!\nI'm in favor of LIFE SENTENCES for child sex offenders. \nOr better yet, the DEATH PENALTY!!",
">\n\nReligion was invented by Man for Control of the Flock.You go to Confession and tell the priest everything so they can determine how to undress you.\nI was once a Catholic.....born, baptised, confirmed and educated in a Grammar school run by Irish Christian Brothers under the Order of Edmund Ignatius Rice......and now I'm an atheist.",
">\n\nHow come it is always ‘Christians’ who are involved in child sex abuse?",
">\n\nOf course he's a pedo, he's a priest!",
">\n\nYes millions of idiots keep donating billions to the church",
">\n\nNot simply donating, they bring their children along, indoctrinate them that the priest is the speaker of God, and that God can do no wrong, so anything the priest dose is holy and good. The priest even says so!\nAnd when the kids bring it up the first few times weird things happen? The parents tell them to shush. And so, the sacrifices continue, the parents make a show of not knowing, and things get worse for the children.\nAnd if the priest is reported, the church just moves them to a different parish.\nThe only difference between the taliban and the catholic church, is one of them advertises the child slaves as a benefit, while the other pretends it's not (but totally encourages it, top to bottom).",
">\n\nAnd who are the groomers again?",
">\n\nThis is what happens when you don’t recycle your printer papers.",
">\n\nI feel like this isn't oniony enough, everyone knows by now that priests are significantly more likely to be pedophiles than the general population.",
">\n\nSure, but “gets caught by leaving nudes on a printer” is a fairly onion-y end.",
">\n\nYa know you're right",
">\n\nI have a theory about the correlation between priests and pedophiles. This is my opinion based on conversations with a childhood friend (not a pedo) and is only my opinion but could explain why so many priests abuse children. Get your down votes ready. \nThese boys grow up in the church and it is all they know for the most part. When going through puberty we become attracted to a gender (male or female gay or straight sometimes somewhere in between) and more often a \"type\" as well (blonde brunette short tall etc). Our hormones drive us to seek companionship, intimacy, and ultimately procreation. \nThese boys growing up never develop this attraction to their peers but rather feel more comfortable around younger children and usually behave as mentors. The combination of love of church and disinterest in peers puts the thought in their heads that priesthood is their calling. It takes a long time and effort to become a priest. There are easier paths if a guy just wants to bang kids.\nPut together lack of sex or release of biological needs with access and constant contact with children and they are basically pushed over the edge.\nTo sum up, pedophiles don't become priests to molest children, they become priests because they don't realize they are pedophiles. This is just my opinion, and obviously there are also exceptions to this.\nPerhaps the solution is to get rid of this nonsense celibacy.",
">\n\nAlternative theory: pedophiles become priests because they know the Catholic Church will support and hide them from accountability. Plus, all those altar boys have been easy pickings for decades. \nOn the positive side, Catholic Churches are closing all over Missouri because of dwindling congregations.",
">\n\nThis is one crime I’ll never be able to fathom.",
">\n\nSo fucking sick advocating for this monster so he can maintain freedom?",
">\n\nThe church has been so infiltrated by Child abusers that they are currently rating worse than Satan Worshippers",
">\n\nCan we just fuck churches off now???",
">\n\nYour tithing had to go somewhere.",
">\n\nHow come republicans are not calling these people groomers?",
">\n\nIs anyone else picturing the scene in the first Scary Movie where the cop asks Anna Faris to look at some pictures?\nPriest hands out the pictures of himself along with the weekly pamphlet. Maybe the first reading is from the Song of Solomon...",
">\n\nOh shit. \nHas he been quietly shuffled to a new church yet?",
">\n\nI'm old enough that when I see \"slideshow\" I think of him arranging physical slides in a carousel to project on a screen, like the family trip to Disneyland. Maybe invite the neighbors over for cake.",
">\n\nLord above why is this a thing",
">\n\nYou mean not a drag queen?",
">\n\nActual groomers.",
">\n\nJust think the hands that wanked to kiddie pr0n put wafers on the tongues of everyone in that congregation...",
">\n\nLMAO. This slightly ambiguous headline had me thinking “who attended these slideshow presentations?”",
">\n\nOh look another pedophile catholic priest. Good job reinforcing that stereotype.",
">\n\nAnd we should take guidance from those who hide these atrocities so we can live a better life in the eyes of god.",
">\n\nFriendly reminder religion is a mistake that deserves to be taxed. If you threatened to tax zealots tomorrow child molestation by priests would drop to zero",
">\n\nmay your mother smile as you burn",
">\n\nThis is what happens when you have unchecked power for thousands of years.\nHorrifying.",
">\n\nDid he learn this behavior from a drag show? /s",
">\n\nReminds me of something Chris Rock said: \"Where do women find the porn? They don't find it in your hiding place, they find it in the VCR\"",
">\n\nHe was also probably saving up for a trip to Disney World.",
">\n\n\nincluding child pornography and images of child erotica.\n\nI want to know the difference but don't want to get on a watchlist by googling it.",
">\n\nWithout the word child there, there's a difference in degree. I'd say it's the same thing with that word in there just describing the subject depicted. Pornography is generally actual sex acts of some form or another. Erotica falls short of that, it may be arousing or suggestive. For example, a cabaret show may be erotica but it's certainly not pornography.",
">\n\nPriest? Church? Man in a tax evasion party house?",
">\n\nYet the church immediately moved him somewhere else as there was a daycare next door to the church, then offered to pay to have the priest under house arrest so that the child predator won't go to jail.",
">\n\nShittiest Ted Talk I’ve ever seen, honestly…",
">\n\nOnly five years?! \nUgh!",
">\n\nAnd they call LGBT+ people groomers. (eyeroll)",
">\n\nAnyone who has ever been to a church sadly knows this doesn't need to be in this sub for us to know it's a real story.",
">\n\nOh how nice. The Reverend pleaded for him not to be incarcerated. Because of fucking course he did.",
">\n\nCurious as to who he was presenting this to",
">\n\nPunish these assholes they are smearing God's name",
">\n\nStraight to (checks notes) your next parish!",
">\n\nreligion and sexual abuse. name a more iconic duo\nwhy are any of these religions even allowed to exist any more\nthey have long since lost their meanings, and onlt serve to syphon money out of gullible people, and abuse their children\nwhat is any of these religions actually adding to society any more? other than more perverted monsters",
">\n\nHe’s not the only one",
">\n\nWhy is no big tv news channel talking about this?",
">\n\nAsked that he not go to prison & that his congregation pay to house him? Fuck the church. That's almost the most disgusting part of this",
">\n\nSo are we talking a pptx or an old-school film Rolodex version? Both are messed up, but one takes A LOT more effort.",
">\n\nThe catholic church is of Satan.",
">\n\nFaith is of \"Satan.\" The idea that assuming you might be wrong is morally wrong produces some of the worst people imaginable. And that applies to secular ideologies that require looking down on those who disagree or are unsure too.",
">\n\nAge of priest over/under 50\nWhat yall got?\nI have the over.",
">\n\nOnly 5 years?",
">\n\nRight for some reason i read it as slide show meaning projectors haha. I forgot Powerpoint presentations are a thing.",
">\n\nThe congregation still requested he be spared incarceration and remain in their facility. Truly unbelievable.",
">\n\nThose damn drag queens framed him",
">\n\nThey really put a lot of effort into not saying that he was catholic in that article.",
">\n\nWonder what congregation hes been moved to now?",
">\n\nAny outrage from republicans? Will they arm themselves and storm the churches?....... Didn't think so.",
">\n\nA Christian pedophile? Who could have guessed?",
">\n\nIm shocked! Shocked I say!\nWell... not that shocked.",
">\n\nI appreciate that the church cooperated and turned him in. However, the fact they wanted to pay to house him, out of the parish coffers, is insane. He deserves incarceration and certainly not a retirement paid for by parishioners of the church he victimized. Smh, a great step for the church, if only as a PR exercise, would be to strongly condemn this sort of behavior AND strongly punish it. Defrock and excommunicate any priest who does this. It’s a very easy choice that frankly could help reinstill a little confidence in the church.",
">\n\nOFF WITH HIS GOD DAMNED FUCKING HEAD",
">\n\nWhy so quick and painless?",
">\n\nYou know you’re actually right.. OFF WITH HIS GOD DAMNED FUCKING HEAD WITH A RUSTY PAPERCLIP",
">\n\nRight to jail",
">\n\nToday on why religious institutions should be abolished",
">\n\nAnd the right won't say a thing about this man.",
">\n\nHow Catholics still a thing ?",
">\n\nAnd the Church will cover it up or just say they are very sorry 🤬",
">\n\nThe provincial says everything right…he doesn’t excuse the guy, doesn’t obfuscate what he did or what it’s gravely evil…right up until he asks for house arrest. Fuck that. Whatever the harshest penalty allowed is, do that.",
">\n\nSo just regular church stuff really",
">\n\nChurch is a haven for predators!!!"
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Can we just end this disgusting church already? Can you imagine ONE Walmart manager raping children? Now try to imagine MORE THAN THREE THOUSAND Walmart managers raping children.
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"Slideshows????? What?\nMy man just opened up cp.ppt and added a few THOUSAND slides of kiddy porn????\nClippy: it looks like youre a depraved predator. Do you want to profane the church as well?",
">\n\nWell I always did believe Power Point was a creation of a malevolent entity.",
">\n\nTuring complete, no less!",
">\n\nBut can it run Doom?",
">\n\nAnything can run doom",
">\n\nBut can Doom run Doom?",
">\n\nDoom can run Doom because Doom runs Doom when Doom runs.",
">\n\nPeople don't run Doom like it is, but it Doom.",
">\n\nGonna take this moment to highly recommend the film Spotlight to any who haven’t seen it",
">\n\nCheck out the 2017 limited series on either Netflix or Prime: \"The Keepers\" about a Baltimore-area Catholic girls' school. Based on the experiences as told by some of the girls, now middle-aged women. It is NOT nice, will make you cry, will enrage you. But I commend the women who made this documentary for as painful as it was for the audience to watch, I can't imagine how they made it thru. And they brought it around to a decent ending, but wow....I think some of what happened in Baltimore bled over into the Spotlight story.\nLapsed Catholic. I cannot reconcile with the Church hierarchy over this because they have behaved satanically for far too long to make me believe they are holy in any way.",
">\n\nThere was a documentary that came out a year or two ago tbzg sounds similar but men who were molested as kids while in the church. \nI honestly don't know how anyone can still support the church. At all. If it was one priest, sure. It's sad it happened, but pedophiles will always exist and find ways to get to kids.\nBut with how often it happens and with how little the church cares? Nope. I never could be catholic even if I was Christian.",
">\n\nBecause saving souls bringing them into their cult is more valuable than the ones they crush. The Vatican last I heard had 7 pedos protecting by not complying with extradition requests. \nAny organization not willing to comply with the laws of the country where they have a tax exempt status should lose their exemption and title to any property they own. If you RICO cartel and mafia assets, then you can do so for these child abusers and their protective association. \nYou know the church owns most of Manhattan and isn't paying taxes? All that money and we have to tolerate this shit? Nah fuck them.",
">\n\nNude pix on the church printer . . . I can imagine the scene.\nSister Mary Michael: Yo, does anyone recognize this tallywhacker?\nFormer Alter Boy Brian: Yeah, that's Father Jim. I'd know that hairy mole anywhere.",
">\n\nThat's Tommy Turner's tallywhacker",
">\n\nIf Reddit still gave free awards, I'd give one to you for catching the reference.",
">\n\nWAIT when did they get rid of the free awards",
">\n\nguess this is how i found out. last i claimed mine is around last week, i think. i only claim once every two weeks to gild certain biweekly thread lul",
">\n\nAnd yet where are all the \"anti-groomers\" protesting these churches?",
">\n\nIt’s almost like it has never actually been about protecting children, and it’s always been about trying to demonize LGBT people",
">\n\nAt this point I am positive the religious right to life thing is about having more targets.",
">\n\nGlad 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?",
">\n\nAfter 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.",
">\n\nI 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.\nThere are also many who truly believe the schtick and just compartmentalize the bad stuff. Both are to blame regardless. Nobody gets a pass.",
">\n\nI could see that with some of the smaller denominations for sure.\nWhen 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.",
">\n\n*making another streak to the tally list wall\n*camera panning out to reveal a huge fucking wall coveres in streaks",
">\n\nMan 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.\nThat said. This man should burn for this",
">\n\nPriest? Pedo? Are you sure? This is unprecedented",
">\n\nCorrection! PedoPreist",
">\n\nNew name not necessary. If anything there should be a name for the unique priests that arent pedos.",
">\n\nI'm inclined to think the majority of priests aren't child predators themselves.\nThe 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.\nWay, way too many of them are pedo-enablers. All the way up...",
">\n\nThen that would mean that... Gasp\nSouth Park was right all along....\nSneaky little bastards didn't think I would notice....",
">\n\nWish I was surprised",
">\n\nYou make slideshows of images? \nEdit: \nOh wait I see what you mean. Yeah the pedophile priest thing is so expected that only the slideshow bit stood out",
">\n\nHoly hell. Priest have normalized pedophilia.",
">\n\nNot just priests. Protestant Christians have a major problem with sexual abuse too, particularly against children.\nAfter Major Investigation, Southern Baptists Confront the Abuse Crisis They Knew Was Coming\nDon't let the Evangelical pedo defenders get away with claiming that Catholicism is the only issue here. It isn't.",
">\n\n\nnone of them are immune to the depravity.\n\nAlmost implied, really.",
">\n\nCould 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?",
">\n\nA variety of factors:\n\nUnquestioned moral authority and intense trust from a large community who have all been taught to obey church authorities\nSupport from a massive extremely powerful institution that has covered up thousands of similar crimes\nStrictly forbidden to marry, have sex, or iirc even masturbate, making them view all sexual activities as similarly taboo for them\nEasy regular access to many children\nEasy ability to get alone time with children\nPriests are only held institutionally accountable to each other and to those with more authority in the church\nVictims 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\nChildren 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\nThe 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\nThe 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\n\nThat'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.”\nP.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.\nWant 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.\nEdit to add this excellent way to protect kids that churches consistently fight against:\n\n“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.\nchildren 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.”",
">\n\nSo this should be buried enough if I speak in general terms.\nYears back one of our pastors had to give up being a pastor. They didn't get into details of what he did but they did stress that kids were not involved. The whole church could be seen relaxing.",
">\n\n5 years for thousands of child porn images and videos? Seems pretty fucking light to me. This piece of shit should die in prison.",
">\n\n5 years and a ticket to heaven",
">\n\nHeaven? For him?",
">\n\nThat'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.",
">\n\nDon't you also have to be truly repentant for your sins, including making a good faith effort to keep from repeating them?",
">\n\nI would love for someone to answer this because I really want to know, too.",
">\n\nyes I'm pretty sure that's it. God sees people's hearts He should know the diff between true repentance and fake one",
">\n\nYes, assuming an all-powerful God existed, he’d be able to pretty easily know if you were truly sorry.",
">\n\nYeah but......... \nI'm just starting the religious apologist's sentence for them.",
">\n\nFor 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.",
">\n\nOne 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.",
">\n\nOnce I heard this theory, the acceptance by conservatives of people whose behavior is in direct conflict with their moral beliefs, made more sense.",
">\n\n5 holly maries and transfer\nafter 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.\nRev. 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.\"\nMcDevitt asked the presiding judge for \"mercy for Jim,\" and even offered for the congregation to pay to house him in lieu of imprisonment.\n\"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.\"\n\"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.\"",
">\n\nIn Australia at the moment there is a furore after the death of Cardinal George Pell who was convicted (then exonerated) of personally abusing children, but was found by a Royal Commission (that would be a special prosecutor for our American friends?) of enabling and protecting paedophile priests for decades.\nCan honestly say I have not been able to listen to the string of \"Christians\" praising this man in our media for the last few days without wanting to puke. Suffer the little children.",
">\n\nWith you there. At least there’s a lot of people calling his supporters out on this. Fuck Tony Abbott, John Howard and Andrew Bolt to name a few.",
">\n\nI 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!",
">\n\nr/PastorArrested (also includes Priests)",
">\n\nDon'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.",
">\n\nIf there is a god, wtf?",
">\n\nThere is no God. Religion is about control and money",
">\n\nAnd more money",
">\n\n\"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.\" \n- Rev. Patrick McDevitt, provincial superior for the Congregation of the Western Province \n\nEvery single member of that congregation is a horrible piece of shit",
">\n\nWhat 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?",
">\n\n“Drag queens are grooming our youth!!!”",
">\n\n\"I think we all know where people put on dresses and fuck kids\"\n-Trixie Mattel, 2022",
">\n\nKid “Bless me Father, for I have sinned”\nPadre “ call me, maybe?”",
">\n\nImagine my shock to discover that a priest has been involved in a sex scandal and one involving the exploitation of children, at that.",
">\n\nGOP: \"But wuttabout drag queens?!?!?!??!\"",
">\n\nDoing the Lords work 🙏🏾",
">\n\nTax-free",
">\n\nWhat's the deal with priests being so into pedophilia? Can't they look at milf pounds like normal people?",
">\n\nOh look... Another priest with child porn ... When do we get to start taxing the church?",
">\n\nr/pastorarrested",
">\n\nChurch is a scary place, especially for children.",
">\n\nI 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.",
">\n\nOnly 5 years. What a joke.",
">\n\n\nThe 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.\n\nIf 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.",
">\n\nNo one is suprised a priest is a pedophile. \nBut printing out yer nudes? That's odd.",
">\n\nI can think of a reason he printed it out. And I really don't like that reason.",
">\n\nI'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.",
">\n\nThe sheer audacity to do it at church where you work",
">\n\nAnd not a drag queen in sight...",
">\n\nThey do kinda wear dresses, though",
">\n\nToo many “coincidences” within this church to be anything other than systematic",
">\n\nPretty 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.",
">\n\n\nThe data often suggests numbers of pedophiles similar to the general population\n\none 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",
">\n\nYeah, 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.",
">\n\nI 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.",
">\n\nIt's so common for priests to be sickos",
">\n\nGross",
">\n\nAll he needs to do is repent, right?!?",
">\n\nA priest? With kiddie porn? I’ve never heard of such a thing!",
">\n\nRemember 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.",
">\n\n5 years that's all he got",
">\n\nThat's fucking disgusting. Misappropriation of office materials.",
">\n\nIt 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",
">\n\nIdiot 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.",
">\n\nso 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.",
">\n\nI 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 🤷♂️",
">\n\n5 years isnt nearly enough. Lock him up forever and a day.",
">\n\n~~Drag shows~~ Churches are not safe for children",
">\n\nI'm sure the religious Right will be out protesting him any second.\nRight? Right guys? Groomers and all this? Qanons? Where you guys at?\nHuh. Weird.",
">\n\nBut the dragqueens guys?!?!?!??!? /s",
">\n\nWeird that so many god loving people are actually just pedophiles. Wonder what they think god thinks of them. Fuck theism.",
">\n\nTheir god tells them to take the young girls as spoils of war. Their god is just as fucking depraved as they are.",
">\n\ntHaTs jUsT tHe oLd tEsTaMeNt tHoUgh.\ngOds mOraLiTy dOeSnt cHanGe, hE jUsT dEaLs wItH hUmAns diFFeReNtlY nOw. \nYeah when someone deals with people differently than they did before we generally call that \"a change.\"",
">\n\nAnd he wasn’t trans??? Maybe it’s been priests all along that governors should be banning. When will they correct their mistake? /s",
">\n\nDoesn'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...",
">\n\nIt's surprising. Who prints out their own nudes?",
">\n\nLock him up and throw away the keys",
">\n\nDarn priests, at least those protestant ministers keep it in the family",
">\n\nNot surprised.",
">\n\nThree hail marys and all is forgiven. What a load of bs",
">\n\nJust one bad apple, I’m sure.",
">\n\nLeast paedophilic priest",
">\n\n…slideshow?",
">\n\nGod works in mysterious ways ya fuckin chomo. As a priest, he of all people should have seen this coming...",
">\n\nIn other news, water is wet",
">\n\nOnly five years...",
">\n\n”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.” \nಠ_ಠ",
">\n\nI don’t remember this plotline during Doubt…",
">\n\nWe keep letting them get away with it, so they keep doing it. More obvious news at 10.",
">\n\n& once they found him out he got made a cardinal",
">\n\nHe should've kept them in the garage with his Corvette",
">\n\n5 years? If nothing else, using PowerPoint should have been an aggravating factor.",
">\n\nAnd you thought looking at Bob's family vacation pics was a bad time",
">\n\nWhen 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.",
">\n\nHow is the Roman Catholic Church not closed down for enabling and protecting child abusers",
">\n\nAre 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.",
">\n\nIt'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.",
">\n\npapabile!",
">\n\nLeft nudes on a shared printer? Rookie mistake.",
">\n\nTeach your priests just enough tech to effectively turn themselves in.",
">\n\nIsn't it something how the church decided to investigate themselves again. Keep it in the family, guys.\nI 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.",
">\n\nIs 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:\n1 - 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\n2 - 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)\n3 - 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.\nTL;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.",
">\n\nLet me guess.\nMoved to a different church at the other side of the country and that’s about it for consequences?",
">\n\nThose damned drag queens strike again.",
">\n\nI mean that’s kinda how they caught BTK",
">\n\nSo priests are still abusing kids after we didn't do anything to them the last few times we caught them? Color me surprised.",
">\n\n\nCourt 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.\"\n\n...\n\nDuring 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. \n\n...\n\nAnd 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. \n\nFuck everyone that allowed this scum to continue in a position of authority.",
">\n\nDon’t hear this happening at drag shows…j/s",
">\n\nHe put the PDF in pedofile",
">\n\nThis is Fucking ridiculous",
">\n\nNever forget who the actual groomers are",
">\n\nThe proud boys will be outside of churches \"protesting\" with guns now, right? right?",
">\n\nA priest being pedophile? But that is absolutely unheard of, say it isn't so!",
">\n\nYou sure this wasn't at a Trans drag show? GOP is sure this happens at Trans dragsl shows",
">\n\nExcommunicated by PowerPoint",
">\n\n5 years and a fine? FFS, that’s ridiculous.",
">\n\nPraise Jesus!",
">\n\nAnd the right thinks kids going to drag shows are the problem",
">\n\nAverage christian.",
">\n\nbut the drag queens are reading books to children in libraries! The madnessss",
">\n\nSo they moved him to a new church. This is what they have always done.",
">\n\nleast pedophilic priest:",
">\n\nThe dead ones dont hurt anyone.",
">\n\ninto the furnace he goes. theres no rehabbing people like this.",
">\n\nIt's always the ones you least expect..",
">\n\nOr in this case, the ones you MOST suspect",
">\n\nlol ya, I said that with sarcasm..",
">\n\nPray that he gets nut cancer.",
">\n\nNut cancer was once described to me as \"the common cold of cancers\". It has something like a 95% survival rate.\nHe deserves worse.",
">\n\nDidn't know that. Good nut fact for the day.",
">\n\nIt's definitely the drag queens reading to kids in libraries that's the problem.",
">\n\nRight wingers want him to be a closeted drag queen so badly",
">\n\nI could never trust any man who goes into priesthood. Completely unnatural and deviant occupation rife with pedophiles.",
">\n\nThis MONSTER got 5 years?! \nThe CHILDREN being abused in the images will suffer for the rest of their lives!!\nI'm in favor of LIFE SENTENCES for child sex offenders. \nOr better yet, the DEATH PENALTY!!",
">\n\nReligion was invented by Man for Control of the Flock.You go to Confession and tell the priest everything so they can determine how to undress you.\nI was once a Catholic.....born, baptised, confirmed and educated in a Grammar school run by Irish Christian Brothers under the Order of Edmund Ignatius Rice......and now I'm an atheist.",
">\n\nHow come it is always ‘Christians’ who are involved in child sex abuse?",
">\n\nOf course he's a pedo, he's a priest!",
">\n\nYes millions of idiots keep donating billions to the church",
">\n\nNot simply donating, they bring their children along, indoctrinate them that the priest is the speaker of God, and that God can do no wrong, so anything the priest dose is holy and good. The priest even says so!\nAnd when the kids bring it up the first few times weird things happen? The parents tell them to shush. And so, the sacrifices continue, the parents make a show of not knowing, and things get worse for the children.\nAnd if the priest is reported, the church just moves them to a different parish.\nThe only difference between the taliban and the catholic church, is one of them advertises the child slaves as a benefit, while the other pretends it's not (but totally encourages it, top to bottom).",
">\n\nAnd who are the groomers again?",
">\n\nThis is what happens when you don’t recycle your printer papers.",
">\n\nI feel like this isn't oniony enough, everyone knows by now that priests are significantly more likely to be pedophiles than the general population.",
">\n\nSure, but “gets caught by leaving nudes on a printer” is a fairly onion-y end.",
">\n\nYa know you're right",
">\n\nI have a theory about the correlation between priests and pedophiles. This is my opinion based on conversations with a childhood friend (not a pedo) and is only my opinion but could explain why so many priests abuse children. Get your down votes ready. \nThese boys grow up in the church and it is all they know for the most part. When going through puberty we become attracted to a gender (male or female gay or straight sometimes somewhere in between) and more often a \"type\" as well (blonde brunette short tall etc). Our hormones drive us to seek companionship, intimacy, and ultimately procreation. \nThese boys growing up never develop this attraction to their peers but rather feel more comfortable around younger children and usually behave as mentors. The combination of love of church and disinterest in peers puts the thought in their heads that priesthood is their calling. It takes a long time and effort to become a priest. There are easier paths if a guy just wants to bang kids.\nPut together lack of sex or release of biological needs with access and constant contact with children and they are basically pushed over the edge.\nTo sum up, pedophiles don't become priests to molest children, they become priests because they don't realize they are pedophiles. This is just my opinion, and obviously there are also exceptions to this.\nPerhaps the solution is to get rid of this nonsense celibacy.",
">\n\nAlternative theory: pedophiles become priests because they know the Catholic Church will support and hide them from accountability. Plus, all those altar boys have been easy pickings for decades. \nOn the positive side, Catholic Churches are closing all over Missouri because of dwindling congregations.",
">\n\nThis is one crime I’ll never be able to fathom.",
">\n\nSo fucking sick advocating for this monster so he can maintain freedom?",
">\n\nThe church has been so infiltrated by Child abusers that they are currently rating worse than Satan Worshippers",
">\n\nCan we just fuck churches off now???",
">\n\nYour tithing had to go somewhere.",
">\n\nHow come republicans are not calling these people groomers?",
">\n\nIs anyone else picturing the scene in the first Scary Movie where the cop asks Anna Faris to look at some pictures?\nPriest hands out the pictures of himself along with the weekly pamphlet. Maybe the first reading is from the Song of Solomon...",
">\n\nOh shit. \nHas he been quietly shuffled to a new church yet?",
">\n\nI'm old enough that when I see \"slideshow\" I think of him arranging physical slides in a carousel to project on a screen, like the family trip to Disneyland. Maybe invite the neighbors over for cake.",
">\n\nLord above why is this a thing",
">\n\nYou mean not a drag queen?",
">\n\nActual groomers.",
">\n\nJust think the hands that wanked to kiddie pr0n put wafers on the tongues of everyone in that congregation...",
">\n\nLMAO. This slightly ambiguous headline had me thinking “who attended these slideshow presentations?”",
">\n\nOh look another pedophile catholic priest. Good job reinforcing that stereotype.",
">\n\nAnd we should take guidance from those who hide these atrocities so we can live a better life in the eyes of god.",
">\n\nFriendly reminder religion is a mistake that deserves to be taxed. If you threatened to tax zealots tomorrow child molestation by priests would drop to zero",
">\n\nmay your mother smile as you burn",
">\n\nThis is what happens when you have unchecked power for thousands of years.\nHorrifying.",
">\n\nDid he learn this behavior from a drag show? /s",
">\n\nReminds me of something Chris Rock said: \"Where do women find the porn? They don't find it in your hiding place, they find it in the VCR\"",
">\n\nHe was also probably saving up for a trip to Disney World.",
">\n\n\nincluding child pornography and images of child erotica.\n\nI want to know the difference but don't want to get on a watchlist by googling it.",
">\n\nWithout the word child there, there's a difference in degree. I'd say it's the same thing with that word in there just describing the subject depicted. Pornography is generally actual sex acts of some form or another. Erotica falls short of that, it may be arousing or suggestive. For example, a cabaret show may be erotica but it's certainly not pornography.",
">\n\nPriest? Church? Man in a tax evasion party house?",
">\n\nYet the church immediately moved him somewhere else as there was a daycare next door to the church, then offered to pay to have the priest under house arrest so that the child predator won't go to jail.",
">\n\nShittiest Ted Talk I’ve ever seen, honestly…",
">\n\nOnly five years?! \nUgh!",
">\n\nAnd they call LGBT+ people groomers. (eyeroll)",
">\n\nAnyone who has ever been to a church sadly knows this doesn't need to be in this sub for us to know it's a real story.",
">\n\nOh how nice. The Reverend pleaded for him not to be incarcerated. Because of fucking course he did.",
">\n\nCurious as to who he was presenting this to",
">\n\nPunish these assholes they are smearing God's name",
">\n\nStraight to (checks notes) your next parish!",
">\n\nreligion and sexual abuse. name a more iconic duo\nwhy are any of these religions even allowed to exist any more\nthey have long since lost their meanings, and onlt serve to syphon money out of gullible people, and abuse their children\nwhat is any of these religions actually adding to society any more? other than more perverted monsters",
">\n\nHe’s not the only one",
">\n\nWhy is no big tv news channel talking about this?",
">\n\nAsked that he not go to prison & that his congregation pay to house him? Fuck the church. That's almost the most disgusting part of this",
">\n\nSo are we talking a pptx or an old-school film Rolodex version? Both are messed up, but one takes A LOT more effort.",
">\n\nThe catholic church is of Satan.",
">\n\nFaith is of \"Satan.\" The idea that assuming you might be wrong is morally wrong produces some of the worst people imaginable. And that applies to secular ideologies that require looking down on those who disagree or are unsure too.",
">\n\nAge of priest over/under 50\nWhat yall got?\nI have the over.",
">\n\nOnly 5 years?",
">\n\nRight for some reason i read it as slide show meaning projectors haha. I forgot Powerpoint presentations are a thing.",
">\n\nThe congregation still requested he be spared incarceration and remain in their facility. Truly unbelievable.",
">\n\nThose damn drag queens framed him",
">\n\nThey really put a lot of effort into not saying that he was catholic in that article.",
">\n\nWonder what congregation hes been moved to now?",
">\n\nAny outrage from republicans? Will they arm themselves and storm the churches?....... Didn't think so.",
">\n\nA Christian pedophile? Who could have guessed?",
">\n\nIm shocked! Shocked I say!\nWell... not that shocked.",
">\n\nI appreciate that the church cooperated and turned him in. However, the fact they wanted to pay to house him, out of the parish coffers, is insane. He deserves incarceration and certainly not a retirement paid for by parishioners of the church he victimized. Smh, a great step for the church, if only as a PR exercise, would be to strongly condemn this sort of behavior AND strongly punish it. Defrock and excommunicate any priest who does this. It’s a very easy choice that frankly could help reinstill a little confidence in the church.",
">\n\nOFF WITH HIS GOD DAMNED FUCKING HEAD",
">\n\nWhy so quick and painless?",
">\n\nYou know you’re actually right.. OFF WITH HIS GOD DAMNED FUCKING HEAD WITH A RUSTY PAPERCLIP",
">\n\nRight to jail",
">\n\nToday on why religious institutions should be abolished",
">\n\nAnd the right won't say a thing about this man.",
">\n\nHow Catholics still a thing ?",
">\n\nAnd the Church will cover it up or just say they are very sorry 🤬",
">\n\nThe provincial says everything right…he doesn’t excuse the guy, doesn’t obfuscate what he did or what it’s gravely evil…right up until he asks for house arrest. Fuck that. Whatever the harshest penalty allowed is, do that.",
">\n\nSo just regular church stuff really",
">\n\nChurch is a haven for predators!!!",
">\n\nI used to be Catholic, but stories like this make me hate the church more every day."
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But somehow these religious psychos get away with this and convince their followers to kill LGBTQ+ people. Fuck religion, fuck all churches, we need it out of our society. | [
"Slideshows????? What?\nMy man just opened up cp.ppt and added a few THOUSAND slides of kiddy porn????\nClippy: it looks like youre a depraved predator. Do you want to profane the church as well?",
">\n\nWell I always did believe Power Point was a creation of a malevolent entity.",
">\n\nTuring complete, no less!",
">\n\nBut can it run Doom?",
">\n\nAnything can run doom",
">\n\nBut can Doom run Doom?",
">\n\nDoom can run Doom because Doom runs Doom when Doom runs.",
">\n\nPeople don't run Doom like it is, but it Doom.",
">\n\nGonna take this moment to highly recommend the film Spotlight to any who haven’t seen it",
">\n\nCheck out the 2017 limited series on either Netflix or Prime: \"The Keepers\" about a Baltimore-area Catholic girls' school. Based on the experiences as told by some of the girls, now middle-aged women. It is NOT nice, will make you cry, will enrage you. But I commend the women who made this documentary for as painful as it was for the audience to watch, I can't imagine how they made it thru. And they brought it around to a decent ending, but wow....I think some of what happened in Baltimore bled over into the Spotlight story.\nLapsed Catholic. I cannot reconcile with the Church hierarchy over this because they have behaved satanically for far too long to make me believe they are holy in any way.",
">\n\nThere was a documentary that came out a year or two ago tbzg sounds similar but men who were molested as kids while in the church. \nI honestly don't know how anyone can still support the church. At all. If it was one priest, sure. It's sad it happened, but pedophiles will always exist and find ways to get to kids.\nBut with how often it happens and with how little the church cares? Nope. I never could be catholic even if I was Christian.",
">\n\nBecause saving souls bringing them into their cult is more valuable than the ones they crush. The Vatican last I heard had 7 pedos protecting by not complying with extradition requests. \nAny organization not willing to comply with the laws of the country where they have a tax exempt status should lose their exemption and title to any property they own. If you RICO cartel and mafia assets, then you can do so for these child abusers and their protective association. \nYou know the church owns most of Manhattan and isn't paying taxes? All that money and we have to tolerate this shit? Nah fuck them.",
">\n\nNude pix on the church printer . . . I can imagine the scene.\nSister Mary Michael: Yo, does anyone recognize this tallywhacker?\nFormer Alter Boy Brian: Yeah, that's Father Jim. I'd know that hairy mole anywhere.",
">\n\nThat's Tommy Turner's tallywhacker",
">\n\nIf Reddit still gave free awards, I'd give one to you for catching the reference.",
">\n\nWAIT when did they get rid of the free awards",
">\n\nguess this is how i found out. last i claimed mine is around last week, i think. i only claim once every two weeks to gild certain biweekly thread lul",
">\n\nAnd yet where are all the \"anti-groomers\" protesting these churches?",
">\n\nIt’s almost like it has never actually been about protecting children, and it’s always been about trying to demonize LGBT people",
">\n\nAt this point I am positive the religious right to life thing is about having more targets.",
">\n\nGlad 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?",
">\n\nAfter 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.",
">\n\nI 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.\nThere are also many who truly believe the schtick and just compartmentalize the bad stuff. Both are to blame regardless. Nobody gets a pass.",
">\n\nI could see that with some of the smaller denominations for sure.\nWhen 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.",
">\n\n*making another streak to the tally list wall\n*camera panning out to reveal a huge fucking wall coveres in streaks",
">\n\nMan 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.\nThat said. This man should burn for this",
">\n\nPriest? Pedo? Are you sure? This is unprecedented",
">\n\nCorrection! PedoPreist",
">\n\nNew name not necessary. If anything there should be a name for the unique priests that arent pedos.",
">\n\nI'm inclined to think the majority of priests aren't child predators themselves.\nThe 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.\nWay, way too many of them are pedo-enablers. All the way up...",
">\n\nThen that would mean that... Gasp\nSouth Park was right all along....\nSneaky little bastards didn't think I would notice....",
">\n\nWish I was surprised",
">\n\nYou make slideshows of images? \nEdit: \nOh wait I see what you mean. Yeah the pedophile priest thing is so expected that only the slideshow bit stood out",
">\n\nHoly hell. Priest have normalized pedophilia.",
">\n\nNot just priests. Protestant Christians have a major problem with sexual abuse too, particularly against children.\nAfter Major Investigation, Southern Baptists Confront the Abuse Crisis They Knew Was Coming\nDon't let the Evangelical pedo defenders get away with claiming that Catholicism is the only issue here. It isn't.",
">\n\n\nnone of them are immune to the depravity.\n\nAlmost implied, really.",
">\n\nCould 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?",
">\n\nA variety of factors:\n\nUnquestioned moral authority and intense trust from a large community who have all been taught to obey church authorities\nSupport from a massive extremely powerful institution that has covered up thousands of similar crimes\nStrictly forbidden to marry, have sex, or iirc even masturbate, making them view all sexual activities as similarly taboo for them\nEasy regular access to many children\nEasy ability to get alone time with children\nPriests are only held institutionally accountable to each other and to those with more authority in the church\nVictims 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\nChildren 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\nThe 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\nThe 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\n\nThat'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.”\nP.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.\nWant 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.\nEdit to add this excellent way to protect kids that churches consistently fight against:\n\n“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.\nchildren 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.”",
">\n\nSo this should be buried enough if I speak in general terms.\nYears back one of our pastors had to give up being a pastor. They didn't get into details of what he did but they did stress that kids were not involved. The whole church could be seen relaxing.",
">\n\n5 years for thousands of child porn images and videos? Seems pretty fucking light to me. This piece of shit should die in prison.",
">\n\n5 years and a ticket to heaven",
">\n\nHeaven? For him?",
">\n\nThat'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.",
">\n\nDon't you also have to be truly repentant for your sins, including making a good faith effort to keep from repeating them?",
">\n\nI would love for someone to answer this because I really want to know, too.",
">\n\nyes I'm pretty sure that's it. God sees people's hearts He should know the diff between true repentance and fake one",
">\n\nYes, assuming an all-powerful God existed, he’d be able to pretty easily know if you were truly sorry.",
">\n\nYeah but......... \nI'm just starting the religious apologist's sentence for them.",
">\n\nFor 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.",
">\n\nOne 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.",
">\n\nOnce I heard this theory, the acceptance by conservatives of people whose behavior is in direct conflict with their moral beliefs, made more sense.",
">\n\n5 holly maries and transfer\nafter 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.\nRev. 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.\"\nMcDevitt asked the presiding judge for \"mercy for Jim,\" and even offered for the congregation to pay to house him in lieu of imprisonment.\n\"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.\"\n\"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.\"",
">\n\nIn Australia at the moment there is a furore after the death of Cardinal George Pell who was convicted (then exonerated) of personally abusing children, but was found by a Royal Commission (that would be a special prosecutor for our American friends?) of enabling and protecting paedophile priests for decades.\nCan honestly say I have not been able to listen to the string of \"Christians\" praising this man in our media for the last few days without wanting to puke. Suffer the little children.",
">\n\nWith you there. At least there’s a lot of people calling his supporters out on this. Fuck Tony Abbott, John Howard and Andrew Bolt to name a few.",
">\n\nI 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!",
">\n\nr/PastorArrested (also includes Priests)",
">\n\nDon'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.",
">\n\nIf there is a god, wtf?",
">\n\nThere is no God. Religion is about control and money",
">\n\nAnd more money",
">\n\n\"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.\" \n- Rev. Patrick McDevitt, provincial superior for the Congregation of the Western Province \n\nEvery single member of that congregation is a horrible piece of shit",
">\n\nWhat 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?",
">\n\n“Drag queens are grooming our youth!!!”",
">\n\n\"I think we all know where people put on dresses and fuck kids\"\n-Trixie Mattel, 2022",
">\n\nKid “Bless me Father, for I have sinned”\nPadre “ call me, maybe?”",
">\n\nImagine my shock to discover that a priest has been involved in a sex scandal and one involving the exploitation of children, at that.",
">\n\nGOP: \"But wuttabout drag queens?!?!?!??!\"",
">\n\nDoing the Lords work 🙏🏾",
">\n\nTax-free",
">\n\nWhat's the deal with priests being so into pedophilia? Can't they look at milf pounds like normal people?",
">\n\nOh look... Another priest with child porn ... When do we get to start taxing the church?",
">\n\nr/pastorarrested",
">\n\nChurch is a scary place, especially for children.",
">\n\nI 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.",
">\n\nOnly 5 years. What a joke.",
">\n\n\nThe 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.\n\nIf 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.",
">\n\nNo one is suprised a priest is a pedophile. \nBut printing out yer nudes? That's odd.",
">\n\nI can think of a reason he printed it out. And I really don't like that reason.",
">\n\nI'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.",
">\n\nThe sheer audacity to do it at church where you work",
">\n\nAnd not a drag queen in sight...",
">\n\nThey do kinda wear dresses, though",
">\n\nToo many “coincidences” within this church to be anything other than systematic",
">\n\nPretty 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.",
">\n\n\nThe data often suggests numbers of pedophiles similar to the general population\n\none 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",
">\n\nYeah, 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.",
">\n\nI 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.",
">\n\nIt's so common for priests to be sickos",
">\n\nGross",
">\n\nAll he needs to do is repent, right?!?",
">\n\nA priest? With kiddie porn? I’ve never heard of such a thing!",
">\n\nRemember 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.",
">\n\n5 years that's all he got",
">\n\nThat's fucking disgusting. Misappropriation of office materials.",
">\n\nIt 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",
">\n\nIdiot 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.",
">\n\nso 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.",
">\n\nI 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 🤷♂️",
">\n\n5 years isnt nearly enough. Lock him up forever and a day.",
">\n\n~~Drag shows~~ Churches are not safe for children",
">\n\nI'm sure the religious Right will be out protesting him any second.\nRight? Right guys? Groomers and all this? Qanons? Where you guys at?\nHuh. Weird.",
">\n\nBut the dragqueens guys?!?!?!??!? /s",
">\n\nWeird that so many god loving people are actually just pedophiles. Wonder what they think god thinks of them. Fuck theism.",
">\n\nTheir god tells them to take the young girls as spoils of war. Their god is just as fucking depraved as they are.",
">\n\ntHaTs jUsT tHe oLd tEsTaMeNt tHoUgh.\ngOds mOraLiTy dOeSnt cHanGe, hE jUsT dEaLs wItH hUmAns diFFeReNtlY nOw. \nYeah when someone deals with people differently than they did before we generally call that \"a change.\"",
">\n\nAnd he wasn’t trans??? Maybe it’s been priests all along that governors should be banning. When will they correct their mistake? /s",
">\n\nDoesn'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...",
">\n\nIt's surprising. Who prints out their own nudes?",
">\n\nLock him up and throw away the keys",
">\n\nDarn priests, at least those protestant ministers keep it in the family",
">\n\nNot surprised.",
">\n\nThree hail marys and all is forgiven. What a load of bs",
">\n\nJust one bad apple, I’m sure.",
">\n\nLeast paedophilic priest",
">\n\n…slideshow?",
">\n\nGod works in mysterious ways ya fuckin chomo. As a priest, he of all people should have seen this coming...",
">\n\nIn other news, water is wet",
">\n\nOnly five years...",
">\n\n”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.” \nಠ_ಠ",
">\n\nI don’t remember this plotline during Doubt…",
">\n\nWe keep letting them get away with it, so they keep doing it. More obvious news at 10.",
">\n\n& once they found him out he got made a cardinal",
">\n\nHe should've kept them in the garage with his Corvette",
">\n\n5 years? If nothing else, using PowerPoint should have been an aggravating factor.",
">\n\nAnd you thought looking at Bob's family vacation pics was a bad time",
">\n\nWhen 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.",
">\n\nHow is the Roman Catholic Church not closed down for enabling and protecting child abusers",
">\n\nAre 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.",
">\n\nIt'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.",
">\n\npapabile!",
">\n\nLeft nudes on a shared printer? Rookie mistake.",
">\n\nTeach your priests just enough tech to effectively turn themselves in.",
">\n\nIsn't it something how the church decided to investigate themselves again. Keep it in the family, guys.\nI 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.",
">\n\nIs 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:\n1 - 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\n2 - 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)\n3 - 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.\nTL;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.",
">\n\nLet me guess.\nMoved to a different church at the other side of the country and that’s about it for consequences?",
">\n\nThose damned drag queens strike again.",
">\n\nI mean that’s kinda how they caught BTK",
">\n\nSo priests are still abusing kids after we didn't do anything to them the last few times we caught them? Color me surprised.",
">\n\n\nCourt 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.\"\n\n...\n\nDuring 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. \n\n...\n\nAnd 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. \n\nFuck everyone that allowed this scum to continue in a position of authority.",
">\n\nDon’t hear this happening at drag shows…j/s",
">\n\nHe put the PDF in pedofile",
">\n\nThis is Fucking ridiculous",
">\n\nNever forget who the actual groomers are",
">\n\nThe proud boys will be outside of churches \"protesting\" with guns now, right? right?",
">\n\nA priest being pedophile? But that is absolutely unheard of, say it isn't so!",
">\n\nYou sure this wasn't at a Trans drag show? GOP is sure this happens at Trans dragsl shows",
">\n\nExcommunicated by PowerPoint",
">\n\n5 years and a fine? FFS, that’s ridiculous.",
">\n\nPraise Jesus!",
">\n\nAnd the right thinks kids going to drag shows are the problem",
">\n\nAverage christian.",
">\n\nbut the drag queens are reading books to children in libraries! The madnessss",
">\n\nSo they moved him to a new church. This is what they have always done.",
">\n\nleast pedophilic priest:",
">\n\nThe dead ones dont hurt anyone.",
">\n\ninto the furnace he goes. theres no rehabbing people like this.",
">\n\nIt's always the ones you least expect..",
">\n\nOr in this case, the ones you MOST suspect",
">\n\nlol ya, I said that with sarcasm..",
">\n\nPray that he gets nut cancer.",
">\n\nNut cancer was once described to me as \"the common cold of cancers\". It has something like a 95% survival rate.\nHe deserves worse.",
">\n\nDidn't know that. Good nut fact for the day.",
">\n\nIt's definitely the drag queens reading to kids in libraries that's the problem.",
">\n\nRight wingers want him to be a closeted drag queen so badly",
">\n\nI could never trust any man who goes into priesthood. Completely unnatural and deviant occupation rife with pedophiles.",
">\n\nThis MONSTER got 5 years?! \nThe CHILDREN being abused in the images will suffer for the rest of their lives!!\nI'm in favor of LIFE SENTENCES for child sex offenders. \nOr better yet, the DEATH PENALTY!!",
">\n\nReligion was invented by Man for Control of the Flock.You go to Confession and tell the priest everything so they can determine how to undress you.\nI was once a Catholic.....born, baptised, confirmed and educated in a Grammar school run by Irish Christian Brothers under the Order of Edmund Ignatius Rice......and now I'm an atheist.",
">\n\nHow come it is always ‘Christians’ who are involved in child sex abuse?",
">\n\nOf course he's a pedo, he's a priest!",
">\n\nYes millions of idiots keep donating billions to the church",
">\n\nNot simply donating, they bring their children along, indoctrinate them that the priest is the speaker of God, and that God can do no wrong, so anything the priest dose is holy and good. The priest even says so!\nAnd when the kids bring it up the first few times weird things happen? The parents tell them to shush. And so, the sacrifices continue, the parents make a show of not knowing, and things get worse for the children.\nAnd if the priest is reported, the church just moves them to a different parish.\nThe only difference between the taliban and the catholic church, is one of them advertises the child slaves as a benefit, while the other pretends it's not (but totally encourages it, top to bottom).",
">\n\nAnd who are the groomers again?",
">\n\nThis is what happens when you don’t recycle your printer papers.",
">\n\nI feel like this isn't oniony enough, everyone knows by now that priests are significantly more likely to be pedophiles than the general population.",
">\n\nSure, but “gets caught by leaving nudes on a printer” is a fairly onion-y end.",
">\n\nYa know you're right",
">\n\nI have a theory about the correlation between priests and pedophiles. This is my opinion based on conversations with a childhood friend (not a pedo) and is only my opinion but could explain why so many priests abuse children. Get your down votes ready. \nThese boys grow up in the church and it is all they know for the most part. When going through puberty we become attracted to a gender (male or female gay or straight sometimes somewhere in between) and more often a \"type\" as well (blonde brunette short tall etc). Our hormones drive us to seek companionship, intimacy, and ultimately procreation. \nThese boys growing up never develop this attraction to their peers but rather feel more comfortable around younger children and usually behave as mentors. The combination of love of church and disinterest in peers puts the thought in their heads that priesthood is their calling. It takes a long time and effort to become a priest. There are easier paths if a guy just wants to bang kids.\nPut together lack of sex or release of biological needs with access and constant contact with children and they are basically pushed over the edge.\nTo sum up, pedophiles don't become priests to molest children, they become priests because they don't realize they are pedophiles. This is just my opinion, and obviously there are also exceptions to this.\nPerhaps the solution is to get rid of this nonsense celibacy.",
">\n\nAlternative theory: pedophiles become priests because they know the Catholic Church will support and hide them from accountability. Plus, all those altar boys have been easy pickings for decades. \nOn the positive side, Catholic Churches are closing all over Missouri because of dwindling congregations.",
">\n\nThis is one crime I’ll never be able to fathom.",
">\n\nSo fucking sick advocating for this monster so he can maintain freedom?",
">\n\nThe church has been so infiltrated by Child abusers that they are currently rating worse than Satan Worshippers",
">\n\nCan we just fuck churches off now???",
">\n\nYour tithing had to go somewhere.",
">\n\nHow come republicans are not calling these people groomers?",
">\n\nIs anyone else picturing the scene in the first Scary Movie where the cop asks Anna Faris to look at some pictures?\nPriest hands out the pictures of himself along with the weekly pamphlet. Maybe the first reading is from the Song of Solomon...",
">\n\nOh shit. \nHas he been quietly shuffled to a new church yet?",
">\n\nI'm old enough that when I see \"slideshow\" I think of him arranging physical slides in a carousel to project on a screen, like the family trip to Disneyland. Maybe invite the neighbors over for cake.",
">\n\nLord above why is this a thing",
">\n\nYou mean not a drag queen?",
">\n\nActual groomers.",
">\n\nJust think the hands that wanked to kiddie pr0n put wafers on the tongues of everyone in that congregation...",
">\n\nLMAO. This slightly ambiguous headline had me thinking “who attended these slideshow presentations?”",
">\n\nOh look another pedophile catholic priest. Good job reinforcing that stereotype.",
">\n\nAnd we should take guidance from those who hide these atrocities so we can live a better life in the eyes of god.",
">\n\nFriendly reminder religion is a mistake that deserves to be taxed. If you threatened to tax zealots tomorrow child molestation by priests would drop to zero",
">\n\nmay your mother smile as you burn",
">\n\nThis is what happens when you have unchecked power for thousands of years.\nHorrifying.",
">\n\nDid he learn this behavior from a drag show? /s",
">\n\nReminds me of something Chris Rock said: \"Where do women find the porn? They don't find it in your hiding place, they find it in the VCR\"",
">\n\nHe was also probably saving up for a trip to Disney World.",
">\n\n\nincluding child pornography and images of child erotica.\n\nI want to know the difference but don't want to get on a watchlist by googling it.",
">\n\nWithout the word child there, there's a difference in degree. I'd say it's the same thing with that word in there just describing the subject depicted. Pornography is generally actual sex acts of some form or another. Erotica falls short of that, it may be arousing or suggestive. For example, a cabaret show may be erotica but it's certainly not pornography.",
">\n\nPriest? Church? Man in a tax evasion party house?",
">\n\nYet the church immediately moved him somewhere else as there was a daycare next door to the church, then offered to pay to have the priest under house arrest so that the child predator won't go to jail.",
">\n\nShittiest Ted Talk I’ve ever seen, honestly…",
">\n\nOnly five years?! \nUgh!",
">\n\nAnd they call LGBT+ people groomers. (eyeroll)",
">\n\nAnyone who has ever been to a church sadly knows this doesn't need to be in this sub for us to know it's a real story.",
">\n\nOh how nice. The Reverend pleaded for him not to be incarcerated. Because of fucking course he did.",
">\n\nCurious as to who he was presenting this to",
">\n\nPunish these assholes they are smearing God's name",
">\n\nStraight to (checks notes) your next parish!",
">\n\nreligion and sexual abuse. name a more iconic duo\nwhy are any of these religions even allowed to exist any more\nthey have long since lost their meanings, and onlt serve to syphon money out of gullible people, and abuse their children\nwhat is any of these religions actually adding to society any more? other than more perverted monsters",
">\n\nHe’s not the only one",
">\n\nWhy is no big tv news channel talking about this?",
">\n\nAsked that he not go to prison & that his congregation pay to house him? Fuck the church. That's almost the most disgusting part of this",
">\n\nSo are we talking a pptx or an old-school film Rolodex version? Both are messed up, but one takes A LOT more effort.",
">\n\nThe catholic church is of Satan.",
">\n\nFaith is of \"Satan.\" The idea that assuming you might be wrong is morally wrong produces some of the worst people imaginable. And that applies to secular ideologies that require looking down on those who disagree or are unsure too.",
">\n\nAge of priest over/under 50\nWhat yall got?\nI have the over.",
">\n\nOnly 5 years?",
">\n\nRight for some reason i read it as slide show meaning projectors haha. I forgot Powerpoint presentations are a thing.",
">\n\nThe congregation still requested he be spared incarceration and remain in their facility. Truly unbelievable.",
">\n\nThose damn drag queens framed him",
">\n\nThey really put a lot of effort into not saying that he was catholic in that article.",
">\n\nWonder what congregation hes been moved to now?",
">\n\nAny outrage from republicans? Will they arm themselves and storm the churches?....... Didn't think so.",
">\n\nA Christian pedophile? Who could have guessed?",
">\n\nIm shocked! Shocked I say!\nWell... not that shocked.",
">\n\nI appreciate that the church cooperated and turned him in. However, the fact they wanted to pay to house him, out of the parish coffers, is insane. He deserves incarceration and certainly not a retirement paid for by parishioners of the church he victimized. Smh, a great step for the church, if only as a PR exercise, would be to strongly condemn this sort of behavior AND strongly punish it. Defrock and excommunicate any priest who does this. It’s a very easy choice that frankly could help reinstill a little confidence in the church.",
">\n\nOFF WITH HIS GOD DAMNED FUCKING HEAD",
">\n\nWhy so quick and painless?",
">\n\nYou know you’re actually right.. OFF WITH HIS GOD DAMNED FUCKING HEAD WITH A RUSTY PAPERCLIP",
">\n\nRight to jail",
">\n\nToday on why religious institutions should be abolished",
">\n\nAnd the right won't say a thing about this man.",
">\n\nHow Catholics still a thing ?",
">\n\nAnd the Church will cover it up or just say they are very sorry 🤬",
">\n\nThe provincial says everything right…he doesn’t excuse the guy, doesn’t obfuscate what he did or what it’s gravely evil…right up until he asks for house arrest. Fuck that. Whatever the harshest penalty allowed is, do that.",
">\n\nSo just regular church stuff really",
">\n\nChurch is a haven for predators!!!",
">\n\nI used to be Catholic, but stories like this make me hate the church more every day.",
">\n\nCan we just end this disgusting church already? Can you imagine ONE Walmart manager raping children? Now try to imagine MORE THAN THREE THOUSAND Walmart managers raping children. \nStill gonna shop at Walmart?"
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"Slideshows????? What?\nMy man just opened up cp.ppt and added a few THOUSAND slides of kiddy porn????\nClippy: it looks like youre a depraved predator. Do you want to profane the church as well?",
">\n\nWell I always did believe Power Point was a creation of a malevolent entity.",
">\n\nTuring complete, no less!",
">\n\nBut can it run Doom?",
">\n\nAnything can run doom",
">\n\nBut can Doom run Doom?",
">\n\nDoom can run Doom because Doom runs Doom when Doom runs.",
">\n\nPeople don't run Doom like it is, but it Doom.",
">\n\nGonna take this moment to highly recommend the film Spotlight to any who haven’t seen it",
">\n\nCheck out the 2017 limited series on either Netflix or Prime: \"The Keepers\" about a Baltimore-area Catholic girls' school. Based on the experiences as told by some of the girls, now middle-aged women. It is NOT nice, will make you cry, will enrage you. But I commend the women who made this documentary for as painful as it was for the audience to watch, I can't imagine how they made it thru. And they brought it around to a decent ending, but wow....I think some of what happened in Baltimore bled over into the Spotlight story.\nLapsed Catholic. I cannot reconcile with the Church hierarchy over this because they have behaved satanically for far too long to make me believe they are holy in any way.",
">\n\nThere was a documentary that came out a year or two ago tbzg sounds similar but men who were molested as kids while in the church. \nI honestly don't know how anyone can still support the church. At all. If it was one priest, sure. It's sad it happened, but pedophiles will always exist and find ways to get to kids.\nBut with how often it happens and with how little the church cares? Nope. I never could be catholic even if I was Christian.",
">\n\nBecause saving souls bringing them into their cult is more valuable than the ones they crush. The Vatican last I heard had 7 pedos protecting by not complying with extradition requests. \nAny organization not willing to comply with the laws of the country where they have a tax exempt status should lose their exemption and title to any property they own. If you RICO cartel and mafia assets, then you can do so for these child abusers and their protective association. \nYou know the church owns most of Manhattan and isn't paying taxes? All that money and we have to tolerate this shit? Nah fuck them.",
">\n\nNude pix on the church printer . . . I can imagine the scene.\nSister Mary Michael: Yo, does anyone recognize this tallywhacker?\nFormer Alter Boy Brian: Yeah, that's Father Jim. I'd know that hairy mole anywhere.",
">\n\nThat's Tommy Turner's tallywhacker",
">\n\nIf Reddit still gave free awards, I'd give one to you for catching the reference.",
">\n\nWAIT when did they get rid of the free awards",
">\n\nguess this is how i found out. last i claimed mine is around last week, i think. i only claim once every two weeks to gild certain biweekly thread lul",
">\n\nAnd yet where are all the \"anti-groomers\" protesting these churches?",
">\n\nIt’s almost like it has never actually been about protecting children, and it’s always been about trying to demonize LGBT people",
">\n\nAt this point I am positive the religious right to life thing is about having more targets.",
">\n\nGlad 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?",
">\n\nAfter 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.",
">\n\nI 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.\nThere are also many who truly believe the schtick and just compartmentalize the bad stuff. Both are to blame regardless. Nobody gets a pass.",
">\n\nI could see that with some of the smaller denominations for sure.\nWhen 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.",
">\n\n*making another streak to the tally list wall\n*camera panning out to reveal a huge fucking wall coveres in streaks",
">\n\nMan 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.\nThat said. This man should burn for this",
">\n\nPriest? Pedo? Are you sure? This is unprecedented",
">\n\nCorrection! PedoPreist",
">\n\nNew name not necessary. If anything there should be a name for the unique priests that arent pedos.",
">\n\nI'm inclined to think the majority of priests aren't child predators themselves.\nThe 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.\nWay, way too many of them are pedo-enablers. All the way up...",
">\n\nThen that would mean that... Gasp\nSouth Park was right all along....\nSneaky little bastards didn't think I would notice....",
">\n\nWish I was surprised",
">\n\nYou make slideshows of images? \nEdit: \nOh wait I see what you mean. Yeah the pedophile priest thing is so expected that only the slideshow bit stood out",
">\n\nHoly hell. Priest have normalized pedophilia.",
">\n\nNot just priests. Protestant Christians have a major problem with sexual abuse too, particularly against children.\nAfter Major Investigation, Southern Baptists Confront the Abuse Crisis They Knew Was Coming\nDon't let the Evangelical pedo defenders get away with claiming that Catholicism is the only issue here. It isn't.",
">\n\n\nnone of them are immune to the depravity.\n\nAlmost implied, really.",
">\n\nCould 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?",
">\n\nA variety of factors:\n\nUnquestioned moral authority and intense trust from a large community who have all been taught to obey church authorities\nSupport from a massive extremely powerful institution that has covered up thousands of similar crimes\nStrictly forbidden to marry, have sex, or iirc even masturbate, making them view all sexual activities as similarly taboo for them\nEasy regular access to many children\nEasy ability to get alone time with children\nPriests are only held institutionally accountable to each other and to those with more authority in the church\nVictims 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\nChildren 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\nThe 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\nThe 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\n\nThat'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.”\nP.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.\nWant 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.\nEdit to add this excellent way to protect kids that churches consistently fight against:\n\n“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.\nchildren 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.”",
">\n\nSo this should be buried enough if I speak in general terms.\nYears back one of our pastors had to give up being a pastor. They didn't get into details of what he did but they did stress that kids were not involved. The whole church could be seen relaxing.",
">\n\n5 years for thousands of child porn images and videos? Seems pretty fucking light to me. This piece of shit should die in prison.",
">\n\n5 years and a ticket to heaven",
">\n\nHeaven? For him?",
">\n\nThat'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.",
">\n\nDon't you also have to be truly repentant for your sins, including making a good faith effort to keep from repeating them?",
">\n\nI would love for someone to answer this because I really want to know, too.",
">\n\nyes I'm pretty sure that's it. God sees people's hearts He should know the diff between true repentance and fake one",
">\n\nYes, assuming an all-powerful God existed, he’d be able to pretty easily know if you were truly sorry.",
">\n\nYeah but......... \nI'm just starting the religious apologist's sentence for them.",
">\n\nFor 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.",
">\n\nOne 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.",
">\n\nOnce I heard this theory, the acceptance by conservatives of people whose behavior is in direct conflict with their moral beliefs, made more sense.",
">\n\n5 holly maries and transfer\nafter 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.\nRev. 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.\"\nMcDevitt asked the presiding judge for \"mercy for Jim,\" and even offered for the congregation to pay to house him in lieu of imprisonment.\n\"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.\"\n\"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.\"",
">\n\nIn Australia at the moment there is a furore after the death of Cardinal George Pell who was convicted (then exonerated) of personally abusing children, but was found by a Royal Commission (that would be a special prosecutor for our American friends?) of enabling and protecting paedophile priests for decades.\nCan honestly say I have not been able to listen to the string of \"Christians\" praising this man in our media for the last few days without wanting to puke. Suffer the little children.",
">\n\nWith you there. At least there’s a lot of people calling his supporters out on this. Fuck Tony Abbott, John Howard and Andrew Bolt to name a few.",
">\n\nI 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!",
">\n\nr/PastorArrested (also includes Priests)",
">\n\nDon'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.",
">\n\nIf there is a god, wtf?",
">\n\nThere is no God. Religion is about control and money",
">\n\nAnd more money",
">\n\n\"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.\" \n- Rev. Patrick McDevitt, provincial superior for the Congregation of the Western Province \n\nEvery single member of that congregation is a horrible piece of shit",
">\n\nWhat 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?",
">\n\n“Drag queens are grooming our youth!!!”",
">\n\n\"I think we all know where people put on dresses and fuck kids\"\n-Trixie Mattel, 2022",
">\n\nKid “Bless me Father, for I have sinned”\nPadre “ call me, maybe?”",
">\n\nImagine my shock to discover that a priest has been involved in a sex scandal and one involving the exploitation of children, at that.",
">\n\nGOP: \"But wuttabout drag queens?!?!?!??!\"",
">\n\nDoing the Lords work 🙏🏾",
">\n\nTax-free",
">\n\nWhat's the deal with priests being so into pedophilia? Can't they look at milf pounds like normal people?",
">\n\nOh look... Another priest with child porn ... When do we get to start taxing the church?",
">\n\nr/pastorarrested",
">\n\nChurch is a scary place, especially for children.",
">\n\nI 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.",
">\n\nOnly 5 years. What a joke.",
">\n\n\nThe 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.\n\nIf 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.",
">\n\nNo one is suprised a priest is a pedophile. \nBut printing out yer nudes? That's odd.",
">\n\nI can think of a reason he printed it out. And I really don't like that reason.",
">\n\nI'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.",
">\n\nThe sheer audacity to do it at church where you work",
">\n\nAnd not a drag queen in sight...",
">\n\nThey do kinda wear dresses, though",
">\n\nToo many “coincidences” within this church to be anything other than systematic",
">\n\nPretty 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.",
">\n\n\nThe data often suggests numbers of pedophiles similar to the general population\n\none 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",
">\n\nYeah, 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.",
">\n\nI 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.",
">\n\nIt's so common for priests to be sickos",
">\n\nGross",
">\n\nAll he needs to do is repent, right?!?",
">\n\nA priest? With kiddie porn? I’ve never heard of such a thing!",
">\n\nRemember 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.",
">\n\n5 years that's all he got",
">\n\nThat's fucking disgusting. Misappropriation of office materials.",
">\n\nIt 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",
">\n\nIdiot 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.",
">\n\nso 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.",
">\n\nI 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 🤷♂️",
">\n\n5 years isnt nearly enough. Lock him up forever and a day.",
">\n\n~~Drag shows~~ Churches are not safe for children",
">\n\nI'm sure the religious Right will be out protesting him any second.\nRight? Right guys? Groomers and all this? Qanons? Where you guys at?\nHuh. Weird.",
">\n\nBut the dragqueens guys?!?!?!??!? /s",
">\n\nWeird that so many god loving people are actually just pedophiles. Wonder what they think god thinks of them. Fuck theism.",
">\n\nTheir god tells them to take the young girls as spoils of war. Their god is just as fucking depraved as they are.",
">\n\ntHaTs jUsT tHe oLd tEsTaMeNt tHoUgh.\ngOds mOraLiTy dOeSnt cHanGe, hE jUsT dEaLs wItH hUmAns diFFeReNtlY nOw. \nYeah when someone deals with people differently than they did before we generally call that \"a change.\"",
">\n\nAnd he wasn’t trans??? Maybe it’s been priests all along that governors should be banning. When will they correct their mistake? /s",
">\n\nDoesn'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...",
">\n\nIt's surprising. Who prints out their own nudes?",
">\n\nLock him up and throw away the keys",
">\n\nDarn priests, at least those protestant ministers keep it in the family",
">\n\nNot surprised.",
">\n\nThree hail marys and all is forgiven. What a load of bs",
">\n\nJust one bad apple, I’m sure.",
">\n\nLeast paedophilic priest",
">\n\n…slideshow?",
">\n\nGod works in mysterious ways ya fuckin chomo. As a priest, he of all people should have seen this coming...",
">\n\nIn other news, water is wet",
">\n\nOnly five years...",
">\n\n”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.” \nಠ_ಠ",
">\n\nI don’t remember this plotline during Doubt…",
">\n\nWe keep letting them get away with it, so they keep doing it. More obvious news at 10.",
">\n\n& once they found him out he got made a cardinal",
">\n\nHe should've kept them in the garage with his Corvette",
">\n\n5 years? If nothing else, using PowerPoint should have been an aggravating factor.",
">\n\nAnd you thought looking at Bob's family vacation pics was a bad time",
">\n\nWhen 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.",
">\n\nHow is the Roman Catholic Church not closed down for enabling and protecting child abusers",
">\n\nAre 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.",
">\n\nIt'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.",
">\n\npapabile!",
">\n\nLeft nudes on a shared printer? Rookie mistake.",
">\n\nTeach your priests just enough tech to effectively turn themselves in.",
">\n\nIsn't it something how the church decided to investigate themselves again. Keep it in the family, guys.\nI 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.",
">\n\nIs 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:\n1 - 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\n2 - 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)\n3 - 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.\nTL;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.",
">\n\nLet me guess.\nMoved to a different church at the other side of the country and that’s about it for consequences?",
">\n\nThose damned drag queens strike again.",
">\n\nI mean that’s kinda how they caught BTK",
">\n\nSo priests are still abusing kids after we didn't do anything to them the last few times we caught them? Color me surprised.",
">\n\n\nCourt 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.\"\n\n...\n\nDuring 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. \n\n...\n\nAnd 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. \n\nFuck everyone that allowed this scum to continue in a position of authority.",
">\n\nDon’t hear this happening at drag shows…j/s",
">\n\nHe put the PDF in pedofile",
">\n\nThis is Fucking ridiculous",
">\n\nNever forget who the actual groomers are",
">\n\nThe proud boys will be outside of churches \"protesting\" with guns now, right? right?",
">\n\nA priest being pedophile? But that is absolutely unheard of, say it isn't so!",
">\n\nYou sure this wasn't at a Trans drag show? GOP is sure this happens at Trans dragsl shows",
">\n\nExcommunicated by PowerPoint",
">\n\n5 years and a fine? FFS, that’s ridiculous.",
">\n\nPraise Jesus!",
">\n\nAnd the right thinks kids going to drag shows are the problem",
">\n\nAverage christian.",
">\n\nbut the drag queens are reading books to children in libraries! The madnessss",
">\n\nSo they moved him to a new church. This is what they have always done.",
">\n\nleast pedophilic priest:",
">\n\nThe dead ones dont hurt anyone.",
">\n\ninto the furnace he goes. theres no rehabbing people like this.",
">\n\nIt's always the ones you least expect..",
">\n\nOr in this case, the ones you MOST suspect",
">\n\nlol ya, I said that with sarcasm..",
">\n\nPray that he gets nut cancer.",
">\n\nNut cancer was once described to me as \"the common cold of cancers\". It has something like a 95% survival rate.\nHe deserves worse.",
">\n\nDidn't know that. Good nut fact for the day.",
">\n\nIt's definitely the drag queens reading to kids in libraries that's the problem.",
">\n\nRight wingers want him to be a closeted drag queen so badly",
">\n\nI could never trust any man who goes into priesthood. Completely unnatural and deviant occupation rife with pedophiles.",
">\n\nThis MONSTER got 5 years?! \nThe CHILDREN being abused in the images will suffer for the rest of their lives!!\nI'm in favor of LIFE SENTENCES for child sex offenders. \nOr better yet, the DEATH PENALTY!!",
">\n\nReligion was invented by Man for Control of the Flock.You go to Confession and tell the priest everything so they can determine how to undress you.\nI was once a Catholic.....born, baptised, confirmed and educated in a Grammar school run by Irish Christian Brothers under the Order of Edmund Ignatius Rice......and now I'm an atheist.",
">\n\nHow come it is always ‘Christians’ who are involved in child sex abuse?",
">\n\nOf course he's a pedo, he's a priest!",
">\n\nYes millions of idiots keep donating billions to the church",
">\n\nNot simply donating, they bring their children along, indoctrinate them that the priest is the speaker of God, and that God can do no wrong, so anything the priest dose is holy and good. The priest even says so!\nAnd when the kids bring it up the first few times weird things happen? The parents tell them to shush. And so, the sacrifices continue, the parents make a show of not knowing, and things get worse for the children.\nAnd if the priest is reported, the church just moves them to a different parish.\nThe only difference between the taliban and the catholic church, is one of them advertises the child slaves as a benefit, while the other pretends it's not (but totally encourages it, top to bottom).",
">\n\nAnd who are the groomers again?",
">\n\nThis is what happens when you don’t recycle your printer papers.",
">\n\nI feel like this isn't oniony enough, everyone knows by now that priests are significantly more likely to be pedophiles than the general population.",
">\n\nSure, but “gets caught by leaving nudes on a printer” is a fairly onion-y end.",
">\n\nYa know you're right",
">\n\nI have a theory about the correlation between priests and pedophiles. This is my opinion based on conversations with a childhood friend (not a pedo) and is only my opinion but could explain why so many priests abuse children. Get your down votes ready. \nThese boys grow up in the church and it is all they know for the most part. When going through puberty we become attracted to a gender (male or female gay or straight sometimes somewhere in between) and more often a \"type\" as well (blonde brunette short tall etc). Our hormones drive us to seek companionship, intimacy, and ultimately procreation. \nThese boys growing up never develop this attraction to their peers but rather feel more comfortable around younger children and usually behave as mentors. The combination of love of church and disinterest in peers puts the thought in their heads that priesthood is their calling. It takes a long time and effort to become a priest. There are easier paths if a guy just wants to bang kids.\nPut together lack of sex or release of biological needs with access and constant contact with children and they are basically pushed over the edge.\nTo sum up, pedophiles don't become priests to molest children, they become priests because they don't realize they are pedophiles. This is just my opinion, and obviously there are also exceptions to this.\nPerhaps the solution is to get rid of this nonsense celibacy.",
">\n\nAlternative theory: pedophiles become priests because they know the Catholic Church will support and hide them from accountability. Plus, all those altar boys have been easy pickings for decades. \nOn the positive side, Catholic Churches are closing all over Missouri because of dwindling congregations.",
">\n\nThis is one crime I’ll never be able to fathom.",
">\n\nSo fucking sick advocating for this monster so he can maintain freedom?",
">\n\nThe church has been so infiltrated by Child abusers that they are currently rating worse than Satan Worshippers",
">\n\nCan we just fuck churches off now???",
">\n\nYour tithing had to go somewhere.",
">\n\nHow come republicans are not calling these people groomers?",
">\n\nIs anyone else picturing the scene in the first Scary Movie where the cop asks Anna Faris to look at some pictures?\nPriest hands out the pictures of himself along with the weekly pamphlet. Maybe the first reading is from the Song of Solomon...",
">\n\nOh shit. \nHas he been quietly shuffled to a new church yet?",
">\n\nI'm old enough that when I see \"slideshow\" I think of him arranging physical slides in a carousel to project on a screen, like the family trip to Disneyland. Maybe invite the neighbors over for cake.",
">\n\nLord above why is this a thing",
">\n\nYou mean not a drag queen?",
">\n\nActual groomers.",
">\n\nJust think the hands that wanked to kiddie pr0n put wafers on the tongues of everyone in that congregation...",
">\n\nLMAO. This slightly ambiguous headline had me thinking “who attended these slideshow presentations?”",
">\n\nOh look another pedophile catholic priest. Good job reinforcing that stereotype.",
">\n\nAnd we should take guidance from those who hide these atrocities so we can live a better life in the eyes of god.",
">\n\nFriendly reminder religion is a mistake that deserves to be taxed. If you threatened to tax zealots tomorrow child molestation by priests would drop to zero",
">\n\nmay your mother smile as you burn",
">\n\nThis is what happens when you have unchecked power for thousands of years.\nHorrifying.",
">\n\nDid he learn this behavior from a drag show? /s",
">\n\nReminds me of something Chris Rock said: \"Where do women find the porn? They don't find it in your hiding place, they find it in the VCR\"",
">\n\nHe was also probably saving up for a trip to Disney World.",
">\n\n\nincluding child pornography and images of child erotica.\n\nI want to know the difference but don't want to get on a watchlist by googling it.",
">\n\nWithout the word child there, there's a difference in degree. I'd say it's the same thing with that word in there just describing the subject depicted. Pornography is generally actual sex acts of some form or another. Erotica falls short of that, it may be arousing or suggestive. For example, a cabaret show may be erotica but it's certainly not pornography.",
">\n\nPriest? Church? Man in a tax evasion party house?",
">\n\nYet the church immediately moved him somewhere else as there was a daycare next door to the church, then offered to pay to have the priest under house arrest so that the child predator won't go to jail.",
">\n\nShittiest Ted Talk I’ve ever seen, honestly…",
">\n\nOnly five years?! \nUgh!",
">\n\nAnd they call LGBT+ people groomers. (eyeroll)",
">\n\nAnyone who has ever been to a church sadly knows this doesn't need to be in this sub for us to know it's a real story.",
">\n\nOh how nice. The Reverend pleaded for him not to be incarcerated. Because of fucking course he did.",
">\n\nCurious as to who he was presenting this to",
">\n\nPunish these assholes they are smearing God's name",
">\n\nStraight to (checks notes) your next parish!",
">\n\nreligion and sexual abuse. name a more iconic duo\nwhy are any of these religions even allowed to exist any more\nthey have long since lost their meanings, and onlt serve to syphon money out of gullible people, and abuse their children\nwhat is any of these religions actually adding to society any more? other than more perverted monsters",
">\n\nHe’s not the only one",
">\n\nWhy is no big tv news channel talking about this?",
">\n\nAsked that he not go to prison & that his congregation pay to house him? Fuck the church. That's almost the most disgusting part of this",
">\n\nSo are we talking a pptx or an old-school film Rolodex version? Both are messed up, but one takes A LOT more effort.",
">\n\nThe catholic church is of Satan.",
">\n\nFaith is of \"Satan.\" The idea that assuming you might be wrong is morally wrong produces some of the worst people imaginable. And that applies to secular ideologies that require looking down on those who disagree or are unsure too.",
">\n\nAge of priest over/under 50\nWhat yall got?\nI have the over.",
">\n\nOnly 5 years?",
">\n\nRight for some reason i read it as slide show meaning projectors haha. I forgot Powerpoint presentations are a thing.",
">\n\nThe congregation still requested he be spared incarceration and remain in their facility. Truly unbelievable.",
">\n\nThose damn drag queens framed him",
">\n\nThey really put a lot of effort into not saying that he was catholic in that article.",
">\n\nWonder what congregation hes been moved to now?",
">\n\nAny outrage from republicans? Will they arm themselves and storm the churches?....... Didn't think so.",
">\n\nA Christian pedophile? Who could have guessed?",
">\n\nIm shocked! Shocked I say!\nWell... not that shocked.",
">\n\nI appreciate that the church cooperated and turned him in. However, the fact they wanted to pay to house him, out of the parish coffers, is insane. He deserves incarceration and certainly not a retirement paid for by parishioners of the church he victimized. Smh, a great step for the church, if only as a PR exercise, would be to strongly condemn this sort of behavior AND strongly punish it. Defrock and excommunicate any priest who does this. It’s a very easy choice that frankly could help reinstill a little confidence in the church.",
">\n\nOFF WITH HIS GOD DAMNED FUCKING HEAD",
">\n\nWhy so quick and painless?",
">\n\nYou know you’re actually right.. OFF WITH HIS GOD DAMNED FUCKING HEAD WITH A RUSTY PAPERCLIP",
">\n\nRight to jail",
">\n\nToday on why religious institutions should be abolished",
">\n\nAnd the right won't say a thing about this man.",
">\n\nHow Catholics still a thing ?",
">\n\nAnd the Church will cover it up or just say they are very sorry 🤬",
">\n\nThe provincial says everything right…he doesn’t excuse the guy, doesn’t obfuscate what he did or what it’s gravely evil…right up until he asks for house arrest. Fuck that. Whatever the harshest penalty allowed is, do that.",
">\n\nSo just regular church stuff really",
">\n\nChurch is a haven for predators!!!",
">\n\nI used to be Catholic, but stories like this make me hate the church more every day.",
">\n\nCan we just end this disgusting church already? Can you imagine ONE Walmart manager raping children? Now try to imagine MORE THAN THREE THOUSAND Walmart managers raping children. \nStill gonna shop at Walmart?",
">\n\nBut somehow these religious psychos get away with this and convince their followers to kill LGBTQ+ people. Fuck religion, fuck all churches, we need it out of our society."
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"Slideshows????? What?\nMy man just opened up cp.ppt and added a few THOUSAND slides of kiddy porn????\nClippy: it looks like youre a depraved predator. Do you want to profane the church as well?",
">\n\nWell I always did believe Power Point was a creation of a malevolent entity.",
">\n\nTuring complete, no less!",
">\n\nBut can it run Doom?",
">\n\nAnything can run doom",
">\n\nBut can Doom run Doom?",
">\n\nDoom can run Doom because Doom runs Doom when Doom runs.",
">\n\nPeople don't run Doom like it is, but it Doom.",
">\n\nGonna take this moment to highly recommend the film Spotlight to any who haven’t seen it",
">\n\nCheck out the 2017 limited series on either Netflix or Prime: \"The Keepers\" about a Baltimore-area Catholic girls' school. Based on the experiences as told by some of the girls, now middle-aged women. It is NOT nice, will make you cry, will enrage you. But I commend the women who made this documentary for as painful as it was for the audience to watch, I can't imagine how they made it thru. And they brought it around to a decent ending, but wow....I think some of what happened in Baltimore bled over into the Spotlight story.\nLapsed Catholic. I cannot reconcile with the Church hierarchy over this because they have behaved satanically for far too long to make me believe they are holy in any way.",
">\n\nThere was a documentary that came out a year or two ago tbzg sounds similar but men who were molested as kids while in the church. \nI honestly don't know how anyone can still support the church. At all. If it was one priest, sure. It's sad it happened, but pedophiles will always exist and find ways to get to kids.\nBut with how often it happens and with how little the church cares? Nope. I never could be catholic even if I was Christian.",
">\n\nBecause saving souls bringing them into their cult is more valuable than the ones they crush. The Vatican last I heard had 7 pedos protecting by not complying with extradition requests. \nAny organization not willing to comply with the laws of the country where they have a tax exempt status should lose their exemption and title to any property they own. If you RICO cartel and mafia assets, then you can do so for these child abusers and their protective association. \nYou know the church owns most of Manhattan and isn't paying taxes? All that money and we have to tolerate this shit? Nah fuck them.",
">\n\nNude pix on the church printer . . . I can imagine the scene.\nSister Mary Michael: Yo, does anyone recognize this tallywhacker?\nFormer Alter Boy Brian: Yeah, that's Father Jim. I'd know that hairy mole anywhere.",
">\n\nThat's Tommy Turner's tallywhacker",
">\n\nIf Reddit still gave free awards, I'd give one to you for catching the reference.",
">\n\nWAIT when did they get rid of the free awards",
">\n\nguess this is how i found out. last i claimed mine is around last week, i think. i only claim once every two weeks to gild certain biweekly thread lul",
">\n\nAnd yet where are all the \"anti-groomers\" protesting these churches?",
">\n\nIt’s almost like it has never actually been about protecting children, and it’s always been about trying to demonize LGBT people",
">\n\nAt this point I am positive the religious right to life thing is about having more targets.",
">\n\nGlad 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?",
">\n\nAfter 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.",
">\n\nI 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.\nThere are also many who truly believe the schtick and just compartmentalize the bad stuff. Both are to blame regardless. Nobody gets a pass.",
">\n\nI could see that with some of the smaller denominations for sure.\nWhen 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.",
">\n\n*making another streak to the tally list wall\n*camera panning out to reveal a huge fucking wall coveres in streaks",
">\n\nMan 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.\nThat said. This man should burn for this",
">\n\nPriest? Pedo? Are you sure? This is unprecedented",
">\n\nCorrection! PedoPreist",
">\n\nNew name not necessary. If anything there should be a name for the unique priests that arent pedos.",
">\n\nI'm inclined to think the majority of priests aren't child predators themselves.\nThe 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.\nWay, way too many of them are pedo-enablers. All the way up...",
">\n\nThen that would mean that... Gasp\nSouth Park was right all along....\nSneaky little bastards didn't think I would notice....",
">\n\nWish I was surprised",
">\n\nYou make slideshows of images? \nEdit: \nOh wait I see what you mean. Yeah the pedophile priest thing is so expected that only the slideshow bit stood out",
">\n\nHoly hell. Priest have normalized pedophilia.",
">\n\nNot just priests. Protestant Christians have a major problem with sexual abuse too, particularly against children.\nAfter Major Investigation, Southern Baptists Confront the Abuse Crisis They Knew Was Coming\nDon't let the Evangelical pedo defenders get away with claiming that Catholicism is the only issue here. It isn't.",
">\n\n\nnone of them are immune to the depravity.\n\nAlmost implied, really.",
">\n\nCould 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?",
">\n\nA variety of factors:\n\nUnquestioned moral authority and intense trust from a large community who have all been taught to obey church authorities\nSupport from a massive extremely powerful institution that has covered up thousands of similar crimes\nStrictly forbidden to marry, have sex, or iirc even masturbate, making them view all sexual activities as similarly taboo for them\nEasy regular access to many children\nEasy ability to get alone time with children\nPriests are only held institutionally accountable to each other and to those with more authority in the church\nVictims 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\nChildren 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\nThe 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\nThe 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\n\nThat'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.”\nP.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.\nWant 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.\nEdit to add this excellent way to protect kids that churches consistently fight against:\n\n“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.\nchildren 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.”",
">\n\nSo this should be buried enough if I speak in general terms.\nYears back one of our pastors had to give up being a pastor. They didn't get into details of what he did but they did stress that kids were not involved. The whole church could be seen relaxing.",
">\n\n5 years for thousands of child porn images and videos? Seems pretty fucking light to me. This piece of shit should die in prison.",
">\n\n5 years and a ticket to heaven",
">\n\nHeaven? For him?",
">\n\nThat'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.",
">\n\nDon't you also have to be truly repentant for your sins, including making a good faith effort to keep from repeating them?",
">\n\nI would love for someone to answer this because I really want to know, too.",
">\n\nyes I'm pretty sure that's it. God sees people's hearts He should know the diff between true repentance and fake one",
">\n\nYes, assuming an all-powerful God existed, he’d be able to pretty easily know if you were truly sorry.",
">\n\nYeah but......... \nI'm just starting the religious apologist's sentence for them.",
">\n\nFor 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.",
">\n\nOne 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.",
">\n\nOnce I heard this theory, the acceptance by conservatives of people whose behavior is in direct conflict with their moral beliefs, made more sense.",
">\n\n5 holly maries and transfer\nafter 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.\nRev. 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.\"\nMcDevitt asked the presiding judge for \"mercy for Jim,\" and even offered for the congregation to pay to house him in lieu of imprisonment.\n\"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.\"\n\"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.\"",
">\n\nIn Australia at the moment there is a furore after the death of Cardinal George Pell who was convicted (then exonerated) of personally abusing children, but was found by a Royal Commission (that would be a special prosecutor for our American friends?) of enabling and protecting paedophile priests for decades.\nCan honestly say I have not been able to listen to the string of \"Christians\" praising this man in our media for the last few days without wanting to puke. Suffer the little children.",
">\n\nWith you there. At least there’s a lot of people calling his supporters out on this. Fuck Tony Abbott, John Howard and Andrew Bolt to name a few.",
">\n\nI 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!",
">\n\nr/PastorArrested (also includes Priests)",
">\n\nDon'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.",
">\n\nIf there is a god, wtf?",
">\n\nThere is no God. Religion is about control and money",
">\n\nAnd more money",
">\n\n\"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.\" \n- Rev. Patrick McDevitt, provincial superior for the Congregation of the Western Province \n\nEvery single member of that congregation is a horrible piece of shit",
">\n\nWhat 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?",
">\n\n“Drag queens are grooming our youth!!!”",
">\n\n\"I think we all know where people put on dresses and fuck kids\"\n-Trixie Mattel, 2022",
">\n\nKid “Bless me Father, for I have sinned”\nPadre “ call me, maybe?”",
">\n\nImagine my shock to discover that a priest has been involved in a sex scandal and one involving the exploitation of children, at that.",
">\n\nGOP: \"But wuttabout drag queens?!?!?!??!\"",
">\n\nDoing the Lords work 🙏🏾",
">\n\nTax-free",
">\n\nWhat's the deal with priests being so into pedophilia? Can't they look at milf pounds like normal people?",
">\n\nOh look... Another priest with child porn ... When do we get to start taxing the church?",
">\n\nr/pastorarrested",
">\n\nChurch is a scary place, especially for children.",
">\n\nI 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.",
">\n\nOnly 5 years. What a joke.",
">\n\n\nThe 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.\n\nIf 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.",
">\n\nNo one is suprised a priest is a pedophile. \nBut printing out yer nudes? That's odd.",
">\n\nI can think of a reason he printed it out. And I really don't like that reason.",
">\n\nI'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.",
">\n\nThe sheer audacity to do it at church where you work",
">\n\nAnd not a drag queen in sight...",
">\n\nThey do kinda wear dresses, though",
">\n\nToo many “coincidences” within this church to be anything other than systematic",
">\n\nPretty 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.",
">\n\n\nThe data often suggests numbers of pedophiles similar to the general population\n\none 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",
">\n\nYeah, 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.",
">\n\nI 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.",
">\n\nIt's so common for priests to be sickos",
">\n\nGross",
">\n\nAll he needs to do is repent, right?!?",
">\n\nA priest? With kiddie porn? I’ve never heard of such a thing!",
">\n\nRemember 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.",
">\n\n5 years that's all he got",
">\n\nThat's fucking disgusting. Misappropriation of office materials.",
">\n\nIt 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",
">\n\nIdiot 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.",
">\n\nso 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.",
">\n\nI 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 🤷♂️",
">\n\n5 years isnt nearly enough. Lock him up forever and a day.",
">\n\n~~Drag shows~~ Churches are not safe for children",
">\n\nI'm sure the religious Right will be out protesting him any second.\nRight? Right guys? Groomers and all this? Qanons? Where you guys at?\nHuh. Weird.",
">\n\nBut the dragqueens guys?!?!?!??!? /s",
">\n\nWeird that so many god loving people are actually just pedophiles. Wonder what they think god thinks of them. Fuck theism.",
">\n\nTheir god tells them to take the young girls as spoils of war. Their god is just as fucking depraved as they are.",
">\n\ntHaTs jUsT tHe oLd tEsTaMeNt tHoUgh.\ngOds mOraLiTy dOeSnt cHanGe, hE jUsT dEaLs wItH hUmAns diFFeReNtlY nOw. \nYeah when someone deals with people differently than they did before we generally call that \"a change.\"",
">\n\nAnd he wasn’t trans??? Maybe it’s been priests all along that governors should be banning. When will they correct their mistake? /s",
">\n\nDoesn'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...",
">\n\nIt's surprising. Who prints out their own nudes?",
">\n\nLock him up and throw away the keys",
">\n\nDarn priests, at least those protestant ministers keep it in the family",
">\n\nNot surprised.",
">\n\nThree hail marys and all is forgiven. What a load of bs",
">\n\nJust one bad apple, I’m sure.",
">\n\nLeast paedophilic priest",
">\n\n…slideshow?",
">\n\nGod works in mysterious ways ya fuckin chomo. As a priest, he of all people should have seen this coming...",
">\n\nIn other news, water is wet",
">\n\nOnly five years...",
">\n\n”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.” \nಠ_ಠ",
">\n\nI don’t remember this plotline during Doubt…",
">\n\nWe keep letting them get away with it, so they keep doing it. More obvious news at 10.",
">\n\n& once they found him out he got made a cardinal",
">\n\nHe should've kept them in the garage with his Corvette",
">\n\n5 years? If nothing else, using PowerPoint should have been an aggravating factor.",
">\n\nAnd you thought looking at Bob's family vacation pics was a bad time",
">\n\nWhen 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.",
">\n\nHow is the Roman Catholic Church not closed down for enabling and protecting child abusers",
">\n\nAre 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.",
">\n\nIt'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.",
">\n\npapabile!",
">\n\nLeft nudes on a shared printer? Rookie mistake.",
">\n\nTeach your priests just enough tech to effectively turn themselves in.",
">\n\nIsn't it something how the church decided to investigate themselves again. Keep it in the family, guys.\nI 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.",
">\n\nIs 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:\n1 - 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\n2 - 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)\n3 - 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.\nTL;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.",
">\n\nLet me guess.\nMoved to a different church at the other side of the country and that’s about it for consequences?",
">\n\nThose damned drag queens strike again.",
">\n\nI mean that’s kinda how they caught BTK",
">\n\nSo priests are still abusing kids after we didn't do anything to them the last few times we caught them? Color me surprised.",
">\n\n\nCourt 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.\"\n\n...\n\nDuring 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. \n\n...\n\nAnd 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. \n\nFuck everyone that allowed this scum to continue in a position of authority.",
">\n\nDon’t hear this happening at drag shows…j/s",
">\n\nHe put the PDF in pedofile",
">\n\nThis is Fucking ridiculous",
">\n\nNever forget who the actual groomers are",
">\n\nThe proud boys will be outside of churches \"protesting\" with guns now, right? right?",
">\n\nA priest being pedophile? But that is absolutely unheard of, say it isn't so!",
">\n\nYou sure this wasn't at a Trans drag show? GOP is sure this happens at Trans dragsl shows",
">\n\nExcommunicated by PowerPoint",
">\n\n5 years and a fine? FFS, that’s ridiculous.",
">\n\nPraise Jesus!",
">\n\nAnd the right thinks kids going to drag shows are the problem",
">\n\nAverage christian.",
">\n\nbut the drag queens are reading books to children in libraries! The madnessss",
">\n\nSo they moved him to a new church. This is what they have always done.",
">\n\nleast pedophilic priest:",
">\n\nThe dead ones dont hurt anyone.",
">\n\ninto the furnace he goes. theres no rehabbing people like this.",
">\n\nIt's always the ones you least expect..",
">\n\nOr in this case, the ones you MOST suspect",
">\n\nlol ya, I said that with sarcasm..",
">\n\nPray that he gets nut cancer.",
">\n\nNut cancer was once described to me as \"the common cold of cancers\". It has something like a 95% survival rate.\nHe deserves worse.",
">\n\nDidn't know that. Good nut fact for the day.",
">\n\nIt's definitely the drag queens reading to kids in libraries that's the problem.",
">\n\nRight wingers want him to be a closeted drag queen so badly",
">\n\nI could never trust any man who goes into priesthood. Completely unnatural and deviant occupation rife with pedophiles.",
">\n\nThis MONSTER got 5 years?! \nThe CHILDREN being abused in the images will suffer for the rest of their lives!!\nI'm in favor of LIFE SENTENCES for child sex offenders. \nOr better yet, the DEATH PENALTY!!",
">\n\nReligion was invented by Man for Control of the Flock.You go to Confession and tell the priest everything so they can determine how to undress you.\nI was once a Catholic.....born, baptised, confirmed and educated in a Grammar school run by Irish Christian Brothers under the Order of Edmund Ignatius Rice......and now I'm an atheist.",
">\n\nHow come it is always ‘Christians’ who are involved in child sex abuse?",
">\n\nOf course he's a pedo, he's a priest!",
">\n\nYes millions of idiots keep donating billions to the church",
">\n\nNot simply donating, they bring their children along, indoctrinate them that the priest is the speaker of God, and that God can do no wrong, so anything the priest dose is holy and good. The priest even says so!\nAnd when the kids bring it up the first few times weird things happen? The parents tell them to shush. And so, the sacrifices continue, the parents make a show of not knowing, and things get worse for the children.\nAnd if the priest is reported, the church just moves them to a different parish.\nThe only difference between the taliban and the catholic church, is one of them advertises the child slaves as a benefit, while the other pretends it's not (but totally encourages it, top to bottom).",
">\n\nAnd who are the groomers again?",
">\n\nThis is what happens when you don’t recycle your printer papers.",
">\n\nI feel like this isn't oniony enough, everyone knows by now that priests are significantly more likely to be pedophiles than the general population.",
">\n\nSure, but “gets caught by leaving nudes on a printer” is a fairly onion-y end.",
">\n\nYa know you're right",
">\n\nI have a theory about the correlation between priests and pedophiles. This is my opinion based on conversations with a childhood friend (not a pedo) and is only my opinion but could explain why so many priests abuse children. Get your down votes ready. \nThese boys grow up in the church and it is all they know for the most part. When going through puberty we become attracted to a gender (male or female gay or straight sometimes somewhere in between) and more often a \"type\" as well (blonde brunette short tall etc). Our hormones drive us to seek companionship, intimacy, and ultimately procreation. \nThese boys growing up never develop this attraction to their peers but rather feel more comfortable around younger children and usually behave as mentors. The combination of love of church and disinterest in peers puts the thought in their heads that priesthood is their calling. It takes a long time and effort to become a priest. There are easier paths if a guy just wants to bang kids.\nPut together lack of sex or release of biological needs with access and constant contact with children and they are basically pushed over the edge.\nTo sum up, pedophiles don't become priests to molest children, they become priests because they don't realize they are pedophiles. This is just my opinion, and obviously there are also exceptions to this.\nPerhaps the solution is to get rid of this nonsense celibacy.",
">\n\nAlternative theory: pedophiles become priests because they know the Catholic Church will support and hide them from accountability. Plus, all those altar boys have been easy pickings for decades. \nOn the positive side, Catholic Churches are closing all over Missouri because of dwindling congregations.",
">\n\nThis is one crime I’ll never be able to fathom.",
">\n\nSo fucking sick advocating for this monster so he can maintain freedom?",
">\n\nThe church has been so infiltrated by Child abusers that they are currently rating worse than Satan Worshippers",
">\n\nCan we just fuck churches off now???",
">\n\nYour tithing had to go somewhere.",
">\n\nHow come republicans are not calling these people groomers?",
">\n\nIs anyone else picturing the scene in the first Scary Movie where the cop asks Anna Faris to look at some pictures?\nPriest hands out the pictures of himself along with the weekly pamphlet. Maybe the first reading is from the Song of Solomon...",
">\n\nOh shit. \nHas he been quietly shuffled to a new church yet?",
">\n\nI'm old enough that when I see \"slideshow\" I think of him arranging physical slides in a carousel to project on a screen, like the family trip to Disneyland. Maybe invite the neighbors over for cake.",
">\n\nLord above why is this a thing",
">\n\nYou mean not a drag queen?",
">\n\nActual groomers.",
">\n\nJust think the hands that wanked to kiddie pr0n put wafers on the tongues of everyone in that congregation...",
">\n\nLMAO. This slightly ambiguous headline had me thinking “who attended these slideshow presentations?”",
">\n\nOh look another pedophile catholic priest. Good job reinforcing that stereotype.",
">\n\nAnd we should take guidance from those who hide these atrocities so we can live a better life in the eyes of god.",
">\n\nFriendly reminder religion is a mistake that deserves to be taxed. If you threatened to tax zealots tomorrow child molestation by priests would drop to zero",
">\n\nmay your mother smile as you burn",
">\n\nThis is what happens when you have unchecked power for thousands of years.\nHorrifying.",
">\n\nDid he learn this behavior from a drag show? /s",
">\n\nReminds me of something Chris Rock said: \"Where do women find the porn? They don't find it in your hiding place, they find it in the VCR\"",
">\n\nHe was also probably saving up for a trip to Disney World.",
">\n\n\nincluding child pornography and images of child erotica.\n\nI want to know the difference but don't want to get on a watchlist by googling it.",
">\n\nWithout the word child there, there's a difference in degree. I'd say it's the same thing with that word in there just describing the subject depicted. Pornography is generally actual sex acts of some form or another. Erotica falls short of that, it may be arousing or suggestive. For example, a cabaret show may be erotica but it's certainly not pornography.",
">\n\nPriest? Church? Man in a tax evasion party house?",
">\n\nYet the church immediately moved him somewhere else as there was a daycare next door to the church, then offered to pay to have the priest under house arrest so that the child predator won't go to jail.",
">\n\nShittiest Ted Talk I’ve ever seen, honestly…",
">\n\nOnly five years?! \nUgh!",
">\n\nAnd they call LGBT+ people groomers. (eyeroll)",
">\n\nAnyone who has ever been to a church sadly knows this doesn't need to be in this sub for us to know it's a real story.",
">\n\nOh how nice. The Reverend pleaded for him not to be incarcerated. Because of fucking course he did.",
">\n\nCurious as to who he was presenting this to",
">\n\nPunish these assholes they are smearing God's name",
">\n\nStraight to (checks notes) your next parish!",
">\n\nreligion and sexual abuse. name a more iconic duo\nwhy are any of these religions even allowed to exist any more\nthey have long since lost their meanings, and onlt serve to syphon money out of gullible people, and abuse their children\nwhat is any of these religions actually adding to society any more? other than more perverted monsters",
">\n\nHe’s not the only one",
">\n\nWhy is no big tv news channel talking about this?",
">\n\nAsked that he not go to prison & that his congregation pay to house him? Fuck the church. That's almost the most disgusting part of this",
">\n\nSo are we talking a pptx or an old-school film Rolodex version? Both are messed up, but one takes A LOT more effort.",
">\n\nThe catholic church is of Satan.",
">\n\nFaith is of \"Satan.\" The idea that assuming you might be wrong is morally wrong produces some of the worst people imaginable. And that applies to secular ideologies that require looking down on those who disagree or are unsure too.",
">\n\nAge of priest over/under 50\nWhat yall got?\nI have the over.",
">\n\nOnly 5 years?",
">\n\nRight for some reason i read it as slide show meaning projectors haha. I forgot Powerpoint presentations are a thing.",
">\n\nThe congregation still requested he be spared incarceration and remain in their facility. Truly unbelievable.",
">\n\nThose damn drag queens framed him",
">\n\nThey really put a lot of effort into not saying that he was catholic in that article.",
">\n\nWonder what congregation hes been moved to now?",
">\n\nAny outrage from republicans? Will they arm themselves and storm the churches?....... Didn't think so.",
">\n\nA Christian pedophile? Who could have guessed?",
">\n\nIm shocked! Shocked I say!\nWell... not that shocked.",
">\n\nI appreciate that the church cooperated and turned him in. However, the fact they wanted to pay to house him, out of the parish coffers, is insane. He deserves incarceration and certainly not a retirement paid for by parishioners of the church he victimized. Smh, a great step for the church, if only as a PR exercise, would be to strongly condemn this sort of behavior AND strongly punish it. Defrock and excommunicate any priest who does this. It’s a very easy choice that frankly could help reinstill a little confidence in the church.",
">\n\nOFF WITH HIS GOD DAMNED FUCKING HEAD",
">\n\nWhy so quick and painless?",
">\n\nYou know you’re actually right.. OFF WITH HIS GOD DAMNED FUCKING HEAD WITH A RUSTY PAPERCLIP",
">\n\nRight to jail",
">\n\nToday on why religious institutions should be abolished",
">\n\nAnd the right won't say a thing about this man.",
">\n\nHow Catholics still a thing ?",
">\n\nAnd the Church will cover it up or just say they are very sorry 🤬",
">\n\nThe provincial says everything right…he doesn’t excuse the guy, doesn’t obfuscate what he did or what it’s gravely evil…right up until he asks for house arrest. Fuck that. Whatever the harshest penalty allowed is, do that.",
">\n\nSo just regular church stuff really",
">\n\nChurch is a haven for predators!!!",
">\n\nI used to be Catholic, but stories like this make me hate the church more every day.",
">\n\nCan we just end this disgusting church already? Can you imagine ONE Walmart manager raping children? Now try to imagine MORE THAN THREE THOUSAND Walmart managers raping children. \nStill gonna shop at Walmart?",
">\n\nBut somehow these religious psychos get away with this and convince their followers to kill LGBTQ+ people. Fuck religion, fuck all churches, we need it out of our society.",
">\n\nExcommunicate from the order and earth."
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How have we not outlawed and burned down the obvious pedophile cult?
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"Slideshows????? What?\nMy man just opened up cp.ppt and added a few THOUSAND slides of kiddy porn????\nClippy: it looks like youre a depraved predator. Do you want to profane the church as well?",
">\n\nWell I always did believe Power Point was a creation of a malevolent entity.",
">\n\nTuring complete, no less!",
">\n\nBut can it run Doom?",
">\n\nAnything can run doom",
">\n\nBut can Doom run Doom?",
">\n\nDoom can run Doom because Doom runs Doom when Doom runs.",
">\n\nPeople don't run Doom like it is, but it Doom.",
">\n\nGonna take this moment to highly recommend the film Spotlight to any who haven’t seen it",
">\n\nCheck out the 2017 limited series on either Netflix or Prime: \"The Keepers\" about a Baltimore-area Catholic girls' school. Based on the experiences as told by some of the girls, now middle-aged women. It is NOT nice, will make you cry, will enrage you. But I commend the women who made this documentary for as painful as it was for the audience to watch, I can't imagine how they made it thru. And they brought it around to a decent ending, but wow....I think some of what happened in Baltimore bled over into the Spotlight story.\nLapsed Catholic. I cannot reconcile with the Church hierarchy over this because they have behaved satanically for far too long to make me believe they are holy in any way.",
">\n\nThere was a documentary that came out a year or two ago tbzg sounds similar but men who were molested as kids while in the church. \nI honestly don't know how anyone can still support the church. At all. If it was one priest, sure. It's sad it happened, but pedophiles will always exist and find ways to get to kids.\nBut with how often it happens and with how little the church cares? Nope. I never could be catholic even if I was Christian.",
">\n\nBecause saving souls bringing them into their cult is more valuable than the ones they crush. The Vatican last I heard had 7 pedos protecting by not complying with extradition requests. \nAny organization not willing to comply with the laws of the country where they have a tax exempt status should lose their exemption and title to any property they own. If you RICO cartel and mafia assets, then you can do so for these child abusers and their protective association. \nYou know the church owns most of Manhattan and isn't paying taxes? All that money and we have to tolerate this shit? Nah fuck them.",
">\n\nNude pix on the church printer . . . I can imagine the scene.\nSister Mary Michael: Yo, does anyone recognize this tallywhacker?\nFormer Alter Boy Brian: Yeah, that's Father Jim. I'd know that hairy mole anywhere.",
">\n\nThat's Tommy Turner's tallywhacker",
">\n\nIf Reddit still gave free awards, I'd give one to you for catching the reference.",
">\n\nWAIT when did they get rid of the free awards",
">\n\nguess this is how i found out. last i claimed mine is around last week, i think. i only claim once every two weeks to gild certain biweekly thread lul",
">\n\nAnd yet where are all the \"anti-groomers\" protesting these churches?",
">\n\nIt’s almost like it has never actually been about protecting children, and it’s always been about trying to demonize LGBT people",
">\n\nAt this point I am positive the religious right to life thing is about having more targets.",
">\n\nGlad 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?",
">\n\nAfter 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.",
">\n\nI 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.\nThere are also many who truly believe the schtick and just compartmentalize the bad stuff. Both are to blame regardless. Nobody gets a pass.",
">\n\nI could see that with some of the smaller denominations for sure.\nWhen 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.",
">\n\n*making another streak to the tally list wall\n*camera panning out to reveal a huge fucking wall coveres in streaks",
">\n\nMan 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.\nThat said. This man should burn for this",
">\n\nPriest? Pedo? Are you sure? This is unprecedented",
">\n\nCorrection! PedoPreist",
">\n\nNew name not necessary. If anything there should be a name for the unique priests that arent pedos.",
">\n\nI'm inclined to think the majority of priests aren't child predators themselves.\nThe 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.\nWay, way too many of them are pedo-enablers. All the way up...",
">\n\nThen that would mean that... Gasp\nSouth Park was right all along....\nSneaky little bastards didn't think I would notice....",
">\n\nWish I was surprised",
">\n\nYou make slideshows of images? \nEdit: \nOh wait I see what you mean. Yeah the pedophile priest thing is so expected that only the slideshow bit stood out",
">\n\nHoly hell. Priest have normalized pedophilia.",
">\n\nNot just priests. Protestant Christians have a major problem with sexual abuse too, particularly against children.\nAfter Major Investigation, Southern Baptists Confront the Abuse Crisis They Knew Was Coming\nDon't let the Evangelical pedo defenders get away with claiming that Catholicism is the only issue here. It isn't.",
">\n\n\nnone of them are immune to the depravity.\n\nAlmost implied, really.",
">\n\nCould 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?",
">\n\nA variety of factors:\n\nUnquestioned moral authority and intense trust from a large community who have all been taught to obey church authorities\nSupport from a massive extremely powerful institution that has covered up thousands of similar crimes\nStrictly forbidden to marry, have sex, or iirc even masturbate, making them view all sexual activities as similarly taboo for them\nEasy regular access to many children\nEasy ability to get alone time with children\nPriests are only held institutionally accountable to each other and to those with more authority in the church\nVictims 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\nChildren 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\nThe 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\nThe 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\n\nThat'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.”\nP.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.\nWant 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.\nEdit to add this excellent way to protect kids that churches consistently fight against:\n\n“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.\nchildren 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.”",
">\n\nSo this should be buried enough if I speak in general terms.\nYears back one of our pastors had to give up being a pastor. They didn't get into details of what he did but they did stress that kids were not involved. The whole church could be seen relaxing.",
">\n\n5 years for thousands of child porn images and videos? Seems pretty fucking light to me. This piece of shit should die in prison.",
">\n\n5 years and a ticket to heaven",
">\n\nHeaven? For him?",
">\n\nThat'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.",
">\n\nDon't you also have to be truly repentant for your sins, including making a good faith effort to keep from repeating them?",
">\n\nI would love for someone to answer this because I really want to know, too.",
">\n\nyes I'm pretty sure that's it. God sees people's hearts He should know the diff between true repentance and fake one",
">\n\nYes, assuming an all-powerful God existed, he’d be able to pretty easily know if you were truly sorry.",
">\n\nYeah but......... \nI'm just starting the religious apologist's sentence for them.",
">\n\nFor 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.",
">\n\nOne 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.",
">\n\nOnce I heard this theory, the acceptance by conservatives of people whose behavior is in direct conflict with their moral beliefs, made more sense.",
">\n\n5 holly maries and transfer\nafter 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.\nRev. 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.\"\nMcDevitt asked the presiding judge for \"mercy for Jim,\" and even offered for the congregation to pay to house him in lieu of imprisonment.\n\"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.\"\n\"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.\"",
">\n\nIn Australia at the moment there is a furore after the death of Cardinal George Pell who was convicted (then exonerated) of personally abusing children, but was found by a Royal Commission (that would be a special prosecutor for our American friends?) of enabling and protecting paedophile priests for decades.\nCan honestly say I have not been able to listen to the string of \"Christians\" praising this man in our media for the last few days without wanting to puke. Suffer the little children.",
">\n\nWith you there. At least there’s a lot of people calling his supporters out on this. Fuck Tony Abbott, John Howard and Andrew Bolt to name a few.",
">\n\nI 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!",
">\n\nr/PastorArrested (also includes Priests)",
">\n\nDon'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.",
">\n\nIf there is a god, wtf?",
">\n\nThere is no God. Religion is about control and money",
">\n\nAnd more money",
">\n\n\"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.\" \n- Rev. Patrick McDevitt, provincial superior for the Congregation of the Western Province \n\nEvery single member of that congregation is a horrible piece of shit",
">\n\nWhat 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?",
">\n\n“Drag queens are grooming our youth!!!”",
">\n\n\"I think we all know where people put on dresses and fuck kids\"\n-Trixie Mattel, 2022",
">\n\nKid “Bless me Father, for I have sinned”\nPadre “ call me, maybe?”",
">\n\nImagine my shock to discover that a priest has been involved in a sex scandal and one involving the exploitation of children, at that.",
">\n\nGOP: \"But wuttabout drag queens?!?!?!??!\"",
">\n\nDoing the Lords work 🙏🏾",
">\n\nTax-free",
">\n\nWhat's the deal with priests being so into pedophilia? Can't they look at milf pounds like normal people?",
">\n\nOh look... Another priest with child porn ... When do we get to start taxing the church?",
">\n\nr/pastorarrested",
">\n\nChurch is a scary place, especially for children.",
">\n\nI 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.",
">\n\nOnly 5 years. What a joke.",
">\n\n\nThe 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.\n\nIf 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.",
">\n\nNo one is suprised a priest is a pedophile. \nBut printing out yer nudes? That's odd.",
">\n\nI can think of a reason he printed it out. And I really don't like that reason.",
">\n\nI'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.",
">\n\nThe sheer audacity to do it at church where you work",
">\n\nAnd not a drag queen in sight...",
">\n\nThey do kinda wear dresses, though",
">\n\nToo many “coincidences” within this church to be anything other than systematic",
">\n\nPretty 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.",
">\n\n\nThe data often suggests numbers of pedophiles similar to the general population\n\none 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",
">\n\nYeah, 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.",
">\n\nI 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.",
">\n\nIt's so common for priests to be sickos",
">\n\nGross",
">\n\nAll he needs to do is repent, right?!?",
">\n\nA priest? With kiddie porn? I’ve never heard of such a thing!",
">\n\nRemember 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.",
">\n\n5 years that's all he got",
">\n\nThat's fucking disgusting. Misappropriation of office materials.",
">\n\nIt 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",
">\n\nIdiot 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.",
">\n\nso 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.",
">\n\nI 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 🤷♂️",
">\n\n5 years isnt nearly enough. Lock him up forever and a day.",
">\n\n~~Drag shows~~ Churches are not safe for children",
">\n\nI'm sure the religious Right will be out protesting him any second.\nRight? Right guys? Groomers and all this? Qanons? Where you guys at?\nHuh. Weird.",
">\n\nBut the dragqueens guys?!?!?!??!? /s",
">\n\nWeird that so many god loving people are actually just pedophiles. Wonder what they think god thinks of them. Fuck theism.",
">\n\nTheir god tells them to take the young girls as spoils of war. Their god is just as fucking depraved as they are.",
">\n\ntHaTs jUsT tHe oLd tEsTaMeNt tHoUgh.\ngOds mOraLiTy dOeSnt cHanGe, hE jUsT dEaLs wItH hUmAns diFFeReNtlY nOw. \nYeah when someone deals with people differently than they did before we generally call that \"a change.\"",
">\n\nAnd he wasn’t trans??? Maybe it’s been priests all along that governors should be banning. When will they correct their mistake? /s",
">\n\nDoesn'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...",
">\n\nIt's surprising. Who prints out their own nudes?",
">\n\nLock him up and throw away the keys",
">\n\nDarn priests, at least those protestant ministers keep it in the family",
">\n\nNot surprised.",
">\n\nThree hail marys and all is forgiven. What a load of bs",
">\n\nJust one bad apple, I’m sure.",
">\n\nLeast paedophilic priest",
">\n\n…slideshow?",
">\n\nGod works in mysterious ways ya fuckin chomo. As a priest, he of all people should have seen this coming...",
">\n\nIn other news, water is wet",
">\n\nOnly five years...",
">\n\n”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.” \nಠ_ಠ",
">\n\nI don’t remember this plotline during Doubt…",
">\n\nWe keep letting them get away with it, so they keep doing it. More obvious news at 10.",
">\n\n& once they found him out he got made a cardinal",
">\n\nHe should've kept them in the garage with his Corvette",
">\n\n5 years? If nothing else, using PowerPoint should have been an aggravating factor.",
">\n\nAnd you thought looking at Bob's family vacation pics was a bad time",
">\n\nWhen 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.",
">\n\nHow is the Roman Catholic Church not closed down for enabling and protecting child abusers",
">\n\nAre 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.",
">\n\nIt'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.",
">\n\npapabile!",
">\n\nLeft nudes on a shared printer? Rookie mistake.",
">\n\nTeach your priests just enough tech to effectively turn themselves in.",
">\n\nIsn't it something how the church decided to investigate themselves again. Keep it in the family, guys.\nI 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.",
">\n\nIs 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:\n1 - 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\n2 - 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)\n3 - 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.\nTL;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.",
">\n\nLet me guess.\nMoved to a different church at the other side of the country and that’s about it for consequences?",
">\n\nThose damned drag queens strike again.",
">\n\nI mean that’s kinda how they caught BTK",
">\n\nSo priests are still abusing kids after we didn't do anything to them the last few times we caught them? Color me surprised.",
">\n\n\nCourt 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.\"\n\n...\n\nDuring 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. \n\n...\n\nAnd 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. \n\nFuck everyone that allowed this scum to continue in a position of authority.",
">\n\nDon’t hear this happening at drag shows…j/s",
">\n\nHe put the PDF in pedofile",
">\n\nThis is Fucking ridiculous",
">\n\nNever forget who the actual groomers are",
">\n\nThe proud boys will be outside of churches \"protesting\" with guns now, right? right?",
">\n\nA priest being pedophile? But that is absolutely unheard of, say it isn't so!",
">\n\nYou sure this wasn't at a Trans drag show? GOP is sure this happens at Trans dragsl shows",
">\n\nExcommunicated by PowerPoint",
">\n\n5 years and a fine? FFS, that’s ridiculous.",
">\n\nPraise Jesus!",
">\n\nAnd the right thinks kids going to drag shows are the problem",
">\n\nAverage christian.",
">\n\nbut the drag queens are reading books to children in libraries! The madnessss",
">\n\nSo they moved him to a new church. This is what they have always done.",
">\n\nleast pedophilic priest:",
">\n\nThe dead ones dont hurt anyone.",
">\n\ninto the furnace he goes. theres no rehabbing people like this.",
">\n\nIt's always the ones you least expect..",
">\n\nOr in this case, the ones you MOST suspect",
">\n\nlol ya, I said that with sarcasm..",
">\n\nPray that he gets nut cancer.",
">\n\nNut cancer was once described to me as \"the common cold of cancers\". It has something like a 95% survival rate.\nHe deserves worse.",
">\n\nDidn't know that. Good nut fact for the day.",
">\n\nIt's definitely the drag queens reading to kids in libraries that's the problem.",
">\n\nRight wingers want him to be a closeted drag queen so badly",
">\n\nI could never trust any man who goes into priesthood. Completely unnatural and deviant occupation rife with pedophiles.",
">\n\nThis MONSTER got 5 years?! \nThe CHILDREN being abused in the images will suffer for the rest of their lives!!\nI'm in favor of LIFE SENTENCES for child sex offenders. \nOr better yet, the DEATH PENALTY!!",
">\n\nReligion was invented by Man for Control of the Flock.You go to Confession and tell the priest everything so they can determine how to undress you.\nI was once a Catholic.....born, baptised, confirmed and educated in a Grammar school run by Irish Christian Brothers under the Order of Edmund Ignatius Rice......and now I'm an atheist.",
">\n\nHow come it is always ‘Christians’ who are involved in child sex abuse?",
">\n\nOf course he's a pedo, he's a priest!",
">\n\nYes millions of idiots keep donating billions to the church",
">\n\nNot simply donating, they bring their children along, indoctrinate them that the priest is the speaker of God, and that God can do no wrong, so anything the priest dose is holy and good. The priest even says so!\nAnd when the kids bring it up the first few times weird things happen? The parents tell them to shush. And so, the sacrifices continue, the parents make a show of not knowing, and things get worse for the children.\nAnd if the priest is reported, the church just moves them to a different parish.\nThe only difference between the taliban and the catholic church, is one of them advertises the child slaves as a benefit, while the other pretends it's not (but totally encourages it, top to bottom).",
">\n\nAnd who are the groomers again?",
">\n\nThis is what happens when you don’t recycle your printer papers.",
">\n\nI feel like this isn't oniony enough, everyone knows by now that priests are significantly more likely to be pedophiles than the general population.",
">\n\nSure, but “gets caught by leaving nudes on a printer” is a fairly onion-y end.",
">\n\nYa know you're right",
">\n\nI have a theory about the correlation between priests and pedophiles. This is my opinion based on conversations with a childhood friend (not a pedo) and is only my opinion but could explain why so many priests abuse children. Get your down votes ready. \nThese boys grow up in the church and it is all they know for the most part. When going through puberty we become attracted to a gender (male or female gay or straight sometimes somewhere in between) and more often a \"type\" as well (blonde brunette short tall etc). Our hormones drive us to seek companionship, intimacy, and ultimately procreation. \nThese boys growing up never develop this attraction to their peers but rather feel more comfortable around younger children and usually behave as mentors. The combination of love of church and disinterest in peers puts the thought in their heads that priesthood is their calling. It takes a long time and effort to become a priest. There are easier paths if a guy just wants to bang kids.\nPut together lack of sex or release of biological needs with access and constant contact with children and they are basically pushed over the edge.\nTo sum up, pedophiles don't become priests to molest children, they become priests because they don't realize they are pedophiles. This is just my opinion, and obviously there are also exceptions to this.\nPerhaps the solution is to get rid of this nonsense celibacy.",
">\n\nAlternative theory: pedophiles become priests because they know the Catholic Church will support and hide them from accountability. Plus, all those altar boys have been easy pickings for decades. \nOn the positive side, Catholic Churches are closing all over Missouri because of dwindling congregations.",
">\n\nThis is one crime I’ll never be able to fathom.",
">\n\nSo fucking sick advocating for this monster so he can maintain freedom?",
">\n\nThe church has been so infiltrated by Child abusers that they are currently rating worse than Satan Worshippers",
">\n\nCan we just fuck churches off now???",
">\n\nYour tithing had to go somewhere.",
">\n\nHow come republicans are not calling these people groomers?",
">\n\nIs anyone else picturing the scene in the first Scary Movie where the cop asks Anna Faris to look at some pictures?\nPriest hands out the pictures of himself along with the weekly pamphlet. Maybe the first reading is from the Song of Solomon...",
">\n\nOh shit. \nHas he been quietly shuffled to a new church yet?",
">\n\nI'm old enough that when I see \"slideshow\" I think of him arranging physical slides in a carousel to project on a screen, like the family trip to Disneyland. Maybe invite the neighbors over for cake.",
">\n\nLord above why is this a thing",
">\n\nYou mean not a drag queen?",
">\n\nActual groomers.",
">\n\nJust think the hands that wanked to kiddie pr0n put wafers on the tongues of everyone in that congregation...",
">\n\nLMAO. This slightly ambiguous headline had me thinking “who attended these slideshow presentations?”",
">\n\nOh look another pedophile catholic priest. Good job reinforcing that stereotype.",
">\n\nAnd we should take guidance from those who hide these atrocities so we can live a better life in the eyes of god.",
">\n\nFriendly reminder religion is a mistake that deserves to be taxed. If you threatened to tax zealots tomorrow child molestation by priests would drop to zero",
">\n\nmay your mother smile as you burn",
">\n\nThis is what happens when you have unchecked power for thousands of years.\nHorrifying.",
">\n\nDid he learn this behavior from a drag show? /s",
">\n\nReminds me of something Chris Rock said: \"Where do women find the porn? They don't find it in your hiding place, they find it in the VCR\"",
">\n\nHe was also probably saving up for a trip to Disney World.",
">\n\n\nincluding child pornography and images of child erotica.\n\nI want to know the difference but don't want to get on a watchlist by googling it.",
">\n\nWithout the word child there, there's a difference in degree. I'd say it's the same thing with that word in there just describing the subject depicted. Pornography is generally actual sex acts of some form or another. Erotica falls short of that, it may be arousing or suggestive. For example, a cabaret show may be erotica but it's certainly not pornography.",
">\n\nPriest? Church? Man in a tax evasion party house?",
">\n\nYet the church immediately moved him somewhere else as there was a daycare next door to the church, then offered to pay to have the priest under house arrest so that the child predator won't go to jail.",
">\n\nShittiest Ted Talk I’ve ever seen, honestly…",
">\n\nOnly five years?! \nUgh!",
">\n\nAnd they call LGBT+ people groomers. (eyeroll)",
">\n\nAnyone who has ever been to a church sadly knows this doesn't need to be in this sub for us to know it's a real story.",
">\n\nOh how nice. The Reverend pleaded for him not to be incarcerated. Because of fucking course he did.",
">\n\nCurious as to who he was presenting this to",
">\n\nPunish these assholes they are smearing God's name",
">\n\nStraight to (checks notes) your next parish!",
">\n\nreligion and sexual abuse. name a more iconic duo\nwhy are any of these religions even allowed to exist any more\nthey have long since lost their meanings, and onlt serve to syphon money out of gullible people, and abuse their children\nwhat is any of these religions actually adding to society any more? other than more perverted monsters",
">\n\nHe’s not the only one",
">\n\nWhy is no big tv news channel talking about this?",
">\n\nAsked that he not go to prison & that his congregation pay to house him? Fuck the church. That's almost the most disgusting part of this",
">\n\nSo are we talking a pptx or an old-school film Rolodex version? Both are messed up, but one takes A LOT more effort.",
">\n\nThe catholic church is of Satan.",
">\n\nFaith is of \"Satan.\" The idea that assuming you might be wrong is morally wrong produces some of the worst people imaginable. And that applies to secular ideologies that require looking down on those who disagree or are unsure too.",
">\n\nAge of priest over/under 50\nWhat yall got?\nI have the over.",
">\n\nOnly 5 years?",
">\n\nRight for some reason i read it as slide show meaning projectors haha. I forgot Powerpoint presentations are a thing.",
">\n\nThe congregation still requested he be spared incarceration and remain in their facility. Truly unbelievable.",
">\n\nThose damn drag queens framed him",
">\n\nThey really put a lot of effort into not saying that he was catholic in that article.",
">\n\nWonder what congregation hes been moved to now?",
">\n\nAny outrage from republicans? Will they arm themselves and storm the churches?....... Didn't think so.",
">\n\nA Christian pedophile? Who could have guessed?",
">\n\nIm shocked! Shocked I say!\nWell... not that shocked.",
">\n\nI appreciate that the church cooperated and turned him in. However, the fact they wanted to pay to house him, out of the parish coffers, is insane. He deserves incarceration and certainly not a retirement paid for by parishioners of the church he victimized. Smh, a great step for the church, if only as a PR exercise, would be to strongly condemn this sort of behavior AND strongly punish it. Defrock and excommunicate any priest who does this. It’s a very easy choice that frankly could help reinstill a little confidence in the church.",
">\n\nOFF WITH HIS GOD DAMNED FUCKING HEAD",
">\n\nWhy so quick and painless?",
">\n\nYou know you’re actually right.. OFF WITH HIS GOD DAMNED FUCKING HEAD WITH A RUSTY PAPERCLIP",
">\n\nRight to jail",
">\n\nToday on why religious institutions should be abolished",
">\n\nAnd the right won't say a thing about this man.",
">\n\nHow Catholics still a thing ?",
">\n\nAnd the Church will cover it up or just say they are very sorry 🤬",
">\n\nThe provincial says everything right…he doesn’t excuse the guy, doesn’t obfuscate what he did or what it’s gravely evil…right up until he asks for house arrest. Fuck that. Whatever the harshest penalty allowed is, do that.",
">\n\nSo just regular church stuff really",
">\n\nChurch is a haven for predators!!!",
">\n\nI used to be Catholic, but stories like this make me hate the church more every day.",
">\n\nCan we just end this disgusting church already? Can you imagine ONE Walmart manager raping children? Now try to imagine MORE THAN THREE THOUSAND Walmart managers raping children. \nStill gonna shop at Walmart?",
">\n\nBut somehow these religious psychos get away with this and convince their followers to kill LGBTQ+ people. Fuck religion, fuck all churches, we need it out of our society.",
">\n\nExcommunicate from the order and earth.",
">\n\nOnly 5 years is the wild part to me."
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"Slideshows????? What?\nMy man just opened up cp.ppt and added a few THOUSAND slides of kiddy porn????\nClippy: it looks like youre a depraved predator. Do you want to profane the church as well?",
">\n\nWell I always did believe Power Point was a creation of a malevolent entity.",
">\n\nTuring complete, no less!",
">\n\nBut can it run Doom?",
">\n\nAnything can run doom",
">\n\nBut can Doom run Doom?",
">\n\nDoom can run Doom because Doom runs Doom when Doom runs.",
">\n\nPeople don't run Doom like it is, but it Doom.",
">\n\nGonna take this moment to highly recommend the film Spotlight to any who haven’t seen it",
">\n\nCheck out the 2017 limited series on either Netflix or Prime: \"The Keepers\" about a Baltimore-area Catholic girls' school. Based on the experiences as told by some of the girls, now middle-aged women. It is NOT nice, will make you cry, will enrage you. But I commend the women who made this documentary for as painful as it was for the audience to watch, I can't imagine how they made it thru. And they brought it around to a decent ending, but wow....I think some of what happened in Baltimore bled over into the Spotlight story.\nLapsed Catholic. I cannot reconcile with the Church hierarchy over this because they have behaved satanically for far too long to make me believe they are holy in any way.",
">\n\nThere was a documentary that came out a year or two ago tbzg sounds similar but men who were molested as kids while in the church. \nI honestly don't know how anyone can still support the church. At all. If it was one priest, sure. It's sad it happened, but pedophiles will always exist and find ways to get to kids.\nBut with how often it happens and with how little the church cares? Nope. I never could be catholic even if I was Christian.",
">\n\nBecause saving souls bringing them into their cult is more valuable than the ones they crush. The Vatican last I heard had 7 pedos protecting by not complying with extradition requests. \nAny organization not willing to comply with the laws of the country where they have a tax exempt status should lose their exemption and title to any property they own. If you RICO cartel and mafia assets, then you can do so for these child abusers and their protective association. \nYou know the church owns most of Manhattan and isn't paying taxes? All that money and we have to tolerate this shit? Nah fuck them.",
">\n\nNude pix on the church printer . . . I can imagine the scene.\nSister Mary Michael: Yo, does anyone recognize this tallywhacker?\nFormer Alter Boy Brian: Yeah, that's Father Jim. I'd know that hairy mole anywhere.",
">\n\nThat's Tommy Turner's tallywhacker",
">\n\nIf Reddit still gave free awards, I'd give one to you for catching the reference.",
">\n\nWAIT when did they get rid of the free awards",
">\n\nguess this is how i found out. last i claimed mine is around last week, i think. i only claim once every two weeks to gild certain biweekly thread lul",
">\n\nAnd yet where are all the \"anti-groomers\" protesting these churches?",
">\n\nIt’s almost like it has never actually been about protecting children, and it’s always been about trying to demonize LGBT people",
">\n\nAt this point I am positive the religious right to life thing is about having more targets.",
">\n\nGlad 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?",
">\n\nAfter 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.",
">\n\nI 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.\nThere are also many who truly believe the schtick and just compartmentalize the bad stuff. Both are to blame regardless. Nobody gets a pass.",
">\n\nI could see that with some of the smaller denominations for sure.\nWhen 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.",
">\n\n*making another streak to the tally list wall\n*camera panning out to reveal a huge fucking wall coveres in streaks",
">\n\nMan 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.\nThat said. This man should burn for this",
">\n\nPriest? Pedo? Are you sure? This is unprecedented",
">\n\nCorrection! PedoPreist",
">\n\nNew name not necessary. If anything there should be a name for the unique priests that arent pedos.",
">\n\nI'm inclined to think the majority of priests aren't child predators themselves.\nThe 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.\nWay, way too many of them are pedo-enablers. All the way up...",
">\n\nThen that would mean that... Gasp\nSouth Park was right all along....\nSneaky little bastards didn't think I would notice....",
">\n\nWish I was surprised",
">\n\nYou make slideshows of images? \nEdit: \nOh wait I see what you mean. Yeah the pedophile priest thing is so expected that only the slideshow bit stood out",
">\n\nHoly hell. Priest have normalized pedophilia.",
">\n\nNot just priests. Protestant Christians have a major problem with sexual abuse too, particularly against children.\nAfter Major Investigation, Southern Baptists Confront the Abuse Crisis They Knew Was Coming\nDon't let the Evangelical pedo defenders get away with claiming that Catholicism is the only issue here. It isn't.",
">\n\n\nnone of them are immune to the depravity.\n\nAlmost implied, really.",
">\n\nCould 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?",
">\n\nA variety of factors:\n\nUnquestioned moral authority and intense trust from a large community who have all been taught to obey church authorities\nSupport from a massive extremely powerful institution that has covered up thousands of similar crimes\nStrictly forbidden to marry, have sex, or iirc even masturbate, making them view all sexual activities as similarly taboo for them\nEasy regular access to many children\nEasy ability to get alone time with children\nPriests are only held institutionally accountable to each other and to those with more authority in the church\nVictims 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\nChildren 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\nThe 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\nThe 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\n\nThat'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.”\nP.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.\nWant 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.\nEdit to add this excellent way to protect kids that churches consistently fight against:\n\n“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.\nchildren 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.”",
">\n\nSo this should be buried enough if I speak in general terms.\nYears back one of our pastors had to give up being a pastor. They didn't get into details of what he did but they did stress that kids were not involved. The whole church could be seen relaxing.",
">\n\n5 years for thousands of child porn images and videos? Seems pretty fucking light to me. This piece of shit should die in prison.",
">\n\n5 years and a ticket to heaven",
">\n\nHeaven? For him?",
">\n\nThat'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.",
">\n\nDon't you also have to be truly repentant for your sins, including making a good faith effort to keep from repeating them?",
">\n\nI would love for someone to answer this because I really want to know, too.",
">\n\nyes I'm pretty sure that's it. God sees people's hearts He should know the diff between true repentance and fake one",
">\n\nYes, assuming an all-powerful God existed, he’d be able to pretty easily know if you were truly sorry.",
">\n\nYeah but......... \nI'm just starting the religious apologist's sentence for them.",
">\n\nFor 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.",
">\n\nOne 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.",
">\n\nOnce I heard this theory, the acceptance by conservatives of people whose behavior is in direct conflict with their moral beliefs, made more sense.",
">\n\n5 holly maries and transfer\nafter 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.\nRev. 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.\"\nMcDevitt asked the presiding judge for \"mercy for Jim,\" and even offered for the congregation to pay to house him in lieu of imprisonment.\n\"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.\"\n\"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.\"",
">\n\nIn Australia at the moment there is a furore after the death of Cardinal George Pell who was convicted (then exonerated) of personally abusing children, but was found by a Royal Commission (that would be a special prosecutor for our American friends?) of enabling and protecting paedophile priests for decades.\nCan honestly say I have not been able to listen to the string of \"Christians\" praising this man in our media for the last few days without wanting to puke. Suffer the little children.",
">\n\nWith you there. At least there’s a lot of people calling his supporters out on this. Fuck Tony Abbott, John Howard and Andrew Bolt to name a few.",
">\n\nI 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!",
">\n\nr/PastorArrested (also includes Priests)",
">\n\nDon'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.",
">\n\nIf there is a god, wtf?",
">\n\nThere is no God. Religion is about control and money",
">\n\nAnd more money",
">\n\n\"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.\" \n- Rev. Patrick McDevitt, provincial superior for the Congregation of the Western Province \n\nEvery single member of that congregation is a horrible piece of shit",
">\n\nWhat 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?",
">\n\n“Drag queens are grooming our youth!!!”",
">\n\n\"I think we all know where people put on dresses and fuck kids\"\n-Trixie Mattel, 2022",
">\n\nKid “Bless me Father, for I have sinned”\nPadre “ call me, maybe?”",
">\n\nImagine my shock to discover that a priest has been involved in a sex scandal and one involving the exploitation of children, at that.",
">\n\nGOP: \"But wuttabout drag queens?!?!?!??!\"",
">\n\nDoing the Lords work 🙏🏾",
">\n\nTax-free",
">\n\nWhat's the deal with priests being so into pedophilia? Can't they look at milf pounds like normal people?",
">\n\nOh look... Another priest with child porn ... When do we get to start taxing the church?",
">\n\nr/pastorarrested",
">\n\nChurch is a scary place, especially for children.",
">\n\nI 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.",
">\n\nOnly 5 years. What a joke.",
">\n\n\nThe 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.\n\nIf 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.",
">\n\nNo one is suprised a priest is a pedophile. \nBut printing out yer nudes? That's odd.",
">\n\nI can think of a reason he printed it out. And I really don't like that reason.",
">\n\nI'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.",
">\n\nThe sheer audacity to do it at church where you work",
">\n\nAnd not a drag queen in sight...",
">\n\nThey do kinda wear dresses, though",
">\n\nToo many “coincidences” within this church to be anything other than systematic",
">\n\nPretty 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.",
">\n\n\nThe data often suggests numbers of pedophiles similar to the general population\n\none 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",
">\n\nYeah, 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.",
">\n\nI 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.",
">\n\nIt's so common for priests to be sickos",
">\n\nGross",
">\n\nAll he needs to do is repent, right?!?",
">\n\nA priest? With kiddie porn? I’ve never heard of such a thing!",
">\n\nRemember 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.",
">\n\n5 years that's all he got",
">\n\nThat's fucking disgusting. Misappropriation of office materials.",
">\n\nIt 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",
">\n\nIdiot 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.",
">\n\nso 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.",
">\n\nI 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 🤷♂️",
">\n\n5 years isnt nearly enough. Lock him up forever and a day.",
">\n\n~~Drag shows~~ Churches are not safe for children",
">\n\nI'm sure the religious Right will be out protesting him any second.\nRight? Right guys? Groomers and all this? Qanons? Where you guys at?\nHuh. Weird.",
">\n\nBut the dragqueens guys?!?!?!??!? /s",
">\n\nWeird that so many god loving people are actually just pedophiles. Wonder what they think god thinks of them. Fuck theism.",
">\n\nTheir god tells them to take the young girls as spoils of war. Their god is just as fucking depraved as they are.",
">\n\ntHaTs jUsT tHe oLd tEsTaMeNt tHoUgh.\ngOds mOraLiTy dOeSnt cHanGe, hE jUsT dEaLs wItH hUmAns diFFeReNtlY nOw. \nYeah when someone deals with people differently than they did before we generally call that \"a change.\"",
">\n\nAnd he wasn’t trans??? Maybe it’s been priests all along that governors should be banning. When will they correct their mistake? /s",
">\n\nDoesn'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...",
">\n\nIt's surprising. Who prints out their own nudes?",
">\n\nLock him up and throw away the keys",
">\n\nDarn priests, at least those protestant ministers keep it in the family",
">\n\nNot surprised.",
">\n\nThree hail marys and all is forgiven. What a load of bs",
">\n\nJust one bad apple, I’m sure.",
">\n\nLeast paedophilic priest",
">\n\n…slideshow?",
">\n\nGod works in mysterious ways ya fuckin chomo. As a priest, he of all people should have seen this coming...",
">\n\nIn other news, water is wet",
">\n\nOnly five years...",
">\n\n”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.” \nಠ_ಠ",
">\n\nI don’t remember this plotline during Doubt…",
">\n\nWe keep letting them get away with it, so they keep doing it. More obvious news at 10.",
">\n\n& once they found him out he got made a cardinal",
">\n\nHe should've kept them in the garage with his Corvette",
">\n\n5 years? If nothing else, using PowerPoint should have been an aggravating factor.",
">\n\nAnd you thought looking at Bob's family vacation pics was a bad time",
">\n\nWhen 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.",
">\n\nHow is the Roman Catholic Church not closed down for enabling and protecting child abusers",
">\n\nAre 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.",
">\n\nIt'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.",
">\n\npapabile!",
">\n\nLeft nudes on a shared printer? Rookie mistake.",
">\n\nTeach your priests just enough tech to effectively turn themselves in.",
">\n\nIsn't it something how the church decided to investigate themselves again. Keep it in the family, guys.\nI 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.",
">\n\nIs 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:\n1 - 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\n2 - 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)\n3 - 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.\nTL;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.",
">\n\nLet me guess.\nMoved to a different church at the other side of the country and that’s about it for consequences?",
">\n\nThose damned drag queens strike again.",
">\n\nI mean that’s kinda how they caught BTK",
">\n\nSo priests are still abusing kids after we didn't do anything to them the last few times we caught them? Color me surprised.",
">\n\n\nCourt 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.\"\n\n...\n\nDuring 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. \n\n...\n\nAnd 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. \n\nFuck everyone that allowed this scum to continue in a position of authority.",
">\n\nDon’t hear this happening at drag shows…j/s",
">\n\nHe put the PDF in pedofile",
">\n\nThis is Fucking ridiculous",
">\n\nNever forget who the actual groomers are",
">\n\nThe proud boys will be outside of churches \"protesting\" with guns now, right? right?",
">\n\nA priest being pedophile? But that is absolutely unheard of, say it isn't so!",
">\n\nYou sure this wasn't at a Trans drag show? GOP is sure this happens at Trans dragsl shows",
">\n\nExcommunicated by PowerPoint",
">\n\n5 years and a fine? FFS, that’s ridiculous.",
">\n\nPraise Jesus!",
">\n\nAnd the right thinks kids going to drag shows are the problem",
">\n\nAverage christian.",
">\n\nbut the drag queens are reading books to children in libraries! The madnessss",
">\n\nSo they moved him to a new church. This is what they have always done.",
">\n\nleast pedophilic priest:",
">\n\nThe dead ones dont hurt anyone.",
">\n\ninto the furnace he goes. theres no rehabbing people like this.",
">\n\nIt's always the ones you least expect..",
">\n\nOr in this case, the ones you MOST suspect",
">\n\nlol ya, I said that with sarcasm..",
">\n\nPray that he gets nut cancer.",
">\n\nNut cancer was once described to me as \"the common cold of cancers\". It has something like a 95% survival rate.\nHe deserves worse.",
">\n\nDidn't know that. Good nut fact for the day.",
">\n\nIt's definitely the drag queens reading to kids in libraries that's the problem.",
">\n\nRight wingers want him to be a closeted drag queen so badly",
">\n\nI could never trust any man who goes into priesthood. Completely unnatural and deviant occupation rife with pedophiles.",
">\n\nThis MONSTER got 5 years?! \nThe CHILDREN being abused in the images will suffer for the rest of their lives!!\nI'm in favor of LIFE SENTENCES for child sex offenders. \nOr better yet, the DEATH PENALTY!!",
">\n\nReligion was invented by Man for Control of the Flock.You go to Confession and tell the priest everything so they can determine how to undress you.\nI was once a Catholic.....born, baptised, confirmed and educated in a Grammar school run by Irish Christian Brothers under the Order of Edmund Ignatius Rice......and now I'm an atheist.",
">\n\nHow come it is always ‘Christians’ who are involved in child sex abuse?",
">\n\nOf course he's a pedo, he's a priest!",
">\n\nYes millions of idiots keep donating billions to the church",
">\n\nNot simply donating, they bring their children along, indoctrinate them that the priest is the speaker of God, and that God can do no wrong, so anything the priest dose is holy and good. The priest even says so!\nAnd when the kids bring it up the first few times weird things happen? The parents tell them to shush. And so, the sacrifices continue, the parents make a show of not knowing, and things get worse for the children.\nAnd if the priest is reported, the church just moves them to a different parish.\nThe only difference between the taliban and the catholic church, is one of them advertises the child slaves as a benefit, while the other pretends it's not (but totally encourages it, top to bottom).",
">\n\nAnd who are the groomers again?",
">\n\nThis is what happens when you don’t recycle your printer papers.",
">\n\nI feel like this isn't oniony enough, everyone knows by now that priests are significantly more likely to be pedophiles than the general population.",
">\n\nSure, but “gets caught by leaving nudes on a printer” is a fairly onion-y end.",
">\n\nYa know you're right",
">\n\nI have a theory about the correlation between priests and pedophiles. This is my opinion based on conversations with a childhood friend (not a pedo) and is only my opinion but could explain why so many priests abuse children. Get your down votes ready. \nThese boys grow up in the church and it is all they know for the most part. When going through puberty we become attracted to a gender (male or female gay or straight sometimes somewhere in between) and more often a \"type\" as well (blonde brunette short tall etc). Our hormones drive us to seek companionship, intimacy, and ultimately procreation. \nThese boys growing up never develop this attraction to their peers but rather feel more comfortable around younger children and usually behave as mentors. The combination of love of church and disinterest in peers puts the thought in their heads that priesthood is their calling. It takes a long time and effort to become a priest. There are easier paths if a guy just wants to bang kids.\nPut together lack of sex or release of biological needs with access and constant contact with children and they are basically pushed over the edge.\nTo sum up, pedophiles don't become priests to molest children, they become priests because they don't realize they are pedophiles. This is just my opinion, and obviously there are also exceptions to this.\nPerhaps the solution is to get rid of this nonsense celibacy.",
">\n\nAlternative theory: pedophiles become priests because they know the Catholic Church will support and hide them from accountability. Plus, all those altar boys have been easy pickings for decades. \nOn the positive side, Catholic Churches are closing all over Missouri because of dwindling congregations.",
">\n\nThis is one crime I’ll never be able to fathom.",
">\n\nSo fucking sick advocating for this monster so he can maintain freedom?",
">\n\nThe church has been so infiltrated by Child abusers that they are currently rating worse than Satan Worshippers",
">\n\nCan we just fuck churches off now???",
">\n\nYour tithing had to go somewhere.",
">\n\nHow come republicans are not calling these people groomers?",
">\n\nIs anyone else picturing the scene in the first Scary Movie where the cop asks Anna Faris to look at some pictures?\nPriest hands out the pictures of himself along with the weekly pamphlet. Maybe the first reading is from the Song of Solomon...",
">\n\nOh shit. \nHas he been quietly shuffled to a new church yet?",
">\n\nI'm old enough that when I see \"slideshow\" I think of him arranging physical slides in a carousel to project on a screen, like the family trip to Disneyland. Maybe invite the neighbors over for cake.",
">\n\nLord above why is this a thing",
">\n\nYou mean not a drag queen?",
">\n\nActual groomers.",
">\n\nJust think the hands that wanked to kiddie pr0n put wafers on the tongues of everyone in that congregation...",
">\n\nLMAO. This slightly ambiguous headline had me thinking “who attended these slideshow presentations?”",
">\n\nOh look another pedophile catholic priest. Good job reinforcing that stereotype.",
">\n\nAnd we should take guidance from those who hide these atrocities so we can live a better life in the eyes of god.",
">\n\nFriendly reminder religion is a mistake that deserves to be taxed. If you threatened to tax zealots tomorrow child molestation by priests would drop to zero",
">\n\nmay your mother smile as you burn",
">\n\nThis is what happens when you have unchecked power for thousands of years.\nHorrifying.",
">\n\nDid he learn this behavior from a drag show? /s",
">\n\nReminds me of something Chris Rock said: \"Where do women find the porn? They don't find it in your hiding place, they find it in the VCR\"",
">\n\nHe was also probably saving up for a trip to Disney World.",
">\n\n\nincluding child pornography and images of child erotica.\n\nI want to know the difference but don't want to get on a watchlist by googling it.",
">\n\nWithout the word child there, there's a difference in degree. I'd say it's the same thing with that word in there just describing the subject depicted. Pornography is generally actual sex acts of some form or another. Erotica falls short of that, it may be arousing or suggestive. For example, a cabaret show may be erotica but it's certainly not pornography.",
">\n\nPriest? Church? Man in a tax evasion party house?",
">\n\nYet the church immediately moved him somewhere else as there was a daycare next door to the church, then offered to pay to have the priest under house arrest so that the child predator won't go to jail.",
">\n\nShittiest Ted Talk I’ve ever seen, honestly…",
">\n\nOnly five years?! \nUgh!",
">\n\nAnd they call LGBT+ people groomers. (eyeroll)",
">\n\nAnyone who has ever been to a church sadly knows this doesn't need to be in this sub for us to know it's a real story.",
">\n\nOh how nice. The Reverend pleaded for him not to be incarcerated. Because of fucking course he did.",
">\n\nCurious as to who he was presenting this to",
">\n\nPunish these assholes they are smearing God's name",
">\n\nStraight to (checks notes) your next parish!",
">\n\nreligion and sexual abuse. name a more iconic duo\nwhy are any of these religions even allowed to exist any more\nthey have long since lost their meanings, and onlt serve to syphon money out of gullible people, and abuse their children\nwhat is any of these religions actually adding to society any more? other than more perverted monsters",
">\n\nHe’s not the only one",
">\n\nWhy is no big tv news channel talking about this?",
">\n\nAsked that he not go to prison & that his congregation pay to house him? Fuck the church. That's almost the most disgusting part of this",
">\n\nSo are we talking a pptx or an old-school film Rolodex version? Both are messed up, but one takes A LOT more effort.",
">\n\nThe catholic church is of Satan.",
">\n\nFaith is of \"Satan.\" The idea that assuming you might be wrong is morally wrong produces some of the worst people imaginable. And that applies to secular ideologies that require looking down on those who disagree or are unsure too.",
">\n\nAge of priest over/under 50\nWhat yall got?\nI have the over.",
">\n\nOnly 5 years?",
">\n\nRight for some reason i read it as slide show meaning projectors haha. I forgot Powerpoint presentations are a thing.",
">\n\nThe congregation still requested he be spared incarceration and remain in their facility. Truly unbelievable.",
">\n\nThose damn drag queens framed him",
">\n\nThey really put a lot of effort into not saying that he was catholic in that article.",
">\n\nWonder what congregation hes been moved to now?",
">\n\nAny outrage from republicans? Will they arm themselves and storm the churches?....... Didn't think so.",
">\n\nA Christian pedophile? Who could have guessed?",
">\n\nIm shocked! Shocked I say!\nWell... not that shocked.",
">\n\nI appreciate that the church cooperated and turned him in. However, the fact they wanted to pay to house him, out of the parish coffers, is insane. He deserves incarceration and certainly not a retirement paid for by parishioners of the church he victimized. Smh, a great step for the church, if only as a PR exercise, would be to strongly condemn this sort of behavior AND strongly punish it. Defrock and excommunicate any priest who does this. It’s a very easy choice that frankly could help reinstill a little confidence in the church.",
">\n\nOFF WITH HIS GOD DAMNED FUCKING HEAD",
">\n\nWhy so quick and painless?",
">\n\nYou know you’re actually right.. OFF WITH HIS GOD DAMNED FUCKING HEAD WITH A RUSTY PAPERCLIP",
">\n\nRight to jail",
">\n\nToday on why religious institutions should be abolished",
">\n\nAnd the right won't say a thing about this man.",
">\n\nHow Catholics still a thing ?",
">\n\nAnd the Church will cover it up or just say they are very sorry 🤬",
">\n\nThe provincial says everything right…he doesn’t excuse the guy, doesn’t obfuscate what he did or what it’s gravely evil…right up until he asks for house arrest. Fuck that. Whatever the harshest penalty allowed is, do that.",
">\n\nSo just regular church stuff really",
">\n\nChurch is a haven for predators!!!",
">\n\nI used to be Catholic, but stories like this make me hate the church more every day.",
">\n\nCan we just end this disgusting church already? Can you imagine ONE Walmart manager raping children? Now try to imagine MORE THAN THREE THOUSAND Walmart managers raping children. \nStill gonna shop at Walmart?",
">\n\nBut somehow these religious psychos get away with this and convince their followers to kill LGBTQ+ people. Fuck religion, fuck all churches, we need it out of our society.",
">\n\nExcommunicate from the order and earth.",
">\n\nOnly 5 years is the wild part to me.",
">\n\nHow have we not outlawed and burned down the obvious pedophile cult? \nIf there’s no such thing as a good cop, there’s no such thing as a good priest."
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"Slideshows????? What?\nMy man just opened up cp.ppt and added a few THOUSAND slides of kiddy porn????\nClippy: it looks like youre a depraved predator. Do you want to profane the church as well?",
">\n\nWell I always did believe Power Point was a creation of a malevolent entity.",
">\n\nTuring complete, no less!",
">\n\nBut can it run Doom?",
">\n\nAnything can run doom",
">\n\nBut can Doom run Doom?",
">\n\nDoom can run Doom because Doom runs Doom when Doom runs.",
">\n\nPeople don't run Doom like it is, but it Doom.",
">\n\nGonna take this moment to highly recommend the film Spotlight to any who haven’t seen it",
">\n\nCheck out the 2017 limited series on either Netflix or Prime: \"The Keepers\" about a Baltimore-area Catholic girls' school. Based on the experiences as told by some of the girls, now middle-aged women. It is NOT nice, will make you cry, will enrage you. But I commend the women who made this documentary for as painful as it was for the audience to watch, I can't imagine how they made it thru. And they brought it around to a decent ending, but wow....I think some of what happened in Baltimore bled over into the Spotlight story.\nLapsed Catholic. I cannot reconcile with the Church hierarchy over this because they have behaved satanically for far too long to make me believe they are holy in any way.",
">\n\nThere was a documentary that came out a year or two ago tbzg sounds similar but men who were molested as kids while in the church. \nI honestly don't know how anyone can still support the church. At all. If it was one priest, sure. It's sad it happened, but pedophiles will always exist and find ways to get to kids.\nBut with how often it happens and with how little the church cares? Nope. I never could be catholic even if I was Christian.",
">\n\nBecause saving souls bringing them into their cult is more valuable than the ones they crush. The Vatican last I heard had 7 pedos protecting by not complying with extradition requests. \nAny organization not willing to comply with the laws of the country where they have a tax exempt status should lose their exemption and title to any property they own. If you RICO cartel and mafia assets, then you can do so for these child abusers and their protective association. \nYou know the church owns most of Manhattan and isn't paying taxes? All that money and we have to tolerate this shit? Nah fuck them.",
">\n\nNude pix on the church printer . . . I can imagine the scene.\nSister Mary Michael: Yo, does anyone recognize this tallywhacker?\nFormer Alter Boy Brian: Yeah, that's Father Jim. I'd know that hairy mole anywhere.",
">\n\nThat's Tommy Turner's tallywhacker",
">\n\nIf Reddit still gave free awards, I'd give one to you for catching the reference.",
">\n\nWAIT when did they get rid of the free awards",
">\n\nguess this is how i found out. last i claimed mine is around last week, i think. i only claim once every two weeks to gild certain biweekly thread lul",
">\n\nAnd yet where are all the \"anti-groomers\" protesting these churches?",
">\n\nIt’s almost like it has never actually been about protecting children, and it’s always been about trying to demonize LGBT people",
">\n\nAt this point I am positive the religious right to life thing is about having more targets.",
">\n\nGlad 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?",
">\n\nAfter 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.",
">\n\nI 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.\nThere are also many who truly believe the schtick and just compartmentalize the bad stuff. Both are to blame regardless. Nobody gets a pass.",
">\n\nI could see that with some of the smaller denominations for sure.\nWhen 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.",
">\n\n*making another streak to the tally list wall\n*camera panning out to reveal a huge fucking wall coveres in streaks",
">\n\nMan 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.\nThat said. This man should burn for this",
">\n\nPriest? Pedo? Are you sure? This is unprecedented",
">\n\nCorrection! PedoPreist",
">\n\nNew name not necessary. If anything there should be a name for the unique priests that arent pedos.",
">\n\nI'm inclined to think the majority of priests aren't child predators themselves.\nThe 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.\nWay, way too many of them are pedo-enablers. All the way up...",
">\n\nThen that would mean that... Gasp\nSouth Park was right all along....\nSneaky little bastards didn't think I would notice....",
">\n\nWish I was surprised",
">\n\nYou make slideshows of images? \nEdit: \nOh wait I see what you mean. Yeah the pedophile priest thing is so expected that only the slideshow bit stood out",
">\n\nHoly hell. Priest have normalized pedophilia.",
">\n\nNot just priests. Protestant Christians have a major problem with sexual abuse too, particularly against children.\nAfter Major Investigation, Southern Baptists Confront the Abuse Crisis They Knew Was Coming\nDon't let the Evangelical pedo defenders get away with claiming that Catholicism is the only issue here. It isn't.",
">\n\n\nnone of them are immune to the depravity.\n\nAlmost implied, really.",
">\n\nCould 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?",
">\n\nA variety of factors:\n\nUnquestioned moral authority and intense trust from a large community who have all been taught to obey church authorities\nSupport from a massive extremely powerful institution that has covered up thousands of similar crimes\nStrictly forbidden to marry, have sex, or iirc even masturbate, making them view all sexual activities as similarly taboo for them\nEasy regular access to many children\nEasy ability to get alone time with children\nPriests are only held institutionally accountable to each other and to those with more authority in the church\nVictims 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\nChildren 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\nThe 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\nThe 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\n\nThat'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.”\nP.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.\nWant 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.\nEdit to add this excellent way to protect kids that churches consistently fight against:\n\n“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.\nchildren 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.”",
">\n\nSo this should be buried enough if I speak in general terms.\nYears back one of our pastors had to give up being a pastor. They didn't get into details of what he did but they did stress that kids were not involved. The whole church could be seen relaxing.",
">\n\n5 years for thousands of child porn images and videos? Seems pretty fucking light to me. This piece of shit should die in prison.",
">\n\n5 years and a ticket to heaven",
">\n\nHeaven? For him?",
">\n\nThat'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.",
">\n\nDon't you also have to be truly repentant for your sins, including making a good faith effort to keep from repeating them?",
">\n\nI would love for someone to answer this because I really want to know, too.",
">\n\nyes I'm pretty sure that's it. God sees people's hearts He should know the diff between true repentance and fake one",
">\n\nYes, assuming an all-powerful God existed, he’d be able to pretty easily know if you were truly sorry.",
">\n\nYeah but......... \nI'm just starting the religious apologist's sentence for them.",
">\n\nFor 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.",
">\n\nOne 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.",
">\n\nOnce I heard this theory, the acceptance by conservatives of people whose behavior is in direct conflict with their moral beliefs, made more sense.",
">\n\n5 holly maries and transfer\nafter 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.\nRev. 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.\"\nMcDevitt asked the presiding judge for \"mercy for Jim,\" and even offered for the congregation to pay to house him in lieu of imprisonment.\n\"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.\"\n\"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.\"",
">\n\nIn Australia at the moment there is a furore after the death of Cardinal George Pell who was convicted (then exonerated) of personally abusing children, but was found by a Royal Commission (that would be a special prosecutor for our American friends?) of enabling and protecting paedophile priests for decades.\nCan honestly say I have not been able to listen to the string of \"Christians\" praising this man in our media for the last few days without wanting to puke. Suffer the little children.",
">\n\nWith you there. At least there’s a lot of people calling his supporters out on this. Fuck Tony Abbott, John Howard and Andrew Bolt to name a few.",
">\n\nI 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!",
">\n\nr/PastorArrested (also includes Priests)",
">\n\nDon'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.",
">\n\nIf there is a god, wtf?",
">\n\nThere is no God. Religion is about control and money",
">\n\nAnd more money",
">\n\n\"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.\" \n- Rev. Patrick McDevitt, provincial superior for the Congregation of the Western Province \n\nEvery single member of that congregation is a horrible piece of shit",
">\n\nWhat 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?",
">\n\n“Drag queens are grooming our youth!!!”",
">\n\n\"I think we all know where people put on dresses and fuck kids\"\n-Trixie Mattel, 2022",
">\n\nKid “Bless me Father, for I have sinned”\nPadre “ call me, maybe?”",
">\n\nImagine my shock to discover that a priest has been involved in a sex scandal and one involving the exploitation of children, at that.",
">\n\nGOP: \"But wuttabout drag queens?!?!?!??!\"",
">\n\nDoing the Lords work 🙏🏾",
">\n\nTax-free",
">\n\nWhat's the deal with priests being so into pedophilia? Can't they look at milf pounds like normal people?",
">\n\nOh look... Another priest with child porn ... When do we get to start taxing the church?",
">\n\nr/pastorarrested",
">\n\nChurch is a scary place, especially for children.",
">\n\nI 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.",
">\n\nOnly 5 years. What a joke.",
">\n\n\nThe 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.\n\nIf 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.",
">\n\nNo one is suprised a priest is a pedophile. \nBut printing out yer nudes? That's odd.",
">\n\nI can think of a reason he printed it out. And I really don't like that reason.",
">\n\nI'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.",
">\n\nThe sheer audacity to do it at church where you work",
">\n\nAnd not a drag queen in sight...",
">\n\nThey do kinda wear dresses, though",
">\n\nToo many “coincidences” within this church to be anything other than systematic",
">\n\nPretty 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.",
">\n\n\nThe data often suggests numbers of pedophiles similar to the general population\n\none 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",
">\n\nYeah, 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.",
">\n\nI 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.",
">\n\nIt's so common for priests to be sickos",
">\n\nGross",
">\n\nAll he needs to do is repent, right?!?",
">\n\nA priest? With kiddie porn? I’ve never heard of such a thing!",
">\n\nRemember 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.",
">\n\n5 years that's all he got",
">\n\nThat's fucking disgusting. Misappropriation of office materials.",
">\n\nIt 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",
">\n\nIdiot 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.",
">\n\nso 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.",
">\n\nI 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 🤷♂️",
">\n\n5 years isnt nearly enough. Lock him up forever and a day.",
">\n\n~~Drag shows~~ Churches are not safe for children",
">\n\nI'm sure the religious Right will be out protesting him any second.\nRight? Right guys? Groomers and all this? Qanons? Where you guys at?\nHuh. Weird.",
">\n\nBut the dragqueens guys?!?!?!??!? /s",
">\n\nWeird that so many god loving people are actually just pedophiles. Wonder what they think god thinks of them. Fuck theism.",
">\n\nTheir god tells them to take the young girls as spoils of war. Their god is just as fucking depraved as they are.",
">\n\ntHaTs jUsT tHe oLd tEsTaMeNt tHoUgh.\ngOds mOraLiTy dOeSnt cHanGe, hE jUsT dEaLs wItH hUmAns diFFeReNtlY nOw. \nYeah when someone deals with people differently than they did before we generally call that \"a change.\"",
">\n\nAnd he wasn’t trans??? Maybe it’s been priests all along that governors should be banning. When will they correct their mistake? /s",
">\n\nDoesn'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...",
">\n\nIt's surprising. Who prints out their own nudes?",
">\n\nLock him up and throw away the keys",
">\n\nDarn priests, at least those protestant ministers keep it in the family",
">\n\nNot surprised.",
">\n\nThree hail marys and all is forgiven. What a load of bs",
">\n\nJust one bad apple, I’m sure.",
">\n\nLeast paedophilic priest",
">\n\n…slideshow?",
">\n\nGod works in mysterious ways ya fuckin chomo. As a priest, he of all people should have seen this coming...",
">\n\nIn other news, water is wet",
">\n\nOnly five years...",
">\n\n”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.” \nಠ_ಠ",
">\n\nI don’t remember this plotline during Doubt…",
">\n\nWe keep letting them get away with it, so they keep doing it. More obvious news at 10.",
">\n\n& once they found him out he got made a cardinal",
">\n\nHe should've kept them in the garage with his Corvette",
">\n\n5 years? If nothing else, using PowerPoint should have been an aggravating factor.",
">\n\nAnd you thought looking at Bob's family vacation pics was a bad time",
">\n\nWhen 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.",
">\n\nHow is the Roman Catholic Church not closed down for enabling and protecting child abusers",
">\n\nAre 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.",
">\n\nIt'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.",
">\n\npapabile!",
">\n\nLeft nudes on a shared printer? Rookie mistake.",
">\n\nTeach your priests just enough tech to effectively turn themselves in.",
">\n\nIsn't it something how the church decided to investigate themselves again. Keep it in the family, guys.\nI 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.",
">\n\nIs 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:\n1 - 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\n2 - 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)\n3 - 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.\nTL;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.",
">\n\nLet me guess.\nMoved to a different church at the other side of the country and that’s about it for consequences?",
">\n\nThose damned drag queens strike again.",
">\n\nI mean that’s kinda how they caught BTK",
">\n\nSo priests are still abusing kids after we didn't do anything to them the last few times we caught them? Color me surprised.",
">\n\n\nCourt 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.\"\n\n...\n\nDuring 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. \n\n...\n\nAnd 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. \n\nFuck everyone that allowed this scum to continue in a position of authority.",
">\n\nDon’t hear this happening at drag shows…j/s",
">\n\nHe put the PDF in pedofile",
">\n\nThis is Fucking ridiculous",
">\n\nNever forget who the actual groomers are",
">\n\nThe proud boys will be outside of churches \"protesting\" with guns now, right? right?",
">\n\nA priest being pedophile? But that is absolutely unheard of, say it isn't so!",
">\n\nYou sure this wasn't at a Trans drag show? GOP is sure this happens at Trans dragsl shows",
">\n\nExcommunicated by PowerPoint",
">\n\n5 years and a fine? FFS, that’s ridiculous.",
">\n\nPraise Jesus!",
">\n\nAnd the right thinks kids going to drag shows are the problem",
">\n\nAverage christian.",
">\n\nbut the drag queens are reading books to children in libraries! The madnessss",
">\n\nSo they moved him to a new church. This is what they have always done.",
">\n\nleast pedophilic priest:",
">\n\nThe dead ones dont hurt anyone.",
">\n\ninto the furnace he goes. theres no rehabbing people like this.",
">\n\nIt's always the ones you least expect..",
">\n\nOr in this case, the ones you MOST suspect",
">\n\nlol ya, I said that with sarcasm..",
">\n\nPray that he gets nut cancer.",
">\n\nNut cancer was once described to me as \"the common cold of cancers\". It has something like a 95% survival rate.\nHe deserves worse.",
">\n\nDidn't know that. Good nut fact for the day.",
">\n\nIt's definitely the drag queens reading to kids in libraries that's the problem.",
">\n\nRight wingers want him to be a closeted drag queen so badly",
">\n\nI could never trust any man who goes into priesthood. Completely unnatural and deviant occupation rife with pedophiles.",
">\n\nThis MONSTER got 5 years?! \nThe CHILDREN being abused in the images will suffer for the rest of their lives!!\nI'm in favor of LIFE SENTENCES for child sex offenders. \nOr better yet, the DEATH PENALTY!!",
">\n\nReligion was invented by Man for Control of the Flock.You go to Confession and tell the priest everything so they can determine how to undress you.\nI was once a Catholic.....born, baptised, confirmed and educated in a Grammar school run by Irish Christian Brothers under the Order of Edmund Ignatius Rice......and now I'm an atheist.",
">\n\nHow come it is always ‘Christians’ who are involved in child sex abuse?",
">\n\nOf course he's a pedo, he's a priest!",
">\n\nYes millions of idiots keep donating billions to the church",
">\n\nNot simply donating, they bring their children along, indoctrinate them that the priest is the speaker of God, and that God can do no wrong, so anything the priest dose is holy and good. The priest even says so!\nAnd when the kids bring it up the first few times weird things happen? The parents tell them to shush. And so, the sacrifices continue, the parents make a show of not knowing, and things get worse for the children.\nAnd if the priest is reported, the church just moves them to a different parish.\nThe only difference between the taliban and the catholic church, is one of them advertises the child slaves as a benefit, while the other pretends it's not (but totally encourages it, top to bottom).",
">\n\nAnd who are the groomers again?",
">\n\nThis is what happens when you don’t recycle your printer papers.",
">\n\nI feel like this isn't oniony enough, everyone knows by now that priests are significantly more likely to be pedophiles than the general population.",
">\n\nSure, but “gets caught by leaving nudes on a printer” is a fairly onion-y end.",
">\n\nYa know you're right",
">\n\nI have a theory about the correlation between priests and pedophiles. This is my opinion based on conversations with a childhood friend (not a pedo) and is only my opinion but could explain why so many priests abuse children. Get your down votes ready. \nThese boys grow up in the church and it is all they know for the most part. When going through puberty we become attracted to a gender (male or female gay or straight sometimes somewhere in between) and more often a \"type\" as well (blonde brunette short tall etc). Our hormones drive us to seek companionship, intimacy, and ultimately procreation. \nThese boys growing up never develop this attraction to their peers but rather feel more comfortable around younger children and usually behave as mentors. The combination of love of church and disinterest in peers puts the thought in their heads that priesthood is their calling. It takes a long time and effort to become a priest. There are easier paths if a guy just wants to bang kids.\nPut together lack of sex or release of biological needs with access and constant contact with children and they are basically pushed over the edge.\nTo sum up, pedophiles don't become priests to molest children, they become priests because they don't realize they are pedophiles. This is just my opinion, and obviously there are also exceptions to this.\nPerhaps the solution is to get rid of this nonsense celibacy.",
">\n\nAlternative theory: pedophiles become priests because they know the Catholic Church will support and hide them from accountability. Plus, all those altar boys have been easy pickings for decades. \nOn the positive side, Catholic Churches are closing all over Missouri because of dwindling congregations.",
">\n\nThis is one crime I’ll never be able to fathom.",
">\n\nSo fucking sick advocating for this monster so he can maintain freedom?",
">\n\nThe church has been so infiltrated by Child abusers that they are currently rating worse than Satan Worshippers",
">\n\nCan we just fuck churches off now???",
">\n\nYour tithing had to go somewhere.",
">\n\nHow come republicans are not calling these people groomers?",
">\n\nIs anyone else picturing the scene in the first Scary Movie where the cop asks Anna Faris to look at some pictures?\nPriest hands out the pictures of himself along with the weekly pamphlet. Maybe the first reading is from the Song of Solomon...",
">\n\nOh shit. \nHas he been quietly shuffled to a new church yet?",
">\n\nI'm old enough that when I see \"slideshow\" I think of him arranging physical slides in a carousel to project on a screen, like the family trip to Disneyland. Maybe invite the neighbors over for cake.",
">\n\nLord above why is this a thing",
">\n\nYou mean not a drag queen?",
">\n\nActual groomers.",
">\n\nJust think the hands that wanked to kiddie pr0n put wafers on the tongues of everyone in that congregation...",
">\n\nLMAO. This slightly ambiguous headline had me thinking “who attended these slideshow presentations?”",
">\n\nOh look another pedophile catholic priest. Good job reinforcing that stereotype.",
">\n\nAnd we should take guidance from those who hide these atrocities so we can live a better life in the eyes of god.",
">\n\nFriendly reminder religion is a mistake that deserves to be taxed. If you threatened to tax zealots tomorrow child molestation by priests would drop to zero",
">\n\nmay your mother smile as you burn",
">\n\nThis is what happens when you have unchecked power for thousands of years.\nHorrifying.",
">\n\nDid he learn this behavior from a drag show? /s",
">\n\nReminds me of something Chris Rock said: \"Where do women find the porn? They don't find it in your hiding place, they find it in the VCR\"",
">\n\nHe was also probably saving up for a trip to Disney World.",
">\n\n\nincluding child pornography and images of child erotica.\n\nI want to know the difference but don't want to get on a watchlist by googling it.",
">\n\nWithout the word child there, there's a difference in degree. I'd say it's the same thing with that word in there just describing the subject depicted. Pornography is generally actual sex acts of some form or another. Erotica falls short of that, it may be arousing or suggestive. For example, a cabaret show may be erotica but it's certainly not pornography.",
">\n\nPriest? Church? Man in a tax evasion party house?",
">\n\nYet the church immediately moved him somewhere else as there was a daycare next door to the church, then offered to pay to have the priest under house arrest so that the child predator won't go to jail.",
">\n\nShittiest Ted Talk I’ve ever seen, honestly…",
">\n\nOnly five years?! \nUgh!",
">\n\nAnd they call LGBT+ people groomers. (eyeroll)",
">\n\nAnyone who has ever been to a church sadly knows this doesn't need to be in this sub for us to know it's a real story.",
">\n\nOh how nice. The Reverend pleaded for him not to be incarcerated. Because of fucking course he did.",
">\n\nCurious as to who he was presenting this to",
">\n\nPunish these assholes they are smearing God's name",
">\n\nStraight to (checks notes) your next parish!",
">\n\nreligion and sexual abuse. name a more iconic duo\nwhy are any of these religions even allowed to exist any more\nthey have long since lost their meanings, and onlt serve to syphon money out of gullible people, and abuse their children\nwhat is any of these religions actually adding to society any more? other than more perverted monsters",
">\n\nHe’s not the only one",
">\n\nWhy is no big tv news channel talking about this?",
">\n\nAsked that he not go to prison & that his congregation pay to house him? Fuck the church. That's almost the most disgusting part of this",
">\n\nSo are we talking a pptx or an old-school film Rolodex version? Both are messed up, but one takes A LOT more effort.",
">\n\nThe catholic church is of Satan.",
">\n\nFaith is of \"Satan.\" The idea that assuming you might be wrong is morally wrong produces some of the worst people imaginable. And that applies to secular ideologies that require looking down on those who disagree or are unsure too.",
">\n\nAge of priest over/under 50\nWhat yall got?\nI have the over.",
">\n\nOnly 5 years?",
">\n\nRight for some reason i read it as slide show meaning projectors haha. I forgot Powerpoint presentations are a thing.",
">\n\nThe congregation still requested he be spared incarceration and remain in their facility. Truly unbelievable.",
">\n\nThose damn drag queens framed him",
">\n\nThey really put a lot of effort into not saying that he was catholic in that article.",
">\n\nWonder what congregation hes been moved to now?",
">\n\nAny outrage from republicans? Will they arm themselves and storm the churches?....... Didn't think so.",
">\n\nA Christian pedophile? Who could have guessed?",
">\n\nIm shocked! Shocked I say!\nWell... not that shocked.",
">\n\nI appreciate that the church cooperated and turned him in. However, the fact they wanted to pay to house him, out of the parish coffers, is insane. He deserves incarceration and certainly not a retirement paid for by parishioners of the church he victimized. Smh, a great step for the church, if only as a PR exercise, would be to strongly condemn this sort of behavior AND strongly punish it. Defrock and excommunicate any priest who does this. It’s a very easy choice that frankly could help reinstill a little confidence in the church.",
">\n\nOFF WITH HIS GOD DAMNED FUCKING HEAD",
">\n\nWhy so quick and painless?",
">\n\nYou know you’re actually right.. OFF WITH HIS GOD DAMNED FUCKING HEAD WITH A RUSTY PAPERCLIP",
">\n\nRight to jail",
">\n\nToday on why religious institutions should be abolished",
">\n\nAnd the right won't say a thing about this man.",
">\n\nHow Catholics still a thing ?",
">\n\nAnd the Church will cover it up or just say they are very sorry 🤬",
">\n\nThe provincial says everything right…he doesn’t excuse the guy, doesn’t obfuscate what he did or what it’s gravely evil…right up until he asks for house arrest. Fuck that. Whatever the harshest penalty allowed is, do that.",
">\n\nSo just regular church stuff really",
">\n\nChurch is a haven for predators!!!",
">\n\nI used to be Catholic, but stories like this make me hate the church more every day.",
">\n\nCan we just end this disgusting church already? Can you imagine ONE Walmart manager raping children? Now try to imagine MORE THAN THREE THOUSAND Walmart managers raping children. \nStill gonna shop at Walmart?",
">\n\nBut somehow these religious psychos get away with this and convince their followers to kill LGBTQ+ people. Fuck religion, fuck all churches, we need it out of our society.",
">\n\nExcommunicate from the order and earth.",
">\n\nOnly 5 years is the wild part to me.",
">\n\nHow have we not outlawed and burned down the obvious pedophile cult? \nIf there’s no such thing as a good cop, there’s no such thing as a good priest.",
">\n\nHead first into a wood chipper…no amnesty for pedophiles!"
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This kind of shit is why atheism sucks, this fuckers evil soul needs a little eternal torture. Yes yes, I know we're only incredibly flawed hairless apes a couple of toes out of the jungle but fuck man this guy sucks. | [
"Slideshows????? What?\nMy man just opened up cp.ppt and added a few THOUSAND slides of kiddy porn????\nClippy: it looks like youre a depraved predator. Do you want to profane the church as well?",
">\n\nWell I always did believe Power Point was a creation of a malevolent entity.",
">\n\nTuring complete, no less!",
">\n\nBut can it run Doom?",
">\n\nAnything can run doom",
">\n\nBut can Doom run Doom?",
">\n\nDoom can run Doom because Doom runs Doom when Doom runs.",
">\n\nPeople don't run Doom like it is, but it Doom.",
">\n\nGonna take this moment to highly recommend the film Spotlight to any who haven’t seen it",
">\n\nCheck out the 2017 limited series on either Netflix or Prime: \"The Keepers\" about a Baltimore-area Catholic girls' school. Based on the experiences as told by some of the girls, now middle-aged women. It is NOT nice, will make you cry, will enrage you. But I commend the women who made this documentary for as painful as it was for the audience to watch, I can't imagine how they made it thru. And they brought it around to a decent ending, but wow....I think some of what happened in Baltimore bled over into the Spotlight story.\nLapsed Catholic. I cannot reconcile with the Church hierarchy over this because they have behaved satanically for far too long to make me believe they are holy in any way.",
">\n\nThere was a documentary that came out a year or two ago tbzg sounds similar but men who were molested as kids while in the church. \nI honestly don't know how anyone can still support the church. At all. If it was one priest, sure. It's sad it happened, but pedophiles will always exist and find ways to get to kids.\nBut with how often it happens and with how little the church cares? Nope. I never could be catholic even if I was Christian.",
">\n\nBecause saving souls bringing them into their cult is more valuable than the ones they crush. The Vatican last I heard had 7 pedos protecting by not complying with extradition requests. \nAny organization not willing to comply with the laws of the country where they have a tax exempt status should lose their exemption and title to any property they own. If you RICO cartel and mafia assets, then you can do so for these child abusers and their protective association. \nYou know the church owns most of Manhattan and isn't paying taxes? All that money and we have to tolerate this shit? Nah fuck them.",
">\n\nNude pix on the church printer . . . I can imagine the scene.\nSister Mary Michael: Yo, does anyone recognize this tallywhacker?\nFormer Alter Boy Brian: Yeah, that's Father Jim. I'd know that hairy mole anywhere.",
">\n\nThat's Tommy Turner's tallywhacker",
">\n\nIf Reddit still gave free awards, I'd give one to you for catching the reference.",
">\n\nWAIT when did they get rid of the free awards",
">\n\nguess this is how i found out. last i claimed mine is around last week, i think. i only claim once every two weeks to gild certain biweekly thread lul",
">\n\nAnd yet where are all the \"anti-groomers\" protesting these churches?",
">\n\nIt’s almost like it has never actually been about protecting children, and it’s always been about trying to demonize LGBT people",
">\n\nAt this point I am positive the religious right to life thing is about having more targets.",
">\n\nGlad 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?",
">\n\nAfter 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.",
">\n\nI 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.\nThere are also many who truly believe the schtick and just compartmentalize the bad stuff. Both are to blame regardless. Nobody gets a pass.",
">\n\nI could see that with some of the smaller denominations for sure.\nWhen 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.",
">\n\n*making another streak to the tally list wall\n*camera panning out to reveal a huge fucking wall coveres in streaks",
">\n\nMan 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.\nThat said. This man should burn for this",
">\n\nPriest? Pedo? Are you sure? This is unprecedented",
">\n\nCorrection! PedoPreist",
">\n\nNew name not necessary. If anything there should be a name for the unique priests that arent pedos.",
">\n\nI'm inclined to think the majority of priests aren't child predators themselves.\nThe 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.\nWay, way too many of them are pedo-enablers. All the way up...",
">\n\nThen that would mean that... Gasp\nSouth Park was right all along....\nSneaky little bastards didn't think I would notice....",
">\n\nWish I was surprised",
">\n\nYou make slideshows of images? \nEdit: \nOh wait I see what you mean. Yeah the pedophile priest thing is so expected that only the slideshow bit stood out",
">\n\nHoly hell. Priest have normalized pedophilia.",
">\n\nNot just priests. Protestant Christians have a major problem with sexual abuse too, particularly against children.\nAfter Major Investigation, Southern Baptists Confront the Abuse Crisis They Knew Was Coming\nDon't let the Evangelical pedo defenders get away with claiming that Catholicism is the only issue here. It isn't.",
">\n\n\nnone of them are immune to the depravity.\n\nAlmost implied, really.",
">\n\nCould 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?",
">\n\nA variety of factors:\n\nUnquestioned moral authority and intense trust from a large community who have all been taught to obey church authorities\nSupport from a massive extremely powerful institution that has covered up thousands of similar crimes\nStrictly forbidden to marry, have sex, or iirc even masturbate, making them view all sexual activities as similarly taboo for them\nEasy regular access to many children\nEasy ability to get alone time with children\nPriests are only held institutionally accountable to each other and to those with more authority in the church\nVictims 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\nChildren 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\nThe 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\nThe 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\n\nThat'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.”\nP.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.\nWant 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.\nEdit to add this excellent way to protect kids that churches consistently fight against:\n\n“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.\nchildren 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.”",
">\n\nSo this should be buried enough if I speak in general terms.\nYears back one of our pastors had to give up being a pastor. They didn't get into details of what he did but they did stress that kids were not involved. The whole church could be seen relaxing.",
">\n\n5 years for thousands of child porn images and videos? Seems pretty fucking light to me. This piece of shit should die in prison.",
">\n\n5 years and a ticket to heaven",
">\n\nHeaven? For him?",
">\n\nThat'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.",
">\n\nDon't you also have to be truly repentant for your sins, including making a good faith effort to keep from repeating them?",
">\n\nI would love for someone to answer this because I really want to know, too.",
">\n\nyes I'm pretty sure that's it. God sees people's hearts He should know the diff between true repentance and fake one",
">\n\nYes, assuming an all-powerful God existed, he’d be able to pretty easily know if you were truly sorry.",
">\n\nYeah but......... \nI'm just starting the religious apologist's sentence for them.",
">\n\nFor 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.",
">\n\nOne 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.",
">\n\nOnce I heard this theory, the acceptance by conservatives of people whose behavior is in direct conflict with their moral beliefs, made more sense.",
">\n\n5 holly maries and transfer\nafter 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.\nRev. 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.\"\nMcDevitt asked the presiding judge for \"mercy for Jim,\" and even offered for the congregation to pay to house him in lieu of imprisonment.\n\"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.\"\n\"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.\"",
">\n\nIn Australia at the moment there is a furore after the death of Cardinal George Pell who was convicted (then exonerated) of personally abusing children, but was found by a Royal Commission (that would be a special prosecutor for our American friends?) of enabling and protecting paedophile priests for decades.\nCan honestly say I have not been able to listen to the string of \"Christians\" praising this man in our media for the last few days without wanting to puke. Suffer the little children.",
">\n\nWith you there. At least there’s a lot of people calling his supporters out on this. Fuck Tony Abbott, John Howard and Andrew Bolt to name a few.",
">\n\nI 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!",
">\n\nr/PastorArrested (also includes Priests)",
">\n\nDon'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.",
">\n\nIf there is a god, wtf?",
">\n\nThere is no God. Religion is about control and money",
">\n\nAnd more money",
">\n\n\"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.\" \n- Rev. Patrick McDevitt, provincial superior for the Congregation of the Western Province \n\nEvery single member of that congregation is a horrible piece of shit",
">\n\nWhat 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?",
">\n\n“Drag queens are grooming our youth!!!”",
">\n\n\"I think we all know where people put on dresses and fuck kids\"\n-Trixie Mattel, 2022",
">\n\nKid “Bless me Father, for I have sinned”\nPadre “ call me, maybe?”",
">\n\nImagine my shock to discover that a priest has been involved in a sex scandal and one involving the exploitation of children, at that.",
">\n\nGOP: \"But wuttabout drag queens?!?!?!??!\"",
">\n\nDoing the Lords work 🙏🏾",
">\n\nTax-free",
">\n\nWhat's the deal with priests being so into pedophilia? Can't they look at milf pounds like normal people?",
">\n\nOh look... Another priest with child porn ... When do we get to start taxing the church?",
">\n\nr/pastorarrested",
">\n\nChurch is a scary place, especially for children.",
">\n\nI 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.",
">\n\nOnly 5 years. What a joke.",
">\n\n\nThe 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.\n\nIf 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.",
">\n\nNo one is suprised a priest is a pedophile. \nBut printing out yer nudes? That's odd.",
">\n\nI can think of a reason he printed it out. And I really don't like that reason.",
">\n\nI'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.",
">\n\nThe sheer audacity to do it at church where you work",
">\n\nAnd not a drag queen in sight...",
">\n\nThey do kinda wear dresses, though",
">\n\nToo many “coincidences” within this church to be anything other than systematic",
">\n\nPretty 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.",
">\n\n\nThe data often suggests numbers of pedophiles similar to the general population\n\none 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",
">\n\nYeah, 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.",
">\n\nI 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.",
">\n\nIt's so common for priests to be sickos",
">\n\nGross",
">\n\nAll he needs to do is repent, right?!?",
">\n\nA priest? With kiddie porn? I’ve never heard of such a thing!",
">\n\nRemember 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.",
">\n\n5 years that's all he got",
">\n\nThat's fucking disgusting. Misappropriation of office materials.",
">\n\nIt 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",
">\n\nIdiot 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.",
">\n\nso 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.",
">\n\nI 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 🤷♂️",
">\n\n5 years isnt nearly enough. Lock him up forever and a day.",
">\n\n~~Drag shows~~ Churches are not safe for children",
">\n\nI'm sure the religious Right will be out protesting him any second.\nRight? Right guys? Groomers and all this? Qanons? Where you guys at?\nHuh. Weird.",
">\n\nBut the dragqueens guys?!?!?!??!? /s",
">\n\nWeird that so many god loving people are actually just pedophiles. Wonder what they think god thinks of them. Fuck theism.",
">\n\nTheir god tells them to take the young girls as spoils of war. Their god is just as fucking depraved as they are.",
">\n\ntHaTs jUsT tHe oLd tEsTaMeNt tHoUgh.\ngOds mOraLiTy dOeSnt cHanGe, hE jUsT dEaLs wItH hUmAns diFFeReNtlY nOw. \nYeah when someone deals with people differently than they did before we generally call that \"a change.\"",
">\n\nAnd he wasn’t trans??? Maybe it’s been priests all along that governors should be banning. When will they correct their mistake? /s",
">\n\nDoesn'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...",
">\n\nIt's surprising. Who prints out their own nudes?",
">\n\nLock him up and throw away the keys",
">\n\nDarn priests, at least those protestant ministers keep it in the family",
">\n\nNot surprised.",
">\n\nThree hail marys and all is forgiven. What a load of bs",
">\n\nJust one bad apple, I’m sure.",
">\n\nLeast paedophilic priest",
">\n\n…slideshow?",
">\n\nGod works in mysterious ways ya fuckin chomo. As a priest, he of all people should have seen this coming...",
">\n\nIn other news, water is wet",
">\n\nOnly five years...",
">\n\n”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.” \nಠ_ಠ",
">\n\nI don’t remember this plotline during Doubt…",
">\n\nWe keep letting them get away with it, so they keep doing it. More obvious news at 10.",
">\n\n& once they found him out he got made a cardinal",
">\n\nHe should've kept them in the garage with his Corvette",
">\n\n5 years? If nothing else, using PowerPoint should have been an aggravating factor.",
">\n\nAnd you thought looking at Bob's family vacation pics was a bad time",
">\n\nWhen 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.",
">\n\nHow is the Roman Catholic Church not closed down for enabling and protecting child abusers",
">\n\nAre 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.",
">\n\nIt'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.",
">\n\npapabile!",
">\n\nLeft nudes on a shared printer? Rookie mistake.",
">\n\nTeach your priests just enough tech to effectively turn themselves in.",
">\n\nIsn't it something how the church decided to investigate themselves again. Keep it in the family, guys.\nI 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.",
">\n\nIs 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:\n1 - 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\n2 - 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)\n3 - 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.\nTL;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.",
">\n\nLet me guess.\nMoved to a different church at the other side of the country and that’s about it for consequences?",
">\n\nThose damned drag queens strike again.",
">\n\nI mean that’s kinda how they caught BTK",
">\n\nSo priests are still abusing kids after we didn't do anything to them the last few times we caught them? Color me surprised.",
">\n\n\nCourt 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.\"\n\n...\n\nDuring 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. \n\n...\n\nAnd 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. \n\nFuck everyone that allowed this scum to continue in a position of authority.",
">\n\nDon’t hear this happening at drag shows…j/s",
">\n\nHe put the PDF in pedofile",
">\n\nThis is Fucking ridiculous",
">\n\nNever forget who the actual groomers are",
">\n\nThe proud boys will be outside of churches \"protesting\" with guns now, right? right?",
">\n\nA priest being pedophile? But that is absolutely unheard of, say it isn't so!",
">\n\nYou sure this wasn't at a Trans drag show? GOP is sure this happens at Trans dragsl shows",
">\n\nExcommunicated by PowerPoint",
">\n\n5 years and a fine? FFS, that’s ridiculous.",
">\n\nPraise Jesus!",
">\n\nAnd the right thinks kids going to drag shows are the problem",
">\n\nAverage christian.",
">\n\nbut the drag queens are reading books to children in libraries! The madnessss",
">\n\nSo they moved him to a new church. This is what they have always done.",
">\n\nleast pedophilic priest:",
">\n\nThe dead ones dont hurt anyone.",
">\n\ninto the furnace he goes. theres no rehabbing people like this.",
">\n\nIt's always the ones you least expect..",
">\n\nOr in this case, the ones you MOST suspect",
">\n\nlol ya, I said that with sarcasm..",
">\n\nPray that he gets nut cancer.",
">\n\nNut cancer was once described to me as \"the common cold of cancers\". It has something like a 95% survival rate.\nHe deserves worse.",
">\n\nDidn't know that. Good nut fact for the day.",
">\n\nIt's definitely the drag queens reading to kids in libraries that's the problem.",
">\n\nRight wingers want him to be a closeted drag queen so badly",
">\n\nI could never trust any man who goes into priesthood. Completely unnatural and deviant occupation rife with pedophiles.",
">\n\nThis MONSTER got 5 years?! \nThe CHILDREN being abused in the images will suffer for the rest of their lives!!\nI'm in favor of LIFE SENTENCES for child sex offenders. \nOr better yet, the DEATH PENALTY!!",
">\n\nReligion was invented by Man for Control of the Flock.You go to Confession and tell the priest everything so they can determine how to undress you.\nI was once a Catholic.....born, baptised, confirmed and educated in a Grammar school run by Irish Christian Brothers under the Order of Edmund Ignatius Rice......and now I'm an atheist.",
">\n\nHow come it is always ‘Christians’ who are involved in child sex abuse?",
">\n\nOf course he's a pedo, he's a priest!",
">\n\nYes millions of idiots keep donating billions to the church",
">\n\nNot simply donating, they bring their children along, indoctrinate them that the priest is the speaker of God, and that God can do no wrong, so anything the priest dose is holy and good. The priest even says so!\nAnd when the kids bring it up the first few times weird things happen? The parents tell them to shush. And so, the sacrifices continue, the parents make a show of not knowing, and things get worse for the children.\nAnd if the priest is reported, the church just moves them to a different parish.\nThe only difference between the taliban and the catholic church, is one of them advertises the child slaves as a benefit, while the other pretends it's not (but totally encourages it, top to bottom).",
">\n\nAnd who are the groomers again?",
">\n\nThis is what happens when you don’t recycle your printer papers.",
">\n\nI feel like this isn't oniony enough, everyone knows by now that priests are significantly more likely to be pedophiles than the general population.",
">\n\nSure, but “gets caught by leaving nudes on a printer” is a fairly onion-y end.",
">\n\nYa know you're right",
">\n\nI have a theory about the correlation between priests and pedophiles. This is my opinion based on conversations with a childhood friend (not a pedo) and is only my opinion but could explain why so many priests abuse children. Get your down votes ready. \nThese boys grow up in the church and it is all they know for the most part. When going through puberty we become attracted to a gender (male or female gay or straight sometimes somewhere in between) and more often a \"type\" as well (blonde brunette short tall etc). Our hormones drive us to seek companionship, intimacy, and ultimately procreation. \nThese boys growing up never develop this attraction to their peers but rather feel more comfortable around younger children and usually behave as mentors. The combination of love of church and disinterest in peers puts the thought in their heads that priesthood is their calling. It takes a long time and effort to become a priest. There are easier paths if a guy just wants to bang kids.\nPut together lack of sex or release of biological needs with access and constant contact with children and they are basically pushed over the edge.\nTo sum up, pedophiles don't become priests to molest children, they become priests because they don't realize they are pedophiles. This is just my opinion, and obviously there are also exceptions to this.\nPerhaps the solution is to get rid of this nonsense celibacy.",
">\n\nAlternative theory: pedophiles become priests because they know the Catholic Church will support and hide them from accountability. Plus, all those altar boys have been easy pickings for decades. \nOn the positive side, Catholic Churches are closing all over Missouri because of dwindling congregations.",
">\n\nThis is one crime I’ll never be able to fathom.",
">\n\nSo fucking sick advocating for this monster so he can maintain freedom?",
">\n\nThe church has been so infiltrated by Child abusers that they are currently rating worse than Satan Worshippers",
">\n\nCan we just fuck churches off now???",
">\n\nYour tithing had to go somewhere.",
">\n\nHow come republicans are not calling these people groomers?",
">\n\nIs anyone else picturing the scene in the first Scary Movie where the cop asks Anna Faris to look at some pictures?\nPriest hands out the pictures of himself along with the weekly pamphlet. Maybe the first reading is from the Song of Solomon...",
">\n\nOh shit. \nHas he been quietly shuffled to a new church yet?",
">\n\nI'm old enough that when I see \"slideshow\" I think of him arranging physical slides in a carousel to project on a screen, like the family trip to Disneyland. Maybe invite the neighbors over for cake.",
">\n\nLord above why is this a thing",
">\n\nYou mean not a drag queen?",
">\n\nActual groomers.",
">\n\nJust think the hands that wanked to kiddie pr0n put wafers on the tongues of everyone in that congregation...",
">\n\nLMAO. This slightly ambiguous headline had me thinking “who attended these slideshow presentations?”",
">\n\nOh look another pedophile catholic priest. Good job reinforcing that stereotype.",
">\n\nAnd we should take guidance from those who hide these atrocities so we can live a better life in the eyes of god.",
">\n\nFriendly reminder religion is a mistake that deserves to be taxed. If you threatened to tax zealots tomorrow child molestation by priests would drop to zero",
">\n\nmay your mother smile as you burn",
">\n\nThis is what happens when you have unchecked power for thousands of years.\nHorrifying.",
">\n\nDid he learn this behavior from a drag show? /s",
">\n\nReminds me of something Chris Rock said: \"Where do women find the porn? They don't find it in your hiding place, they find it in the VCR\"",
">\n\nHe was also probably saving up for a trip to Disney World.",
">\n\n\nincluding child pornography and images of child erotica.\n\nI want to know the difference but don't want to get on a watchlist by googling it.",
">\n\nWithout the word child there, there's a difference in degree. I'd say it's the same thing with that word in there just describing the subject depicted. Pornography is generally actual sex acts of some form or another. Erotica falls short of that, it may be arousing or suggestive. For example, a cabaret show may be erotica but it's certainly not pornography.",
">\n\nPriest? Church? Man in a tax evasion party house?",
">\n\nYet the church immediately moved him somewhere else as there was a daycare next door to the church, then offered to pay to have the priest under house arrest so that the child predator won't go to jail.",
">\n\nShittiest Ted Talk I’ve ever seen, honestly…",
">\n\nOnly five years?! \nUgh!",
">\n\nAnd they call LGBT+ people groomers. (eyeroll)",
">\n\nAnyone who has ever been to a church sadly knows this doesn't need to be in this sub for us to know it's a real story.",
">\n\nOh how nice. The Reverend pleaded for him not to be incarcerated. Because of fucking course he did.",
">\n\nCurious as to who he was presenting this to",
">\n\nPunish these assholes they are smearing God's name",
">\n\nStraight to (checks notes) your next parish!",
">\n\nreligion and sexual abuse. name a more iconic duo\nwhy are any of these religions even allowed to exist any more\nthey have long since lost their meanings, and onlt serve to syphon money out of gullible people, and abuse their children\nwhat is any of these religions actually adding to society any more? other than more perverted monsters",
">\n\nHe’s not the only one",
">\n\nWhy is no big tv news channel talking about this?",
">\n\nAsked that he not go to prison & that his congregation pay to house him? Fuck the church. That's almost the most disgusting part of this",
">\n\nSo are we talking a pptx or an old-school film Rolodex version? Both are messed up, but one takes A LOT more effort.",
">\n\nThe catholic church is of Satan.",
">\n\nFaith is of \"Satan.\" The idea that assuming you might be wrong is morally wrong produces some of the worst people imaginable. And that applies to secular ideologies that require looking down on those who disagree or are unsure too.",
">\n\nAge of priest over/under 50\nWhat yall got?\nI have the over.",
">\n\nOnly 5 years?",
">\n\nRight for some reason i read it as slide show meaning projectors haha. I forgot Powerpoint presentations are a thing.",
">\n\nThe congregation still requested he be spared incarceration and remain in their facility. Truly unbelievable.",
">\n\nThose damn drag queens framed him",
">\n\nThey really put a lot of effort into not saying that he was catholic in that article.",
">\n\nWonder what congregation hes been moved to now?",
">\n\nAny outrage from republicans? Will they arm themselves and storm the churches?....... Didn't think so.",
">\n\nA Christian pedophile? Who could have guessed?",
">\n\nIm shocked! Shocked I say!\nWell... not that shocked.",
">\n\nI appreciate that the church cooperated and turned him in. However, the fact they wanted to pay to house him, out of the parish coffers, is insane. He deserves incarceration and certainly not a retirement paid for by parishioners of the church he victimized. Smh, a great step for the church, if only as a PR exercise, would be to strongly condemn this sort of behavior AND strongly punish it. Defrock and excommunicate any priest who does this. It’s a very easy choice that frankly could help reinstill a little confidence in the church.",
">\n\nOFF WITH HIS GOD DAMNED FUCKING HEAD",
">\n\nWhy so quick and painless?",
">\n\nYou know you’re actually right.. OFF WITH HIS GOD DAMNED FUCKING HEAD WITH A RUSTY PAPERCLIP",
">\n\nRight to jail",
">\n\nToday on why religious institutions should be abolished",
">\n\nAnd the right won't say a thing about this man.",
">\n\nHow Catholics still a thing ?",
">\n\nAnd the Church will cover it up or just say they are very sorry 🤬",
">\n\nThe provincial says everything right…he doesn’t excuse the guy, doesn’t obfuscate what he did or what it’s gravely evil…right up until he asks for house arrest. Fuck that. Whatever the harshest penalty allowed is, do that.",
">\n\nSo just regular church stuff really",
">\n\nChurch is a haven for predators!!!",
">\n\nI used to be Catholic, but stories like this make me hate the church more every day.",
">\n\nCan we just end this disgusting church already? Can you imagine ONE Walmart manager raping children? Now try to imagine MORE THAN THREE THOUSAND Walmart managers raping children. \nStill gonna shop at Walmart?",
">\n\nBut somehow these religious psychos get away with this and convince their followers to kill LGBTQ+ people. Fuck religion, fuck all churches, we need it out of our society.",
">\n\nExcommunicate from the order and earth.",
">\n\nOnly 5 years is the wild part to me.",
">\n\nHow have we not outlawed and burned down the obvious pedophile cult? \nIf there’s no such thing as a good cop, there’s no such thing as a good priest.",
">\n\nHead first into a wood chipper…no amnesty for pedophiles!",
">\n\nBe a shame if he stopped breathing and any and everybody associated with leadership stopped breathing also!!!"
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A priest has made a move to a new parish so that he may focus on bringing the gospel to a new group! The church is excited to help him accel and even provided the funds to move him across the country. Though he'll be in a new town where no one knows him, the church as said they're sure he'll fir in quickly!
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"Slideshows????? What?\nMy man just opened up cp.ppt and added a few THOUSAND slides of kiddy porn????\nClippy: it looks like youre a depraved predator. Do you want to profane the church as well?",
">\n\nWell I always did believe Power Point was a creation of a malevolent entity.",
">\n\nTuring complete, no less!",
">\n\nBut can it run Doom?",
">\n\nAnything can run doom",
">\n\nBut can Doom run Doom?",
">\n\nDoom can run Doom because Doom runs Doom when Doom runs.",
">\n\nPeople don't run Doom like it is, but it Doom.",
">\n\nGonna take this moment to highly recommend the film Spotlight to any who haven’t seen it",
">\n\nCheck out the 2017 limited series on either Netflix or Prime: \"The Keepers\" about a Baltimore-area Catholic girls' school. Based on the experiences as told by some of the girls, now middle-aged women. It is NOT nice, will make you cry, will enrage you. But I commend the women who made this documentary for as painful as it was for the audience to watch, I can't imagine how they made it thru. And they brought it around to a decent ending, but wow....I think some of what happened in Baltimore bled over into the Spotlight story.\nLapsed Catholic. I cannot reconcile with the Church hierarchy over this because they have behaved satanically for far too long to make me believe they are holy in any way.",
">\n\nThere was a documentary that came out a year or two ago tbzg sounds similar but men who were molested as kids while in the church. \nI honestly don't know how anyone can still support the church. At all. If it was one priest, sure. It's sad it happened, but pedophiles will always exist and find ways to get to kids.\nBut with how often it happens and with how little the church cares? Nope. I never could be catholic even if I was Christian.",
">\n\nBecause saving souls bringing them into their cult is more valuable than the ones they crush. The Vatican last I heard had 7 pedos protecting by not complying with extradition requests. \nAny organization not willing to comply with the laws of the country where they have a tax exempt status should lose their exemption and title to any property they own. If you RICO cartel and mafia assets, then you can do so for these child abusers and their protective association. \nYou know the church owns most of Manhattan and isn't paying taxes? All that money and we have to tolerate this shit? Nah fuck them.",
">\n\nNude pix on the church printer . . . I can imagine the scene.\nSister Mary Michael: Yo, does anyone recognize this tallywhacker?\nFormer Alter Boy Brian: Yeah, that's Father Jim. I'd know that hairy mole anywhere.",
">\n\nThat's Tommy Turner's tallywhacker",
">\n\nIf Reddit still gave free awards, I'd give one to you for catching the reference.",
">\n\nWAIT when did they get rid of the free awards",
">\n\nguess this is how i found out. last i claimed mine is around last week, i think. i only claim once every two weeks to gild certain biweekly thread lul",
">\n\nAnd yet where are all the \"anti-groomers\" protesting these churches?",
">\n\nIt’s almost like it has never actually been about protecting children, and it’s always been about trying to demonize LGBT people",
">\n\nAt this point I am positive the religious right to life thing is about having more targets.",
">\n\nGlad 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?",
">\n\nAfter 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.",
">\n\nI 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.\nThere are also many who truly believe the schtick and just compartmentalize the bad stuff. Both are to blame regardless. Nobody gets a pass.",
">\n\nI could see that with some of the smaller denominations for sure.\nWhen 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.",
">\n\n*making another streak to the tally list wall\n*camera panning out to reveal a huge fucking wall coveres in streaks",
">\n\nMan 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.\nThat said. This man should burn for this",
">\n\nPriest? Pedo? Are you sure? This is unprecedented",
">\n\nCorrection! PedoPreist",
">\n\nNew name not necessary. If anything there should be a name for the unique priests that arent pedos.",
">\n\nI'm inclined to think the majority of priests aren't child predators themselves.\nThe 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.\nWay, way too many of them are pedo-enablers. All the way up...",
">\n\nThen that would mean that... Gasp\nSouth Park was right all along....\nSneaky little bastards didn't think I would notice....",
">\n\nWish I was surprised",
">\n\nYou make slideshows of images? \nEdit: \nOh wait I see what you mean. Yeah the pedophile priest thing is so expected that only the slideshow bit stood out",
">\n\nHoly hell. Priest have normalized pedophilia.",
">\n\nNot just priests. Protestant Christians have a major problem with sexual abuse too, particularly against children.\nAfter Major Investigation, Southern Baptists Confront the Abuse Crisis They Knew Was Coming\nDon't let the Evangelical pedo defenders get away with claiming that Catholicism is the only issue here. It isn't.",
">\n\n\nnone of them are immune to the depravity.\n\nAlmost implied, really.",
">\n\nCould 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?",
">\n\nA variety of factors:\n\nUnquestioned moral authority and intense trust from a large community who have all been taught to obey church authorities\nSupport from a massive extremely powerful institution that has covered up thousands of similar crimes\nStrictly forbidden to marry, have sex, or iirc even masturbate, making them view all sexual activities as similarly taboo for them\nEasy regular access to many children\nEasy ability to get alone time with children\nPriests are only held institutionally accountable to each other and to those with more authority in the church\nVictims 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\nChildren 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\nThe 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\nThe 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\n\nThat'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.”\nP.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.\nWant 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.\nEdit to add this excellent way to protect kids that churches consistently fight against:\n\n“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.\nchildren 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.”",
">\n\nSo this should be buried enough if I speak in general terms.\nYears back one of our pastors had to give up being a pastor. They didn't get into details of what he did but they did stress that kids were not involved. The whole church could be seen relaxing.",
">\n\n5 years for thousands of child porn images and videos? Seems pretty fucking light to me. This piece of shit should die in prison.",
">\n\n5 years and a ticket to heaven",
">\n\nHeaven? For him?",
">\n\nThat'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.",
">\n\nDon't you also have to be truly repentant for your sins, including making a good faith effort to keep from repeating them?",
">\n\nI would love for someone to answer this because I really want to know, too.",
">\n\nyes I'm pretty sure that's it. God sees people's hearts He should know the diff between true repentance and fake one",
">\n\nYes, assuming an all-powerful God existed, he’d be able to pretty easily know if you were truly sorry.",
">\n\nYeah but......... \nI'm just starting the religious apologist's sentence for them.",
">\n\nFor 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.",
">\n\nOne 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.",
">\n\nOnce I heard this theory, the acceptance by conservatives of people whose behavior is in direct conflict with their moral beliefs, made more sense.",
">\n\n5 holly maries and transfer\nafter 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.\nRev. 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.\"\nMcDevitt asked the presiding judge for \"mercy for Jim,\" and even offered for the congregation to pay to house him in lieu of imprisonment.\n\"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.\"\n\"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.\"",
">\n\nIn Australia at the moment there is a furore after the death of Cardinal George Pell who was convicted (then exonerated) of personally abusing children, but was found by a Royal Commission (that would be a special prosecutor for our American friends?) of enabling and protecting paedophile priests for decades.\nCan honestly say I have not been able to listen to the string of \"Christians\" praising this man in our media for the last few days without wanting to puke. Suffer the little children.",
">\n\nWith you there. At least there’s a lot of people calling his supporters out on this. Fuck Tony Abbott, John Howard and Andrew Bolt to name a few.",
">\n\nI 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!",
">\n\nr/PastorArrested (also includes Priests)",
">\n\nDon'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.",
">\n\nIf there is a god, wtf?",
">\n\nThere is no God. Religion is about control and money",
">\n\nAnd more money",
">\n\n\"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.\" \n- Rev. Patrick McDevitt, provincial superior for the Congregation of the Western Province \n\nEvery single member of that congregation is a horrible piece of shit",
">\n\nWhat 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?",
">\n\n“Drag queens are grooming our youth!!!”",
">\n\n\"I think we all know where people put on dresses and fuck kids\"\n-Trixie Mattel, 2022",
">\n\nKid “Bless me Father, for I have sinned”\nPadre “ call me, maybe?”",
">\n\nImagine my shock to discover that a priest has been involved in a sex scandal and one involving the exploitation of children, at that.",
">\n\nGOP: \"But wuttabout drag queens?!?!?!??!\"",
">\n\nDoing the Lords work 🙏🏾",
">\n\nTax-free",
">\n\nWhat's the deal with priests being so into pedophilia? Can't they look at milf pounds like normal people?",
">\n\nOh look... Another priest with child porn ... When do we get to start taxing the church?",
">\n\nr/pastorarrested",
">\n\nChurch is a scary place, especially for children.",
">\n\nI 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.",
">\n\nOnly 5 years. What a joke.",
">\n\n\nThe 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.\n\nIf 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.",
">\n\nNo one is suprised a priest is a pedophile. \nBut printing out yer nudes? That's odd.",
">\n\nI can think of a reason he printed it out. And I really don't like that reason.",
">\n\nI'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.",
">\n\nThe sheer audacity to do it at church where you work",
">\n\nAnd not a drag queen in sight...",
">\n\nThey do kinda wear dresses, though",
">\n\nToo many “coincidences” within this church to be anything other than systematic",
">\n\nPretty 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.",
">\n\n\nThe data often suggests numbers of pedophiles similar to the general population\n\none 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",
">\n\nYeah, 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.",
">\n\nI 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.",
">\n\nIt's so common for priests to be sickos",
">\n\nGross",
">\n\nAll he needs to do is repent, right?!?",
">\n\nA priest? With kiddie porn? I’ve never heard of such a thing!",
">\n\nRemember 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.",
">\n\n5 years that's all he got",
">\n\nThat's fucking disgusting. Misappropriation of office materials.",
">\n\nIt 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",
">\n\nIdiot 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.",
">\n\nso 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.",
">\n\nI 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 🤷♂️",
">\n\n5 years isnt nearly enough. Lock him up forever and a day.",
">\n\n~~Drag shows~~ Churches are not safe for children",
">\n\nI'm sure the religious Right will be out protesting him any second.\nRight? Right guys? Groomers and all this? Qanons? Where you guys at?\nHuh. Weird.",
">\n\nBut the dragqueens guys?!?!?!??!? /s",
">\n\nWeird that so many god loving people are actually just pedophiles. Wonder what they think god thinks of them. Fuck theism.",
">\n\nTheir god tells them to take the young girls as spoils of war. Their god is just as fucking depraved as they are.",
">\n\ntHaTs jUsT tHe oLd tEsTaMeNt tHoUgh.\ngOds mOraLiTy dOeSnt cHanGe, hE jUsT dEaLs wItH hUmAns diFFeReNtlY nOw. \nYeah when someone deals with people differently than they did before we generally call that \"a change.\"",
">\n\nAnd he wasn’t trans??? Maybe it’s been priests all along that governors should be banning. When will they correct their mistake? /s",
">\n\nDoesn'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...",
">\n\nIt's surprising. Who prints out their own nudes?",
">\n\nLock him up and throw away the keys",
">\n\nDarn priests, at least those protestant ministers keep it in the family",
">\n\nNot surprised.",
">\n\nThree hail marys and all is forgiven. What a load of bs",
">\n\nJust one bad apple, I’m sure.",
">\n\nLeast paedophilic priest",
">\n\n…slideshow?",
">\n\nGod works in mysterious ways ya fuckin chomo. As a priest, he of all people should have seen this coming...",
">\n\nIn other news, water is wet",
">\n\nOnly five years...",
">\n\n”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.” \nಠ_ಠ",
">\n\nI don’t remember this plotline during Doubt…",
">\n\nWe keep letting them get away with it, so they keep doing it. More obvious news at 10.",
">\n\n& once they found him out he got made a cardinal",
">\n\nHe should've kept them in the garage with his Corvette",
">\n\n5 years? If nothing else, using PowerPoint should have been an aggravating factor.",
">\n\nAnd you thought looking at Bob's family vacation pics was a bad time",
">\n\nWhen 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.",
">\n\nHow is the Roman Catholic Church not closed down for enabling and protecting child abusers",
">\n\nAre 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.",
">\n\nIt'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.",
">\n\npapabile!",
">\n\nLeft nudes on a shared printer? Rookie mistake.",
">\n\nTeach your priests just enough tech to effectively turn themselves in.",
">\n\nIsn't it something how the church decided to investigate themselves again. Keep it in the family, guys.\nI 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.",
">\n\nIs 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:\n1 - 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\n2 - 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)\n3 - 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.\nTL;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.",
">\n\nLet me guess.\nMoved to a different church at the other side of the country and that’s about it for consequences?",
">\n\nThose damned drag queens strike again.",
">\n\nI mean that’s kinda how they caught BTK",
">\n\nSo priests are still abusing kids after we didn't do anything to them the last few times we caught them? Color me surprised.",
">\n\n\nCourt 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.\"\n\n...\n\nDuring 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. \n\n...\n\nAnd 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. \n\nFuck everyone that allowed this scum to continue in a position of authority.",
">\n\nDon’t hear this happening at drag shows…j/s",
">\n\nHe put the PDF in pedofile",
">\n\nThis is Fucking ridiculous",
">\n\nNever forget who the actual groomers are",
">\n\nThe proud boys will be outside of churches \"protesting\" with guns now, right? right?",
">\n\nA priest being pedophile? But that is absolutely unheard of, say it isn't so!",
">\n\nYou sure this wasn't at a Trans drag show? GOP is sure this happens at Trans dragsl shows",
">\n\nExcommunicated by PowerPoint",
">\n\n5 years and a fine? FFS, that’s ridiculous.",
">\n\nPraise Jesus!",
">\n\nAnd the right thinks kids going to drag shows are the problem",
">\n\nAverage christian.",
">\n\nbut the drag queens are reading books to children in libraries! The madnessss",
">\n\nSo they moved him to a new church. This is what they have always done.",
">\n\nleast pedophilic priest:",
">\n\nThe dead ones dont hurt anyone.",
">\n\ninto the furnace he goes. theres no rehabbing people like this.",
">\n\nIt's always the ones you least expect..",
">\n\nOr in this case, the ones you MOST suspect",
">\n\nlol ya, I said that with sarcasm..",
">\n\nPray that he gets nut cancer.",
">\n\nNut cancer was once described to me as \"the common cold of cancers\". It has something like a 95% survival rate.\nHe deserves worse.",
">\n\nDidn't know that. Good nut fact for the day.",
">\n\nIt's definitely the drag queens reading to kids in libraries that's the problem.",
">\n\nRight wingers want him to be a closeted drag queen so badly",
">\n\nI could never trust any man who goes into priesthood. Completely unnatural and deviant occupation rife with pedophiles.",
">\n\nThis MONSTER got 5 years?! \nThe CHILDREN being abused in the images will suffer for the rest of their lives!!\nI'm in favor of LIFE SENTENCES for child sex offenders. \nOr better yet, the DEATH PENALTY!!",
">\n\nReligion was invented by Man for Control of the Flock.You go to Confession and tell the priest everything so they can determine how to undress you.\nI was once a Catholic.....born, baptised, confirmed and educated in a Grammar school run by Irish Christian Brothers under the Order of Edmund Ignatius Rice......and now I'm an atheist.",
">\n\nHow come it is always ‘Christians’ who are involved in child sex abuse?",
">\n\nOf course he's a pedo, he's a priest!",
">\n\nYes millions of idiots keep donating billions to the church",
">\n\nNot simply donating, they bring their children along, indoctrinate them that the priest is the speaker of God, and that God can do no wrong, so anything the priest dose is holy and good. The priest even says so!\nAnd when the kids bring it up the first few times weird things happen? The parents tell them to shush. And so, the sacrifices continue, the parents make a show of not knowing, and things get worse for the children.\nAnd if the priest is reported, the church just moves them to a different parish.\nThe only difference between the taliban and the catholic church, is one of them advertises the child slaves as a benefit, while the other pretends it's not (but totally encourages it, top to bottom).",
">\n\nAnd who are the groomers again?",
">\n\nThis is what happens when you don’t recycle your printer papers.",
">\n\nI feel like this isn't oniony enough, everyone knows by now that priests are significantly more likely to be pedophiles than the general population.",
">\n\nSure, but “gets caught by leaving nudes on a printer” is a fairly onion-y end.",
">\n\nYa know you're right",
">\n\nI have a theory about the correlation between priests and pedophiles. This is my opinion based on conversations with a childhood friend (not a pedo) and is only my opinion but could explain why so many priests abuse children. Get your down votes ready. \nThese boys grow up in the church and it is all they know for the most part. When going through puberty we become attracted to a gender (male or female gay or straight sometimes somewhere in between) and more often a \"type\" as well (blonde brunette short tall etc). Our hormones drive us to seek companionship, intimacy, and ultimately procreation. \nThese boys growing up never develop this attraction to their peers but rather feel more comfortable around younger children and usually behave as mentors. The combination of love of church and disinterest in peers puts the thought in their heads that priesthood is their calling. It takes a long time and effort to become a priest. There are easier paths if a guy just wants to bang kids.\nPut together lack of sex or release of biological needs with access and constant contact with children and they are basically pushed over the edge.\nTo sum up, pedophiles don't become priests to molest children, they become priests because they don't realize they are pedophiles. This is just my opinion, and obviously there are also exceptions to this.\nPerhaps the solution is to get rid of this nonsense celibacy.",
">\n\nAlternative theory: pedophiles become priests because they know the Catholic Church will support and hide them from accountability. Plus, all those altar boys have been easy pickings for decades. \nOn the positive side, Catholic Churches are closing all over Missouri because of dwindling congregations.",
">\n\nThis is one crime I’ll never be able to fathom.",
">\n\nSo fucking sick advocating for this monster so he can maintain freedom?",
">\n\nThe church has been so infiltrated by Child abusers that they are currently rating worse than Satan Worshippers",
">\n\nCan we just fuck churches off now???",
">\n\nYour tithing had to go somewhere.",
">\n\nHow come republicans are not calling these people groomers?",
">\n\nIs anyone else picturing the scene in the first Scary Movie where the cop asks Anna Faris to look at some pictures?\nPriest hands out the pictures of himself along with the weekly pamphlet. Maybe the first reading is from the Song of Solomon...",
">\n\nOh shit. \nHas he been quietly shuffled to a new church yet?",
">\n\nI'm old enough that when I see \"slideshow\" I think of him arranging physical slides in a carousel to project on a screen, like the family trip to Disneyland. Maybe invite the neighbors over for cake.",
">\n\nLord above why is this a thing",
">\n\nYou mean not a drag queen?",
">\n\nActual groomers.",
">\n\nJust think the hands that wanked to kiddie pr0n put wafers on the tongues of everyone in that congregation...",
">\n\nLMAO. This slightly ambiguous headline had me thinking “who attended these slideshow presentations?”",
">\n\nOh look another pedophile catholic priest. Good job reinforcing that stereotype.",
">\n\nAnd we should take guidance from those who hide these atrocities so we can live a better life in the eyes of god.",
">\n\nFriendly reminder religion is a mistake that deserves to be taxed. If you threatened to tax zealots tomorrow child molestation by priests would drop to zero",
">\n\nmay your mother smile as you burn",
">\n\nThis is what happens when you have unchecked power for thousands of years.\nHorrifying.",
">\n\nDid he learn this behavior from a drag show? /s",
">\n\nReminds me of something Chris Rock said: \"Where do women find the porn? They don't find it in your hiding place, they find it in the VCR\"",
">\n\nHe was also probably saving up for a trip to Disney World.",
">\n\n\nincluding child pornography and images of child erotica.\n\nI want to know the difference but don't want to get on a watchlist by googling it.",
">\n\nWithout the word child there, there's a difference in degree. I'd say it's the same thing with that word in there just describing the subject depicted. Pornography is generally actual sex acts of some form or another. Erotica falls short of that, it may be arousing or suggestive. For example, a cabaret show may be erotica but it's certainly not pornography.",
">\n\nPriest? Church? Man in a tax evasion party house?",
">\n\nYet the church immediately moved him somewhere else as there was a daycare next door to the church, then offered to pay to have the priest under house arrest so that the child predator won't go to jail.",
">\n\nShittiest Ted Talk I’ve ever seen, honestly…",
">\n\nOnly five years?! \nUgh!",
">\n\nAnd they call LGBT+ people groomers. (eyeroll)",
">\n\nAnyone who has ever been to a church sadly knows this doesn't need to be in this sub for us to know it's a real story.",
">\n\nOh how nice. The Reverend pleaded for him not to be incarcerated. Because of fucking course he did.",
">\n\nCurious as to who he was presenting this to",
">\n\nPunish these assholes they are smearing God's name",
">\n\nStraight to (checks notes) your next parish!",
">\n\nreligion and sexual abuse. name a more iconic duo\nwhy are any of these religions even allowed to exist any more\nthey have long since lost their meanings, and onlt serve to syphon money out of gullible people, and abuse their children\nwhat is any of these religions actually adding to society any more? other than more perverted monsters",
">\n\nHe’s not the only one",
">\n\nWhy is no big tv news channel talking about this?",
">\n\nAsked that he not go to prison & that his congregation pay to house him? Fuck the church. That's almost the most disgusting part of this",
">\n\nSo are we talking a pptx or an old-school film Rolodex version? Both are messed up, but one takes A LOT more effort.",
">\n\nThe catholic church is of Satan.",
">\n\nFaith is of \"Satan.\" The idea that assuming you might be wrong is morally wrong produces some of the worst people imaginable. And that applies to secular ideologies that require looking down on those who disagree or are unsure too.",
">\n\nAge of priest over/under 50\nWhat yall got?\nI have the over.",
">\n\nOnly 5 years?",
">\n\nRight for some reason i read it as slide show meaning projectors haha. I forgot Powerpoint presentations are a thing.",
">\n\nThe congregation still requested he be spared incarceration and remain in their facility. Truly unbelievable.",
">\n\nThose damn drag queens framed him",
">\n\nThey really put a lot of effort into not saying that he was catholic in that article.",
">\n\nWonder what congregation hes been moved to now?",
">\n\nAny outrage from republicans? Will they arm themselves and storm the churches?....... Didn't think so.",
">\n\nA Christian pedophile? Who could have guessed?",
">\n\nIm shocked! Shocked I say!\nWell... not that shocked.",
">\n\nI appreciate that the church cooperated and turned him in. However, the fact they wanted to pay to house him, out of the parish coffers, is insane. He deserves incarceration and certainly not a retirement paid for by parishioners of the church he victimized. Smh, a great step for the church, if only as a PR exercise, would be to strongly condemn this sort of behavior AND strongly punish it. Defrock and excommunicate any priest who does this. It’s a very easy choice that frankly could help reinstill a little confidence in the church.",
">\n\nOFF WITH HIS GOD DAMNED FUCKING HEAD",
">\n\nWhy so quick and painless?",
">\n\nYou know you’re actually right.. OFF WITH HIS GOD DAMNED FUCKING HEAD WITH A RUSTY PAPERCLIP",
">\n\nRight to jail",
">\n\nToday on why religious institutions should be abolished",
">\n\nAnd the right won't say a thing about this man.",
">\n\nHow Catholics still a thing ?",
">\n\nAnd the Church will cover it up or just say they are very sorry 🤬",
">\n\nThe provincial says everything right…he doesn’t excuse the guy, doesn’t obfuscate what he did or what it’s gravely evil…right up until he asks for house arrest. Fuck that. Whatever the harshest penalty allowed is, do that.",
">\n\nSo just regular church stuff really",
">\n\nChurch is a haven for predators!!!",
">\n\nI used to be Catholic, but stories like this make me hate the church more every day.",
">\n\nCan we just end this disgusting church already? Can you imagine ONE Walmart manager raping children? Now try to imagine MORE THAN THREE THOUSAND Walmart managers raping children. \nStill gonna shop at Walmart?",
">\n\nBut somehow these religious psychos get away with this and convince their followers to kill LGBTQ+ people. Fuck religion, fuck all churches, we need it out of our society.",
">\n\nExcommunicate from the order and earth.",
">\n\nOnly 5 years is the wild part to me.",
">\n\nHow have we not outlawed and burned down the obvious pedophile cult? \nIf there’s no such thing as a good cop, there’s no such thing as a good priest.",
">\n\nHead first into a wood chipper…no amnesty for pedophiles!",
">\n\nBe a shame if he stopped breathing and any and everybody associated with leadership stopped breathing also!!!",
">\n\nThis kind of shit is why atheism sucks, this fuckers evil soul needs a little eternal torture. Yes yes, I know we're only incredibly flawed hairless apes a couple of toes out of the jungle but fuck man this guy sucks."
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"Slideshows????? What?\nMy man just opened up cp.ppt and added a few THOUSAND slides of kiddy porn????\nClippy: it looks like youre a depraved predator. Do you want to profane the church as well?",
">\n\nWell I always did believe Power Point was a creation of a malevolent entity.",
">\n\nTuring complete, no less!",
">\n\nBut can it run Doom?",
">\n\nAnything can run doom",
">\n\nBut can Doom run Doom?",
">\n\nDoom can run Doom because Doom runs Doom when Doom runs.",
">\n\nPeople don't run Doom like it is, but it Doom.",
">\n\nGonna take this moment to highly recommend the film Spotlight to any who haven’t seen it",
">\n\nCheck out the 2017 limited series on either Netflix or Prime: \"The Keepers\" about a Baltimore-area Catholic girls' school. Based on the experiences as told by some of the girls, now middle-aged women. It is NOT nice, will make you cry, will enrage you. But I commend the women who made this documentary for as painful as it was for the audience to watch, I can't imagine how they made it thru. And they brought it around to a decent ending, but wow....I think some of what happened in Baltimore bled over into the Spotlight story.\nLapsed Catholic. I cannot reconcile with the Church hierarchy over this because they have behaved satanically for far too long to make me believe they are holy in any way.",
">\n\nThere was a documentary that came out a year or two ago tbzg sounds similar but men who were molested as kids while in the church. \nI honestly don't know how anyone can still support the church. At all. If it was one priest, sure. It's sad it happened, but pedophiles will always exist and find ways to get to kids.\nBut with how often it happens and with how little the church cares? Nope. I never could be catholic even if I was Christian.",
">\n\nBecause saving souls bringing them into their cult is more valuable than the ones they crush. The Vatican last I heard had 7 pedos protecting by not complying with extradition requests. \nAny organization not willing to comply with the laws of the country where they have a tax exempt status should lose their exemption and title to any property they own. If you RICO cartel and mafia assets, then you can do so for these child abusers and their protective association. \nYou know the church owns most of Manhattan and isn't paying taxes? All that money and we have to tolerate this shit? Nah fuck them.",
">\n\nNude pix on the church printer . . . I can imagine the scene.\nSister Mary Michael: Yo, does anyone recognize this tallywhacker?\nFormer Alter Boy Brian: Yeah, that's Father Jim. I'd know that hairy mole anywhere.",
">\n\nThat's Tommy Turner's tallywhacker",
">\n\nIf Reddit still gave free awards, I'd give one to you for catching the reference.",
">\n\nWAIT when did they get rid of the free awards",
">\n\nguess this is how i found out. last i claimed mine is around last week, i think. i only claim once every two weeks to gild certain biweekly thread lul",
">\n\nAnd yet where are all the \"anti-groomers\" protesting these churches?",
">\n\nIt’s almost like it has never actually been about protecting children, and it’s always been about trying to demonize LGBT people",
">\n\nAt this point I am positive the religious right to life thing is about having more targets.",
">\n\nGlad 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?",
">\n\nAfter 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.",
">\n\nI 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.\nThere are also many who truly believe the schtick and just compartmentalize the bad stuff. Both are to blame regardless. Nobody gets a pass.",
">\n\nI could see that with some of the smaller denominations for sure.\nWhen 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.",
">\n\n*making another streak to the tally list wall\n*camera panning out to reveal a huge fucking wall coveres in streaks",
">\n\nMan 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.\nThat said. This man should burn for this",
">\n\nPriest? Pedo? Are you sure? This is unprecedented",
">\n\nCorrection! PedoPreist",
">\n\nNew name not necessary. If anything there should be a name for the unique priests that arent pedos.",
">\n\nI'm inclined to think the majority of priests aren't child predators themselves.\nThe 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.\nWay, way too many of them are pedo-enablers. All the way up...",
">\n\nThen that would mean that... Gasp\nSouth Park was right all along....\nSneaky little bastards didn't think I would notice....",
">\n\nWish I was surprised",
">\n\nYou make slideshows of images? \nEdit: \nOh wait I see what you mean. Yeah the pedophile priest thing is so expected that only the slideshow bit stood out",
">\n\nHoly hell. Priest have normalized pedophilia.",
">\n\nNot just priests. Protestant Christians have a major problem with sexual abuse too, particularly against children.\nAfter Major Investigation, Southern Baptists Confront the Abuse Crisis They Knew Was Coming\nDon't let the Evangelical pedo defenders get away with claiming that Catholicism is the only issue here. It isn't.",
">\n\n\nnone of them are immune to the depravity.\n\nAlmost implied, really.",
">\n\nCould 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?",
">\n\nA variety of factors:\n\nUnquestioned moral authority and intense trust from a large community who have all been taught to obey church authorities\nSupport from a massive extremely powerful institution that has covered up thousands of similar crimes\nStrictly forbidden to marry, have sex, or iirc even masturbate, making them view all sexual activities as similarly taboo for them\nEasy regular access to many children\nEasy ability to get alone time with children\nPriests are only held institutionally accountable to each other and to those with more authority in the church\nVictims 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\nChildren 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\nThe 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\nThe 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\n\nThat'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.”\nP.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.\nWant 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.\nEdit to add this excellent way to protect kids that churches consistently fight against:\n\n“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.\nchildren 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.”",
">\n\nSo this should be buried enough if I speak in general terms.\nYears back one of our pastors had to give up being a pastor. They didn't get into details of what he did but they did stress that kids were not involved. The whole church could be seen relaxing.",
">\n\n5 years for thousands of child porn images and videos? Seems pretty fucking light to me. This piece of shit should die in prison.",
">\n\n5 years and a ticket to heaven",
">\n\nHeaven? For him?",
">\n\nThat'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.",
">\n\nDon't you also have to be truly repentant for your sins, including making a good faith effort to keep from repeating them?",
">\n\nI would love for someone to answer this because I really want to know, too.",
">\n\nyes I'm pretty sure that's it. God sees people's hearts He should know the diff between true repentance and fake one",
">\n\nYes, assuming an all-powerful God existed, he’d be able to pretty easily know if you were truly sorry.",
">\n\nYeah but......... \nI'm just starting the religious apologist's sentence for them.",
">\n\nFor 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.",
">\n\nOne 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.",
">\n\nOnce I heard this theory, the acceptance by conservatives of people whose behavior is in direct conflict with their moral beliefs, made more sense.",
">\n\n5 holly maries and transfer\nafter 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.\nRev. 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.\"\nMcDevitt asked the presiding judge for \"mercy for Jim,\" and even offered for the congregation to pay to house him in lieu of imprisonment.\n\"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.\"\n\"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.\"",
">\n\nIn Australia at the moment there is a furore after the death of Cardinal George Pell who was convicted (then exonerated) of personally abusing children, but was found by a Royal Commission (that would be a special prosecutor for our American friends?) of enabling and protecting paedophile priests for decades.\nCan honestly say I have not been able to listen to the string of \"Christians\" praising this man in our media for the last few days without wanting to puke. Suffer the little children.",
">\n\nWith you there. At least there’s a lot of people calling his supporters out on this. Fuck Tony Abbott, John Howard and Andrew Bolt to name a few.",
">\n\nI 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!",
">\n\nr/PastorArrested (also includes Priests)",
">\n\nDon'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.",
">\n\nIf there is a god, wtf?",
">\n\nThere is no God. Religion is about control and money",
">\n\nAnd more money",
">\n\n\"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.\" \n- Rev. Patrick McDevitt, provincial superior for the Congregation of the Western Province \n\nEvery single member of that congregation is a horrible piece of shit",
">\n\nWhat 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?",
">\n\n“Drag queens are grooming our youth!!!”",
">\n\n\"I think we all know where people put on dresses and fuck kids\"\n-Trixie Mattel, 2022",
">\n\nKid “Bless me Father, for I have sinned”\nPadre “ call me, maybe?”",
">\n\nImagine my shock to discover that a priest has been involved in a sex scandal and one involving the exploitation of children, at that.",
">\n\nGOP: \"But wuttabout drag queens?!?!?!??!\"",
">\n\nDoing the Lords work 🙏🏾",
">\n\nTax-free",
">\n\nWhat's the deal with priests being so into pedophilia? Can't they look at milf pounds like normal people?",
">\n\nOh look... Another priest with child porn ... When do we get to start taxing the church?",
">\n\nr/pastorarrested",
">\n\nChurch is a scary place, especially for children.",
">\n\nI 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.",
">\n\nOnly 5 years. What a joke.",
">\n\n\nThe 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.\n\nIf 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.",
">\n\nNo one is suprised a priest is a pedophile. \nBut printing out yer nudes? That's odd.",
">\n\nI can think of a reason he printed it out. And I really don't like that reason.",
">\n\nI'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.",
">\n\nThe sheer audacity to do it at church where you work",
">\n\nAnd not a drag queen in sight...",
">\n\nThey do kinda wear dresses, though",
">\n\nToo many “coincidences” within this church to be anything other than systematic",
">\n\nPretty 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.",
">\n\n\nThe data often suggests numbers of pedophiles similar to the general population\n\none 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",
">\n\nYeah, 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.",
">\n\nI 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.",
">\n\nIt's so common for priests to be sickos",
">\n\nGross",
">\n\nAll he needs to do is repent, right?!?",
">\n\nA priest? With kiddie porn? I’ve never heard of such a thing!",
">\n\nRemember 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.",
">\n\n5 years that's all he got",
">\n\nThat's fucking disgusting. Misappropriation of office materials.",
">\n\nIt 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",
">\n\nIdiot 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.",
">\n\nso 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.",
">\n\nI 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 🤷♂️",
">\n\n5 years isnt nearly enough. Lock him up forever and a day.",
">\n\n~~Drag shows~~ Churches are not safe for children",
">\n\nI'm sure the religious Right will be out protesting him any second.\nRight? Right guys? Groomers and all this? Qanons? Where you guys at?\nHuh. Weird.",
">\n\nBut the dragqueens guys?!?!?!??!? /s",
">\n\nWeird that so many god loving people are actually just pedophiles. Wonder what they think god thinks of them. Fuck theism.",
">\n\nTheir god tells them to take the young girls as spoils of war. Their god is just as fucking depraved as they are.",
">\n\ntHaTs jUsT tHe oLd tEsTaMeNt tHoUgh.\ngOds mOraLiTy dOeSnt cHanGe, hE jUsT dEaLs wItH hUmAns diFFeReNtlY nOw. \nYeah when someone deals with people differently than they did before we generally call that \"a change.\"",
">\n\nAnd he wasn’t trans??? Maybe it’s been priests all along that governors should be banning. When will they correct their mistake? /s",
">\n\nDoesn'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...",
">\n\nIt's surprising. Who prints out their own nudes?",
">\n\nLock him up and throw away the keys",
">\n\nDarn priests, at least those protestant ministers keep it in the family",
">\n\nNot surprised.",
">\n\nThree hail marys and all is forgiven. What a load of bs",
">\n\nJust one bad apple, I’m sure.",
">\n\nLeast paedophilic priest",
">\n\n…slideshow?",
">\n\nGod works in mysterious ways ya fuckin chomo. As a priest, he of all people should have seen this coming...",
">\n\nIn other news, water is wet",
">\n\nOnly five years...",
">\n\n”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.” \nಠ_ಠ",
">\n\nI don’t remember this plotline during Doubt…",
">\n\nWe keep letting them get away with it, so they keep doing it. More obvious news at 10.",
">\n\n& once they found him out he got made a cardinal",
">\n\nHe should've kept them in the garage with his Corvette",
">\n\n5 years? If nothing else, using PowerPoint should have been an aggravating factor.",
">\n\nAnd you thought looking at Bob's family vacation pics was a bad time",
">\n\nWhen 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.",
">\n\nHow is the Roman Catholic Church not closed down for enabling and protecting child abusers",
">\n\nAre 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.",
">\n\nIt'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.",
">\n\npapabile!",
">\n\nLeft nudes on a shared printer? Rookie mistake.",
">\n\nTeach your priests just enough tech to effectively turn themselves in.",
">\n\nIsn't it something how the church decided to investigate themselves again. Keep it in the family, guys.\nI 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.",
">\n\nIs 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:\n1 - 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\n2 - 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)\n3 - 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.\nTL;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.",
">\n\nLet me guess.\nMoved to a different church at the other side of the country and that’s about it for consequences?",
">\n\nThose damned drag queens strike again.",
">\n\nI mean that’s kinda how they caught BTK",
">\n\nSo priests are still abusing kids after we didn't do anything to them the last few times we caught them? Color me surprised.",
">\n\n\nCourt 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.\"\n\n...\n\nDuring 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. \n\n...\n\nAnd 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. \n\nFuck everyone that allowed this scum to continue in a position of authority.",
">\n\nDon’t hear this happening at drag shows…j/s",
">\n\nHe put the PDF in pedofile",
">\n\nThis is Fucking ridiculous",
">\n\nNever forget who the actual groomers are",
">\n\nThe proud boys will be outside of churches \"protesting\" with guns now, right? right?",
">\n\nA priest being pedophile? But that is absolutely unheard of, say it isn't so!",
">\n\nYou sure this wasn't at a Trans drag show? GOP is sure this happens at Trans dragsl shows",
">\n\nExcommunicated by PowerPoint",
">\n\n5 years and a fine? FFS, that’s ridiculous.",
">\n\nPraise Jesus!",
">\n\nAnd the right thinks kids going to drag shows are the problem",
">\n\nAverage christian.",
">\n\nbut the drag queens are reading books to children in libraries! The madnessss",
">\n\nSo they moved him to a new church. This is what they have always done.",
">\n\nleast pedophilic priest:",
">\n\nThe dead ones dont hurt anyone.",
">\n\ninto the furnace he goes. theres no rehabbing people like this.",
">\n\nIt's always the ones you least expect..",
">\n\nOr in this case, the ones you MOST suspect",
">\n\nlol ya, I said that with sarcasm..",
">\n\nPray that he gets nut cancer.",
">\n\nNut cancer was once described to me as \"the common cold of cancers\". It has something like a 95% survival rate.\nHe deserves worse.",
">\n\nDidn't know that. Good nut fact for the day.",
">\n\nIt's definitely the drag queens reading to kids in libraries that's the problem.",
">\n\nRight wingers want him to be a closeted drag queen so badly",
">\n\nI could never trust any man who goes into priesthood. Completely unnatural and deviant occupation rife with pedophiles.",
">\n\nThis MONSTER got 5 years?! \nThe CHILDREN being abused in the images will suffer for the rest of their lives!!\nI'm in favor of LIFE SENTENCES for child sex offenders. \nOr better yet, the DEATH PENALTY!!",
">\n\nReligion was invented by Man for Control of the Flock.You go to Confession and tell the priest everything so they can determine how to undress you.\nI was once a Catholic.....born, baptised, confirmed and educated in a Grammar school run by Irish Christian Brothers under the Order of Edmund Ignatius Rice......and now I'm an atheist.",
">\n\nHow come it is always ‘Christians’ who are involved in child sex abuse?",
">\n\nOf course he's a pedo, he's a priest!",
">\n\nYes millions of idiots keep donating billions to the church",
">\n\nNot simply donating, they bring their children along, indoctrinate them that the priest is the speaker of God, and that God can do no wrong, so anything the priest dose is holy and good. The priest even says so!\nAnd when the kids bring it up the first few times weird things happen? The parents tell them to shush. And so, the sacrifices continue, the parents make a show of not knowing, and things get worse for the children.\nAnd if the priest is reported, the church just moves them to a different parish.\nThe only difference between the taliban and the catholic church, is one of them advertises the child slaves as a benefit, while the other pretends it's not (but totally encourages it, top to bottom).",
">\n\nAnd who are the groomers again?",
">\n\nThis is what happens when you don’t recycle your printer papers.",
">\n\nI feel like this isn't oniony enough, everyone knows by now that priests are significantly more likely to be pedophiles than the general population.",
">\n\nSure, but “gets caught by leaving nudes on a printer” is a fairly onion-y end.",
">\n\nYa know you're right",
">\n\nI have a theory about the correlation between priests and pedophiles. This is my opinion based on conversations with a childhood friend (not a pedo) and is only my opinion but could explain why so many priests abuse children. Get your down votes ready. \nThese boys grow up in the church and it is all they know for the most part. When going through puberty we become attracted to a gender (male or female gay or straight sometimes somewhere in between) and more often a \"type\" as well (blonde brunette short tall etc). Our hormones drive us to seek companionship, intimacy, and ultimately procreation. \nThese boys growing up never develop this attraction to their peers but rather feel more comfortable around younger children and usually behave as mentors. The combination of love of church and disinterest in peers puts the thought in their heads that priesthood is their calling. It takes a long time and effort to become a priest. There are easier paths if a guy just wants to bang kids.\nPut together lack of sex or release of biological needs with access and constant contact with children and they are basically pushed over the edge.\nTo sum up, pedophiles don't become priests to molest children, they become priests because they don't realize they are pedophiles. This is just my opinion, and obviously there are also exceptions to this.\nPerhaps the solution is to get rid of this nonsense celibacy.",
">\n\nAlternative theory: pedophiles become priests because they know the Catholic Church will support and hide them from accountability. Plus, all those altar boys have been easy pickings for decades. \nOn the positive side, Catholic Churches are closing all over Missouri because of dwindling congregations.",
">\n\nThis is one crime I’ll never be able to fathom.",
">\n\nSo fucking sick advocating for this monster so he can maintain freedom?",
">\n\nThe church has been so infiltrated by Child abusers that they are currently rating worse than Satan Worshippers",
">\n\nCan we just fuck churches off now???",
">\n\nYour tithing had to go somewhere.",
">\n\nHow come republicans are not calling these people groomers?",
">\n\nIs anyone else picturing the scene in the first Scary Movie where the cop asks Anna Faris to look at some pictures?\nPriest hands out the pictures of himself along with the weekly pamphlet. Maybe the first reading is from the Song of Solomon...",
">\n\nOh shit. \nHas he been quietly shuffled to a new church yet?",
">\n\nI'm old enough that when I see \"slideshow\" I think of him arranging physical slides in a carousel to project on a screen, like the family trip to Disneyland. Maybe invite the neighbors over for cake.",
">\n\nLord above why is this a thing",
">\n\nYou mean not a drag queen?",
">\n\nActual groomers.",
">\n\nJust think the hands that wanked to kiddie pr0n put wafers on the tongues of everyone in that congregation...",
">\n\nLMAO. This slightly ambiguous headline had me thinking “who attended these slideshow presentations?”",
">\n\nOh look another pedophile catholic priest. Good job reinforcing that stereotype.",
">\n\nAnd we should take guidance from those who hide these atrocities so we can live a better life in the eyes of god.",
">\n\nFriendly reminder religion is a mistake that deserves to be taxed. If you threatened to tax zealots tomorrow child molestation by priests would drop to zero",
">\n\nmay your mother smile as you burn",
">\n\nThis is what happens when you have unchecked power for thousands of years.\nHorrifying.",
">\n\nDid he learn this behavior from a drag show? /s",
">\n\nReminds me of something Chris Rock said: \"Where do women find the porn? They don't find it in your hiding place, they find it in the VCR\"",
">\n\nHe was also probably saving up for a trip to Disney World.",
">\n\n\nincluding child pornography and images of child erotica.\n\nI want to know the difference but don't want to get on a watchlist by googling it.",
">\n\nWithout the word child there, there's a difference in degree. I'd say it's the same thing with that word in there just describing the subject depicted. Pornography is generally actual sex acts of some form or another. Erotica falls short of that, it may be arousing or suggestive. For example, a cabaret show may be erotica but it's certainly not pornography.",
">\n\nPriest? Church? Man in a tax evasion party house?",
">\n\nYet the church immediately moved him somewhere else as there was a daycare next door to the church, then offered to pay to have the priest under house arrest so that the child predator won't go to jail.",
">\n\nShittiest Ted Talk I’ve ever seen, honestly…",
">\n\nOnly five years?! \nUgh!",
">\n\nAnd they call LGBT+ people groomers. (eyeroll)",
">\n\nAnyone who has ever been to a church sadly knows this doesn't need to be in this sub for us to know it's a real story.",
">\n\nOh how nice. The Reverend pleaded for him not to be incarcerated. Because of fucking course he did.",
">\n\nCurious as to who he was presenting this to",
">\n\nPunish these assholes they are smearing God's name",
">\n\nStraight to (checks notes) your next parish!",
">\n\nreligion and sexual abuse. name a more iconic duo\nwhy are any of these religions even allowed to exist any more\nthey have long since lost their meanings, and onlt serve to syphon money out of gullible people, and abuse their children\nwhat is any of these religions actually adding to society any more? other than more perverted monsters",
">\n\nHe’s not the only one",
">\n\nWhy is no big tv news channel talking about this?",
">\n\nAsked that he not go to prison & that his congregation pay to house him? Fuck the church. That's almost the most disgusting part of this",
">\n\nSo are we talking a pptx or an old-school film Rolodex version? Both are messed up, but one takes A LOT more effort.",
">\n\nThe catholic church is of Satan.",
">\n\nFaith is of \"Satan.\" The idea that assuming you might be wrong is morally wrong produces some of the worst people imaginable. And that applies to secular ideologies that require looking down on those who disagree or are unsure too.",
">\n\nAge of priest over/under 50\nWhat yall got?\nI have the over.",
">\n\nOnly 5 years?",
">\n\nRight for some reason i read it as slide show meaning projectors haha. I forgot Powerpoint presentations are a thing.",
">\n\nThe congregation still requested he be spared incarceration and remain in their facility. Truly unbelievable.",
">\n\nThose damn drag queens framed him",
">\n\nThey really put a lot of effort into not saying that he was catholic in that article.",
">\n\nWonder what congregation hes been moved to now?",
">\n\nAny outrage from republicans? Will they arm themselves and storm the churches?....... Didn't think so.",
">\n\nA Christian pedophile? Who could have guessed?",
">\n\nIm shocked! Shocked I say!\nWell... not that shocked.",
">\n\nI appreciate that the church cooperated and turned him in. However, the fact they wanted to pay to house him, out of the parish coffers, is insane. He deserves incarceration and certainly not a retirement paid for by parishioners of the church he victimized. Smh, a great step for the church, if only as a PR exercise, would be to strongly condemn this sort of behavior AND strongly punish it. Defrock and excommunicate any priest who does this. It’s a very easy choice that frankly could help reinstill a little confidence in the church.",
">\n\nOFF WITH HIS GOD DAMNED FUCKING HEAD",
">\n\nWhy so quick and painless?",
">\n\nYou know you’re actually right.. OFF WITH HIS GOD DAMNED FUCKING HEAD WITH A RUSTY PAPERCLIP",
">\n\nRight to jail",
">\n\nToday on why religious institutions should be abolished",
">\n\nAnd the right won't say a thing about this man.",
">\n\nHow Catholics still a thing ?",
">\n\nAnd the Church will cover it up or just say they are very sorry 🤬",
">\n\nThe provincial says everything right…he doesn’t excuse the guy, doesn’t obfuscate what he did or what it’s gravely evil…right up until he asks for house arrest. Fuck that. Whatever the harshest penalty allowed is, do that.",
">\n\nSo just regular church stuff really",
">\n\nChurch is a haven for predators!!!",
">\n\nI used to be Catholic, but stories like this make me hate the church more every day.",
">\n\nCan we just end this disgusting church already? Can you imagine ONE Walmart manager raping children? Now try to imagine MORE THAN THREE THOUSAND Walmart managers raping children. \nStill gonna shop at Walmart?",
">\n\nBut somehow these religious psychos get away with this and convince their followers to kill LGBTQ+ people. Fuck religion, fuck all churches, we need it out of our society.",
">\n\nExcommunicate from the order and earth.",
">\n\nOnly 5 years is the wild part to me.",
">\n\nHow have we not outlawed and burned down the obvious pedophile cult? \nIf there’s no such thing as a good cop, there’s no such thing as a good priest.",
">\n\nHead first into a wood chipper…no amnesty for pedophiles!",
">\n\nBe a shame if he stopped breathing and any and everybody associated with leadership stopped breathing also!!!",
">\n\nThis kind of shit is why atheism sucks, this fuckers evil soul needs a little eternal torture. Yes yes, I know we're only incredibly flawed hairless apes a couple of toes out of the jungle but fuck man this guy sucks.",
">\n\nA priest has made a move to a new parish so that he may focus on bringing the gospel to a new group! The church is excited to help him accel and even provided the funds to move him across the country. Though he'll be in a new town where no one knows him, the church as said they're sure he'll fir in quickly! \nOr something like that."
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"Slideshows????? What?\nMy man just opened up cp.ppt and added a few THOUSAND slides of kiddy porn????\nClippy: it looks like youre a depraved predator. Do you want to profane the church as well?",
">\n\nWell I always did believe Power Point was a creation of a malevolent entity.",
">\n\nTuring complete, no less!",
">\n\nBut can it run Doom?",
">\n\nAnything can run doom",
">\n\nBut can Doom run Doom?",
">\n\nDoom can run Doom because Doom runs Doom when Doom runs.",
">\n\nPeople don't run Doom like it is, but it Doom.",
">\n\nGonna take this moment to highly recommend the film Spotlight to any who haven’t seen it",
">\n\nCheck out the 2017 limited series on either Netflix or Prime: \"The Keepers\" about a Baltimore-area Catholic girls' school. Based on the experiences as told by some of the girls, now middle-aged women. It is NOT nice, will make you cry, will enrage you. But I commend the women who made this documentary for as painful as it was for the audience to watch, I can't imagine how they made it thru. And they brought it around to a decent ending, but wow....I think some of what happened in Baltimore bled over into the Spotlight story.\nLapsed Catholic. I cannot reconcile with the Church hierarchy over this because they have behaved satanically for far too long to make me believe they are holy in any way.",
">\n\nThere was a documentary that came out a year or two ago tbzg sounds similar but men who were molested as kids while in the church. \nI honestly don't know how anyone can still support the church. At all. If it was one priest, sure. It's sad it happened, but pedophiles will always exist and find ways to get to kids.\nBut with how often it happens and with how little the church cares? Nope. I never could be catholic even if I was Christian.",
">\n\nBecause saving souls bringing them into their cult is more valuable than the ones they crush. The Vatican last I heard had 7 pedos protecting by not complying with extradition requests. \nAny organization not willing to comply with the laws of the country where they have a tax exempt status should lose their exemption and title to any property they own. If you RICO cartel and mafia assets, then you can do so for these child abusers and their protective association. \nYou know the church owns most of Manhattan and isn't paying taxes? All that money and we have to tolerate this shit? Nah fuck them.",
">\n\nNude pix on the church printer . . . I can imagine the scene.\nSister Mary Michael: Yo, does anyone recognize this tallywhacker?\nFormer Alter Boy Brian: Yeah, that's Father Jim. I'd know that hairy mole anywhere.",
">\n\nThat's Tommy Turner's tallywhacker",
">\n\nIf Reddit still gave free awards, I'd give one to you for catching the reference.",
">\n\nWAIT when did they get rid of the free awards",
">\n\nguess this is how i found out. last i claimed mine is around last week, i think. i only claim once every two weeks to gild certain biweekly thread lul",
">\n\nAnd yet where are all the \"anti-groomers\" protesting these churches?",
">\n\nIt’s almost like it has never actually been about protecting children, and it’s always been about trying to demonize LGBT people",
">\n\nAt this point I am positive the religious right to life thing is about having more targets.",
">\n\nGlad 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?",
">\n\nAfter 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.",
">\n\nI 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.\nThere are also many who truly believe the schtick and just compartmentalize the bad stuff. Both are to blame regardless. Nobody gets a pass.",
">\n\nI could see that with some of the smaller denominations for sure.\nWhen 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.",
">\n\n*making another streak to the tally list wall\n*camera panning out to reveal a huge fucking wall coveres in streaks",
">\n\nMan 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.\nThat said. This man should burn for this",
">\n\nPriest? Pedo? Are you sure? This is unprecedented",
">\n\nCorrection! PedoPreist",
">\n\nNew name not necessary. If anything there should be a name for the unique priests that arent pedos.",
">\n\nI'm inclined to think the majority of priests aren't child predators themselves.\nThe 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.\nWay, way too many of them are pedo-enablers. All the way up...",
">\n\nThen that would mean that... Gasp\nSouth Park was right all along....\nSneaky little bastards didn't think I would notice....",
">\n\nWish I was surprised",
">\n\nYou make slideshows of images? \nEdit: \nOh wait I see what you mean. Yeah the pedophile priest thing is so expected that only the slideshow bit stood out",
">\n\nHoly hell. Priest have normalized pedophilia.",
">\n\nNot just priests. Protestant Christians have a major problem with sexual abuse too, particularly against children.\nAfter Major Investigation, Southern Baptists Confront the Abuse Crisis They Knew Was Coming\nDon't let the Evangelical pedo defenders get away with claiming that Catholicism is the only issue here. It isn't.",
">\n\n\nnone of them are immune to the depravity.\n\nAlmost implied, really.",
">\n\nCould 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?",
">\n\nA variety of factors:\n\nUnquestioned moral authority and intense trust from a large community who have all been taught to obey church authorities\nSupport from a massive extremely powerful institution that has covered up thousands of similar crimes\nStrictly forbidden to marry, have sex, or iirc even masturbate, making them view all sexual activities as similarly taboo for them\nEasy regular access to many children\nEasy ability to get alone time with children\nPriests are only held institutionally accountable to each other and to those with more authority in the church\nVictims 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\nChildren 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\nThe 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\nThe 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\n\nThat'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.”\nP.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.\nWant 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.\nEdit to add this excellent way to protect kids that churches consistently fight against:\n\n“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.\nchildren 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.”",
">\n\nSo this should be buried enough if I speak in general terms.\nYears back one of our pastors had to give up being a pastor. They didn't get into details of what he did but they did stress that kids were not involved. The whole church could be seen relaxing.",
">\n\n5 years for thousands of child porn images and videos? Seems pretty fucking light to me. This piece of shit should die in prison.",
">\n\n5 years and a ticket to heaven",
">\n\nHeaven? For him?",
">\n\nThat'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.",
">\n\nDon't you also have to be truly repentant for your sins, including making a good faith effort to keep from repeating them?",
">\n\nI would love for someone to answer this because I really want to know, too.",
">\n\nyes I'm pretty sure that's it. God sees people's hearts He should know the diff between true repentance and fake one",
">\n\nYes, assuming an all-powerful God existed, he’d be able to pretty easily know if you were truly sorry.",
">\n\nYeah but......... \nI'm just starting the religious apologist's sentence for them.",
">\n\nFor 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.",
">\n\nOne 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.",
">\n\nOnce I heard this theory, the acceptance by conservatives of people whose behavior is in direct conflict with their moral beliefs, made more sense.",
">\n\n5 holly maries and transfer\nafter 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.\nRev. 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.\"\nMcDevitt asked the presiding judge for \"mercy for Jim,\" and even offered for the congregation to pay to house him in lieu of imprisonment.\n\"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.\"\n\"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.\"",
">\n\nIn Australia at the moment there is a furore after the death of Cardinal George Pell who was convicted (then exonerated) of personally abusing children, but was found by a Royal Commission (that would be a special prosecutor for our American friends?) of enabling and protecting paedophile priests for decades.\nCan honestly say I have not been able to listen to the string of \"Christians\" praising this man in our media for the last few days without wanting to puke. Suffer the little children.",
">\n\nWith you there. At least there’s a lot of people calling his supporters out on this. Fuck Tony Abbott, John Howard and Andrew Bolt to name a few.",
">\n\nI 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!",
">\n\nr/PastorArrested (also includes Priests)",
">\n\nDon'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.",
">\n\nIf there is a god, wtf?",
">\n\nThere is no God. Religion is about control and money",
">\n\nAnd more money",
">\n\n\"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.\" \n- Rev. Patrick McDevitt, provincial superior for the Congregation of the Western Province \n\nEvery single member of that congregation is a horrible piece of shit",
">\n\nWhat 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?",
">\n\n“Drag queens are grooming our youth!!!”",
">\n\n\"I think we all know where people put on dresses and fuck kids\"\n-Trixie Mattel, 2022",
">\n\nKid “Bless me Father, for I have sinned”\nPadre “ call me, maybe?”",
">\n\nImagine my shock to discover that a priest has been involved in a sex scandal and one involving the exploitation of children, at that.",
">\n\nGOP: \"But wuttabout drag queens?!?!?!??!\"",
">\n\nDoing the Lords work 🙏🏾",
">\n\nTax-free",
">\n\nWhat's the deal with priests being so into pedophilia? Can't they look at milf pounds like normal people?",
">\n\nOh look... Another priest with child porn ... When do we get to start taxing the church?",
">\n\nr/pastorarrested",
">\n\nChurch is a scary place, especially for children.",
">\n\nI 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.",
">\n\nOnly 5 years. What a joke.",
">\n\n\nThe 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.\n\nIf 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.",
">\n\nNo one is suprised a priest is a pedophile. \nBut printing out yer nudes? That's odd.",
">\n\nI can think of a reason he printed it out. And I really don't like that reason.",
">\n\nI'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.",
">\n\nThe sheer audacity to do it at church where you work",
">\n\nAnd not a drag queen in sight...",
">\n\nThey do kinda wear dresses, though",
">\n\nToo many “coincidences” within this church to be anything other than systematic",
">\n\nPretty 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.",
">\n\n\nThe data often suggests numbers of pedophiles similar to the general population\n\none 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",
">\n\nYeah, 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.",
">\n\nI 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.",
">\n\nIt's so common for priests to be sickos",
">\n\nGross",
">\n\nAll he needs to do is repent, right?!?",
">\n\nA priest? With kiddie porn? I’ve never heard of such a thing!",
">\n\nRemember 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.",
">\n\n5 years that's all he got",
">\n\nThat's fucking disgusting. Misappropriation of office materials.",
">\n\nIt 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",
">\n\nIdiot 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.",
">\n\nso 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.",
">\n\nI 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 🤷♂️",
">\n\n5 years isnt nearly enough. Lock him up forever and a day.",
">\n\n~~Drag shows~~ Churches are not safe for children",
">\n\nI'm sure the religious Right will be out protesting him any second.\nRight? Right guys? Groomers and all this? Qanons? Where you guys at?\nHuh. Weird.",
">\n\nBut the dragqueens guys?!?!?!??!? /s",
">\n\nWeird that so many god loving people are actually just pedophiles. Wonder what they think god thinks of them. Fuck theism.",
">\n\nTheir god tells them to take the young girls as spoils of war. Their god is just as fucking depraved as they are.",
">\n\ntHaTs jUsT tHe oLd tEsTaMeNt tHoUgh.\ngOds mOraLiTy dOeSnt cHanGe, hE jUsT dEaLs wItH hUmAns diFFeReNtlY nOw. \nYeah when someone deals with people differently than they did before we generally call that \"a change.\"",
">\n\nAnd he wasn’t trans??? Maybe it’s been priests all along that governors should be banning. When will they correct their mistake? /s",
">\n\nDoesn'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...",
">\n\nIt's surprising. Who prints out their own nudes?",
">\n\nLock him up and throw away the keys",
">\n\nDarn priests, at least those protestant ministers keep it in the family",
">\n\nNot surprised.",
">\n\nThree hail marys and all is forgiven. What a load of bs",
">\n\nJust one bad apple, I’m sure.",
">\n\nLeast paedophilic priest",
">\n\n…slideshow?",
">\n\nGod works in mysterious ways ya fuckin chomo. As a priest, he of all people should have seen this coming...",
">\n\nIn other news, water is wet",
">\n\nOnly five years...",
">\n\n”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.” \nಠ_ಠ",
">\n\nI don’t remember this plotline during Doubt…",
">\n\nWe keep letting them get away with it, so they keep doing it. More obvious news at 10.",
">\n\n& once they found him out he got made a cardinal",
">\n\nHe should've kept them in the garage with his Corvette",
">\n\n5 years? If nothing else, using PowerPoint should have been an aggravating factor.",
">\n\nAnd you thought looking at Bob's family vacation pics was a bad time",
">\n\nWhen 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.",
">\n\nHow is the Roman Catholic Church not closed down for enabling and protecting child abusers",
">\n\nAre 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.",
">\n\nIt'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.",
">\n\npapabile!",
">\n\nLeft nudes on a shared printer? Rookie mistake.",
">\n\nTeach your priests just enough tech to effectively turn themselves in.",
">\n\nIsn't it something how the church decided to investigate themselves again. Keep it in the family, guys.\nI 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.",
">\n\nIs 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:\n1 - 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\n2 - 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)\n3 - 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.\nTL;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.",
">\n\nLet me guess.\nMoved to a different church at the other side of the country and that’s about it for consequences?",
">\n\nThose damned drag queens strike again.",
">\n\nI mean that’s kinda how they caught BTK",
">\n\nSo priests are still abusing kids after we didn't do anything to them the last few times we caught them? Color me surprised.",
">\n\n\nCourt 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.\"\n\n...\n\nDuring 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. \n\n...\n\nAnd 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. \n\nFuck everyone that allowed this scum to continue in a position of authority.",
">\n\nDon’t hear this happening at drag shows…j/s",
">\n\nHe put the PDF in pedofile",
">\n\nThis is Fucking ridiculous",
">\n\nNever forget who the actual groomers are",
">\n\nThe proud boys will be outside of churches \"protesting\" with guns now, right? right?",
">\n\nA priest being pedophile? But that is absolutely unheard of, say it isn't so!",
">\n\nYou sure this wasn't at a Trans drag show? GOP is sure this happens at Trans dragsl shows",
">\n\nExcommunicated by PowerPoint",
">\n\n5 years and a fine? FFS, that’s ridiculous.",
">\n\nPraise Jesus!",
">\n\nAnd the right thinks kids going to drag shows are the problem",
">\n\nAverage christian.",
">\n\nbut the drag queens are reading books to children in libraries! The madnessss",
">\n\nSo they moved him to a new church. This is what they have always done.",
">\n\nleast pedophilic priest:",
">\n\nThe dead ones dont hurt anyone.",
">\n\ninto the furnace he goes. theres no rehabbing people like this.",
">\n\nIt's always the ones you least expect..",
">\n\nOr in this case, the ones you MOST suspect",
">\n\nlol ya, I said that with sarcasm..",
">\n\nPray that he gets nut cancer.",
">\n\nNut cancer was once described to me as \"the common cold of cancers\". It has something like a 95% survival rate.\nHe deserves worse.",
">\n\nDidn't know that. Good nut fact for the day.",
">\n\nIt's definitely the drag queens reading to kids in libraries that's the problem.",
">\n\nRight wingers want him to be a closeted drag queen so badly",
">\n\nI could never trust any man who goes into priesthood. Completely unnatural and deviant occupation rife with pedophiles.",
">\n\nThis MONSTER got 5 years?! \nThe CHILDREN being abused in the images will suffer for the rest of their lives!!\nI'm in favor of LIFE SENTENCES for child sex offenders. \nOr better yet, the DEATH PENALTY!!",
">\n\nReligion was invented by Man for Control of the Flock.You go to Confession and tell the priest everything so they can determine how to undress you.\nI was once a Catholic.....born, baptised, confirmed and educated in a Grammar school run by Irish Christian Brothers under the Order of Edmund Ignatius Rice......and now I'm an atheist.",
">\n\nHow come it is always ‘Christians’ who are involved in child sex abuse?",
">\n\nOf course he's a pedo, he's a priest!",
">\n\nYes millions of idiots keep donating billions to the church",
">\n\nNot simply donating, they bring their children along, indoctrinate them that the priest is the speaker of God, and that God can do no wrong, so anything the priest dose is holy and good. The priest even says so!\nAnd when the kids bring it up the first few times weird things happen? The parents tell them to shush. And so, the sacrifices continue, the parents make a show of not knowing, and things get worse for the children.\nAnd if the priest is reported, the church just moves them to a different parish.\nThe only difference between the taliban and the catholic church, is one of them advertises the child slaves as a benefit, while the other pretends it's not (but totally encourages it, top to bottom).",
">\n\nAnd who are the groomers again?",
">\n\nThis is what happens when you don’t recycle your printer papers.",
">\n\nI feel like this isn't oniony enough, everyone knows by now that priests are significantly more likely to be pedophiles than the general population.",
">\n\nSure, but “gets caught by leaving nudes on a printer” is a fairly onion-y end.",
">\n\nYa know you're right",
">\n\nI have a theory about the correlation between priests and pedophiles. This is my opinion based on conversations with a childhood friend (not a pedo) and is only my opinion but could explain why so many priests abuse children. Get your down votes ready. \nThese boys grow up in the church and it is all they know for the most part. When going through puberty we become attracted to a gender (male or female gay or straight sometimes somewhere in between) and more often a \"type\" as well (blonde brunette short tall etc). Our hormones drive us to seek companionship, intimacy, and ultimately procreation. \nThese boys growing up never develop this attraction to their peers but rather feel more comfortable around younger children and usually behave as mentors. The combination of love of church and disinterest in peers puts the thought in their heads that priesthood is their calling. It takes a long time and effort to become a priest. There are easier paths if a guy just wants to bang kids.\nPut together lack of sex or release of biological needs with access and constant contact with children and they are basically pushed over the edge.\nTo sum up, pedophiles don't become priests to molest children, they become priests because they don't realize they are pedophiles. This is just my opinion, and obviously there are also exceptions to this.\nPerhaps the solution is to get rid of this nonsense celibacy.",
">\n\nAlternative theory: pedophiles become priests because they know the Catholic Church will support and hide them from accountability. Plus, all those altar boys have been easy pickings for decades. \nOn the positive side, Catholic Churches are closing all over Missouri because of dwindling congregations.",
">\n\nThis is one crime I’ll never be able to fathom.",
">\n\nSo fucking sick advocating for this monster so he can maintain freedom?",
">\n\nThe church has been so infiltrated by Child abusers that they are currently rating worse than Satan Worshippers",
">\n\nCan we just fuck churches off now???",
">\n\nYour tithing had to go somewhere.",
">\n\nHow come republicans are not calling these people groomers?",
">\n\nIs anyone else picturing the scene in the first Scary Movie where the cop asks Anna Faris to look at some pictures?\nPriest hands out the pictures of himself along with the weekly pamphlet. Maybe the first reading is from the Song of Solomon...",
">\n\nOh shit. \nHas he been quietly shuffled to a new church yet?",
">\n\nI'm old enough that when I see \"slideshow\" I think of him arranging physical slides in a carousel to project on a screen, like the family trip to Disneyland. Maybe invite the neighbors over for cake.",
">\n\nLord above why is this a thing",
">\n\nYou mean not a drag queen?",
">\n\nActual groomers.",
">\n\nJust think the hands that wanked to kiddie pr0n put wafers on the tongues of everyone in that congregation...",
">\n\nLMAO. This slightly ambiguous headline had me thinking “who attended these slideshow presentations?”",
">\n\nOh look another pedophile catholic priest. Good job reinforcing that stereotype.",
">\n\nAnd we should take guidance from those who hide these atrocities so we can live a better life in the eyes of god.",
">\n\nFriendly reminder religion is a mistake that deserves to be taxed. If you threatened to tax zealots tomorrow child molestation by priests would drop to zero",
">\n\nmay your mother smile as you burn",
">\n\nThis is what happens when you have unchecked power for thousands of years.\nHorrifying.",
">\n\nDid he learn this behavior from a drag show? /s",
">\n\nReminds me of something Chris Rock said: \"Where do women find the porn? They don't find it in your hiding place, they find it in the VCR\"",
">\n\nHe was also probably saving up for a trip to Disney World.",
">\n\n\nincluding child pornography and images of child erotica.\n\nI want to know the difference but don't want to get on a watchlist by googling it.",
">\n\nWithout the word child there, there's a difference in degree. I'd say it's the same thing with that word in there just describing the subject depicted. Pornography is generally actual sex acts of some form or another. Erotica falls short of that, it may be arousing or suggestive. For example, a cabaret show may be erotica but it's certainly not pornography.",
">\n\nPriest? Church? Man in a tax evasion party house?",
">\n\nYet the church immediately moved him somewhere else as there was a daycare next door to the church, then offered to pay to have the priest under house arrest so that the child predator won't go to jail.",
">\n\nShittiest Ted Talk I’ve ever seen, honestly…",
">\n\nOnly five years?! \nUgh!",
">\n\nAnd they call LGBT+ people groomers. (eyeroll)",
">\n\nAnyone who has ever been to a church sadly knows this doesn't need to be in this sub for us to know it's a real story.",
">\n\nOh how nice. The Reverend pleaded for him not to be incarcerated. Because of fucking course he did.",
">\n\nCurious as to who he was presenting this to",
">\n\nPunish these assholes they are smearing God's name",
">\n\nStraight to (checks notes) your next parish!",
">\n\nreligion and sexual abuse. name a more iconic duo\nwhy are any of these religions even allowed to exist any more\nthey have long since lost their meanings, and onlt serve to syphon money out of gullible people, and abuse their children\nwhat is any of these religions actually adding to society any more? other than more perverted monsters",
">\n\nHe’s not the only one",
">\n\nWhy is no big tv news channel talking about this?",
">\n\nAsked that he not go to prison & that his congregation pay to house him? Fuck the church. That's almost the most disgusting part of this",
">\n\nSo are we talking a pptx or an old-school film Rolodex version? Both are messed up, but one takes A LOT more effort.",
">\n\nThe catholic church is of Satan.",
">\n\nFaith is of \"Satan.\" The idea that assuming you might be wrong is morally wrong produces some of the worst people imaginable. And that applies to secular ideologies that require looking down on those who disagree or are unsure too.",
">\n\nAge of priest over/under 50\nWhat yall got?\nI have the over.",
">\n\nOnly 5 years?",
">\n\nRight for some reason i read it as slide show meaning projectors haha. I forgot Powerpoint presentations are a thing.",
">\n\nThe congregation still requested he be spared incarceration and remain in their facility. Truly unbelievable.",
">\n\nThose damn drag queens framed him",
">\n\nThey really put a lot of effort into not saying that he was catholic in that article.",
">\n\nWonder what congregation hes been moved to now?",
">\n\nAny outrage from republicans? Will they arm themselves and storm the churches?....... Didn't think so.",
">\n\nA Christian pedophile? Who could have guessed?",
">\n\nIm shocked! Shocked I say!\nWell... not that shocked.",
">\n\nI appreciate that the church cooperated and turned him in. However, the fact they wanted to pay to house him, out of the parish coffers, is insane. He deserves incarceration and certainly not a retirement paid for by parishioners of the church he victimized. Smh, a great step for the church, if only as a PR exercise, would be to strongly condemn this sort of behavior AND strongly punish it. Defrock and excommunicate any priest who does this. It’s a very easy choice that frankly could help reinstill a little confidence in the church.",
">\n\nOFF WITH HIS GOD DAMNED FUCKING HEAD",
">\n\nWhy so quick and painless?",
">\n\nYou know you’re actually right.. OFF WITH HIS GOD DAMNED FUCKING HEAD WITH A RUSTY PAPERCLIP",
">\n\nRight to jail",
">\n\nToday on why religious institutions should be abolished",
">\n\nAnd the right won't say a thing about this man.",
">\n\nHow Catholics still a thing ?",
">\n\nAnd the Church will cover it up or just say they are very sorry 🤬",
">\n\nThe provincial says everything right…he doesn’t excuse the guy, doesn’t obfuscate what he did or what it’s gravely evil…right up until he asks for house arrest. Fuck that. Whatever the harshest penalty allowed is, do that.",
">\n\nSo just regular church stuff really",
">\n\nChurch is a haven for predators!!!",
">\n\nI used to be Catholic, but stories like this make me hate the church more every day.",
">\n\nCan we just end this disgusting church already? Can you imagine ONE Walmart manager raping children? Now try to imagine MORE THAN THREE THOUSAND Walmart managers raping children. \nStill gonna shop at Walmart?",
">\n\nBut somehow these religious psychos get away with this and convince their followers to kill LGBTQ+ people. Fuck religion, fuck all churches, we need it out of our society.",
">\n\nExcommunicate from the order and earth.",
">\n\nOnly 5 years is the wild part to me.",
">\n\nHow have we not outlawed and burned down the obvious pedophile cult? \nIf there’s no such thing as a good cop, there’s no such thing as a good priest.",
">\n\nHead first into a wood chipper…no amnesty for pedophiles!",
">\n\nBe a shame if he stopped breathing and any and everybody associated with leadership stopped breathing also!!!",
">\n\nThis kind of shit is why atheism sucks, this fuckers evil soul needs a little eternal torture. Yes yes, I know we're only incredibly flawed hairless apes a couple of toes out of the jungle but fuck man this guy sucks.",
">\n\nA priest has made a move to a new parish so that he may focus on bringing the gospel to a new group! The church is excited to help him accel and even provided the funds to move him across the country. Though he'll be in a new town where no one knows him, the church as said they're sure he'll fir in quickly! \nOr something like that.",
">\n\nFive Years."
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"Slideshows????? What?\nMy man just opened up cp.ppt and added a few THOUSAND slides of kiddy porn????\nClippy: it looks like youre a depraved predator. Do you want to profane the church as well?",
">\n\nWell I always did believe Power Point was a creation of a malevolent entity.",
">\n\nTuring complete, no less!",
">\n\nBut can it run Doom?",
">\n\nAnything can run doom",
">\n\nBut can Doom run Doom?",
">\n\nDoom can run Doom because Doom runs Doom when Doom runs.",
">\n\nPeople don't run Doom like it is, but it Doom.",
">\n\nGonna take this moment to highly recommend the film Spotlight to any who haven’t seen it",
">\n\nCheck out the 2017 limited series on either Netflix or Prime: \"The Keepers\" about a Baltimore-area Catholic girls' school. Based on the experiences as told by some of the girls, now middle-aged women. It is NOT nice, will make you cry, will enrage you. But I commend the women who made this documentary for as painful as it was for the audience to watch, I can't imagine how they made it thru. And they brought it around to a decent ending, but wow....I think some of what happened in Baltimore bled over into the Spotlight story.\nLapsed Catholic. I cannot reconcile with the Church hierarchy over this because they have behaved satanically for far too long to make me believe they are holy in any way.",
">\n\nThere was a documentary that came out a year or two ago tbzg sounds similar but men who were molested as kids while in the church. \nI honestly don't know how anyone can still support the church. At all. If it was one priest, sure. It's sad it happened, but pedophiles will always exist and find ways to get to kids.\nBut with how often it happens and with how little the church cares? Nope. I never could be catholic even if I was Christian.",
">\n\nBecause saving souls bringing them into their cult is more valuable than the ones they crush. The Vatican last I heard had 7 pedos protecting by not complying with extradition requests. \nAny organization not willing to comply with the laws of the country where they have a tax exempt status should lose their exemption and title to any property they own. If you RICO cartel and mafia assets, then you can do so for these child abusers and their protective association. \nYou know the church owns most of Manhattan and isn't paying taxes? All that money and we have to tolerate this shit? Nah fuck them.",
">\n\nNude pix on the church printer . . . I can imagine the scene.\nSister Mary Michael: Yo, does anyone recognize this tallywhacker?\nFormer Alter Boy Brian: Yeah, that's Father Jim. I'd know that hairy mole anywhere.",
">\n\nThat's Tommy Turner's tallywhacker",
">\n\nIf Reddit still gave free awards, I'd give one to you for catching the reference.",
">\n\nWAIT when did they get rid of the free awards",
">\n\nguess this is how i found out. last i claimed mine is around last week, i think. i only claim once every two weeks to gild certain biweekly thread lul",
">\n\nAnd yet where are all the \"anti-groomers\" protesting these churches?",
">\n\nIt’s almost like it has never actually been about protecting children, and it’s always been about trying to demonize LGBT people",
">\n\nAt this point I am positive the religious right to life thing is about having more targets.",
">\n\nGlad 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?",
">\n\nAfter 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.",
">\n\nI 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.\nThere are also many who truly believe the schtick and just compartmentalize the bad stuff. Both are to blame regardless. Nobody gets a pass.",
">\n\nI could see that with some of the smaller denominations for sure.\nWhen 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.",
">\n\n*making another streak to the tally list wall\n*camera panning out to reveal a huge fucking wall coveres in streaks",
">\n\nMan 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.\nThat said. This man should burn for this",
">\n\nPriest? Pedo? Are you sure? This is unprecedented",
">\n\nCorrection! PedoPreist",
">\n\nNew name not necessary. If anything there should be a name for the unique priests that arent pedos.",
">\n\nI'm inclined to think the majority of priests aren't child predators themselves.\nThe 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.\nWay, way too many of them are pedo-enablers. All the way up...",
">\n\nThen that would mean that... Gasp\nSouth Park was right all along....\nSneaky little bastards didn't think I would notice....",
">\n\nWish I was surprised",
">\n\nYou make slideshows of images? \nEdit: \nOh wait I see what you mean. Yeah the pedophile priest thing is so expected that only the slideshow bit stood out",
">\n\nHoly hell. Priest have normalized pedophilia.",
">\n\nNot just priests. Protestant Christians have a major problem with sexual abuse too, particularly against children.\nAfter Major Investigation, Southern Baptists Confront the Abuse Crisis They Knew Was Coming\nDon't let the Evangelical pedo defenders get away with claiming that Catholicism is the only issue here. It isn't.",
">\n\n\nnone of them are immune to the depravity.\n\nAlmost implied, really.",
">\n\nCould 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?",
">\n\nA variety of factors:\n\nUnquestioned moral authority and intense trust from a large community who have all been taught to obey church authorities\nSupport from a massive extremely powerful institution that has covered up thousands of similar crimes\nStrictly forbidden to marry, have sex, or iirc even masturbate, making them view all sexual activities as similarly taboo for them\nEasy regular access to many children\nEasy ability to get alone time with children\nPriests are only held institutionally accountable to each other and to those with more authority in the church\nVictims 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\nChildren 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\nThe 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\nThe 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\n\nThat'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.”\nP.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.\nWant 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.\nEdit to add this excellent way to protect kids that churches consistently fight against:\n\n“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.\nchildren 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.”",
">\n\nSo this should be buried enough if I speak in general terms.\nYears back one of our pastors had to give up being a pastor. They didn't get into details of what he did but they did stress that kids were not involved. The whole church could be seen relaxing.",
">\n\n5 years for thousands of child porn images and videos? Seems pretty fucking light to me. This piece of shit should die in prison.",
">\n\n5 years and a ticket to heaven",
">\n\nHeaven? For him?",
">\n\nThat'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.",
">\n\nDon't you also have to be truly repentant for your sins, including making a good faith effort to keep from repeating them?",
">\n\nI would love for someone to answer this because I really want to know, too.",
">\n\nyes I'm pretty sure that's it. God sees people's hearts He should know the diff between true repentance and fake one",
">\n\nYes, assuming an all-powerful God existed, he’d be able to pretty easily know if you were truly sorry.",
">\n\nYeah but......... \nI'm just starting the religious apologist's sentence for them.",
">\n\nFor 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.",
">\n\nOne 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.",
">\n\nOnce I heard this theory, the acceptance by conservatives of people whose behavior is in direct conflict with their moral beliefs, made more sense.",
">\n\n5 holly maries and transfer\nafter 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.\nRev. 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.\"\nMcDevitt asked the presiding judge for \"mercy for Jim,\" and even offered for the congregation to pay to house him in lieu of imprisonment.\n\"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.\"\n\"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.\"",
">\n\nIn Australia at the moment there is a furore after the death of Cardinal George Pell who was convicted (then exonerated) of personally abusing children, but was found by a Royal Commission (that would be a special prosecutor for our American friends?) of enabling and protecting paedophile priests for decades.\nCan honestly say I have not been able to listen to the string of \"Christians\" praising this man in our media for the last few days without wanting to puke. Suffer the little children.",
">\n\nWith you there. At least there’s a lot of people calling his supporters out on this. Fuck Tony Abbott, John Howard and Andrew Bolt to name a few.",
">\n\nI 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!",
">\n\nr/PastorArrested (also includes Priests)",
">\n\nDon'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.",
">\n\nIf there is a god, wtf?",
">\n\nThere is no God. Religion is about control and money",
">\n\nAnd more money",
">\n\n\"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.\" \n- Rev. Patrick McDevitt, provincial superior for the Congregation of the Western Province \n\nEvery single member of that congregation is a horrible piece of shit",
">\n\nWhat 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?",
">\n\n“Drag queens are grooming our youth!!!”",
">\n\n\"I think we all know where people put on dresses and fuck kids\"\n-Trixie Mattel, 2022",
">\n\nKid “Bless me Father, for I have sinned”\nPadre “ call me, maybe?”",
">\n\nImagine my shock to discover that a priest has been involved in a sex scandal and one involving the exploitation of children, at that.",
">\n\nGOP: \"But wuttabout drag queens?!?!?!??!\"",
">\n\nDoing the Lords work 🙏🏾",
">\n\nTax-free",
">\n\nWhat's the deal with priests being so into pedophilia? Can't they look at milf pounds like normal people?",
">\n\nOh look... Another priest with child porn ... When do we get to start taxing the church?",
">\n\nr/pastorarrested",
">\n\nChurch is a scary place, especially for children.",
">\n\nI 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.",
">\n\nOnly 5 years. What a joke.",
">\n\n\nThe 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.\n\nIf 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.",
">\n\nNo one is suprised a priest is a pedophile. \nBut printing out yer nudes? That's odd.",
">\n\nI can think of a reason he printed it out. And I really don't like that reason.",
">\n\nI'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.",
">\n\nThe sheer audacity to do it at church where you work",
">\n\nAnd not a drag queen in sight...",
">\n\nThey do kinda wear dresses, though",
">\n\nToo many “coincidences” within this church to be anything other than systematic",
">\n\nPretty 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.",
">\n\n\nThe data often suggests numbers of pedophiles similar to the general population\n\none 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",
">\n\nYeah, 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.",
">\n\nI 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.",
">\n\nIt's so common for priests to be sickos",
">\n\nGross",
">\n\nAll he needs to do is repent, right?!?",
">\n\nA priest? With kiddie porn? I’ve never heard of such a thing!",
">\n\nRemember 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.",
">\n\n5 years that's all he got",
">\n\nThat's fucking disgusting. Misappropriation of office materials.",
">\n\nIt 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",
">\n\nIdiot 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.",
">\n\nso 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.",
">\n\nI 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 🤷♂️",
">\n\n5 years isnt nearly enough. Lock him up forever and a day.",
">\n\n~~Drag shows~~ Churches are not safe for children",
">\n\nI'm sure the religious Right will be out protesting him any second.\nRight? Right guys? Groomers and all this? Qanons? Where you guys at?\nHuh. Weird.",
">\n\nBut the dragqueens guys?!?!?!??!? /s",
">\n\nWeird that so many god loving people are actually just pedophiles. Wonder what they think god thinks of them. Fuck theism.",
">\n\nTheir god tells them to take the young girls as spoils of war. Their god is just as fucking depraved as they are.",
">\n\ntHaTs jUsT tHe oLd tEsTaMeNt tHoUgh.\ngOds mOraLiTy dOeSnt cHanGe, hE jUsT dEaLs wItH hUmAns diFFeReNtlY nOw. \nYeah when someone deals with people differently than they did before we generally call that \"a change.\"",
">\n\nAnd he wasn’t trans??? Maybe it’s been priests all along that governors should be banning. When will they correct their mistake? /s",
">\n\nDoesn'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...",
">\n\nIt's surprising. Who prints out their own nudes?",
">\n\nLock him up and throw away the keys",
">\n\nDarn priests, at least those protestant ministers keep it in the family",
">\n\nNot surprised.",
">\n\nThree hail marys and all is forgiven. What a load of bs",
">\n\nJust one bad apple, I’m sure.",
">\n\nLeast paedophilic priest",
">\n\n…slideshow?",
">\n\nGod works in mysterious ways ya fuckin chomo. As a priest, he of all people should have seen this coming...",
">\n\nIn other news, water is wet",
">\n\nOnly five years...",
">\n\n”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.” \nಠ_ಠ",
">\n\nI don’t remember this plotline during Doubt…",
">\n\nWe keep letting them get away with it, so they keep doing it. More obvious news at 10.",
">\n\n& once they found him out he got made a cardinal",
">\n\nHe should've kept them in the garage with his Corvette",
">\n\n5 years? If nothing else, using PowerPoint should have been an aggravating factor.",
">\n\nAnd you thought looking at Bob's family vacation pics was a bad time",
">\n\nWhen 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.",
">\n\nHow is the Roman Catholic Church not closed down for enabling and protecting child abusers",
">\n\nAre 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.",
">\n\nIt'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.",
">\n\npapabile!",
">\n\nLeft nudes on a shared printer? Rookie mistake.",
">\n\nTeach your priests just enough tech to effectively turn themselves in.",
">\n\nIsn't it something how the church decided to investigate themselves again. Keep it in the family, guys.\nI 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.",
">\n\nIs 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:\n1 - 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\n2 - 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)\n3 - 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.\nTL;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.",
">\n\nLet me guess.\nMoved to a different church at the other side of the country and that’s about it for consequences?",
">\n\nThose damned drag queens strike again.",
">\n\nI mean that’s kinda how they caught BTK",
">\n\nSo priests are still abusing kids after we didn't do anything to them the last few times we caught them? Color me surprised.",
">\n\n\nCourt 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.\"\n\n...\n\nDuring 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. \n\n...\n\nAnd 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. \n\nFuck everyone that allowed this scum to continue in a position of authority.",
">\n\nDon’t hear this happening at drag shows…j/s",
">\n\nHe put the PDF in pedofile",
">\n\nThis is Fucking ridiculous",
">\n\nNever forget who the actual groomers are",
">\n\nThe proud boys will be outside of churches \"protesting\" with guns now, right? right?",
">\n\nA priest being pedophile? But that is absolutely unheard of, say it isn't so!",
">\n\nYou sure this wasn't at a Trans drag show? GOP is sure this happens at Trans dragsl shows",
">\n\nExcommunicated by PowerPoint",
">\n\n5 years and a fine? FFS, that’s ridiculous.",
">\n\nPraise Jesus!",
">\n\nAnd the right thinks kids going to drag shows are the problem",
">\n\nAverage christian.",
">\n\nbut the drag queens are reading books to children in libraries! The madnessss",
">\n\nSo they moved him to a new church. This is what they have always done.",
">\n\nleast pedophilic priest:",
">\n\nThe dead ones dont hurt anyone.",
">\n\ninto the furnace he goes. theres no rehabbing people like this.",
">\n\nIt's always the ones you least expect..",
">\n\nOr in this case, the ones you MOST suspect",
">\n\nlol ya, I said that with sarcasm..",
">\n\nPray that he gets nut cancer.",
">\n\nNut cancer was once described to me as \"the common cold of cancers\". It has something like a 95% survival rate.\nHe deserves worse.",
">\n\nDidn't know that. Good nut fact for the day.",
">\n\nIt's definitely the drag queens reading to kids in libraries that's the problem.",
">\n\nRight wingers want him to be a closeted drag queen so badly",
">\n\nI could never trust any man who goes into priesthood. Completely unnatural and deviant occupation rife with pedophiles.",
">\n\nThis MONSTER got 5 years?! \nThe CHILDREN being abused in the images will suffer for the rest of their lives!!\nI'm in favor of LIFE SENTENCES for child sex offenders. \nOr better yet, the DEATH PENALTY!!",
">\n\nReligion was invented by Man for Control of the Flock.You go to Confession and tell the priest everything so they can determine how to undress you.\nI was once a Catholic.....born, baptised, confirmed and educated in a Grammar school run by Irish Christian Brothers under the Order of Edmund Ignatius Rice......and now I'm an atheist.",
">\n\nHow come it is always ‘Christians’ who are involved in child sex abuse?",
">\n\nOf course he's a pedo, he's a priest!",
">\n\nYes millions of idiots keep donating billions to the church",
">\n\nNot simply donating, they bring their children along, indoctrinate them that the priest is the speaker of God, and that God can do no wrong, so anything the priest dose is holy and good. The priest even says so!\nAnd when the kids bring it up the first few times weird things happen? The parents tell them to shush. And so, the sacrifices continue, the parents make a show of not knowing, and things get worse for the children.\nAnd if the priest is reported, the church just moves them to a different parish.\nThe only difference between the taliban and the catholic church, is one of them advertises the child slaves as a benefit, while the other pretends it's not (but totally encourages it, top to bottom).",
">\n\nAnd who are the groomers again?",
">\n\nThis is what happens when you don’t recycle your printer papers.",
">\n\nI feel like this isn't oniony enough, everyone knows by now that priests are significantly more likely to be pedophiles than the general population.",
">\n\nSure, but “gets caught by leaving nudes on a printer” is a fairly onion-y end.",
">\n\nYa know you're right",
">\n\nI have a theory about the correlation between priests and pedophiles. This is my opinion based on conversations with a childhood friend (not a pedo) and is only my opinion but could explain why so many priests abuse children. Get your down votes ready. \nThese boys grow up in the church and it is all they know for the most part. When going through puberty we become attracted to a gender (male or female gay or straight sometimes somewhere in between) and more often a \"type\" as well (blonde brunette short tall etc). Our hormones drive us to seek companionship, intimacy, and ultimately procreation. \nThese boys growing up never develop this attraction to their peers but rather feel more comfortable around younger children and usually behave as mentors. The combination of love of church and disinterest in peers puts the thought in their heads that priesthood is their calling. It takes a long time and effort to become a priest. There are easier paths if a guy just wants to bang kids.\nPut together lack of sex or release of biological needs with access and constant contact with children and they are basically pushed over the edge.\nTo sum up, pedophiles don't become priests to molest children, they become priests because they don't realize they are pedophiles. This is just my opinion, and obviously there are also exceptions to this.\nPerhaps the solution is to get rid of this nonsense celibacy.",
">\n\nAlternative theory: pedophiles become priests because they know the Catholic Church will support and hide them from accountability. Plus, all those altar boys have been easy pickings for decades. \nOn the positive side, Catholic Churches are closing all over Missouri because of dwindling congregations.",
">\n\nThis is one crime I’ll never be able to fathom.",
">\n\nSo fucking sick advocating for this monster so he can maintain freedom?",
">\n\nThe church has been so infiltrated by Child abusers that they are currently rating worse than Satan Worshippers",
">\n\nCan we just fuck churches off now???",
">\n\nYour tithing had to go somewhere.",
">\n\nHow come republicans are not calling these people groomers?",
">\n\nIs anyone else picturing the scene in the first Scary Movie where the cop asks Anna Faris to look at some pictures?\nPriest hands out the pictures of himself along with the weekly pamphlet. Maybe the first reading is from the Song of Solomon...",
">\n\nOh shit. \nHas he been quietly shuffled to a new church yet?",
">\n\nI'm old enough that when I see \"slideshow\" I think of him arranging physical slides in a carousel to project on a screen, like the family trip to Disneyland. Maybe invite the neighbors over for cake.",
">\n\nLord above why is this a thing",
">\n\nYou mean not a drag queen?",
">\n\nActual groomers.",
">\n\nJust think the hands that wanked to kiddie pr0n put wafers on the tongues of everyone in that congregation...",
">\n\nLMAO. This slightly ambiguous headline had me thinking “who attended these slideshow presentations?”",
">\n\nOh look another pedophile catholic priest. Good job reinforcing that stereotype.",
">\n\nAnd we should take guidance from those who hide these atrocities so we can live a better life in the eyes of god.",
">\n\nFriendly reminder religion is a mistake that deserves to be taxed. If you threatened to tax zealots tomorrow child molestation by priests would drop to zero",
">\n\nmay your mother smile as you burn",
">\n\nThis is what happens when you have unchecked power for thousands of years.\nHorrifying.",
">\n\nDid he learn this behavior from a drag show? /s",
">\n\nReminds me of something Chris Rock said: \"Where do women find the porn? They don't find it in your hiding place, they find it in the VCR\"",
">\n\nHe was also probably saving up for a trip to Disney World.",
">\n\n\nincluding child pornography and images of child erotica.\n\nI want to know the difference but don't want to get on a watchlist by googling it.",
">\n\nWithout the word child there, there's a difference in degree. I'd say it's the same thing with that word in there just describing the subject depicted. Pornography is generally actual sex acts of some form or another. Erotica falls short of that, it may be arousing or suggestive. For example, a cabaret show may be erotica but it's certainly not pornography.",
">\n\nPriest? Church? Man in a tax evasion party house?",
">\n\nYet the church immediately moved him somewhere else as there was a daycare next door to the church, then offered to pay to have the priest under house arrest so that the child predator won't go to jail.",
">\n\nShittiest Ted Talk I’ve ever seen, honestly…",
">\n\nOnly five years?! \nUgh!",
">\n\nAnd they call LGBT+ people groomers. (eyeroll)",
">\n\nAnyone who has ever been to a church sadly knows this doesn't need to be in this sub for us to know it's a real story.",
">\n\nOh how nice. The Reverend pleaded for him not to be incarcerated. Because of fucking course he did.",
">\n\nCurious as to who he was presenting this to",
">\n\nPunish these assholes they are smearing God's name",
">\n\nStraight to (checks notes) your next parish!",
">\n\nreligion and sexual abuse. name a more iconic duo\nwhy are any of these religions even allowed to exist any more\nthey have long since lost their meanings, and onlt serve to syphon money out of gullible people, and abuse their children\nwhat is any of these religions actually adding to society any more? other than more perverted monsters",
">\n\nHe’s not the only one",
">\n\nWhy is no big tv news channel talking about this?",
">\n\nAsked that he not go to prison & that his congregation pay to house him? Fuck the church. That's almost the most disgusting part of this",
">\n\nSo are we talking a pptx or an old-school film Rolodex version? Both are messed up, but one takes A LOT more effort.",
">\n\nThe catholic church is of Satan.",
">\n\nFaith is of \"Satan.\" The idea that assuming you might be wrong is morally wrong produces some of the worst people imaginable. And that applies to secular ideologies that require looking down on those who disagree or are unsure too.",
">\n\nAge of priest over/under 50\nWhat yall got?\nI have the over.",
">\n\nOnly 5 years?",
">\n\nRight for some reason i read it as slide show meaning projectors haha. I forgot Powerpoint presentations are a thing.",
">\n\nThe congregation still requested he be spared incarceration and remain in their facility. Truly unbelievable.",
">\n\nThose damn drag queens framed him",
">\n\nThey really put a lot of effort into not saying that he was catholic in that article.",
">\n\nWonder what congregation hes been moved to now?",
">\n\nAny outrage from republicans? Will they arm themselves and storm the churches?....... Didn't think so.",
">\n\nA Christian pedophile? Who could have guessed?",
">\n\nIm shocked! Shocked I say!\nWell... not that shocked.",
">\n\nI appreciate that the church cooperated and turned him in. However, the fact they wanted to pay to house him, out of the parish coffers, is insane. He deserves incarceration and certainly not a retirement paid for by parishioners of the church he victimized. Smh, a great step for the church, if only as a PR exercise, would be to strongly condemn this sort of behavior AND strongly punish it. Defrock and excommunicate any priest who does this. It’s a very easy choice that frankly could help reinstill a little confidence in the church.",
">\n\nOFF WITH HIS GOD DAMNED FUCKING HEAD",
">\n\nWhy so quick and painless?",
">\n\nYou know you’re actually right.. OFF WITH HIS GOD DAMNED FUCKING HEAD WITH A RUSTY PAPERCLIP",
">\n\nRight to jail",
">\n\nToday on why religious institutions should be abolished",
">\n\nAnd the right won't say a thing about this man.",
">\n\nHow Catholics still a thing ?",
">\n\nAnd the Church will cover it up or just say they are very sorry 🤬",
">\n\nThe provincial says everything right…he doesn’t excuse the guy, doesn’t obfuscate what he did or what it’s gravely evil…right up until he asks for house arrest. Fuck that. Whatever the harshest penalty allowed is, do that.",
">\n\nSo just regular church stuff really",
">\n\nChurch is a haven for predators!!!",
">\n\nI used to be Catholic, but stories like this make me hate the church more every day.",
">\n\nCan we just end this disgusting church already? Can you imagine ONE Walmart manager raping children? Now try to imagine MORE THAN THREE THOUSAND Walmart managers raping children. \nStill gonna shop at Walmart?",
">\n\nBut somehow these religious psychos get away with this and convince their followers to kill LGBTQ+ people. Fuck religion, fuck all churches, we need it out of our society.",
">\n\nExcommunicate from the order and earth.",
">\n\nOnly 5 years is the wild part to me.",
">\n\nHow have we not outlawed and burned down the obvious pedophile cult? \nIf there’s no such thing as a good cop, there’s no such thing as a good priest.",
">\n\nHead first into a wood chipper…no amnesty for pedophiles!",
">\n\nBe a shame if he stopped breathing and any and everybody associated with leadership stopped breathing also!!!",
">\n\nThis kind of shit is why atheism sucks, this fuckers evil soul needs a little eternal torture. Yes yes, I know we're only incredibly flawed hairless apes a couple of toes out of the jungle but fuck man this guy sucks.",
">\n\nA priest has made a move to a new parish so that he may focus on bringing the gospel to a new group! The church is excited to help him accel and even provided the funds to move him across the country. Though he'll be in a new town where no one knows him, the church as said they're sure he'll fir in quickly! \nOr something like that.",
">\n\nFive Years.",
">\n\ni’m shocked"
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"Slideshows????? What?\nMy man just opened up cp.ppt and added a few THOUSAND slides of kiddy porn????\nClippy: it looks like youre a depraved predator. Do you want to profane the church as well?",
">\n\nWell I always did believe Power Point was a creation of a malevolent entity.",
">\n\nTuring complete, no less!",
">\n\nBut can it run Doom?",
">\n\nAnything can run doom",
">\n\nBut can Doom run Doom?",
">\n\nDoom can run Doom because Doom runs Doom when Doom runs.",
">\n\nPeople don't run Doom like it is, but it Doom.",
">\n\nGonna take this moment to highly recommend the film Spotlight to any who haven’t seen it",
">\n\nCheck out the 2017 limited series on either Netflix or Prime: \"The Keepers\" about a Baltimore-area Catholic girls' school. Based on the experiences as told by some of the girls, now middle-aged women. It is NOT nice, will make you cry, will enrage you. But I commend the women who made this documentary for as painful as it was for the audience to watch, I can't imagine how they made it thru. And they brought it around to a decent ending, but wow....I think some of what happened in Baltimore bled over into the Spotlight story.\nLapsed Catholic. I cannot reconcile with the Church hierarchy over this because they have behaved satanically for far too long to make me believe they are holy in any way.",
">\n\nThere was a documentary that came out a year or two ago tbzg sounds similar but men who were molested as kids while in the church. \nI honestly don't know how anyone can still support the church. At all. If it was one priest, sure. It's sad it happened, but pedophiles will always exist and find ways to get to kids.\nBut with how often it happens and with how little the church cares? Nope. I never could be catholic even if I was Christian.",
">\n\nBecause saving souls bringing them into their cult is more valuable than the ones they crush. The Vatican last I heard had 7 pedos protecting by not complying with extradition requests. \nAny organization not willing to comply with the laws of the country where they have a tax exempt status should lose their exemption and title to any property they own. If you RICO cartel and mafia assets, then you can do so for these child abusers and their protective association. \nYou know the church owns most of Manhattan and isn't paying taxes? All that money and we have to tolerate this shit? Nah fuck them.",
">\n\nNude pix on the church printer . . . I can imagine the scene.\nSister Mary Michael: Yo, does anyone recognize this tallywhacker?\nFormer Alter Boy Brian: Yeah, that's Father Jim. I'd know that hairy mole anywhere.",
">\n\nThat's Tommy Turner's tallywhacker",
">\n\nIf Reddit still gave free awards, I'd give one to you for catching the reference.",
">\n\nWAIT when did they get rid of the free awards",
">\n\nguess this is how i found out. last i claimed mine is around last week, i think. i only claim once every two weeks to gild certain biweekly thread lul",
">\n\nAnd yet where are all the \"anti-groomers\" protesting these churches?",
">\n\nIt’s almost like it has never actually been about protecting children, and it’s always been about trying to demonize LGBT people",
">\n\nAt this point I am positive the religious right to life thing is about having more targets.",
">\n\nGlad 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?",
">\n\nAfter 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.",
">\n\nI 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.\nThere are also many who truly believe the schtick and just compartmentalize the bad stuff. Both are to blame regardless. Nobody gets a pass.",
">\n\nI could see that with some of the smaller denominations for sure.\nWhen 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.",
">\n\n*making another streak to the tally list wall\n*camera panning out to reveal a huge fucking wall coveres in streaks",
">\n\nMan 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.\nThat said. This man should burn for this",
">\n\nPriest? Pedo? Are you sure? This is unprecedented",
">\n\nCorrection! PedoPreist",
">\n\nNew name not necessary. If anything there should be a name for the unique priests that arent pedos.",
">\n\nI'm inclined to think the majority of priests aren't child predators themselves.\nThe 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.\nWay, way too many of them are pedo-enablers. All the way up...",
">\n\nThen that would mean that... Gasp\nSouth Park was right all along....\nSneaky little bastards didn't think I would notice....",
">\n\nWish I was surprised",
">\n\nYou make slideshows of images? \nEdit: \nOh wait I see what you mean. Yeah the pedophile priest thing is so expected that only the slideshow bit stood out",
">\n\nHoly hell. Priest have normalized pedophilia.",
">\n\nNot just priests. Protestant Christians have a major problem with sexual abuse too, particularly against children.\nAfter Major Investigation, Southern Baptists Confront the Abuse Crisis They Knew Was Coming\nDon't let the Evangelical pedo defenders get away with claiming that Catholicism is the only issue here. It isn't.",
">\n\n\nnone of them are immune to the depravity.\n\nAlmost implied, really.",
">\n\nCould 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?",
">\n\nA variety of factors:\n\nUnquestioned moral authority and intense trust from a large community who have all been taught to obey church authorities\nSupport from a massive extremely powerful institution that has covered up thousands of similar crimes\nStrictly forbidden to marry, have sex, or iirc even masturbate, making them view all sexual activities as similarly taboo for them\nEasy regular access to many children\nEasy ability to get alone time with children\nPriests are only held institutionally accountable to each other and to those with more authority in the church\nVictims 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\nChildren 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\nThe 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\nThe 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\n\nThat'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.”\nP.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.\nWant 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.\nEdit to add this excellent way to protect kids that churches consistently fight against:\n\n“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.\nchildren 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.”",
">\n\nSo this should be buried enough if I speak in general terms.\nYears back one of our pastors had to give up being a pastor. They didn't get into details of what he did but they did stress that kids were not involved. The whole church could be seen relaxing.",
">\n\n5 years for thousands of child porn images and videos? Seems pretty fucking light to me. This piece of shit should die in prison.",
">\n\n5 years and a ticket to heaven",
">\n\nHeaven? For him?",
">\n\nThat'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.",
">\n\nDon't you also have to be truly repentant for your sins, including making a good faith effort to keep from repeating them?",
">\n\nI would love for someone to answer this because I really want to know, too.",
">\n\nyes I'm pretty sure that's it. God sees people's hearts He should know the diff between true repentance and fake one",
">\n\nYes, assuming an all-powerful God existed, he’d be able to pretty easily know if you were truly sorry.",
">\n\nYeah but......... \nI'm just starting the religious apologist's sentence for them.",
">\n\nFor 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.",
">\n\nOne 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.",
">\n\nOnce I heard this theory, the acceptance by conservatives of people whose behavior is in direct conflict with their moral beliefs, made more sense.",
">\n\n5 holly maries and transfer\nafter 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.\nRev. 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.\"\nMcDevitt asked the presiding judge for \"mercy for Jim,\" and even offered for the congregation to pay to house him in lieu of imprisonment.\n\"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.\"\n\"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.\"",
">\n\nIn Australia at the moment there is a furore after the death of Cardinal George Pell who was convicted (then exonerated) of personally abusing children, but was found by a Royal Commission (that would be a special prosecutor for our American friends?) of enabling and protecting paedophile priests for decades.\nCan honestly say I have not been able to listen to the string of \"Christians\" praising this man in our media for the last few days without wanting to puke. Suffer the little children.",
">\n\nWith you there. At least there’s a lot of people calling his supporters out on this. Fuck Tony Abbott, John Howard and Andrew Bolt to name a few.",
">\n\nI 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!",
">\n\nr/PastorArrested (also includes Priests)",
">\n\nDon'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.",
">\n\nIf there is a god, wtf?",
">\n\nThere is no God. Religion is about control and money",
">\n\nAnd more money",
">\n\n\"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.\" \n- Rev. Patrick McDevitt, provincial superior for the Congregation of the Western Province \n\nEvery single member of that congregation is a horrible piece of shit",
">\n\nWhat 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?",
">\n\n“Drag queens are grooming our youth!!!”",
">\n\n\"I think we all know where people put on dresses and fuck kids\"\n-Trixie Mattel, 2022",
">\n\nKid “Bless me Father, for I have sinned”\nPadre “ call me, maybe?”",
">\n\nImagine my shock to discover that a priest has been involved in a sex scandal and one involving the exploitation of children, at that.",
">\n\nGOP: \"But wuttabout drag queens?!?!?!??!\"",
">\n\nDoing the Lords work 🙏🏾",
">\n\nTax-free",
">\n\nWhat's the deal with priests being so into pedophilia? Can't they look at milf pounds like normal people?",
">\n\nOh look... Another priest with child porn ... When do we get to start taxing the church?",
">\n\nr/pastorarrested",
">\n\nChurch is a scary place, especially for children.",
">\n\nI 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.",
">\n\nOnly 5 years. What a joke.",
">\n\n\nThe 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.\n\nIf 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.",
">\n\nNo one is suprised a priest is a pedophile. \nBut printing out yer nudes? That's odd.",
">\n\nI can think of a reason he printed it out. And I really don't like that reason.",
">\n\nI'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.",
">\n\nThe sheer audacity to do it at church where you work",
">\n\nAnd not a drag queen in sight...",
">\n\nThey do kinda wear dresses, though",
">\n\nToo many “coincidences” within this church to be anything other than systematic",
">\n\nPretty 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.",
">\n\n\nThe data often suggests numbers of pedophiles similar to the general population\n\none 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",
">\n\nYeah, 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.",
">\n\nI 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.",
">\n\nIt's so common for priests to be sickos",
">\n\nGross",
">\n\nAll he needs to do is repent, right?!?",
">\n\nA priest? With kiddie porn? I’ve never heard of such a thing!",
">\n\nRemember 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.",
">\n\n5 years that's all he got",
">\n\nThat's fucking disgusting. Misappropriation of office materials.",
">\n\nIt 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",
">\n\nIdiot 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.",
">\n\nso 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.",
">\n\nI 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 🤷♂️",
">\n\n5 years isnt nearly enough. Lock him up forever and a day.",
">\n\n~~Drag shows~~ Churches are not safe for children",
">\n\nI'm sure the religious Right will be out protesting him any second.\nRight? Right guys? Groomers and all this? Qanons? Where you guys at?\nHuh. Weird.",
">\n\nBut the dragqueens guys?!?!?!??!? /s",
">\n\nWeird that so many god loving people are actually just pedophiles. Wonder what they think god thinks of them. Fuck theism.",
">\n\nTheir god tells them to take the young girls as spoils of war. Their god is just as fucking depraved as they are.",
">\n\ntHaTs jUsT tHe oLd tEsTaMeNt tHoUgh.\ngOds mOraLiTy dOeSnt cHanGe, hE jUsT dEaLs wItH hUmAns diFFeReNtlY nOw. \nYeah when someone deals with people differently than they did before we generally call that \"a change.\"",
">\n\nAnd he wasn’t trans??? Maybe it’s been priests all along that governors should be banning. When will they correct their mistake? /s",
">\n\nDoesn'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...",
">\n\nIt's surprising. Who prints out their own nudes?",
">\n\nLock him up and throw away the keys",
">\n\nDarn priests, at least those protestant ministers keep it in the family",
">\n\nNot surprised.",
">\n\nThree hail marys and all is forgiven. What a load of bs",
">\n\nJust one bad apple, I’m sure.",
">\n\nLeast paedophilic priest",
">\n\n…slideshow?",
">\n\nGod works in mysterious ways ya fuckin chomo. As a priest, he of all people should have seen this coming...",
">\n\nIn other news, water is wet",
">\n\nOnly five years...",
">\n\n”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.” \nಠ_ಠ",
">\n\nI don’t remember this plotline during Doubt…",
">\n\nWe keep letting them get away with it, so they keep doing it. More obvious news at 10.",
">\n\n& once they found him out he got made a cardinal",
">\n\nHe should've kept them in the garage with his Corvette",
">\n\n5 years? If nothing else, using PowerPoint should have been an aggravating factor.",
">\n\nAnd you thought looking at Bob's family vacation pics was a bad time",
">\n\nWhen 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.",
">\n\nHow is the Roman Catholic Church not closed down for enabling and protecting child abusers",
">\n\nAre 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.",
">\n\nIt'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.",
">\n\npapabile!",
">\n\nLeft nudes on a shared printer? Rookie mistake.",
">\n\nTeach your priests just enough tech to effectively turn themselves in.",
">\n\nIsn't it something how the church decided to investigate themselves again. Keep it in the family, guys.\nI 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.",
">\n\nIs 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:\n1 - 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\n2 - 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)\n3 - 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.\nTL;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.",
">\n\nLet me guess.\nMoved to a different church at the other side of the country and that’s about it for consequences?",
">\n\nThose damned drag queens strike again.",
">\n\nI mean that’s kinda how they caught BTK",
">\n\nSo priests are still abusing kids after we didn't do anything to them the last few times we caught them? Color me surprised.",
">\n\n\nCourt 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.\"\n\n...\n\nDuring 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. \n\n...\n\nAnd 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. \n\nFuck everyone that allowed this scum to continue in a position of authority.",
">\n\nDon’t hear this happening at drag shows…j/s",
">\n\nHe put the PDF in pedofile",
">\n\nThis is Fucking ridiculous",
">\n\nNever forget who the actual groomers are",
">\n\nThe proud boys will be outside of churches \"protesting\" with guns now, right? right?",
">\n\nA priest being pedophile? But that is absolutely unheard of, say it isn't so!",
">\n\nYou sure this wasn't at a Trans drag show? GOP is sure this happens at Trans dragsl shows",
">\n\nExcommunicated by PowerPoint",
">\n\n5 years and a fine? FFS, that’s ridiculous.",
">\n\nPraise Jesus!",
">\n\nAnd the right thinks kids going to drag shows are the problem",
">\n\nAverage christian.",
">\n\nbut the drag queens are reading books to children in libraries! The madnessss",
">\n\nSo they moved him to a new church. This is what they have always done.",
">\n\nleast pedophilic priest:",
">\n\nThe dead ones dont hurt anyone.",
">\n\ninto the furnace he goes. theres no rehabbing people like this.",
">\n\nIt's always the ones you least expect..",
">\n\nOr in this case, the ones you MOST suspect",
">\n\nlol ya, I said that with sarcasm..",
">\n\nPray that he gets nut cancer.",
">\n\nNut cancer was once described to me as \"the common cold of cancers\". It has something like a 95% survival rate.\nHe deserves worse.",
">\n\nDidn't know that. Good nut fact for the day.",
">\n\nIt's definitely the drag queens reading to kids in libraries that's the problem.",
">\n\nRight wingers want him to be a closeted drag queen so badly",
">\n\nI could never trust any man who goes into priesthood. Completely unnatural and deviant occupation rife with pedophiles.",
">\n\nThis MONSTER got 5 years?! \nThe CHILDREN being abused in the images will suffer for the rest of their lives!!\nI'm in favor of LIFE SENTENCES for child sex offenders. \nOr better yet, the DEATH PENALTY!!",
">\n\nReligion was invented by Man for Control of the Flock.You go to Confession and tell the priest everything so they can determine how to undress you.\nI was once a Catholic.....born, baptised, confirmed and educated in a Grammar school run by Irish Christian Brothers under the Order of Edmund Ignatius Rice......and now I'm an atheist.",
">\n\nHow come it is always ‘Christians’ who are involved in child sex abuse?",
">\n\nOf course he's a pedo, he's a priest!",
">\n\nYes millions of idiots keep donating billions to the church",
">\n\nNot simply donating, they bring their children along, indoctrinate them that the priest is the speaker of God, and that God can do no wrong, so anything the priest dose is holy and good. The priest even says so!\nAnd when the kids bring it up the first few times weird things happen? The parents tell them to shush. And so, the sacrifices continue, the parents make a show of not knowing, and things get worse for the children.\nAnd if the priest is reported, the church just moves them to a different parish.\nThe only difference between the taliban and the catholic church, is one of them advertises the child slaves as a benefit, while the other pretends it's not (but totally encourages it, top to bottom).",
">\n\nAnd who are the groomers again?",
">\n\nThis is what happens when you don’t recycle your printer papers.",
">\n\nI feel like this isn't oniony enough, everyone knows by now that priests are significantly more likely to be pedophiles than the general population.",
">\n\nSure, but “gets caught by leaving nudes on a printer” is a fairly onion-y end.",
">\n\nYa know you're right",
">\n\nI have a theory about the correlation between priests and pedophiles. This is my opinion based on conversations with a childhood friend (not a pedo) and is only my opinion but could explain why so many priests abuse children. Get your down votes ready. \nThese boys grow up in the church and it is all they know for the most part. When going through puberty we become attracted to a gender (male or female gay or straight sometimes somewhere in between) and more often a \"type\" as well (blonde brunette short tall etc). Our hormones drive us to seek companionship, intimacy, and ultimately procreation. \nThese boys growing up never develop this attraction to their peers but rather feel more comfortable around younger children and usually behave as mentors. The combination of love of church and disinterest in peers puts the thought in their heads that priesthood is their calling. It takes a long time and effort to become a priest. There are easier paths if a guy just wants to bang kids.\nPut together lack of sex or release of biological needs with access and constant contact with children and they are basically pushed over the edge.\nTo sum up, pedophiles don't become priests to molest children, they become priests because they don't realize they are pedophiles. This is just my opinion, and obviously there are also exceptions to this.\nPerhaps the solution is to get rid of this nonsense celibacy.",
">\n\nAlternative theory: pedophiles become priests because they know the Catholic Church will support and hide them from accountability. Plus, all those altar boys have been easy pickings for decades. \nOn the positive side, Catholic Churches are closing all over Missouri because of dwindling congregations.",
">\n\nThis is one crime I’ll never be able to fathom.",
">\n\nSo fucking sick advocating for this monster so he can maintain freedom?",
">\n\nThe church has been so infiltrated by Child abusers that they are currently rating worse than Satan Worshippers",
">\n\nCan we just fuck churches off now???",
">\n\nYour tithing had to go somewhere.",
">\n\nHow come republicans are not calling these people groomers?",
">\n\nIs anyone else picturing the scene in the first Scary Movie where the cop asks Anna Faris to look at some pictures?\nPriest hands out the pictures of himself along with the weekly pamphlet. Maybe the first reading is from the Song of Solomon...",
">\n\nOh shit. \nHas he been quietly shuffled to a new church yet?",
">\n\nI'm old enough that when I see \"slideshow\" I think of him arranging physical slides in a carousel to project on a screen, like the family trip to Disneyland. Maybe invite the neighbors over for cake.",
">\n\nLord above why is this a thing",
">\n\nYou mean not a drag queen?",
">\n\nActual groomers.",
">\n\nJust think the hands that wanked to kiddie pr0n put wafers on the tongues of everyone in that congregation...",
">\n\nLMAO. This slightly ambiguous headline had me thinking “who attended these slideshow presentations?”",
">\n\nOh look another pedophile catholic priest. Good job reinforcing that stereotype.",
">\n\nAnd we should take guidance from those who hide these atrocities so we can live a better life in the eyes of god.",
">\n\nFriendly reminder religion is a mistake that deserves to be taxed. If you threatened to tax zealots tomorrow child molestation by priests would drop to zero",
">\n\nmay your mother smile as you burn",
">\n\nThis is what happens when you have unchecked power for thousands of years.\nHorrifying.",
">\n\nDid he learn this behavior from a drag show? /s",
">\n\nReminds me of something Chris Rock said: \"Where do women find the porn? They don't find it in your hiding place, they find it in the VCR\"",
">\n\nHe was also probably saving up for a trip to Disney World.",
">\n\n\nincluding child pornography and images of child erotica.\n\nI want to know the difference but don't want to get on a watchlist by googling it.",
">\n\nWithout the word child there, there's a difference in degree. I'd say it's the same thing with that word in there just describing the subject depicted. Pornography is generally actual sex acts of some form or another. Erotica falls short of that, it may be arousing or suggestive. For example, a cabaret show may be erotica but it's certainly not pornography.",
">\n\nPriest? Church? Man in a tax evasion party house?",
">\n\nYet the church immediately moved him somewhere else as there was a daycare next door to the church, then offered to pay to have the priest under house arrest so that the child predator won't go to jail.",
">\n\nShittiest Ted Talk I’ve ever seen, honestly…",
">\n\nOnly five years?! \nUgh!",
">\n\nAnd they call LGBT+ people groomers. (eyeroll)",
">\n\nAnyone who has ever been to a church sadly knows this doesn't need to be in this sub for us to know it's a real story.",
">\n\nOh how nice. The Reverend pleaded for him not to be incarcerated. Because of fucking course he did.",
">\n\nCurious as to who he was presenting this to",
">\n\nPunish these assholes they are smearing God's name",
">\n\nStraight to (checks notes) your next parish!",
">\n\nreligion and sexual abuse. name a more iconic duo\nwhy are any of these religions even allowed to exist any more\nthey have long since lost their meanings, and onlt serve to syphon money out of gullible people, and abuse their children\nwhat is any of these religions actually adding to society any more? other than more perverted monsters",
">\n\nHe’s not the only one",
">\n\nWhy is no big tv news channel talking about this?",
">\n\nAsked that he not go to prison & that his congregation pay to house him? Fuck the church. That's almost the most disgusting part of this",
">\n\nSo are we talking a pptx or an old-school film Rolodex version? Both are messed up, but one takes A LOT more effort.",
">\n\nThe catholic church is of Satan.",
">\n\nFaith is of \"Satan.\" The idea that assuming you might be wrong is morally wrong produces some of the worst people imaginable. And that applies to secular ideologies that require looking down on those who disagree or are unsure too.",
">\n\nAge of priest over/under 50\nWhat yall got?\nI have the over.",
">\n\nOnly 5 years?",
">\n\nRight for some reason i read it as slide show meaning projectors haha. I forgot Powerpoint presentations are a thing.",
">\n\nThe congregation still requested he be spared incarceration and remain in their facility. Truly unbelievable.",
">\n\nThose damn drag queens framed him",
">\n\nThey really put a lot of effort into not saying that he was catholic in that article.",
">\n\nWonder what congregation hes been moved to now?",
">\n\nAny outrage from republicans? Will they arm themselves and storm the churches?....... Didn't think so.",
">\n\nA Christian pedophile? Who could have guessed?",
">\n\nIm shocked! Shocked I say!\nWell... not that shocked.",
">\n\nI appreciate that the church cooperated and turned him in. However, the fact they wanted to pay to house him, out of the parish coffers, is insane. He deserves incarceration and certainly not a retirement paid for by parishioners of the church he victimized. Smh, a great step for the church, if only as a PR exercise, would be to strongly condemn this sort of behavior AND strongly punish it. Defrock and excommunicate any priest who does this. It’s a very easy choice that frankly could help reinstill a little confidence in the church.",
">\n\nOFF WITH HIS GOD DAMNED FUCKING HEAD",
">\n\nWhy so quick and painless?",
">\n\nYou know you’re actually right.. OFF WITH HIS GOD DAMNED FUCKING HEAD WITH A RUSTY PAPERCLIP",
">\n\nRight to jail",
">\n\nToday on why religious institutions should be abolished",
">\n\nAnd the right won't say a thing about this man.",
">\n\nHow Catholics still a thing ?",
">\n\nAnd the Church will cover it up or just say they are very sorry 🤬",
">\n\nThe provincial says everything right…he doesn’t excuse the guy, doesn’t obfuscate what he did or what it’s gravely evil…right up until he asks for house arrest. Fuck that. Whatever the harshest penalty allowed is, do that.",
">\n\nSo just regular church stuff really",
">\n\nChurch is a haven for predators!!!",
">\n\nI used to be Catholic, but stories like this make me hate the church more every day.",
">\n\nCan we just end this disgusting church already? Can you imagine ONE Walmart manager raping children? Now try to imagine MORE THAN THREE THOUSAND Walmart managers raping children. \nStill gonna shop at Walmart?",
">\n\nBut somehow these religious psychos get away with this and convince their followers to kill LGBTQ+ people. Fuck religion, fuck all churches, we need it out of our society.",
">\n\nExcommunicate from the order and earth.",
">\n\nOnly 5 years is the wild part to me.",
">\n\nHow have we not outlawed and burned down the obvious pedophile cult? \nIf there’s no such thing as a good cop, there’s no such thing as a good priest.",
">\n\nHead first into a wood chipper…no amnesty for pedophiles!",
">\n\nBe a shame if he stopped breathing and any and everybody associated with leadership stopped breathing also!!!",
">\n\nThis kind of shit is why atheism sucks, this fuckers evil soul needs a little eternal torture. Yes yes, I know we're only incredibly flawed hairless apes a couple of toes out of the jungle but fuck man this guy sucks.",
">\n\nA priest has made a move to a new parish so that he may focus on bringing the gospel to a new group! The church is excited to help him accel and even provided the funds to move him across the country. Though he'll be in a new town where no one knows him, the church as said they're sure he'll fir in quickly! \nOr something like that.",
">\n\nFive Years.",
">\n\ni’m shocked",
">\n\nAmazing pp hasn’t been banished yet"
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"Slideshows????? What?\nMy man just opened up cp.ppt and added a few THOUSAND slides of kiddy porn????\nClippy: it looks like youre a depraved predator. Do you want to profane the church as well?",
">\n\nWell I always did believe Power Point was a creation of a malevolent entity.",
">\n\nTuring complete, no less!",
">\n\nBut can it run Doom?",
">\n\nAnything can run doom",
">\n\nBut can Doom run Doom?",
">\n\nDoom can run Doom because Doom runs Doom when Doom runs.",
">\n\nPeople don't run Doom like it is, but it Doom.",
">\n\nGonna take this moment to highly recommend the film Spotlight to any who haven’t seen it",
">\n\nCheck out the 2017 limited series on either Netflix or Prime: \"The Keepers\" about a Baltimore-area Catholic girls' school. Based on the experiences as told by some of the girls, now middle-aged women. It is NOT nice, will make you cry, will enrage you. But I commend the women who made this documentary for as painful as it was for the audience to watch, I can't imagine how they made it thru. And they brought it around to a decent ending, but wow....I think some of what happened in Baltimore bled over into the Spotlight story.\nLapsed Catholic. I cannot reconcile with the Church hierarchy over this because they have behaved satanically for far too long to make me believe they are holy in any way.",
">\n\nThere was a documentary that came out a year or two ago tbzg sounds similar but men who were molested as kids while in the church. \nI honestly don't know how anyone can still support the church. At all. If it was one priest, sure. It's sad it happened, but pedophiles will always exist and find ways to get to kids.\nBut with how often it happens and with how little the church cares? Nope. I never could be catholic even if I was Christian.",
">\n\nBecause saving souls bringing them into their cult is more valuable than the ones they crush. The Vatican last I heard had 7 pedos protecting by not complying with extradition requests. \nAny organization not willing to comply with the laws of the country where they have a tax exempt status should lose their exemption and title to any property they own. If you RICO cartel and mafia assets, then you can do so for these child abusers and their protective association. \nYou know the church owns most of Manhattan and isn't paying taxes? All that money and we have to tolerate this shit? Nah fuck them.",
">\n\nNude pix on the church printer . . . I can imagine the scene.\nSister Mary Michael: Yo, does anyone recognize this tallywhacker?\nFormer Alter Boy Brian: Yeah, that's Father Jim. I'd know that hairy mole anywhere.",
">\n\nThat's Tommy Turner's tallywhacker",
">\n\nIf Reddit still gave free awards, I'd give one to you for catching the reference.",
">\n\nWAIT when did they get rid of the free awards",
">\n\nguess this is how i found out. last i claimed mine is around last week, i think. i only claim once every two weeks to gild certain biweekly thread lul",
">\n\nAnd yet where are all the \"anti-groomers\" protesting these churches?",
">\n\nIt’s almost like it has never actually been about protecting children, and it’s always been about trying to demonize LGBT people",
">\n\nAt this point I am positive the religious right to life thing is about having more targets.",
">\n\nGlad 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?",
">\n\nAfter 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.",
">\n\nI 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.\nThere are also many who truly believe the schtick and just compartmentalize the bad stuff. Both are to blame regardless. Nobody gets a pass.",
">\n\nI could see that with some of the smaller denominations for sure.\nWhen 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.",
">\n\n*making another streak to the tally list wall\n*camera panning out to reveal a huge fucking wall coveres in streaks",
">\n\nMan 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.\nThat said. This man should burn for this",
">\n\nPriest? Pedo? Are you sure? This is unprecedented",
">\n\nCorrection! PedoPreist",
">\n\nNew name not necessary. If anything there should be a name for the unique priests that arent pedos.",
">\n\nI'm inclined to think the majority of priests aren't child predators themselves.\nThe 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.\nWay, way too many of them are pedo-enablers. All the way up...",
">\n\nThen that would mean that... Gasp\nSouth Park was right all along....\nSneaky little bastards didn't think I would notice....",
">\n\nWish I was surprised",
">\n\nYou make slideshows of images? \nEdit: \nOh wait I see what you mean. Yeah the pedophile priest thing is so expected that only the slideshow bit stood out",
">\n\nHoly hell. Priest have normalized pedophilia.",
">\n\nNot just priests. Protestant Christians have a major problem with sexual abuse too, particularly against children.\nAfter Major Investigation, Southern Baptists Confront the Abuse Crisis They Knew Was Coming\nDon't let the Evangelical pedo defenders get away with claiming that Catholicism is the only issue here. It isn't.",
">\n\n\nnone of them are immune to the depravity.\n\nAlmost implied, really.",
">\n\nCould 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?",
">\n\nA variety of factors:\n\nUnquestioned moral authority and intense trust from a large community who have all been taught to obey church authorities\nSupport from a massive extremely powerful institution that has covered up thousands of similar crimes\nStrictly forbidden to marry, have sex, or iirc even masturbate, making them view all sexual activities as similarly taboo for them\nEasy regular access to many children\nEasy ability to get alone time with children\nPriests are only held institutionally accountable to each other and to those with more authority in the church\nVictims 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\nChildren 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\nThe 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\nThe 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\n\nThat'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.”\nP.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.\nWant 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.\nEdit to add this excellent way to protect kids that churches consistently fight against:\n\n“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.\nchildren 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.”",
">\n\nSo this should be buried enough if I speak in general terms.\nYears back one of our pastors had to give up being a pastor. They didn't get into details of what he did but they did stress that kids were not involved. The whole church could be seen relaxing.",
">\n\n5 years for thousands of child porn images and videos? Seems pretty fucking light to me. This piece of shit should die in prison.",
">\n\n5 years and a ticket to heaven",
">\n\nHeaven? For him?",
">\n\nThat'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.",
">\n\nDon't you also have to be truly repentant for your sins, including making a good faith effort to keep from repeating them?",
">\n\nI would love for someone to answer this because I really want to know, too.",
">\n\nyes I'm pretty sure that's it. God sees people's hearts He should know the diff between true repentance and fake one",
">\n\nYes, assuming an all-powerful God existed, he’d be able to pretty easily know if you were truly sorry.",
">\n\nYeah but......... \nI'm just starting the religious apologist's sentence for them.",
">\n\nFor 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.",
">\n\nOne 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.",
">\n\nOnce I heard this theory, the acceptance by conservatives of people whose behavior is in direct conflict with their moral beliefs, made more sense.",
">\n\n5 holly maries and transfer\nafter 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.\nRev. 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.\"\nMcDevitt asked the presiding judge for \"mercy for Jim,\" and even offered for the congregation to pay to house him in lieu of imprisonment.\n\"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.\"\n\"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.\"",
">\n\nIn Australia at the moment there is a furore after the death of Cardinal George Pell who was convicted (then exonerated) of personally abusing children, but was found by a Royal Commission (that would be a special prosecutor for our American friends?) of enabling and protecting paedophile priests for decades.\nCan honestly say I have not been able to listen to the string of \"Christians\" praising this man in our media for the last few days without wanting to puke. Suffer the little children.",
">\n\nWith you there. At least there’s a lot of people calling his supporters out on this. Fuck Tony Abbott, John Howard and Andrew Bolt to name a few.",
">\n\nI 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!",
">\n\nr/PastorArrested (also includes Priests)",
">\n\nDon'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.",
">\n\nIf there is a god, wtf?",
">\n\nThere is no God. Religion is about control and money",
">\n\nAnd more money",
">\n\n\"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.\" \n- Rev. Patrick McDevitt, provincial superior for the Congregation of the Western Province \n\nEvery single member of that congregation is a horrible piece of shit",
">\n\nWhat 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?",
">\n\n“Drag queens are grooming our youth!!!”",
">\n\n\"I think we all know where people put on dresses and fuck kids\"\n-Trixie Mattel, 2022",
">\n\nKid “Bless me Father, for I have sinned”\nPadre “ call me, maybe?”",
">\n\nImagine my shock to discover that a priest has been involved in a sex scandal and one involving the exploitation of children, at that.",
">\n\nGOP: \"But wuttabout drag queens?!?!?!??!\"",
">\n\nDoing the Lords work 🙏🏾",
">\n\nTax-free",
">\n\nWhat's the deal with priests being so into pedophilia? Can't they look at milf pounds like normal people?",
">\n\nOh look... Another priest with child porn ... When do we get to start taxing the church?",
">\n\nr/pastorarrested",
">\n\nChurch is a scary place, especially for children.",
">\n\nI 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.",
">\n\nOnly 5 years. What a joke.",
">\n\n\nThe 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.\n\nIf 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.",
">\n\nNo one is suprised a priest is a pedophile. \nBut printing out yer nudes? That's odd.",
">\n\nI can think of a reason he printed it out. And I really don't like that reason.",
">\n\nI'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.",
">\n\nThe sheer audacity to do it at church where you work",
">\n\nAnd not a drag queen in sight...",
">\n\nThey do kinda wear dresses, though",
">\n\nToo many “coincidences” within this church to be anything other than systematic",
">\n\nPretty 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.",
">\n\n\nThe data often suggests numbers of pedophiles similar to the general population\n\none 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",
">\n\nYeah, 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.",
">\n\nI 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.",
">\n\nIt's so common for priests to be sickos",
">\n\nGross",
">\n\nAll he needs to do is repent, right?!?",
">\n\nA priest? With kiddie porn? I’ve never heard of such a thing!",
">\n\nRemember 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.",
">\n\n5 years that's all he got",
">\n\nThat's fucking disgusting. Misappropriation of office materials.",
">\n\nIt 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",
">\n\nIdiot 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.",
">\n\nso 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.",
">\n\nI 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 🤷♂️",
">\n\n5 years isnt nearly enough. Lock him up forever and a day.",
">\n\n~~Drag shows~~ Churches are not safe for children",
">\n\nI'm sure the religious Right will be out protesting him any second.\nRight? Right guys? Groomers and all this? Qanons? Where you guys at?\nHuh. Weird.",
">\n\nBut the dragqueens guys?!?!?!??!? /s",
">\n\nWeird that so many god loving people are actually just pedophiles. Wonder what they think god thinks of them. Fuck theism.",
">\n\nTheir god tells them to take the young girls as spoils of war. Their god is just as fucking depraved as they are.",
">\n\ntHaTs jUsT tHe oLd tEsTaMeNt tHoUgh.\ngOds mOraLiTy dOeSnt cHanGe, hE jUsT dEaLs wItH hUmAns diFFeReNtlY nOw. \nYeah when someone deals with people differently than they did before we generally call that \"a change.\"",
">\n\nAnd he wasn’t trans??? Maybe it’s been priests all along that governors should be banning. When will they correct their mistake? /s",
">\n\nDoesn'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...",
">\n\nIt's surprising. Who prints out their own nudes?",
">\n\nLock him up and throw away the keys",
">\n\nDarn priests, at least those protestant ministers keep it in the family",
">\n\nNot surprised.",
">\n\nThree hail marys and all is forgiven. What a load of bs",
">\n\nJust one bad apple, I’m sure.",
">\n\nLeast paedophilic priest",
">\n\n…slideshow?",
">\n\nGod works in mysterious ways ya fuckin chomo. As a priest, he of all people should have seen this coming...",
">\n\nIn other news, water is wet",
">\n\nOnly five years...",
">\n\n”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.” \nಠ_ಠ",
">\n\nI don’t remember this plotline during Doubt…",
">\n\nWe keep letting them get away with it, so they keep doing it. More obvious news at 10.",
">\n\n& once they found him out he got made a cardinal",
">\n\nHe should've kept them in the garage with his Corvette",
">\n\n5 years? If nothing else, using PowerPoint should have been an aggravating factor.",
">\n\nAnd you thought looking at Bob's family vacation pics was a bad time",
">\n\nWhen 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.",
">\n\nHow is the Roman Catholic Church not closed down for enabling and protecting child abusers",
">\n\nAre 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.",
">\n\nIt'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.",
">\n\npapabile!",
">\n\nLeft nudes on a shared printer? Rookie mistake.",
">\n\nTeach your priests just enough tech to effectively turn themselves in.",
">\n\nIsn't it something how the church decided to investigate themselves again. Keep it in the family, guys.\nI 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.",
">\n\nIs 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:\n1 - 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\n2 - 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)\n3 - 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.\nTL;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.",
">\n\nLet me guess.\nMoved to a different church at the other side of the country and that’s about it for consequences?",
">\n\nThose damned drag queens strike again.",
">\n\nI mean that’s kinda how they caught BTK",
">\n\nSo priests are still abusing kids after we didn't do anything to them the last few times we caught them? Color me surprised.",
">\n\n\nCourt 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.\"\n\n...\n\nDuring 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. \n\n...\n\nAnd 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. \n\nFuck everyone that allowed this scum to continue in a position of authority.",
">\n\nDon’t hear this happening at drag shows…j/s",
">\n\nHe put the PDF in pedofile",
">\n\nThis is Fucking ridiculous",
">\n\nNever forget who the actual groomers are",
">\n\nThe proud boys will be outside of churches \"protesting\" with guns now, right? right?",
">\n\nA priest being pedophile? But that is absolutely unheard of, say it isn't so!",
">\n\nYou sure this wasn't at a Trans drag show? GOP is sure this happens at Trans dragsl shows",
">\n\nExcommunicated by PowerPoint",
">\n\n5 years and a fine? FFS, that’s ridiculous.",
">\n\nPraise Jesus!",
">\n\nAnd the right thinks kids going to drag shows are the problem",
">\n\nAverage christian.",
">\n\nbut the drag queens are reading books to children in libraries! The madnessss",
">\n\nSo they moved him to a new church. This is what they have always done.",
">\n\nleast pedophilic priest:",
">\n\nThe dead ones dont hurt anyone.",
">\n\ninto the furnace he goes. theres no rehabbing people like this.",
">\n\nIt's always the ones you least expect..",
">\n\nOr in this case, the ones you MOST suspect",
">\n\nlol ya, I said that with sarcasm..",
">\n\nPray that he gets nut cancer.",
">\n\nNut cancer was once described to me as \"the common cold of cancers\". It has something like a 95% survival rate.\nHe deserves worse.",
">\n\nDidn't know that. Good nut fact for the day.",
">\n\nIt's definitely the drag queens reading to kids in libraries that's the problem.",
">\n\nRight wingers want him to be a closeted drag queen so badly",
">\n\nI could never trust any man who goes into priesthood. Completely unnatural and deviant occupation rife with pedophiles.",
">\n\nThis MONSTER got 5 years?! \nThe CHILDREN being abused in the images will suffer for the rest of their lives!!\nI'm in favor of LIFE SENTENCES for child sex offenders. \nOr better yet, the DEATH PENALTY!!",
">\n\nReligion was invented by Man for Control of the Flock.You go to Confession and tell the priest everything so they can determine how to undress you.\nI was once a Catholic.....born, baptised, confirmed and educated in a Grammar school run by Irish Christian Brothers under the Order of Edmund Ignatius Rice......and now I'm an atheist.",
">\n\nHow come it is always ‘Christians’ who are involved in child sex abuse?",
">\n\nOf course he's a pedo, he's a priest!",
">\n\nYes millions of idiots keep donating billions to the church",
">\n\nNot simply donating, they bring their children along, indoctrinate them that the priest is the speaker of God, and that God can do no wrong, so anything the priest dose is holy and good. The priest even says so!\nAnd when the kids bring it up the first few times weird things happen? The parents tell them to shush. And so, the sacrifices continue, the parents make a show of not knowing, and things get worse for the children.\nAnd if the priest is reported, the church just moves them to a different parish.\nThe only difference between the taliban and the catholic church, is one of them advertises the child slaves as a benefit, while the other pretends it's not (but totally encourages it, top to bottom).",
">\n\nAnd who are the groomers again?",
">\n\nThis is what happens when you don’t recycle your printer papers.",
">\n\nI feel like this isn't oniony enough, everyone knows by now that priests are significantly more likely to be pedophiles than the general population.",
">\n\nSure, but “gets caught by leaving nudes on a printer” is a fairly onion-y end.",
">\n\nYa know you're right",
">\n\nI have a theory about the correlation between priests and pedophiles. This is my opinion based on conversations with a childhood friend (not a pedo) and is only my opinion but could explain why so many priests abuse children. Get your down votes ready. \nThese boys grow up in the church and it is all they know for the most part. When going through puberty we become attracted to a gender (male or female gay or straight sometimes somewhere in between) and more often a \"type\" as well (blonde brunette short tall etc). Our hormones drive us to seek companionship, intimacy, and ultimately procreation. \nThese boys growing up never develop this attraction to their peers but rather feel more comfortable around younger children and usually behave as mentors. The combination of love of church and disinterest in peers puts the thought in their heads that priesthood is their calling. It takes a long time and effort to become a priest. There are easier paths if a guy just wants to bang kids.\nPut together lack of sex or release of biological needs with access and constant contact with children and they are basically pushed over the edge.\nTo sum up, pedophiles don't become priests to molest children, they become priests because they don't realize they are pedophiles. This is just my opinion, and obviously there are also exceptions to this.\nPerhaps the solution is to get rid of this nonsense celibacy.",
">\n\nAlternative theory: pedophiles become priests because they know the Catholic Church will support and hide them from accountability. Plus, all those altar boys have been easy pickings for decades. \nOn the positive side, Catholic Churches are closing all over Missouri because of dwindling congregations.",
">\n\nThis is one crime I’ll never be able to fathom.",
">\n\nSo fucking sick advocating for this monster so he can maintain freedom?",
">\n\nThe church has been so infiltrated by Child abusers that they are currently rating worse than Satan Worshippers",
">\n\nCan we just fuck churches off now???",
">\n\nYour tithing had to go somewhere.",
">\n\nHow come republicans are not calling these people groomers?",
">\n\nIs anyone else picturing the scene in the first Scary Movie where the cop asks Anna Faris to look at some pictures?\nPriest hands out the pictures of himself along with the weekly pamphlet. Maybe the first reading is from the Song of Solomon...",
">\n\nOh shit. \nHas he been quietly shuffled to a new church yet?",
">\n\nI'm old enough that when I see \"slideshow\" I think of him arranging physical slides in a carousel to project on a screen, like the family trip to Disneyland. Maybe invite the neighbors over for cake.",
">\n\nLord above why is this a thing",
">\n\nYou mean not a drag queen?",
">\n\nActual groomers.",
">\n\nJust think the hands that wanked to kiddie pr0n put wafers on the tongues of everyone in that congregation...",
">\n\nLMAO. This slightly ambiguous headline had me thinking “who attended these slideshow presentations?”",
">\n\nOh look another pedophile catholic priest. Good job reinforcing that stereotype.",
">\n\nAnd we should take guidance from those who hide these atrocities so we can live a better life in the eyes of god.",
">\n\nFriendly reminder religion is a mistake that deserves to be taxed. If you threatened to tax zealots tomorrow child molestation by priests would drop to zero",
">\n\nmay your mother smile as you burn",
">\n\nThis is what happens when you have unchecked power for thousands of years.\nHorrifying.",
">\n\nDid he learn this behavior from a drag show? /s",
">\n\nReminds me of something Chris Rock said: \"Where do women find the porn? They don't find it in your hiding place, they find it in the VCR\"",
">\n\nHe was also probably saving up for a trip to Disney World.",
">\n\n\nincluding child pornography and images of child erotica.\n\nI want to know the difference but don't want to get on a watchlist by googling it.",
">\n\nWithout the word child there, there's a difference in degree. I'd say it's the same thing with that word in there just describing the subject depicted. Pornography is generally actual sex acts of some form or another. Erotica falls short of that, it may be arousing or suggestive. For example, a cabaret show may be erotica but it's certainly not pornography.",
">\n\nPriest? Church? Man in a tax evasion party house?",
">\n\nYet the church immediately moved him somewhere else as there was a daycare next door to the church, then offered to pay to have the priest under house arrest so that the child predator won't go to jail.",
">\n\nShittiest Ted Talk I’ve ever seen, honestly…",
">\n\nOnly five years?! \nUgh!",
">\n\nAnd they call LGBT+ people groomers. (eyeroll)",
">\n\nAnyone who has ever been to a church sadly knows this doesn't need to be in this sub for us to know it's a real story.",
">\n\nOh how nice. The Reverend pleaded for him not to be incarcerated. Because of fucking course he did.",
">\n\nCurious as to who he was presenting this to",
">\n\nPunish these assholes they are smearing God's name",
">\n\nStraight to (checks notes) your next parish!",
">\n\nreligion and sexual abuse. name a more iconic duo\nwhy are any of these religions even allowed to exist any more\nthey have long since lost their meanings, and onlt serve to syphon money out of gullible people, and abuse their children\nwhat is any of these religions actually adding to society any more? other than more perverted monsters",
">\n\nHe’s not the only one",
">\n\nWhy is no big tv news channel talking about this?",
">\n\nAsked that he not go to prison & that his congregation pay to house him? Fuck the church. That's almost the most disgusting part of this",
">\n\nSo are we talking a pptx or an old-school film Rolodex version? Both are messed up, but one takes A LOT more effort.",
">\n\nThe catholic church is of Satan.",
">\n\nFaith is of \"Satan.\" The idea that assuming you might be wrong is morally wrong produces some of the worst people imaginable. And that applies to secular ideologies that require looking down on those who disagree or are unsure too.",
">\n\nAge of priest over/under 50\nWhat yall got?\nI have the over.",
">\n\nOnly 5 years?",
">\n\nRight for some reason i read it as slide show meaning projectors haha. I forgot Powerpoint presentations are a thing.",
">\n\nThe congregation still requested he be spared incarceration and remain in their facility. Truly unbelievable.",
">\n\nThose damn drag queens framed him",
">\n\nThey really put a lot of effort into not saying that he was catholic in that article.",
">\n\nWonder what congregation hes been moved to now?",
">\n\nAny outrage from republicans? Will they arm themselves and storm the churches?....... Didn't think so.",
">\n\nA Christian pedophile? Who could have guessed?",
">\n\nIm shocked! Shocked I say!\nWell... not that shocked.",
">\n\nI appreciate that the church cooperated and turned him in. However, the fact they wanted to pay to house him, out of the parish coffers, is insane. He deserves incarceration and certainly not a retirement paid for by parishioners of the church he victimized. Smh, a great step for the church, if only as a PR exercise, would be to strongly condemn this sort of behavior AND strongly punish it. Defrock and excommunicate any priest who does this. It’s a very easy choice that frankly could help reinstill a little confidence in the church.",
">\n\nOFF WITH HIS GOD DAMNED FUCKING HEAD",
">\n\nWhy so quick and painless?",
">\n\nYou know you’re actually right.. OFF WITH HIS GOD DAMNED FUCKING HEAD WITH A RUSTY PAPERCLIP",
">\n\nRight to jail",
">\n\nToday on why religious institutions should be abolished",
">\n\nAnd the right won't say a thing about this man.",
">\n\nHow Catholics still a thing ?",
">\n\nAnd the Church will cover it up or just say they are very sorry 🤬",
">\n\nThe provincial says everything right…he doesn’t excuse the guy, doesn’t obfuscate what he did or what it’s gravely evil…right up until he asks for house arrest. Fuck that. Whatever the harshest penalty allowed is, do that.",
">\n\nSo just regular church stuff really",
">\n\nChurch is a haven for predators!!!",
">\n\nI used to be Catholic, but stories like this make me hate the church more every day.",
">\n\nCan we just end this disgusting church already? Can you imagine ONE Walmart manager raping children? Now try to imagine MORE THAN THREE THOUSAND Walmart managers raping children. \nStill gonna shop at Walmart?",
">\n\nBut somehow these religious psychos get away with this and convince their followers to kill LGBTQ+ people. Fuck religion, fuck all churches, we need it out of our society.",
">\n\nExcommunicate from the order and earth.",
">\n\nOnly 5 years is the wild part to me.",
">\n\nHow have we not outlawed and burned down the obvious pedophile cult? \nIf there’s no such thing as a good cop, there’s no such thing as a good priest.",
">\n\nHead first into a wood chipper…no amnesty for pedophiles!",
">\n\nBe a shame if he stopped breathing and any and everybody associated with leadership stopped breathing also!!!",
">\n\nThis kind of shit is why atheism sucks, this fuckers evil soul needs a little eternal torture. Yes yes, I know we're only incredibly flawed hairless apes a couple of toes out of the jungle but fuck man this guy sucks.",
">\n\nA priest has made a move to a new parish so that he may focus on bringing the gospel to a new group! The church is excited to help him accel and even provided the funds to move him across the country. Though he'll be in a new town where no one knows him, the church as said they're sure he'll fir in quickly! \nOr something like that.",
">\n\nFive Years.",
">\n\ni’m shocked",
">\n\nAmazing pp hasn’t been banished yet",
">\n\n5 years? That's it?"
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"Slideshows????? What?\nMy man just opened up cp.ppt and added a few THOUSAND slides of kiddy porn????\nClippy: it looks like youre a depraved predator. Do you want to profane the church as well?",
">\n\nWell I always did believe Power Point was a creation of a malevolent entity.",
">\n\nTuring complete, no less!",
">\n\nBut can it run Doom?",
">\n\nAnything can run doom",
">\n\nBut can Doom run Doom?",
">\n\nDoom can run Doom because Doom runs Doom when Doom runs.",
">\n\nPeople don't run Doom like it is, but it Doom.",
">\n\nGonna take this moment to highly recommend the film Spotlight to any who haven’t seen it",
">\n\nCheck out the 2017 limited series on either Netflix or Prime: \"The Keepers\" about a Baltimore-area Catholic girls' school. Based on the experiences as told by some of the girls, now middle-aged women. It is NOT nice, will make you cry, will enrage you. But I commend the women who made this documentary for as painful as it was for the audience to watch, I can't imagine how they made it thru. And they brought it around to a decent ending, but wow....I think some of what happened in Baltimore bled over into the Spotlight story.\nLapsed Catholic. I cannot reconcile with the Church hierarchy over this because they have behaved satanically for far too long to make me believe they are holy in any way.",
">\n\nThere was a documentary that came out a year or two ago tbzg sounds similar but men who were molested as kids while in the church. \nI honestly don't know how anyone can still support the church. At all. If it was one priest, sure. It's sad it happened, but pedophiles will always exist and find ways to get to kids.\nBut with how often it happens and with how little the church cares? Nope. I never could be catholic even if I was Christian.",
">\n\nBecause saving souls bringing them into their cult is more valuable than the ones they crush. The Vatican last I heard had 7 pedos protecting by not complying with extradition requests. \nAny organization not willing to comply with the laws of the country where they have a tax exempt status should lose their exemption and title to any property they own. If you RICO cartel and mafia assets, then you can do so for these child abusers and their protective association. \nYou know the church owns most of Manhattan and isn't paying taxes? All that money and we have to tolerate this shit? Nah fuck them.",
">\n\nNude pix on the church printer . . . I can imagine the scene.\nSister Mary Michael: Yo, does anyone recognize this tallywhacker?\nFormer Alter Boy Brian: Yeah, that's Father Jim. I'd know that hairy mole anywhere.",
">\n\nThat's Tommy Turner's tallywhacker",
">\n\nIf Reddit still gave free awards, I'd give one to you for catching the reference.",
">\n\nWAIT when did they get rid of the free awards",
">\n\nguess this is how i found out. last i claimed mine is around last week, i think. i only claim once every two weeks to gild certain biweekly thread lul",
">\n\nAnd yet where are all the \"anti-groomers\" protesting these churches?",
">\n\nIt’s almost like it has never actually been about protecting children, and it’s always been about trying to demonize LGBT people",
">\n\nAt this point I am positive the religious right to life thing is about having more targets.",
">\n\nGlad 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?",
">\n\nAfter 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.",
">\n\nI 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.\nThere are also many who truly believe the schtick and just compartmentalize the bad stuff. Both are to blame regardless. Nobody gets a pass.",
">\n\nI could see that with some of the smaller denominations for sure.\nWhen 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.",
">\n\n*making another streak to the tally list wall\n*camera panning out to reveal a huge fucking wall coveres in streaks",
">\n\nMan 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.\nThat said. This man should burn for this",
">\n\nPriest? Pedo? Are you sure? This is unprecedented",
">\n\nCorrection! PedoPreist",
">\n\nNew name not necessary. If anything there should be a name for the unique priests that arent pedos.",
">\n\nI'm inclined to think the majority of priests aren't child predators themselves.\nThe 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.\nWay, way too many of them are pedo-enablers. All the way up...",
">\n\nThen that would mean that... Gasp\nSouth Park was right all along....\nSneaky little bastards didn't think I would notice....",
">\n\nWish I was surprised",
">\n\nYou make slideshows of images? \nEdit: \nOh wait I see what you mean. Yeah the pedophile priest thing is so expected that only the slideshow bit stood out",
">\n\nHoly hell. Priest have normalized pedophilia.",
">\n\nNot just priests. Protestant Christians have a major problem with sexual abuse too, particularly against children.\nAfter Major Investigation, Southern Baptists Confront the Abuse Crisis They Knew Was Coming\nDon't let the Evangelical pedo defenders get away with claiming that Catholicism is the only issue here. It isn't.",
">\n\n\nnone of them are immune to the depravity.\n\nAlmost implied, really.",
">\n\nCould 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?",
">\n\nA variety of factors:\n\nUnquestioned moral authority and intense trust from a large community who have all been taught to obey church authorities\nSupport from a massive extremely powerful institution that has covered up thousands of similar crimes\nStrictly forbidden to marry, have sex, or iirc even masturbate, making them view all sexual activities as similarly taboo for them\nEasy regular access to many children\nEasy ability to get alone time with children\nPriests are only held institutionally accountable to each other and to those with more authority in the church\nVictims 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\nChildren 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\nThe 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\nThe 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\n\nThat'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.”\nP.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.\nWant 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.\nEdit to add this excellent way to protect kids that churches consistently fight against:\n\n“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.\nchildren 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.”",
">\n\nSo this should be buried enough if I speak in general terms.\nYears back one of our pastors had to give up being a pastor. They didn't get into details of what he did but they did stress that kids were not involved. The whole church could be seen relaxing.",
">\n\n5 years for thousands of child porn images and videos? Seems pretty fucking light to me. This piece of shit should die in prison.",
">\n\n5 years and a ticket to heaven",
">\n\nHeaven? For him?",
">\n\nThat'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.",
">\n\nDon't you also have to be truly repentant for your sins, including making a good faith effort to keep from repeating them?",
">\n\nI would love for someone to answer this because I really want to know, too.",
">\n\nyes I'm pretty sure that's it. God sees people's hearts He should know the diff between true repentance and fake one",
">\n\nYes, assuming an all-powerful God existed, he’d be able to pretty easily know if you were truly sorry.",
">\n\nYeah but......... \nI'm just starting the religious apologist's sentence for them.",
">\n\nFor 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.",
">\n\nOne 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.",
">\n\nOnce I heard this theory, the acceptance by conservatives of people whose behavior is in direct conflict with their moral beliefs, made more sense.",
">\n\n5 holly maries and transfer\nafter 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.\nRev. 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.\"\nMcDevitt asked the presiding judge for \"mercy for Jim,\" and even offered for the congregation to pay to house him in lieu of imprisonment.\n\"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.\"\n\"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.\"",
">\n\nIn Australia at the moment there is a furore after the death of Cardinal George Pell who was convicted (then exonerated) of personally abusing children, but was found by a Royal Commission (that would be a special prosecutor for our American friends?) of enabling and protecting paedophile priests for decades.\nCan honestly say I have not been able to listen to the string of \"Christians\" praising this man in our media for the last few days without wanting to puke. Suffer the little children.",
">\n\nWith you there. At least there’s a lot of people calling his supporters out on this. Fuck Tony Abbott, John Howard and Andrew Bolt to name a few.",
">\n\nI 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!",
">\n\nr/PastorArrested (also includes Priests)",
">\n\nDon'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.",
">\n\nIf there is a god, wtf?",
">\n\nThere is no God. Religion is about control and money",
">\n\nAnd more money",
">\n\n\"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.\" \n- Rev. Patrick McDevitt, provincial superior for the Congregation of the Western Province \n\nEvery single member of that congregation is a horrible piece of shit",
">\n\nWhat 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?",
">\n\n“Drag queens are grooming our youth!!!”",
">\n\n\"I think we all know where people put on dresses and fuck kids\"\n-Trixie Mattel, 2022",
">\n\nKid “Bless me Father, for I have sinned”\nPadre “ call me, maybe?”",
">\n\nImagine my shock to discover that a priest has been involved in a sex scandal and one involving the exploitation of children, at that.",
">\n\nGOP: \"But wuttabout drag queens?!?!?!??!\"",
">\n\nDoing the Lords work 🙏🏾",
">\n\nTax-free",
">\n\nWhat's the deal with priests being so into pedophilia? Can't they look at milf pounds like normal people?",
">\n\nOh look... Another priest with child porn ... When do we get to start taxing the church?",
">\n\nr/pastorarrested",
">\n\nChurch is a scary place, especially for children.",
">\n\nI 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.",
">\n\nOnly 5 years. What a joke.",
">\n\n\nThe 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.\n\nIf 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.",
">\n\nNo one is suprised a priest is a pedophile. \nBut printing out yer nudes? That's odd.",
">\n\nI can think of a reason he printed it out. And I really don't like that reason.",
">\n\nI'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.",
">\n\nThe sheer audacity to do it at church where you work",
">\n\nAnd not a drag queen in sight...",
">\n\nThey do kinda wear dresses, though",
">\n\nToo many “coincidences” within this church to be anything other than systematic",
">\n\nPretty 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.",
">\n\n\nThe data often suggests numbers of pedophiles similar to the general population\n\none 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",
">\n\nYeah, 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.",
">\n\nI 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.",
">\n\nIt's so common for priests to be sickos",
">\n\nGross",
">\n\nAll he needs to do is repent, right?!?",
">\n\nA priest? With kiddie porn? I’ve never heard of such a thing!",
">\n\nRemember 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.",
">\n\n5 years that's all he got",
">\n\nThat's fucking disgusting. Misappropriation of office materials.",
">\n\nIt 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",
">\n\nIdiot 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.",
">\n\nso 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.",
">\n\nI 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 🤷♂️",
">\n\n5 years isnt nearly enough. Lock him up forever and a day.",
">\n\n~~Drag shows~~ Churches are not safe for children",
">\n\nI'm sure the religious Right will be out protesting him any second.\nRight? Right guys? Groomers and all this? Qanons? Where you guys at?\nHuh. Weird.",
">\n\nBut the dragqueens guys?!?!?!??!? /s",
">\n\nWeird that so many god loving people are actually just pedophiles. Wonder what they think god thinks of them. Fuck theism.",
">\n\nTheir god tells them to take the young girls as spoils of war. Their god is just as fucking depraved as they are.",
">\n\ntHaTs jUsT tHe oLd tEsTaMeNt tHoUgh.\ngOds mOraLiTy dOeSnt cHanGe, hE jUsT dEaLs wItH hUmAns diFFeReNtlY nOw. \nYeah when someone deals with people differently than they did before we generally call that \"a change.\"",
">\n\nAnd he wasn’t trans??? Maybe it’s been priests all along that governors should be banning. When will they correct their mistake? /s",
">\n\nDoesn'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...",
">\n\nIt's surprising. Who prints out their own nudes?",
">\n\nLock him up and throw away the keys",
">\n\nDarn priests, at least those protestant ministers keep it in the family",
">\n\nNot surprised.",
">\n\nThree hail marys and all is forgiven. What a load of bs",
">\n\nJust one bad apple, I’m sure.",
">\n\nLeast paedophilic priest",
">\n\n…slideshow?",
">\n\nGod works in mysterious ways ya fuckin chomo. As a priest, he of all people should have seen this coming...",
">\n\nIn other news, water is wet",
">\n\nOnly five years...",
">\n\n”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.” \nಠ_ಠ",
">\n\nI don’t remember this plotline during Doubt…",
">\n\nWe keep letting them get away with it, so they keep doing it. More obvious news at 10.",
">\n\n& once they found him out he got made a cardinal",
">\n\nHe should've kept them in the garage with his Corvette",
">\n\n5 years? If nothing else, using PowerPoint should have been an aggravating factor.",
">\n\nAnd you thought looking at Bob's family vacation pics was a bad time",
">\n\nWhen 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.",
">\n\nHow is the Roman Catholic Church not closed down for enabling and protecting child abusers",
">\n\nAre 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.",
">\n\nIt'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.",
">\n\npapabile!",
">\n\nLeft nudes on a shared printer? Rookie mistake.",
">\n\nTeach your priests just enough tech to effectively turn themselves in.",
">\n\nIsn't it something how the church decided to investigate themselves again. Keep it in the family, guys.\nI 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.",
">\n\nIs 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:\n1 - 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\n2 - 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)\n3 - 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.\nTL;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.",
">\n\nLet me guess.\nMoved to a different church at the other side of the country and that’s about it for consequences?",
">\n\nThose damned drag queens strike again.",
">\n\nI mean that’s kinda how they caught BTK",
">\n\nSo priests are still abusing kids after we didn't do anything to them the last few times we caught them? Color me surprised.",
">\n\n\nCourt 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.\"\n\n...\n\nDuring 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. \n\n...\n\nAnd 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. \n\nFuck everyone that allowed this scum to continue in a position of authority.",
">\n\nDon’t hear this happening at drag shows…j/s",
">\n\nHe put the PDF in pedofile",
">\n\nThis is Fucking ridiculous",
">\n\nNever forget who the actual groomers are",
">\n\nThe proud boys will be outside of churches \"protesting\" with guns now, right? right?",
">\n\nA priest being pedophile? But that is absolutely unheard of, say it isn't so!",
">\n\nYou sure this wasn't at a Trans drag show? GOP is sure this happens at Trans dragsl shows",
">\n\nExcommunicated by PowerPoint",
">\n\n5 years and a fine? FFS, that’s ridiculous.",
">\n\nPraise Jesus!",
">\n\nAnd the right thinks kids going to drag shows are the problem",
">\n\nAverage christian.",
">\n\nbut the drag queens are reading books to children in libraries! The madnessss",
">\n\nSo they moved him to a new church. This is what they have always done.",
">\n\nleast pedophilic priest:",
">\n\nThe dead ones dont hurt anyone.",
">\n\ninto the furnace he goes. theres no rehabbing people like this.",
">\n\nIt's always the ones you least expect..",
">\n\nOr in this case, the ones you MOST suspect",
">\n\nlol ya, I said that with sarcasm..",
">\n\nPray that he gets nut cancer.",
">\n\nNut cancer was once described to me as \"the common cold of cancers\". It has something like a 95% survival rate.\nHe deserves worse.",
">\n\nDidn't know that. Good nut fact for the day.",
">\n\nIt's definitely the drag queens reading to kids in libraries that's the problem.",
">\n\nRight wingers want him to be a closeted drag queen so badly",
">\n\nI could never trust any man who goes into priesthood. Completely unnatural and deviant occupation rife with pedophiles.",
">\n\nThis MONSTER got 5 years?! \nThe CHILDREN being abused in the images will suffer for the rest of their lives!!\nI'm in favor of LIFE SENTENCES for child sex offenders. \nOr better yet, the DEATH PENALTY!!",
">\n\nReligion was invented by Man for Control of the Flock.You go to Confession and tell the priest everything so they can determine how to undress you.\nI was once a Catholic.....born, baptised, confirmed and educated in a Grammar school run by Irish Christian Brothers under the Order of Edmund Ignatius Rice......and now I'm an atheist.",
">\n\nHow come it is always ‘Christians’ who are involved in child sex abuse?",
">\n\nOf course he's a pedo, he's a priest!",
">\n\nYes millions of idiots keep donating billions to the church",
">\n\nNot simply donating, they bring their children along, indoctrinate them that the priest is the speaker of God, and that God can do no wrong, so anything the priest dose is holy and good. The priest even says so!\nAnd when the kids bring it up the first few times weird things happen? The parents tell them to shush. And so, the sacrifices continue, the parents make a show of not knowing, and things get worse for the children.\nAnd if the priest is reported, the church just moves them to a different parish.\nThe only difference between the taliban and the catholic church, is one of them advertises the child slaves as a benefit, while the other pretends it's not (but totally encourages it, top to bottom).",
">\n\nAnd who are the groomers again?",
">\n\nThis is what happens when you don’t recycle your printer papers.",
">\n\nI feel like this isn't oniony enough, everyone knows by now that priests are significantly more likely to be pedophiles than the general population.",
">\n\nSure, but “gets caught by leaving nudes on a printer” is a fairly onion-y end.",
">\n\nYa know you're right",
">\n\nI have a theory about the correlation between priests and pedophiles. This is my opinion based on conversations with a childhood friend (not a pedo) and is only my opinion but could explain why so many priests abuse children. Get your down votes ready. \nThese boys grow up in the church and it is all they know for the most part. When going through puberty we become attracted to a gender (male or female gay or straight sometimes somewhere in between) and more often a \"type\" as well (blonde brunette short tall etc). Our hormones drive us to seek companionship, intimacy, and ultimately procreation. \nThese boys growing up never develop this attraction to their peers but rather feel more comfortable around younger children and usually behave as mentors. The combination of love of church and disinterest in peers puts the thought in their heads that priesthood is their calling. It takes a long time and effort to become a priest. There are easier paths if a guy just wants to bang kids.\nPut together lack of sex or release of biological needs with access and constant contact with children and they are basically pushed over the edge.\nTo sum up, pedophiles don't become priests to molest children, they become priests because they don't realize they are pedophiles. This is just my opinion, and obviously there are also exceptions to this.\nPerhaps the solution is to get rid of this nonsense celibacy.",
">\n\nAlternative theory: pedophiles become priests because they know the Catholic Church will support and hide them from accountability. Plus, all those altar boys have been easy pickings for decades. \nOn the positive side, Catholic Churches are closing all over Missouri because of dwindling congregations.",
">\n\nThis is one crime I’ll never be able to fathom.",
">\n\nSo fucking sick advocating for this monster so he can maintain freedom?",
">\n\nThe church has been so infiltrated by Child abusers that they are currently rating worse than Satan Worshippers",
">\n\nCan we just fuck churches off now???",
">\n\nYour tithing had to go somewhere.",
">\n\nHow come republicans are not calling these people groomers?",
">\n\nIs anyone else picturing the scene in the first Scary Movie where the cop asks Anna Faris to look at some pictures?\nPriest hands out the pictures of himself along with the weekly pamphlet. Maybe the first reading is from the Song of Solomon...",
">\n\nOh shit. \nHas he been quietly shuffled to a new church yet?",
">\n\nI'm old enough that when I see \"slideshow\" I think of him arranging physical slides in a carousel to project on a screen, like the family trip to Disneyland. Maybe invite the neighbors over for cake.",
">\n\nLord above why is this a thing",
">\n\nYou mean not a drag queen?",
">\n\nActual groomers.",
">\n\nJust think the hands that wanked to kiddie pr0n put wafers on the tongues of everyone in that congregation...",
">\n\nLMAO. This slightly ambiguous headline had me thinking “who attended these slideshow presentations?”",
">\n\nOh look another pedophile catholic priest. Good job reinforcing that stereotype.",
">\n\nAnd we should take guidance from those who hide these atrocities so we can live a better life in the eyes of god.",
">\n\nFriendly reminder religion is a mistake that deserves to be taxed. If you threatened to tax zealots tomorrow child molestation by priests would drop to zero",
">\n\nmay your mother smile as you burn",
">\n\nThis is what happens when you have unchecked power for thousands of years.\nHorrifying.",
">\n\nDid he learn this behavior from a drag show? /s",
">\n\nReminds me of something Chris Rock said: \"Where do women find the porn? They don't find it in your hiding place, they find it in the VCR\"",
">\n\nHe was also probably saving up for a trip to Disney World.",
">\n\n\nincluding child pornography and images of child erotica.\n\nI want to know the difference but don't want to get on a watchlist by googling it.",
">\n\nWithout the word child there, there's a difference in degree. I'd say it's the same thing with that word in there just describing the subject depicted. Pornography is generally actual sex acts of some form or another. Erotica falls short of that, it may be arousing or suggestive. For example, a cabaret show may be erotica but it's certainly not pornography.",
">\n\nPriest? Church? Man in a tax evasion party house?",
">\n\nYet the church immediately moved him somewhere else as there was a daycare next door to the church, then offered to pay to have the priest under house arrest so that the child predator won't go to jail.",
">\n\nShittiest Ted Talk I’ve ever seen, honestly…",
">\n\nOnly five years?! \nUgh!",
">\n\nAnd they call LGBT+ people groomers. (eyeroll)",
">\n\nAnyone who has ever been to a church sadly knows this doesn't need to be in this sub for us to know it's a real story.",
">\n\nOh how nice. The Reverend pleaded for him not to be incarcerated. Because of fucking course he did.",
">\n\nCurious as to who he was presenting this to",
">\n\nPunish these assholes they are smearing God's name",
">\n\nStraight to (checks notes) your next parish!",
">\n\nreligion and sexual abuse. name a more iconic duo\nwhy are any of these religions even allowed to exist any more\nthey have long since lost their meanings, and onlt serve to syphon money out of gullible people, and abuse their children\nwhat is any of these religions actually adding to society any more? other than more perverted monsters",
">\n\nHe’s not the only one",
">\n\nWhy is no big tv news channel talking about this?",
">\n\nAsked that he not go to prison & that his congregation pay to house him? Fuck the church. That's almost the most disgusting part of this",
">\n\nSo are we talking a pptx or an old-school film Rolodex version? Both are messed up, but one takes A LOT more effort.",
">\n\nThe catholic church is of Satan.",
">\n\nFaith is of \"Satan.\" The idea that assuming you might be wrong is morally wrong produces some of the worst people imaginable. And that applies to secular ideologies that require looking down on those who disagree or are unsure too.",
">\n\nAge of priest over/under 50\nWhat yall got?\nI have the over.",
">\n\nOnly 5 years?",
">\n\nRight for some reason i read it as slide show meaning projectors haha. I forgot Powerpoint presentations are a thing.",
">\n\nThe congregation still requested he be spared incarceration and remain in their facility. Truly unbelievable.",
">\n\nThose damn drag queens framed him",
">\n\nThey really put a lot of effort into not saying that he was catholic in that article.",
">\n\nWonder what congregation hes been moved to now?",
">\n\nAny outrage from republicans? Will they arm themselves and storm the churches?....... Didn't think so.",
">\n\nA Christian pedophile? Who could have guessed?",
">\n\nIm shocked! Shocked I say!\nWell... not that shocked.",
">\n\nI appreciate that the church cooperated and turned him in. However, the fact they wanted to pay to house him, out of the parish coffers, is insane. He deserves incarceration and certainly not a retirement paid for by parishioners of the church he victimized. Smh, a great step for the church, if only as a PR exercise, would be to strongly condemn this sort of behavior AND strongly punish it. Defrock and excommunicate any priest who does this. It’s a very easy choice that frankly could help reinstill a little confidence in the church.",
">\n\nOFF WITH HIS GOD DAMNED FUCKING HEAD",
">\n\nWhy so quick and painless?",
">\n\nYou know you’re actually right.. OFF WITH HIS GOD DAMNED FUCKING HEAD WITH A RUSTY PAPERCLIP",
">\n\nRight to jail",
">\n\nToday on why religious institutions should be abolished",
">\n\nAnd the right won't say a thing about this man.",
">\n\nHow Catholics still a thing ?",
">\n\nAnd the Church will cover it up or just say they are very sorry 🤬",
">\n\nThe provincial says everything right…he doesn’t excuse the guy, doesn’t obfuscate what he did or what it’s gravely evil…right up until he asks for house arrest. Fuck that. Whatever the harshest penalty allowed is, do that.",
">\n\nSo just regular church stuff really",
">\n\nChurch is a haven for predators!!!",
">\n\nI used to be Catholic, but stories like this make me hate the church more every day.",
">\n\nCan we just end this disgusting church already? Can you imagine ONE Walmart manager raping children? Now try to imagine MORE THAN THREE THOUSAND Walmart managers raping children. \nStill gonna shop at Walmart?",
">\n\nBut somehow these religious psychos get away with this and convince their followers to kill LGBTQ+ people. Fuck religion, fuck all churches, we need it out of our society.",
">\n\nExcommunicate from the order and earth.",
">\n\nOnly 5 years is the wild part to me.",
">\n\nHow have we not outlawed and burned down the obvious pedophile cult? \nIf there’s no such thing as a good cop, there’s no such thing as a good priest.",
">\n\nHead first into a wood chipper…no amnesty for pedophiles!",
">\n\nBe a shame if he stopped breathing and any and everybody associated with leadership stopped breathing also!!!",
">\n\nThis kind of shit is why atheism sucks, this fuckers evil soul needs a little eternal torture. Yes yes, I know we're only incredibly flawed hairless apes a couple of toes out of the jungle but fuck man this guy sucks.",
">\n\nA priest has made a move to a new parish so that he may focus on bringing the gospel to a new group! The church is excited to help him accel and even provided the funds to move him across the country. Though he'll be in a new town where no one knows him, the church as said they're sure he'll fir in quickly! \nOr something like that.",
">\n\nFive Years.",
">\n\ni’m shocked",
">\n\nAmazing pp hasn’t been banished yet",
">\n\n5 years? That's it?",
">\n\nGood lord"
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"Slideshows????? What?\nMy man just opened up cp.ppt and added a few THOUSAND slides of kiddy porn????\nClippy: it looks like youre a depraved predator. Do you want to profane the church as well?",
">\n\nWell I always did believe Power Point was a creation of a malevolent entity.",
">\n\nTuring complete, no less!",
">\n\nBut can it run Doom?",
">\n\nAnything can run doom",
">\n\nBut can Doom run Doom?",
">\n\nDoom can run Doom because Doom runs Doom when Doom runs.",
">\n\nPeople don't run Doom like it is, but it Doom.",
">\n\nGonna take this moment to highly recommend the film Spotlight to any who haven’t seen it",
">\n\nCheck out the 2017 limited series on either Netflix or Prime: \"The Keepers\" about a Baltimore-area Catholic girls' school. Based on the experiences as told by some of the girls, now middle-aged women. It is NOT nice, will make you cry, will enrage you. But I commend the women who made this documentary for as painful as it was for the audience to watch, I can't imagine how they made it thru. And they brought it around to a decent ending, but wow....I think some of what happened in Baltimore bled over into the Spotlight story.\nLapsed Catholic. I cannot reconcile with the Church hierarchy over this because they have behaved satanically for far too long to make me believe they are holy in any way.",
">\n\nThere was a documentary that came out a year or two ago tbzg sounds similar but men who were molested as kids while in the church. \nI honestly don't know how anyone can still support the church. At all. If it was one priest, sure. It's sad it happened, but pedophiles will always exist and find ways to get to kids.\nBut with how often it happens and with how little the church cares? Nope. I never could be catholic even if I was Christian.",
">\n\nBecause saving souls bringing them into their cult is more valuable than the ones they crush. The Vatican last I heard had 7 pedos protecting by not complying with extradition requests. \nAny organization not willing to comply with the laws of the country where they have a tax exempt status should lose their exemption and title to any property they own. If you RICO cartel and mafia assets, then you can do so for these child abusers and their protective association. \nYou know the church owns most of Manhattan and isn't paying taxes? All that money and we have to tolerate this shit? Nah fuck them.",
">\n\nNude pix on the church printer . . . I can imagine the scene.\nSister Mary Michael: Yo, does anyone recognize this tallywhacker?\nFormer Alter Boy Brian: Yeah, that's Father Jim. I'd know that hairy mole anywhere.",
">\n\nThat's Tommy Turner's tallywhacker",
">\n\nIf Reddit still gave free awards, I'd give one to you for catching the reference.",
">\n\nWAIT when did they get rid of the free awards",
">\n\nguess this is how i found out. last i claimed mine is around last week, i think. i only claim once every two weeks to gild certain biweekly thread lul",
">\n\nAnd yet where are all the \"anti-groomers\" protesting these churches?",
">\n\nIt’s almost like it has never actually been about protecting children, and it’s always been about trying to demonize LGBT people",
">\n\nAt this point I am positive the religious right to life thing is about having more targets.",
">\n\nGlad 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?",
">\n\nAfter 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.",
">\n\nI 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.\nThere are also many who truly believe the schtick and just compartmentalize the bad stuff. Both are to blame regardless. Nobody gets a pass.",
">\n\nI could see that with some of the smaller denominations for sure.\nWhen 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.",
">\n\n*making another streak to the tally list wall\n*camera panning out to reveal a huge fucking wall coveres in streaks",
">\n\nMan 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.\nThat said. This man should burn for this",
">\n\nPriest? Pedo? Are you sure? This is unprecedented",
">\n\nCorrection! PedoPreist",
">\n\nNew name not necessary. If anything there should be a name for the unique priests that arent pedos.",
">\n\nI'm inclined to think the majority of priests aren't child predators themselves.\nThe 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.\nWay, way too many of them are pedo-enablers. All the way up...",
">\n\nThen that would mean that... Gasp\nSouth Park was right all along....\nSneaky little bastards didn't think I would notice....",
">\n\nWish I was surprised",
">\n\nYou make slideshows of images? \nEdit: \nOh wait I see what you mean. Yeah the pedophile priest thing is so expected that only the slideshow bit stood out",
">\n\nHoly hell. Priest have normalized pedophilia.",
">\n\nNot just priests. Protestant Christians have a major problem with sexual abuse too, particularly against children.\nAfter Major Investigation, Southern Baptists Confront the Abuse Crisis They Knew Was Coming\nDon't let the Evangelical pedo defenders get away with claiming that Catholicism is the only issue here. It isn't.",
">\n\n\nnone of them are immune to the depravity.\n\nAlmost implied, really.",
">\n\nCould 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?",
">\n\nA variety of factors:\n\nUnquestioned moral authority and intense trust from a large community who have all been taught to obey church authorities\nSupport from a massive extremely powerful institution that has covered up thousands of similar crimes\nStrictly forbidden to marry, have sex, or iirc even masturbate, making them view all sexual activities as similarly taboo for them\nEasy regular access to many children\nEasy ability to get alone time with children\nPriests are only held institutionally accountable to each other and to those with more authority in the church\nVictims 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\nChildren 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\nThe 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\nThe 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\n\nThat'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.”\nP.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.\nWant 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.\nEdit to add this excellent way to protect kids that churches consistently fight against:\n\n“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.\nchildren 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.”",
">\n\nSo this should be buried enough if I speak in general terms.\nYears back one of our pastors had to give up being a pastor. They didn't get into details of what he did but they did stress that kids were not involved. The whole church could be seen relaxing.",
">\n\n5 years for thousands of child porn images and videos? Seems pretty fucking light to me. This piece of shit should die in prison.",
">\n\n5 years and a ticket to heaven",
">\n\nHeaven? For him?",
">\n\nThat'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.",
">\n\nDon't you also have to be truly repentant for your sins, including making a good faith effort to keep from repeating them?",
">\n\nI would love for someone to answer this because I really want to know, too.",
">\n\nyes I'm pretty sure that's it. God sees people's hearts He should know the diff between true repentance and fake one",
">\n\nYes, assuming an all-powerful God existed, he’d be able to pretty easily know if you were truly sorry.",
">\n\nYeah but......... \nI'm just starting the religious apologist's sentence for them.",
">\n\nFor 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.",
">\n\nOne 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.",
">\n\nOnce I heard this theory, the acceptance by conservatives of people whose behavior is in direct conflict with their moral beliefs, made more sense.",
">\n\n5 holly maries and transfer\nafter 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.\nRev. 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.\"\nMcDevitt asked the presiding judge for \"mercy for Jim,\" and even offered for the congregation to pay to house him in lieu of imprisonment.\n\"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.\"\n\"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.\"",
">\n\nIn Australia at the moment there is a furore after the death of Cardinal George Pell who was convicted (then exonerated) of personally abusing children, but was found by a Royal Commission (that would be a special prosecutor for our American friends?) of enabling and protecting paedophile priests for decades.\nCan honestly say I have not been able to listen to the string of \"Christians\" praising this man in our media for the last few days without wanting to puke. Suffer the little children.",
">\n\nWith you there. At least there’s a lot of people calling his supporters out on this. Fuck Tony Abbott, John Howard and Andrew Bolt to name a few.",
">\n\nI 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!",
">\n\nr/PastorArrested (also includes Priests)",
">\n\nDon'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.",
">\n\nIf there is a god, wtf?",
">\n\nThere is no God. Religion is about control and money",
">\n\nAnd more money",
">\n\n\"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.\" \n- Rev. Patrick McDevitt, provincial superior for the Congregation of the Western Province \n\nEvery single member of that congregation is a horrible piece of shit",
">\n\nWhat 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?",
">\n\n“Drag queens are grooming our youth!!!”",
">\n\n\"I think we all know where people put on dresses and fuck kids\"\n-Trixie Mattel, 2022",
">\n\nKid “Bless me Father, for I have sinned”\nPadre “ call me, maybe?”",
">\n\nImagine my shock to discover that a priest has been involved in a sex scandal and one involving the exploitation of children, at that.",
">\n\nGOP: \"But wuttabout drag queens?!?!?!??!\"",
">\n\nDoing the Lords work 🙏🏾",
">\n\nTax-free",
">\n\nWhat's the deal with priests being so into pedophilia? Can't they look at milf pounds like normal people?",
">\n\nOh look... Another priest with child porn ... When do we get to start taxing the church?",
">\n\nr/pastorarrested",
">\n\nChurch is a scary place, especially for children.",
">\n\nI 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.",
">\n\nOnly 5 years. What a joke.",
">\n\n\nThe 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.\n\nIf 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.",
">\n\nNo one is suprised a priest is a pedophile. \nBut printing out yer nudes? That's odd.",
">\n\nI can think of a reason he printed it out. And I really don't like that reason.",
">\n\nI'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.",
">\n\nThe sheer audacity to do it at church where you work",
">\n\nAnd not a drag queen in sight...",
">\n\nThey do kinda wear dresses, though",
">\n\nToo many “coincidences” within this church to be anything other than systematic",
">\n\nPretty 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.",
">\n\n\nThe data often suggests numbers of pedophiles similar to the general population\n\none 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",
">\n\nYeah, 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.",
">\n\nI 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.",
">\n\nIt's so common for priests to be sickos",
">\n\nGross",
">\n\nAll he needs to do is repent, right?!?",
">\n\nA priest? With kiddie porn? I’ve never heard of such a thing!",
">\n\nRemember 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.",
">\n\n5 years that's all he got",
">\n\nThat's fucking disgusting. Misappropriation of office materials.",
">\n\nIt 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",
">\n\nIdiot 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.",
">\n\nso 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.",
">\n\nI 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 🤷♂️",
">\n\n5 years isnt nearly enough. Lock him up forever and a day.",
">\n\n~~Drag shows~~ Churches are not safe for children",
">\n\nI'm sure the religious Right will be out protesting him any second.\nRight? Right guys? Groomers and all this? Qanons? Where you guys at?\nHuh. Weird.",
">\n\nBut the dragqueens guys?!?!?!??!? /s",
">\n\nWeird that so many god loving people are actually just pedophiles. Wonder what they think god thinks of them. Fuck theism.",
">\n\nTheir god tells them to take the young girls as spoils of war. Their god is just as fucking depraved as they are.",
">\n\ntHaTs jUsT tHe oLd tEsTaMeNt tHoUgh.\ngOds mOraLiTy dOeSnt cHanGe, hE jUsT dEaLs wItH hUmAns diFFeReNtlY nOw. \nYeah when someone deals with people differently than they did before we generally call that \"a change.\"",
">\n\nAnd he wasn’t trans??? Maybe it’s been priests all along that governors should be banning. When will they correct their mistake? /s",
">\n\nDoesn'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...",
">\n\nIt's surprising. Who prints out their own nudes?",
">\n\nLock him up and throw away the keys",
">\n\nDarn priests, at least those protestant ministers keep it in the family",
">\n\nNot surprised.",
">\n\nThree hail marys and all is forgiven. What a load of bs",
">\n\nJust one bad apple, I’m sure.",
">\n\nLeast paedophilic priest",
">\n\n…slideshow?",
">\n\nGod works in mysterious ways ya fuckin chomo. As a priest, he of all people should have seen this coming...",
">\n\nIn other news, water is wet",
">\n\nOnly five years...",
">\n\n”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.” \nಠ_ಠ",
">\n\nI don’t remember this plotline during Doubt…",
">\n\nWe keep letting them get away with it, so they keep doing it. More obvious news at 10.",
">\n\n& once they found him out he got made a cardinal",
">\n\nHe should've kept them in the garage with his Corvette",
">\n\n5 years? If nothing else, using PowerPoint should have been an aggravating factor.",
">\n\nAnd you thought looking at Bob's family vacation pics was a bad time",
">\n\nWhen 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.",
">\n\nHow is the Roman Catholic Church not closed down for enabling and protecting child abusers",
">\n\nAre 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.",
">\n\nIt'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.",
">\n\npapabile!",
">\n\nLeft nudes on a shared printer? Rookie mistake.",
">\n\nTeach your priests just enough tech to effectively turn themselves in.",
">\n\nIsn't it something how the church decided to investigate themselves again. Keep it in the family, guys.\nI 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.",
">\n\nIs 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:\n1 - 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\n2 - 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)\n3 - 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.\nTL;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.",
">\n\nLet me guess.\nMoved to a different church at the other side of the country and that’s about it for consequences?",
">\n\nThose damned drag queens strike again.",
">\n\nI mean that’s kinda how they caught BTK",
">\n\nSo priests are still abusing kids after we didn't do anything to them the last few times we caught them? Color me surprised.",
">\n\n\nCourt 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.\"\n\n...\n\nDuring 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. \n\n...\n\nAnd 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. \n\nFuck everyone that allowed this scum to continue in a position of authority.",
">\n\nDon’t hear this happening at drag shows…j/s",
">\n\nHe put the PDF in pedofile",
">\n\nThis is Fucking ridiculous",
">\n\nNever forget who the actual groomers are",
">\n\nThe proud boys will be outside of churches \"protesting\" with guns now, right? right?",
">\n\nA priest being pedophile? But that is absolutely unheard of, say it isn't so!",
">\n\nYou sure this wasn't at a Trans drag show? GOP is sure this happens at Trans dragsl shows",
">\n\nExcommunicated by PowerPoint",
">\n\n5 years and a fine? FFS, that’s ridiculous.",
">\n\nPraise Jesus!",
">\n\nAnd the right thinks kids going to drag shows are the problem",
">\n\nAverage christian.",
">\n\nbut the drag queens are reading books to children in libraries! The madnessss",
">\n\nSo they moved him to a new church. This is what they have always done.",
">\n\nleast pedophilic priest:",
">\n\nThe dead ones dont hurt anyone.",
">\n\ninto the furnace he goes. theres no rehabbing people like this.",
">\n\nIt's always the ones you least expect..",
">\n\nOr in this case, the ones you MOST suspect",
">\n\nlol ya, I said that with sarcasm..",
">\n\nPray that he gets nut cancer.",
">\n\nNut cancer was once described to me as \"the common cold of cancers\". It has something like a 95% survival rate.\nHe deserves worse.",
">\n\nDidn't know that. Good nut fact for the day.",
">\n\nIt's definitely the drag queens reading to kids in libraries that's the problem.",
">\n\nRight wingers want him to be a closeted drag queen so badly",
">\n\nI could never trust any man who goes into priesthood. Completely unnatural and deviant occupation rife with pedophiles.",
">\n\nThis MONSTER got 5 years?! \nThe CHILDREN being abused in the images will suffer for the rest of their lives!!\nI'm in favor of LIFE SENTENCES for child sex offenders. \nOr better yet, the DEATH PENALTY!!",
">\n\nReligion was invented by Man for Control of the Flock.You go to Confession and tell the priest everything so they can determine how to undress you.\nI was once a Catholic.....born, baptised, confirmed and educated in a Grammar school run by Irish Christian Brothers under the Order of Edmund Ignatius Rice......and now I'm an atheist.",
">\n\nHow come it is always ‘Christians’ who are involved in child sex abuse?",
">\n\nOf course he's a pedo, he's a priest!",
">\n\nYes millions of idiots keep donating billions to the church",
">\n\nNot simply donating, they bring their children along, indoctrinate them that the priest is the speaker of God, and that God can do no wrong, so anything the priest dose is holy and good. The priest even says so!\nAnd when the kids bring it up the first few times weird things happen? The parents tell them to shush. And so, the sacrifices continue, the parents make a show of not knowing, and things get worse for the children.\nAnd if the priest is reported, the church just moves them to a different parish.\nThe only difference between the taliban and the catholic church, is one of them advertises the child slaves as a benefit, while the other pretends it's not (but totally encourages it, top to bottom).",
">\n\nAnd who are the groomers again?",
">\n\nThis is what happens when you don’t recycle your printer papers.",
">\n\nI feel like this isn't oniony enough, everyone knows by now that priests are significantly more likely to be pedophiles than the general population.",
">\n\nSure, but “gets caught by leaving nudes on a printer” is a fairly onion-y end.",
">\n\nYa know you're right",
">\n\nI have a theory about the correlation between priests and pedophiles. This is my opinion based on conversations with a childhood friend (not a pedo) and is only my opinion but could explain why so many priests abuse children. Get your down votes ready. \nThese boys grow up in the church and it is all they know for the most part. When going through puberty we become attracted to a gender (male or female gay or straight sometimes somewhere in between) and more often a \"type\" as well (blonde brunette short tall etc). Our hormones drive us to seek companionship, intimacy, and ultimately procreation. \nThese boys growing up never develop this attraction to their peers but rather feel more comfortable around younger children and usually behave as mentors. The combination of love of church and disinterest in peers puts the thought in their heads that priesthood is their calling. It takes a long time and effort to become a priest. There are easier paths if a guy just wants to bang kids.\nPut together lack of sex or release of biological needs with access and constant contact with children and they are basically pushed over the edge.\nTo sum up, pedophiles don't become priests to molest children, they become priests because they don't realize they are pedophiles. This is just my opinion, and obviously there are also exceptions to this.\nPerhaps the solution is to get rid of this nonsense celibacy.",
">\n\nAlternative theory: pedophiles become priests because they know the Catholic Church will support and hide them from accountability. Plus, all those altar boys have been easy pickings for decades. \nOn the positive side, Catholic Churches are closing all over Missouri because of dwindling congregations.",
">\n\nThis is one crime I’ll never be able to fathom.",
">\n\nSo fucking sick advocating for this monster so he can maintain freedom?",
">\n\nThe church has been so infiltrated by Child abusers that they are currently rating worse than Satan Worshippers",
">\n\nCan we just fuck churches off now???",
">\n\nYour tithing had to go somewhere.",
">\n\nHow come republicans are not calling these people groomers?",
">\n\nIs anyone else picturing the scene in the first Scary Movie where the cop asks Anna Faris to look at some pictures?\nPriest hands out the pictures of himself along with the weekly pamphlet. Maybe the first reading is from the Song of Solomon...",
">\n\nOh shit. \nHas he been quietly shuffled to a new church yet?",
">\n\nI'm old enough that when I see \"slideshow\" I think of him arranging physical slides in a carousel to project on a screen, like the family trip to Disneyland. Maybe invite the neighbors over for cake.",
">\n\nLord above why is this a thing",
">\n\nYou mean not a drag queen?",
">\n\nActual groomers.",
">\n\nJust think the hands that wanked to kiddie pr0n put wafers on the tongues of everyone in that congregation...",
">\n\nLMAO. This slightly ambiguous headline had me thinking “who attended these slideshow presentations?”",
">\n\nOh look another pedophile catholic priest. Good job reinforcing that stereotype.",
">\n\nAnd we should take guidance from those who hide these atrocities so we can live a better life in the eyes of god.",
">\n\nFriendly reminder religion is a mistake that deserves to be taxed. If you threatened to tax zealots tomorrow child molestation by priests would drop to zero",
">\n\nmay your mother smile as you burn",
">\n\nThis is what happens when you have unchecked power for thousands of years.\nHorrifying.",
">\n\nDid he learn this behavior from a drag show? /s",
">\n\nReminds me of something Chris Rock said: \"Where do women find the porn? They don't find it in your hiding place, they find it in the VCR\"",
">\n\nHe was also probably saving up for a trip to Disney World.",
">\n\n\nincluding child pornography and images of child erotica.\n\nI want to know the difference but don't want to get on a watchlist by googling it.",
">\n\nWithout the word child there, there's a difference in degree. I'd say it's the same thing with that word in there just describing the subject depicted. Pornography is generally actual sex acts of some form or another. Erotica falls short of that, it may be arousing or suggestive. For example, a cabaret show may be erotica but it's certainly not pornography.",
">\n\nPriest? Church? Man in a tax evasion party house?",
">\n\nYet the church immediately moved him somewhere else as there was a daycare next door to the church, then offered to pay to have the priest under house arrest so that the child predator won't go to jail.",
">\n\nShittiest Ted Talk I’ve ever seen, honestly…",
">\n\nOnly five years?! \nUgh!",
">\n\nAnd they call LGBT+ people groomers. (eyeroll)",
">\n\nAnyone who has ever been to a church sadly knows this doesn't need to be in this sub for us to know it's a real story.",
">\n\nOh how nice. The Reverend pleaded for him not to be incarcerated. Because of fucking course he did.",
">\n\nCurious as to who he was presenting this to",
">\n\nPunish these assholes they are smearing God's name",
">\n\nStraight to (checks notes) your next parish!",
">\n\nreligion and sexual abuse. name a more iconic duo\nwhy are any of these religions even allowed to exist any more\nthey have long since lost their meanings, and onlt serve to syphon money out of gullible people, and abuse their children\nwhat is any of these religions actually adding to society any more? other than more perverted monsters",
">\n\nHe’s not the only one",
">\n\nWhy is no big tv news channel talking about this?",
">\n\nAsked that he not go to prison & that his congregation pay to house him? Fuck the church. That's almost the most disgusting part of this",
">\n\nSo are we talking a pptx or an old-school film Rolodex version? Both are messed up, but one takes A LOT more effort.",
">\n\nThe catholic church is of Satan.",
">\n\nFaith is of \"Satan.\" The idea that assuming you might be wrong is morally wrong produces some of the worst people imaginable. And that applies to secular ideologies that require looking down on those who disagree or are unsure too.",
">\n\nAge of priest over/under 50\nWhat yall got?\nI have the over.",
">\n\nOnly 5 years?",
">\n\nRight for some reason i read it as slide show meaning projectors haha. I forgot Powerpoint presentations are a thing.",
">\n\nThe congregation still requested he be spared incarceration and remain in their facility. Truly unbelievable.",
">\n\nThose damn drag queens framed him",
">\n\nThey really put a lot of effort into not saying that he was catholic in that article.",
">\n\nWonder what congregation hes been moved to now?",
">\n\nAny outrage from republicans? Will they arm themselves and storm the churches?....... Didn't think so.",
">\n\nA Christian pedophile? Who could have guessed?",
">\n\nIm shocked! Shocked I say!\nWell... not that shocked.",
">\n\nI appreciate that the church cooperated and turned him in. However, the fact they wanted to pay to house him, out of the parish coffers, is insane. He deserves incarceration and certainly not a retirement paid for by parishioners of the church he victimized. Smh, a great step for the church, if only as a PR exercise, would be to strongly condemn this sort of behavior AND strongly punish it. Defrock and excommunicate any priest who does this. It’s a very easy choice that frankly could help reinstill a little confidence in the church.",
">\n\nOFF WITH HIS GOD DAMNED FUCKING HEAD",
">\n\nWhy so quick and painless?",
">\n\nYou know you’re actually right.. OFF WITH HIS GOD DAMNED FUCKING HEAD WITH A RUSTY PAPERCLIP",
">\n\nRight to jail",
">\n\nToday on why religious institutions should be abolished",
">\n\nAnd the right won't say a thing about this man.",
">\n\nHow Catholics still a thing ?",
">\n\nAnd the Church will cover it up or just say they are very sorry 🤬",
">\n\nThe provincial says everything right…he doesn’t excuse the guy, doesn’t obfuscate what he did or what it’s gravely evil…right up until he asks for house arrest. Fuck that. Whatever the harshest penalty allowed is, do that.",
">\n\nSo just regular church stuff really",
">\n\nChurch is a haven for predators!!!",
">\n\nI used to be Catholic, but stories like this make me hate the church more every day.",
">\n\nCan we just end this disgusting church already? Can you imagine ONE Walmart manager raping children? Now try to imagine MORE THAN THREE THOUSAND Walmart managers raping children. \nStill gonna shop at Walmart?",
">\n\nBut somehow these religious psychos get away with this and convince their followers to kill LGBTQ+ people. Fuck religion, fuck all churches, we need it out of our society.",
">\n\nExcommunicate from the order and earth.",
">\n\nOnly 5 years is the wild part to me.",
">\n\nHow have we not outlawed and burned down the obvious pedophile cult? \nIf there’s no such thing as a good cop, there’s no such thing as a good priest.",
">\n\nHead first into a wood chipper…no amnesty for pedophiles!",
">\n\nBe a shame if he stopped breathing and any and everybody associated with leadership stopped breathing also!!!",
">\n\nThis kind of shit is why atheism sucks, this fuckers evil soul needs a little eternal torture. Yes yes, I know we're only incredibly flawed hairless apes a couple of toes out of the jungle but fuck man this guy sucks.",
">\n\nA priest has made a move to a new parish so that he may focus on bringing the gospel to a new group! The church is excited to help him accel and even provided the funds to move him across the country. Though he'll be in a new town where no one knows him, the church as said they're sure he'll fir in quickly! \nOr something like that.",
">\n\nFive Years.",
">\n\ni’m shocked",
">\n\nAmazing pp hasn’t been banished yet",
">\n\n5 years? That's it?",
">\n\nGood lord",
">\n\noh what the fuck."
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"Slideshows????? What?\nMy man just opened up cp.ppt and added a few THOUSAND slides of kiddy porn????\nClippy: it looks like youre a depraved predator. Do you want to profane the church as well?",
">\n\nWell I always did believe Power Point was a creation of a malevolent entity.",
">\n\nTuring complete, no less!",
">\n\nBut can it run Doom?",
">\n\nAnything can run doom",
">\n\nBut can Doom run Doom?",
">\n\nDoom can run Doom because Doom runs Doom when Doom runs.",
">\n\nPeople don't run Doom like it is, but it Doom.",
">\n\nGonna take this moment to highly recommend the film Spotlight to any who haven’t seen it",
">\n\nCheck out the 2017 limited series on either Netflix or Prime: \"The Keepers\" about a Baltimore-area Catholic girls' school. Based on the experiences as told by some of the girls, now middle-aged women. It is NOT nice, will make you cry, will enrage you. But I commend the women who made this documentary for as painful as it was for the audience to watch, I can't imagine how they made it thru. And they brought it around to a decent ending, but wow....I think some of what happened in Baltimore bled over into the Spotlight story.\nLapsed Catholic. I cannot reconcile with the Church hierarchy over this because they have behaved satanically for far too long to make me believe they are holy in any way.",
">\n\nThere was a documentary that came out a year or two ago tbzg sounds similar but men who were molested as kids while in the church. \nI honestly don't know how anyone can still support the church. At all. If it was one priest, sure. It's sad it happened, but pedophiles will always exist and find ways to get to kids.\nBut with how often it happens and with how little the church cares? Nope. I never could be catholic even if I was Christian.",
">\n\nBecause saving souls bringing them into their cult is more valuable than the ones they crush. The Vatican last I heard had 7 pedos protecting by not complying with extradition requests. \nAny organization not willing to comply with the laws of the country where they have a tax exempt status should lose their exemption and title to any property they own. If you RICO cartel and mafia assets, then you can do so for these child abusers and their protective association. \nYou know the church owns most of Manhattan and isn't paying taxes? All that money and we have to tolerate this shit? Nah fuck them.",
">\n\nNude pix on the church printer . . . I can imagine the scene.\nSister Mary Michael: Yo, does anyone recognize this tallywhacker?\nFormer Alter Boy Brian: Yeah, that's Father Jim. I'd know that hairy mole anywhere.",
">\n\nThat's Tommy Turner's tallywhacker",
">\n\nIf Reddit still gave free awards, I'd give one to you for catching the reference.",
">\n\nWAIT when did they get rid of the free awards",
">\n\nguess this is how i found out. last i claimed mine is around last week, i think. i only claim once every two weeks to gild certain biweekly thread lul",
">\n\nAnd yet where are all the \"anti-groomers\" protesting these churches?",
">\n\nIt’s almost like it has never actually been about protecting children, and it’s always been about trying to demonize LGBT people",
">\n\nAt this point I am positive the religious right to life thing is about having more targets.",
">\n\nGlad 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?",
">\n\nAfter 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.",
">\n\nI 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.\nThere are also many who truly believe the schtick and just compartmentalize the bad stuff. Both are to blame regardless. Nobody gets a pass.",
">\n\nI could see that with some of the smaller denominations for sure.\nWhen 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.",
">\n\n*making another streak to the tally list wall\n*camera panning out to reveal a huge fucking wall coveres in streaks",
">\n\nMan 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.\nThat said. This man should burn for this",
">\n\nPriest? Pedo? Are you sure? This is unprecedented",
">\n\nCorrection! PedoPreist",
">\n\nNew name not necessary. If anything there should be a name for the unique priests that arent pedos.",
">\n\nI'm inclined to think the majority of priests aren't child predators themselves.\nThe 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.\nWay, way too many of them are pedo-enablers. All the way up...",
">\n\nThen that would mean that... Gasp\nSouth Park was right all along....\nSneaky little bastards didn't think I would notice....",
">\n\nWish I was surprised",
">\n\nYou make slideshows of images? \nEdit: \nOh wait I see what you mean. Yeah the pedophile priest thing is so expected that only the slideshow bit stood out",
">\n\nHoly hell. Priest have normalized pedophilia.",
">\n\nNot just priests. Protestant Christians have a major problem with sexual abuse too, particularly against children.\nAfter Major Investigation, Southern Baptists Confront the Abuse Crisis They Knew Was Coming\nDon't let the Evangelical pedo defenders get away with claiming that Catholicism is the only issue here. It isn't.",
">\n\n\nnone of them are immune to the depravity.\n\nAlmost implied, really.",
">\n\nCould 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?",
">\n\nA variety of factors:\n\nUnquestioned moral authority and intense trust from a large community who have all been taught to obey church authorities\nSupport from a massive extremely powerful institution that has covered up thousands of similar crimes\nStrictly forbidden to marry, have sex, or iirc even masturbate, making them view all sexual activities as similarly taboo for them\nEasy regular access to many children\nEasy ability to get alone time with children\nPriests are only held institutionally accountable to each other and to those with more authority in the church\nVictims 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\nChildren 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\nThe 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\nThe 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\n\nThat'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.”\nP.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.\nWant 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.\nEdit to add this excellent way to protect kids that churches consistently fight against:\n\n“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.\nchildren 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.”",
">\n\nSo this should be buried enough if I speak in general terms.\nYears back one of our pastors had to give up being a pastor. They didn't get into details of what he did but they did stress that kids were not involved. The whole church could be seen relaxing.",
">\n\n5 years for thousands of child porn images and videos? Seems pretty fucking light to me. This piece of shit should die in prison.",
">\n\n5 years and a ticket to heaven",
">\n\nHeaven? For him?",
">\n\nThat'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.",
">\n\nDon't you also have to be truly repentant for your sins, including making a good faith effort to keep from repeating them?",
">\n\nI would love for someone to answer this because I really want to know, too.",
">\n\nyes I'm pretty sure that's it. God sees people's hearts He should know the diff between true repentance and fake one",
">\n\nYes, assuming an all-powerful God existed, he’d be able to pretty easily know if you were truly sorry.",
">\n\nYeah but......... \nI'm just starting the religious apologist's sentence for them.",
">\n\nFor 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.",
">\n\nOne 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.",
">\n\nOnce I heard this theory, the acceptance by conservatives of people whose behavior is in direct conflict with their moral beliefs, made more sense.",
">\n\n5 holly maries and transfer\nafter 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.\nRev. 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.\"\nMcDevitt asked the presiding judge for \"mercy for Jim,\" and even offered for the congregation to pay to house him in lieu of imprisonment.\n\"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.\"\n\"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.\"",
">\n\nIn Australia at the moment there is a furore after the death of Cardinal George Pell who was convicted (then exonerated) of personally abusing children, but was found by a Royal Commission (that would be a special prosecutor for our American friends?) of enabling and protecting paedophile priests for decades.\nCan honestly say I have not been able to listen to the string of \"Christians\" praising this man in our media for the last few days without wanting to puke. Suffer the little children.",
">\n\nWith you there. At least there’s a lot of people calling his supporters out on this. Fuck Tony Abbott, John Howard and Andrew Bolt to name a few.",
">\n\nI 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!",
">\n\nr/PastorArrested (also includes Priests)",
">\n\nDon'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.",
">\n\nIf there is a god, wtf?",
">\n\nThere is no God. Religion is about control and money",
">\n\nAnd more money",
">\n\n\"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.\" \n- Rev. Patrick McDevitt, provincial superior for the Congregation of the Western Province \n\nEvery single member of that congregation is a horrible piece of shit",
">\n\nWhat 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?",
">\n\n“Drag queens are grooming our youth!!!”",
">\n\n\"I think we all know where people put on dresses and fuck kids\"\n-Trixie Mattel, 2022",
">\n\nKid “Bless me Father, for I have sinned”\nPadre “ call me, maybe?”",
">\n\nImagine my shock to discover that a priest has been involved in a sex scandal and one involving the exploitation of children, at that.",
">\n\nGOP: \"But wuttabout drag queens?!?!?!??!\"",
">\n\nDoing the Lords work 🙏🏾",
">\n\nTax-free",
">\n\nWhat's the deal with priests being so into pedophilia? Can't they look at milf pounds like normal people?",
">\n\nOh look... Another priest with child porn ... When do we get to start taxing the church?",
">\n\nr/pastorarrested",
">\n\nChurch is a scary place, especially for children.",
">\n\nI 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.",
">\n\nOnly 5 years. What a joke.",
">\n\n\nThe 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.\n\nIf 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.",
">\n\nNo one is suprised a priest is a pedophile. \nBut printing out yer nudes? That's odd.",
">\n\nI can think of a reason he printed it out. And I really don't like that reason.",
">\n\nI'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.",
">\n\nThe sheer audacity to do it at church where you work",
">\n\nAnd not a drag queen in sight...",
">\n\nThey do kinda wear dresses, though",
">\n\nToo many “coincidences” within this church to be anything other than systematic",
">\n\nPretty 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.",
">\n\n\nThe data often suggests numbers of pedophiles similar to the general population\n\none 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",
">\n\nYeah, 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.",
">\n\nI 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.",
">\n\nIt's so common for priests to be sickos",
">\n\nGross",
">\n\nAll he needs to do is repent, right?!?",
">\n\nA priest? With kiddie porn? I’ve never heard of such a thing!",
">\n\nRemember 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.",
">\n\n5 years that's all he got",
">\n\nThat's fucking disgusting. Misappropriation of office materials.",
">\n\nIt 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",
">\n\nIdiot 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.",
">\n\nso 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.",
">\n\nI 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 🤷♂️",
">\n\n5 years isnt nearly enough. Lock him up forever and a day.",
">\n\n~~Drag shows~~ Churches are not safe for children",
">\n\nI'm sure the religious Right will be out protesting him any second.\nRight? Right guys? Groomers and all this? Qanons? Where you guys at?\nHuh. Weird.",
">\n\nBut the dragqueens guys?!?!?!??!? /s",
">\n\nWeird that so many god loving people are actually just pedophiles. Wonder what they think god thinks of them. Fuck theism.",
">\n\nTheir god tells them to take the young girls as spoils of war. Their god is just as fucking depraved as they are.",
">\n\ntHaTs jUsT tHe oLd tEsTaMeNt tHoUgh.\ngOds mOraLiTy dOeSnt cHanGe, hE jUsT dEaLs wItH hUmAns diFFeReNtlY nOw. \nYeah when someone deals with people differently than they did before we generally call that \"a change.\"",
">\n\nAnd he wasn’t trans??? Maybe it’s been priests all along that governors should be banning. When will they correct their mistake? /s",
">\n\nDoesn'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...",
">\n\nIt's surprising. Who prints out their own nudes?",
">\n\nLock him up and throw away the keys",
">\n\nDarn priests, at least those protestant ministers keep it in the family",
">\n\nNot surprised.",
">\n\nThree hail marys and all is forgiven. What a load of bs",
">\n\nJust one bad apple, I’m sure.",
">\n\nLeast paedophilic priest",
">\n\n…slideshow?",
">\n\nGod works in mysterious ways ya fuckin chomo. As a priest, he of all people should have seen this coming...",
">\n\nIn other news, water is wet",
">\n\nOnly five years...",
">\n\n”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.” \nಠ_ಠ",
">\n\nI don’t remember this plotline during Doubt…",
">\n\nWe keep letting them get away with it, so they keep doing it. More obvious news at 10.",
">\n\n& once they found him out he got made a cardinal",
">\n\nHe should've kept them in the garage with his Corvette",
">\n\n5 years? If nothing else, using PowerPoint should have been an aggravating factor.",
">\n\nAnd you thought looking at Bob's family vacation pics was a bad time",
">\n\nWhen 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.",
">\n\nHow is the Roman Catholic Church not closed down for enabling and protecting child abusers",
">\n\nAre 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.",
">\n\nIt'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.",
">\n\npapabile!",
">\n\nLeft nudes on a shared printer? Rookie mistake.",
">\n\nTeach your priests just enough tech to effectively turn themselves in.",
">\n\nIsn't it something how the church decided to investigate themselves again. Keep it in the family, guys.\nI 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.",
">\n\nIs 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:\n1 - 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\n2 - 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)\n3 - 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.\nTL;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.",
">\n\nLet me guess.\nMoved to a different church at the other side of the country and that’s about it for consequences?",
">\n\nThose damned drag queens strike again.",
">\n\nI mean that’s kinda how they caught BTK",
">\n\nSo priests are still abusing kids after we didn't do anything to them the last few times we caught them? Color me surprised.",
">\n\n\nCourt 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.\"\n\n...\n\nDuring 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. \n\n...\n\nAnd 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. \n\nFuck everyone that allowed this scum to continue in a position of authority.",
">\n\nDon’t hear this happening at drag shows…j/s",
">\n\nHe put the PDF in pedofile",
">\n\nThis is Fucking ridiculous",
">\n\nNever forget who the actual groomers are",
">\n\nThe proud boys will be outside of churches \"protesting\" with guns now, right? right?",
">\n\nA priest being pedophile? But that is absolutely unheard of, say it isn't so!",
">\n\nYou sure this wasn't at a Trans drag show? GOP is sure this happens at Trans dragsl shows",
">\n\nExcommunicated by PowerPoint",
">\n\n5 years and a fine? FFS, that’s ridiculous.",
">\n\nPraise Jesus!",
">\n\nAnd the right thinks kids going to drag shows are the problem",
">\n\nAverage christian.",
">\n\nbut the drag queens are reading books to children in libraries! The madnessss",
">\n\nSo they moved him to a new church. This is what they have always done.",
">\n\nleast pedophilic priest:",
">\n\nThe dead ones dont hurt anyone.",
">\n\ninto the furnace he goes. theres no rehabbing people like this.",
">\n\nIt's always the ones you least expect..",
">\n\nOr in this case, the ones you MOST suspect",
">\n\nlol ya, I said that with sarcasm..",
">\n\nPray that he gets nut cancer.",
">\n\nNut cancer was once described to me as \"the common cold of cancers\". It has something like a 95% survival rate.\nHe deserves worse.",
">\n\nDidn't know that. Good nut fact for the day.",
">\n\nIt's definitely the drag queens reading to kids in libraries that's the problem.",
">\n\nRight wingers want him to be a closeted drag queen so badly",
">\n\nI could never trust any man who goes into priesthood. Completely unnatural and deviant occupation rife with pedophiles.",
">\n\nThis MONSTER got 5 years?! \nThe CHILDREN being abused in the images will suffer for the rest of their lives!!\nI'm in favor of LIFE SENTENCES for child sex offenders. \nOr better yet, the DEATH PENALTY!!",
">\n\nReligion was invented by Man for Control of the Flock.You go to Confession and tell the priest everything so they can determine how to undress you.\nI was once a Catholic.....born, baptised, confirmed and educated in a Grammar school run by Irish Christian Brothers under the Order of Edmund Ignatius Rice......and now I'm an atheist.",
">\n\nHow come it is always ‘Christians’ who are involved in child sex abuse?",
">\n\nOf course he's a pedo, he's a priest!",
">\n\nYes millions of idiots keep donating billions to the church",
">\n\nNot simply donating, they bring their children along, indoctrinate them that the priest is the speaker of God, and that God can do no wrong, so anything the priest dose is holy and good. The priest even says so!\nAnd when the kids bring it up the first few times weird things happen? The parents tell them to shush. And so, the sacrifices continue, the parents make a show of not knowing, and things get worse for the children.\nAnd if the priest is reported, the church just moves them to a different parish.\nThe only difference between the taliban and the catholic church, is one of them advertises the child slaves as a benefit, while the other pretends it's not (but totally encourages it, top to bottom).",
">\n\nAnd who are the groomers again?",
">\n\nThis is what happens when you don’t recycle your printer papers.",
">\n\nI feel like this isn't oniony enough, everyone knows by now that priests are significantly more likely to be pedophiles than the general population.",
">\n\nSure, but “gets caught by leaving nudes on a printer” is a fairly onion-y end.",
">\n\nYa know you're right",
">\n\nI have a theory about the correlation between priests and pedophiles. This is my opinion based on conversations with a childhood friend (not a pedo) and is only my opinion but could explain why so many priests abuse children. Get your down votes ready. \nThese boys grow up in the church and it is all they know for the most part. When going through puberty we become attracted to a gender (male or female gay or straight sometimes somewhere in between) and more often a \"type\" as well (blonde brunette short tall etc). Our hormones drive us to seek companionship, intimacy, and ultimately procreation. \nThese boys growing up never develop this attraction to their peers but rather feel more comfortable around younger children and usually behave as mentors. The combination of love of church and disinterest in peers puts the thought in their heads that priesthood is their calling. It takes a long time and effort to become a priest. There are easier paths if a guy just wants to bang kids.\nPut together lack of sex or release of biological needs with access and constant contact with children and they are basically pushed over the edge.\nTo sum up, pedophiles don't become priests to molest children, they become priests because they don't realize they are pedophiles. This is just my opinion, and obviously there are also exceptions to this.\nPerhaps the solution is to get rid of this nonsense celibacy.",
">\n\nAlternative theory: pedophiles become priests because they know the Catholic Church will support and hide them from accountability. Plus, all those altar boys have been easy pickings for decades. \nOn the positive side, Catholic Churches are closing all over Missouri because of dwindling congregations.",
">\n\nThis is one crime I’ll never be able to fathom.",
">\n\nSo fucking sick advocating for this monster so he can maintain freedom?",
">\n\nThe church has been so infiltrated by Child abusers that they are currently rating worse than Satan Worshippers",
">\n\nCan we just fuck churches off now???",
">\n\nYour tithing had to go somewhere.",
">\n\nHow come republicans are not calling these people groomers?",
">\n\nIs anyone else picturing the scene in the first Scary Movie where the cop asks Anna Faris to look at some pictures?\nPriest hands out the pictures of himself along with the weekly pamphlet. Maybe the first reading is from the Song of Solomon...",
">\n\nOh shit. \nHas he been quietly shuffled to a new church yet?",
">\n\nI'm old enough that when I see \"slideshow\" I think of him arranging physical slides in a carousel to project on a screen, like the family trip to Disneyland. Maybe invite the neighbors over for cake.",
">\n\nLord above why is this a thing",
">\n\nYou mean not a drag queen?",
">\n\nActual groomers.",
">\n\nJust think the hands that wanked to kiddie pr0n put wafers on the tongues of everyone in that congregation...",
">\n\nLMAO. This slightly ambiguous headline had me thinking “who attended these slideshow presentations?”",
">\n\nOh look another pedophile catholic priest. Good job reinforcing that stereotype.",
">\n\nAnd we should take guidance from those who hide these atrocities so we can live a better life in the eyes of god.",
">\n\nFriendly reminder religion is a mistake that deserves to be taxed. If you threatened to tax zealots tomorrow child molestation by priests would drop to zero",
">\n\nmay your mother smile as you burn",
">\n\nThis is what happens when you have unchecked power for thousands of years.\nHorrifying.",
">\n\nDid he learn this behavior from a drag show? /s",
">\n\nReminds me of something Chris Rock said: \"Where do women find the porn? They don't find it in your hiding place, they find it in the VCR\"",
">\n\nHe was also probably saving up for a trip to Disney World.",
">\n\n\nincluding child pornography and images of child erotica.\n\nI want to know the difference but don't want to get on a watchlist by googling it.",
">\n\nWithout the word child there, there's a difference in degree. I'd say it's the same thing with that word in there just describing the subject depicted. Pornography is generally actual sex acts of some form or another. Erotica falls short of that, it may be arousing or suggestive. For example, a cabaret show may be erotica but it's certainly not pornography.",
">\n\nPriest? Church? Man in a tax evasion party house?",
">\n\nYet the church immediately moved him somewhere else as there was a daycare next door to the church, then offered to pay to have the priest under house arrest so that the child predator won't go to jail.",
">\n\nShittiest Ted Talk I’ve ever seen, honestly…",
">\n\nOnly five years?! \nUgh!",
">\n\nAnd they call LGBT+ people groomers. (eyeroll)",
">\n\nAnyone who has ever been to a church sadly knows this doesn't need to be in this sub for us to know it's a real story.",
">\n\nOh how nice. The Reverend pleaded for him not to be incarcerated. Because of fucking course he did.",
">\n\nCurious as to who he was presenting this to",
">\n\nPunish these assholes they are smearing God's name",
">\n\nStraight to (checks notes) your next parish!",
">\n\nreligion and sexual abuse. name a more iconic duo\nwhy are any of these religions even allowed to exist any more\nthey have long since lost their meanings, and onlt serve to syphon money out of gullible people, and abuse their children\nwhat is any of these religions actually adding to society any more? other than more perverted monsters",
">\n\nHe’s not the only one",
">\n\nWhy is no big tv news channel talking about this?",
">\n\nAsked that he not go to prison & that his congregation pay to house him? Fuck the church. That's almost the most disgusting part of this",
">\n\nSo are we talking a pptx or an old-school film Rolodex version? Both are messed up, but one takes A LOT more effort.",
">\n\nThe catholic church is of Satan.",
">\n\nFaith is of \"Satan.\" The idea that assuming you might be wrong is morally wrong produces some of the worst people imaginable. And that applies to secular ideologies that require looking down on those who disagree or are unsure too.",
">\n\nAge of priest over/under 50\nWhat yall got?\nI have the over.",
">\n\nOnly 5 years?",
">\n\nRight for some reason i read it as slide show meaning projectors haha. I forgot Powerpoint presentations are a thing.",
">\n\nThe congregation still requested he be spared incarceration and remain in their facility. Truly unbelievable.",
">\n\nThose damn drag queens framed him",
">\n\nThey really put a lot of effort into not saying that he was catholic in that article.",
">\n\nWonder what congregation hes been moved to now?",
">\n\nAny outrage from republicans? Will they arm themselves and storm the churches?....... Didn't think so.",
">\n\nA Christian pedophile? Who could have guessed?",
">\n\nIm shocked! Shocked I say!\nWell... not that shocked.",
">\n\nI appreciate that the church cooperated and turned him in. However, the fact they wanted to pay to house him, out of the parish coffers, is insane. He deserves incarceration and certainly not a retirement paid for by parishioners of the church he victimized. Smh, a great step for the church, if only as a PR exercise, would be to strongly condemn this sort of behavior AND strongly punish it. Defrock and excommunicate any priest who does this. It’s a very easy choice that frankly could help reinstill a little confidence in the church.",
">\n\nOFF WITH HIS GOD DAMNED FUCKING HEAD",
">\n\nWhy so quick and painless?",
">\n\nYou know you’re actually right.. OFF WITH HIS GOD DAMNED FUCKING HEAD WITH A RUSTY PAPERCLIP",
">\n\nRight to jail",
">\n\nToday on why religious institutions should be abolished",
">\n\nAnd the right won't say a thing about this man.",
">\n\nHow Catholics still a thing ?",
">\n\nAnd the Church will cover it up or just say they are very sorry 🤬",
">\n\nThe provincial says everything right…he doesn’t excuse the guy, doesn’t obfuscate what he did or what it’s gravely evil…right up until he asks for house arrest. Fuck that. Whatever the harshest penalty allowed is, do that.",
">\n\nSo just regular church stuff really",
">\n\nChurch is a haven for predators!!!",
">\n\nI used to be Catholic, but stories like this make me hate the church more every day.",
">\n\nCan we just end this disgusting church already? Can you imagine ONE Walmart manager raping children? Now try to imagine MORE THAN THREE THOUSAND Walmart managers raping children. \nStill gonna shop at Walmart?",
">\n\nBut somehow these religious psychos get away with this and convince their followers to kill LGBTQ+ people. Fuck religion, fuck all churches, we need it out of our society.",
">\n\nExcommunicate from the order and earth.",
">\n\nOnly 5 years is the wild part to me.",
">\n\nHow have we not outlawed and burned down the obvious pedophile cult? \nIf there’s no such thing as a good cop, there’s no such thing as a good priest.",
">\n\nHead first into a wood chipper…no amnesty for pedophiles!",
">\n\nBe a shame if he stopped breathing and any and everybody associated with leadership stopped breathing also!!!",
">\n\nThis kind of shit is why atheism sucks, this fuckers evil soul needs a little eternal torture. Yes yes, I know we're only incredibly flawed hairless apes a couple of toes out of the jungle but fuck man this guy sucks.",
">\n\nA priest has made a move to a new parish so that he may focus on bringing the gospel to a new group! The church is excited to help him accel and even provided the funds to move him across the country. Though he'll be in a new town where no one knows him, the church as said they're sure he'll fir in quickly! \nOr something like that.",
">\n\nFive Years.",
">\n\ni’m shocked",
">\n\nAmazing pp hasn’t been banished yet",
">\n\n5 years? That's it?",
">\n\nGood lord",
">\n\noh what the fuck.",
">\n\nBut drag queens are the problem..."
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"Slideshows????? What?\nMy man just opened up cp.ppt and added a few THOUSAND slides of kiddy porn????\nClippy: it looks like youre a depraved predator. Do you want to profane the church as well?",
">\n\nWell I always did believe Power Point was a creation of a malevolent entity.",
">\n\nTuring complete, no less!",
">\n\nBut can it run Doom?",
">\n\nAnything can run doom",
">\n\nBut can Doom run Doom?",
">\n\nDoom can run Doom because Doom runs Doom when Doom runs.",
">\n\nPeople don't run Doom like it is, but it Doom.",
">\n\nGonna take this moment to highly recommend the film Spotlight to any who haven’t seen it",
">\n\nCheck out the 2017 limited series on either Netflix or Prime: \"The Keepers\" about a Baltimore-area Catholic girls' school. Based on the experiences as told by some of the girls, now middle-aged women. It is NOT nice, will make you cry, will enrage you. But I commend the women who made this documentary for as painful as it was for the audience to watch, I can't imagine how they made it thru. And they brought it around to a decent ending, but wow....I think some of what happened in Baltimore bled over into the Spotlight story.\nLapsed Catholic. I cannot reconcile with the Church hierarchy over this because they have behaved satanically for far too long to make me believe they are holy in any way.",
">\n\nThere was a documentary that came out a year or two ago tbzg sounds similar but men who were molested as kids while in the church. \nI honestly don't know how anyone can still support the church. At all. If it was one priest, sure. It's sad it happened, but pedophiles will always exist and find ways to get to kids.\nBut with how often it happens and with how little the church cares? Nope. I never could be catholic even if I was Christian.",
">\n\nBecause saving souls bringing them into their cult is more valuable than the ones they crush. The Vatican last I heard had 7 pedos protecting by not complying with extradition requests. \nAny organization not willing to comply with the laws of the country where they have a tax exempt status should lose their exemption and title to any property they own. If you RICO cartel and mafia assets, then you can do so for these child abusers and their protective association. \nYou know the church owns most of Manhattan and isn't paying taxes? All that money and we have to tolerate this shit? Nah fuck them.",
">\n\nNude pix on the church printer . . . I can imagine the scene.\nSister Mary Michael: Yo, does anyone recognize this tallywhacker?\nFormer Alter Boy Brian: Yeah, that's Father Jim. I'd know that hairy mole anywhere.",
">\n\nThat's Tommy Turner's tallywhacker",
">\n\nIf Reddit still gave free awards, I'd give one to you for catching the reference.",
">\n\nWAIT when did they get rid of the free awards",
">\n\nguess this is how i found out. last i claimed mine is around last week, i think. i only claim once every two weeks to gild certain biweekly thread lul",
">\n\nAnd yet where are all the \"anti-groomers\" protesting these churches?",
">\n\nIt’s almost like it has never actually been about protecting children, and it’s always been about trying to demonize LGBT people",
">\n\nAt this point I am positive the religious right to life thing is about having more targets.",
">\n\nGlad 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?",
">\n\nAfter 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.",
">\n\nI 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.\nThere are also many who truly believe the schtick and just compartmentalize the bad stuff. Both are to blame regardless. Nobody gets a pass.",
">\n\nI could see that with some of the smaller denominations for sure.\nWhen 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.",
">\n\n*making another streak to the tally list wall\n*camera panning out to reveal a huge fucking wall coveres in streaks",
">\n\nMan 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.\nThat said. This man should burn for this",
">\n\nPriest? Pedo? Are you sure? This is unprecedented",
">\n\nCorrection! PedoPreist",
">\n\nNew name not necessary. If anything there should be a name for the unique priests that arent pedos.",
">\n\nI'm inclined to think the majority of priests aren't child predators themselves.\nThe 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.\nWay, way too many of them are pedo-enablers. All the way up...",
">\n\nThen that would mean that... Gasp\nSouth Park was right all along....\nSneaky little bastards didn't think I would notice....",
">\n\nWish I was surprised",
">\n\nYou make slideshows of images? \nEdit: \nOh wait I see what you mean. Yeah the pedophile priest thing is so expected that only the slideshow bit stood out",
">\n\nHoly hell. Priest have normalized pedophilia.",
">\n\nNot just priests. Protestant Christians have a major problem with sexual abuse too, particularly against children.\nAfter Major Investigation, Southern Baptists Confront the Abuse Crisis They Knew Was Coming\nDon't let the Evangelical pedo defenders get away with claiming that Catholicism is the only issue here. It isn't.",
">\n\n\nnone of them are immune to the depravity.\n\nAlmost implied, really.",
">\n\nCould 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?",
">\n\nA variety of factors:\n\nUnquestioned moral authority and intense trust from a large community who have all been taught to obey church authorities\nSupport from a massive extremely powerful institution that has covered up thousands of similar crimes\nStrictly forbidden to marry, have sex, or iirc even masturbate, making them view all sexual activities as similarly taboo for them\nEasy regular access to many children\nEasy ability to get alone time with children\nPriests are only held institutionally accountable to each other and to those with more authority in the church\nVictims 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\nChildren 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\nThe 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\nThe 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\n\nThat'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.”\nP.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.\nWant 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.\nEdit to add this excellent way to protect kids that churches consistently fight against:\n\n“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.\nchildren 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.”",
">\n\nSo this should be buried enough if I speak in general terms.\nYears back one of our pastors had to give up being a pastor. They didn't get into details of what he did but they did stress that kids were not involved. The whole church could be seen relaxing.",
">\n\n5 years for thousands of child porn images and videos? Seems pretty fucking light to me. This piece of shit should die in prison.",
">\n\n5 years and a ticket to heaven",
">\n\nHeaven? For him?",
">\n\nThat'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.",
">\n\nDon't you also have to be truly repentant for your sins, including making a good faith effort to keep from repeating them?",
">\n\nI would love for someone to answer this because I really want to know, too.",
">\n\nyes I'm pretty sure that's it. God sees people's hearts He should know the diff between true repentance and fake one",
">\n\nYes, assuming an all-powerful God existed, he’d be able to pretty easily know if you were truly sorry.",
">\n\nYeah but......... \nI'm just starting the religious apologist's sentence for them.",
">\n\nFor 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.",
">\n\nOne 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.",
">\n\nOnce I heard this theory, the acceptance by conservatives of people whose behavior is in direct conflict with their moral beliefs, made more sense.",
">\n\n5 holly maries and transfer\nafter 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.\nRev. 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.\"\nMcDevitt asked the presiding judge for \"mercy for Jim,\" and even offered for the congregation to pay to house him in lieu of imprisonment.\n\"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.\"\n\"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.\"",
">\n\nIn Australia at the moment there is a furore after the death of Cardinal George Pell who was convicted (then exonerated) of personally abusing children, but was found by a Royal Commission (that would be a special prosecutor for our American friends?) of enabling and protecting paedophile priests for decades.\nCan honestly say I have not been able to listen to the string of \"Christians\" praising this man in our media for the last few days without wanting to puke. Suffer the little children.",
">\n\nWith you there. At least there’s a lot of people calling his supporters out on this. Fuck Tony Abbott, John Howard and Andrew Bolt to name a few.",
">\n\nI 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!",
">\n\nr/PastorArrested (also includes Priests)",
">\n\nDon'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.",
">\n\nIf there is a god, wtf?",
">\n\nThere is no God. Religion is about control and money",
">\n\nAnd more money",
">\n\n\"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.\" \n- Rev. Patrick McDevitt, provincial superior for the Congregation of the Western Province \n\nEvery single member of that congregation is a horrible piece of shit",
">\n\nWhat 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?",
">\n\n“Drag queens are grooming our youth!!!”",
">\n\n\"I think we all know where people put on dresses and fuck kids\"\n-Trixie Mattel, 2022",
">\n\nKid “Bless me Father, for I have sinned”\nPadre “ call me, maybe?”",
">\n\nImagine my shock to discover that a priest has been involved in a sex scandal and one involving the exploitation of children, at that.",
">\n\nGOP: \"But wuttabout drag queens?!?!?!??!\"",
">\n\nDoing the Lords work 🙏🏾",
">\n\nTax-free",
">\n\nWhat's the deal with priests being so into pedophilia? Can't they look at milf pounds like normal people?",
">\n\nOh look... Another priest with child porn ... When do we get to start taxing the church?",
">\n\nr/pastorarrested",
">\n\nChurch is a scary place, especially for children.",
">\n\nI 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.",
">\n\nOnly 5 years. What a joke.",
">\n\n\nThe 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.\n\nIf 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.",
">\n\nNo one is suprised a priest is a pedophile. \nBut printing out yer nudes? That's odd.",
">\n\nI can think of a reason he printed it out. And I really don't like that reason.",
">\n\nI'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.",
">\n\nThe sheer audacity to do it at church where you work",
">\n\nAnd not a drag queen in sight...",
">\n\nThey do kinda wear dresses, though",
">\n\nToo many “coincidences” within this church to be anything other than systematic",
">\n\nPretty 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.",
">\n\n\nThe data often suggests numbers of pedophiles similar to the general population\n\none 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",
">\n\nYeah, 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.",
">\n\nI 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.",
">\n\nIt's so common for priests to be sickos",
">\n\nGross",
">\n\nAll he needs to do is repent, right?!?",
">\n\nA priest? With kiddie porn? I’ve never heard of such a thing!",
">\n\nRemember 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.",
">\n\n5 years that's all he got",
">\n\nThat's fucking disgusting. Misappropriation of office materials.",
">\n\nIt 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",
">\n\nIdiot 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.",
">\n\nso 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.",
">\n\nI 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 🤷♂️",
">\n\n5 years isnt nearly enough. Lock him up forever and a day.",
">\n\n~~Drag shows~~ Churches are not safe for children",
">\n\nI'm sure the religious Right will be out protesting him any second.\nRight? Right guys? Groomers and all this? Qanons? Where you guys at?\nHuh. Weird.",
">\n\nBut the dragqueens guys?!?!?!??!? /s",
">\n\nWeird that so many god loving people are actually just pedophiles. Wonder what they think god thinks of them. Fuck theism.",
">\n\nTheir god tells them to take the young girls as spoils of war. Their god is just as fucking depraved as they are.",
">\n\ntHaTs jUsT tHe oLd tEsTaMeNt tHoUgh.\ngOds mOraLiTy dOeSnt cHanGe, hE jUsT dEaLs wItH hUmAns diFFeReNtlY nOw. \nYeah when someone deals with people differently than they did before we generally call that \"a change.\"",
">\n\nAnd he wasn’t trans??? Maybe it’s been priests all along that governors should be banning. When will they correct their mistake? /s",
">\n\nDoesn'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...",
">\n\nIt's surprising. Who prints out their own nudes?",
">\n\nLock him up and throw away the keys",
">\n\nDarn priests, at least those protestant ministers keep it in the family",
">\n\nNot surprised.",
">\n\nThree hail marys and all is forgiven. What a load of bs",
">\n\nJust one bad apple, I’m sure.",
">\n\nLeast paedophilic priest",
">\n\n…slideshow?",
">\n\nGod works in mysterious ways ya fuckin chomo. As a priest, he of all people should have seen this coming...",
">\n\nIn other news, water is wet",
">\n\nOnly five years...",
">\n\n”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.” \nಠ_ಠ",
">\n\nI don’t remember this plotline during Doubt…",
">\n\nWe keep letting them get away with it, so they keep doing it. More obvious news at 10.",
">\n\n& once they found him out he got made a cardinal",
">\n\nHe should've kept them in the garage with his Corvette",
">\n\n5 years? If nothing else, using PowerPoint should have been an aggravating factor.",
">\n\nAnd you thought looking at Bob's family vacation pics was a bad time",
">\n\nWhen 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.",
">\n\nHow is the Roman Catholic Church not closed down for enabling and protecting child abusers",
">\n\nAre 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.",
">\n\nIt'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.",
">\n\npapabile!",
">\n\nLeft nudes on a shared printer? Rookie mistake.",
">\n\nTeach your priests just enough tech to effectively turn themselves in.",
">\n\nIsn't it something how the church decided to investigate themselves again. Keep it in the family, guys.\nI 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.",
">\n\nIs 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:\n1 - 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\n2 - 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)\n3 - 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.\nTL;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.",
">\n\nLet me guess.\nMoved to a different church at the other side of the country and that’s about it for consequences?",
">\n\nThose damned drag queens strike again.",
">\n\nI mean that’s kinda how they caught BTK",
">\n\nSo priests are still abusing kids after we didn't do anything to them the last few times we caught them? Color me surprised.",
">\n\n\nCourt 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.\"\n\n...\n\nDuring 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. \n\n...\n\nAnd 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. \n\nFuck everyone that allowed this scum to continue in a position of authority.",
">\n\nDon’t hear this happening at drag shows…j/s",
">\n\nHe put the PDF in pedofile",
">\n\nThis is Fucking ridiculous",
">\n\nNever forget who the actual groomers are",
">\n\nThe proud boys will be outside of churches \"protesting\" with guns now, right? right?",
">\n\nA priest being pedophile? But that is absolutely unheard of, say it isn't so!",
">\n\nYou sure this wasn't at a Trans drag show? GOP is sure this happens at Trans dragsl shows",
">\n\nExcommunicated by PowerPoint",
">\n\n5 years and a fine? FFS, that’s ridiculous.",
">\n\nPraise Jesus!",
">\n\nAnd the right thinks kids going to drag shows are the problem",
">\n\nAverage christian.",
">\n\nbut the drag queens are reading books to children in libraries! The madnessss",
">\n\nSo they moved him to a new church. This is what they have always done.",
">\n\nleast pedophilic priest:",
">\n\nThe dead ones dont hurt anyone.",
">\n\ninto the furnace he goes. theres no rehabbing people like this.",
">\n\nIt's always the ones you least expect..",
">\n\nOr in this case, the ones you MOST suspect",
">\n\nlol ya, I said that with sarcasm..",
">\n\nPray that he gets nut cancer.",
">\n\nNut cancer was once described to me as \"the common cold of cancers\". It has something like a 95% survival rate.\nHe deserves worse.",
">\n\nDidn't know that. Good nut fact for the day.",
">\n\nIt's definitely the drag queens reading to kids in libraries that's the problem.",
">\n\nRight wingers want him to be a closeted drag queen so badly",
">\n\nI could never trust any man who goes into priesthood. Completely unnatural and deviant occupation rife with pedophiles.",
">\n\nThis MONSTER got 5 years?! \nThe CHILDREN being abused in the images will suffer for the rest of their lives!!\nI'm in favor of LIFE SENTENCES for child sex offenders. \nOr better yet, the DEATH PENALTY!!",
">\n\nReligion was invented by Man for Control of the Flock.You go to Confession and tell the priest everything so they can determine how to undress you.\nI was once a Catholic.....born, baptised, confirmed and educated in a Grammar school run by Irish Christian Brothers under the Order of Edmund Ignatius Rice......and now I'm an atheist.",
">\n\nHow come it is always ‘Christians’ who are involved in child sex abuse?",
">\n\nOf course he's a pedo, he's a priest!",
">\n\nYes millions of idiots keep donating billions to the church",
">\n\nNot simply donating, they bring their children along, indoctrinate them that the priest is the speaker of God, and that God can do no wrong, so anything the priest dose is holy and good. The priest even says so!\nAnd when the kids bring it up the first few times weird things happen? The parents tell them to shush. And so, the sacrifices continue, the parents make a show of not knowing, and things get worse for the children.\nAnd if the priest is reported, the church just moves them to a different parish.\nThe only difference between the taliban and the catholic church, is one of them advertises the child slaves as a benefit, while the other pretends it's not (but totally encourages it, top to bottom).",
">\n\nAnd who are the groomers again?",
">\n\nThis is what happens when you don’t recycle your printer papers.",
">\n\nI feel like this isn't oniony enough, everyone knows by now that priests are significantly more likely to be pedophiles than the general population.",
">\n\nSure, but “gets caught by leaving nudes on a printer” is a fairly onion-y end.",
">\n\nYa know you're right",
">\n\nI have a theory about the correlation between priests and pedophiles. This is my opinion based on conversations with a childhood friend (not a pedo) and is only my opinion but could explain why so many priests abuse children. Get your down votes ready. \nThese boys grow up in the church and it is all they know for the most part. When going through puberty we become attracted to a gender (male or female gay or straight sometimes somewhere in between) and more often a \"type\" as well (blonde brunette short tall etc). Our hormones drive us to seek companionship, intimacy, and ultimately procreation. \nThese boys growing up never develop this attraction to their peers but rather feel more comfortable around younger children and usually behave as mentors. The combination of love of church and disinterest in peers puts the thought in their heads that priesthood is their calling. It takes a long time and effort to become a priest. There are easier paths if a guy just wants to bang kids.\nPut together lack of sex or release of biological needs with access and constant contact with children and they are basically pushed over the edge.\nTo sum up, pedophiles don't become priests to molest children, they become priests because they don't realize they are pedophiles. This is just my opinion, and obviously there are also exceptions to this.\nPerhaps the solution is to get rid of this nonsense celibacy.",
">\n\nAlternative theory: pedophiles become priests because they know the Catholic Church will support and hide them from accountability. Plus, all those altar boys have been easy pickings for decades. \nOn the positive side, Catholic Churches are closing all over Missouri because of dwindling congregations.",
">\n\nThis is one crime I’ll never be able to fathom.",
">\n\nSo fucking sick advocating for this monster so he can maintain freedom?",
">\n\nThe church has been so infiltrated by Child abusers that they are currently rating worse than Satan Worshippers",
">\n\nCan we just fuck churches off now???",
">\n\nYour tithing had to go somewhere.",
">\n\nHow come republicans are not calling these people groomers?",
">\n\nIs anyone else picturing the scene in the first Scary Movie where the cop asks Anna Faris to look at some pictures?\nPriest hands out the pictures of himself along with the weekly pamphlet. Maybe the first reading is from the Song of Solomon...",
">\n\nOh shit. \nHas he been quietly shuffled to a new church yet?",
">\n\nI'm old enough that when I see \"slideshow\" I think of him arranging physical slides in a carousel to project on a screen, like the family trip to Disneyland. Maybe invite the neighbors over for cake.",
">\n\nLord above why is this a thing",
">\n\nYou mean not a drag queen?",
">\n\nActual groomers.",
">\n\nJust think the hands that wanked to kiddie pr0n put wafers on the tongues of everyone in that congregation...",
">\n\nLMAO. This slightly ambiguous headline had me thinking “who attended these slideshow presentations?”",
">\n\nOh look another pedophile catholic priest. Good job reinforcing that stereotype.",
">\n\nAnd we should take guidance from those who hide these atrocities so we can live a better life in the eyes of god.",
">\n\nFriendly reminder religion is a mistake that deserves to be taxed. If you threatened to tax zealots tomorrow child molestation by priests would drop to zero",
">\n\nmay your mother smile as you burn",
">\n\nThis is what happens when you have unchecked power for thousands of years.\nHorrifying.",
">\n\nDid he learn this behavior from a drag show? /s",
">\n\nReminds me of something Chris Rock said: \"Where do women find the porn? They don't find it in your hiding place, they find it in the VCR\"",
">\n\nHe was also probably saving up for a trip to Disney World.",
">\n\n\nincluding child pornography and images of child erotica.\n\nI want to know the difference but don't want to get on a watchlist by googling it.",
">\n\nWithout the word child there, there's a difference in degree. I'd say it's the same thing with that word in there just describing the subject depicted. Pornography is generally actual sex acts of some form or another. Erotica falls short of that, it may be arousing or suggestive. For example, a cabaret show may be erotica but it's certainly not pornography.",
">\n\nPriest? Church? Man in a tax evasion party house?",
">\n\nYet the church immediately moved him somewhere else as there was a daycare next door to the church, then offered to pay to have the priest under house arrest so that the child predator won't go to jail.",
">\n\nShittiest Ted Talk I’ve ever seen, honestly…",
">\n\nOnly five years?! \nUgh!",
">\n\nAnd they call LGBT+ people groomers. (eyeroll)",
">\n\nAnyone who has ever been to a church sadly knows this doesn't need to be in this sub for us to know it's a real story.",
">\n\nOh how nice. The Reverend pleaded for him not to be incarcerated. Because of fucking course he did.",
">\n\nCurious as to who he was presenting this to",
">\n\nPunish these assholes they are smearing God's name",
">\n\nStraight to (checks notes) your next parish!",
">\n\nreligion and sexual abuse. name a more iconic duo\nwhy are any of these religions even allowed to exist any more\nthey have long since lost their meanings, and onlt serve to syphon money out of gullible people, and abuse their children\nwhat is any of these religions actually adding to society any more? other than more perverted monsters",
">\n\nHe’s not the only one",
">\n\nWhy is no big tv news channel talking about this?",
">\n\nAsked that he not go to prison & that his congregation pay to house him? Fuck the church. That's almost the most disgusting part of this",
">\n\nSo are we talking a pptx or an old-school film Rolodex version? Both are messed up, but one takes A LOT more effort.",
">\n\nThe catholic church is of Satan.",
">\n\nFaith is of \"Satan.\" The idea that assuming you might be wrong is morally wrong produces some of the worst people imaginable. And that applies to secular ideologies that require looking down on those who disagree or are unsure too.",
">\n\nAge of priest over/under 50\nWhat yall got?\nI have the over.",
">\n\nOnly 5 years?",
">\n\nRight for some reason i read it as slide show meaning projectors haha. I forgot Powerpoint presentations are a thing.",
">\n\nThe congregation still requested he be spared incarceration and remain in their facility. Truly unbelievable.",
">\n\nThose damn drag queens framed him",
">\n\nThey really put a lot of effort into not saying that he was catholic in that article.",
">\n\nWonder what congregation hes been moved to now?",
">\n\nAny outrage from republicans? Will they arm themselves and storm the churches?....... Didn't think so.",
">\n\nA Christian pedophile? Who could have guessed?",
">\n\nIm shocked! Shocked I say!\nWell... not that shocked.",
">\n\nI appreciate that the church cooperated and turned him in. However, the fact they wanted to pay to house him, out of the parish coffers, is insane. He deserves incarceration and certainly not a retirement paid for by parishioners of the church he victimized. Smh, a great step for the church, if only as a PR exercise, would be to strongly condemn this sort of behavior AND strongly punish it. Defrock and excommunicate any priest who does this. It’s a very easy choice that frankly could help reinstill a little confidence in the church.",
">\n\nOFF WITH HIS GOD DAMNED FUCKING HEAD",
">\n\nWhy so quick and painless?",
">\n\nYou know you’re actually right.. OFF WITH HIS GOD DAMNED FUCKING HEAD WITH A RUSTY PAPERCLIP",
">\n\nRight to jail",
">\n\nToday on why religious institutions should be abolished",
">\n\nAnd the right won't say a thing about this man.",
">\n\nHow Catholics still a thing ?",
">\n\nAnd the Church will cover it up or just say they are very sorry 🤬",
">\n\nThe provincial says everything right…he doesn’t excuse the guy, doesn’t obfuscate what he did or what it’s gravely evil…right up until he asks for house arrest. Fuck that. Whatever the harshest penalty allowed is, do that.",
">\n\nSo just regular church stuff really",
">\n\nChurch is a haven for predators!!!",
">\n\nI used to be Catholic, but stories like this make me hate the church more every day.",
">\n\nCan we just end this disgusting church already? Can you imagine ONE Walmart manager raping children? Now try to imagine MORE THAN THREE THOUSAND Walmart managers raping children. \nStill gonna shop at Walmart?",
">\n\nBut somehow these religious psychos get away with this and convince their followers to kill LGBTQ+ people. Fuck religion, fuck all churches, we need it out of our society.",
">\n\nExcommunicate from the order and earth.",
">\n\nOnly 5 years is the wild part to me.",
">\n\nHow have we not outlawed and burned down the obvious pedophile cult? \nIf there’s no such thing as a good cop, there’s no such thing as a good priest.",
">\n\nHead first into a wood chipper…no amnesty for pedophiles!",
">\n\nBe a shame if he stopped breathing and any and everybody associated with leadership stopped breathing also!!!",
">\n\nThis kind of shit is why atheism sucks, this fuckers evil soul needs a little eternal torture. Yes yes, I know we're only incredibly flawed hairless apes a couple of toes out of the jungle but fuck man this guy sucks.",
">\n\nA priest has made a move to a new parish so that he may focus on bringing the gospel to a new group! The church is excited to help him accel and even provided the funds to move him across the country. Though he'll be in a new town where no one knows him, the church as said they're sure he'll fir in quickly! \nOr something like that.",
">\n\nFive Years.",
">\n\ni’m shocked",
">\n\nAmazing pp hasn’t been banished yet",
">\n\n5 years? That's it?",
">\n\nGood lord",
">\n\noh what the fuck.",
">\n\nBut drag queens are the problem...",
">\n\nThe guy worked at a church right down the street where I grew up. I know people that attended Our Lady Queen of Peace as children, that’s so crazy"
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"Slideshows????? What?\nMy man just opened up cp.ppt and added a few THOUSAND slides of kiddy porn????\nClippy: it looks like youre a depraved predator. Do you want to profane the church as well?",
">\n\nWell I always did believe Power Point was a creation of a malevolent entity.",
">\n\nTuring complete, no less!",
">\n\nBut can it run Doom?",
">\n\nAnything can run doom",
">\n\nBut can Doom run Doom?",
">\n\nDoom can run Doom because Doom runs Doom when Doom runs.",
">\n\nPeople don't run Doom like it is, but it Doom.",
">\n\nGonna take this moment to highly recommend the film Spotlight to any who haven’t seen it",
">\n\nCheck out the 2017 limited series on either Netflix or Prime: \"The Keepers\" about a Baltimore-area Catholic girls' school. Based on the experiences as told by some of the girls, now middle-aged women. It is NOT nice, will make you cry, will enrage you. But I commend the women who made this documentary for as painful as it was for the audience to watch, I can't imagine how they made it thru. And they brought it around to a decent ending, but wow....I think some of what happened in Baltimore bled over into the Spotlight story.\nLapsed Catholic. I cannot reconcile with the Church hierarchy over this because they have behaved satanically for far too long to make me believe they are holy in any way.",
">\n\nThere was a documentary that came out a year or two ago tbzg sounds similar but men who were molested as kids while in the church. \nI honestly don't know how anyone can still support the church. At all. If it was one priest, sure. It's sad it happened, but pedophiles will always exist and find ways to get to kids.\nBut with how often it happens and with how little the church cares? Nope. I never could be catholic even if I was Christian.",
">\n\nBecause saving souls bringing them into their cult is more valuable than the ones they crush. The Vatican last I heard had 7 pedos protecting by not complying with extradition requests. \nAny organization not willing to comply with the laws of the country where they have a tax exempt status should lose their exemption and title to any property they own. If you RICO cartel and mafia assets, then you can do so for these child abusers and their protective association. \nYou know the church owns most of Manhattan and isn't paying taxes? All that money and we have to tolerate this shit? Nah fuck them.",
">\n\nNude pix on the church printer . . . I can imagine the scene.\nSister Mary Michael: Yo, does anyone recognize this tallywhacker?\nFormer Alter Boy Brian: Yeah, that's Father Jim. I'd know that hairy mole anywhere.",
">\n\nThat's Tommy Turner's tallywhacker",
">\n\nIf Reddit still gave free awards, I'd give one to you for catching the reference.",
">\n\nWAIT when did they get rid of the free awards",
">\n\nguess this is how i found out. last i claimed mine is around last week, i think. i only claim once every two weeks to gild certain biweekly thread lul",
">\n\nAnd yet where are all the \"anti-groomers\" protesting these churches?",
">\n\nIt’s almost like it has never actually been about protecting children, and it’s always been about trying to demonize LGBT people",
">\n\nAt this point I am positive the religious right to life thing is about having more targets.",
">\n\nGlad 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?",
">\n\nAfter 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.",
">\n\nI 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.\nThere are also many who truly believe the schtick and just compartmentalize the bad stuff. Both are to blame regardless. Nobody gets a pass.",
">\n\nI could see that with some of the smaller denominations for sure.\nWhen 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.",
">\n\n*making another streak to the tally list wall\n*camera panning out to reveal a huge fucking wall coveres in streaks",
">\n\nMan 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.\nThat said. This man should burn for this",
">\n\nPriest? Pedo? Are you sure? This is unprecedented",
">\n\nCorrection! PedoPreist",
">\n\nNew name not necessary. If anything there should be a name for the unique priests that arent pedos.",
">\n\nI'm inclined to think the majority of priests aren't child predators themselves.\nThe 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.\nWay, way too many of them are pedo-enablers. All the way up...",
">\n\nThen that would mean that... Gasp\nSouth Park was right all along....\nSneaky little bastards didn't think I would notice....",
">\n\nWish I was surprised",
">\n\nYou make slideshows of images? \nEdit: \nOh wait I see what you mean. Yeah the pedophile priest thing is so expected that only the slideshow bit stood out",
">\n\nHoly hell. Priest have normalized pedophilia.",
">\n\nNot just priests. Protestant Christians have a major problem with sexual abuse too, particularly against children.\nAfter Major Investigation, Southern Baptists Confront the Abuse Crisis They Knew Was Coming\nDon't let the Evangelical pedo defenders get away with claiming that Catholicism is the only issue here. It isn't.",
">\n\n\nnone of them are immune to the depravity.\n\nAlmost implied, really.",
">\n\nCould 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?",
">\n\nA variety of factors:\n\nUnquestioned moral authority and intense trust from a large community who have all been taught to obey church authorities\nSupport from a massive extremely powerful institution that has covered up thousands of similar crimes\nStrictly forbidden to marry, have sex, or iirc even masturbate, making them view all sexual activities as similarly taboo for them\nEasy regular access to many children\nEasy ability to get alone time with children\nPriests are only held institutionally accountable to each other and to those with more authority in the church\nVictims 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\nChildren 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\nThe 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\nThe 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\n\nThat'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.”\nP.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.\nWant 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.\nEdit to add this excellent way to protect kids that churches consistently fight against:\n\n“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.\nchildren 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.”",
">\n\nSo this should be buried enough if I speak in general terms.\nYears back one of our pastors had to give up being a pastor. They didn't get into details of what he did but they did stress that kids were not involved. The whole church could be seen relaxing.",
">\n\n5 years for thousands of child porn images and videos? Seems pretty fucking light to me. This piece of shit should die in prison.",
">\n\n5 years and a ticket to heaven",
">\n\nHeaven? For him?",
">\n\nThat'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.",
">\n\nDon't you also have to be truly repentant for your sins, including making a good faith effort to keep from repeating them?",
">\n\nI would love for someone to answer this because I really want to know, too.",
">\n\nyes I'm pretty sure that's it. God sees people's hearts He should know the diff between true repentance and fake one",
">\n\nYes, assuming an all-powerful God existed, he’d be able to pretty easily know if you were truly sorry.",
">\n\nYeah but......... \nI'm just starting the religious apologist's sentence for them.",
">\n\nFor 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.",
">\n\nOne 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.",
">\n\nOnce I heard this theory, the acceptance by conservatives of people whose behavior is in direct conflict with their moral beliefs, made more sense.",
">\n\n5 holly maries and transfer\nafter 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.\nRev. 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.\"\nMcDevitt asked the presiding judge for \"mercy for Jim,\" and even offered for the congregation to pay to house him in lieu of imprisonment.\n\"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.\"\n\"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.\"",
">\n\nIn Australia at the moment there is a furore after the death of Cardinal George Pell who was convicted (then exonerated) of personally abusing children, but was found by a Royal Commission (that would be a special prosecutor for our American friends?) of enabling and protecting paedophile priests for decades.\nCan honestly say I have not been able to listen to the string of \"Christians\" praising this man in our media for the last few days without wanting to puke. Suffer the little children.",
">\n\nWith you there. At least there’s a lot of people calling his supporters out on this. Fuck Tony Abbott, John Howard and Andrew Bolt to name a few.",
">\n\nI 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!",
">\n\nr/PastorArrested (also includes Priests)",
">\n\nDon'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.",
">\n\nIf there is a god, wtf?",
">\n\nThere is no God. Religion is about control and money",
">\n\nAnd more money",
">\n\n\"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.\" \n- Rev. Patrick McDevitt, provincial superior for the Congregation of the Western Province \n\nEvery single member of that congregation is a horrible piece of shit",
">\n\nWhat 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?",
">\n\n“Drag queens are grooming our youth!!!”",
">\n\n\"I think we all know where people put on dresses and fuck kids\"\n-Trixie Mattel, 2022",
">\n\nKid “Bless me Father, for I have sinned”\nPadre “ call me, maybe?”",
">\n\nImagine my shock to discover that a priest has been involved in a sex scandal and one involving the exploitation of children, at that.",
">\n\nGOP: \"But wuttabout drag queens?!?!?!??!\"",
">\n\nDoing the Lords work 🙏🏾",
">\n\nTax-free",
">\n\nWhat's the deal with priests being so into pedophilia? Can't they look at milf pounds like normal people?",
">\n\nOh look... Another priest with child porn ... When do we get to start taxing the church?",
">\n\nr/pastorarrested",
">\n\nChurch is a scary place, especially for children.",
">\n\nI 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.",
">\n\nOnly 5 years. What a joke.",
">\n\n\nThe 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.\n\nIf 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.",
">\n\nNo one is suprised a priest is a pedophile. \nBut printing out yer nudes? That's odd.",
">\n\nI can think of a reason he printed it out. And I really don't like that reason.",
">\n\nI'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.",
">\n\nThe sheer audacity to do it at church where you work",
">\n\nAnd not a drag queen in sight...",
">\n\nThey do kinda wear dresses, though",
">\n\nToo many “coincidences” within this church to be anything other than systematic",
">\n\nPretty 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.",
">\n\n\nThe data often suggests numbers of pedophiles similar to the general population\n\none 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",
">\n\nYeah, 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.",
">\n\nI 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.",
">\n\nIt's so common for priests to be sickos",
">\n\nGross",
">\n\nAll he needs to do is repent, right?!?",
">\n\nA priest? With kiddie porn? I’ve never heard of such a thing!",
">\n\nRemember 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.",
">\n\n5 years that's all he got",
">\n\nThat's fucking disgusting. Misappropriation of office materials.",
">\n\nIt 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",
">\n\nIdiot 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.",
">\n\nso 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.",
">\n\nI 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 🤷♂️",
">\n\n5 years isnt nearly enough. Lock him up forever and a day.",
">\n\n~~Drag shows~~ Churches are not safe for children",
">\n\nI'm sure the religious Right will be out protesting him any second.\nRight? Right guys? Groomers and all this? Qanons? Where you guys at?\nHuh. Weird.",
">\n\nBut the dragqueens guys?!?!?!??!? /s",
">\n\nWeird that so many god loving people are actually just pedophiles. Wonder what they think god thinks of them. Fuck theism.",
">\n\nTheir god tells them to take the young girls as spoils of war. Their god is just as fucking depraved as they are.",
">\n\ntHaTs jUsT tHe oLd tEsTaMeNt tHoUgh.\ngOds mOraLiTy dOeSnt cHanGe, hE jUsT dEaLs wItH hUmAns diFFeReNtlY nOw. \nYeah when someone deals with people differently than they did before we generally call that \"a change.\"",
">\n\nAnd he wasn’t trans??? Maybe it’s been priests all along that governors should be banning. When will they correct their mistake? /s",
">\n\nDoesn'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...",
">\n\nIt's surprising. Who prints out their own nudes?",
">\n\nLock him up and throw away the keys",
">\n\nDarn priests, at least those protestant ministers keep it in the family",
">\n\nNot surprised.",
">\n\nThree hail marys and all is forgiven. What a load of bs",
">\n\nJust one bad apple, I’m sure.",
">\n\nLeast paedophilic priest",
">\n\n…slideshow?",
">\n\nGod works in mysterious ways ya fuckin chomo. As a priest, he of all people should have seen this coming...",
">\n\nIn other news, water is wet",
">\n\nOnly five years...",
">\n\n”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.” \nಠ_ಠ",
">\n\nI don’t remember this plotline during Doubt…",
">\n\nWe keep letting them get away with it, so they keep doing it. More obvious news at 10.",
">\n\n& once they found him out he got made a cardinal",
">\n\nHe should've kept them in the garage with his Corvette",
">\n\n5 years? If nothing else, using PowerPoint should have been an aggravating factor.",
">\n\nAnd you thought looking at Bob's family vacation pics was a bad time",
">\n\nWhen 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.",
">\n\nHow is the Roman Catholic Church not closed down for enabling and protecting child abusers",
">\n\nAre 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.",
">\n\nIt'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.",
">\n\npapabile!",
">\n\nLeft nudes on a shared printer? Rookie mistake.",
">\n\nTeach your priests just enough tech to effectively turn themselves in.",
">\n\nIsn't it something how the church decided to investigate themselves again. Keep it in the family, guys.\nI 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.",
">\n\nIs 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:\n1 - 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\n2 - 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)\n3 - 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.\nTL;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.",
">\n\nLet me guess.\nMoved to a different church at the other side of the country and that’s about it for consequences?",
">\n\nThose damned drag queens strike again.",
">\n\nI mean that’s kinda how they caught BTK",
">\n\nSo priests are still abusing kids after we didn't do anything to them the last few times we caught them? Color me surprised.",
">\n\n\nCourt 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.\"\n\n...\n\nDuring 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. \n\n...\n\nAnd 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. \n\nFuck everyone that allowed this scum to continue in a position of authority.",
">\n\nDon’t hear this happening at drag shows…j/s",
">\n\nHe put the PDF in pedofile",
">\n\nThis is Fucking ridiculous",
">\n\nNever forget who the actual groomers are",
">\n\nThe proud boys will be outside of churches \"protesting\" with guns now, right? right?",
">\n\nA priest being pedophile? But that is absolutely unheard of, say it isn't so!",
">\n\nYou sure this wasn't at a Trans drag show? GOP is sure this happens at Trans dragsl shows",
">\n\nExcommunicated by PowerPoint",
">\n\n5 years and a fine? FFS, that’s ridiculous.",
">\n\nPraise Jesus!",
">\n\nAnd the right thinks kids going to drag shows are the problem",
">\n\nAverage christian.",
">\n\nbut the drag queens are reading books to children in libraries! The madnessss",
">\n\nSo they moved him to a new church. This is what they have always done.",
">\n\nleast pedophilic priest:",
">\n\nThe dead ones dont hurt anyone.",
">\n\ninto the furnace he goes. theres no rehabbing people like this.",
">\n\nIt's always the ones you least expect..",
">\n\nOr in this case, the ones you MOST suspect",
">\n\nlol ya, I said that with sarcasm..",
">\n\nPray that he gets nut cancer.",
">\n\nNut cancer was once described to me as \"the common cold of cancers\". It has something like a 95% survival rate.\nHe deserves worse.",
">\n\nDidn't know that. Good nut fact for the day.",
">\n\nIt's definitely the drag queens reading to kids in libraries that's the problem.",
">\n\nRight wingers want him to be a closeted drag queen so badly",
">\n\nI could never trust any man who goes into priesthood. Completely unnatural and deviant occupation rife with pedophiles.",
">\n\nThis MONSTER got 5 years?! \nThe CHILDREN being abused in the images will suffer for the rest of their lives!!\nI'm in favor of LIFE SENTENCES for child sex offenders. \nOr better yet, the DEATH PENALTY!!",
">\n\nReligion was invented by Man for Control of the Flock.You go to Confession and tell the priest everything so they can determine how to undress you.\nI was once a Catholic.....born, baptised, confirmed and educated in a Grammar school run by Irish Christian Brothers under the Order of Edmund Ignatius Rice......and now I'm an atheist.",
">\n\nHow come it is always ‘Christians’ who are involved in child sex abuse?",
">\n\nOf course he's a pedo, he's a priest!",
">\n\nYes millions of idiots keep donating billions to the church",
">\n\nNot simply donating, they bring their children along, indoctrinate them that the priest is the speaker of God, and that God can do no wrong, so anything the priest dose is holy and good. The priest even says so!\nAnd when the kids bring it up the first few times weird things happen? The parents tell them to shush. And so, the sacrifices continue, the parents make a show of not knowing, and things get worse for the children.\nAnd if the priest is reported, the church just moves them to a different parish.\nThe only difference between the taliban and the catholic church, is one of them advertises the child slaves as a benefit, while the other pretends it's not (but totally encourages it, top to bottom).",
">\n\nAnd who are the groomers again?",
">\n\nThis is what happens when you don’t recycle your printer papers.",
">\n\nI feel like this isn't oniony enough, everyone knows by now that priests are significantly more likely to be pedophiles than the general population.",
">\n\nSure, but “gets caught by leaving nudes on a printer” is a fairly onion-y end.",
">\n\nYa know you're right",
">\n\nI have a theory about the correlation between priests and pedophiles. This is my opinion based on conversations with a childhood friend (not a pedo) and is only my opinion but could explain why so many priests abuse children. Get your down votes ready. \nThese boys grow up in the church and it is all they know for the most part. When going through puberty we become attracted to a gender (male or female gay or straight sometimes somewhere in between) and more often a \"type\" as well (blonde brunette short tall etc). Our hormones drive us to seek companionship, intimacy, and ultimately procreation. \nThese boys growing up never develop this attraction to their peers but rather feel more comfortable around younger children and usually behave as mentors. The combination of love of church and disinterest in peers puts the thought in their heads that priesthood is their calling. It takes a long time and effort to become a priest. There are easier paths if a guy just wants to bang kids.\nPut together lack of sex or release of biological needs with access and constant contact with children and they are basically pushed over the edge.\nTo sum up, pedophiles don't become priests to molest children, they become priests because they don't realize they are pedophiles. This is just my opinion, and obviously there are also exceptions to this.\nPerhaps the solution is to get rid of this nonsense celibacy.",
">\n\nAlternative theory: pedophiles become priests because they know the Catholic Church will support and hide them from accountability. Plus, all those altar boys have been easy pickings for decades. \nOn the positive side, Catholic Churches are closing all over Missouri because of dwindling congregations.",
">\n\nThis is one crime I’ll never be able to fathom.",
">\n\nSo fucking sick advocating for this monster so he can maintain freedom?",
">\n\nThe church has been so infiltrated by Child abusers that they are currently rating worse than Satan Worshippers",
">\n\nCan we just fuck churches off now???",
">\n\nYour tithing had to go somewhere.",
">\n\nHow come republicans are not calling these people groomers?",
">\n\nIs anyone else picturing the scene in the first Scary Movie where the cop asks Anna Faris to look at some pictures?\nPriest hands out the pictures of himself along with the weekly pamphlet. Maybe the first reading is from the Song of Solomon...",
">\n\nOh shit. \nHas he been quietly shuffled to a new church yet?",
">\n\nI'm old enough that when I see \"slideshow\" I think of him arranging physical slides in a carousel to project on a screen, like the family trip to Disneyland. Maybe invite the neighbors over for cake.",
">\n\nLord above why is this a thing",
">\n\nYou mean not a drag queen?",
">\n\nActual groomers.",
">\n\nJust think the hands that wanked to kiddie pr0n put wafers on the tongues of everyone in that congregation...",
">\n\nLMAO. This slightly ambiguous headline had me thinking “who attended these slideshow presentations?”",
">\n\nOh look another pedophile catholic priest. Good job reinforcing that stereotype.",
">\n\nAnd we should take guidance from those who hide these atrocities so we can live a better life in the eyes of god.",
">\n\nFriendly reminder religion is a mistake that deserves to be taxed. If you threatened to tax zealots tomorrow child molestation by priests would drop to zero",
">\n\nmay your mother smile as you burn",
">\n\nThis is what happens when you have unchecked power for thousands of years.\nHorrifying.",
">\n\nDid he learn this behavior from a drag show? /s",
">\n\nReminds me of something Chris Rock said: \"Where do women find the porn? They don't find it in your hiding place, they find it in the VCR\"",
">\n\nHe was also probably saving up for a trip to Disney World.",
">\n\n\nincluding child pornography and images of child erotica.\n\nI want to know the difference but don't want to get on a watchlist by googling it.",
">\n\nWithout the word child there, there's a difference in degree. I'd say it's the same thing with that word in there just describing the subject depicted. Pornography is generally actual sex acts of some form or another. Erotica falls short of that, it may be arousing or suggestive. For example, a cabaret show may be erotica but it's certainly not pornography.",
">\n\nPriest? Church? Man in a tax evasion party house?",
">\n\nYet the church immediately moved him somewhere else as there was a daycare next door to the church, then offered to pay to have the priest under house arrest so that the child predator won't go to jail.",
">\n\nShittiest Ted Talk I’ve ever seen, honestly…",
">\n\nOnly five years?! \nUgh!",
">\n\nAnd they call LGBT+ people groomers. (eyeroll)",
">\n\nAnyone who has ever been to a church sadly knows this doesn't need to be in this sub for us to know it's a real story.",
">\n\nOh how nice. The Reverend pleaded for him not to be incarcerated. Because of fucking course he did.",
">\n\nCurious as to who he was presenting this to",
">\n\nPunish these assholes they are smearing God's name",
">\n\nStraight to (checks notes) your next parish!",
">\n\nreligion and sexual abuse. name a more iconic duo\nwhy are any of these religions even allowed to exist any more\nthey have long since lost their meanings, and onlt serve to syphon money out of gullible people, and abuse their children\nwhat is any of these religions actually adding to society any more? other than more perverted monsters",
">\n\nHe’s not the only one",
">\n\nWhy is no big tv news channel talking about this?",
">\n\nAsked that he not go to prison & that his congregation pay to house him? Fuck the church. That's almost the most disgusting part of this",
">\n\nSo are we talking a pptx or an old-school film Rolodex version? Both are messed up, but one takes A LOT more effort.",
">\n\nThe catholic church is of Satan.",
">\n\nFaith is of \"Satan.\" The idea that assuming you might be wrong is morally wrong produces some of the worst people imaginable. And that applies to secular ideologies that require looking down on those who disagree or are unsure too.",
">\n\nAge of priest over/under 50\nWhat yall got?\nI have the over.",
">\n\nOnly 5 years?",
">\n\nRight for some reason i read it as slide show meaning projectors haha. I forgot Powerpoint presentations are a thing.",
">\n\nThe congregation still requested he be spared incarceration and remain in their facility. Truly unbelievable.",
">\n\nThose damn drag queens framed him",
">\n\nThey really put a lot of effort into not saying that he was catholic in that article.",
">\n\nWonder what congregation hes been moved to now?",
">\n\nAny outrage from republicans? Will they arm themselves and storm the churches?....... Didn't think so.",
">\n\nA Christian pedophile? Who could have guessed?",
">\n\nIm shocked! Shocked I say!\nWell... not that shocked.",
">\n\nI appreciate that the church cooperated and turned him in. However, the fact they wanted to pay to house him, out of the parish coffers, is insane. He deserves incarceration and certainly not a retirement paid for by parishioners of the church he victimized. Smh, a great step for the church, if only as a PR exercise, would be to strongly condemn this sort of behavior AND strongly punish it. Defrock and excommunicate any priest who does this. It’s a very easy choice that frankly could help reinstill a little confidence in the church.",
">\n\nOFF WITH HIS GOD DAMNED FUCKING HEAD",
">\n\nWhy so quick and painless?",
">\n\nYou know you’re actually right.. OFF WITH HIS GOD DAMNED FUCKING HEAD WITH A RUSTY PAPERCLIP",
">\n\nRight to jail",
">\n\nToday on why religious institutions should be abolished",
">\n\nAnd the right won't say a thing about this man.",
">\n\nHow Catholics still a thing ?",
">\n\nAnd the Church will cover it up or just say they are very sorry 🤬",
">\n\nThe provincial says everything right…he doesn’t excuse the guy, doesn’t obfuscate what he did or what it’s gravely evil…right up until he asks for house arrest. Fuck that. Whatever the harshest penalty allowed is, do that.",
">\n\nSo just regular church stuff really",
">\n\nChurch is a haven for predators!!!",
">\n\nI used to be Catholic, but stories like this make me hate the church more every day.",
">\n\nCan we just end this disgusting church already? Can you imagine ONE Walmart manager raping children? Now try to imagine MORE THAN THREE THOUSAND Walmart managers raping children. \nStill gonna shop at Walmart?",
">\n\nBut somehow these religious psychos get away with this and convince their followers to kill LGBTQ+ people. Fuck religion, fuck all churches, we need it out of our society.",
">\n\nExcommunicate from the order and earth.",
">\n\nOnly 5 years is the wild part to me.",
">\n\nHow have we not outlawed and burned down the obvious pedophile cult? \nIf there’s no such thing as a good cop, there’s no such thing as a good priest.",
">\n\nHead first into a wood chipper…no amnesty for pedophiles!",
">\n\nBe a shame if he stopped breathing and any and everybody associated with leadership stopped breathing also!!!",
">\n\nThis kind of shit is why atheism sucks, this fuckers evil soul needs a little eternal torture. Yes yes, I know we're only incredibly flawed hairless apes a couple of toes out of the jungle but fuck man this guy sucks.",
">\n\nA priest has made a move to a new parish so that he may focus on bringing the gospel to a new group! The church is excited to help him accel and even provided the funds to move him across the country. Though he'll be in a new town where no one knows him, the church as said they're sure he'll fir in quickly! \nOr something like that.",
">\n\nFive Years.",
">\n\ni’m shocked",
">\n\nAmazing pp hasn’t been banished yet",
">\n\n5 years? That's it?",
">\n\nGood lord",
">\n\noh what the fuck.",
">\n\nBut drag queens are the problem...",
">\n\nThe guy worked at a church right down the street where I grew up. I know people that attended Our Lady Queen of Peace as children, that’s so crazy",
">\n\nOmg\nHow sick"
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"Slideshows????? What?\nMy man just opened up cp.ppt and added a few THOUSAND slides of kiddy porn????\nClippy: it looks like youre a depraved predator. Do you want to profane the church as well?",
">\n\nWell I always did believe Power Point was a creation of a malevolent entity.",
">\n\nTuring complete, no less!",
">\n\nBut can it run Doom?",
">\n\nAnything can run doom",
">\n\nBut can Doom run Doom?",
">\n\nDoom can run Doom because Doom runs Doom when Doom runs.",
">\n\nPeople don't run Doom like it is, but it Doom.",
">\n\nGonna take this moment to highly recommend the film Spotlight to any who haven’t seen it",
">\n\nCheck out the 2017 limited series on either Netflix or Prime: \"The Keepers\" about a Baltimore-area Catholic girls' school. Based on the experiences as told by some of the girls, now middle-aged women. It is NOT nice, will make you cry, will enrage you. But I commend the women who made this documentary for as painful as it was for the audience to watch, I can't imagine how they made it thru. And they brought it around to a decent ending, but wow....I think some of what happened in Baltimore bled over into the Spotlight story.\nLapsed Catholic. I cannot reconcile with the Church hierarchy over this because they have behaved satanically for far too long to make me believe they are holy in any way.",
">\n\nThere was a documentary that came out a year or two ago tbzg sounds similar but men who were molested as kids while in the church. \nI honestly don't know how anyone can still support the church. At all. If it was one priest, sure. It's sad it happened, but pedophiles will always exist and find ways to get to kids.\nBut with how often it happens and with how little the church cares? Nope. I never could be catholic even if I was Christian.",
">\n\nBecause saving souls bringing them into their cult is more valuable than the ones they crush. The Vatican last I heard had 7 pedos protecting by not complying with extradition requests. \nAny organization not willing to comply with the laws of the country where they have a tax exempt status should lose their exemption and title to any property they own. If you RICO cartel and mafia assets, then you can do so for these child abusers and their protective association. \nYou know the church owns most of Manhattan and isn't paying taxes? All that money and we have to tolerate this shit? Nah fuck them.",
">\n\nNude pix on the church printer . . . I can imagine the scene.\nSister Mary Michael: Yo, does anyone recognize this tallywhacker?\nFormer Alter Boy Brian: Yeah, that's Father Jim. I'd know that hairy mole anywhere.",
">\n\nThat's Tommy Turner's tallywhacker",
">\n\nIf Reddit still gave free awards, I'd give one to you for catching the reference.",
">\n\nWAIT when did they get rid of the free awards",
">\n\nguess this is how i found out. last i claimed mine is around last week, i think. i only claim once every two weeks to gild certain biweekly thread lul",
">\n\nAnd yet where are all the \"anti-groomers\" protesting these churches?",
">\n\nIt’s almost like it has never actually been about protecting children, and it’s always been about trying to demonize LGBT people",
">\n\nAt this point I am positive the religious right to life thing is about having more targets.",
">\n\nGlad 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?",
">\n\nAfter 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.",
">\n\nI 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.\nThere are also many who truly believe the schtick and just compartmentalize the bad stuff. Both are to blame regardless. Nobody gets a pass.",
">\n\nI could see that with some of the smaller denominations for sure.\nWhen 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.",
">\n\n*making another streak to the tally list wall\n*camera panning out to reveal a huge fucking wall coveres in streaks",
">\n\nMan 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.\nThat said. This man should burn for this",
">\n\nPriest? Pedo? Are you sure? This is unprecedented",
">\n\nCorrection! PedoPreist",
">\n\nNew name not necessary. If anything there should be a name for the unique priests that arent pedos.",
">\n\nI'm inclined to think the majority of priests aren't child predators themselves.\nThe 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.\nWay, way too many of them are pedo-enablers. All the way up...",
">\n\nThen that would mean that... Gasp\nSouth Park was right all along....\nSneaky little bastards didn't think I would notice....",
">\n\nWish I was surprised",
">\n\nYou make slideshows of images? \nEdit: \nOh wait I see what you mean. Yeah the pedophile priest thing is so expected that only the slideshow bit stood out",
">\n\nHoly hell. Priest have normalized pedophilia.",
">\n\nNot just priests. Protestant Christians have a major problem with sexual abuse too, particularly against children.\nAfter Major Investigation, Southern Baptists Confront the Abuse Crisis They Knew Was Coming\nDon't let the Evangelical pedo defenders get away with claiming that Catholicism is the only issue here. It isn't.",
">\n\n\nnone of them are immune to the depravity.\n\nAlmost implied, really.",
">\n\nCould 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?",
">\n\nA variety of factors:\n\nUnquestioned moral authority and intense trust from a large community who have all been taught to obey church authorities\nSupport from a massive extremely powerful institution that has covered up thousands of similar crimes\nStrictly forbidden to marry, have sex, or iirc even masturbate, making them view all sexual activities as similarly taboo for them\nEasy regular access to many children\nEasy ability to get alone time with children\nPriests are only held institutionally accountable to each other and to those with more authority in the church\nVictims 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\nChildren 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\nThe 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\nThe 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\n\nThat'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.”\nP.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.\nWant 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.\nEdit to add this excellent way to protect kids that churches consistently fight against:\n\n“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.\nchildren 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.”",
">\n\nSo this should be buried enough if I speak in general terms.\nYears back one of our pastors had to give up being a pastor. They didn't get into details of what he did but they did stress that kids were not involved. The whole church could be seen relaxing.",
">\n\n5 years for thousands of child porn images and videos? Seems pretty fucking light to me. This piece of shit should die in prison.",
">\n\n5 years and a ticket to heaven",
">\n\nHeaven? For him?",
">\n\nThat'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.",
">\n\nDon't you also have to be truly repentant for your sins, including making a good faith effort to keep from repeating them?",
">\n\nI would love for someone to answer this because I really want to know, too.",
">\n\nyes I'm pretty sure that's it. God sees people's hearts He should know the diff between true repentance and fake one",
">\n\nYes, assuming an all-powerful God existed, he’d be able to pretty easily know if you were truly sorry.",
">\n\nYeah but......... \nI'm just starting the religious apologist's sentence for them.",
">\n\nFor 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.",
">\n\nOne 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.",
">\n\nOnce I heard this theory, the acceptance by conservatives of people whose behavior is in direct conflict with their moral beliefs, made more sense.",
">\n\n5 holly maries and transfer\nafter 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.\nRev. 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.\"\nMcDevitt asked the presiding judge for \"mercy for Jim,\" and even offered for the congregation to pay to house him in lieu of imprisonment.\n\"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.\"\n\"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.\"",
">\n\nIn Australia at the moment there is a furore after the death of Cardinal George Pell who was convicted (then exonerated) of personally abusing children, but was found by a Royal Commission (that would be a special prosecutor for our American friends?) of enabling and protecting paedophile priests for decades.\nCan honestly say I have not been able to listen to the string of \"Christians\" praising this man in our media for the last few days without wanting to puke. Suffer the little children.",
">\n\nWith you there. At least there’s a lot of people calling his supporters out on this. Fuck Tony Abbott, John Howard and Andrew Bolt to name a few.",
">\n\nI 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!",
">\n\nr/PastorArrested (also includes Priests)",
">\n\nDon'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.",
">\n\nIf there is a god, wtf?",
">\n\nThere is no God. Religion is about control and money",
">\n\nAnd more money",
">\n\n\"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.\" \n- Rev. Patrick McDevitt, provincial superior for the Congregation of the Western Province \n\nEvery single member of that congregation is a horrible piece of shit",
">\n\nWhat 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?",
">\n\n“Drag queens are grooming our youth!!!”",
">\n\n\"I think we all know where people put on dresses and fuck kids\"\n-Trixie Mattel, 2022",
">\n\nKid “Bless me Father, for I have sinned”\nPadre “ call me, maybe?”",
">\n\nImagine my shock to discover that a priest has been involved in a sex scandal and one involving the exploitation of children, at that.",
">\n\nGOP: \"But wuttabout drag queens?!?!?!??!\"",
">\n\nDoing the Lords work 🙏🏾",
">\n\nTax-free",
">\n\nWhat's the deal with priests being so into pedophilia? Can't they look at milf pounds like normal people?",
">\n\nOh look... Another priest with child porn ... When do we get to start taxing the church?",
">\n\nr/pastorarrested",
">\n\nChurch is a scary place, especially for children.",
">\n\nI 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.",
">\n\nOnly 5 years. What a joke.",
">\n\n\nThe 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.\n\nIf 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.",
">\n\nNo one is suprised a priest is a pedophile. \nBut printing out yer nudes? That's odd.",
">\n\nI can think of a reason he printed it out. And I really don't like that reason.",
">\n\nI'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.",
">\n\nThe sheer audacity to do it at church where you work",
">\n\nAnd not a drag queen in sight...",
">\n\nThey do kinda wear dresses, though",
">\n\nToo many “coincidences” within this church to be anything other than systematic",
">\n\nPretty 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.",
">\n\n\nThe data often suggests numbers of pedophiles similar to the general population\n\none 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",
">\n\nYeah, 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.",
">\n\nI 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.",
">\n\nIt's so common for priests to be sickos",
">\n\nGross",
">\n\nAll he needs to do is repent, right?!?",
">\n\nA priest? With kiddie porn? I’ve never heard of such a thing!",
">\n\nRemember 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.",
">\n\n5 years that's all he got",
">\n\nThat's fucking disgusting. Misappropriation of office materials.",
">\n\nIt 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",
">\n\nIdiot 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.",
">\n\nso 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.",
">\n\nI 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 🤷♂️",
">\n\n5 years isnt nearly enough. Lock him up forever and a day.",
">\n\n~~Drag shows~~ Churches are not safe for children",
">\n\nI'm sure the religious Right will be out protesting him any second.\nRight? Right guys? Groomers and all this? Qanons? Where you guys at?\nHuh. Weird.",
">\n\nBut the dragqueens guys?!?!?!??!? /s",
">\n\nWeird that so many god loving people are actually just pedophiles. Wonder what they think god thinks of them. Fuck theism.",
">\n\nTheir god tells them to take the young girls as spoils of war. Their god is just as fucking depraved as they are.",
">\n\ntHaTs jUsT tHe oLd tEsTaMeNt tHoUgh.\ngOds mOraLiTy dOeSnt cHanGe, hE jUsT dEaLs wItH hUmAns diFFeReNtlY nOw. \nYeah when someone deals with people differently than they did before we generally call that \"a change.\"",
">\n\nAnd he wasn’t trans??? Maybe it’s been priests all along that governors should be banning. When will they correct their mistake? /s",
">\n\nDoesn'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...",
">\n\nIt's surprising. Who prints out their own nudes?",
">\n\nLock him up and throw away the keys",
">\n\nDarn priests, at least those protestant ministers keep it in the family",
">\n\nNot surprised.",
">\n\nThree hail marys and all is forgiven. What a load of bs",
">\n\nJust one bad apple, I’m sure.",
">\n\nLeast paedophilic priest",
">\n\n…slideshow?",
">\n\nGod works in mysterious ways ya fuckin chomo. As a priest, he of all people should have seen this coming...",
">\n\nIn other news, water is wet",
">\n\nOnly five years...",
">\n\n”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.” \nಠ_ಠ",
">\n\nI don’t remember this plotline during Doubt…",
">\n\nWe keep letting them get away with it, so they keep doing it. More obvious news at 10.",
">\n\n& once they found him out he got made a cardinal",
">\n\nHe should've kept them in the garage with his Corvette",
">\n\n5 years? If nothing else, using PowerPoint should have been an aggravating factor.",
">\n\nAnd you thought looking at Bob's family vacation pics was a bad time",
">\n\nWhen 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.",
">\n\nHow is the Roman Catholic Church not closed down for enabling and protecting child abusers",
">\n\nAre 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.",
">\n\nIt'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.",
">\n\npapabile!",
">\n\nLeft nudes on a shared printer? Rookie mistake.",
">\n\nTeach your priests just enough tech to effectively turn themselves in.",
">\n\nIsn't it something how the church decided to investigate themselves again. Keep it in the family, guys.\nI 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.",
">\n\nIs 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:\n1 - 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\n2 - 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)\n3 - 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.\nTL;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.",
">\n\nLet me guess.\nMoved to a different church at the other side of the country and that’s about it for consequences?",
">\n\nThose damned drag queens strike again.",
">\n\nI mean that’s kinda how they caught BTK",
">\n\nSo priests are still abusing kids after we didn't do anything to them the last few times we caught them? Color me surprised.",
">\n\n\nCourt 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.\"\n\n...\n\nDuring 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. \n\n...\n\nAnd 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. \n\nFuck everyone that allowed this scum to continue in a position of authority.",
">\n\nDon’t hear this happening at drag shows…j/s",
">\n\nHe put the PDF in pedofile",
">\n\nThis is Fucking ridiculous",
">\n\nNever forget who the actual groomers are",
">\n\nThe proud boys will be outside of churches \"protesting\" with guns now, right? right?",
">\n\nA priest being pedophile? But that is absolutely unheard of, say it isn't so!",
">\n\nYou sure this wasn't at a Trans drag show? GOP is sure this happens at Trans dragsl shows",
">\n\nExcommunicated by PowerPoint",
">\n\n5 years and a fine? FFS, that’s ridiculous.",
">\n\nPraise Jesus!",
">\n\nAnd the right thinks kids going to drag shows are the problem",
">\n\nAverage christian.",
">\n\nbut the drag queens are reading books to children in libraries! The madnessss",
">\n\nSo they moved him to a new church. This is what they have always done.",
">\n\nleast pedophilic priest:",
">\n\nThe dead ones dont hurt anyone.",
">\n\ninto the furnace he goes. theres no rehabbing people like this.",
">\n\nIt's always the ones you least expect..",
">\n\nOr in this case, the ones you MOST suspect",
">\n\nlol ya, I said that with sarcasm..",
">\n\nPray that he gets nut cancer.",
">\n\nNut cancer was once described to me as \"the common cold of cancers\". It has something like a 95% survival rate.\nHe deserves worse.",
">\n\nDidn't know that. Good nut fact for the day.",
">\n\nIt's definitely the drag queens reading to kids in libraries that's the problem.",
">\n\nRight wingers want him to be a closeted drag queen so badly",
">\n\nI could never trust any man who goes into priesthood. Completely unnatural and deviant occupation rife with pedophiles.",
">\n\nThis MONSTER got 5 years?! \nThe CHILDREN being abused in the images will suffer for the rest of their lives!!\nI'm in favor of LIFE SENTENCES for child sex offenders. \nOr better yet, the DEATH PENALTY!!",
">\n\nReligion was invented by Man for Control of the Flock.You go to Confession and tell the priest everything so they can determine how to undress you.\nI was once a Catholic.....born, baptised, confirmed and educated in a Grammar school run by Irish Christian Brothers under the Order of Edmund Ignatius Rice......and now I'm an atheist.",
">\n\nHow come it is always ‘Christians’ who are involved in child sex abuse?",
">\n\nOf course he's a pedo, he's a priest!",
">\n\nYes millions of idiots keep donating billions to the church",
">\n\nNot simply donating, they bring their children along, indoctrinate them that the priest is the speaker of God, and that God can do no wrong, so anything the priest dose is holy and good. The priest even says so!\nAnd when the kids bring it up the first few times weird things happen? The parents tell them to shush. And so, the sacrifices continue, the parents make a show of not knowing, and things get worse for the children.\nAnd if the priest is reported, the church just moves them to a different parish.\nThe only difference between the taliban and the catholic church, is one of them advertises the child slaves as a benefit, while the other pretends it's not (but totally encourages it, top to bottom).",
">\n\nAnd who are the groomers again?",
">\n\nThis is what happens when you don’t recycle your printer papers.",
">\n\nI feel like this isn't oniony enough, everyone knows by now that priests are significantly more likely to be pedophiles than the general population.",
">\n\nSure, but “gets caught by leaving nudes on a printer” is a fairly onion-y end.",
">\n\nYa know you're right",
">\n\nI have a theory about the correlation between priests and pedophiles. This is my opinion based on conversations with a childhood friend (not a pedo) and is only my opinion but could explain why so many priests abuse children. Get your down votes ready. \nThese boys grow up in the church and it is all they know for the most part. When going through puberty we become attracted to a gender (male or female gay or straight sometimes somewhere in between) and more often a \"type\" as well (blonde brunette short tall etc). Our hormones drive us to seek companionship, intimacy, and ultimately procreation. \nThese boys growing up never develop this attraction to their peers but rather feel more comfortable around younger children and usually behave as mentors. The combination of love of church and disinterest in peers puts the thought in their heads that priesthood is their calling. It takes a long time and effort to become a priest. There are easier paths if a guy just wants to bang kids.\nPut together lack of sex or release of biological needs with access and constant contact with children and they are basically pushed over the edge.\nTo sum up, pedophiles don't become priests to molest children, they become priests because they don't realize they are pedophiles. This is just my opinion, and obviously there are also exceptions to this.\nPerhaps the solution is to get rid of this nonsense celibacy.",
">\n\nAlternative theory: pedophiles become priests because they know the Catholic Church will support and hide them from accountability. Plus, all those altar boys have been easy pickings for decades. \nOn the positive side, Catholic Churches are closing all over Missouri because of dwindling congregations.",
">\n\nThis is one crime I’ll never be able to fathom.",
">\n\nSo fucking sick advocating for this monster so he can maintain freedom?",
">\n\nThe church has been so infiltrated by Child abusers that they are currently rating worse than Satan Worshippers",
">\n\nCan we just fuck churches off now???",
">\n\nYour tithing had to go somewhere.",
">\n\nHow come republicans are not calling these people groomers?",
">\n\nIs anyone else picturing the scene in the first Scary Movie where the cop asks Anna Faris to look at some pictures?\nPriest hands out the pictures of himself along with the weekly pamphlet. Maybe the first reading is from the Song of Solomon...",
">\n\nOh shit. \nHas he been quietly shuffled to a new church yet?",
">\n\nI'm old enough that when I see \"slideshow\" I think of him arranging physical slides in a carousel to project on a screen, like the family trip to Disneyland. Maybe invite the neighbors over for cake.",
">\n\nLord above why is this a thing",
">\n\nYou mean not a drag queen?",
">\n\nActual groomers.",
">\n\nJust think the hands that wanked to kiddie pr0n put wafers on the tongues of everyone in that congregation...",
">\n\nLMAO. This slightly ambiguous headline had me thinking “who attended these slideshow presentations?”",
">\n\nOh look another pedophile catholic priest. Good job reinforcing that stereotype.",
">\n\nAnd we should take guidance from those who hide these atrocities so we can live a better life in the eyes of god.",
">\n\nFriendly reminder religion is a mistake that deserves to be taxed. If you threatened to tax zealots tomorrow child molestation by priests would drop to zero",
">\n\nmay your mother smile as you burn",
">\n\nThis is what happens when you have unchecked power for thousands of years.\nHorrifying.",
">\n\nDid he learn this behavior from a drag show? /s",
">\n\nReminds me of something Chris Rock said: \"Where do women find the porn? They don't find it in your hiding place, they find it in the VCR\"",
">\n\nHe was also probably saving up for a trip to Disney World.",
">\n\n\nincluding child pornography and images of child erotica.\n\nI want to know the difference but don't want to get on a watchlist by googling it.",
">\n\nWithout the word child there, there's a difference in degree. I'd say it's the same thing with that word in there just describing the subject depicted. Pornography is generally actual sex acts of some form or another. Erotica falls short of that, it may be arousing or suggestive. For example, a cabaret show may be erotica but it's certainly not pornography.",
">\n\nPriest? Church? Man in a tax evasion party house?",
">\n\nYet the church immediately moved him somewhere else as there was a daycare next door to the church, then offered to pay to have the priest under house arrest so that the child predator won't go to jail.",
">\n\nShittiest Ted Talk I’ve ever seen, honestly…",
">\n\nOnly five years?! \nUgh!",
">\n\nAnd they call LGBT+ people groomers. (eyeroll)",
">\n\nAnyone who has ever been to a church sadly knows this doesn't need to be in this sub for us to know it's a real story.",
">\n\nOh how nice. The Reverend pleaded for him not to be incarcerated. Because of fucking course he did.",
">\n\nCurious as to who he was presenting this to",
">\n\nPunish these assholes they are smearing God's name",
">\n\nStraight to (checks notes) your next parish!",
">\n\nreligion and sexual abuse. name a more iconic duo\nwhy are any of these religions even allowed to exist any more\nthey have long since lost their meanings, and onlt serve to syphon money out of gullible people, and abuse their children\nwhat is any of these religions actually adding to society any more? other than more perverted monsters",
">\n\nHe’s not the only one",
">\n\nWhy is no big tv news channel talking about this?",
">\n\nAsked that he not go to prison & that his congregation pay to house him? Fuck the church. That's almost the most disgusting part of this",
">\n\nSo are we talking a pptx or an old-school film Rolodex version? Both are messed up, but one takes A LOT more effort.",
">\n\nThe catholic church is of Satan.",
">\n\nFaith is of \"Satan.\" The idea that assuming you might be wrong is morally wrong produces some of the worst people imaginable. And that applies to secular ideologies that require looking down on those who disagree or are unsure too.",
">\n\nAge of priest over/under 50\nWhat yall got?\nI have the over.",
">\n\nOnly 5 years?",
">\n\nRight for some reason i read it as slide show meaning projectors haha. I forgot Powerpoint presentations are a thing.",
">\n\nThe congregation still requested he be spared incarceration and remain in their facility. Truly unbelievable.",
">\n\nThose damn drag queens framed him",
">\n\nThey really put a lot of effort into not saying that he was catholic in that article.",
">\n\nWonder what congregation hes been moved to now?",
">\n\nAny outrage from republicans? Will they arm themselves and storm the churches?....... Didn't think so.",
">\n\nA Christian pedophile? Who could have guessed?",
">\n\nIm shocked! Shocked I say!\nWell... not that shocked.",
">\n\nI appreciate that the church cooperated and turned him in. However, the fact they wanted to pay to house him, out of the parish coffers, is insane. He deserves incarceration and certainly not a retirement paid for by parishioners of the church he victimized. Smh, a great step for the church, if only as a PR exercise, would be to strongly condemn this sort of behavior AND strongly punish it. Defrock and excommunicate any priest who does this. It’s a very easy choice that frankly could help reinstill a little confidence in the church.",
">\n\nOFF WITH HIS GOD DAMNED FUCKING HEAD",
">\n\nWhy so quick and painless?",
">\n\nYou know you’re actually right.. OFF WITH HIS GOD DAMNED FUCKING HEAD WITH A RUSTY PAPERCLIP",
">\n\nRight to jail",
">\n\nToday on why religious institutions should be abolished",
">\n\nAnd the right won't say a thing about this man.",
">\n\nHow Catholics still a thing ?",
">\n\nAnd the Church will cover it up or just say they are very sorry 🤬",
">\n\nThe provincial says everything right…he doesn’t excuse the guy, doesn’t obfuscate what he did or what it’s gravely evil…right up until he asks for house arrest. Fuck that. Whatever the harshest penalty allowed is, do that.",
">\n\nSo just regular church stuff really",
">\n\nChurch is a haven for predators!!!",
">\n\nI used to be Catholic, but stories like this make me hate the church more every day.",
">\n\nCan we just end this disgusting church already? Can you imagine ONE Walmart manager raping children? Now try to imagine MORE THAN THREE THOUSAND Walmart managers raping children. \nStill gonna shop at Walmart?",
">\n\nBut somehow these religious psychos get away with this and convince their followers to kill LGBTQ+ people. Fuck religion, fuck all churches, we need it out of our society.",
">\n\nExcommunicate from the order and earth.",
">\n\nOnly 5 years is the wild part to me.",
">\n\nHow have we not outlawed and burned down the obvious pedophile cult? \nIf there’s no such thing as a good cop, there’s no such thing as a good priest.",
">\n\nHead first into a wood chipper…no amnesty for pedophiles!",
">\n\nBe a shame if he stopped breathing and any and everybody associated with leadership stopped breathing also!!!",
">\n\nThis kind of shit is why atheism sucks, this fuckers evil soul needs a little eternal torture. Yes yes, I know we're only incredibly flawed hairless apes a couple of toes out of the jungle but fuck man this guy sucks.",
">\n\nA priest has made a move to a new parish so that he may focus on bringing the gospel to a new group! The church is excited to help him accel and even provided the funds to move him across the country. Though he'll be in a new town where no one knows him, the church as said they're sure he'll fir in quickly! \nOr something like that.",
">\n\nFive Years.",
">\n\ni’m shocked",
">\n\nAmazing pp hasn’t been banished yet",
">\n\n5 years? That's it?",
">\n\nGood lord",
">\n\noh what the fuck.",
">\n\nBut drag queens are the problem...",
">\n\nThe guy worked at a church right down the street where I grew up. I know people that attended Our Lady Queen of Peace as children, that’s so crazy",
">\n\nOmg\nHow sick",
">\n\n…and reassigned to another parish"
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"Slideshows????? What?\nMy man just opened up cp.ppt and added a few THOUSAND slides of kiddy porn????\nClippy: it looks like youre a depraved predator. Do you want to profane the church as well?",
">\n\nWell I always did believe Power Point was a creation of a malevolent entity.",
">\n\nTuring complete, no less!",
">\n\nBut can it run Doom?",
">\n\nAnything can run doom",
">\n\nBut can Doom run Doom?",
">\n\nDoom can run Doom because Doom runs Doom when Doom runs.",
">\n\nPeople don't run Doom like it is, but it Doom.",
">\n\nGonna take this moment to highly recommend the film Spotlight to any who haven’t seen it",
">\n\nCheck out the 2017 limited series on either Netflix or Prime: \"The Keepers\" about a Baltimore-area Catholic girls' school. Based on the experiences as told by some of the girls, now middle-aged women. It is NOT nice, will make you cry, will enrage you. But I commend the women who made this documentary for as painful as it was for the audience to watch, I can't imagine how they made it thru. And they brought it around to a decent ending, but wow....I think some of what happened in Baltimore bled over into the Spotlight story.\nLapsed Catholic. I cannot reconcile with the Church hierarchy over this because they have behaved satanically for far too long to make me believe they are holy in any way.",
">\n\nThere was a documentary that came out a year or two ago tbzg sounds similar but men who were molested as kids while in the church. \nI honestly don't know how anyone can still support the church. At all. If it was one priest, sure. It's sad it happened, but pedophiles will always exist and find ways to get to kids.\nBut with how often it happens and with how little the church cares? Nope. I never could be catholic even if I was Christian.",
">\n\nBecause saving souls bringing them into their cult is more valuable than the ones they crush. The Vatican last I heard had 7 pedos protecting by not complying with extradition requests. \nAny organization not willing to comply with the laws of the country where they have a tax exempt status should lose their exemption and title to any property they own. If you RICO cartel and mafia assets, then you can do so for these child abusers and their protective association. \nYou know the church owns most of Manhattan and isn't paying taxes? All that money and we have to tolerate this shit? Nah fuck them.",
">\n\nNude pix on the church printer . . . I can imagine the scene.\nSister Mary Michael: Yo, does anyone recognize this tallywhacker?\nFormer Alter Boy Brian: Yeah, that's Father Jim. I'd know that hairy mole anywhere.",
">\n\nThat's Tommy Turner's tallywhacker",
">\n\nIf Reddit still gave free awards, I'd give one to you for catching the reference.",
">\n\nWAIT when did they get rid of the free awards",
">\n\nguess this is how i found out. last i claimed mine is around last week, i think. i only claim once every two weeks to gild certain biweekly thread lul",
">\n\nAnd yet where are all the \"anti-groomers\" protesting these churches?",
">\n\nIt’s almost like it has never actually been about protecting children, and it’s always been about trying to demonize LGBT people",
">\n\nAt this point I am positive the religious right to life thing is about having more targets.",
">\n\nGlad 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?",
">\n\nAfter 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.",
">\n\nI 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.\nThere are also many who truly believe the schtick and just compartmentalize the bad stuff. Both are to blame regardless. Nobody gets a pass.",
">\n\nI could see that with some of the smaller denominations for sure.\nWhen 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.",
">\n\n*making another streak to the tally list wall\n*camera panning out to reveal a huge fucking wall coveres in streaks",
">\n\nMan 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.\nThat said. This man should burn for this",
">\n\nPriest? Pedo? Are you sure? This is unprecedented",
">\n\nCorrection! PedoPreist",
">\n\nNew name not necessary. If anything there should be a name for the unique priests that arent pedos.",
">\n\nI'm inclined to think the majority of priests aren't child predators themselves.\nThe 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.\nWay, way too many of them are pedo-enablers. All the way up...",
">\n\nThen that would mean that... Gasp\nSouth Park was right all along....\nSneaky little bastards didn't think I would notice....",
">\n\nWish I was surprised",
">\n\nYou make slideshows of images? \nEdit: \nOh wait I see what you mean. Yeah the pedophile priest thing is so expected that only the slideshow bit stood out",
">\n\nHoly hell. Priest have normalized pedophilia.",
">\n\nNot just priests. Protestant Christians have a major problem with sexual abuse too, particularly against children.\nAfter Major Investigation, Southern Baptists Confront the Abuse Crisis They Knew Was Coming\nDon't let the Evangelical pedo defenders get away with claiming that Catholicism is the only issue here. It isn't.",
">\n\n\nnone of them are immune to the depravity.\n\nAlmost implied, really.",
">\n\nCould 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?",
">\n\nA variety of factors:\n\nUnquestioned moral authority and intense trust from a large community who have all been taught to obey church authorities\nSupport from a massive extremely powerful institution that has covered up thousands of similar crimes\nStrictly forbidden to marry, have sex, or iirc even masturbate, making them view all sexual activities as similarly taboo for them\nEasy regular access to many children\nEasy ability to get alone time with children\nPriests are only held institutionally accountable to each other and to those with more authority in the church\nVictims 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\nChildren 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\nThe 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\nThe 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\n\nThat'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.”\nP.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.\nWant 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.\nEdit to add this excellent way to protect kids that churches consistently fight against:\n\n“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.\nchildren 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.”",
">\n\nSo this should be buried enough if I speak in general terms.\nYears back one of our pastors had to give up being a pastor. They didn't get into details of what he did but they did stress that kids were not involved. The whole church could be seen relaxing.",
">\n\n5 years for thousands of child porn images and videos? Seems pretty fucking light to me. This piece of shit should die in prison.",
">\n\n5 years and a ticket to heaven",
">\n\nHeaven? For him?",
">\n\nThat'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.",
">\n\nDon't you also have to be truly repentant for your sins, including making a good faith effort to keep from repeating them?",
">\n\nI would love for someone to answer this because I really want to know, too.",
">\n\nyes I'm pretty sure that's it. God sees people's hearts He should know the diff between true repentance and fake one",
">\n\nYes, assuming an all-powerful God existed, he’d be able to pretty easily know if you were truly sorry.",
">\n\nYeah but......... \nI'm just starting the religious apologist's sentence for them.",
">\n\nFor 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.",
">\n\nOne 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.",
">\n\nOnce I heard this theory, the acceptance by conservatives of people whose behavior is in direct conflict with their moral beliefs, made more sense.",
">\n\n5 holly maries and transfer\nafter 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.\nRev. 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.\"\nMcDevitt asked the presiding judge for \"mercy for Jim,\" and even offered for the congregation to pay to house him in lieu of imprisonment.\n\"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.\"\n\"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.\"",
">\n\nIn Australia at the moment there is a furore after the death of Cardinal George Pell who was convicted (then exonerated) of personally abusing children, but was found by a Royal Commission (that would be a special prosecutor for our American friends?) of enabling and protecting paedophile priests for decades.\nCan honestly say I have not been able to listen to the string of \"Christians\" praising this man in our media for the last few days without wanting to puke. Suffer the little children.",
">\n\nWith you there. At least there’s a lot of people calling his supporters out on this. Fuck Tony Abbott, John Howard and Andrew Bolt to name a few.",
">\n\nI 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!",
">\n\nr/PastorArrested (also includes Priests)",
">\n\nDon'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.",
">\n\nIf there is a god, wtf?",
">\n\nThere is no God. Religion is about control and money",
">\n\nAnd more money",
">\n\n\"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.\" \n- Rev. Patrick McDevitt, provincial superior for the Congregation of the Western Province \n\nEvery single member of that congregation is a horrible piece of shit",
">\n\nWhat 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?",
">\n\n“Drag queens are grooming our youth!!!”",
">\n\n\"I think we all know where people put on dresses and fuck kids\"\n-Trixie Mattel, 2022",
">\n\nKid “Bless me Father, for I have sinned”\nPadre “ call me, maybe?”",
">\n\nImagine my shock to discover that a priest has been involved in a sex scandal and one involving the exploitation of children, at that.",
">\n\nGOP: \"But wuttabout drag queens?!?!?!??!\"",
">\n\nDoing the Lords work 🙏🏾",
">\n\nTax-free",
">\n\nWhat's the deal with priests being so into pedophilia? Can't they look at milf pounds like normal people?",
">\n\nOh look... Another priest with child porn ... When do we get to start taxing the church?",
">\n\nr/pastorarrested",
">\n\nChurch is a scary place, especially for children.",
">\n\nI 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.",
">\n\nOnly 5 years. What a joke.",
">\n\n\nThe 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.\n\nIf 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.",
">\n\nNo one is suprised a priest is a pedophile. \nBut printing out yer nudes? That's odd.",
">\n\nI can think of a reason he printed it out. And I really don't like that reason.",
">\n\nI'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.",
">\n\nThe sheer audacity to do it at church where you work",
">\n\nAnd not a drag queen in sight...",
">\n\nThey do kinda wear dresses, though",
">\n\nToo many “coincidences” within this church to be anything other than systematic",
">\n\nPretty 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.",
">\n\n\nThe data often suggests numbers of pedophiles similar to the general population\n\none 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",
">\n\nYeah, 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.",
">\n\nI 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.",
">\n\nIt's so common for priests to be sickos",
">\n\nGross",
">\n\nAll he needs to do is repent, right?!?",
">\n\nA priest? With kiddie porn? I’ve never heard of such a thing!",
">\n\nRemember 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.",
">\n\n5 years that's all he got",
">\n\nThat's fucking disgusting. Misappropriation of office materials.",
">\n\nIt 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",
">\n\nIdiot 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.",
">\n\nso 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.",
">\n\nI 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 🤷♂️",
">\n\n5 years isnt nearly enough. Lock him up forever and a day.",
">\n\n~~Drag shows~~ Churches are not safe for children",
">\n\nI'm sure the religious Right will be out protesting him any second.\nRight? Right guys? Groomers and all this? Qanons? Where you guys at?\nHuh. Weird.",
">\n\nBut the dragqueens guys?!?!?!??!? /s",
">\n\nWeird that so many god loving people are actually just pedophiles. Wonder what they think god thinks of them. Fuck theism.",
">\n\nTheir god tells them to take the young girls as spoils of war. Their god is just as fucking depraved as they are.",
">\n\ntHaTs jUsT tHe oLd tEsTaMeNt tHoUgh.\ngOds mOraLiTy dOeSnt cHanGe, hE jUsT dEaLs wItH hUmAns diFFeReNtlY nOw. \nYeah when someone deals with people differently than they did before we generally call that \"a change.\"",
">\n\nAnd he wasn’t trans??? Maybe it’s been priests all along that governors should be banning. When will they correct their mistake? /s",
">\n\nDoesn'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...",
">\n\nIt's surprising. Who prints out their own nudes?",
">\n\nLock him up and throw away the keys",
">\n\nDarn priests, at least those protestant ministers keep it in the family",
">\n\nNot surprised.",
">\n\nThree hail marys and all is forgiven. What a load of bs",
">\n\nJust one bad apple, I’m sure.",
">\n\nLeast paedophilic priest",
">\n\n…slideshow?",
">\n\nGod works in mysterious ways ya fuckin chomo. As a priest, he of all people should have seen this coming...",
">\n\nIn other news, water is wet",
">\n\nOnly five years...",
">\n\n”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.” \nಠ_ಠ",
">\n\nI don’t remember this plotline during Doubt…",
">\n\nWe keep letting them get away with it, so they keep doing it. More obvious news at 10.",
">\n\n& once they found him out he got made a cardinal",
">\n\nHe should've kept them in the garage with his Corvette",
">\n\n5 years? If nothing else, using PowerPoint should have been an aggravating factor.",
">\n\nAnd you thought looking at Bob's family vacation pics was a bad time",
">\n\nWhen 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.",
">\n\nHow is the Roman Catholic Church not closed down for enabling and protecting child abusers",
">\n\nAre 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.",
">\n\nIt'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.",
">\n\npapabile!",
">\n\nLeft nudes on a shared printer? Rookie mistake.",
">\n\nTeach your priests just enough tech to effectively turn themselves in.",
">\n\nIsn't it something how the church decided to investigate themselves again. Keep it in the family, guys.\nI 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.",
">\n\nIs 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:\n1 - 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\n2 - 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)\n3 - 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.\nTL;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.",
">\n\nLet me guess.\nMoved to a different church at the other side of the country and that’s about it for consequences?",
">\n\nThose damned drag queens strike again.",
">\n\nI mean that’s kinda how they caught BTK",
">\n\nSo priests are still abusing kids after we didn't do anything to them the last few times we caught them? Color me surprised.",
">\n\n\nCourt 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.\"\n\n...\n\nDuring 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. \n\n...\n\nAnd 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. \n\nFuck everyone that allowed this scum to continue in a position of authority.",
">\n\nDon’t hear this happening at drag shows…j/s",
">\n\nHe put the PDF in pedofile",
">\n\nThis is Fucking ridiculous",
">\n\nNever forget who the actual groomers are",
">\n\nThe proud boys will be outside of churches \"protesting\" with guns now, right? right?",
">\n\nA priest being pedophile? But that is absolutely unheard of, say it isn't so!",
">\n\nYou sure this wasn't at a Trans drag show? GOP is sure this happens at Trans dragsl shows",
">\n\nExcommunicated by PowerPoint",
">\n\n5 years and a fine? FFS, that’s ridiculous.",
">\n\nPraise Jesus!",
">\n\nAnd the right thinks kids going to drag shows are the problem",
">\n\nAverage christian.",
">\n\nbut the drag queens are reading books to children in libraries! The madnessss",
">\n\nSo they moved him to a new church. This is what they have always done.",
">\n\nleast pedophilic priest:",
">\n\nThe dead ones dont hurt anyone.",
">\n\ninto the furnace he goes. theres no rehabbing people like this.",
">\n\nIt's always the ones you least expect..",
">\n\nOr in this case, the ones you MOST suspect",
">\n\nlol ya, I said that with sarcasm..",
">\n\nPray that he gets nut cancer.",
">\n\nNut cancer was once described to me as \"the common cold of cancers\". It has something like a 95% survival rate.\nHe deserves worse.",
">\n\nDidn't know that. Good nut fact for the day.",
">\n\nIt's definitely the drag queens reading to kids in libraries that's the problem.",
">\n\nRight wingers want him to be a closeted drag queen so badly",
">\n\nI could never trust any man who goes into priesthood. Completely unnatural and deviant occupation rife with pedophiles.",
">\n\nThis MONSTER got 5 years?! \nThe CHILDREN being abused in the images will suffer for the rest of their lives!!\nI'm in favor of LIFE SENTENCES for child sex offenders. \nOr better yet, the DEATH PENALTY!!",
">\n\nReligion was invented by Man for Control of the Flock.You go to Confession and tell the priest everything so they can determine how to undress you.\nI was once a Catholic.....born, baptised, confirmed and educated in a Grammar school run by Irish Christian Brothers under the Order of Edmund Ignatius Rice......and now I'm an atheist.",
">\n\nHow come it is always ‘Christians’ who are involved in child sex abuse?",
">\n\nOf course he's a pedo, he's a priest!",
">\n\nYes millions of idiots keep donating billions to the church",
">\n\nNot simply donating, they bring their children along, indoctrinate them that the priest is the speaker of God, and that God can do no wrong, so anything the priest dose is holy and good. The priest even says so!\nAnd when the kids bring it up the first few times weird things happen? The parents tell them to shush. And so, the sacrifices continue, the parents make a show of not knowing, and things get worse for the children.\nAnd if the priest is reported, the church just moves them to a different parish.\nThe only difference between the taliban and the catholic church, is one of them advertises the child slaves as a benefit, while the other pretends it's not (but totally encourages it, top to bottom).",
">\n\nAnd who are the groomers again?",
">\n\nThis is what happens when you don’t recycle your printer papers.",
">\n\nI feel like this isn't oniony enough, everyone knows by now that priests are significantly more likely to be pedophiles than the general population.",
">\n\nSure, but “gets caught by leaving nudes on a printer” is a fairly onion-y end.",
">\n\nYa know you're right",
">\n\nI have a theory about the correlation between priests and pedophiles. This is my opinion based on conversations with a childhood friend (not a pedo) and is only my opinion but could explain why so many priests abuse children. Get your down votes ready. \nThese boys grow up in the church and it is all they know for the most part. When going through puberty we become attracted to a gender (male or female gay or straight sometimes somewhere in between) and more often a \"type\" as well (blonde brunette short tall etc). Our hormones drive us to seek companionship, intimacy, and ultimately procreation. \nThese boys growing up never develop this attraction to their peers but rather feel more comfortable around younger children and usually behave as mentors. The combination of love of church and disinterest in peers puts the thought in their heads that priesthood is their calling. It takes a long time and effort to become a priest. There are easier paths if a guy just wants to bang kids.\nPut together lack of sex or release of biological needs with access and constant contact with children and they are basically pushed over the edge.\nTo sum up, pedophiles don't become priests to molest children, they become priests because they don't realize they are pedophiles. This is just my opinion, and obviously there are also exceptions to this.\nPerhaps the solution is to get rid of this nonsense celibacy.",
">\n\nAlternative theory: pedophiles become priests because they know the Catholic Church will support and hide them from accountability. Plus, all those altar boys have been easy pickings for decades. \nOn the positive side, Catholic Churches are closing all over Missouri because of dwindling congregations.",
">\n\nThis is one crime I’ll never be able to fathom.",
">\n\nSo fucking sick advocating for this monster so he can maintain freedom?",
">\n\nThe church has been so infiltrated by Child abusers that they are currently rating worse than Satan Worshippers",
">\n\nCan we just fuck churches off now???",
">\n\nYour tithing had to go somewhere.",
">\n\nHow come republicans are not calling these people groomers?",
">\n\nIs anyone else picturing the scene in the first Scary Movie where the cop asks Anna Faris to look at some pictures?\nPriest hands out the pictures of himself along with the weekly pamphlet. Maybe the first reading is from the Song of Solomon...",
">\n\nOh shit. \nHas he been quietly shuffled to a new church yet?",
">\n\nI'm old enough that when I see \"slideshow\" I think of him arranging physical slides in a carousel to project on a screen, like the family trip to Disneyland. Maybe invite the neighbors over for cake.",
">\n\nLord above why is this a thing",
">\n\nYou mean not a drag queen?",
">\n\nActual groomers.",
">\n\nJust think the hands that wanked to kiddie pr0n put wafers on the tongues of everyone in that congregation...",
">\n\nLMAO. This slightly ambiguous headline had me thinking “who attended these slideshow presentations?”",
">\n\nOh look another pedophile catholic priest. Good job reinforcing that stereotype.",
">\n\nAnd we should take guidance from those who hide these atrocities so we can live a better life in the eyes of god.",
">\n\nFriendly reminder religion is a mistake that deserves to be taxed. If you threatened to tax zealots tomorrow child molestation by priests would drop to zero",
">\n\nmay your mother smile as you burn",
">\n\nThis is what happens when you have unchecked power for thousands of years.\nHorrifying.",
">\n\nDid he learn this behavior from a drag show? /s",
">\n\nReminds me of something Chris Rock said: \"Where do women find the porn? They don't find it in your hiding place, they find it in the VCR\"",
">\n\nHe was also probably saving up for a trip to Disney World.",
">\n\n\nincluding child pornography and images of child erotica.\n\nI want to know the difference but don't want to get on a watchlist by googling it.",
">\n\nWithout the word child there, there's a difference in degree. I'd say it's the same thing with that word in there just describing the subject depicted. Pornography is generally actual sex acts of some form or another. Erotica falls short of that, it may be arousing or suggestive. For example, a cabaret show may be erotica but it's certainly not pornography.",
">\n\nPriest? Church? Man in a tax evasion party house?",
">\n\nYet the church immediately moved him somewhere else as there was a daycare next door to the church, then offered to pay to have the priest under house arrest so that the child predator won't go to jail.",
">\n\nShittiest Ted Talk I’ve ever seen, honestly…",
">\n\nOnly five years?! \nUgh!",
">\n\nAnd they call LGBT+ people groomers. (eyeroll)",
">\n\nAnyone who has ever been to a church sadly knows this doesn't need to be in this sub for us to know it's a real story.",
">\n\nOh how nice. The Reverend pleaded for him not to be incarcerated. Because of fucking course he did.",
">\n\nCurious as to who he was presenting this to",
">\n\nPunish these assholes they are smearing God's name",
">\n\nStraight to (checks notes) your next parish!",
">\n\nreligion and sexual abuse. name a more iconic duo\nwhy are any of these religions even allowed to exist any more\nthey have long since lost their meanings, and onlt serve to syphon money out of gullible people, and abuse their children\nwhat is any of these religions actually adding to society any more? other than more perverted monsters",
">\n\nHe’s not the only one",
">\n\nWhy is no big tv news channel talking about this?",
">\n\nAsked that he not go to prison & that his congregation pay to house him? Fuck the church. That's almost the most disgusting part of this",
">\n\nSo are we talking a pptx or an old-school film Rolodex version? Both are messed up, but one takes A LOT more effort.",
">\n\nThe catholic church is of Satan.",
">\n\nFaith is of \"Satan.\" The idea that assuming you might be wrong is morally wrong produces some of the worst people imaginable. And that applies to secular ideologies that require looking down on those who disagree or are unsure too.",
">\n\nAge of priest over/under 50\nWhat yall got?\nI have the over.",
">\n\nOnly 5 years?",
">\n\nRight for some reason i read it as slide show meaning projectors haha. I forgot Powerpoint presentations are a thing.",
">\n\nThe congregation still requested he be spared incarceration and remain in their facility. Truly unbelievable.",
">\n\nThose damn drag queens framed him",
">\n\nThey really put a lot of effort into not saying that he was catholic in that article.",
">\n\nWonder what congregation hes been moved to now?",
">\n\nAny outrage from republicans? Will they arm themselves and storm the churches?....... Didn't think so.",
">\n\nA Christian pedophile? Who could have guessed?",
">\n\nIm shocked! Shocked I say!\nWell... not that shocked.",
">\n\nI appreciate that the church cooperated and turned him in. However, the fact they wanted to pay to house him, out of the parish coffers, is insane. He deserves incarceration and certainly not a retirement paid for by parishioners of the church he victimized. Smh, a great step for the church, if only as a PR exercise, would be to strongly condemn this sort of behavior AND strongly punish it. Defrock and excommunicate any priest who does this. It’s a very easy choice that frankly could help reinstill a little confidence in the church.",
">\n\nOFF WITH HIS GOD DAMNED FUCKING HEAD",
">\n\nWhy so quick and painless?",
">\n\nYou know you’re actually right.. OFF WITH HIS GOD DAMNED FUCKING HEAD WITH A RUSTY PAPERCLIP",
">\n\nRight to jail",
">\n\nToday on why religious institutions should be abolished",
">\n\nAnd the right won't say a thing about this man.",
">\n\nHow Catholics still a thing ?",
">\n\nAnd the Church will cover it up or just say they are very sorry 🤬",
">\n\nThe provincial says everything right…he doesn’t excuse the guy, doesn’t obfuscate what he did or what it’s gravely evil…right up until he asks for house arrest. Fuck that. Whatever the harshest penalty allowed is, do that.",
">\n\nSo just regular church stuff really",
">\n\nChurch is a haven for predators!!!",
">\n\nI used to be Catholic, but stories like this make me hate the church more every day.",
">\n\nCan we just end this disgusting church already? Can you imagine ONE Walmart manager raping children? Now try to imagine MORE THAN THREE THOUSAND Walmart managers raping children. \nStill gonna shop at Walmart?",
">\n\nBut somehow these religious psychos get away with this and convince their followers to kill LGBTQ+ people. Fuck religion, fuck all churches, we need it out of our society.",
">\n\nExcommunicate from the order and earth.",
">\n\nOnly 5 years is the wild part to me.",
">\n\nHow have we not outlawed and burned down the obvious pedophile cult? \nIf there’s no such thing as a good cop, there’s no such thing as a good priest.",
">\n\nHead first into a wood chipper…no amnesty for pedophiles!",
">\n\nBe a shame if he stopped breathing and any and everybody associated with leadership stopped breathing also!!!",
">\n\nThis kind of shit is why atheism sucks, this fuckers evil soul needs a little eternal torture. Yes yes, I know we're only incredibly flawed hairless apes a couple of toes out of the jungle but fuck man this guy sucks.",
">\n\nA priest has made a move to a new parish so that he may focus on bringing the gospel to a new group! The church is excited to help him accel and even provided the funds to move him across the country. Though he'll be in a new town where no one knows him, the church as said they're sure he'll fir in quickly! \nOr something like that.",
">\n\nFive Years.",
">\n\ni’m shocked",
">\n\nAmazing pp hasn’t been banished yet",
">\n\n5 years? That's it?",
">\n\nGood lord",
">\n\noh what the fuck.",
">\n\nBut drag queens are the problem...",
">\n\nThe guy worked at a church right down the street where I grew up. I know people that attended Our Lady Queen of Peace as children, that’s so crazy",
">\n\nOmg\nHow sick",
">\n\n…and reassigned to another parish",
">\n\nOne thing, Catholics. One thing!"
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"Slideshows????? What?\nMy man just opened up cp.ppt and added a few THOUSAND slides of kiddy porn????\nClippy: it looks like youre a depraved predator. Do you want to profane the church as well?",
">\n\nWell I always did believe Power Point was a creation of a malevolent entity.",
">\n\nTuring complete, no less!",
">\n\nBut can it run Doom?",
">\n\nAnything can run doom",
">\n\nBut can Doom run Doom?",
">\n\nDoom can run Doom because Doom runs Doom when Doom runs.",
">\n\nPeople don't run Doom like it is, but it Doom.",
">\n\nGonna take this moment to highly recommend the film Spotlight to any who haven’t seen it",
">\n\nCheck out the 2017 limited series on either Netflix or Prime: \"The Keepers\" about a Baltimore-area Catholic girls' school. Based on the experiences as told by some of the girls, now middle-aged women. It is NOT nice, will make you cry, will enrage you. But I commend the women who made this documentary for as painful as it was for the audience to watch, I can't imagine how they made it thru. And they brought it around to a decent ending, but wow....I think some of what happened in Baltimore bled over into the Spotlight story.\nLapsed Catholic. I cannot reconcile with the Church hierarchy over this because they have behaved satanically for far too long to make me believe they are holy in any way.",
">\n\nThere was a documentary that came out a year or two ago tbzg sounds similar but men who were molested as kids while in the church. \nI honestly don't know how anyone can still support the church. At all. If it was one priest, sure. It's sad it happened, but pedophiles will always exist and find ways to get to kids.\nBut with how often it happens and with how little the church cares? Nope. I never could be catholic even if I was Christian.",
">\n\nBecause saving souls bringing them into their cult is more valuable than the ones they crush. The Vatican last I heard had 7 pedos protecting by not complying with extradition requests. \nAny organization not willing to comply with the laws of the country where they have a tax exempt status should lose their exemption and title to any property they own. If you RICO cartel and mafia assets, then you can do so for these child abusers and their protective association. \nYou know the church owns most of Manhattan and isn't paying taxes? All that money and we have to tolerate this shit? Nah fuck them.",
">\n\nNude pix on the church printer . . . I can imagine the scene.\nSister Mary Michael: Yo, does anyone recognize this tallywhacker?\nFormer Alter Boy Brian: Yeah, that's Father Jim. I'd know that hairy mole anywhere.",
">\n\nThat's Tommy Turner's tallywhacker",
">\n\nIf Reddit still gave free awards, I'd give one to you for catching the reference.",
">\n\nWAIT when did they get rid of the free awards",
">\n\nguess this is how i found out. last i claimed mine is around last week, i think. i only claim once every two weeks to gild certain biweekly thread lul",
">\n\nAnd yet where are all the \"anti-groomers\" protesting these churches?",
">\n\nIt’s almost like it has never actually been about protecting children, and it’s always been about trying to demonize LGBT people",
">\n\nAt this point I am positive the religious right to life thing is about having more targets.",
">\n\nGlad 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?",
">\n\nAfter 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.",
">\n\nI 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.\nThere are also many who truly believe the schtick and just compartmentalize the bad stuff. Both are to blame regardless. Nobody gets a pass.",
">\n\nI could see that with some of the smaller denominations for sure.\nWhen 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.",
">\n\n*making another streak to the tally list wall\n*camera panning out to reveal a huge fucking wall coveres in streaks",
">\n\nMan 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.\nThat said. This man should burn for this",
">\n\nPriest? Pedo? Are you sure? This is unprecedented",
">\n\nCorrection! PedoPreist",
">\n\nNew name not necessary. If anything there should be a name for the unique priests that arent pedos.",
">\n\nI'm inclined to think the majority of priests aren't child predators themselves.\nThe 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.\nWay, way too many of them are pedo-enablers. All the way up...",
">\n\nThen that would mean that... Gasp\nSouth Park was right all along....\nSneaky little bastards didn't think I would notice....",
">\n\nWish I was surprised",
">\n\nYou make slideshows of images? \nEdit: \nOh wait I see what you mean. Yeah the pedophile priest thing is so expected that only the slideshow bit stood out",
">\n\nHoly hell. Priest have normalized pedophilia.",
">\n\nNot just priests. Protestant Christians have a major problem with sexual abuse too, particularly against children.\nAfter Major Investigation, Southern Baptists Confront the Abuse Crisis They Knew Was Coming\nDon't let the Evangelical pedo defenders get away with claiming that Catholicism is the only issue here. It isn't.",
">\n\n\nnone of them are immune to the depravity.\n\nAlmost implied, really.",
">\n\nCould 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?",
">\n\nA variety of factors:\n\nUnquestioned moral authority and intense trust from a large community who have all been taught to obey church authorities\nSupport from a massive extremely powerful institution that has covered up thousands of similar crimes\nStrictly forbidden to marry, have sex, or iirc even masturbate, making them view all sexual activities as similarly taboo for them\nEasy regular access to many children\nEasy ability to get alone time with children\nPriests are only held institutionally accountable to each other and to those with more authority in the church\nVictims 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\nChildren 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\nThe 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\nThe 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\n\nThat'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.”\nP.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.\nWant 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.\nEdit to add this excellent way to protect kids that churches consistently fight against:\n\n“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.\nchildren 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.”",
">\n\nSo this should be buried enough if I speak in general terms.\nYears back one of our pastors had to give up being a pastor. They didn't get into details of what he did but they did stress that kids were not involved. The whole church could be seen relaxing.",
">\n\n5 years for thousands of child porn images and videos? Seems pretty fucking light to me. This piece of shit should die in prison.",
">\n\n5 years and a ticket to heaven",
">\n\nHeaven? For him?",
">\n\nThat'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.",
">\n\nDon't you also have to be truly repentant for your sins, including making a good faith effort to keep from repeating them?",
">\n\nI would love for someone to answer this because I really want to know, too.",
">\n\nyes I'm pretty sure that's it. God sees people's hearts He should know the diff between true repentance and fake one",
">\n\nYes, assuming an all-powerful God existed, he’d be able to pretty easily know if you were truly sorry.",
">\n\nYeah but......... \nI'm just starting the religious apologist's sentence for them.",
">\n\nFor 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.",
">\n\nOne 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.",
">\n\nOnce I heard this theory, the acceptance by conservatives of people whose behavior is in direct conflict with their moral beliefs, made more sense.",
">\n\n5 holly maries and transfer\nafter 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.\nRev. 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.\"\nMcDevitt asked the presiding judge for \"mercy for Jim,\" and even offered for the congregation to pay to house him in lieu of imprisonment.\n\"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.\"\n\"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.\"",
">\n\nIn Australia at the moment there is a furore after the death of Cardinal George Pell who was convicted (then exonerated) of personally abusing children, but was found by a Royal Commission (that would be a special prosecutor for our American friends?) of enabling and protecting paedophile priests for decades.\nCan honestly say I have not been able to listen to the string of \"Christians\" praising this man in our media for the last few days without wanting to puke. Suffer the little children.",
">\n\nWith you there. At least there’s a lot of people calling his supporters out on this. Fuck Tony Abbott, John Howard and Andrew Bolt to name a few.",
">\n\nI 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!",
">\n\nr/PastorArrested (also includes Priests)",
">\n\nDon'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.",
">\n\nIf there is a god, wtf?",
">\n\nThere is no God. Religion is about control and money",
">\n\nAnd more money",
">\n\n\"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.\" \n- Rev. Patrick McDevitt, provincial superior for the Congregation of the Western Province \n\nEvery single member of that congregation is a horrible piece of shit",
">\n\nWhat 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?",
">\n\n“Drag queens are grooming our youth!!!”",
">\n\n\"I think we all know where people put on dresses and fuck kids\"\n-Trixie Mattel, 2022",
">\n\nKid “Bless me Father, for I have sinned”\nPadre “ call me, maybe?”",
">\n\nImagine my shock to discover that a priest has been involved in a sex scandal and one involving the exploitation of children, at that.",
">\n\nGOP: \"But wuttabout drag queens?!?!?!??!\"",
">\n\nDoing the Lords work 🙏🏾",
">\n\nTax-free",
">\n\nWhat's the deal with priests being so into pedophilia? Can't they look at milf pounds like normal people?",
">\n\nOh look... Another priest with child porn ... When do we get to start taxing the church?",
">\n\nr/pastorarrested",
">\n\nChurch is a scary place, especially for children.",
">\n\nI 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.",
">\n\nOnly 5 years. What a joke.",
">\n\n\nThe 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.\n\nIf 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.",
">\n\nNo one is suprised a priest is a pedophile. \nBut printing out yer nudes? That's odd.",
">\n\nI can think of a reason he printed it out. And I really don't like that reason.",
">\n\nI'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.",
">\n\nThe sheer audacity to do it at church where you work",
">\n\nAnd not a drag queen in sight...",
">\n\nThey do kinda wear dresses, though",
">\n\nToo many “coincidences” within this church to be anything other than systematic",
">\n\nPretty 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.",
">\n\n\nThe data often suggests numbers of pedophiles similar to the general population\n\none 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",
">\n\nYeah, 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.",
">\n\nI 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.",
">\n\nIt's so common for priests to be sickos",
">\n\nGross",
">\n\nAll he needs to do is repent, right?!?",
">\n\nA priest? With kiddie porn? I’ve never heard of such a thing!",
">\n\nRemember 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.",
">\n\n5 years that's all he got",
">\n\nThat's fucking disgusting. Misappropriation of office materials.",
">\n\nIt 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",
">\n\nIdiot 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.",
">\n\nso 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.",
">\n\nI 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 🤷♂️",
">\n\n5 years isnt nearly enough. Lock him up forever and a day.",
">\n\n~~Drag shows~~ Churches are not safe for children",
">\n\nI'm sure the religious Right will be out protesting him any second.\nRight? Right guys? Groomers and all this? Qanons? Where you guys at?\nHuh. Weird.",
">\n\nBut the dragqueens guys?!?!?!??!? /s",
">\n\nWeird that so many god loving people are actually just pedophiles. Wonder what they think god thinks of them. Fuck theism.",
">\n\nTheir god tells them to take the young girls as spoils of war. Their god is just as fucking depraved as they are.",
">\n\ntHaTs jUsT tHe oLd tEsTaMeNt tHoUgh.\ngOds mOraLiTy dOeSnt cHanGe, hE jUsT dEaLs wItH hUmAns diFFeReNtlY nOw. \nYeah when someone deals with people differently than they did before we generally call that \"a change.\"",
">\n\nAnd he wasn’t trans??? Maybe it’s been priests all along that governors should be banning. When will they correct their mistake? /s",
">\n\nDoesn'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...",
">\n\nIt's surprising. Who prints out their own nudes?",
">\n\nLock him up and throw away the keys",
">\n\nDarn priests, at least those protestant ministers keep it in the family",
">\n\nNot surprised.",
">\n\nThree hail marys and all is forgiven. What a load of bs",
">\n\nJust one bad apple, I’m sure.",
">\n\nLeast paedophilic priest",
">\n\n…slideshow?",
">\n\nGod works in mysterious ways ya fuckin chomo. As a priest, he of all people should have seen this coming...",
">\n\nIn other news, water is wet",
">\n\nOnly five years...",
">\n\n”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.” \nಠ_ಠ",
">\n\nI don’t remember this plotline during Doubt…",
">\n\nWe keep letting them get away with it, so they keep doing it. More obvious news at 10.",
">\n\n& once they found him out he got made a cardinal",
">\n\nHe should've kept them in the garage with his Corvette",
">\n\n5 years? If nothing else, using PowerPoint should have been an aggravating factor.",
">\n\nAnd you thought looking at Bob's family vacation pics was a bad time",
">\n\nWhen 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.",
">\n\nHow is the Roman Catholic Church not closed down for enabling and protecting child abusers",
">\n\nAre 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.",
">\n\nIt'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.",
">\n\npapabile!",
">\n\nLeft nudes on a shared printer? Rookie mistake.",
">\n\nTeach your priests just enough tech to effectively turn themselves in.",
">\n\nIsn't it something how the church decided to investigate themselves again. Keep it in the family, guys.\nI 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.",
">\n\nIs 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:\n1 - 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\n2 - 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)\n3 - 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.\nTL;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.",
">\n\nLet me guess.\nMoved to a different church at the other side of the country and that’s about it for consequences?",
">\n\nThose damned drag queens strike again.",
">\n\nI mean that’s kinda how they caught BTK",
">\n\nSo priests are still abusing kids after we didn't do anything to them the last few times we caught them? Color me surprised.",
">\n\n\nCourt 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.\"\n\n...\n\nDuring 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. \n\n...\n\nAnd 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. \n\nFuck everyone that allowed this scum to continue in a position of authority.",
">\n\nDon’t hear this happening at drag shows…j/s",
">\n\nHe put the PDF in pedofile",
">\n\nThis is Fucking ridiculous",
">\n\nNever forget who the actual groomers are",
">\n\nThe proud boys will be outside of churches \"protesting\" with guns now, right? right?",
">\n\nA priest being pedophile? But that is absolutely unheard of, say it isn't so!",
">\n\nYou sure this wasn't at a Trans drag show? GOP is sure this happens at Trans dragsl shows",
">\n\nExcommunicated by PowerPoint",
">\n\n5 years and a fine? FFS, that’s ridiculous.",
">\n\nPraise Jesus!",
">\n\nAnd the right thinks kids going to drag shows are the problem",
">\n\nAverage christian.",
">\n\nbut the drag queens are reading books to children in libraries! The madnessss",
">\n\nSo they moved him to a new church. This is what they have always done.",
">\n\nleast pedophilic priest:",
">\n\nThe dead ones dont hurt anyone.",
">\n\ninto the furnace he goes. theres no rehabbing people like this.",
">\n\nIt's always the ones you least expect..",
">\n\nOr in this case, the ones you MOST suspect",
">\n\nlol ya, I said that with sarcasm..",
">\n\nPray that he gets nut cancer.",
">\n\nNut cancer was once described to me as \"the common cold of cancers\". It has something like a 95% survival rate.\nHe deserves worse.",
">\n\nDidn't know that. Good nut fact for the day.",
">\n\nIt's definitely the drag queens reading to kids in libraries that's the problem.",
">\n\nRight wingers want him to be a closeted drag queen so badly",
">\n\nI could never trust any man who goes into priesthood. Completely unnatural and deviant occupation rife with pedophiles.",
">\n\nThis MONSTER got 5 years?! \nThe CHILDREN being abused in the images will suffer for the rest of their lives!!\nI'm in favor of LIFE SENTENCES for child sex offenders. \nOr better yet, the DEATH PENALTY!!",
">\n\nReligion was invented by Man for Control of the Flock.You go to Confession and tell the priest everything so they can determine how to undress you.\nI was once a Catholic.....born, baptised, confirmed and educated in a Grammar school run by Irish Christian Brothers under the Order of Edmund Ignatius Rice......and now I'm an atheist.",
">\n\nHow come it is always ‘Christians’ who are involved in child sex abuse?",
">\n\nOf course he's a pedo, he's a priest!",
">\n\nYes millions of idiots keep donating billions to the church",
">\n\nNot simply donating, they bring their children along, indoctrinate them that the priest is the speaker of God, and that God can do no wrong, so anything the priest dose is holy and good. The priest even says so!\nAnd when the kids bring it up the first few times weird things happen? The parents tell them to shush. And so, the sacrifices continue, the parents make a show of not knowing, and things get worse for the children.\nAnd if the priest is reported, the church just moves them to a different parish.\nThe only difference between the taliban and the catholic church, is one of them advertises the child slaves as a benefit, while the other pretends it's not (but totally encourages it, top to bottom).",
">\n\nAnd who are the groomers again?",
">\n\nThis is what happens when you don’t recycle your printer papers.",
">\n\nI feel like this isn't oniony enough, everyone knows by now that priests are significantly more likely to be pedophiles than the general population.",
">\n\nSure, but “gets caught by leaving nudes on a printer” is a fairly onion-y end.",
">\n\nYa know you're right",
">\n\nI have a theory about the correlation between priests and pedophiles. This is my opinion based on conversations with a childhood friend (not a pedo) and is only my opinion but could explain why so many priests abuse children. Get your down votes ready. \nThese boys grow up in the church and it is all they know for the most part. When going through puberty we become attracted to a gender (male or female gay or straight sometimes somewhere in between) and more often a \"type\" as well (blonde brunette short tall etc). Our hormones drive us to seek companionship, intimacy, and ultimately procreation. \nThese boys growing up never develop this attraction to their peers but rather feel more comfortable around younger children and usually behave as mentors. The combination of love of church and disinterest in peers puts the thought in their heads that priesthood is their calling. It takes a long time and effort to become a priest. There are easier paths if a guy just wants to bang kids.\nPut together lack of sex or release of biological needs with access and constant contact with children and they are basically pushed over the edge.\nTo sum up, pedophiles don't become priests to molest children, they become priests because they don't realize they are pedophiles. This is just my opinion, and obviously there are also exceptions to this.\nPerhaps the solution is to get rid of this nonsense celibacy.",
">\n\nAlternative theory: pedophiles become priests because they know the Catholic Church will support and hide them from accountability. Plus, all those altar boys have been easy pickings for decades. \nOn the positive side, Catholic Churches are closing all over Missouri because of dwindling congregations.",
">\n\nThis is one crime I’ll never be able to fathom.",
">\n\nSo fucking sick advocating for this monster so he can maintain freedom?",
">\n\nThe church has been so infiltrated by Child abusers that they are currently rating worse than Satan Worshippers",
">\n\nCan we just fuck churches off now???",
">\n\nYour tithing had to go somewhere.",
">\n\nHow come republicans are not calling these people groomers?",
">\n\nIs anyone else picturing the scene in the first Scary Movie where the cop asks Anna Faris to look at some pictures?\nPriest hands out the pictures of himself along with the weekly pamphlet. Maybe the first reading is from the Song of Solomon...",
">\n\nOh shit. \nHas he been quietly shuffled to a new church yet?",
">\n\nI'm old enough that when I see \"slideshow\" I think of him arranging physical slides in a carousel to project on a screen, like the family trip to Disneyland. Maybe invite the neighbors over for cake.",
">\n\nLord above why is this a thing",
">\n\nYou mean not a drag queen?",
">\n\nActual groomers.",
">\n\nJust think the hands that wanked to kiddie pr0n put wafers on the tongues of everyone in that congregation...",
">\n\nLMAO. This slightly ambiguous headline had me thinking “who attended these slideshow presentations?”",
">\n\nOh look another pedophile catholic priest. Good job reinforcing that stereotype.",
">\n\nAnd we should take guidance from those who hide these atrocities so we can live a better life in the eyes of god.",
">\n\nFriendly reminder religion is a mistake that deserves to be taxed. If you threatened to tax zealots tomorrow child molestation by priests would drop to zero",
">\n\nmay your mother smile as you burn",
">\n\nThis is what happens when you have unchecked power for thousands of years.\nHorrifying.",
">\n\nDid he learn this behavior from a drag show? /s",
">\n\nReminds me of something Chris Rock said: \"Where do women find the porn? They don't find it in your hiding place, they find it in the VCR\"",
">\n\nHe was also probably saving up for a trip to Disney World.",
">\n\n\nincluding child pornography and images of child erotica.\n\nI want to know the difference but don't want to get on a watchlist by googling it.",
">\n\nWithout the word child there, there's a difference in degree. I'd say it's the same thing with that word in there just describing the subject depicted. Pornography is generally actual sex acts of some form or another. Erotica falls short of that, it may be arousing or suggestive. For example, a cabaret show may be erotica but it's certainly not pornography.",
">\n\nPriest? Church? Man in a tax evasion party house?",
">\n\nYet the church immediately moved him somewhere else as there was a daycare next door to the church, then offered to pay to have the priest under house arrest so that the child predator won't go to jail.",
">\n\nShittiest Ted Talk I’ve ever seen, honestly…",
">\n\nOnly five years?! \nUgh!",
">\n\nAnd they call LGBT+ people groomers. (eyeroll)",
">\n\nAnyone who has ever been to a church sadly knows this doesn't need to be in this sub for us to know it's a real story.",
">\n\nOh how nice. The Reverend pleaded for him not to be incarcerated. Because of fucking course he did.",
">\n\nCurious as to who he was presenting this to",
">\n\nPunish these assholes they are smearing God's name",
">\n\nStraight to (checks notes) your next parish!",
">\n\nreligion and sexual abuse. name a more iconic duo\nwhy are any of these religions even allowed to exist any more\nthey have long since lost their meanings, and onlt serve to syphon money out of gullible people, and abuse their children\nwhat is any of these religions actually adding to society any more? other than more perverted monsters",
">\n\nHe’s not the only one",
">\n\nWhy is no big tv news channel talking about this?",
">\n\nAsked that he not go to prison & that his congregation pay to house him? Fuck the church. That's almost the most disgusting part of this",
">\n\nSo are we talking a pptx or an old-school film Rolodex version? Both are messed up, but one takes A LOT more effort.",
">\n\nThe catholic church is of Satan.",
">\n\nFaith is of \"Satan.\" The idea that assuming you might be wrong is morally wrong produces some of the worst people imaginable. And that applies to secular ideologies that require looking down on those who disagree or are unsure too.",
">\n\nAge of priest over/under 50\nWhat yall got?\nI have the over.",
">\n\nOnly 5 years?",
">\n\nRight for some reason i read it as slide show meaning projectors haha. I forgot Powerpoint presentations are a thing.",
">\n\nThe congregation still requested he be spared incarceration and remain in their facility. Truly unbelievable.",
">\n\nThose damn drag queens framed him",
">\n\nThey really put a lot of effort into not saying that he was catholic in that article.",
">\n\nWonder what congregation hes been moved to now?",
">\n\nAny outrage from republicans? Will they arm themselves and storm the churches?....... Didn't think so.",
">\n\nA Christian pedophile? Who could have guessed?",
">\n\nIm shocked! Shocked I say!\nWell... not that shocked.",
">\n\nI appreciate that the church cooperated and turned him in. However, the fact they wanted to pay to house him, out of the parish coffers, is insane. He deserves incarceration and certainly not a retirement paid for by parishioners of the church he victimized. Smh, a great step for the church, if only as a PR exercise, would be to strongly condemn this sort of behavior AND strongly punish it. Defrock and excommunicate any priest who does this. It’s a very easy choice that frankly could help reinstill a little confidence in the church.",
">\n\nOFF WITH HIS GOD DAMNED FUCKING HEAD",
">\n\nWhy so quick and painless?",
">\n\nYou know you’re actually right.. OFF WITH HIS GOD DAMNED FUCKING HEAD WITH A RUSTY PAPERCLIP",
">\n\nRight to jail",
">\n\nToday on why religious institutions should be abolished",
">\n\nAnd the right won't say a thing about this man.",
">\n\nHow Catholics still a thing ?",
">\n\nAnd the Church will cover it up or just say they are very sorry 🤬",
">\n\nThe provincial says everything right…he doesn’t excuse the guy, doesn’t obfuscate what he did or what it’s gravely evil…right up until he asks for house arrest. Fuck that. Whatever the harshest penalty allowed is, do that.",
">\n\nSo just regular church stuff really",
">\n\nChurch is a haven for predators!!!",
">\n\nI used to be Catholic, but stories like this make me hate the church more every day.",
">\n\nCan we just end this disgusting church already? Can you imagine ONE Walmart manager raping children? Now try to imagine MORE THAN THREE THOUSAND Walmart managers raping children. \nStill gonna shop at Walmart?",
">\n\nBut somehow these religious psychos get away with this and convince their followers to kill LGBTQ+ people. Fuck religion, fuck all churches, we need it out of our society.",
">\n\nExcommunicate from the order and earth.",
">\n\nOnly 5 years is the wild part to me.",
">\n\nHow have we not outlawed and burned down the obvious pedophile cult? \nIf there’s no such thing as a good cop, there’s no such thing as a good priest.",
">\n\nHead first into a wood chipper…no amnesty for pedophiles!",
">\n\nBe a shame if he stopped breathing and any and everybody associated with leadership stopped breathing also!!!",
">\n\nThis kind of shit is why atheism sucks, this fuckers evil soul needs a little eternal torture. Yes yes, I know we're only incredibly flawed hairless apes a couple of toes out of the jungle but fuck man this guy sucks.",
">\n\nA priest has made a move to a new parish so that he may focus on bringing the gospel to a new group! The church is excited to help him accel and even provided the funds to move him across the country. Though he'll be in a new town where no one knows him, the church as said they're sure he'll fir in quickly! \nOr something like that.",
">\n\nFive Years.",
">\n\ni’m shocked",
">\n\nAmazing pp hasn’t been banished yet",
">\n\n5 years? That's it?",
">\n\nGood lord",
">\n\noh what the fuck.",
">\n\nBut drag queens are the problem...",
">\n\nThe guy worked at a church right down the street where I grew up. I know people that attended Our Lady Queen of Peace as children, that’s so crazy",
">\n\nOmg\nHow sick",
">\n\n…and reassigned to another parish",
">\n\nOne thing, Catholics. One thing!",
">\n\nBut what about the drag queens and trans people using the wrong bathroom?"
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He should NOT be allowed some sideshow resort sentence where he gets to stay at his church and is overseen by some other priest who PrOmIsEs that he will make sure that the criminal is overseen.
Hell no— go to prison and suffer the consequences of your crimes asshole. | [
"Slideshows????? What?\nMy man just opened up cp.ppt and added a few THOUSAND slides of kiddy porn????\nClippy: it looks like youre a depraved predator. Do you want to profane the church as well?",
">\n\nWell I always did believe Power Point was a creation of a malevolent entity.",
">\n\nTuring complete, no less!",
">\n\nBut can it run Doom?",
">\n\nAnything can run doom",
">\n\nBut can Doom run Doom?",
">\n\nDoom can run Doom because Doom runs Doom when Doom runs.",
">\n\nPeople don't run Doom like it is, but it Doom.",
">\n\nGonna take this moment to highly recommend the film Spotlight to any who haven’t seen it",
">\n\nCheck out the 2017 limited series on either Netflix or Prime: \"The Keepers\" about a Baltimore-area Catholic girls' school. Based on the experiences as told by some of the girls, now middle-aged women. It is NOT nice, will make you cry, will enrage you. But I commend the women who made this documentary for as painful as it was for the audience to watch, I can't imagine how they made it thru. And they brought it around to a decent ending, but wow....I think some of what happened in Baltimore bled over into the Spotlight story.\nLapsed Catholic. I cannot reconcile with the Church hierarchy over this because they have behaved satanically for far too long to make me believe they are holy in any way.",
">\n\nThere was a documentary that came out a year or two ago tbzg sounds similar but men who were molested as kids while in the church. \nI honestly don't know how anyone can still support the church. At all. If it was one priest, sure. It's sad it happened, but pedophiles will always exist and find ways to get to kids.\nBut with how often it happens and with how little the church cares? Nope. I never could be catholic even if I was Christian.",
">\n\nBecause saving souls bringing them into their cult is more valuable than the ones they crush. The Vatican last I heard had 7 pedos protecting by not complying with extradition requests. \nAny organization not willing to comply with the laws of the country where they have a tax exempt status should lose their exemption and title to any property they own. If you RICO cartel and mafia assets, then you can do so for these child abusers and their protective association. \nYou know the church owns most of Manhattan and isn't paying taxes? All that money and we have to tolerate this shit? Nah fuck them.",
">\n\nNude pix on the church printer . . . I can imagine the scene.\nSister Mary Michael: Yo, does anyone recognize this tallywhacker?\nFormer Alter Boy Brian: Yeah, that's Father Jim. I'd know that hairy mole anywhere.",
">\n\nThat's Tommy Turner's tallywhacker",
">\n\nIf Reddit still gave free awards, I'd give one to you for catching the reference.",
">\n\nWAIT when did they get rid of the free awards",
">\n\nguess this is how i found out. last i claimed mine is around last week, i think. i only claim once every two weeks to gild certain biweekly thread lul",
">\n\nAnd yet where are all the \"anti-groomers\" protesting these churches?",
">\n\nIt’s almost like it has never actually been about protecting children, and it’s always been about trying to demonize LGBT people",
">\n\nAt this point I am positive the religious right to life thing is about having more targets.",
">\n\nGlad 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?",
">\n\nAfter 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.",
">\n\nI 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.\nThere are also many who truly believe the schtick and just compartmentalize the bad stuff. Both are to blame regardless. Nobody gets a pass.",
">\n\nI could see that with some of the smaller denominations for sure.\nWhen 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.",
">\n\n*making another streak to the tally list wall\n*camera panning out to reveal a huge fucking wall coveres in streaks",
">\n\nMan 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.\nThat said. This man should burn for this",
">\n\nPriest? Pedo? Are you sure? This is unprecedented",
">\n\nCorrection! PedoPreist",
">\n\nNew name not necessary. If anything there should be a name for the unique priests that arent pedos.",
">\n\nI'm inclined to think the majority of priests aren't child predators themselves.\nThe 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.\nWay, way too many of them are pedo-enablers. All the way up...",
">\n\nThen that would mean that... Gasp\nSouth Park was right all along....\nSneaky little bastards didn't think I would notice....",
">\n\nWish I was surprised",
">\n\nYou make slideshows of images? \nEdit: \nOh wait I see what you mean. Yeah the pedophile priest thing is so expected that only the slideshow bit stood out",
">\n\nHoly hell. Priest have normalized pedophilia.",
">\n\nNot just priests. Protestant Christians have a major problem with sexual abuse too, particularly against children.\nAfter Major Investigation, Southern Baptists Confront the Abuse Crisis They Knew Was Coming\nDon't let the Evangelical pedo defenders get away with claiming that Catholicism is the only issue here. It isn't.",
">\n\n\nnone of them are immune to the depravity.\n\nAlmost implied, really.",
">\n\nCould 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?",
">\n\nA variety of factors:\n\nUnquestioned moral authority and intense trust from a large community who have all been taught to obey church authorities\nSupport from a massive extremely powerful institution that has covered up thousands of similar crimes\nStrictly forbidden to marry, have sex, or iirc even masturbate, making them view all sexual activities as similarly taboo for them\nEasy regular access to many children\nEasy ability to get alone time with children\nPriests are only held institutionally accountable to each other and to those with more authority in the church\nVictims 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\nChildren 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\nThe 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\nThe 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\n\nThat'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.”\nP.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.\nWant 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.\nEdit to add this excellent way to protect kids that churches consistently fight against:\n\n“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.\nchildren 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.”",
">\n\nSo this should be buried enough if I speak in general terms.\nYears back one of our pastors had to give up being a pastor. They didn't get into details of what he did but they did stress that kids were not involved. The whole church could be seen relaxing.",
">\n\n5 years for thousands of child porn images and videos? Seems pretty fucking light to me. This piece of shit should die in prison.",
">\n\n5 years and a ticket to heaven",
">\n\nHeaven? For him?",
">\n\nThat'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.",
">\n\nDon't you also have to be truly repentant for your sins, including making a good faith effort to keep from repeating them?",
">\n\nI would love for someone to answer this because I really want to know, too.",
">\n\nyes I'm pretty sure that's it. God sees people's hearts He should know the diff between true repentance and fake one",
">\n\nYes, assuming an all-powerful God existed, he’d be able to pretty easily know if you were truly sorry.",
">\n\nYeah but......... \nI'm just starting the religious apologist's sentence for them.",
">\n\nFor 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.",
">\n\nOne 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.",
">\n\nOnce I heard this theory, the acceptance by conservatives of people whose behavior is in direct conflict with their moral beliefs, made more sense.",
">\n\n5 holly maries and transfer\nafter 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.\nRev. 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.\"\nMcDevitt asked the presiding judge for \"mercy for Jim,\" and even offered for the congregation to pay to house him in lieu of imprisonment.\n\"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.\"\n\"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.\"",
">\n\nIn Australia at the moment there is a furore after the death of Cardinal George Pell who was convicted (then exonerated) of personally abusing children, but was found by a Royal Commission (that would be a special prosecutor for our American friends?) of enabling and protecting paedophile priests for decades.\nCan honestly say I have not been able to listen to the string of \"Christians\" praising this man in our media for the last few days without wanting to puke. Suffer the little children.",
">\n\nWith you there. At least there’s a lot of people calling his supporters out on this. Fuck Tony Abbott, John Howard and Andrew Bolt to name a few.",
">\n\nI 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!",
">\n\nr/PastorArrested (also includes Priests)",
">\n\nDon'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.",
">\n\nIf there is a god, wtf?",
">\n\nThere is no God. Religion is about control and money",
">\n\nAnd more money",
">\n\n\"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.\" \n- Rev. Patrick McDevitt, provincial superior for the Congregation of the Western Province \n\nEvery single member of that congregation is a horrible piece of shit",
">\n\nWhat 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?",
">\n\n“Drag queens are grooming our youth!!!”",
">\n\n\"I think we all know where people put on dresses and fuck kids\"\n-Trixie Mattel, 2022",
">\n\nKid “Bless me Father, for I have sinned”\nPadre “ call me, maybe?”",
">\n\nImagine my shock to discover that a priest has been involved in a sex scandal and one involving the exploitation of children, at that.",
">\n\nGOP: \"But wuttabout drag queens?!?!?!??!\"",
">\n\nDoing the Lords work 🙏🏾",
">\n\nTax-free",
">\n\nWhat's the deal with priests being so into pedophilia? Can't they look at milf pounds like normal people?",
">\n\nOh look... Another priest with child porn ... When do we get to start taxing the church?",
">\n\nr/pastorarrested",
">\n\nChurch is a scary place, especially for children.",
">\n\nI 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.",
">\n\nOnly 5 years. What a joke.",
">\n\n\nThe 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.\n\nIf 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.",
">\n\nNo one is suprised a priest is a pedophile. \nBut printing out yer nudes? That's odd.",
">\n\nI can think of a reason he printed it out. And I really don't like that reason.",
">\n\nI'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.",
">\n\nThe sheer audacity to do it at church where you work",
">\n\nAnd not a drag queen in sight...",
">\n\nThey do kinda wear dresses, though",
">\n\nToo many “coincidences” within this church to be anything other than systematic",
">\n\nPretty 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.",
">\n\n\nThe data often suggests numbers of pedophiles similar to the general population\n\none 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",
">\n\nYeah, 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.",
">\n\nI 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.",
">\n\nIt's so common for priests to be sickos",
">\n\nGross",
">\n\nAll he needs to do is repent, right?!?",
">\n\nA priest? With kiddie porn? I’ve never heard of such a thing!",
">\n\nRemember 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.",
">\n\n5 years that's all he got",
">\n\nThat's fucking disgusting. Misappropriation of office materials.",
">\n\nIt 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",
">\n\nIdiot 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.",
">\n\nso 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.",
">\n\nI 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 🤷♂️",
">\n\n5 years isnt nearly enough. Lock him up forever and a day.",
">\n\n~~Drag shows~~ Churches are not safe for children",
">\n\nI'm sure the religious Right will be out protesting him any second.\nRight? Right guys? Groomers and all this? Qanons? Where you guys at?\nHuh. Weird.",
">\n\nBut the dragqueens guys?!?!?!??!? /s",
">\n\nWeird that so many god loving people are actually just pedophiles. Wonder what they think god thinks of them. Fuck theism.",
">\n\nTheir god tells them to take the young girls as spoils of war. Their god is just as fucking depraved as they are.",
">\n\ntHaTs jUsT tHe oLd tEsTaMeNt tHoUgh.\ngOds mOraLiTy dOeSnt cHanGe, hE jUsT dEaLs wItH hUmAns diFFeReNtlY nOw. \nYeah when someone deals with people differently than they did before we generally call that \"a change.\"",
">\n\nAnd he wasn’t trans??? Maybe it’s been priests all along that governors should be banning. When will they correct their mistake? /s",
">\n\nDoesn'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...",
">\n\nIt's surprising. Who prints out their own nudes?",
">\n\nLock him up and throw away the keys",
">\n\nDarn priests, at least those protestant ministers keep it in the family",
">\n\nNot surprised.",
">\n\nThree hail marys and all is forgiven. What a load of bs",
">\n\nJust one bad apple, I’m sure.",
">\n\nLeast paedophilic priest",
">\n\n…slideshow?",
">\n\nGod works in mysterious ways ya fuckin chomo. As a priest, he of all people should have seen this coming...",
">\n\nIn other news, water is wet",
">\n\nOnly five years...",
">\n\n”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.” \nಠ_ಠ",
">\n\nI don’t remember this plotline during Doubt…",
">\n\nWe keep letting them get away with it, so they keep doing it. More obvious news at 10.",
">\n\n& once they found him out he got made a cardinal",
">\n\nHe should've kept them in the garage with his Corvette",
">\n\n5 years? If nothing else, using PowerPoint should have been an aggravating factor.",
">\n\nAnd you thought looking at Bob's family vacation pics was a bad time",
">\n\nWhen 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.",
">\n\nHow is the Roman Catholic Church not closed down for enabling and protecting child abusers",
">\n\nAre 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.",
">\n\nIt'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.",
">\n\npapabile!",
">\n\nLeft nudes on a shared printer? Rookie mistake.",
">\n\nTeach your priests just enough tech to effectively turn themselves in.",
">\n\nIsn't it something how the church decided to investigate themselves again. Keep it in the family, guys.\nI 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.",
">\n\nIs 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:\n1 - 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\n2 - 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)\n3 - 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.\nTL;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.",
">\n\nLet me guess.\nMoved to a different church at the other side of the country and that’s about it for consequences?",
">\n\nThose damned drag queens strike again.",
">\n\nI mean that’s kinda how they caught BTK",
">\n\nSo priests are still abusing kids after we didn't do anything to them the last few times we caught them? Color me surprised.",
">\n\n\nCourt 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.\"\n\n...\n\nDuring 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. \n\n...\n\nAnd 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. \n\nFuck everyone that allowed this scum to continue in a position of authority.",
">\n\nDon’t hear this happening at drag shows…j/s",
">\n\nHe put the PDF in pedofile",
">\n\nThis is Fucking ridiculous",
">\n\nNever forget who the actual groomers are",
">\n\nThe proud boys will be outside of churches \"protesting\" with guns now, right? right?",
">\n\nA priest being pedophile? But that is absolutely unheard of, say it isn't so!",
">\n\nYou sure this wasn't at a Trans drag show? GOP is sure this happens at Trans dragsl shows",
">\n\nExcommunicated by PowerPoint",
">\n\n5 years and a fine? FFS, that’s ridiculous.",
">\n\nPraise Jesus!",
">\n\nAnd the right thinks kids going to drag shows are the problem",
">\n\nAverage christian.",
">\n\nbut the drag queens are reading books to children in libraries! The madnessss",
">\n\nSo they moved him to a new church. This is what they have always done.",
">\n\nleast pedophilic priest:",
">\n\nThe dead ones dont hurt anyone.",
">\n\ninto the furnace he goes. theres no rehabbing people like this.",
">\n\nIt's always the ones you least expect..",
">\n\nOr in this case, the ones you MOST suspect",
">\n\nlol ya, I said that with sarcasm..",
">\n\nPray that he gets nut cancer.",
">\n\nNut cancer was once described to me as \"the common cold of cancers\". It has something like a 95% survival rate.\nHe deserves worse.",
">\n\nDidn't know that. Good nut fact for the day.",
">\n\nIt's definitely the drag queens reading to kids in libraries that's the problem.",
">\n\nRight wingers want him to be a closeted drag queen so badly",
">\n\nI could never trust any man who goes into priesthood. Completely unnatural and deviant occupation rife with pedophiles.",
">\n\nThis MONSTER got 5 years?! \nThe CHILDREN being abused in the images will suffer for the rest of their lives!!\nI'm in favor of LIFE SENTENCES for child sex offenders. \nOr better yet, the DEATH PENALTY!!",
">\n\nReligion was invented by Man for Control of the Flock.You go to Confession and tell the priest everything so they can determine how to undress you.\nI was once a Catholic.....born, baptised, confirmed and educated in a Grammar school run by Irish Christian Brothers under the Order of Edmund Ignatius Rice......and now I'm an atheist.",
">\n\nHow come it is always ‘Christians’ who are involved in child sex abuse?",
">\n\nOf course he's a pedo, he's a priest!",
">\n\nYes millions of idiots keep donating billions to the church",
">\n\nNot simply donating, they bring their children along, indoctrinate them that the priest is the speaker of God, and that God can do no wrong, so anything the priest dose is holy and good. The priest even says so!\nAnd when the kids bring it up the first few times weird things happen? The parents tell them to shush. And so, the sacrifices continue, the parents make a show of not knowing, and things get worse for the children.\nAnd if the priest is reported, the church just moves them to a different parish.\nThe only difference between the taliban and the catholic church, is one of them advertises the child slaves as a benefit, while the other pretends it's not (but totally encourages it, top to bottom).",
">\n\nAnd who are the groomers again?",
">\n\nThis is what happens when you don’t recycle your printer papers.",
">\n\nI feel like this isn't oniony enough, everyone knows by now that priests are significantly more likely to be pedophiles than the general population.",
">\n\nSure, but “gets caught by leaving nudes on a printer” is a fairly onion-y end.",
">\n\nYa know you're right",
">\n\nI have a theory about the correlation between priests and pedophiles. This is my opinion based on conversations with a childhood friend (not a pedo) and is only my opinion but could explain why so many priests abuse children. Get your down votes ready. \nThese boys grow up in the church and it is all they know for the most part. When going through puberty we become attracted to a gender (male or female gay or straight sometimes somewhere in between) and more often a \"type\" as well (blonde brunette short tall etc). Our hormones drive us to seek companionship, intimacy, and ultimately procreation. \nThese boys growing up never develop this attraction to their peers but rather feel more comfortable around younger children and usually behave as mentors. The combination of love of church and disinterest in peers puts the thought in their heads that priesthood is their calling. It takes a long time and effort to become a priest. There are easier paths if a guy just wants to bang kids.\nPut together lack of sex or release of biological needs with access and constant contact with children and they are basically pushed over the edge.\nTo sum up, pedophiles don't become priests to molest children, they become priests because they don't realize they are pedophiles. This is just my opinion, and obviously there are also exceptions to this.\nPerhaps the solution is to get rid of this nonsense celibacy.",
">\n\nAlternative theory: pedophiles become priests because they know the Catholic Church will support and hide them from accountability. Plus, all those altar boys have been easy pickings for decades. \nOn the positive side, Catholic Churches are closing all over Missouri because of dwindling congregations.",
">\n\nThis is one crime I’ll never be able to fathom.",
">\n\nSo fucking sick advocating for this monster so he can maintain freedom?",
">\n\nThe church has been so infiltrated by Child abusers that they are currently rating worse than Satan Worshippers",
">\n\nCan we just fuck churches off now???",
">\n\nYour tithing had to go somewhere.",
">\n\nHow come republicans are not calling these people groomers?",
">\n\nIs anyone else picturing the scene in the first Scary Movie where the cop asks Anna Faris to look at some pictures?\nPriest hands out the pictures of himself along with the weekly pamphlet. Maybe the first reading is from the Song of Solomon...",
">\n\nOh shit. \nHas he been quietly shuffled to a new church yet?",
">\n\nI'm old enough that when I see \"slideshow\" I think of him arranging physical slides in a carousel to project on a screen, like the family trip to Disneyland. Maybe invite the neighbors over for cake.",
">\n\nLord above why is this a thing",
">\n\nYou mean not a drag queen?",
">\n\nActual groomers.",
">\n\nJust think the hands that wanked to kiddie pr0n put wafers on the tongues of everyone in that congregation...",
">\n\nLMAO. This slightly ambiguous headline had me thinking “who attended these slideshow presentations?”",
">\n\nOh look another pedophile catholic priest. Good job reinforcing that stereotype.",
">\n\nAnd we should take guidance from those who hide these atrocities so we can live a better life in the eyes of god.",
">\n\nFriendly reminder religion is a mistake that deserves to be taxed. If you threatened to tax zealots tomorrow child molestation by priests would drop to zero",
">\n\nmay your mother smile as you burn",
">\n\nThis is what happens when you have unchecked power for thousands of years.\nHorrifying.",
">\n\nDid he learn this behavior from a drag show? /s",
">\n\nReminds me of something Chris Rock said: \"Where do women find the porn? They don't find it in your hiding place, they find it in the VCR\"",
">\n\nHe was also probably saving up for a trip to Disney World.",
">\n\n\nincluding child pornography and images of child erotica.\n\nI want to know the difference but don't want to get on a watchlist by googling it.",
">\n\nWithout the word child there, there's a difference in degree. I'd say it's the same thing with that word in there just describing the subject depicted. Pornography is generally actual sex acts of some form or another. Erotica falls short of that, it may be arousing or suggestive. For example, a cabaret show may be erotica but it's certainly not pornography.",
">\n\nPriest? Church? Man in a tax evasion party house?",
">\n\nYet the church immediately moved him somewhere else as there was a daycare next door to the church, then offered to pay to have the priest under house arrest so that the child predator won't go to jail.",
">\n\nShittiest Ted Talk I’ve ever seen, honestly…",
">\n\nOnly five years?! \nUgh!",
">\n\nAnd they call LGBT+ people groomers. (eyeroll)",
">\n\nAnyone who has ever been to a church sadly knows this doesn't need to be in this sub for us to know it's a real story.",
">\n\nOh how nice. The Reverend pleaded for him not to be incarcerated. Because of fucking course he did.",
">\n\nCurious as to who he was presenting this to",
">\n\nPunish these assholes they are smearing God's name",
">\n\nStraight to (checks notes) your next parish!",
">\n\nreligion and sexual abuse. name a more iconic duo\nwhy are any of these religions even allowed to exist any more\nthey have long since lost their meanings, and onlt serve to syphon money out of gullible people, and abuse their children\nwhat is any of these religions actually adding to society any more? other than more perverted monsters",
">\n\nHe’s not the only one",
">\n\nWhy is no big tv news channel talking about this?",
">\n\nAsked that he not go to prison & that his congregation pay to house him? Fuck the church. That's almost the most disgusting part of this",
">\n\nSo are we talking a pptx or an old-school film Rolodex version? Both are messed up, but one takes A LOT more effort.",
">\n\nThe catholic church is of Satan.",
">\n\nFaith is of \"Satan.\" The idea that assuming you might be wrong is morally wrong produces some of the worst people imaginable. And that applies to secular ideologies that require looking down on those who disagree or are unsure too.",
">\n\nAge of priest over/under 50\nWhat yall got?\nI have the over.",
">\n\nOnly 5 years?",
">\n\nRight for some reason i read it as slide show meaning projectors haha. I forgot Powerpoint presentations are a thing.",
">\n\nThe congregation still requested he be spared incarceration and remain in their facility. Truly unbelievable.",
">\n\nThose damn drag queens framed him",
">\n\nThey really put a lot of effort into not saying that he was catholic in that article.",
">\n\nWonder what congregation hes been moved to now?",
">\n\nAny outrage from republicans? Will they arm themselves and storm the churches?....... Didn't think so.",
">\n\nA Christian pedophile? Who could have guessed?",
">\n\nIm shocked! Shocked I say!\nWell... not that shocked.",
">\n\nI appreciate that the church cooperated and turned him in. However, the fact they wanted to pay to house him, out of the parish coffers, is insane. He deserves incarceration and certainly not a retirement paid for by parishioners of the church he victimized. Smh, a great step for the church, if only as a PR exercise, would be to strongly condemn this sort of behavior AND strongly punish it. Defrock and excommunicate any priest who does this. It’s a very easy choice that frankly could help reinstill a little confidence in the church.",
">\n\nOFF WITH HIS GOD DAMNED FUCKING HEAD",
">\n\nWhy so quick and painless?",
">\n\nYou know you’re actually right.. OFF WITH HIS GOD DAMNED FUCKING HEAD WITH A RUSTY PAPERCLIP",
">\n\nRight to jail",
">\n\nToday on why religious institutions should be abolished",
">\n\nAnd the right won't say a thing about this man.",
">\n\nHow Catholics still a thing ?",
">\n\nAnd the Church will cover it up or just say they are very sorry 🤬",
">\n\nThe provincial says everything right…he doesn’t excuse the guy, doesn’t obfuscate what he did or what it’s gravely evil…right up until he asks for house arrest. Fuck that. Whatever the harshest penalty allowed is, do that.",
">\n\nSo just regular church stuff really",
">\n\nChurch is a haven for predators!!!",
">\n\nI used to be Catholic, but stories like this make me hate the church more every day.",
">\n\nCan we just end this disgusting church already? Can you imagine ONE Walmart manager raping children? Now try to imagine MORE THAN THREE THOUSAND Walmart managers raping children. \nStill gonna shop at Walmart?",
">\n\nBut somehow these religious psychos get away with this and convince their followers to kill LGBTQ+ people. Fuck religion, fuck all churches, we need it out of our society.",
">\n\nExcommunicate from the order and earth.",
">\n\nOnly 5 years is the wild part to me.",
">\n\nHow have we not outlawed and burned down the obvious pedophile cult? \nIf there’s no such thing as a good cop, there’s no such thing as a good priest.",
">\n\nHead first into a wood chipper…no amnesty for pedophiles!",
">\n\nBe a shame if he stopped breathing and any and everybody associated with leadership stopped breathing also!!!",
">\n\nThis kind of shit is why atheism sucks, this fuckers evil soul needs a little eternal torture. Yes yes, I know we're only incredibly flawed hairless apes a couple of toes out of the jungle but fuck man this guy sucks.",
">\n\nA priest has made a move to a new parish so that he may focus on bringing the gospel to a new group! The church is excited to help him accel and even provided the funds to move him across the country. Though he'll be in a new town where no one knows him, the church as said they're sure he'll fir in quickly! \nOr something like that.",
">\n\nFive Years.",
">\n\ni’m shocked",
">\n\nAmazing pp hasn’t been banished yet",
">\n\n5 years? That's it?",
">\n\nGood lord",
">\n\noh what the fuck.",
">\n\nBut drag queens are the problem...",
">\n\nThe guy worked at a church right down the street where I grew up. I know people that attended Our Lady Queen of Peace as children, that’s so crazy",
">\n\nOmg\nHow sick",
">\n\n…and reassigned to another parish",
">\n\nOne thing, Catholics. One thing!",
">\n\nBut what about the drag queens and trans people using the wrong bathroom?",
">\n\nSounds about right for those ilk"
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"Slideshows????? What?\nMy man just opened up cp.ppt and added a few THOUSAND slides of kiddy porn????\nClippy: it looks like youre a depraved predator. Do you want to profane the church as well?",
">\n\nWell I always did believe Power Point was a creation of a malevolent entity.",
">\n\nTuring complete, no less!",
">\n\nBut can it run Doom?",
">\n\nAnything can run doom",
">\n\nBut can Doom run Doom?",
">\n\nDoom can run Doom because Doom runs Doom when Doom runs.",
">\n\nPeople don't run Doom like it is, but it Doom.",
">\n\nGonna take this moment to highly recommend the film Spotlight to any who haven’t seen it",
">\n\nCheck out the 2017 limited series on either Netflix or Prime: \"The Keepers\" about a Baltimore-area Catholic girls' school. Based on the experiences as told by some of the girls, now middle-aged women. It is NOT nice, will make you cry, will enrage you. But I commend the women who made this documentary for as painful as it was for the audience to watch, I can't imagine how they made it thru. And they brought it around to a decent ending, but wow....I think some of what happened in Baltimore bled over into the Spotlight story.\nLapsed Catholic. I cannot reconcile with the Church hierarchy over this because they have behaved satanically for far too long to make me believe they are holy in any way.",
">\n\nThere was a documentary that came out a year or two ago tbzg sounds similar but men who were molested as kids while in the church. \nI honestly don't know how anyone can still support the church. At all. If it was one priest, sure. It's sad it happened, but pedophiles will always exist and find ways to get to kids.\nBut with how often it happens and with how little the church cares? Nope. I never could be catholic even if I was Christian.",
">\n\nBecause saving souls bringing them into their cult is more valuable than the ones they crush. The Vatican last I heard had 7 pedos protecting by not complying with extradition requests. \nAny organization not willing to comply with the laws of the country where they have a tax exempt status should lose their exemption and title to any property they own. If you RICO cartel and mafia assets, then you can do so for these child abusers and their protective association. \nYou know the church owns most of Manhattan and isn't paying taxes? All that money and we have to tolerate this shit? Nah fuck them.",
">\n\nNude pix on the church printer . . . I can imagine the scene.\nSister Mary Michael: Yo, does anyone recognize this tallywhacker?\nFormer Alter Boy Brian: Yeah, that's Father Jim. I'd know that hairy mole anywhere.",
">\n\nThat's Tommy Turner's tallywhacker",
">\n\nIf Reddit still gave free awards, I'd give one to you for catching the reference.",
">\n\nWAIT when did they get rid of the free awards",
">\n\nguess this is how i found out. last i claimed mine is around last week, i think. i only claim once every two weeks to gild certain biweekly thread lul",
">\n\nAnd yet where are all the \"anti-groomers\" protesting these churches?",
">\n\nIt’s almost like it has never actually been about protecting children, and it’s always been about trying to demonize LGBT people",
">\n\nAt this point I am positive the religious right to life thing is about having more targets.",
">\n\nGlad 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?",
">\n\nAfter 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.",
">\n\nI 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.\nThere are also many who truly believe the schtick and just compartmentalize the bad stuff. Both are to blame regardless. Nobody gets a pass.",
">\n\nI could see that with some of the smaller denominations for sure.\nWhen 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.",
">\n\n*making another streak to the tally list wall\n*camera panning out to reveal a huge fucking wall coveres in streaks",
">\n\nMan 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.\nThat said. This man should burn for this",
">\n\nPriest? Pedo? Are you sure? This is unprecedented",
">\n\nCorrection! PedoPreist",
">\n\nNew name not necessary. If anything there should be a name for the unique priests that arent pedos.",
">\n\nI'm inclined to think the majority of priests aren't child predators themselves.\nThe 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.\nWay, way too many of them are pedo-enablers. All the way up...",
">\n\nThen that would mean that... Gasp\nSouth Park was right all along....\nSneaky little bastards didn't think I would notice....",
">\n\nWish I was surprised",
">\n\nYou make slideshows of images? \nEdit: \nOh wait I see what you mean. Yeah the pedophile priest thing is so expected that only the slideshow bit stood out",
">\n\nHoly hell. Priest have normalized pedophilia.",
">\n\nNot just priests. Protestant Christians have a major problem with sexual abuse too, particularly against children.\nAfter Major Investigation, Southern Baptists Confront the Abuse Crisis They Knew Was Coming\nDon't let the Evangelical pedo defenders get away with claiming that Catholicism is the only issue here. It isn't.",
">\n\n\nnone of them are immune to the depravity.\n\nAlmost implied, really.",
">\n\nCould 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?",
">\n\nA variety of factors:\n\nUnquestioned moral authority and intense trust from a large community who have all been taught to obey church authorities\nSupport from a massive extremely powerful institution that has covered up thousands of similar crimes\nStrictly forbidden to marry, have sex, or iirc even masturbate, making them view all sexual activities as similarly taboo for them\nEasy regular access to many children\nEasy ability to get alone time with children\nPriests are only held institutionally accountable to each other and to those with more authority in the church\nVictims 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\nChildren 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\nThe 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\nThe 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\n\nThat'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.”\nP.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.\nWant 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.\nEdit to add this excellent way to protect kids that churches consistently fight against:\n\n“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.\nchildren 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.”",
">\n\nSo this should be buried enough if I speak in general terms.\nYears back one of our pastors had to give up being a pastor. They didn't get into details of what he did but they did stress that kids were not involved. The whole church could be seen relaxing.",
">\n\n5 years for thousands of child porn images and videos? Seems pretty fucking light to me. This piece of shit should die in prison.",
">\n\n5 years and a ticket to heaven",
">\n\nHeaven? For him?",
">\n\nThat'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.",
">\n\nDon't you also have to be truly repentant for your sins, including making a good faith effort to keep from repeating them?",
">\n\nI would love for someone to answer this because I really want to know, too.",
">\n\nyes I'm pretty sure that's it. God sees people's hearts He should know the diff between true repentance and fake one",
">\n\nYes, assuming an all-powerful God existed, he’d be able to pretty easily know if you were truly sorry.",
">\n\nYeah but......... \nI'm just starting the religious apologist's sentence for them.",
">\n\nFor 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.",
">\n\nOne 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.",
">\n\nOnce I heard this theory, the acceptance by conservatives of people whose behavior is in direct conflict with their moral beliefs, made more sense.",
">\n\n5 holly maries and transfer\nafter 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.\nRev. 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.\"\nMcDevitt asked the presiding judge for \"mercy for Jim,\" and even offered for the congregation to pay to house him in lieu of imprisonment.\n\"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.\"\n\"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.\"",
">\n\nIn Australia at the moment there is a furore after the death of Cardinal George Pell who was convicted (then exonerated) of personally abusing children, but was found by a Royal Commission (that would be a special prosecutor for our American friends?) of enabling and protecting paedophile priests for decades.\nCan honestly say I have not been able to listen to the string of \"Christians\" praising this man in our media for the last few days without wanting to puke. Suffer the little children.",
">\n\nWith you there. At least there’s a lot of people calling his supporters out on this. Fuck Tony Abbott, John Howard and Andrew Bolt to name a few.",
">\n\nI 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!",
">\n\nr/PastorArrested (also includes Priests)",
">\n\nDon'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.",
">\n\nIf there is a god, wtf?",
">\n\nThere is no God. Religion is about control and money",
">\n\nAnd more money",
">\n\n\"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.\" \n- Rev. Patrick McDevitt, provincial superior for the Congregation of the Western Province \n\nEvery single member of that congregation is a horrible piece of shit",
">\n\nWhat 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?",
">\n\n“Drag queens are grooming our youth!!!”",
">\n\n\"I think we all know where people put on dresses and fuck kids\"\n-Trixie Mattel, 2022",
">\n\nKid “Bless me Father, for I have sinned”\nPadre “ call me, maybe?”",
">\n\nImagine my shock to discover that a priest has been involved in a sex scandal and one involving the exploitation of children, at that.",
">\n\nGOP: \"But wuttabout drag queens?!?!?!??!\"",
">\n\nDoing the Lords work 🙏🏾",
">\n\nTax-free",
">\n\nWhat's the deal with priests being so into pedophilia? Can't they look at milf pounds like normal people?",
">\n\nOh look... Another priest with child porn ... When do we get to start taxing the church?",
">\n\nr/pastorarrested",
">\n\nChurch is a scary place, especially for children.",
">\n\nI 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.",
">\n\nOnly 5 years. What a joke.",
">\n\n\nThe 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.\n\nIf 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.",
">\n\nNo one is suprised a priest is a pedophile. \nBut printing out yer nudes? That's odd.",
">\n\nI can think of a reason he printed it out. And I really don't like that reason.",
">\n\nI'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.",
">\n\nThe sheer audacity to do it at church where you work",
">\n\nAnd not a drag queen in sight...",
">\n\nThey do kinda wear dresses, though",
">\n\nToo many “coincidences” within this church to be anything other than systematic",
">\n\nPretty 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.",
">\n\n\nThe data often suggests numbers of pedophiles similar to the general population\n\none 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",
">\n\nYeah, 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.",
">\n\nI 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.",
">\n\nIt's so common for priests to be sickos",
">\n\nGross",
">\n\nAll he needs to do is repent, right?!?",
">\n\nA priest? With kiddie porn? I’ve never heard of such a thing!",
">\n\nRemember 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.",
">\n\n5 years that's all he got",
">\n\nThat's fucking disgusting. Misappropriation of office materials.",
">\n\nIt 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",
">\n\nIdiot 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.",
">\n\nso 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.",
">\n\nI 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 🤷♂️",
">\n\n5 years isnt nearly enough. Lock him up forever and a day.",
">\n\n~~Drag shows~~ Churches are not safe for children",
">\n\nI'm sure the religious Right will be out protesting him any second.\nRight? Right guys? Groomers and all this? Qanons? Where you guys at?\nHuh. Weird.",
">\n\nBut the dragqueens guys?!?!?!??!? /s",
">\n\nWeird that so many god loving people are actually just pedophiles. Wonder what they think god thinks of them. Fuck theism.",
">\n\nTheir god tells them to take the young girls as spoils of war. Their god is just as fucking depraved as they are.",
">\n\ntHaTs jUsT tHe oLd tEsTaMeNt tHoUgh.\ngOds mOraLiTy dOeSnt cHanGe, hE jUsT dEaLs wItH hUmAns diFFeReNtlY nOw. \nYeah when someone deals with people differently than they did before we generally call that \"a change.\"",
">\n\nAnd he wasn’t trans??? Maybe it’s been priests all along that governors should be banning. When will they correct their mistake? /s",
">\n\nDoesn'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...",
">\n\nIt's surprising. Who prints out their own nudes?",
">\n\nLock him up and throw away the keys",
">\n\nDarn priests, at least those protestant ministers keep it in the family",
">\n\nNot surprised.",
">\n\nThree hail marys and all is forgiven. What a load of bs",
">\n\nJust one bad apple, I’m sure.",
">\n\nLeast paedophilic priest",
">\n\n…slideshow?",
">\n\nGod works in mysterious ways ya fuckin chomo. As a priest, he of all people should have seen this coming...",
">\n\nIn other news, water is wet",
">\n\nOnly five years...",
">\n\n”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.” \nಠ_ಠ",
">\n\nI don’t remember this plotline during Doubt…",
">\n\nWe keep letting them get away with it, so they keep doing it. More obvious news at 10.",
">\n\n& once they found him out he got made a cardinal",
">\n\nHe should've kept them in the garage with his Corvette",
">\n\n5 years? If nothing else, using PowerPoint should have been an aggravating factor.",
">\n\nAnd you thought looking at Bob's family vacation pics was a bad time",
">\n\nWhen 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.",
">\n\nHow is the Roman Catholic Church not closed down for enabling and protecting child abusers",
">\n\nAre 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.",
">\n\nIt'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.",
">\n\npapabile!",
">\n\nLeft nudes on a shared printer? Rookie mistake.",
">\n\nTeach your priests just enough tech to effectively turn themselves in.",
">\n\nIsn't it something how the church decided to investigate themselves again. Keep it in the family, guys.\nI 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.",
">\n\nIs 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:\n1 - 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\n2 - 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)\n3 - 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.\nTL;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.",
">\n\nLet me guess.\nMoved to a different church at the other side of the country and that’s about it for consequences?",
">\n\nThose damned drag queens strike again.",
">\n\nI mean that’s kinda how they caught BTK",
">\n\nSo priests are still abusing kids after we didn't do anything to them the last few times we caught them? Color me surprised.",
">\n\n\nCourt 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.\"\n\n...\n\nDuring 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. \n\n...\n\nAnd 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. \n\nFuck everyone that allowed this scum to continue in a position of authority.",
">\n\nDon’t hear this happening at drag shows…j/s",
">\n\nHe put the PDF in pedofile",
">\n\nThis is Fucking ridiculous",
">\n\nNever forget who the actual groomers are",
">\n\nThe proud boys will be outside of churches \"protesting\" with guns now, right? right?",
">\n\nA priest being pedophile? But that is absolutely unheard of, say it isn't so!",
">\n\nYou sure this wasn't at a Trans drag show? GOP is sure this happens at Trans dragsl shows",
">\n\nExcommunicated by PowerPoint",
">\n\n5 years and a fine? FFS, that’s ridiculous.",
">\n\nPraise Jesus!",
">\n\nAnd the right thinks kids going to drag shows are the problem",
">\n\nAverage christian.",
">\n\nbut the drag queens are reading books to children in libraries! The madnessss",
">\n\nSo they moved him to a new church. This is what they have always done.",
">\n\nleast pedophilic priest:",
">\n\nThe dead ones dont hurt anyone.",
">\n\ninto the furnace he goes. theres no rehabbing people like this.",
">\n\nIt's always the ones you least expect..",
">\n\nOr in this case, the ones you MOST suspect",
">\n\nlol ya, I said that with sarcasm..",
">\n\nPray that he gets nut cancer.",
">\n\nNut cancer was once described to me as \"the common cold of cancers\". It has something like a 95% survival rate.\nHe deserves worse.",
">\n\nDidn't know that. Good nut fact for the day.",
">\n\nIt's definitely the drag queens reading to kids in libraries that's the problem.",
">\n\nRight wingers want him to be a closeted drag queen so badly",
">\n\nI could never trust any man who goes into priesthood. Completely unnatural and deviant occupation rife with pedophiles.",
">\n\nThis MONSTER got 5 years?! \nThe CHILDREN being abused in the images will suffer for the rest of their lives!!\nI'm in favor of LIFE SENTENCES for child sex offenders. \nOr better yet, the DEATH PENALTY!!",
">\n\nReligion was invented by Man for Control of the Flock.You go to Confession and tell the priest everything so they can determine how to undress you.\nI was once a Catholic.....born, baptised, confirmed and educated in a Grammar school run by Irish Christian Brothers under the Order of Edmund Ignatius Rice......and now I'm an atheist.",
">\n\nHow come it is always ‘Christians’ who are involved in child sex abuse?",
">\n\nOf course he's a pedo, he's a priest!",
">\n\nYes millions of idiots keep donating billions to the church",
">\n\nNot simply donating, they bring their children along, indoctrinate them that the priest is the speaker of God, and that God can do no wrong, so anything the priest dose is holy and good. The priest even says so!\nAnd when the kids bring it up the first few times weird things happen? The parents tell them to shush. And so, the sacrifices continue, the parents make a show of not knowing, and things get worse for the children.\nAnd if the priest is reported, the church just moves them to a different parish.\nThe only difference between the taliban and the catholic church, is one of them advertises the child slaves as a benefit, while the other pretends it's not (but totally encourages it, top to bottom).",
">\n\nAnd who are the groomers again?",
">\n\nThis is what happens when you don’t recycle your printer papers.",
">\n\nI feel like this isn't oniony enough, everyone knows by now that priests are significantly more likely to be pedophiles than the general population.",
">\n\nSure, but “gets caught by leaving nudes on a printer” is a fairly onion-y end.",
">\n\nYa know you're right",
">\n\nI have a theory about the correlation between priests and pedophiles. This is my opinion based on conversations with a childhood friend (not a pedo) and is only my opinion but could explain why so many priests abuse children. Get your down votes ready. \nThese boys grow up in the church and it is all they know for the most part. When going through puberty we become attracted to a gender (male or female gay or straight sometimes somewhere in between) and more often a \"type\" as well (blonde brunette short tall etc). Our hormones drive us to seek companionship, intimacy, and ultimately procreation. \nThese boys growing up never develop this attraction to their peers but rather feel more comfortable around younger children and usually behave as mentors. The combination of love of church and disinterest in peers puts the thought in their heads that priesthood is their calling. It takes a long time and effort to become a priest. There are easier paths if a guy just wants to bang kids.\nPut together lack of sex or release of biological needs with access and constant contact with children and they are basically pushed over the edge.\nTo sum up, pedophiles don't become priests to molest children, they become priests because they don't realize they are pedophiles. This is just my opinion, and obviously there are also exceptions to this.\nPerhaps the solution is to get rid of this nonsense celibacy.",
">\n\nAlternative theory: pedophiles become priests because they know the Catholic Church will support and hide them from accountability. Plus, all those altar boys have been easy pickings for decades. \nOn the positive side, Catholic Churches are closing all over Missouri because of dwindling congregations.",
">\n\nThis is one crime I’ll never be able to fathom.",
">\n\nSo fucking sick advocating for this monster so he can maintain freedom?",
">\n\nThe church has been so infiltrated by Child abusers that they are currently rating worse than Satan Worshippers",
">\n\nCan we just fuck churches off now???",
">\n\nYour tithing had to go somewhere.",
">\n\nHow come republicans are not calling these people groomers?",
">\n\nIs anyone else picturing the scene in the first Scary Movie where the cop asks Anna Faris to look at some pictures?\nPriest hands out the pictures of himself along with the weekly pamphlet. Maybe the first reading is from the Song of Solomon...",
">\n\nOh shit. \nHas he been quietly shuffled to a new church yet?",
">\n\nI'm old enough that when I see \"slideshow\" I think of him arranging physical slides in a carousel to project on a screen, like the family trip to Disneyland. Maybe invite the neighbors over for cake.",
">\n\nLord above why is this a thing",
">\n\nYou mean not a drag queen?",
">\n\nActual groomers.",
">\n\nJust think the hands that wanked to kiddie pr0n put wafers on the tongues of everyone in that congregation...",
">\n\nLMAO. This slightly ambiguous headline had me thinking “who attended these slideshow presentations?”",
">\n\nOh look another pedophile catholic priest. Good job reinforcing that stereotype.",
">\n\nAnd we should take guidance from those who hide these atrocities so we can live a better life in the eyes of god.",
">\n\nFriendly reminder religion is a mistake that deserves to be taxed. If you threatened to tax zealots tomorrow child molestation by priests would drop to zero",
">\n\nmay your mother smile as you burn",
">\n\nThis is what happens when you have unchecked power for thousands of years.\nHorrifying.",
">\n\nDid he learn this behavior from a drag show? /s",
">\n\nReminds me of something Chris Rock said: \"Where do women find the porn? They don't find it in your hiding place, they find it in the VCR\"",
">\n\nHe was also probably saving up for a trip to Disney World.",
">\n\n\nincluding child pornography and images of child erotica.\n\nI want to know the difference but don't want to get on a watchlist by googling it.",
">\n\nWithout the word child there, there's a difference in degree. I'd say it's the same thing with that word in there just describing the subject depicted. Pornography is generally actual sex acts of some form or another. Erotica falls short of that, it may be arousing or suggestive. For example, a cabaret show may be erotica but it's certainly not pornography.",
">\n\nPriest? Church? Man in a tax evasion party house?",
">\n\nYet the church immediately moved him somewhere else as there was a daycare next door to the church, then offered to pay to have the priest under house arrest so that the child predator won't go to jail.",
">\n\nShittiest Ted Talk I’ve ever seen, honestly…",
">\n\nOnly five years?! \nUgh!",
">\n\nAnd they call LGBT+ people groomers. (eyeroll)",
">\n\nAnyone who has ever been to a church sadly knows this doesn't need to be in this sub for us to know it's a real story.",
">\n\nOh how nice. The Reverend pleaded for him not to be incarcerated. Because of fucking course he did.",
">\n\nCurious as to who he was presenting this to",
">\n\nPunish these assholes they are smearing God's name",
">\n\nStraight to (checks notes) your next parish!",
">\n\nreligion and sexual abuse. name a more iconic duo\nwhy are any of these religions even allowed to exist any more\nthey have long since lost their meanings, and onlt serve to syphon money out of gullible people, and abuse their children\nwhat is any of these religions actually adding to society any more? other than more perverted monsters",
">\n\nHe’s not the only one",
">\n\nWhy is no big tv news channel talking about this?",
">\n\nAsked that he not go to prison & that his congregation pay to house him? Fuck the church. That's almost the most disgusting part of this",
">\n\nSo are we talking a pptx or an old-school film Rolodex version? Both are messed up, but one takes A LOT more effort.",
">\n\nThe catholic church is of Satan.",
">\n\nFaith is of \"Satan.\" The idea that assuming you might be wrong is morally wrong produces some of the worst people imaginable. And that applies to secular ideologies that require looking down on those who disagree or are unsure too.",
">\n\nAge of priest over/under 50\nWhat yall got?\nI have the over.",
">\n\nOnly 5 years?",
">\n\nRight for some reason i read it as slide show meaning projectors haha. I forgot Powerpoint presentations are a thing.",
">\n\nThe congregation still requested he be spared incarceration and remain in their facility. Truly unbelievable.",
">\n\nThose damn drag queens framed him",
">\n\nThey really put a lot of effort into not saying that he was catholic in that article.",
">\n\nWonder what congregation hes been moved to now?",
">\n\nAny outrage from republicans? Will they arm themselves and storm the churches?....... Didn't think so.",
">\n\nA Christian pedophile? Who could have guessed?",
">\n\nIm shocked! Shocked I say!\nWell... not that shocked.",
">\n\nI appreciate that the church cooperated and turned him in. However, the fact they wanted to pay to house him, out of the parish coffers, is insane. He deserves incarceration and certainly not a retirement paid for by parishioners of the church he victimized. Smh, a great step for the church, if only as a PR exercise, would be to strongly condemn this sort of behavior AND strongly punish it. Defrock and excommunicate any priest who does this. It’s a very easy choice that frankly could help reinstill a little confidence in the church.",
">\n\nOFF WITH HIS GOD DAMNED FUCKING HEAD",
">\n\nWhy so quick and painless?",
">\n\nYou know you’re actually right.. OFF WITH HIS GOD DAMNED FUCKING HEAD WITH A RUSTY PAPERCLIP",
">\n\nRight to jail",
">\n\nToday on why religious institutions should be abolished",
">\n\nAnd the right won't say a thing about this man.",
">\n\nHow Catholics still a thing ?",
">\n\nAnd the Church will cover it up or just say they are very sorry 🤬",
">\n\nThe provincial says everything right…he doesn’t excuse the guy, doesn’t obfuscate what he did or what it’s gravely evil…right up until he asks for house arrest. Fuck that. Whatever the harshest penalty allowed is, do that.",
">\n\nSo just regular church stuff really",
">\n\nChurch is a haven for predators!!!",
">\n\nI used to be Catholic, but stories like this make me hate the church more every day.",
">\n\nCan we just end this disgusting church already? Can you imagine ONE Walmart manager raping children? Now try to imagine MORE THAN THREE THOUSAND Walmart managers raping children. \nStill gonna shop at Walmart?",
">\n\nBut somehow these religious psychos get away with this and convince their followers to kill LGBTQ+ people. Fuck religion, fuck all churches, we need it out of our society.",
">\n\nExcommunicate from the order and earth.",
">\n\nOnly 5 years is the wild part to me.",
">\n\nHow have we not outlawed and burned down the obvious pedophile cult? \nIf there’s no such thing as a good cop, there’s no such thing as a good priest.",
">\n\nHead first into a wood chipper…no amnesty for pedophiles!",
">\n\nBe a shame if he stopped breathing and any and everybody associated with leadership stopped breathing also!!!",
">\n\nThis kind of shit is why atheism sucks, this fuckers evil soul needs a little eternal torture. Yes yes, I know we're only incredibly flawed hairless apes a couple of toes out of the jungle but fuck man this guy sucks.",
">\n\nA priest has made a move to a new parish so that he may focus on bringing the gospel to a new group! The church is excited to help him accel and even provided the funds to move him across the country. Though he'll be in a new town where no one knows him, the church as said they're sure he'll fir in quickly! \nOr something like that.",
">\n\nFive Years.",
">\n\ni’m shocked",
">\n\nAmazing pp hasn’t been banished yet",
">\n\n5 years? That's it?",
">\n\nGood lord",
">\n\noh what the fuck.",
">\n\nBut drag queens are the problem...",
">\n\nThe guy worked at a church right down the street where I grew up. I know people that attended Our Lady Queen of Peace as children, that’s so crazy",
">\n\nOmg\nHow sick",
">\n\n…and reassigned to another parish",
">\n\nOne thing, Catholics. One thing!",
">\n\nBut what about the drag queens and trans people using the wrong bathroom?",
">\n\nSounds about right for those ilk",
">\n\nHe should NOT be allowed some sideshow resort sentence where he gets to stay at his church and is overseen by some other priest who PrOmIsEs that he will make sure that the criminal is overseen. \nHell no— go to prison and suffer the consequences of your crimes asshole."
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"Slideshows????? What?\nMy man just opened up cp.ppt and added a few THOUSAND slides of kiddy porn????\nClippy: it looks like youre a depraved predator. Do you want to profane the church as well?",
">\n\nWell I always did believe Power Point was a creation of a malevolent entity.",
">\n\nTuring complete, no less!",
">\n\nBut can it run Doom?",
">\n\nAnything can run doom",
">\n\nBut can Doom run Doom?",
">\n\nDoom can run Doom because Doom runs Doom when Doom runs.",
">\n\nPeople don't run Doom like it is, but it Doom.",
">\n\nGonna take this moment to highly recommend the film Spotlight to any who haven’t seen it",
">\n\nCheck out the 2017 limited series on either Netflix or Prime: \"The Keepers\" about a Baltimore-area Catholic girls' school. Based on the experiences as told by some of the girls, now middle-aged women. It is NOT nice, will make you cry, will enrage you. But I commend the women who made this documentary for as painful as it was for the audience to watch, I can't imagine how they made it thru. And they brought it around to a decent ending, but wow....I think some of what happened in Baltimore bled over into the Spotlight story.\nLapsed Catholic. I cannot reconcile with the Church hierarchy over this because they have behaved satanically for far too long to make me believe they are holy in any way.",
">\n\nThere was a documentary that came out a year or two ago tbzg sounds similar but men who were molested as kids while in the church. \nI honestly don't know how anyone can still support the church. At all. If it was one priest, sure. It's sad it happened, but pedophiles will always exist and find ways to get to kids.\nBut with how often it happens and with how little the church cares? Nope. I never could be catholic even if I was Christian.",
">\n\nBecause saving souls bringing them into their cult is more valuable than the ones they crush. The Vatican last I heard had 7 pedos protecting by not complying with extradition requests. \nAny organization not willing to comply with the laws of the country where they have a tax exempt status should lose their exemption and title to any property they own. If you RICO cartel and mafia assets, then you can do so for these child abusers and their protective association. \nYou know the church owns most of Manhattan and isn't paying taxes? All that money and we have to tolerate this shit? Nah fuck them.",
">\n\nNude pix on the church printer . . . I can imagine the scene.\nSister Mary Michael: Yo, does anyone recognize this tallywhacker?\nFormer Alter Boy Brian: Yeah, that's Father Jim. I'd know that hairy mole anywhere.",
">\n\nThat's Tommy Turner's tallywhacker",
">\n\nIf Reddit still gave free awards, I'd give one to you for catching the reference.",
">\n\nWAIT when did they get rid of the free awards",
">\n\nguess this is how i found out. last i claimed mine is around last week, i think. i only claim once every two weeks to gild certain biweekly thread lul",
">\n\nAnd yet where are all the \"anti-groomers\" protesting these churches?",
">\n\nIt’s almost like it has never actually been about protecting children, and it’s always been about trying to demonize LGBT people",
">\n\nAt this point I am positive the religious right to life thing is about having more targets.",
">\n\nGlad 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?",
">\n\nAfter 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.",
">\n\nI 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.\nThere are also many who truly believe the schtick and just compartmentalize the bad stuff. Both are to blame regardless. Nobody gets a pass.",
">\n\nI could see that with some of the smaller denominations for sure.\nWhen 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.",
">\n\n*making another streak to the tally list wall\n*camera panning out to reveal a huge fucking wall coveres in streaks",
">\n\nMan 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.\nThat said. This man should burn for this",
">\n\nPriest? Pedo? Are you sure? This is unprecedented",
">\n\nCorrection! PedoPreist",
">\n\nNew name not necessary. If anything there should be a name for the unique priests that arent pedos.",
">\n\nI'm inclined to think the majority of priests aren't child predators themselves.\nThe 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.\nWay, way too many of them are pedo-enablers. All the way up...",
">\n\nThen that would mean that... Gasp\nSouth Park was right all along....\nSneaky little bastards didn't think I would notice....",
">\n\nWish I was surprised",
">\n\nYou make slideshows of images? \nEdit: \nOh wait I see what you mean. Yeah the pedophile priest thing is so expected that only the slideshow bit stood out",
">\n\nHoly hell. Priest have normalized pedophilia.",
">\n\nNot just priests. Protestant Christians have a major problem with sexual abuse too, particularly against children.\nAfter Major Investigation, Southern Baptists Confront the Abuse Crisis They Knew Was Coming\nDon't let the Evangelical pedo defenders get away with claiming that Catholicism is the only issue here. It isn't.",
">\n\n\nnone of them are immune to the depravity.\n\nAlmost implied, really.",
">\n\nCould 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?",
">\n\nA variety of factors:\n\nUnquestioned moral authority and intense trust from a large community who have all been taught to obey church authorities\nSupport from a massive extremely powerful institution that has covered up thousands of similar crimes\nStrictly forbidden to marry, have sex, or iirc even masturbate, making them view all sexual activities as similarly taboo for them\nEasy regular access to many children\nEasy ability to get alone time with children\nPriests are only held institutionally accountable to each other and to those with more authority in the church\nVictims 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\nChildren 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\nThe 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\nThe 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\n\nThat'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.”\nP.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.\nWant 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.\nEdit to add this excellent way to protect kids that churches consistently fight against:\n\n“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.\nchildren 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.”",
">\n\nSo this should be buried enough if I speak in general terms.\nYears back one of our pastors had to give up being a pastor. They didn't get into details of what he did but they did stress that kids were not involved. The whole church could be seen relaxing.",
">\n\n5 years for thousands of child porn images and videos? Seems pretty fucking light to me. This piece of shit should die in prison.",
">\n\n5 years and a ticket to heaven",
">\n\nHeaven? For him?",
">\n\nThat'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.",
">\n\nDon't you also have to be truly repentant for your sins, including making a good faith effort to keep from repeating them?",
">\n\nI would love for someone to answer this because I really want to know, too.",
">\n\nyes I'm pretty sure that's it. God sees people's hearts He should know the diff between true repentance and fake one",
">\n\nYes, assuming an all-powerful God existed, he’d be able to pretty easily know if you were truly sorry.",
">\n\nYeah but......... \nI'm just starting the religious apologist's sentence for them.",
">\n\nFor 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.",
">\n\nOne 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.",
">\n\nOnce I heard this theory, the acceptance by conservatives of people whose behavior is in direct conflict with their moral beliefs, made more sense.",
">\n\n5 holly maries and transfer\nafter 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.\nRev. 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.\"\nMcDevitt asked the presiding judge for \"mercy for Jim,\" and even offered for the congregation to pay to house him in lieu of imprisonment.\n\"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.\"\n\"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.\"",
">\n\nIn Australia at the moment there is a furore after the death of Cardinal George Pell who was convicted (then exonerated) of personally abusing children, but was found by a Royal Commission (that would be a special prosecutor for our American friends?) of enabling and protecting paedophile priests for decades.\nCan honestly say I have not been able to listen to the string of \"Christians\" praising this man in our media for the last few days without wanting to puke. Suffer the little children.",
">\n\nWith you there. At least there’s a lot of people calling his supporters out on this. Fuck Tony Abbott, John Howard and Andrew Bolt to name a few.",
">\n\nI 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!",
">\n\nr/PastorArrested (also includes Priests)",
">\n\nDon'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.",
">\n\nIf there is a god, wtf?",
">\n\nThere is no God. Religion is about control and money",
">\n\nAnd more money",
">\n\n\"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.\" \n- Rev. Patrick McDevitt, provincial superior for the Congregation of the Western Province \n\nEvery single member of that congregation is a horrible piece of shit",
">\n\nWhat 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?",
">\n\n“Drag queens are grooming our youth!!!”",
">\n\n\"I think we all know where people put on dresses and fuck kids\"\n-Trixie Mattel, 2022",
">\n\nKid “Bless me Father, for I have sinned”\nPadre “ call me, maybe?”",
">\n\nImagine my shock to discover that a priest has been involved in a sex scandal and one involving the exploitation of children, at that.",
">\n\nGOP: \"But wuttabout drag queens?!?!?!??!\"",
">\n\nDoing the Lords work 🙏🏾",
">\n\nTax-free",
">\n\nWhat's the deal with priests being so into pedophilia? Can't they look at milf pounds like normal people?",
">\n\nOh look... Another priest with child porn ... When do we get to start taxing the church?",
">\n\nr/pastorarrested",
">\n\nChurch is a scary place, especially for children.",
">\n\nI 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.",
">\n\nOnly 5 years. What a joke.",
">\n\n\nThe 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.\n\nIf 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.",
">\n\nNo one is suprised a priest is a pedophile. \nBut printing out yer nudes? That's odd.",
">\n\nI can think of a reason he printed it out. And I really don't like that reason.",
">\n\nI'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.",
">\n\nThe sheer audacity to do it at church where you work",
">\n\nAnd not a drag queen in sight...",
">\n\nThey do kinda wear dresses, though",
">\n\nToo many “coincidences” within this church to be anything other than systematic",
">\n\nPretty 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.",
">\n\n\nThe data often suggests numbers of pedophiles similar to the general population\n\none 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",
">\n\nYeah, 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.",
">\n\nI 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.",
">\n\nIt's so common for priests to be sickos",
">\n\nGross",
">\n\nAll he needs to do is repent, right?!?",
">\n\nA priest? With kiddie porn? I’ve never heard of such a thing!",
">\n\nRemember 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.",
">\n\n5 years that's all he got",
">\n\nThat's fucking disgusting. Misappropriation of office materials.",
">\n\nIt 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",
">\n\nIdiot 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.",
">\n\nso 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.",
">\n\nI 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 🤷♂️",
">\n\n5 years isnt nearly enough. Lock him up forever and a day.",
">\n\n~~Drag shows~~ Churches are not safe for children",
">\n\nI'm sure the religious Right will be out protesting him any second.\nRight? Right guys? Groomers and all this? Qanons? Where you guys at?\nHuh. Weird.",
">\n\nBut the dragqueens guys?!?!?!??!? /s",
">\n\nWeird that so many god loving people are actually just pedophiles. Wonder what they think god thinks of them. Fuck theism.",
">\n\nTheir god tells them to take the young girls as spoils of war. Their god is just as fucking depraved as they are.",
">\n\ntHaTs jUsT tHe oLd tEsTaMeNt tHoUgh.\ngOds mOraLiTy dOeSnt cHanGe, hE jUsT dEaLs wItH hUmAns diFFeReNtlY nOw. \nYeah when someone deals with people differently than they did before we generally call that \"a change.\"",
">\n\nAnd he wasn’t trans??? Maybe it’s been priests all along that governors should be banning. When will they correct their mistake? /s",
">\n\nDoesn'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...",
">\n\nIt's surprising. Who prints out their own nudes?",
">\n\nLock him up and throw away the keys",
">\n\nDarn priests, at least those protestant ministers keep it in the family",
">\n\nNot surprised.",
">\n\nThree hail marys and all is forgiven. What a load of bs",
">\n\nJust one bad apple, I’m sure.",
">\n\nLeast paedophilic priest",
">\n\n…slideshow?",
">\n\nGod works in mysterious ways ya fuckin chomo. As a priest, he of all people should have seen this coming...",
">\n\nIn other news, water is wet",
">\n\nOnly five years...",
">\n\n”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.” \nಠ_ಠ",
">\n\nI don’t remember this plotline during Doubt…",
">\n\nWe keep letting them get away with it, so they keep doing it. More obvious news at 10.",
">\n\n& once they found him out he got made a cardinal",
">\n\nHe should've kept them in the garage with his Corvette",
">\n\n5 years? If nothing else, using PowerPoint should have been an aggravating factor.",
">\n\nAnd you thought looking at Bob's family vacation pics was a bad time",
">\n\nWhen 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.",
">\n\nHow is the Roman Catholic Church not closed down for enabling and protecting child abusers",
">\n\nAre 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.",
">\n\nIt'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.",
">\n\npapabile!",
">\n\nLeft nudes on a shared printer? Rookie mistake.",
">\n\nTeach your priests just enough tech to effectively turn themselves in.",
">\n\nIsn't it something how the church decided to investigate themselves again. Keep it in the family, guys.\nI 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.",
">\n\nIs 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:\n1 - 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\n2 - 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)\n3 - 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.\nTL;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.",
">\n\nLet me guess.\nMoved to a different church at the other side of the country and that’s about it for consequences?",
">\n\nThose damned drag queens strike again.",
">\n\nI mean that’s kinda how they caught BTK",
">\n\nSo priests are still abusing kids after we didn't do anything to them the last few times we caught them? Color me surprised.",
">\n\n\nCourt 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.\"\n\n...\n\nDuring 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. \n\n...\n\nAnd 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. \n\nFuck everyone that allowed this scum to continue in a position of authority.",
">\n\nDon’t hear this happening at drag shows…j/s",
">\n\nHe put the PDF in pedofile",
">\n\nThis is Fucking ridiculous",
">\n\nNever forget who the actual groomers are",
">\n\nThe proud boys will be outside of churches \"protesting\" with guns now, right? right?",
">\n\nA priest being pedophile? But that is absolutely unheard of, say it isn't so!",
">\n\nYou sure this wasn't at a Trans drag show? GOP is sure this happens at Trans dragsl shows",
">\n\nExcommunicated by PowerPoint",
">\n\n5 years and a fine? FFS, that’s ridiculous.",
">\n\nPraise Jesus!",
">\n\nAnd the right thinks kids going to drag shows are the problem",
">\n\nAverage christian.",
">\n\nbut the drag queens are reading books to children in libraries! The madnessss",
">\n\nSo they moved him to a new church. This is what they have always done.",
">\n\nleast pedophilic priest:",
">\n\nThe dead ones dont hurt anyone.",
">\n\ninto the furnace he goes. theres no rehabbing people like this.",
">\n\nIt's always the ones you least expect..",
">\n\nOr in this case, the ones you MOST suspect",
">\n\nlol ya, I said that with sarcasm..",
">\n\nPray that he gets nut cancer.",
">\n\nNut cancer was once described to me as \"the common cold of cancers\". It has something like a 95% survival rate.\nHe deserves worse.",
">\n\nDidn't know that. Good nut fact for the day.",
">\n\nIt's definitely the drag queens reading to kids in libraries that's the problem.",
">\n\nRight wingers want him to be a closeted drag queen so badly",
">\n\nI could never trust any man who goes into priesthood. Completely unnatural and deviant occupation rife with pedophiles.",
">\n\nThis MONSTER got 5 years?! \nThe CHILDREN being abused in the images will suffer for the rest of their lives!!\nI'm in favor of LIFE SENTENCES for child sex offenders. \nOr better yet, the DEATH PENALTY!!",
">\n\nReligion was invented by Man for Control of the Flock.You go to Confession and tell the priest everything so they can determine how to undress you.\nI was once a Catholic.....born, baptised, confirmed and educated in a Grammar school run by Irish Christian Brothers under the Order of Edmund Ignatius Rice......and now I'm an atheist.",
">\n\nHow come it is always ‘Christians’ who are involved in child sex abuse?",
">\n\nOf course he's a pedo, he's a priest!",
">\n\nYes millions of idiots keep donating billions to the church",
">\n\nNot simply donating, they bring their children along, indoctrinate them that the priest is the speaker of God, and that God can do no wrong, so anything the priest dose is holy and good. The priest even says so!\nAnd when the kids bring it up the first few times weird things happen? The parents tell them to shush. And so, the sacrifices continue, the parents make a show of not knowing, and things get worse for the children.\nAnd if the priest is reported, the church just moves them to a different parish.\nThe only difference between the taliban and the catholic church, is one of them advertises the child slaves as a benefit, while the other pretends it's not (but totally encourages it, top to bottom).",
">\n\nAnd who are the groomers again?",
">\n\nThis is what happens when you don’t recycle your printer papers.",
">\n\nI feel like this isn't oniony enough, everyone knows by now that priests are significantly more likely to be pedophiles than the general population.",
">\n\nSure, but “gets caught by leaving nudes on a printer” is a fairly onion-y end.",
">\n\nYa know you're right",
">\n\nI have a theory about the correlation between priests and pedophiles. This is my opinion based on conversations with a childhood friend (not a pedo) and is only my opinion but could explain why so many priests abuse children. Get your down votes ready. \nThese boys grow up in the church and it is all they know for the most part. When going through puberty we become attracted to a gender (male or female gay or straight sometimes somewhere in between) and more often a \"type\" as well (blonde brunette short tall etc). Our hormones drive us to seek companionship, intimacy, and ultimately procreation. \nThese boys growing up never develop this attraction to their peers but rather feel more comfortable around younger children and usually behave as mentors. The combination of love of church and disinterest in peers puts the thought in their heads that priesthood is their calling. It takes a long time and effort to become a priest. There are easier paths if a guy just wants to bang kids.\nPut together lack of sex or release of biological needs with access and constant contact with children and they are basically pushed over the edge.\nTo sum up, pedophiles don't become priests to molest children, they become priests because they don't realize they are pedophiles. This is just my opinion, and obviously there are also exceptions to this.\nPerhaps the solution is to get rid of this nonsense celibacy.",
">\n\nAlternative theory: pedophiles become priests because they know the Catholic Church will support and hide them from accountability. Plus, all those altar boys have been easy pickings for decades. \nOn the positive side, Catholic Churches are closing all over Missouri because of dwindling congregations.",
">\n\nThis is one crime I’ll never be able to fathom.",
">\n\nSo fucking sick advocating for this monster so he can maintain freedom?",
">\n\nThe church has been so infiltrated by Child abusers that they are currently rating worse than Satan Worshippers",
">\n\nCan we just fuck churches off now???",
">\n\nYour tithing had to go somewhere.",
">\n\nHow come republicans are not calling these people groomers?",
">\n\nIs anyone else picturing the scene in the first Scary Movie where the cop asks Anna Faris to look at some pictures?\nPriest hands out the pictures of himself along with the weekly pamphlet. Maybe the first reading is from the Song of Solomon...",
">\n\nOh shit. \nHas he been quietly shuffled to a new church yet?",
">\n\nI'm old enough that when I see \"slideshow\" I think of him arranging physical slides in a carousel to project on a screen, like the family trip to Disneyland. Maybe invite the neighbors over for cake.",
">\n\nLord above why is this a thing",
">\n\nYou mean not a drag queen?",
">\n\nActual groomers.",
">\n\nJust think the hands that wanked to kiddie pr0n put wafers on the tongues of everyone in that congregation...",
">\n\nLMAO. This slightly ambiguous headline had me thinking “who attended these slideshow presentations?”",
">\n\nOh look another pedophile catholic priest. Good job reinforcing that stereotype.",
">\n\nAnd we should take guidance from those who hide these atrocities so we can live a better life in the eyes of god.",
">\n\nFriendly reminder religion is a mistake that deserves to be taxed. If you threatened to tax zealots tomorrow child molestation by priests would drop to zero",
">\n\nmay your mother smile as you burn",
">\n\nThis is what happens when you have unchecked power for thousands of years.\nHorrifying.",
">\n\nDid he learn this behavior from a drag show? /s",
">\n\nReminds me of something Chris Rock said: \"Where do women find the porn? They don't find it in your hiding place, they find it in the VCR\"",
">\n\nHe was also probably saving up for a trip to Disney World.",
">\n\n\nincluding child pornography and images of child erotica.\n\nI want to know the difference but don't want to get on a watchlist by googling it.",
">\n\nWithout the word child there, there's a difference in degree. I'd say it's the same thing with that word in there just describing the subject depicted. Pornography is generally actual sex acts of some form or another. Erotica falls short of that, it may be arousing or suggestive. For example, a cabaret show may be erotica but it's certainly not pornography.",
">\n\nPriest? Church? Man in a tax evasion party house?",
">\n\nYet the church immediately moved him somewhere else as there was a daycare next door to the church, then offered to pay to have the priest under house arrest so that the child predator won't go to jail.",
">\n\nShittiest Ted Talk I’ve ever seen, honestly…",
">\n\nOnly five years?! \nUgh!",
">\n\nAnd they call LGBT+ people groomers. (eyeroll)",
">\n\nAnyone who has ever been to a church sadly knows this doesn't need to be in this sub for us to know it's a real story.",
">\n\nOh how nice. The Reverend pleaded for him not to be incarcerated. Because of fucking course he did.",
">\n\nCurious as to who he was presenting this to",
">\n\nPunish these assholes they are smearing God's name",
">\n\nStraight to (checks notes) your next parish!",
">\n\nreligion and sexual abuse. name a more iconic duo\nwhy are any of these religions even allowed to exist any more\nthey have long since lost their meanings, and onlt serve to syphon money out of gullible people, and abuse their children\nwhat is any of these religions actually adding to society any more? other than more perverted monsters",
">\n\nHe’s not the only one",
">\n\nWhy is no big tv news channel talking about this?",
">\n\nAsked that he not go to prison & that his congregation pay to house him? Fuck the church. That's almost the most disgusting part of this",
">\n\nSo are we talking a pptx or an old-school film Rolodex version? Both are messed up, but one takes A LOT more effort.",
">\n\nThe catholic church is of Satan.",
">\n\nFaith is of \"Satan.\" The idea that assuming you might be wrong is morally wrong produces some of the worst people imaginable. And that applies to secular ideologies that require looking down on those who disagree or are unsure too.",
">\n\nAge of priest over/under 50\nWhat yall got?\nI have the over.",
">\n\nOnly 5 years?",
">\n\nRight for some reason i read it as slide show meaning projectors haha. I forgot Powerpoint presentations are a thing.",
">\n\nThe congregation still requested he be spared incarceration and remain in their facility. Truly unbelievable.",
">\n\nThose damn drag queens framed him",
">\n\nThey really put a lot of effort into not saying that he was catholic in that article.",
">\n\nWonder what congregation hes been moved to now?",
">\n\nAny outrage from republicans? Will they arm themselves and storm the churches?....... Didn't think so.",
">\n\nA Christian pedophile? Who could have guessed?",
">\n\nIm shocked! Shocked I say!\nWell... not that shocked.",
">\n\nI appreciate that the church cooperated and turned him in. However, the fact they wanted to pay to house him, out of the parish coffers, is insane. He deserves incarceration and certainly not a retirement paid for by parishioners of the church he victimized. Smh, a great step for the church, if only as a PR exercise, would be to strongly condemn this sort of behavior AND strongly punish it. Defrock and excommunicate any priest who does this. It’s a very easy choice that frankly could help reinstill a little confidence in the church.",
">\n\nOFF WITH HIS GOD DAMNED FUCKING HEAD",
">\n\nWhy so quick and painless?",
">\n\nYou know you’re actually right.. OFF WITH HIS GOD DAMNED FUCKING HEAD WITH A RUSTY PAPERCLIP",
">\n\nRight to jail",
">\n\nToday on why religious institutions should be abolished",
">\n\nAnd the right won't say a thing about this man.",
">\n\nHow Catholics still a thing ?",
">\n\nAnd the Church will cover it up or just say they are very sorry 🤬",
">\n\nThe provincial says everything right…he doesn’t excuse the guy, doesn’t obfuscate what he did or what it’s gravely evil…right up until he asks for house arrest. Fuck that. Whatever the harshest penalty allowed is, do that.",
">\n\nSo just regular church stuff really",
">\n\nChurch is a haven for predators!!!",
">\n\nI used to be Catholic, but stories like this make me hate the church more every day.",
">\n\nCan we just end this disgusting church already? Can you imagine ONE Walmart manager raping children? Now try to imagine MORE THAN THREE THOUSAND Walmart managers raping children. \nStill gonna shop at Walmart?",
">\n\nBut somehow these religious psychos get away with this and convince their followers to kill LGBTQ+ people. Fuck religion, fuck all churches, we need it out of our society.",
">\n\nExcommunicate from the order and earth.",
">\n\nOnly 5 years is the wild part to me.",
">\n\nHow have we not outlawed and burned down the obvious pedophile cult? \nIf there’s no such thing as a good cop, there’s no such thing as a good priest.",
">\n\nHead first into a wood chipper…no amnesty for pedophiles!",
">\n\nBe a shame if he stopped breathing and any and everybody associated with leadership stopped breathing also!!!",
">\n\nThis kind of shit is why atheism sucks, this fuckers evil soul needs a little eternal torture. Yes yes, I know we're only incredibly flawed hairless apes a couple of toes out of the jungle but fuck man this guy sucks.",
">\n\nA priest has made a move to a new parish so that he may focus on bringing the gospel to a new group! The church is excited to help him accel and even provided the funds to move him across the country. Though he'll be in a new town where no one knows him, the church as said they're sure he'll fir in quickly! \nOr something like that.",
">\n\nFive Years.",
">\n\ni’m shocked",
">\n\nAmazing pp hasn’t been banished yet",
">\n\n5 years? That's it?",
">\n\nGood lord",
">\n\noh what the fuck.",
">\n\nBut drag queens are the problem...",
">\n\nThe guy worked at a church right down the street where I grew up. I know people that attended Our Lady Queen of Peace as children, that’s so crazy",
">\n\nOmg\nHow sick",
">\n\n…and reassigned to another parish",
">\n\nOne thing, Catholics. One thing!",
">\n\nBut what about the drag queens and trans people using the wrong bathroom?",
">\n\nSounds about right for those ilk",
">\n\nHe should NOT be allowed some sideshow resort sentence where he gets to stay at his church and is overseen by some other priest who PrOmIsEs that he will make sure that the criminal is overseen. \nHell no— go to prison and suffer the consequences of your crimes asshole.",
">\n\nHas a psychologist or something ever looked into why its always Priests? Why do priests always go after kids?"
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"Slideshows????? What?\nMy man just opened up cp.ppt and added a few THOUSAND slides of kiddy porn????\nClippy: it looks like youre a depraved predator. Do you want to profane the church as well?",
">\n\nWell I always did believe Power Point was a creation of a malevolent entity.",
">\n\nTuring complete, no less!",
">\n\nBut can it run Doom?",
">\n\nAnything can run doom",
">\n\nBut can Doom run Doom?",
">\n\nDoom can run Doom because Doom runs Doom when Doom runs.",
">\n\nPeople don't run Doom like it is, but it Doom.",
">\n\nGonna take this moment to highly recommend the film Spotlight to any who haven’t seen it",
">\n\nCheck out the 2017 limited series on either Netflix or Prime: \"The Keepers\" about a Baltimore-area Catholic girls' school. Based on the experiences as told by some of the girls, now middle-aged women. It is NOT nice, will make you cry, will enrage you. But I commend the women who made this documentary for as painful as it was for the audience to watch, I can't imagine how they made it thru. And they brought it around to a decent ending, but wow....I think some of what happened in Baltimore bled over into the Spotlight story.\nLapsed Catholic. I cannot reconcile with the Church hierarchy over this because they have behaved satanically for far too long to make me believe they are holy in any way.",
">\n\nThere was a documentary that came out a year or two ago tbzg sounds similar but men who were molested as kids while in the church. \nI honestly don't know how anyone can still support the church. At all. If it was one priest, sure. It's sad it happened, but pedophiles will always exist and find ways to get to kids.\nBut with how often it happens and with how little the church cares? Nope. I never could be catholic even if I was Christian.",
">\n\nBecause saving souls bringing them into their cult is more valuable than the ones they crush. The Vatican last I heard had 7 pedos protecting by not complying with extradition requests. \nAny organization not willing to comply with the laws of the country where they have a tax exempt status should lose their exemption and title to any property they own. If you RICO cartel and mafia assets, then you can do so for these child abusers and their protective association. \nYou know the church owns most of Manhattan and isn't paying taxes? All that money and we have to tolerate this shit? Nah fuck them.",
">\n\nNude pix on the church printer . . . I can imagine the scene.\nSister Mary Michael: Yo, does anyone recognize this tallywhacker?\nFormer Alter Boy Brian: Yeah, that's Father Jim. I'd know that hairy mole anywhere.",
">\n\nThat's Tommy Turner's tallywhacker",
">\n\nIf Reddit still gave free awards, I'd give one to you for catching the reference.",
">\n\nWAIT when did they get rid of the free awards",
">\n\nguess this is how i found out. last i claimed mine is around last week, i think. i only claim once every two weeks to gild certain biweekly thread lul",
">\n\nAnd yet where are all the \"anti-groomers\" protesting these churches?",
">\n\nIt’s almost like it has never actually been about protecting children, and it’s always been about trying to demonize LGBT people",
">\n\nAt this point I am positive the religious right to life thing is about having more targets.",
">\n\nGlad 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?",
">\n\nAfter 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.",
">\n\nI 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.\nThere are also many who truly believe the schtick and just compartmentalize the bad stuff. Both are to blame regardless. Nobody gets a pass.",
">\n\nI could see that with some of the smaller denominations for sure.\nWhen 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.",
">\n\n*making another streak to the tally list wall\n*camera panning out to reveal a huge fucking wall coveres in streaks",
">\n\nMan 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.\nThat said. This man should burn for this",
">\n\nPriest? Pedo? Are you sure? This is unprecedented",
">\n\nCorrection! PedoPreist",
">\n\nNew name not necessary. If anything there should be a name for the unique priests that arent pedos.",
">\n\nI'm inclined to think the majority of priests aren't child predators themselves.\nThe 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.\nWay, way too many of them are pedo-enablers. All the way up...",
">\n\nThen that would mean that... Gasp\nSouth Park was right all along....\nSneaky little bastards didn't think I would notice....",
">\n\nWish I was surprised",
">\n\nYou make slideshows of images? \nEdit: \nOh wait I see what you mean. Yeah the pedophile priest thing is so expected that only the slideshow bit stood out",
">\n\nHoly hell. Priest have normalized pedophilia.",
">\n\nNot just priests. Protestant Christians have a major problem with sexual abuse too, particularly against children.\nAfter Major Investigation, Southern Baptists Confront the Abuse Crisis They Knew Was Coming\nDon't let the Evangelical pedo defenders get away with claiming that Catholicism is the only issue here. It isn't.",
">\n\n\nnone of them are immune to the depravity.\n\nAlmost implied, really.",
">\n\nCould 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?",
">\n\nA variety of factors:\n\nUnquestioned moral authority and intense trust from a large community who have all been taught to obey church authorities\nSupport from a massive extremely powerful institution that has covered up thousands of similar crimes\nStrictly forbidden to marry, have sex, or iirc even masturbate, making them view all sexual activities as similarly taboo for them\nEasy regular access to many children\nEasy ability to get alone time with children\nPriests are only held institutionally accountable to each other and to those with more authority in the church\nVictims 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\nChildren 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\nThe 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\nThe 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\n\nThat'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.”\nP.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.\nWant 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.\nEdit to add this excellent way to protect kids that churches consistently fight against:\n\n“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.\nchildren 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.”",
">\n\nSo this should be buried enough if I speak in general terms.\nYears back one of our pastors had to give up being a pastor. They didn't get into details of what he did but they did stress that kids were not involved. The whole church could be seen relaxing.",
">\n\n5 years for thousands of child porn images and videos? Seems pretty fucking light to me. This piece of shit should die in prison.",
">\n\n5 years and a ticket to heaven",
">\n\nHeaven? For him?",
">\n\nThat'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.",
">\n\nDon't you also have to be truly repentant for your sins, including making a good faith effort to keep from repeating them?",
">\n\nI would love for someone to answer this because I really want to know, too.",
">\n\nyes I'm pretty sure that's it. God sees people's hearts He should know the diff between true repentance and fake one",
">\n\nYes, assuming an all-powerful God existed, he’d be able to pretty easily know if you were truly sorry.",
">\n\nYeah but......... \nI'm just starting the religious apologist's sentence for them.",
">\n\nFor 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.",
">\n\nOne 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.",
">\n\nOnce I heard this theory, the acceptance by conservatives of people whose behavior is in direct conflict with their moral beliefs, made more sense.",
">\n\n5 holly maries and transfer\nafter 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.\nRev. 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.\"\nMcDevitt asked the presiding judge for \"mercy for Jim,\" and even offered for the congregation to pay to house him in lieu of imprisonment.\n\"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.\"\n\"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.\"",
">\n\nIn Australia at the moment there is a furore after the death of Cardinal George Pell who was convicted (then exonerated) of personally abusing children, but was found by a Royal Commission (that would be a special prosecutor for our American friends?) of enabling and protecting paedophile priests for decades.\nCan honestly say I have not been able to listen to the string of \"Christians\" praising this man in our media for the last few days without wanting to puke. Suffer the little children.",
">\n\nWith you there. At least there’s a lot of people calling his supporters out on this. Fuck Tony Abbott, John Howard and Andrew Bolt to name a few.",
">\n\nI 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!",
">\n\nr/PastorArrested (also includes Priests)",
">\n\nDon'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.",
">\n\nIf there is a god, wtf?",
">\n\nThere is no God. Religion is about control and money",
">\n\nAnd more money",
">\n\n\"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.\" \n- Rev. Patrick McDevitt, provincial superior for the Congregation of the Western Province \n\nEvery single member of that congregation is a horrible piece of shit",
">\n\nWhat 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?",
">\n\n“Drag queens are grooming our youth!!!”",
">\n\n\"I think we all know where people put on dresses and fuck kids\"\n-Trixie Mattel, 2022",
">\n\nKid “Bless me Father, for I have sinned”\nPadre “ call me, maybe?”",
">\n\nImagine my shock to discover that a priest has been involved in a sex scandal and one involving the exploitation of children, at that.",
">\n\nGOP: \"But wuttabout drag queens?!?!?!??!\"",
">\n\nDoing the Lords work 🙏🏾",
">\n\nTax-free",
">\n\nWhat's the deal with priests being so into pedophilia? Can't they look at milf pounds like normal people?",
">\n\nOh look... Another priest with child porn ... When do we get to start taxing the church?",
">\n\nr/pastorarrested",
">\n\nChurch is a scary place, especially for children.",
">\n\nI 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.",
">\n\nOnly 5 years. What a joke.",
">\n\n\nThe 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.\n\nIf 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.",
">\n\nNo one is suprised a priest is a pedophile. \nBut printing out yer nudes? That's odd.",
">\n\nI can think of a reason he printed it out. And I really don't like that reason.",
">\n\nI'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.",
">\n\nThe sheer audacity to do it at church where you work",
">\n\nAnd not a drag queen in sight...",
">\n\nThey do kinda wear dresses, though",
">\n\nToo many “coincidences” within this church to be anything other than systematic",
">\n\nPretty 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.",
">\n\n\nThe data often suggests numbers of pedophiles similar to the general population\n\none 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",
">\n\nYeah, 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.",
">\n\nI 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.",
">\n\nIt's so common for priests to be sickos",
">\n\nGross",
">\n\nAll he needs to do is repent, right?!?",
">\n\nA priest? With kiddie porn? I’ve never heard of such a thing!",
">\n\nRemember 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.",
">\n\n5 years that's all he got",
">\n\nThat's fucking disgusting. Misappropriation of office materials.",
">\n\nIt 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",
">\n\nIdiot 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.",
">\n\nso 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.",
">\n\nI 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 🤷♂️",
">\n\n5 years isnt nearly enough. Lock him up forever and a day.",
">\n\n~~Drag shows~~ Churches are not safe for children",
">\n\nI'm sure the religious Right will be out protesting him any second.\nRight? Right guys? Groomers and all this? Qanons? Where you guys at?\nHuh. Weird.",
">\n\nBut the dragqueens guys?!?!?!??!? /s",
">\n\nWeird that so many god loving people are actually just pedophiles. Wonder what they think god thinks of them. Fuck theism.",
">\n\nTheir god tells them to take the young girls as spoils of war. Their god is just as fucking depraved as they are.",
">\n\ntHaTs jUsT tHe oLd tEsTaMeNt tHoUgh.\ngOds mOraLiTy dOeSnt cHanGe, hE jUsT dEaLs wItH hUmAns diFFeReNtlY nOw. \nYeah when someone deals with people differently than they did before we generally call that \"a change.\"",
">\n\nAnd he wasn’t trans??? Maybe it’s been priests all along that governors should be banning. When will they correct their mistake? /s",
">\n\nDoesn'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...",
">\n\nIt's surprising. Who prints out their own nudes?",
">\n\nLock him up and throw away the keys",
">\n\nDarn priests, at least those protestant ministers keep it in the family",
">\n\nNot surprised.",
">\n\nThree hail marys and all is forgiven. What a load of bs",
">\n\nJust one bad apple, I’m sure.",
">\n\nLeast paedophilic priest",
">\n\n…slideshow?",
">\n\nGod works in mysterious ways ya fuckin chomo. As a priest, he of all people should have seen this coming...",
">\n\nIn other news, water is wet",
">\n\nOnly five years...",
">\n\n”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.” \nಠ_ಠ",
">\n\nI don’t remember this plotline during Doubt…",
">\n\nWe keep letting them get away with it, so they keep doing it. More obvious news at 10.",
">\n\n& once they found him out he got made a cardinal",
">\n\nHe should've kept them in the garage with his Corvette",
">\n\n5 years? If nothing else, using PowerPoint should have been an aggravating factor.",
">\n\nAnd you thought looking at Bob's family vacation pics was a bad time",
">\n\nWhen 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.",
">\n\nHow is the Roman Catholic Church not closed down for enabling and protecting child abusers",
">\n\nAre 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.",
">\n\nIt'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.",
">\n\npapabile!",
">\n\nLeft nudes on a shared printer? Rookie mistake.",
">\n\nTeach your priests just enough tech to effectively turn themselves in.",
">\n\nIsn't it something how the church decided to investigate themselves again. Keep it in the family, guys.\nI 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.",
">\n\nIs 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:\n1 - 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\n2 - 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)\n3 - 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.\nTL;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.",
">\n\nLet me guess.\nMoved to a different church at the other side of the country and that’s about it for consequences?",
">\n\nThose damned drag queens strike again.",
">\n\nI mean that’s kinda how they caught BTK",
">\n\nSo priests are still abusing kids after we didn't do anything to them the last few times we caught them? Color me surprised.",
">\n\n\nCourt 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.\"\n\n...\n\nDuring 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. \n\n...\n\nAnd 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. \n\nFuck everyone that allowed this scum to continue in a position of authority.",
">\n\nDon’t hear this happening at drag shows…j/s",
">\n\nHe put the PDF in pedofile",
">\n\nThis is Fucking ridiculous",
">\n\nNever forget who the actual groomers are",
">\n\nThe proud boys will be outside of churches \"protesting\" with guns now, right? right?",
">\n\nA priest being pedophile? But that is absolutely unheard of, say it isn't so!",
">\n\nYou sure this wasn't at a Trans drag show? GOP is sure this happens at Trans dragsl shows",
">\n\nExcommunicated by PowerPoint",
">\n\n5 years and a fine? FFS, that’s ridiculous.",
">\n\nPraise Jesus!",
">\n\nAnd the right thinks kids going to drag shows are the problem",
">\n\nAverage christian.",
">\n\nbut the drag queens are reading books to children in libraries! The madnessss",
">\n\nSo they moved him to a new church. This is what they have always done.",
">\n\nleast pedophilic priest:",
">\n\nThe dead ones dont hurt anyone.",
">\n\ninto the furnace he goes. theres no rehabbing people like this.",
">\n\nIt's always the ones you least expect..",
">\n\nOr in this case, the ones you MOST suspect",
">\n\nlol ya, I said that with sarcasm..",
">\n\nPray that he gets nut cancer.",
">\n\nNut cancer was once described to me as \"the common cold of cancers\". It has something like a 95% survival rate.\nHe deserves worse.",
">\n\nDidn't know that. Good nut fact for the day.",
">\n\nIt's definitely the drag queens reading to kids in libraries that's the problem.",
">\n\nRight wingers want him to be a closeted drag queen so badly",
">\n\nI could never trust any man who goes into priesthood. Completely unnatural and deviant occupation rife with pedophiles.",
">\n\nThis MONSTER got 5 years?! \nThe CHILDREN being abused in the images will suffer for the rest of their lives!!\nI'm in favor of LIFE SENTENCES for child sex offenders. \nOr better yet, the DEATH PENALTY!!",
">\n\nReligion was invented by Man for Control of the Flock.You go to Confession and tell the priest everything so they can determine how to undress you.\nI was once a Catholic.....born, baptised, confirmed and educated in a Grammar school run by Irish Christian Brothers under the Order of Edmund Ignatius Rice......and now I'm an atheist.",
">\n\nHow come it is always ‘Christians’ who are involved in child sex abuse?",
">\n\nOf course he's a pedo, he's a priest!",
">\n\nYes millions of idiots keep donating billions to the church",
">\n\nNot simply donating, they bring their children along, indoctrinate them that the priest is the speaker of God, and that God can do no wrong, so anything the priest dose is holy and good. The priest even says so!\nAnd when the kids bring it up the first few times weird things happen? The parents tell them to shush. And so, the sacrifices continue, the parents make a show of not knowing, and things get worse for the children.\nAnd if the priest is reported, the church just moves them to a different parish.\nThe only difference between the taliban and the catholic church, is one of them advertises the child slaves as a benefit, while the other pretends it's not (but totally encourages it, top to bottom).",
">\n\nAnd who are the groomers again?",
">\n\nThis is what happens when you don’t recycle your printer papers.",
">\n\nI feel like this isn't oniony enough, everyone knows by now that priests are significantly more likely to be pedophiles than the general population.",
">\n\nSure, but “gets caught by leaving nudes on a printer” is a fairly onion-y end.",
">\n\nYa know you're right",
">\n\nI have a theory about the correlation between priests and pedophiles. This is my opinion based on conversations with a childhood friend (not a pedo) and is only my opinion but could explain why so many priests abuse children. Get your down votes ready. \nThese boys grow up in the church and it is all they know for the most part. When going through puberty we become attracted to a gender (male or female gay or straight sometimes somewhere in between) and more often a \"type\" as well (blonde brunette short tall etc). Our hormones drive us to seek companionship, intimacy, and ultimately procreation. \nThese boys growing up never develop this attraction to their peers but rather feel more comfortable around younger children and usually behave as mentors. The combination of love of church and disinterest in peers puts the thought in their heads that priesthood is their calling. It takes a long time and effort to become a priest. There are easier paths if a guy just wants to bang kids.\nPut together lack of sex or release of biological needs with access and constant contact with children and they are basically pushed over the edge.\nTo sum up, pedophiles don't become priests to molest children, they become priests because they don't realize they are pedophiles. This is just my opinion, and obviously there are also exceptions to this.\nPerhaps the solution is to get rid of this nonsense celibacy.",
">\n\nAlternative theory: pedophiles become priests because they know the Catholic Church will support and hide them from accountability. Plus, all those altar boys have been easy pickings for decades. \nOn the positive side, Catholic Churches are closing all over Missouri because of dwindling congregations.",
">\n\nThis is one crime I’ll never be able to fathom.",
">\n\nSo fucking sick advocating for this monster so he can maintain freedom?",
">\n\nThe church has been so infiltrated by Child abusers that they are currently rating worse than Satan Worshippers",
">\n\nCan we just fuck churches off now???",
">\n\nYour tithing had to go somewhere.",
">\n\nHow come republicans are not calling these people groomers?",
">\n\nIs anyone else picturing the scene in the first Scary Movie where the cop asks Anna Faris to look at some pictures?\nPriest hands out the pictures of himself along with the weekly pamphlet. Maybe the first reading is from the Song of Solomon...",
">\n\nOh shit. \nHas he been quietly shuffled to a new church yet?",
">\n\nI'm old enough that when I see \"slideshow\" I think of him arranging physical slides in a carousel to project on a screen, like the family trip to Disneyland. Maybe invite the neighbors over for cake.",
">\n\nLord above why is this a thing",
">\n\nYou mean not a drag queen?",
">\n\nActual groomers.",
">\n\nJust think the hands that wanked to kiddie pr0n put wafers on the tongues of everyone in that congregation...",
">\n\nLMAO. This slightly ambiguous headline had me thinking “who attended these slideshow presentations?”",
">\n\nOh look another pedophile catholic priest. Good job reinforcing that stereotype.",
">\n\nAnd we should take guidance from those who hide these atrocities so we can live a better life in the eyes of god.",
">\n\nFriendly reminder religion is a mistake that deserves to be taxed. If you threatened to tax zealots tomorrow child molestation by priests would drop to zero",
">\n\nmay your mother smile as you burn",
">\n\nThis is what happens when you have unchecked power for thousands of years.\nHorrifying.",
">\n\nDid he learn this behavior from a drag show? /s",
">\n\nReminds me of something Chris Rock said: \"Where do women find the porn? They don't find it in your hiding place, they find it in the VCR\"",
">\n\nHe was also probably saving up for a trip to Disney World.",
">\n\n\nincluding child pornography and images of child erotica.\n\nI want to know the difference but don't want to get on a watchlist by googling it.",
">\n\nWithout the word child there, there's a difference in degree. I'd say it's the same thing with that word in there just describing the subject depicted. Pornography is generally actual sex acts of some form or another. Erotica falls short of that, it may be arousing or suggestive. For example, a cabaret show may be erotica but it's certainly not pornography.",
">\n\nPriest? Church? Man in a tax evasion party house?",
">\n\nYet the church immediately moved him somewhere else as there was a daycare next door to the church, then offered to pay to have the priest under house arrest so that the child predator won't go to jail.",
">\n\nShittiest Ted Talk I’ve ever seen, honestly…",
">\n\nOnly five years?! \nUgh!",
">\n\nAnd they call LGBT+ people groomers. (eyeroll)",
">\n\nAnyone who has ever been to a church sadly knows this doesn't need to be in this sub for us to know it's a real story.",
">\n\nOh how nice. The Reverend pleaded for him not to be incarcerated. Because of fucking course he did.",
">\n\nCurious as to who he was presenting this to",
">\n\nPunish these assholes they are smearing God's name",
">\n\nStraight to (checks notes) your next parish!",
">\n\nreligion and sexual abuse. name a more iconic duo\nwhy are any of these religions even allowed to exist any more\nthey have long since lost their meanings, and onlt serve to syphon money out of gullible people, and abuse their children\nwhat is any of these religions actually adding to society any more? other than more perverted monsters",
">\n\nHe’s not the only one",
">\n\nWhy is no big tv news channel talking about this?",
">\n\nAsked that he not go to prison & that his congregation pay to house him? Fuck the church. That's almost the most disgusting part of this",
">\n\nSo are we talking a pptx or an old-school film Rolodex version? Both are messed up, but one takes A LOT more effort.",
">\n\nThe catholic church is of Satan.",
">\n\nFaith is of \"Satan.\" The idea that assuming you might be wrong is morally wrong produces some of the worst people imaginable. And that applies to secular ideologies that require looking down on those who disagree or are unsure too.",
">\n\nAge of priest over/under 50\nWhat yall got?\nI have the over.",
">\n\nOnly 5 years?",
">\n\nRight for some reason i read it as slide show meaning projectors haha. I forgot Powerpoint presentations are a thing.",
">\n\nThe congregation still requested he be spared incarceration and remain in their facility. Truly unbelievable.",
">\n\nThose damn drag queens framed him",
">\n\nThey really put a lot of effort into not saying that he was catholic in that article.",
">\n\nWonder what congregation hes been moved to now?",
">\n\nAny outrage from republicans? Will they arm themselves and storm the churches?....... Didn't think so.",
">\n\nA Christian pedophile? Who could have guessed?",
">\n\nIm shocked! Shocked I say!\nWell... not that shocked.",
">\n\nI appreciate that the church cooperated and turned him in. However, the fact they wanted to pay to house him, out of the parish coffers, is insane. He deserves incarceration and certainly not a retirement paid for by parishioners of the church he victimized. Smh, a great step for the church, if only as a PR exercise, would be to strongly condemn this sort of behavior AND strongly punish it. Defrock and excommunicate any priest who does this. It’s a very easy choice that frankly could help reinstill a little confidence in the church.",
">\n\nOFF WITH HIS GOD DAMNED FUCKING HEAD",
">\n\nWhy so quick and painless?",
">\n\nYou know you’re actually right.. OFF WITH HIS GOD DAMNED FUCKING HEAD WITH A RUSTY PAPERCLIP",
">\n\nRight to jail",
">\n\nToday on why religious institutions should be abolished",
">\n\nAnd the right won't say a thing about this man.",
">\n\nHow Catholics still a thing ?",
">\n\nAnd the Church will cover it up or just say they are very sorry 🤬",
">\n\nThe provincial says everything right…he doesn’t excuse the guy, doesn’t obfuscate what he did or what it’s gravely evil…right up until he asks for house arrest. Fuck that. Whatever the harshest penalty allowed is, do that.",
">\n\nSo just regular church stuff really",
">\n\nChurch is a haven for predators!!!",
">\n\nI used to be Catholic, but stories like this make me hate the church more every day.",
">\n\nCan we just end this disgusting church already? Can you imagine ONE Walmart manager raping children? Now try to imagine MORE THAN THREE THOUSAND Walmart managers raping children. \nStill gonna shop at Walmart?",
">\n\nBut somehow these religious psychos get away with this and convince their followers to kill LGBTQ+ people. Fuck religion, fuck all churches, we need it out of our society.",
">\n\nExcommunicate from the order and earth.",
">\n\nOnly 5 years is the wild part to me.",
">\n\nHow have we not outlawed and burned down the obvious pedophile cult? \nIf there’s no such thing as a good cop, there’s no such thing as a good priest.",
">\n\nHead first into a wood chipper…no amnesty for pedophiles!",
">\n\nBe a shame if he stopped breathing and any and everybody associated with leadership stopped breathing also!!!",
">\n\nThis kind of shit is why atheism sucks, this fuckers evil soul needs a little eternal torture. Yes yes, I know we're only incredibly flawed hairless apes a couple of toes out of the jungle but fuck man this guy sucks.",
">\n\nA priest has made a move to a new parish so that he may focus on bringing the gospel to a new group! The church is excited to help him accel and even provided the funds to move him across the country. Though he'll be in a new town where no one knows him, the church as said they're sure he'll fir in quickly! \nOr something like that.",
">\n\nFive Years.",
">\n\ni’m shocked",
">\n\nAmazing pp hasn’t been banished yet",
">\n\n5 years? That's it?",
">\n\nGood lord",
">\n\noh what the fuck.",
">\n\nBut drag queens are the problem...",
">\n\nThe guy worked at a church right down the street where I grew up. I know people that attended Our Lady Queen of Peace as children, that’s so crazy",
">\n\nOmg\nHow sick",
">\n\n…and reassigned to another parish",
">\n\nOne thing, Catholics. One thing!",
">\n\nBut what about the drag queens and trans people using the wrong bathroom?",
">\n\nSounds about right for those ilk",
">\n\nHe should NOT be allowed some sideshow resort sentence where he gets to stay at his church and is overseen by some other priest who PrOmIsEs that he will make sure that the criminal is overseen. \nHell no— go to prison and suffer the consequences of your crimes asshole.",
">\n\nHas a psychologist or something ever looked into why its always Priests? Why do priests always go after kids?",
">\n\n5 years in the pen for thousands of under 12 y/o cp??"
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"Slideshows????? What?\nMy man just opened up cp.ppt and added a few THOUSAND slides of kiddy porn????\nClippy: it looks like youre a depraved predator. Do you want to profane the church as well?",
">\n\nWell I always did believe Power Point was a creation of a malevolent entity.",
">\n\nTuring complete, no less!",
">\n\nBut can it run Doom?",
">\n\nAnything can run doom",
">\n\nBut can Doom run Doom?",
">\n\nDoom can run Doom because Doom runs Doom when Doom runs.",
">\n\nPeople don't run Doom like it is, but it Doom.",
">\n\nGonna take this moment to highly recommend the film Spotlight to any who haven’t seen it",
">\n\nCheck out the 2017 limited series on either Netflix or Prime: \"The Keepers\" about a Baltimore-area Catholic girls' school. Based on the experiences as told by some of the girls, now middle-aged women. It is NOT nice, will make you cry, will enrage you. But I commend the women who made this documentary for as painful as it was for the audience to watch, I can't imagine how they made it thru. And they brought it around to a decent ending, but wow....I think some of what happened in Baltimore bled over into the Spotlight story.\nLapsed Catholic. I cannot reconcile with the Church hierarchy over this because they have behaved satanically for far too long to make me believe they are holy in any way.",
">\n\nThere was a documentary that came out a year or two ago tbzg sounds similar but men who were molested as kids while in the church. \nI honestly don't know how anyone can still support the church. At all. If it was one priest, sure. It's sad it happened, but pedophiles will always exist and find ways to get to kids.\nBut with how often it happens and with how little the church cares? Nope. I never could be catholic even if I was Christian.",
">\n\nBecause saving souls bringing them into their cult is more valuable than the ones they crush. The Vatican last I heard had 7 pedos protecting by not complying with extradition requests. \nAny organization not willing to comply with the laws of the country where they have a tax exempt status should lose their exemption and title to any property they own. If you RICO cartel and mafia assets, then you can do so for these child abusers and their protective association. \nYou know the church owns most of Manhattan and isn't paying taxes? All that money and we have to tolerate this shit? Nah fuck them.",
">\n\nNude pix on the church printer . . . I can imagine the scene.\nSister Mary Michael: Yo, does anyone recognize this tallywhacker?\nFormer Alter Boy Brian: Yeah, that's Father Jim. I'd know that hairy mole anywhere.",
">\n\nThat's Tommy Turner's tallywhacker",
">\n\nIf Reddit still gave free awards, I'd give one to you for catching the reference.",
">\n\nWAIT when did they get rid of the free awards",
">\n\nguess this is how i found out. last i claimed mine is around last week, i think. i only claim once every two weeks to gild certain biweekly thread lul",
">\n\nAnd yet where are all the \"anti-groomers\" protesting these churches?",
">\n\nIt’s almost like it has never actually been about protecting children, and it’s always been about trying to demonize LGBT people",
">\n\nAt this point I am positive the religious right to life thing is about having more targets.",
">\n\nGlad 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?",
">\n\nAfter 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.",
">\n\nI 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.\nThere are also many who truly believe the schtick and just compartmentalize the bad stuff. Both are to blame regardless. Nobody gets a pass.",
">\n\nI could see that with some of the smaller denominations for sure.\nWhen 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.",
">\n\n*making another streak to the tally list wall\n*camera panning out to reveal a huge fucking wall coveres in streaks",
">\n\nMan 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.\nThat said. This man should burn for this",
">\n\nPriest? Pedo? Are you sure? This is unprecedented",
">\n\nCorrection! PedoPreist",
">\n\nNew name not necessary. If anything there should be a name for the unique priests that arent pedos.",
">\n\nI'm inclined to think the majority of priests aren't child predators themselves.\nThe 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.\nWay, way too many of them are pedo-enablers. All the way up...",
">\n\nThen that would mean that... Gasp\nSouth Park was right all along....\nSneaky little bastards didn't think I would notice....",
">\n\nWish I was surprised",
">\n\nYou make slideshows of images? \nEdit: \nOh wait I see what you mean. Yeah the pedophile priest thing is so expected that only the slideshow bit stood out",
">\n\nHoly hell. Priest have normalized pedophilia.",
">\n\nNot just priests. Protestant Christians have a major problem with sexual abuse too, particularly against children.\nAfter Major Investigation, Southern Baptists Confront the Abuse Crisis They Knew Was Coming\nDon't let the Evangelical pedo defenders get away with claiming that Catholicism is the only issue here. It isn't.",
">\n\n\nnone of them are immune to the depravity.\n\nAlmost implied, really.",
">\n\nCould 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?",
">\n\nA variety of factors:\n\nUnquestioned moral authority and intense trust from a large community who have all been taught to obey church authorities\nSupport from a massive extremely powerful institution that has covered up thousands of similar crimes\nStrictly forbidden to marry, have sex, or iirc even masturbate, making them view all sexual activities as similarly taboo for them\nEasy regular access to many children\nEasy ability to get alone time with children\nPriests are only held institutionally accountable to each other and to those with more authority in the church\nVictims 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\nChildren 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\nThe 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\nThe 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\n\nThat'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.”\nP.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.\nWant 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.\nEdit to add this excellent way to protect kids that churches consistently fight against:\n\n“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.\nchildren 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.”",
">\n\nSo this should be buried enough if I speak in general terms.\nYears back one of our pastors had to give up being a pastor. They didn't get into details of what he did but they did stress that kids were not involved. The whole church could be seen relaxing.",
">\n\n5 years for thousands of child porn images and videos? Seems pretty fucking light to me. This piece of shit should die in prison.",
">\n\n5 years and a ticket to heaven",
">\n\nHeaven? For him?",
">\n\nThat'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.",
">\n\nDon't you also have to be truly repentant for your sins, including making a good faith effort to keep from repeating them?",
">\n\nI would love for someone to answer this because I really want to know, too.",
">\n\nyes I'm pretty sure that's it. God sees people's hearts He should know the diff between true repentance and fake one",
">\n\nYes, assuming an all-powerful God existed, he’d be able to pretty easily know if you were truly sorry.",
">\n\nYeah but......... \nI'm just starting the religious apologist's sentence for them.",
">\n\nFor 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.",
">\n\nOne 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.",
">\n\nOnce I heard this theory, the acceptance by conservatives of people whose behavior is in direct conflict with their moral beliefs, made more sense.",
">\n\n5 holly maries and transfer\nafter 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.\nRev. 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.\"\nMcDevitt asked the presiding judge for \"mercy for Jim,\" and even offered for the congregation to pay to house him in lieu of imprisonment.\n\"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.\"\n\"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.\"",
">\n\nIn Australia at the moment there is a furore after the death of Cardinal George Pell who was convicted (then exonerated) of personally abusing children, but was found by a Royal Commission (that would be a special prosecutor for our American friends?) of enabling and protecting paedophile priests for decades.\nCan honestly say I have not been able to listen to the string of \"Christians\" praising this man in our media for the last few days without wanting to puke. Suffer the little children.",
">\n\nWith you there. At least there’s a lot of people calling his supporters out on this. Fuck Tony Abbott, John Howard and Andrew Bolt to name a few.",
">\n\nI 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!",
">\n\nr/PastorArrested (also includes Priests)",
">\n\nDon'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.",
">\n\nIf there is a god, wtf?",
">\n\nThere is no God. Religion is about control and money",
">\n\nAnd more money",
">\n\n\"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.\" \n- Rev. Patrick McDevitt, provincial superior for the Congregation of the Western Province \n\nEvery single member of that congregation is a horrible piece of shit",
">\n\nWhat 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?",
">\n\n“Drag queens are grooming our youth!!!”",
">\n\n\"I think we all know where people put on dresses and fuck kids\"\n-Trixie Mattel, 2022",
">\n\nKid “Bless me Father, for I have sinned”\nPadre “ call me, maybe?”",
">\n\nImagine my shock to discover that a priest has been involved in a sex scandal and one involving the exploitation of children, at that.",
">\n\nGOP: \"But wuttabout drag queens?!?!?!??!\"",
">\n\nDoing the Lords work 🙏🏾",
">\n\nTax-free",
">\n\nWhat's the deal with priests being so into pedophilia? Can't they look at milf pounds like normal people?",
">\n\nOh look... Another priest with child porn ... When do we get to start taxing the church?",
">\n\nr/pastorarrested",
">\n\nChurch is a scary place, especially for children.",
">\n\nI 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.",
">\n\nOnly 5 years. What a joke.",
">\n\n\nThe 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.\n\nIf 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.",
">\n\nNo one is suprised a priest is a pedophile. \nBut printing out yer nudes? That's odd.",
">\n\nI can think of a reason he printed it out. And I really don't like that reason.",
">\n\nI'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.",
">\n\nThe sheer audacity to do it at church where you work",
">\n\nAnd not a drag queen in sight...",
">\n\nThey do kinda wear dresses, though",
">\n\nToo many “coincidences” within this church to be anything other than systematic",
">\n\nPretty 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.",
">\n\n\nThe data often suggests numbers of pedophiles similar to the general population\n\none 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",
">\n\nYeah, 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.",
">\n\nI 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.",
">\n\nIt's so common for priests to be sickos",
">\n\nGross",
">\n\nAll he needs to do is repent, right?!?",
">\n\nA priest? With kiddie porn? I’ve never heard of such a thing!",
">\n\nRemember 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.",
">\n\n5 years that's all he got",
">\n\nThat's fucking disgusting. Misappropriation of office materials.",
">\n\nIt 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",
">\n\nIdiot 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.",
">\n\nso 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.",
">\n\nI 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 🤷♂️",
">\n\n5 years isnt nearly enough. Lock him up forever and a day.",
">\n\n~~Drag shows~~ Churches are not safe for children",
">\n\nI'm sure the religious Right will be out protesting him any second.\nRight? Right guys? Groomers and all this? Qanons? Where you guys at?\nHuh. Weird.",
">\n\nBut the dragqueens guys?!?!?!??!? /s",
">\n\nWeird that so many god loving people are actually just pedophiles. Wonder what they think god thinks of them. Fuck theism.",
">\n\nTheir god tells them to take the young girls as spoils of war. Their god is just as fucking depraved as they are.",
">\n\ntHaTs jUsT tHe oLd tEsTaMeNt tHoUgh.\ngOds mOraLiTy dOeSnt cHanGe, hE jUsT dEaLs wItH hUmAns diFFeReNtlY nOw. \nYeah when someone deals with people differently than they did before we generally call that \"a change.\"",
">\n\nAnd he wasn’t trans??? Maybe it’s been priests all along that governors should be banning. When will they correct their mistake? /s",
">\n\nDoesn'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...",
">\n\nIt's surprising. Who prints out their own nudes?",
">\n\nLock him up and throw away the keys",
">\n\nDarn priests, at least those protestant ministers keep it in the family",
">\n\nNot surprised.",
">\n\nThree hail marys and all is forgiven. What a load of bs",
">\n\nJust one bad apple, I’m sure.",
">\n\nLeast paedophilic priest",
">\n\n…slideshow?",
">\n\nGod works in mysterious ways ya fuckin chomo. As a priest, he of all people should have seen this coming...",
">\n\nIn other news, water is wet",
">\n\nOnly five years...",
">\n\n”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.” \nಠ_ಠ",
">\n\nI don’t remember this plotline during Doubt…",
">\n\nWe keep letting them get away with it, so they keep doing it. More obvious news at 10.",
">\n\n& once they found him out he got made a cardinal",
">\n\nHe should've kept them in the garage with his Corvette",
">\n\n5 years? If nothing else, using PowerPoint should have been an aggravating factor.",
">\n\nAnd you thought looking at Bob's family vacation pics was a bad time",
">\n\nWhen 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.",
">\n\nHow is the Roman Catholic Church not closed down for enabling and protecting child abusers",
">\n\nAre 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.",
">\n\nIt'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.",
">\n\npapabile!",
">\n\nLeft nudes on a shared printer? Rookie mistake.",
">\n\nTeach your priests just enough tech to effectively turn themselves in.",
">\n\nIsn't it something how the church decided to investigate themselves again. Keep it in the family, guys.\nI 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.",
">\n\nIs 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:\n1 - 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\n2 - 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)\n3 - 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.\nTL;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.",
">\n\nLet me guess.\nMoved to a different church at the other side of the country and that’s about it for consequences?",
">\n\nThose damned drag queens strike again.",
">\n\nI mean that’s kinda how they caught BTK",
">\n\nSo priests are still abusing kids after we didn't do anything to them the last few times we caught them? Color me surprised.",
">\n\n\nCourt 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.\"\n\n...\n\nDuring 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. \n\n...\n\nAnd 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. \n\nFuck everyone that allowed this scum to continue in a position of authority.",
">\n\nDon’t hear this happening at drag shows…j/s",
">\n\nHe put the PDF in pedofile",
">\n\nThis is Fucking ridiculous",
">\n\nNever forget who the actual groomers are",
">\n\nThe proud boys will be outside of churches \"protesting\" with guns now, right? right?",
">\n\nA priest being pedophile? But that is absolutely unheard of, say it isn't so!",
">\n\nYou sure this wasn't at a Trans drag show? GOP is sure this happens at Trans dragsl shows",
">\n\nExcommunicated by PowerPoint",
">\n\n5 years and a fine? FFS, that’s ridiculous.",
">\n\nPraise Jesus!",
">\n\nAnd the right thinks kids going to drag shows are the problem",
">\n\nAverage christian.",
">\n\nbut the drag queens are reading books to children in libraries! The madnessss",
">\n\nSo they moved him to a new church. This is what they have always done.",
">\n\nleast pedophilic priest:",
">\n\nThe dead ones dont hurt anyone.",
">\n\ninto the furnace he goes. theres no rehabbing people like this.",
">\n\nIt's always the ones you least expect..",
">\n\nOr in this case, the ones you MOST suspect",
">\n\nlol ya, I said that with sarcasm..",
">\n\nPray that he gets nut cancer.",
">\n\nNut cancer was once described to me as \"the common cold of cancers\". It has something like a 95% survival rate.\nHe deserves worse.",
">\n\nDidn't know that. Good nut fact for the day.",
">\n\nIt's definitely the drag queens reading to kids in libraries that's the problem.",
">\n\nRight wingers want him to be a closeted drag queen so badly",
">\n\nI could never trust any man who goes into priesthood. Completely unnatural and deviant occupation rife with pedophiles.",
">\n\nThis MONSTER got 5 years?! \nThe CHILDREN being abused in the images will suffer for the rest of their lives!!\nI'm in favor of LIFE SENTENCES for child sex offenders. \nOr better yet, the DEATH PENALTY!!",
">\n\nReligion was invented by Man for Control of the Flock.You go to Confession and tell the priest everything so they can determine how to undress you.\nI was once a Catholic.....born, baptised, confirmed and educated in a Grammar school run by Irish Christian Brothers under the Order of Edmund Ignatius Rice......and now I'm an atheist.",
">\n\nHow come it is always ‘Christians’ who are involved in child sex abuse?",
">\n\nOf course he's a pedo, he's a priest!",
">\n\nYes millions of idiots keep donating billions to the church",
">\n\nNot simply donating, they bring their children along, indoctrinate them that the priest is the speaker of God, and that God can do no wrong, so anything the priest dose is holy and good. The priest even says so!\nAnd when the kids bring it up the first few times weird things happen? The parents tell them to shush. And so, the sacrifices continue, the parents make a show of not knowing, and things get worse for the children.\nAnd if the priest is reported, the church just moves them to a different parish.\nThe only difference between the taliban and the catholic church, is one of them advertises the child slaves as a benefit, while the other pretends it's not (but totally encourages it, top to bottom).",
">\n\nAnd who are the groomers again?",
">\n\nThis is what happens when you don’t recycle your printer papers.",
">\n\nI feel like this isn't oniony enough, everyone knows by now that priests are significantly more likely to be pedophiles than the general population.",
">\n\nSure, but “gets caught by leaving nudes on a printer” is a fairly onion-y end.",
">\n\nYa know you're right",
">\n\nI have a theory about the correlation between priests and pedophiles. This is my opinion based on conversations with a childhood friend (not a pedo) and is only my opinion but could explain why so many priests abuse children. Get your down votes ready. \nThese boys grow up in the church and it is all they know for the most part. When going through puberty we become attracted to a gender (male or female gay or straight sometimes somewhere in between) and more often a \"type\" as well (blonde brunette short tall etc). Our hormones drive us to seek companionship, intimacy, and ultimately procreation. \nThese boys growing up never develop this attraction to their peers but rather feel more comfortable around younger children and usually behave as mentors. The combination of love of church and disinterest in peers puts the thought in their heads that priesthood is their calling. It takes a long time and effort to become a priest. There are easier paths if a guy just wants to bang kids.\nPut together lack of sex or release of biological needs with access and constant contact with children and they are basically pushed over the edge.\nTo sum up, pedophiles don't become priests to molest children, they become priests because they don't realize they are pedophiles. This is just my opinion, and obviously there are also exceptions to this.\nPerhaps the solution is to get rid of this nonsense celibacy.",
">\n\nAlternative theory: pedophiles become priests because they know the Catholic Church will support and hide them from accountability. Plus, all those altar boys have been easy pickings for decades. \nOn the positive side, Catholic Churches are closing all over Missouri because of dwindling congregations.",
">\n\nThis is one crime I’ll never be able to fathom.",
">\n\nSo fucking sick advocating for this monster so he can maintain freedom?",
">\n\nThe church has been so infiltrated by Child abusers that they are currently rating worse than Satan Worshippers",
">\n\nCan we just fuck churches off now???",
">\n\nYour tithing had to go somewhere.",
">\n\nHow come republicans are not calling these people groomers?",
">\n\nIs anyone else picturing the scene in the first Scary Movie where the cop asks Anna Faris to look at some pictures?\nPriest hands out the pictures of himself along with the weekly pamphlet. Maybe the first reading is from the Song of Solomon...",
">\n\nOh shit. \nHas he been quietly shuffled to a new church yet?",
">\n\nI'm old enough that when I see \"slideshow\" I think of him arranging physical slides in a carousel to project on a screen, like the family trip to Disneyland. Maybe invite the neighbors over for cake.",
">\n\nLord above why is this a thing",
">\n\nYou mean not a drag queen?",
">\n\nActual groomers.",
">\n\nJust think the hands that wanked to kiddie pr0n put wafers on the tongues of everyone in that congregation...",
">\n\nLMAO. This slightly ambiguous headline had me thinking “who attended these slideshow presentations?”",
">\n\nOh look another pedophile catholic priest. Good job reinforcing that stereotype.",
">\n\nAnd we should take guidance from those who hide these atrocities so we can live a better life in the eyes of god.",
">\n\nFriendly reminder religion is a mistake that deserves to be taxed. If you threatened to tax zealots tomorrow child molestation by priests would drop to zero",
">\n\nmay your mother smile as you burn",
">\n\nThis is what happens when you have unchecked power for thousands of years.\nHorrifying.",
">\n\nDid he learn this behavior from a drag show? /s",
">\n\nReminds me of something Chris Rock said: \"Where do women find the porn? They don't find it in your hiding place, they find it in the VCR\"",
">\n\nHe was also probably saving up for a trip to Disney World.",
">\n\n\nincluding child pornography and images of child erotica.\n\nI want to know the difference but don't want to get on a watchlist by googling it.",
">\n\nWithout the word child there, there's a difference in degree. I'd say it's the same thing with that word in there just describing the subject depicted. Pornography is generally actual sex acts of some form or another. Erotica falls short of that, it may be arousing or suggestive. For example, a cabaret show may be erotica but it's certainly not pornography.",
">\n\nPriest? Church? Man in a tax evasion party house?",
">\n\nYet the church immediately moved him somewhere else as there was a daycare next door to the church, then offered to pay to have the priest under house arrest so that the child predator won't go to jail.",
">\n\nShittiest Ted Talk I’ve ever seen, honestly…",
">\n\nOnly five years?! \nUgh!",
">\n\nAnd they call LGBT+ people groomers. (eyeroll)",
">\n\nAnyone who has ever been to a church sadly knows this doesn't need to be in this sub for us to know it's a real story.",
">\n\nOh how nice. The Reverend pleaded for him not to be incarcerated. Because of fucking course he did.",
">\n\nCurious as to who he was presenting this to",
">\n\nPunish these assholes they are smearing God's name",
">\n\nStraight to (checks notes) your next parish!",
">\n\nreligion and sexual abuse. name a more iconic duo\nwhy are any of these religions even allowed to exist any more\nthey have long since lost their meanings, and onlt serve to syphon money out of gullible people, and abuse their children\nwhat is any of these religions actually adding to society any more? other than more perverted monsters",
">\n\nHe’s not the only one",
">\n\nWhy is no big tv news channel talking about this?",
">\n\nAsked that he not go to prison & that his congregation pay to house him? Fuck the church. That's almost the most disgusting part of this",
">\n\nSo are we talking a pptx or an old-school film Rolodex version? Both are messed up, but one takes A LOT more effort.",
">\n\nThe catholic church is of Satan.",
">\n\nFaith is of \"Satan.\" The idea that assuming you might be wrong is morally wrong produces some of the worst people imaginable. And that applies to secular ideologies that require looking down on those who disagree or are unsure too.",
">\n\nAge of priest over/under 50\nWhat yall got?\nI have the over.",
">\n\nOnly 5 years?",
">\n\nRight for some reason i read it as slide show meaning projectors haha. I forgot Powerpoint presentations are a thing.",
">\n\nThe congregation still requested he be spared incarceration and remain in their facility. Truly unbelievable.",
">\n\nThose damn drag queens framed him",
">\n\nThey really put a lot of effort into not saying that he was catholic in that article.",
">\n\nWonder what congregation hes been moved to now?",
">\n\nAny outrage from republicans? Will they arm themselves and storm the churches?....... Didn't think so.",
">\n\nA Christian pedophile? Who could have guessed?",
">\n\nIm shocked! Shocked I say!\nWell... not that shocked.",
">\n\nI appreciate that the church cooperated and turned him in. However, the fact they wanted to pay to house him, out of the parish coffers, is insane. He deserves incarceration and certainly not a retirement paid for by parishioners of the church he victimized. Smh, a great step for the church, if only as a PR exercise, would be to strongly condemn this sort of behavior AND strongly punish it. Defrock and excommunicate any priest who does this. It’s a very easy choice that frankly could help reinstill a little confidence in the church.",
">\n\nOFF WITH HIS GOD DAMNED FUCKING HEAD",
">\n\nWhy so quick and painless?",
">\n\nYou know you’re actually right.. OFF WITH HIS GOD DAMNED FUCKING HEAD WITH A RUSTY PAPERCLIP",
">\n\nRight to jail",
">\n\nToday on why religious institutions should be abolished",
">\n\nAnd the right won't say a thing about this man.",
">\n\nHow Catholics still a thing ?",
">\n\nAnd the Church will cover it up or just say they are very sorry 🤬",
">\n\nThe provincial says everything right…he doesn’t excuse the guy, doesn’t obfuscate what he did or what it’s gravely evil…right up until he asks for house arrest. Fuck that. Whatever the harshest penalty allowed is, do that.",
">\n\nSo just regular church stuff really",
">\n\nChurch is a haven for predators!!!",
">\n\nI used to be Catholic, but stories like this make me hate the church more every day.",
">\n\nCan we just end this disgusting church already? Can you imagine ONE Walmart manager raping children? Now try to imagine MORE THAN THREE THOUSAND Walmart managers raping children. \nStill gonna shop at Walmart?",
">\n\nBut somehow these religious psychos get away with this and convince their followers to kill LGBTQ+ people. Fuck religion, fuck all churches, we need it out of our society.",
">\n\nExcommunicate from the order and earth.",
">\n\nOnly 5 years is the wild part to me.",
">\n\nHow have we not outlawed and burned down the obvious pedophile cult? \nIf there’s no such thing as a good cop, there’s no such thing as a good priest.",
">\n\nHead first into a wood chipper…no amnesty for pedophiles!",
">\n\nBe a shame if he stopped breathing and any and everybody associated with leadership stopped breathing also!!!",
">\n\nThis kind of shit is why atheism sucks, this fuckers evil soul needs a little eternal torture. Yes yes, I know we're only incredibly flawed hairless apes a couple of toes out of the jungle but fuck man this guy sucks.",
">\n\nA priest has made a move to a new parish so that he may focus on bringing the gospel to a new group! The church is excited to help him accel and even provided the funds to move him across the country. Though he'll be in a new town where no one knows him, the church as said they're sure he'll fir in quickly! \nOr something like that.",
">\n\nFive Years.",
">\n\ni’m shocked",
">\n\nAmazing pp hasn’t been banished yet",
">\n\n5 years? That's it?",
">\n\nGood lord",
">\n\noh what the fuck.",
">\n\nBut drag queens are the problem...",
">\n\nThe guy worked at a church right down the street where I grew up. I know people that attended Our Lady Queen of Peace as children, that’s so crazy",
">\n\nOmg\nHow sick",
">\n\n…and reassigned to another parish",
">\n\nOne thing, Catholics. One thing!",
">\n\nBut what about the drag queens and trans people using the wrong bathroom?",
">\n\nSounds about right for those ilk",
">\n\nHe should NOT be allowed some sideshow resort sentence where he gets to stay at his church and is overseen by some other priest who PrOmIsEs that he will make sure that the criminal is overseen. \nHell no— go to prison and suffer the consequences of your crimes asshole.",
">\n\nHas a psychologist or something ever looked into why its always Priests? Why do priests always go after kids?",
">\n\n5 years in the pen for thousands of under 12 y/o cp??",
">\n\nFuck the Catholic church"
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It's because he has no ideology. I mean he sort of has one, but it's never consistent. He is the Trump of Turkiye, he could have been a Democrat 20 years ago, and now a Republican. Right now Erdogan is ver nationalistic, but 20 years ago he was spearheading the movement against nationalism. 10 years ago, he wanted to be known as the leader who solved racism against Kurdish people. He just wants and says things that would make himself more powerful. He had his liberal phase, he now has his autocratic phase. He is a fierce capitalist, but promise him a lifetime of leadership and he'll turn his entire power structure into a communist party tomorrow.
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Calling Erdogan the "Trump of Turkiye" is dangerous for a number of reasons, not in the least because Erdogan is much smarter than Trump. He has always been very sly and thoughtful when it comes to Turkey's role on the international stage, careful to do enough to stay in the good graces of everyone, and in doing so, giving himself more wiggle room with his domestic policies despite how they may be perceived, by other members of NATO for example.
Saudi Arabia and Iran are often cited as the two major Muslim powers battling for dominance, but Erdogan no doubt sees an opportunity for Turkey to take on a greater role in Middle Eastern affairs, what with Iran melting down from the inside-out. Certainly, Turkey would not want to see the Saudis become more powerful. | [
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">\n\nIt's because he has no ideology. I mean he sort of has one, but it's never consistent. He is the Trump of Turkiye, he could have been a Democrat 20 years ago, and now a Republican. Right now Erdogan is ver nationalistic, but 20 years ago he was spearheading the movement against nationalism. 10 years ago, he wanted to be known as the leader who solved racism against Kurdish people. He just wants and says things that would make himself more powerful. He had his liberal phase, he now has his autocratic phase. He is a fierce capitalist, but promise him a lifetime of leadership and he'll turn his entire power structure into a communist party tomorrow.\nNot giving any education to women is a pretty unpopular take, so it's no surprise he'd be against it."
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Iran is Persian, not Arab.
Edit: I am getting down voted because the person I responded to changed Arab to Muslim after I pointed it out, lol | [
"Every time I read his name it feels like it’s always in a sentence\nI wouldn’t expect",
">\n\nIt's because he has no ideology. I mean he sort of has one, but it's never consistent. He is the Trump of Turkiye, he could have been a Democrat 20 years ago, and now a Republican. Right now Erdogan is ver nationalistic, but 20 years ago he was spearheading the movement against nationalism. 10 years ago, he wanted to be known as the leader who solved racism against Kurdish people. He just wants and says things that would make himself more powerful. He had his liberal phase, he now has his autocratic phase. He is a fierce capitalist, but promise him a lifetime of leadership and he'll turn his entire power structure into a communist party tomorrow.\nNot giving any education to women is a pretty unpopular take, so it's no surprise he'd be against it.",
">\n\nCalling Erdogan the \"Trump of Turkiye\" is dangerous for a number of reasons, not in the least because Erdogan is much smarter than Trump. He has always been very sly and thoughtful when it comes to Turkey's role on the international stage, careful to do enough to stay in the good graces of everyone, and in doing so, giving himself more wiggle room with his domestic policies despite how they may be perceived, by other members of NATO for example.\nSaudi Arabia and Iran are often cited as the two major Muslim powers battling for dominance, but Erdogan no doubt sees an opportunity for Turkey to take on a greater role in Middle Eastern affairs, what with Iran melting down from the inside-out. Certainly, Turkey would not want to see the Saudis become more powerful."
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And were did he say Iran was Arab? | [
"Every time I read his name it feels like it’s always in a sentence\nI wouldn’t expect",
">\n\nIt's because he has no ideology. I mean he sort of has one, but it's never consistent. He is the Trump of Turkiye, he could have been a Democrat 20 years ago, and now a Republican. Right now Erdogan is ver nationalistic, but 20 years ago he was spearheading the movement against nationalism. 10 years ago, he wanted to be known as the leader who solved racism against Kurdish people. He just wants and says things that would make himself more powerful. He had his liberal phase, he now has his autocratic phase. He is a fierce capitalist, but promise him a lifetime of leadership and he'll turn his entire power structure into a communist party tomorrow.\nNot giving any education to women is a pretty unpopular take, so it's no surprise he'd be against it.",
">\n\nCalling Erdogan the \"Trump of Turkiye\" is dangerous for a number of reasons, not in the least because Erdogan is much smarter than Trump. He has always been very sly and thoughtful when it comes to Turkey's role on the international stage, careful to do enough to stay in the good graces of everyone, and in doing so, giving himself more wiggle room with his domestic policies despite how they may be perceived, by other members of NATO for example.\nSaudi Arabia and Iran are often cited as the two major Muslim powers battling for dominance, but Erdogan no doubt sees an opportunity for Turkey to take on a greater role in Middle Eastern affairs, what with Iran melting down from the inside-out. Certainly, Turkey would not want to see the Saudis become more powerful.",
">\n\nIran is Persian, not Arab.\nEdit: I am getting down voted because the person I responded to changed Arab to Muslim after I pointed it out, lol"
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I see an asterisk so they may have edited their comment from "Arab" to "Muslim" after having the mistake pointed out | [
"Every time I read his name it feels like it’s always in a sentence\nI wouldn’t expect",
">\n\nIt's because he has no ideology. I mean he sort of has one, but it's never consistent. He is the Trump of Turkiye, he could have been a Democrat 20 years ago, and now a Republican. Right now Erdogan is ver nationalistic, but 20 years ago he was spearheading the movement against nationalism. 10 years ago, he wanted to be known as the leader who solved racism against Kurdish people. He just wants and says things that would make himself more powerful. He had his liberal phase, he now has his autocratic phase. He is a fierce capitalist, but promise him a lifetime of leadership and he'll turn his entire power structure into a communist party tomorrow.\nNot giving any education to women is a pretty unpopular take, so it's no surprise he'd be against it.",
">\n\nCalling Erdogan the \"Trump of Turkiye\" is dangerous for a number of reasons, not in the least because Erdogan is much smarter than Trump. He has always been very sly and thoughtful when it comes to Turkey's role on the international stage, careful to do enough to stay in the good graces of everyone, and in doing so, giving himself more wiggle room with his domestic policies despite how they may be perceived, by other members of NATO for example.\nSaudi Arabia and Iran are often cited as the two major Muslim powers battling for dominance, but Erdogan no doubt sees an opportunity for Turkey to take on a greater role in Middle Eastern affairs, what with Iran melting down from the inside-out. Certainly, Turkey would not want to see the Saudis become more powerful.",
">\n\nIran is Persian, not Arab.\nEdit: I am getting down voted because the person I responded to changed Arab to Muslim after I pointed it out, lol",
">\n\nAnd were did he say Iran was Arab?"
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This guy's an embodiment of RNG. | [
"Every time I read his name it feels like it’s always in a sentence\nI wouldn’t expect",
">\n\nIt's because he has no ideology. I mean he sort of has one, but it's never consistent. He is the Trump of Turkiye, he could have been a Democrat 20 years ago, and now a Republican. Right now Erdogan is ver nationalistic, but 20 years ago he was spearheading the movement against nationalism. 10 years ago, he wanted to be known as the leader who solved racism against Kurdish people. He just wants and says things that would make himself more powerful. He had his liberal phase, he now has his autocratic phase. He is a fierce capitalist, but promise him a lifetime of leadership and he'll turn his entire power structure into a communist party tomorrow.\nNot giving any education to women is a pretty unpopular take, so it's no surprise he'd be against it.",
">\n\nCalling Erdogan the \"Trump of Turkiye\" is dangerous for a number of reasons, not in the least because Erdogan is much smarter than Trump. He has always been very sly and thoughtful when it comes to Turkey's role on the international stage, careful to do enough to stay in the good graces of everyone, and in doing so, giving himself more wiggle room with his domestic policies despite how they may be perceived, by other members of NATO for example.\nSaudi Arabia and Iran are often cited as the two major Muslim powers battling for dominance, but Erdogan no doubt sees an opportunity for Turkey to take on a greater role in Middle Eastern affairs, what with Iran melting down from the inside-out. Certainly, Turkey would not want to see the Saudis become more powerful.",
">\n\nIran is Persian, not Arab.\nEdit: I am getting down voted because the person I responded to changed Arab to Muslim after I pointed it out, lol",
">\n\nAnd were did he say Iran was Arab?",
">\n\nI see an asterisk so they may have edited their comment from \"Arab\" to \"Muslim\" after having the mistake pointed out"
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Real life mad lib | [
"Every time I read his name it feels like it’s always in a sentence\nI wouldn’t expect",
">\n\nIt's because he has no ideology. I mean he sort of has one, but it's never consistent. He is the Trump of Turkiye, he could have been a Democrat 20 years ago, and now a Republican. Right now Erdogan is ver nationalistic, but 20 years ago he was spearheading the movement against nationalism. 10 years ago, he wanted to be known as the leader who solved racism against Kurdish people. He just wants and says things that would make himself more powerful. He had his liberal phase, he now has his autocratic phase. He is a fierce capitalist, but promise him a lifetime of leadership and he'll turn his entire power structure into a communist party tomorrow.\nNot giving any education to women is a pretty unpopular take, so it's no surprise he'd be against it.",
">\n\nCalling Erdogan the \"Trump of Turkiye\" is dangerous for a number of reasons, not in the least because Erdogan is much smarter than Trump. He has always been very sly and thoughtful when it comes to Turkey's role on the international stage, careful to do enough to stay in the good graces of everyone, and in doing so, giving himself more wiggle room with his domestic policies despite how they may be perceived, by other members of NATO for example.\nSaudi Arabia and Iran are often cited as the two major Muslim powers battling for dominance, but Erdogan no doubt sees an opportunity for Turkey to take on a greater role in Middle Eastern affairs, what with Iran melting down from the inside-out. Certainly, Turkey would not want to see the Saudis become more powerful.",
">\n\nIran is Persian, not Arab.\nEdit: I am getting down voted because the person I responded to changed Arab to Muslim after I pointed it out, lol",
">\n\nAnd were did he say Iran was Arab?",
">\n\nI see an asterisk so they may have edited their comment from \"Arab\" to \"Muslim\" after having the mistake pointed out",
">\n\nThis guy's an embodiment of RNG."
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Flip a coin, every time. | [
"Every time I read his name it feels like it’s always in a sentence\nI wouldn’t expect",
">\n\nIt's because he has no ideology. I mean he sort of has one, but it's never consistent. He is the Trump of Turkiye, he could have been a Democrat 20 years ago, and now a Republican. Right now Erdogan is ver nationalistic, but 20 years ago he was spearheading the movement against nationalism. 10 years ago, he wanted to be known as the leader who solved racism against Kurdish people. He just wants and says things that would make himself more powerful. He had his liberal phase, he now has his autocratic phase. He is a fierce capitalist, but promise him a lifetime of leadership and he'll turn his entire power structure into a communist party tomorrow.\nNot giving any education to women is a pretty unpopular take, so it's no surprise he'd be against it.",
">\n\nCalling Erdogan the \"Trump of Turkiye\" is dangerous for a number of reasons, not in the least because Erdogan is much smarter than Trump. He has always been very sly and thoughtful when it comes to Turkey's role on the international stage, careful to do enough to stay in the good graces of everyone, and in doing so, giving himself more wiggle room with his domestic policies despite how they may be perceived, by other members of NATO for example.\nSaudi Arabia and Iran are often cited as the two major Muslim powers battling for dominance, but Erdogan no doubt sees an opportunity for Turkey to take on a greater role in Middle Eastern affairs, what with Iran melting down from the inside-out. Certainly, Turkey would not want to see the Saudis become more powerful.",
">\n\nIran is Persian, not Arab.\nEdit: I am getting down voted because the person I responded to changed Arab to Muslim after I pointed it out, lol",
">\n\nAnd were did he say Iran was Arab?",
">\n\nI see an asterisk so they may have edited their comment from \"Arab\" to \"Muslim\" after having the mistake pointed out",
">\n\nThis guy's an embodiment of RNG.",
">\n\nReal life mad lib"
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Erdogan is speed running his telenovela good/evil personality changes.
One day,dressed in black with a mustache twirl. Next, dressing in white, rescuing puppies from crocodiles. | [
"Every time I read his name it feels like it’s always in a sentence\nI wouldn’t expect",
">\n\nIt's because he has no ideology. I mean he sort of has one, but it's never consistent. He is the Trump of Turkiye, he could have been a Democrat 20 years ago, and now a Republican. Right now Erdogan is ver nationalistic, but 20 years ago he was spearheading the movement against nationalism. 10 years ago, he wanted to be known as the leader who solved racism against Kurdish people. He just wants and says things that would make himself more powerful. He had his liberal phase, he now has his autocratic phase. He is a fierce capitalist, but promise him a lifetime of leadership and he'll turn his entire power structure into a communist party tomorrow.\nNot giving any education to women is a pretty unpopular take, so it's no surprise he'd be against it.",
">\n\nCalling Erdogan the \"Trump of Turkiye\" is dangerous for a number of reasons, not in the least because Erdogan is much smarter than Trump. He has always been very sly and thoughtful when it comes to Turkey's role on the international stage, careful to do enough to stay in the good graces of everyone, and in doing so, giving himself more wiggle room with his domestic policies despite how they may be perceived, by other members of NATO for example.\nSaudi Arabia and Iran are often cited as the two major Muslim powers battling for dominance, but Erdogan no doubt sees an opportunity for Turkey to take on a greater role in Middle Eastern affairs, what with Iran melting down from the inside-out. Certainly, Turkey would not want to see the Saudis become more powerful.",
">\n\nIran is Persian, not Arab.\nEdit: I am getting down voted because the person I responded to changed Arab to Muslim after I pointed it out, lol",
">\n\nAnd were did he say Iran was Arab?",
">\n\nI see an asterisk so they may have edited their comment from \"Arab\" to \"Muslim\" after having the mistake pointed out",
">\n\nThis guy's an embodiment of RNG.",
">\n\nReal life mad lib",
">\n\nFlip a coin, every time."
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Third day, killing crocodiles. | [
"Every time I read his name it feels like it’s always in a sentence\nI wouldn’t expect",
">\n\nIt's because he has no ideology. I mean he sort of has one, but it's never consistent. He is the Trump of Turkiye, he could have been a Democrat 20 years ago, and now a Republican. Right now Erdogan is ver nationalistic, but 20 years ago he was spearheading the movement against nationalism. 10 years ago, he wanted to be known as the leader who solved racism against Kurdish people. He just wants and says things that would make himself more powerful. He had his liberal phase, he now has his autocratic phase. He is a fierce capitalist, but promise him a lifetime of leadership and he'll turn his entire power structure into a communist party tomorrow.\nNot giving any education to women is a pretty unpopular take, so it's no surprise he'd be against it.",
">\n\nCalling Erdogan the \"Trump of Turkiye\" is dangerous for a number of reasons, not in the least because Erdogan is much smarter than Trump. He has always been very sly and thoughtful when it comes to Turkey's role on the international stage, careful to do enough to stay in the good graces of everyone, and in doing so, giving himself more wiggle room with his domestic policies despite how they may be perceived, by other members of NATO for example.\nSaudi Arabia and Iran are often cited as the two major Muslim powers battling for dominance, but Erdogan no doubt sees an opportunity for Turkey to take on a greater role in Middle Eastern affairs, what with Iran melting down from the inside-out. Certainly, Turkey would not want to see the Saudis become more powerful.",
">\n\nIran is Persian, not Arab.\nEdit: I am getting down voted because the person I responded to changed Arab to Muslim after I pointed it out, lol",
">\n\nAnd were did he say Iran was Arab?",
">\n\nI see an asterisk so they may have edited their comment from \"Arab\" to \"Muslim\" after having the mistake pointed out",
">\n\nThis guy's an embodiment of RNG.",
">\n\nReal life mad lib",
">\n\nFlip a coin, every time.",
">\n\nErdogan is speed running his telenovela good/evil personality changes.\nOne day,dressed in black with a mustache twirl. Next, dressing in white, rescuing puppies from crocodiles."
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That's Bob Katter's job | [
"Every time I read his name it feels like it’s always in a sentence\nI wouldn’t expect",
">\n\nIt's because he has no ideology. I mean he sort of has one, but it's never consistent. He is the Trump of Turkiye, he could have been a Democrat 20 years ago, and now a Republican. Right now Erdogan is ver nationalistic, but 20 years ago he was spearheading the movement against nationalism. 10 years ago, he wanted to be known as the leader who solved racism against Kurdish people. He just wants and says things that would make himself more powerful. He had his liberal phase, he now has his autocratic phase. He is a fierce capitalist, but promise him a lifetime of leadership and he'll turn his entire power structure into a communist party tomorrow.\nNot giving any education to women is a pretty unpopular take, so it's no surprise he'd be against it.",
">\n\nCalling Erdogan the \"Trump of Turkiye\" is dangerous for a number of reasons, not in the least because Erdogan is much smarter than Trump. He has always been very sly and thoughtful when it comes to Turkey's role on the international stage, careful to do enough to stay in the good graces of everyone, and in doing so, giving himself more wiggle room with his domestic policies despite how they may be perceived, by other members of NATO for example.\nSaudi Arabia and Iran are often cited as the two major Muslim powers battling for dominance, but Erdogan no doubt sees an opportunity for Turkey to take on a greater role in Middle Eastern affairs, what with Iran melting down from the inside-out. Certainly, Turkey would not want to see the Saudis become more powerful.",
">\n\nIran is Persian, not Arab.\nEdit: I am getting down voted because the person I responded to changed Arab to Muslim after I pointed it out, lol",
">\n\nAnd were did he say Iran was Arab?",
">\n\nI see an asterisk so they may have edited their comment from \"Arab\" to \"Muslim\" after having the mistake pointed out",
">\n\nThis guy's an embodiment of RNG.",
">\n\nReal life mad lib",
">\n\nFlip a coin, every time.",
">\n\nErdogan is speed running his telenovela good/evil personality changes.\nOne day,dressed in black with a mustache twirl. Next, dressing in white, rescuing puppies from crocodiles.",
">\n\nThird day, killing crocodiles."
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Man Turkey is the most chaotic neutral country ever.
You never know what side they will take on some issue.
It's like rolling a d20 | [
"Every time I read his name it feels like it’s always in a sentence\nI wouldn’t expect",
">\n\nIt's because he has no ideology. I mean he sort of has one, but it's never consistent. He is the Trump of Turkiye, he could have been a Democrat 20 years ago, and now a Republican. Right now Erdogan is ver nationalistic, but 20 years ago he was spearheading the movement against nationalism. 10 years ago, he wanted to be known as the leader who solved racism against Kurdish people. He just wants and says things that would make himself more powerful. He had his liberal phase, he now has his autocratic phase. He is a fierce capitalist, but promise him a lifetime of leadership and he'll turn his entire power structure into a communist party tomorrow.\nNot giving any education to women is a pretty unpopular take, so it's no surprise he'd be against it.",
">\n\nCalling Erdogan the \"Trump of Turkiye\" is dangerous for a number of reasons, not in the least because Erdogan is much smarter than Trump. He has always been very sly and thoughtful when it comes to Turkey's role on the international stage, careful to do enough to stay in the good graces of everyone, and in doing so, giving himself more wiggle room with his domestic policies despite how they may be perceived, by other members of NATO for example.\nSaudi Arabia and Iran are often cited as the two major Muslim powers battling for dominance, but Erdogan no doubt sees an opportunity for Turkey to take on a greater role in Middle Eastern affairs, what with Iran melting down from the inside-out. Certainly, Turkey would not want to see the Saudis become more powerful.",
">\n\nIran is Persian, not Arab.\nEdit: I am getting down voted because the person I responded to changed Arab to Muslim after I pointed it out, lol",
">\n\nAnd were did he say Iran was Arab?",
">\n\nI see an asterisk so they may have edited their comment from \"Arab\" to \"Muslim\" after having the mistake pointed out",
">\n\nThis guy's an embodiment of RNG.",
">\n\nReal life mad lib",
">\n\nFlip a coin, every time.",
">\n\nErdogan is speed running his telenovela good/evil personality changes.\nOne day,dressed in black with a mustache twirl. Next, dressing in white, rescuing puppies from crocodiles.",
">\n\nThird day, killing crocodiles.",
">\n\nThat's Bob Katter's job"
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Thats Erdogan for you. He doesn’t believe in anything at all. He’s an opportunist, and a populist, and his stance on anything is subject to change. That being said, saying you should allow women education isn’t very controversial. | [
"Every time I read his name it feels like it’s always in a sentence\nI wouldn’t expect",
">\n\nIt's because he has no ideology. I mean he sort of has one, but it's never consistent. He is the Trump of Turkiye, he could have been a Democrat 20 years ago, and now a Republican. Right now Erdogan is ver nationalistic, but 20 years ago he was spearheading the movement against nationalism. 10 years ago, he wanted to be known as the leader who solved racism against Kurdish people. He just wants and says things that would make himself more powerful. He had his liberal phase, he now has his autocratic phase. He is a fierce capitalist, but promise him a lifetime of leadership and he'll turn his entire power structure into a communist party tomorrow.\nNot giving any education to women is a pretty unpopular take, so it's no surprise he'd be against it.",
">\n\nCalling Erdogan the \"Trump of Turkiye\" is dangerous for a number of reasons, not in the least because Erdogan is much smarter than Trump. He has always been very sly and thoughtful when it comes to Turkey's role on the international stage, careful to do enough to stay in the good graces of everyone, and in doing so, giving himself more wiggle room with his domestic policies despite how they may be perceived, by other members of NATO for example.\nSaudi Arabia and Iran are often cited as the two major Muslim powers battling for dominance, but Erdogan no doubt sees an opportunity for Turkey to take on a greater role in Middle Eastern affairs, what with Iran melting down from the inside-out. Certainly, Turkey would not want to see the Saudis become more powerful.",
">\n\nIran is Persian, not Arab.\nEdit: I am getting down voted because the person I responded to changed Arab to Muslim after I pointed it out, lol",
">\n\nAnd were did he say Iran was Arab?",
">\n\nI see an asterisk so they may have edited their comment from \"Arab\" to \"Muslim\" after having the mistake pointed out",
">\n\nThis guy's an embodiment of RNG.",
">\n\nReal life mad lib",
">\n\nFlip a coin, every time.",
">\n\nErdogan is speed running his telenovela good/evil personality changes.\nOne day,dressed in black with a mustache twirl. Next, dressing in white, rescuing puppies from crocodiles.",
">\n\nThird day, killing crocodiles.",
">\n\nThat's Bob Katter's job",
">\n\nMan Turkey is the most chaotic neutral country ever. \nYou never know what side they will take on some issue. \nIt's like rolling a d20"
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I feel like he wants to rebuild the center of Islamic power around Turkey and be his own fashion of Ottoman Sultanate. | [
"Every time I read his name it feels like it’s always in a sentence\nI wouldn’t expect",
">\n\nIt's because he has no ideology. I mean he sort of has one, but it's never consistent. He is the Trump of Turkiye, he could have been a Democrat 20 years ago, and now a Republican. Right now Erdogan is ver nationalistic, but 20 years ago he was spearheading the movement against nationalism. 10 years ago, he wanted to be known as the leader who solved racism against Kurdish people. He just wants and says things that would make himself more powerful. He had his liberal phase, he now has his autocratic phase. He is a fierce capitalist, but promise him a lifetime of leadership and he'll turn his entire power structure into a communist party tomorrow.\nNot giving any education to women is a pretty unpopular take, so it's no surprise he'd be against it.",
">\n\nCalling Erdogan the \"Trump of Turkiye\" is dangerous for a number of reasons, not in the least because Erdogan is much smarter than Trump. He has always been very sly and thoughtful when it comes to Turkey's role on the international stage, careful to do enough to stay in the good graces of everyone, and in doing so, giving himself more wiggle room with his domestic policies despite how they may be perceived, by other members of NATO for example.\nSaudi Arabia and Iran are often cited as the two major Muslim powers battling for dominance, but Erdogan no doubt sees an opportunity for Turkey to take on a greater role in Middle Eastern affairs, what with Iran melting down from the inside-out. Certainly, Turkey would not want to see the Saudis become more powerful.",
">\n\nIran is Persian, not Arab.\nEdit: I am getting down voted because the person I responded to changed Arab to Muslim after I pointed it out, lol",
">\n\nAnd were did he say Iran was Arab?",
">\n\nI see an asterisk so they may have edited their comment from \"Arab\" to \"Muslim\" after having the mistake pointed out",
">\n\nThis guy's an embodiment of RNG.",
">\n\nReal life mad lib",
">\n\nFlip a coin, every time.",
">\n\nErdogan is speed running his telenovela good/evil personality changes.\nOne day,dressed in black with a mustache twirl. Next, dressing in white, rescuing puppies from crocodiles.",
">\n\nThird day, killing crocodiles.",
">\n\nThat's Bob Katter's job",
">\n\nMan Turkey is the most chaotic neutral country ever. \nYou never know what side they will take on some issue. \nIt's like rolling a d20",
">\n\nThats Erdogan for you. He doesn’t believe in anything at all. He’s an opportunist, and a populist, and his stance on anything is subject to change. That being said, saying you should allow women education isn’t very controversial."
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truth to be to told, Islam really needs more moderate people. | [
"Every time I read his name it feels like it’s always in a sentence\nI wouldn’t expect",
">\n\nIt's because he has no ideology. I mean he sort of has one, but it's never consistent. He is the Trump of Turkiye, he could have been a Democrat 20 years ago, and now a Republican. Right now Erdogan is ver nationalistic, but 20 years ago he was spearheading the movement against nationalism. 10 years ago, he wanted to be known as the leader who solved racism against Kurdish people. He just wants and says things that would make himself more powerful. He had his liberal phase, he now has his autocratic phase. He is a fierce capitalist, but promise him a lifetime of leadership and he'll turn his entire power structure into a communist party tomorrow.\nNot giving any education to women is a pretty unpopular take, so it's no surprise he'd be against it.",
">\n\nCalling Erdogan the \"Trump of Turkiye\" is dangerous for a number of reasons, not in the least because Erdogan is much smarter than Trump. He has always been very sly and thoughtful when it comes to Turkey's role on the international stage, careful to do enough to stay in the good graces of everyone, and in doing so, giving himself more wiggle room with his domestic policies despite how they may be perceived, by other members of NATO for example.\nSaudi Arabia and Iran are often cited as the two major Muslim powers battling for dominance, but Erdogan no doubt sees an opportunity for Turkey to take on a greater role in Middle Eastern affairs, what with Iran melting down from the inside-out. Certainly, Turkey would not want to see the Saudis become more powerful.",
">\n\nIran is Persian, not Arab.\nEdit: I am getting down voted because the person I responded to changed Arab to Muslim after I pointed it out, lol",
">\n\nAnd were did he say Iran was Arab?",
">\n\nI see an asterisk so they may have edited their comment from \"Arab\" to \"Muslim\" after having the mistake pointed out",
">\n\nThis guy's an embodiment of RNG.",
">\n\nReal life mad lib",
">\n\nFlip a coin, every time.",
">\n\nErdogan is speed running his telenovela good/evil personality changes.\nOne day,dressed in black with a mustache twirl. Next, dressing in white, rescuing puppies from crocodiles.",
">\n\nThird day, killing crocodiles.",
">\n\nThat's Bob Katter's job",
">\n\nMan Turkey is the most chaotic neutral country ever. \nYou never know what side they will take on some issue. \nIt's like rolling a d20",
">\n\nThats Erdogan for you. He doesn’t believe in anything at all. He’s an opportunist, and a populist, and his stance on anything is subject to change. That being said, saying you should allow women education isn’t very controversial.",
">\n\nI feel like he wants to rebuild the center of Islamic power around Turkey and be his own fashion of Ottoman Sultanate."
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The last, I’d say, two centuries have been very problematic for Islam. Last nail in the coffin was the British involvement in the Middle East during and around WW1. | [
"Every time I read his name it feels like it’s always in a sentence\nI wouldn’t expect",
">\n\nIt's because he has no ideology. I mean he sort of has one, but it's never consistent. He is the Trump of Turkiye, he could have been a Democrat 20 years ago, and now a Republican. Right now Erdogan is ver nationalistic, but 20 years ago he was spearheading the movement against nationalism. 10 years ago, he wanted to be known as the leader who solved racism against Kurdish people. He just wants and says things that would make himself more powerful. He had his liberal phase, he now has his autocratic phase. He is a fierce capitalist, but promise him a lifetime of leadership and he'll turn his entire power structure into a communist party tomorrow.\nNot giving any education to women is a pretty unpopular take, so it's no surprise he'd be against it.",
">\n\nCalling Erdogan the \"Trump of Turkiye\" is dangerous for a number of reasons, not in the least because Erdogan is much smarter than Trump. He has always been very sly and thoughtful when it comes to Turkey's role on the international stage, careful to do enough to stay in the good graces of everyone, and in doing so, giving himself more wiggle room with his domestic policies despite how they may be perceived, by other members of NATO for example.\nSaudi Arabia and Iran are often cited as the two major Muslim powers battling for dominance, but Erdogan no doubt sees an opportunity for Turkey to take on a greater role in Middle Eastern affairs, what with Iran melting down from the inside-out. Certainly, Turkey would not want to see the Saudis become more powerful.",
">\n\nIran is Persian, not Arab.\nEdit: I am getting down voted because the person I responded to changed Arab to Muslim after I pointed it out, lol",
">\n\nAnd were did he say Iran was Arab?",
">\n\nI see an asterisk so they may have edited their comment from \"Arab\" to \"Muslim\" after having the mistake pointed out",
">\n\nThis guy's an embodiment of RNG.",
">\n\nReal life mad lib",
">\n\nFlip a coin, every time.",
">\n\nErdogan is speed running his telenovela good/evil personality changes.\nOne day,dressed in black with a mustache twirl. Next, dressing in white, rescuing puppies from crocodiles.",
">\n\nThird day, killing crocodiles.",
">\n\nThat's Bob Katter's job",
">\n\nMan Turkey is the most chaotic neutral country ever. \nYou never know what side they will take on some issue. \nIt's like rolling a d20",
">\n\nThats Erdogan for you. He doesn’t believe in anything at all. He’s an opportunist, and a populist, and his stance on anything is subject to change. That being said, saying you should allow women education isn’t very controversial.",
">\n\nI feel like he wants to rebuild the center of Islamic power around Turkey and be his own fashion of Ottoman Sultanate.",
">\n\ntruth to be to told, Islam really needs more moderate people."
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That was 100 years ago, at some point they got to realize it's their problem to fix and no historic blaming will do the trick. | [
"Every time I read his name it feels like it’s always in a sentence\nI wouldn’t expect",
">\n\nIt's because he has no ideology. I mean he sort of has one, but it's never consistent. He is the Trump of Turkiye, he could have been a Democrat 20 years ago, and now a Republican. Right now Erdogan is ver nationalistic, but 20 years ago he was spearheading the movement against nationalism. 10 years ago, he wanted to be known as the leader who solved racism against Kurdish people. He just wants and says things that would make himself more powerful. He had his liberal phase, he now has his autocratic phase. He is a fierce capitalist, but promise him a lifetime of leadership and he'll turn his entire power structure into a communist party tomorrow.\nNot giving any education to women is a pretty unpopular take, so it's no surprise he'd be against it.",
">\n\nCalling Erdogan the \"Trump of Turkiye\" is dangerous for a number of reasons, not in the least because Erdogan is much smarter than Trump. He has always been very sly and thoughtful when it comes to Turkey's role on the international stage, careful to do enough to stay in the good graces of everyone, and in doing so, giving himself more wiggle room with his domestic policies despite how they may be perceived, by other members of NATO for example.\nSaudi Arabia and Iran are often cited as the two major Muslim powers battling for dominance, but Erdogan no doubt sees an opportunity for Turkey to take on a greater role in Middle Eastern affairs, what with Iran melting down from the inside-out. Certainly, Turkey would not want to see the Saudis become more powerful.",
">\n\nIran is Persian, not Arab.\nEdit: I am getting down voted because the person I responded to changed Arab to Muslim after I pointed it out, lol",
">\n\nAnd were did he say Iran was Arab?",
">\n\nI see an asterisk so they may have edited their comment from \"Arab\" to \"Muslim\" after having the mistake pointed out",
">\n\nThis guy's an embodiment of RNG.",
">\n\nReal life mad lib",
">\n\nFlip a coin, every time.",
">\n\nErdogan is speed running his telenovela good/evil personality changes.\nOne day,dressed in black with a mustache twirl. Next, dressing in white, rescuing puppies from crocodiles.",
">\n\nThird day, killing crocodiles.",
">\n\nThat's Bob Katter's job",
">\n\nMan Turkey is the most chaotic neutral country ever. \nYou never know what side they will take on some issue. \nIt's like rolling a d20",
">\n\nThats Erdogan for you. He doesn’t believe in anything at all. He’s an opportunist, and a populist, and his stance on anything is subject to change. That being said, saying you should allow women education isn’t very controversial.",
">\n\nI feel like he wants to rebuild the center of Islamic power around Turkey and be his own fashion of Ottoman Sultanate.",
">\n\ntruth to be to told, Islam really needs more moderate people.",
">\n\nThe last, I’d say, two centuries have been very problematic for Islam. Last nail in the coffin was the British involvement in the Middle East during and around WW1."
] |
>
Sure but stability doesn’t happen so quickly. The geopolitical situation in the Middle East is a quagmire. The area is continually being destabilized by many different forces, internal and external. And radicalization is the natural conclusion for the impoverished and the uneducated, which makes the problems there cyclical. | [
"Every time I read his name it feels like it’s always in a sentence\nI wouldn’t expect",
">\n\nIt's because he has no ideology. I mean he sort of has one, but it's never consistent. He is the Trump of Turkiye, he could have been a Democrat 20 years ago, and now a Republican. Right now Erdogan is ver nationalistic, but 20 years ago he was spearheading the movement against nationalism. 10 years ago, he wanted to be known as the leader who solved racism against Kurdish people. He just wants and says things that would make himself more powerful. He had his liberal phase, he now has his autocratic phase. He is a fierce capitalist, but promise him a lifetime of leadership and he'll turn his entire power structure into a communist party tomorrow.\nNot giving any education to women is a pretty unpopular take, so it's no surprise he'd be against it.",
">\n\nCalling Erdogan the \"Trump of Turkiye\" is dangerous for a number of reasons, not in the least because Erdogan is much smarter than Trump. He has always been very sly and thoughtful when it comes to Turkey's role on the international stage, careful to do enough to stay in the good graces of everyone, and in doing so, giving himself more wiggle room with his domestic policies despite how they may be perceived, by other members of NATO for example.\nSaudi Arabia and Iran are often cited as the two major Muslim powers battling for dominance, but Erdogan no doubt sees an opportunity for Turkey to take on a greater role in Middle Eastern affairs, what with Iran melting down from the inside-out. Certainly, Turkey would not want to see the Saudis become more powerful.",
">\n\nIran is Persian, not Arab.\nEdit: I am getting down voted because the person I responded to changed Arab to Muslim after I pointed it out, lol",
">\n\nAnd were did he say Iran was Arab?",
">\n\nI see an asterisk so they may have edited their comment from \"Arab\" to \"Muslim\" after having the mistake pointed out",
">\n\nThis guy's an embodiment of RNG.",
">\n\nReal life mad lib",
">\n\nFlip a coin, every time.",
">\n\nErdogan is speed running his telenovela good/evil personality changes.\nOne day,dressed in black with a mustache twirl. Next, dressing in white, rescuing puppies from crocodiles.",
">\n\nThird day, killing crocodiles.",
">\n\nThat's Bob Katter's job",
">\n\nMan Turkey is the most chaotic neutral country ever. \nYou never know what side they will take on some issue. \nIt's like rolling a d20",
">\n\nThats Erdogan for you. He doesn’t believe in anything at all. He’s an opportunist, and a populist, and his stance on anything is subject to change. That being said, saying you should allow women education isn’t very controversial.",
">\n\nI feel like he wants to rebuild the center of Islamic power around Turkey and be his own fashion of Ottoman Sultanate.",
">\n\ntruth to be to told, Islam really needs more moderate people.",
">\n\nThe last, I’d say, two centuries have been very problematic for Islam. Last nail in the coffin was the British involvement in the Middle East during and around WW1.",
">\n\nThat was 100 years ago, at some point they got to realize it's their problem to fix and no historic blaming will do the trick."
] |
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Not sure why people are surprised. Women are actually free to go to the university in Turkey. Afghanistan Taliban is just hella backwards by every standard. | [
"Every time I read his name it feels like it’s always in a sentence\nI wouldn’t expect",
">\n\nIt's because he has no ideology. I mean he sort of has one, but it's never consistent. He is the Trump of Turkiye, he could have been a Democrat 20 years ago, and now a Republican. Right now Erdogan is ver nationalistic, but 20 years ago he was spearheading the movement against nationalism. 10 years ago, he wanted to be known as the leader who solved racism against Kurdish people. He just wants and says things that would make himself more powerful. He had his liberal phase, he now has his autocratic phase. He is a fierce capitalist, but promise him a lifetime of leadership and he'll turn his entire power structure into a communist party tomorrow.\nNot giving any education to women is a pretty unpopular take, so it's no surprise he'd be against it.",
">\n\nCalling Erdogan the \"Trump of Turkiye\" is dangerous for a number of reasons, not in the least because Erdogan is much smarter than Trump. He has always been very sly and thoughtful when it comes to Turkey's role on the international stage, careful to do enough to stay in the good graces of everyone, and in doing so, giving himself more wiggle room with his domestic policies despite how they may be perceived, by other members of NATO for example.\nSaudi Arabia and Iran are often cited as the two major Muslim powers battling for dominance, but Erdogan no doubt sees an opportunity for Turkey to take on a greater role in Middle Eastern affairs, what with Iran melting down from the inside-out. Certainly, Turkey would not want to see the Saudis become more powerful.",
">\n\nIran is Persian, not Arab.\nEdit: I am getting down voted because the person I responded to changed Arab to Muslim after I pointed it out, lol",
">\n\nAnd were did he say Iran was Arab?",
">\n\nI see an asterisk so they may have edited their comment from \"Arab\" to \"Muslim\" after having the mistake pointed out",
">\n\nThis guy's an embodiment of RNG.",
">\n\nReal life mad lib",
">\n\nFlip a coin, every time.",
">\n\nErdogan is speed running his telenovela good/evil personality changes.\nOne day,dressed in black with a mustache twirl. Next, dressing in white, rescuing puppies from crocodiles.",
">\n\nThird day, killing crocodiles.",
">\n\nThat's Bob Katter's job",
">\n\nMan Turkey is the most chaotic neutral country ever. \nYou never know what side they will take on some issue. \nIt's like rolling a d20",
">\n\nThats Erdogan for you. He doesn’t believe in anything at all. He’s an opportunist, and a populist, and his stance on anything is subject to change. That being said, saying you should allow women education isn’t very controversial.",
">\n\nI feel like he wants to rebuild the center of Islamic power around Turkey and be his own fashion of Ottoman Sultanate.",
">\n\ntruth to be to told, Islam really needs more moderate people.",
">\n\nThe last, I’d say, two centuries have been very problematic for Islam. Last nail in the coffin was the British involvement in the Middle East during and around WW1.",
">\n\nThat was 100 years ago, at some point they got to realize it's their problem to fix and no historic blaming will do the trick.",
">\n\nSure but stability doesn’t happen so quickly. The geopolitical situation in the Middle East is a quagmire. The area is continually being destabilized by many different forces, internal and external. And radicalization is the natural conclusion for the impoverished and the uneducated, which makes the problems there cyclical."
] |
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Considering the ever more authoritarian government in Turkyie it's just nice to see that not everything is bad. | [
"Every time I read his name it feels like it’s always in a sentence\nI wouldn’t expect",
">\n\nIt's because he has no ideology. I mean he sort of has one, but it's never consistent. He is the Trump of Turkiye, he could have been a Democrat 20 years ago, and now a Republican. Right now Erdogan is ver nationalistic, but 20 years ago he was spearheading the movement against nationalism. 10 years ago, he wanted to be known as the leader who solved racism against Kurdish people. He just wants and says things that would make himself more powerful. He had his liberal phase, he now has his autocratic phase. He is a fierce capitalist, but promise him a lifetime of leadership and he'll turn his entire power structure into a communist party tomorrow.\nNot giving any education to women is a pretty unpopular take, so it's no surprise he'd be against it.",
">\n\nCalling Erdogan the \"Trump of Turkiye\" is dangerous for a number of reasons, not in the least because Erdogan is much smarter than Trump. He has always been very sly and thoughtful when it comes to Turkey's role on the international stage, careful to do enough to stay in the good graces of everyone, and in doing so, giving himself more wiggle room with his domestic policies despite how they may be perceived, by other members of NATO for example.\nSaudi Arabia and Iran are often cited as the two major Muslim powers battling for dominance, but Erdogan no doubt sees an opportunity for Turkey to take on a greater role in Middle Eastern affairs, what with Iran melting down from the inside-out. Certainly, Turkey would not want to see the Saudis become more powerful.",
">\n\nIran is Persian, not Arab.\nEdit: I am getting down voted because the person I responded to changed Arab to Muslim after I pointed it out, lol",
">\n\nAnd were did he say Iran was Arab?",
">\n\nI see an asterisk so they may have edited their comment from \"Arab\" to \"Muslim\" after having the mistake pointed out",
">\n\nThis guy's an embodiment of RNG.",
">\n\nReal life mad lib",
">\n\nFlip a coin, every time.",
">\n\nErdogan is speed running his telenovela good/evil personality changes.\nOne day,dressed in black with a mustache twirl. Next, dressing in white, rescuing puppies from crocodiles.",
">\n\nThird day, killing crocodiles.",
">\n\nThat's Bob Katter's job",
">\n\nMan Turkey is the most chaotic neutral country ever. \nYou never know what side they will take on some issue. \nIt's like rolling a d20",
">\n\nThats Erdogan for you. He doesn’t believe in anything at all. He’s an opportunist, and a populist, and his stance on anything is subject to change. That being said, saying you should allow women education isn’t very controversial.",
">\n\nI feel like he wants to rebuild the center of Islamic power around Turkey and be his own fashion of Ottoman Sultanate.",
">\n\ntruth to be to told, Islam really needs more moderate people.",
">\n\nThe last, I’d say, two centuries have been very problematic for Islam. Last nail in the coffin was the British involvement in the Middle East during and around WW1.",
">\n\nThat was 100 years ago, at some point they got to realize it's their problem to fix and no historic blaming will do the trick.",
">\n\nSure but stability doesn’t happen so quickly. The geopolitical situation in the Middle East is a quagmire. The area is continually being destabilized by many different forces, internal and external. And radicalization is the natural conclusion for the impoverished and the uneducated, which makes the problems there cyclical.",
">\n\nNot sure why people are surprised. Women are actually free to go to the university in Turkey. Afghanistan Taliban is just hella backwards by every standard."
] |
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This is just the European propaganda machine because they don't like Turkish foreign policy. They call them authoritarian so they can sanction the shit out of them. In Turkey people drink, take drugs, fuck around party like in any other country. Women can do whatever the fuck they want. There's just a big disconnect just like in the US with rural areas and large city populous. Most Conservatives in the US live in rural areas just like in Turkey and support batshit crazy things like pro-life and shit. It's just that nobody really cares about the progressive half of Turkey thanks to media coverage. It'll be funny if the Democrats lose the next election. I expect the same sanctions and media coverage for the US, but that wont happen bc money. | [
"Every time I read his name it feels like it’s always in a sentence\nI wouldn’t expect",
">\n\nIt's because he has no ideology. I mean he sort of has one, but it's never consistent. He is the Trump of Turkiye, he could have been a Democrat 20 years ago, and now a Republican. Right now Erdogan is ver nationalistic, but 20 years ago he was spearheading the movement against nationalism. 10 years ago, he wanted to be known as the leader who solved racism against Kurdish people. He just wants and says things that would make himself more powerful. He had his liberal phase, he now has his autocratic phase. He is a fierce capitalist, but promise him a lifetime of leadership and he'll turn his entire power structure into a communist party tomorrow.\nNot giving any education to women is a pretty unpopular take, so it's no surprise he'd be against it.",
">\n\nCalling Erdogan the \"Trump of Turkiye\" is dangerous for a number of reasons, not in the least because Erdogan is much smarter than Trump. He has always been very sly and thoughtful when it comes to Turkey's role on the international stage, careful to do enough to stay in the good graces of everyone, and in doing so, giving himself more wiggle room with his domestic policies despite how they may be perceived, by other members of NATO for example.\nSaudi Arabia and Iran are often cited as the two major Muslim powers battling for dominance, but Erdogan no doubt sees an opportunity for Turkey to take on a greater role in Middle Eastern affairs, what with Iran melting down from the inside-out. Certainly, Turkey would not want to see the Saudis become more powerful.",
">\n\nIran is Persian, not Arab.\nEdit: I am getting down voted because the person I responded to changed Arab to Muslim after I pointed it out, lol",
">\n\nAnd were did he say Iran was Arab?",
">\n\nI see an asterisk so they may have edited their comment from \"Arab\" to \"Muslim\" after having the mistake pointed out",
">\n\nThis guy's an embodiment of RNG.",
">\n\nReal life mad lib",
">\n\nFlip a coin, every time.",
">\n\nErdogan is speed running his telenovela good/evil personality changes.\nOne day,dressed in black with a mustache twirl. Next, dressing in white, rescuing puppies from crocodiles.",
">\n\nThird day, killing crocodiles.",
">\n\nThat's Bob Katter's job",
">\n\nMan Turkey is the most chaotic neutral country ever. \nYou never know what side they will take on some issue. \nIt's like rolling a d20",
">\n\nThats Erdogan for you. He doesn’t believe in anything at all. He’s an opportunist, and a populist, and his stance on anything is subject to change. That being said, saying you should allow women education isn’t very controversial.",
">\n\nI feel like he wants to rebuild the center of Islamic power around Turkey and be his own fashion of Ottoman Sultanate.",
">\n\ntruth to be to told, Islam really needs more moderate people.",
">\n\nThe last, I’d say, two centuries have been very problematic for Islam. Last nail in the coffin was the British involvement in the Middle East during and around WW1.",
">\n\nThat was 100 years ago, at some point they got to realize it's their problem to fix and no historic blaming will do the trick.",
">\n\nSure but stability doesn’t happen so quickly. The geopolitical situation in the Middle East is a quagmire. The area is continually being destabilized by many different forces, internal and external. And radicalization is the natural conclusion for the impoverished and the uneducated, which makes the problems there cyclical.",
">\n\nNot sure why people are surprised. Women are actually free to go to the university in Turkey. Afghanistan Taliban is just hella backwards by every standard.",
">\n\nConsidering the ever more authoritarian government in Turkyie it's just nice to see that not everything is bad."
] |
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Erdogan is called authoritarian, which he is, not the Turkish people. Nothing propaganda about that | [
"Every time I read his name it feels like it’s always in a sentence\nI wouldn’t expect",
">\n\nIt's because he has no ideology. I mean he sort of has one, but it's never consistent. He is the Trump of Turkiye, he could have been a Democrat 20 years ago, and now a Republican. Right now Erdogan is ver nationalistic, but 20 years ago he was spearheading the movement against nationalism. 10 years ago, he wanted to be known as the leader who solved racism against Kurdish people. He just wants and says things that would make himself more powerful. He had his liberal phase, he now has his autocratic phase. He is a fierce capitalist, but promise him a lifetime of leadership and he'll turn his entire power structure into a communist party tomorrow.\nNot giving any education to women is a pretty unpopular take, so it's no surprise he'd be against it.",
">\n\nCalling Erdogan the \"Trump of Turkiye\" is dangerous for a number of reasons, not in the least because Erdogan is much smarter than Trump. He has always been very sly and thoughtful when it comes to Turkey's role on the international stage, careful to do enough to stay in the good graces of everyone, and in doing so, giving himself more wiggle room with his domestic policies despite how they may be perceived, by other members of NATO for example.\nSaudi Arabia and Iran are often cited as the two major Muslim powers battling for dominance, but Erdogan no doubt sees an opportunity for Turkey to take on a greater role in Middle Eastern affairs, what with Iran melting down from the inside-out. Certainly, Turkey would not want to see the Saudis become more powerful.",
">\n\nIran is Persian, not Arab.\nEdit: I am getting down voted because the person I responded to changed Arab to Muslim after I pointed it out, lol",
">\n\nAnd were did he say Iran was Arab?",
">\n\nI see an asterisk so they may have edited their comment from \"Arab\" to \"Muslim\" after having the mistake pointed out",
">\n\nThis guy's an embodiment of RNG.",
">\n\nReal life mad lib",
">\n\nFlip a coin, every time.",
">\n\nErdogan is speed running his telenovela good/evil personality changes.\nOne day,dressed in black with a mustache twirl. Next, dressing in white, rescuing puppies from crocodiles.",
">\n\nThird day, killing crocodiles.",
">\n\nThat's Bob Katter's job",
">\n\nMan Turkey is the most chaotic neutral country ever. \nYou never know what side they will take on some issue. \nIt's like rolling a d20",
">\n\nThats Erdogan for you. He doesn’t believe in anything at all. He’s an opportunist, and a populist, and his stance on anything is subject to change. That being said, saying you should allow women education isn’t very controversial.",
">\n\nI feel like he wants to rebuild the center of Islamic power around Turkey and be his own fashion of Ottoman Sultanate.",
">\n\ntruth to be to told, Islam really needs more moderate people.",
">\n\nThe last, I’d say, two centuries have been very problematic for Islam. Last nail in the coffin was the British involvement in the Middle East during and around WW1.",
">\n\nThat was 100 years ago, at some point they got to realize it's their problem to fix and no historic blaming will do the trick.",
">\n\nSure but stability doesn’t happen so quickly. The geopolitical situation in the Middle East is a quagmire. The area is continually being destabilized by many different forces, internal and external. And radicalization is the natural conclusion for the impoverished and the uneducated, which makes the problems there cyclical.",
">\n\nNot sure why people are surprised. Women are actually free to go to the university in Turkey. Afghanistan Taliban is just hella backwards by every standard.",
">\n\nConsidering the ever more authoritarian government in Turkyie it's just nice to see that not everything is bad.",
">\n\nThis is just the European propaganda machine because they don't like Turkish foreign policy. They call them authoritarian so they can sanction the shit out of them. In Turkey people drink, take drugs, fuck around party like in any other country. Women can do whatever the fuck they want. There's just a big disconnect just like in the US with rural areas and large city populous. Most Conservatives in the US live in rural areas just like in Turkey and support batshit crazy things like pro-life and shit. It's just that nobody really cares about the progressive half of Turkey thanks to media coverage. It'll be funny if the Democrats lose the next election. I expect the same sanctions and media coverage for the US, but that wont happen bc money."
] |
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Damn, you know you fucked up when erodgan is calling you out lmao. | [
"Every time I read his name it feels like it’s always in a sentence\nI wouldn’t expect",
">\n\nIt's because he has no ideology. I mean he sort of has one, but it's never consistent. He is the Trump of Turkiye, he could have been a Democrat 20 years ago, and now a Republican. Right now Erdogan is ver nationalistic, but 20 years ago he was spearheading the movement against nationalism. 10 years ago, he wanted to be known as the leader who solved racism against Kurdish people. He just wants and says things that would make himself more powerful. He had his liberal phase, he now has his autocratic phase. He is a fierce capitalist, but promise him a lifetime of leadership and he'll turn his entire power structure into a communist party tomorrow.\nNot giving any education to women is a pretty unpopular take, so it's no surprise he'd be against it.",
">\n\nCalling Erdogan the \"Trump of Turkiye\" is dangerous for a number of reasons, not in the least because Erdogan is much smarter than Trump. He has always been very sly and thoughtful when it comes to Turkey's role on the international stage, careful to do enough to stay in the good graces of everyone, and in doing so, giving himself more wiggle room with his domestic policies despite how they may be perceived, by other members of NATO for example.\nSaudi Arabia and Iran are often cited as the two major Muslim powers battling for dominance, but Erdogan no doubt sees an opportunity for Turkey to take on a greater role in Middle Eastern affairs, what with Iran melting down from the inside-out. Certainly, Turkey would not want to see the Saudis become more powerful.",
">\n\nIran is Persian, not Arab.\nEdit: I am getting down voted because the person I responded to changed Arab to Muslim after I pointed it out, lol",
">\n\nAnd were did he say Iran was Arab?",
">\n\nI see an asterisk so they may have edited their comment from \"Arab\" to \"Muslim\" after having the mistake pointed out",
">\n\nThis guy's an embodiment of RNG.",
">\n\nReal life mad lib",
">\n\nFlip a coin, every time.",
">\n\nErdogan is speed running his telenovela good/evil personality changes.\nOne day,dressed in black with a mustache twirl. Next, dressing in white, rescuing puppies from crocodiles.",
">\n\nThird day, killing crocodiles.",
">\n\nThat's Bob Katter's job",
">\n\nMan Turkey is the most chaotic neutral country ever. \nYou never know what side they will take on some issue. \nIt's like rolling a d20",
">\n\nThats Erdogan for you. He doesn’t believe in anything at all. He’s an opportunist, and a populist, and his stance on anything is subject to change. That being said, saying you should allow women education isn’t very controversial.",
">\n\nI feel like he wants to rebuild the center of Islamic power around Turkey and be his own fashion of Ottoman Sultanate.",
">\n\ntruth to be to told, Islam really needs more moderate people.",
">\n\nThe last, I’d say, two centuries have been very problematic for Islam. Last nail in the coffin was the British involvement in the Middle East during and around WW1.",
">\n\nThat was 100 years ago, at some point they got to realize it's their problem to fix and no historic blaming will do the trick.",
">\n\nSure but stability doesn’t happen so quickly. The geopolitical situation in the Middle East is a quagmire. The area is continually being destabilized by many different forces, internal and external. And radicalization is the natural conclusion for the impoverished and the uneducated, which makes the problems there cyclical.",
">\n\nNot sure why people are surprised. Women are actually free to go to the university in Turkey. Afghanistan Taliban is just hella backwards by every standard.",
">\n\nConsidering the ever more authoritarian government in Turkyie it's just nice to see that not everything is bad.",
">\n\nThis is just the European propaganda machine because they don't like Turkish foreign policy. They call them authoritarian so they can sanction the shit out of them. In Turkey people drink, take drugs, fuck around party like in any other country. Women can do whatever the fuck they want. There's just a big disconnect just like in the US with rural areas and large city populous. Most Conservatives in the US live in rural areas just like in Turkey and support batshit crazy things like pro-life and shit. It's just that nobody really cares about the progressive half of Turkey thanks to media coverage. It'll be funny if the Democrats lose the next election. I expect the same sanctions and media coverage for the US, but that wont happen bc money.",
">\n\nErdogan is called authoritarian, which he is, not the Turkish people. Nothing propaganda about that"
] |
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Taliban ban | [
"Every time I read his name it feels like it’s always in a sentence\nI wouldn’t expect",
">\n\nIt's because he has no ideology. I mean he sort of has one, but it's never consistent. He is the Trump of Turkiye, he could have been a Democrat 20 years ago, and now a Republican. Right now Erdogan is ver nationalistic, but 20 years ago he was spearheading the movement against nationalism. 10 years ago, he wanted to be known as the leader who solved racism against Kurdish people. He just wants and says things that would make himself more powerful. He had his liberal phase, he now has his autocratic phase. He is a fierce capitalist, but promise him a lifetime of leadership and he'll turn his entire power structure into a communist party tomorrow.\nNot giving any education to women is a pretty unpopular take, so it's no surprise he'd be against it.",
">\n\nCalling Erdogan the \"Trump of Turkiye\" is dangerous for a number of reasons, not in the least because Erdogan is much smarter than Trump. He has always been very sly and thoughtful when it comes to Turkey's role on the international stage, careful to do enough to stay in the good graces of everyone, and in doing so, giving himself more wiggle room with his domestic policies despite how they may be perceived, by other members of NATO for example.\nSaudi Arabia and Iran are often cited as the two major Muslim powers battling for dominance, but Erdogan no doubt sees an opportunity for Turkey to take on a greater role in Middle Eastern affairs, what with Iran melting down from the inside-out. Certainly, Turkey would not want to see the Saudis become more powerful.",
">\n\nIran is Persian, not Arab.\nEdit: I am getting down voted because the person I responded to changed Arab to Muslim after I pointed it out, lol",
">\n\nAnd were did he say Iran was Arab?",
">\n\nI see an asterisk so they may have edited their comment from \"Arab\" to \"Muslim\" after having the mistake pointed out",
">\n\nThis guy's an embodiment of RNG.",
">\n\nReal life mad lib",
">\n\nFlip a coin, every time.",
">\n\nErdogan is speed running his telenovela good/evil personality changes.\nOne day,dressed in black with a mustache twirl. Next, dressing in white, rescuing puppies from crocodiles.",
">\n\nThird day, killing crocodiles.",
">\n\nThat's Bob Katter's job",
">\n\nMan Turkey is the most chaotic neutral country ever. \nYou never know what side they will take on some issue. \nIt's like rolling a d20",
">\n\nThats Erdogan for you. He doesn’t believe in anything at all. He’s an opportunist, and a populist, and his stance on anything is subject to change. That being said, saying you should allow women education isn’t very controversial.",
">\n\nI feel like he wants to rebuild the center of Islamic power around Turkey and be his own fashion of Ottoman Sultanate.",
">\n\ntruth to be to told, Islam really needs more moderate people.",
">\n\nThe last, I’d say, two centuries have been very problematic for Islam. Last nail in the coffin was the British involvement in the Middle East during and around WW1.",
">\n\nThat was 100 years ago, at some point they got to realize it's their problem to fix and no historic blaming will do the trick.",
">\n\nSure but stability doesn’t happen so quickly. The geopolitical situation in the Middle East is a quagmire. The area is continually being destabilized by many different forces, internal and external. And radicalization is the natural conclusion for the impoverished and the uneducated, which makes the problems there cyclical.",
">\n\nNot sure why people are surprised. Women are actually free to go to the university in Turkey. Afghanistan Taliban is just hella backwards by every standard.",
">\n\nConsidering the ever more authoritarian government in Turkyie it's just nice to see that not everything is bad.",
">\n\nThis is just the European propaganda machine because they don't like Turkish foreign policy. They call them authoritarian so they can sanction the shit out of them. In Turkey people drink, take drugs, fuck around party like in any other country. Women can do whatever the fuck they want. There's just a big disconnect just like in the US with rural areas and large city populous. Most Conservatives in the US live in rural areas just like in Turkey and support batshit crazy things like pro-life and shit. It's just that nobody really cares about the progressive half of Turkey thanks to media coverage. It'll be funny if the Democrats lose the next election. I expect the same sanctions and media coverage for the US, but that wont happen bc money.",
">\n\nErdogan is called authoritarian, which he is, not the Turkish people. Nothing propaganda about that",
">\n\nDamn, you know you fucked up when erodgan is calling you out lmao."
] |
>
There ain't no ban like a Taliban ban | [
"Every time I read his name it feels like it’s always in a sentence\nI wouldn’t expect",
">\n\nIt's because he has no ideology. I mean he sort of has one, but it's never consistent. He is the Trump of Turkiye, he could have been a Democrat 20 years ago, and now a Republican. Right now Erdogan is ver nationalistic, but 20 years ago he was spearheading the movement against nationalism. 10 years ago, he wanted to be known as the leader who solved racism against Kurdish people. He just wants and says things that would make himself more powerful. He had his liberal phase, he now has his autocratic phase. He is a fierce capitalist, but promise him a lifetime of leadership and he'll turn his entire power structure into a communist party tomorrow.\nNot giving any education to women is a pretty unpopular take, so it's no surprise he'd be against it.",
">\n\nCalling Erdogan the \"Trump of Turkiye\" is dangerous for a number of reasons, not in the least because Erdogan is much smarter than Trump. He has always been very sly and thoughtful when it comes to Turkey's role on the international stage, careful to do enough to stay in the good graces of everyone, and in doing so, giving himself more wiggle room with his domestic policies despite how they may be perceived, by other members of NATO for example.\nSaudi Arabia and Iran are often cited as the two major Muslim powers battling for dominance, but Erdogan no doubt sees an opportunity for Turkey to take on a greater role in Middle Eastern affairs, what with Iran melting down from the inside-out. Certainly, Turkey would not want to see the Saudis become more powerful.",
">\n\nIran is Persian, not Arab.\nEdit: I am getting down voted because the person I responded to changed Arab to Muslim after I pointed it out, lol",
">\n\nAnd were did he say Iran was Arab?",
">\n\nI see an asterisk so they may have edited their comment from \"Arab\" to \"Muslim\" after having the mistake pointed out",
">\n\nThis guy's an embodiment of RNG.",
">\n\nReal life mad lib",
">\n\nFlip a coin, every time.",
">\n\nErdogan is speed running his telenovela good/evil personality changes.\nOne day,dressed in black with a mustache twirl. Next, dressing in white, rescuing puppies from crocodiles.",
">\n\nThird day, killing crocodiles.",
">\n\nThat's Bob Katter's job",
">\n\nMan Turkey is the most chaotic neutral country ever. \nYou never know what side they will take on some issue. \nIt's like rolling a d20",
">\n\nThats Erdogan for you. He doesn’t believe in anything at all. He’s an opportunist, and a populist, and his stance on anything is subject to change. That being said, saying you should allow women education isn’t very controversial.",
">\n\nI feel like he wants to rebuild the center of Islamic power around Turkey and be his own fashion of Ottoman Sultanate.",
">\n\ntruth to be to told, Islam really needs more moderate people.",
">\n\nThe last, I’d say, two centuries have been very problematic for Islam. Last nail in the coffin was the British involvement in the Middle East during and around WW1.",
">\n\nThat was 100 years ago, at some point they got to realize it's their problem to fix and no historic blaming will do the trick.",
">\n\nSure but stability doesn’t happen so quickly. The geopolitical situation in the Middle East is a quagmire. The area is continually being destabilized by many different forces, internal and external. And radicalization is the natural conclusion for the impoverished and the uneducated, which makes the problems there cyclical.",
">\n\nNot sure why people are surprised. Women are actually free to go to the university in Turkey. Afghanistan Taliban is just hella backwards by every standard.",
">\n\nConsidering the ever more authoritarian government in Turkyie it's just nice to see that not everything is bad.",
">\n\nThis is just the European propaganda machine because they don't like Turkish foreign policy. They call them authoritarian so they can sanction the shit out of them. In Turkey people drink, take drugs, fuck around party like in any other country. Women can do whatever the fuck they want. There's just a big disconnect just like in the US with rural areas and large city populous. Most Conservatives in the US live in rural areas just like in Turkey and support batshit crazy things like pro-life and shit. It's just that nobody really cares about the progressive half of Turkey thanks to media coverage. It'll be funny if the Democrats lose the next election. I expect the same sanctions and media coverage for the US, but that wont happen bc money.",
">\n\nErdogan is called authoritarian, which he is, not the Turkish people. Nothing propaganda about that",
">\n\nDamn, you know you fucked up when erodgan is calling you out lmao.",
">\n\nTaliban ban"
] |
>
Ain’t no ban like a taliban | [
"Every time I read his name it feels like it’s always in a sentence\nI wouldn’t expect",
">\n\nIt's because he has no ideology. I mean he sort of has one, but it's never consistent. He is the Trump of Turkiye, he could have been a Democrat 20 years ago, and now a Republican. Right now Erdogan is ver nationalistic, but 20 years ago he was spearheading the movement against nationalism. 10 years ago, he wanted to be known as the leader who solved racism against Kurdish people. He just wants and says things that would make himself more powerful. He had his liberal phase, he now has his autocratic phase. He is a fierce capitalist, but promise him a lifetime of leadership and he'll turn his entire power structure into a communist party tomorrow.\nNot giving any education to women is a pretty unpopular take, so it's no surprise he'd be against it.",
">\n\nCalling Erdogan the \"Trump of Turkiye\" is dangerous for a number of reasons, not in the least because Erdogan is much smarter than Trump. He has always been very sly and thoughtful when it comes to Turkey's role on the international stage, careful to do enough to stay in the good graces of everyone, and in doing so, giving himself more wiggle room with his domestic policies despite how they may be perceived, by other members of NATO for example.\nSaudi Arabia and Iran are often cited as the two major Muslim powers battling for dominance, but Erdogan no doubt sees an opportunity for Turkey to take on a greater role in Middle Eastern affairs, what with Iran melting down from the inside-out. Certainly, Turkey would not want to see the Saudis become more powerful.",
">\n\nIran is Persian, not Arab.\nEdit: I am getting down voted because the person I responded to changed Arab to Muslim after I pointed it out, lol",
">\n\nAnd were did he say Iran was Arab?",
">\n\nI see an asterisk so they may have edited their comment from \"Arab\" to \"Muslim\" after having the mistake pointed out",
">\n\nThis guy's an embodiment of RNG.",
">\n\nReal life mad lib",
">\n\nFlip a coin, every time.",
">\n\nErdogan is speed running his telenovela good/evil personality changes.\nOne day,dressed in black with a mustache twirl. Next, dressing in white, rescuing puppies from crocodiles.",
">\n\nThird day, killing crocodiles.",
">\n\nThat's Bob Katter's job",
">\n\nMan Turkey is the most chaotic neutral country ever. \nYou never know what side they will take on some issue. \nIt's like rolling a d20",
">\n\nThats Erdogan for you. He doesn’t believe in anything at all. He’s an opportunist, and a populist, and his stance on anything is subject to change. That being said, saying you should allow women education isn’t very controversial.",
">\n\nI feel like he wants to rebuild the center of Islamic power around Turkey and be his own fashion of Ottoman Sultanate.",
">\n\ntruth to be to told, Islam really needs more moderate people.",
">\n\nThe last, I’d say, two centuries have been very problematic for Islam. Last nail in the coffin was the British involvement in the Middle East during and around WW1.",
">\n\nThat was 100 years ago, at some point they got to realize it's their problem to fix and no historic blaming will do the trick.",
">\n\nSure but stability doesn’t happen so quickly. The geopolitical situation in the Middle East is a quagmire. The area is continually being destabilized by many different forces, internal and external. And radicalization is the natural conclusion for the impoverished and the uneducated, which makes the problems there cyclical.",
">\n\nNot sure why people are surprised. Women are actually free to go to the university in Turkey. Afghanistan Taliban is just hella backwards by every standard.",
">\n\nConsidering the ever more authoritarian government in Turkyie it's just nice to see that not everything is bad.",
">\n\nThis is just the European propaganda machine because they don't like Turkish foreign policy. They call them authoritarian so they can sanction the shit out of them. In Turkey people drink, take drugs, fuck around party like in any other country. Women can do whatever the fuck they want. There's just a big disconnect just like in the US with rural areas and large city populous. Most Conservatives in the US live in rural areas just like in Turkey and support batshit crazy things like pro-life and shit. It's just that nobody really cares about the progressive half of Turkey thanks to media coverage. It'll be funny if the Democrats lose the next election. I expect the same sanctions and media coverage for the US, but that wont happen bc money.",
">\n\nErdogan is called authoritarian, which he is, not the Turkish people. Nothing propaganda about that",
">\n\nDamn, you know you fucked up when erodgan is calling you out lmao.",
">\n\nTaliban ban",
">\n\nThere ain't no ban like a Taliban ban"
] |
>
Tall Taliban ban | [
"Every time I read his name it feels like it’s always in a sentence\nI wouldn’t expect",
">\n\nIt's because he has no ideology. I mean he sort of has one, but it's never consistent. He is the Trump of Turkiye, he could have been a Democrat 20 years ago, and now a Republican. Right now Erdogan is ver nationalistic, but 20 years ago he was spearheading the movement against nationalism. 10 years ago, he wanted to be known as the leader who solved racism against Kurdish people. He just wants and says things that would make himself more powerful. He had his liberal phase, he now has his autocratic phase. He is a fierce capitalist, but promise him a lifetime of leadership and he'll turn his entire power structure into a communist party tomorrow.\nNot giving any education to women is a pretty unpopular take, so it's no surprise he'd be against it.",
">\n\nCalling Erdogan the \"Trump of Turkiye\" is dangerous for a number of reasons, not in the least because Erdogan is much smarter than Trump. He has always been very sly and thoughtful when it comes to Turkey's role on the international stage, careful to do enough to stay in the good graces of everyone, and in doing so, giving himself more wiggle room with his domestic policies despite how they may be perceived, by other members of NATO for example.\nSaudi Arabia and Iran are often cited as the two major Muslim powers battling for dominance, but Erdogan no doubt sees an opportunity for Turkey to take on a greater role in Middle Eastern affairs, what with Iran melting down from the inside-out. Certainly, Turkey would not want to see the Saudis become more powerful.",
">\n\nIran is Persian, not Arab.\nEdit: I am getting down voted because the person I responded to changed Arab to Muslim after I pointed it out, lol",
">\n\nAnd were did he say Iran was Arab?",
">\n\nI see an asterisk so they may have edited their comment from \"Arab\" to \"Muslim\" after having the mistake pointed out",
">\n\nThis guy's an embodiment of RNG.",
">\n\nReal life mad lib",
">\n\nFlip a coin, every time.",
">\n\nErdogan is speed running his telenovela good/evil personality changes.\nOne day,dressed in black with a mustache twirl. Next, dressing in white, rescuing puppies from crocodiles.",
">\n\nThird day, killing crocodiles.",
">\n\nThat's Bob Katter's job",
">\n\nMan Turkey is the most chaotic neutral country ever. \nYou never know what side they will take on some issue. \nIt's like rolling a d20",
">\n\nThats Erdogan for you. He doesn’t believe in anything at all. He’s an opportunist, and a populist, and his stance on anything is subject to change. That being said, saying you should allow women education isn’t very controversial.",
">\n\nI feel like he wants to rebuild the center of Islamic power around Turkey and be his own fashion of Ottoman Sultanate.",
">\n\ntruth to be to told, Islam really needs more moderate people.",
">\n\nThe last, I’d say, two centuries have been very problematic for Islam. Last nail in the coffin was the British involvement in the Middle East during and around WW1.",
">\n\nThat was 100 years ago, at some point they got to realize it's their problem to fix and no historic blaming will do the trick.",
">\n\nSure but stability doesn’t happen so quickly. The geopolitical situation in the Middle East is a quagmire. The area is continually being destabilized by many different forces, internal and external. And radicalization is the natural conclusion for the impoverished and the uneducated, which makes the problems there cyclical.",
">\n\nNot sure why people are surprised. Women are actually free to go to the university in Turkey. Afghanistan Taliban is just hella backwards by every standard.",
">\n\nConsidering the ever more authoritarian government in Turkyie it's just nice to see that not everything is bad.",
">\n\nThis is just the European propaganda machine because they don't like Turkish foreign policy. They call them authoritarian so they can sanction the shit out of them. In Turkey people drink, take drugs, fuck around party like in any other country. Women can do whatever the fuck they want. There's just a big disconnect just like in the US with rural areas and large city populous. Most Conservatives in the US live in rural areas just like in Turkey and support batshit crazy things like pro-life and shit. It's just that nobody really cares about the progressive half of Turkey thanks to media coverage. It'll be funny if the Democrats lose the next election. I expect the same sanctions and media coverage for the US, but that wont happen bc money.",
">\n\nErdogan is called authoritarian, which he is, not the Turkish people. Nothing propaganda about that",
">\n\nDamn, you know you fucked up when erodgan is calling you out lmao.",
">\n\nTaliban ban",
">\n\nThere ain't no ban like a Taliban ban",
">\n\nAin’t no ban like a taliban"
] |
>
They are Muslim in name only. Similar to the Christian Nationalists. They are only Christian in name. Both groups use only the parts of the respective religions to control people and neither group follows the primary precept of both religions, which is love. | [
"Every time I read his name it feels like it’s always in a sentence\nI wouldn’t expect",
">\n\nIt's because he has no ideology. I mean he sort of has one, but it's never consistent. He is the Trump of Turkiye, he could have been a Democrat 20 years ago, and now a Republican. Right now Erdogan is ver nationalistic, but 20 years ago he was spearheading the movement against nationalism. 10 years ago, he wanted to be known as the leader who solved racism against Kurdish people. He just wants and says things that would make himself more powerful. He had his liberal phase, he now has his autocratic phase. He is a fierce capitalist, but promise him a lifetime of leadership and he'll turn his entire power structure into a communist party tomorrow.\nNot giving any education to women is a pretty unpopular take, so it's no surprise he'd be against it.",
">\n\nCalling Erdogan the \"Trump of Turkiye\" is dangerous for a number of reasons, not in the least because Erdogan is much smarter than Trump. He has always been very sly and thoughtful when it comes to Turkey's role on the international stage, careful to do enough to stay in the good graces of everyone, and in doing so, giving himself more wiggle room with his domestic policies despite how they may be perceived, by other members of NATO for example.\nSaudi Arabia and Iran are often cited as the two major Muslim powers battling for dominance, but Erdogan no doubt sees an opportunity for Turkey to take on a greater role in Middle Eastern affairs, what with Iran melting down from the inside-out. Certainly, Turkey would not want to see the Saudis become more powerful.",
">\n\nIran is Persian, not Arab.\nEdit: I am getting down voted because the person I responded to changed Arab to Muslim after I pointed it out, lol",
">\n\nAnd were did he say Iran was Arab?",
">\n\nI see an asterisk so they may have edited their comment from \"Arab\" to \"Muslim\" after having the mistake pointed out",
">\n\nThis guy's an embodiment of RNG.",
">\n\nReal life mad lib",
">\n\nFlip a coin, every time.",
">\n\nErdogan is speed running his telenovela good/evil personality changes.\nOne day,dressed in black with a mustache twirl. Next, dressing in white, rescuing puppies from crocodiles.",
">\n\nThird day, killing crocodiles.",
">\n\nThat's Bob Katter's job",
">\n\nMan Turkey is the most chaotic neutral country ever. \nYou never know what side they will take on some issue. \nIt's like rolling a d20",
">\n\nThats Erdogan for you. He doesn’t believe in anything at all. He’s an opportunist, and a populist, and his stance on anything is subject to change. That being said, saying you should allow women education isn’t very controversial.",
">\n\nI feel like he wants to rebuild the center of Islamic power around Turkey and be his own fashion of Ottoman Sultanate.",
">\n\ntruth to be to told, Islam really needs more moderate people.",
">\n\nThe last, I’d say, two centuries have been very problematic for Islam. Last nail in the coffin was the British involvement in the Middle East during and around WW1.",
">\n\nThat was 100 years ago, at some point they got to realize it's their problem to fix and no historic blaming will do the trick.",
">\n\nSure but stability doesn’t happen so quickly. The geopolitical situation in the Middle East is a quagmire. The area is continually being destabilized by many different forces, internal and external. And radicalization is the natural conclusion for the impoverished and the uneducated, which makes the problems there cyclical.",
">\n\nNot sure why people are surprised. Women are actually free to go to the university in Turkey. Afghanistan Taliban is just hella backwards by every standard.",
">\n\nConsidering the ever more authoritarian government in Turkyie it's just nice to see that not everything is bad.",
">\n\nThis is just the European propaganda machine because they don't like Turkish foreign policy. They call them authoritarian so they can sanction the shit out of them. In Turkey people drink, take drugs, fuck around party like in any other country. Women can do whatever the fuck they want. There's just a big disconnect just like in the US with rural areas and large city populous. Most Conservatives in the US live in rural areas just like in Turkey and support batshit crazy things like pro-life and shit. It's just that nobody really cares about the progressive half of Turkey thanks to media coverage. It'll be funny if the Democrats lose the next election. I expect the same sanctions and media coverage for the US, but that wont happen bc money.",
">\n\nErdogan is called authoritarian, which he is, not the Turkish people. Nothing propaganda about that",
">\n\nDamn, you know you fucked up when erodgan is calling you out lmao.",
">\n\nTaliban ban",
">\n\nThere ain't no ban like a Taliban ban",
">\n\nAin’t no ban like a taliban",
">\n\nTall Taliban ban"
] |
>
Cant have a discussion about Islam without the inevitable "just like Christians tho!" | [
"Every time I read his name it feels like it’s always in a sentence\nI wouldn’t expect",
">\n\nIt's because he has no ideology. I mean he sort of has one, but it's never consistent. He is the Trump of Turkiye, he could have been a Democrat 20 years ago, and now a Republican. Right now Erdogan is ver nationalistic, but 20 years ago he was spearheading the movement against nationalism. 10 years ago, he wanted to be known as the leader who solved racism against Kurdish people. He just wants and says things that would make himself more powerful. He had his liberal phase, he now has his autocratic phase. He is a fierce capitalist, but promise him a lifetime of leadership and he'll turn his entire power structure into a communist party tomorrow.\nNot giving any education to women is a pretty unpopular take, so it's no surprise he'd be against it.",
">\n\nCalling Erdogan the \"Trump of Turkiye\" is dangerous for a number of reasons, not in the least because Erdogan is much smarter than Trump. He has always been very sly and thoughtful when it comes to Turkey's role on the international stage, careful to do enough to stay in the good graces of everyone, and in doing so, giving himself more wiggle room with his domestic policies despite how they may be perceived, by other members of NATO for example.\nSaudi Arabia and Iran are often cited as the two major Muslim powers battling for dominance, but Erdogan no doubt sees an opportunity for Turkey to take on a greater role in Middle Eastern affairs, what with Iran melting down from the inside-out. Certainly, Turkey would not want to see the Saudis become more powerful.",
">\n\nIran is Persian, not Arab.\nEdit: I am getting down voted because the person I responded to changed Arab to Muslim after I pointed it out, lol",
">\n\nAnd were did he say Iran was Arab?",
">\n\nI see an asterisk so they may have edited their comment from \"Arab\" to \"Muslim\" after having the mistake pointed out",
">\n\nThis guy's an embodiment of RNG.",
">\n\nReal life mad lib",
">\n\nFlip a coin, every time.",
">\n\nErdogan is speed running his telenovela good/evil personality changes.\nOne day,dressed in black with a mustache twirl. Next, dressing in white, rescuing puppies from crocodiles.",
">\n\nThird day, killing crocodiles.",
">\n\nThat's Bob Katter's job",
">\n\nMan Turkey is the most chaotic neutral country ever. \nYou never know what side they will take on some issue. \nIt's like rolling a d20",
">\n\nThats Erdogan for you. He doesn’t believe in anything at all. He’s an opportunist, and a populist, and his stance on anything is subject to change. That being said, saying you should allow women education isn’t very controversial.",
">\n\nI feel like he wants to rebuild the center of Islamic power around Turkey and be his own fashion of Ottoman Sultanate.",
">\n\ntruth to be to told, Islam really needs more moderate people.",
">\n\nThe last, I’d say, two centuries have been very problematic for Islam. Last nail in the coffin was the British involvement in the Middle East during and around WW1.",
">\n\nThat was 100 years ago, at some point they got to realize it's their problem to fix and no historic blaming will do the trick.",
">\n\nSure but stability doesn’t happen so quickly. The geopolitical situation in the Middle East is a quagmire. The area is continually being destabilized by many different forces, internal and external. And radicalization is the natural conclusion for the impoverished and the uneducated, which makes the problems there cyclical.",
">\n\nNot sure why people are surprised. Women are actually free to go to the university in Turkey. Afghanistan Taliban is just hella backwards by every standard.",
">\n\nConsidering the ever more authoritarian government in Turkyie it's just nice to see that not everything is bad.",
">\n\nThis is just the European propaganda machine because they don't like Turkish foreign policy. They call them authoritarian so they can sanction the shit out of them. In Turkey people drink, take drugs, fuck around party like in any other country. Women can do whatever the fuck they want. There's just a big disconnect just like in the US with rural areas and large city populous. Most Conservatives in the US live in rural areas just like in Turkey and support batshit crazy things like pro-life and shit. It's just that nobody really cares about the progressive half of Turkey thanks to media coverage. It'll be funny if the Democrats lose the next election. I expect the same sanctions and media coverage for the US, but that wont happen bc money.",
">\n\nErdogan is called authoritarian, which he is, not the Turkish people. Nothing propaganda about that",
">\n\nDamn, you know you fucked up when erodgan is calling you out lmao.",
">\n\nTaliban ban",
">\n\nThere ain't no ban like a Taliban ban",
">\n\nAin’t no ban like a taliban",
">\n\nTall Taliban ban",
">\n\nThey are Muslim in name only. Similar to the Christian Nationalists. They are only Christian in name. Both groups use only the parts of the respective religions to control people and neither group follows the primary precept of both religions, which is love."
] |
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Inhuman is a better term | [
"Every time I read his name it feels like it’s always in a sentence\nI wouldn’t expect",
">\n\nIt's because he has no ideology. I mean he sort of has one, but it's never consistent. He is the Trump of Turkiye, he could have been a Democrat 20 years ago, and now a Republican. Right now Erdogan is ver nationalistic, but 20 years ago he was spearheading the movement against nationalism. 10 years ago, he wanted to be known as the leader who solved racism against Kurdish people. He just wants and says things that would make himself more powerful. He had his liberal phase, he now has his autocratic phase. He is a fierce capitalist, but promise him a lifetime of leadership and he'll turn his entire power structure into a communist party tomorrow.\nNot giving any education to women is a pretty unpopular take, so it's no surprise he'd be against it.",
">\n\nCalling Erdogan the \"Trump of Turkiye\" is dangerous for a number of reasons, not in the least because Erdogan is much smarter than Trump. He has always been very sly and thoughtful when it comes to Turkey's role on the international stage, careful to do enough to stay in the good graces of everyone, and in doing so, giving himself more wiggle room with his domestic policies despite how they may be perceived, by other members of NATO for example.\nSaudi Arabia and Iran are often cited as the two major Muslim powers battling for dominance, but Erdogan no doubt sees an opportunity for Turkey to take on a greater role in Middle Eastern affairs, what with Iran melting down from the inside-out. Certainly, Turkey would not want to see the Saudis become more powerful.",
">\n\nIran is Persian, not Arab.\nEdit: I am getting down voted because the person I responded to changed Arab to Muslim after I pointed it out, lol",
">\n\nAnd were did he say Iran was Arab?",
">\n\nI see an asterisk so they may have edited their comment from \"Arab\" to \"Muslim\" after having the mistake pointed out",
">\n\nThis guy's an embodiment of RNG.",
">\n\nReal life mad lib",
">\n\nFlip a coin, every time.",
">\n\nErdogan is speed running his telenovela good/evil personality changes.\nOne day,dressed in black with a mustache twirl. Next, dressing in white, rescuing puppies from crocodiles.",
">\n\nThird day, killing crocodiles.",
">\n\nThat's Bob Katter's job",
">\n\nMan Turkey is the most chaotic neutral country ever. \nYou never know what side they will take on some issue. \nIt's like rolling a d20",
">\n\nThats Erdogan for you. He doesn’t believe in anything at all. He’s an opportunist, and a populist, and his stance on anything is subject to change. That being said, saying you should allow women education isn’t very controversial.",
">\n\nI feel like he wants to rebuild the center of Islamic power around Turkey and be his own fashion of Ottoman Sultanate.",
">\n\ntruth to be to told, Islam really needs more moderate people.",
">\n\nThe last, I’d say, two centuries have been very problematic for Islam. Last nail in the coffin was the British involvement in the Middle East during and around WW1.",
">\n\nThat was 100 years ago, at some point they got to realize it's their problem to fix and no historic blaming will do the trick.",
">\n\nSure but stability doesn’t happen so quickly. The geopolitical situation in the Middle East is a quagmire. The area is continually being destabilized by many different forces, internal and external. And radicalization is the natural conclusion for the impoverished and the uneducated, which makes the problems there cyclical.",
">\n\nNot sure why people are surprised. Women are actually free to go to the university in Turkey. Afghanistan Taliban is just hella backwards by every standard.",
">\n\nConsidering the ever more authoritarian government in Turkyie it's just nice to see that not everything is bad.",
">\n\nThis is just the European propaganda machine because they don't like Turkish foreign policy. They call them authoritarian so they can sanction the shit out of them. In Turkey people drink, take drugs, fuck around party like in any other country. Women can do whatever the fuck they want. There's just a big disconnect just like in the US with rural areas and large city populous. Most Conservatives in the US live in rural areas just like in Turkey and support batshit crazy things like pro-life and shit. It's just that nobody really cares about the progressive half of Turkey thanks to media coverage. It'll be funny if the Democrats lose the next election. I expect the same sanctions and media coverage for the US, but that wont happen bc money.",
">\n\nErdogan is called authoritarian, which he is, not the Turkish people. Nothing propaganda about that",
">\n\nDamn, you know you fucked up when erodgan is calling you out lmao.",
">\n\nTaliban ban",
">\n\nThere ain't no ban like a Taliban ban",
">\n\nAin’t no ban like a taliban",
">\n\nTall Taliban ban",
">\n\nThey are Muslim in name only. Similar to the Christian Nationalists. They are only Christian in name. Both groups use only the parts of the respective religions to control people and neither group follows the primary precept of both religions, which is love.",
">\n\nCant have a discussion about Islam without the inevitable \"just like Christians tho!\""
] |
>
Yes, 100%, but.. Taliban don't consider "inhuman" a necessarily bad thing. On the other hand, their only claim to legitimacy as a group is being Islamic - hence their ban on opium and boy-rape. So accurately calling this as un-Islamic bears a lot more relevance in this context. | [
"Every time I read his name it feels like it’s always in a sentence\nI wouldn’t expect",
">\n\nIt's because he has no ideology. I mean he sort of has one, but it's never consistent. He is the Trump of Turkiye, he could have been a Democrat 20 years ago, and now a Republican. Right now Erdogan is ver nationalistic, but 20 years ago he was spearheading the movement against nationalism. 10 years ago, he wanted to be known as the leader who solved racism against Kurdish people. He just wants and says things that would make himself more powerful. He had his liberal phase, he now has his autocratic phase. He is a fierce capitalist, but promise him a lifetime of leadership and he'll turn his entire power structure into a communist party tomorrow.\nNot giving any education to women is a pretty unpopular take, so it's no surprise he'd be against it.",
">\n\nCalling Erdogan the \"Trump of Turkiye\" is dangerous for a number of reasons, not in the least because Erdogan is much smarter than Trump. He has always been very sly and thoughtful when it comes to Turkey's role on the international stage, careful to do enough to stay in the good graces of everyone, and in doing so, giving himself more wiggle room with his domestic policies despite how they may be perceived, by other members of NATO for example.\nSaudi Arabia and Iran are often cited as the two major Muslim powers battling for dominance, but Erdogan no doubt sees an opportunity for Turkey to take on a greater role in Middle Eastern affairs, what with Iran melting down from the inside-out. Certainly, Turkey would not want to see the Saudis become more powerful.",
">\n\nIran is Persian, not Arab.\nEdit: I am getting down voted because the person I responded to changed Arab to Muslim after I pointed it out, lol",
">\n\nAnd were did he say Iran was Arab?",
">\n\nI see an asterisk so they may have edited their comment from \"Arab\" to \"Muslim\" after having the mistake pointed out",
">\n\nThis guy's an embodiment of RNG.",
">\n\nReal life mad lib",
">\n\nFlip a coin, every time.",
">\n\nErdogan is speed running his telenovela good/evil personality changes.\nOne day,dressed in black with a mustache twirl. Next, dressing in white, rescuing puppies from crocodiles.",
">\n\nThird day, killing crocodiles.",
">\n\nThat's Bob Katter's job",
">\n\nMan Turkey is the most chaotic neutral country ever. \nYou never know what side they will take on some issue. \nIt's like rolling a d20",
">\n\nThats Erdogan for you. He doesn’t believe in anything at all. He’s an opportunist, and a populist, and his stance on anything is subject to change. That being said, saying you should allow women education isn’t very controversial.",
">\n\nI feel like he wants to rebuild the center of Islamic power around Turkey and be his own fashion of Ottoman Sultanate.",
">\n\ntruth to be to told, Islam really needs more moderate people.",
">\n\nThe last, I’d say, two centuries have been very problematic for Islam. Last nail in the coffin was the British involvement in the Middle East during and around WW1.",
">\n\nThat was 100 years ago, at some point they got to realize it's their problem to fix and no historic blaming will do the trick.",
">\n\nSure but stability doesn’t happen so quickly. The geopolitical situation in the Middle East is a quagmire. The area is continually being destabilized by many different forces, internal and external. And radicalization is the natural conclusion for the impoverished and the uneducated, which makes the problems there cyclical.",
">\n\nNot sure why people are surprised. Women are actually free to go to the university in Turkey. Afghanistan Taliban is just hella backwards by every standard.",
">\n\nConsidering the ever more authoritarian government in Turkyie it's just nice to see that not everything is bad.",
">\n\nThis is just the European propaganda machine because they don't like Turkish foreign policy. They call them authoritarian so they can sanction the shit out of them. In Turkey people drink, take drugs, fuck around party like in any other country. Women can do whatever the fuck they want. There's just a big disconnect just like in the US with rural areas and large city populous. Most Conservatives in the US live in rural areas just like in Turkey and support batshit crazy things like pro-life and shit. It's just that nobody really cares about the progressive half of Turkey thanks to media coverage. It'll be funny if the Democrats lose the next election. I expect the same sanctions and media coverage for the US, but that wont happen bc money.",
">\n\nErdogan is called authoritarian, which he is, not the Turkish people. Nothing propaganda about that",
">\n\nDamn, you know you fucked up when erodgan is calling you out lmao.",
">\n\nTaliban ban",
">\n\nThere ain't no ban like a Taliban ban",
">\n\nAin’t no ban like a taliban",
">\n\nTall Taliban ban",
">\n\nThey are Muslim in name only. Similar to the Christian Nationalists. They are only Christian in name. Both groups use only the parts of the respective religions to control people and neither group follows the primary precept of both religions, which is love.",
">\n\nCant have a discussion about Islam without the inevitable \"just like Christians tho!\"",
">\n\nInhuman is a better term"
] |
>
It's worth noting that while the Taliban call themselves Islamic, their sect, called Wahabi, is not recognized by any other sect of Islam. The ideology of Wahabis violates several major rules of Islam. The largest offense has been their attempts to force Islam on others, which is explicitly forbidden in Islam.
Wahabis believe Muslims have not taken the religion seriously enough, and the two groups seek to destroy each other. Actual Muslims staunchly and violently resist these Wahabi groups. The distinction is critical, and real Muslims hate the Taliban, Al Qaeda, and ISIS even more than NATO does. | [
"Every time I read his name it feels like it’s always in a sentence\nI wouldn’t expect",
">\n\nIt's because he has no ideology. I mean he sort of has one, but it's never consistent. He is the Trump of Turkiye, he could have been a Democrat 20 years ago, and now a Republican. Right now Erdogan is ver nationalistic, but 20 years ago he was spearheading the movement against nationalism. 10 years ago, he wanted to be known as the leader who solved racism against Kurdish people. He just wants and says things that would make himself more powerful. He had his liberal phase, he now has his autocratic phase. He is a fierce capitalist, but promise him a lifetime of leadership and he'll turn his entire power structure into a communist party tomorrow.\nNot giving any education to women is a pretty unpopular take, so it's no surprise he'd be against it.",
">\n\nCalling Erdogan the \"Trump of Turkiye\" is dangerous for a number of reasons, not in the least because Erdogan is much smarter than Trump. He has always been very sly and thoughtful when it comes to Turkey's role on the international stage, careful to do enough to stay in the good graces of everyone, and in doing so, giving himself more wiggle room with his domestic policies despite how they may be perceived, by other members of NATO for example.\nSaudi Arabia and Iran are often cited as the two major Muslim powers battling for dominance, but Erdogan no doubt sees an opportunity for Turkey to take on a greater role in Middle Eastern affairs, what with Iran melting down from the inside-out. Certainly, Turkey would not want to see the Saudis become more powerful.",
">\n\nIran is Persian, not Arab.\nEdit: I am getting down voted because the person I responded to changed Arab to Muslim after I pointed it out, lol",
">\n\nAnd were did he say Iran was Arab?",
">\n\nI see an asterisk so they may have edited their comment from \"Arab\" to \"Muslim\" after having the mistake pointed out",
">\n\nThis guy's an embodiment of RNG.",
">\n\nReal life mad lib",
">\n\nFlip a coin, every time.",
">\n\nErdogan is speed running his telenovela good/evil personality changes.\nOne day,dressed in black with a mustache twirl. Next, dressing in white, rescuing puppies from crocodiles.",
">\n\nThird day, killing crocodiles.",
">\n\nThat's Bob Katter's job",
">\n\nMan Turkey is the most chaotic neutral country ever. \nYou never know what side they will take on some issue. \nIt's like rolling a d20",
">\n\nThats Erdogan for you. He doesn’t believe in anything at all. He’s an opportunist, and a populist, and his stance on anything is subject to change. That being said, saying you should allow women education isn’t very controversial.",
">\n\nI feel like he wants to rebuild the center of Islamic power around Turkey and be his own fashion of Ottoman Sultanate.",
">\n\ntruth to be to told, Islam really needs more moderate people.",
">\n\nThe last, I’d say, two centuries have been very problematic for Islam. Last nail in the coffin was the British involvement in the Middle East during and around WW1.",
">\n\nThat was 100 years ago, at some point they got to realize it's their problem to fix and no historic blaming will do the trick.",
">\n\nSure but stability doesn’t happen so quickly. The geopolitical situation in the Middle East is a quagmire. The area is continually being destabilized by many different forces, internal and external. And radicalization is the natural conclusion for the impoverished and the uneducated, which makes the problems there cyclical.",
">\n\nNot sure why people are surprised. Women are actually free to go to the university in Turkey. Afghanistan Taliban is just hella backwards by every standard.",
">\n\nConsidering the ever more authoritarian government in Turkyie it's just nice to see that not everything is bad.",
">\n\nThis is just the European propaganda machine because they don't like Turkish foreign policy. They call them authoritarian so they can sanction the shit out of them. In Turkey people drink, take drugs, fuck around party like in any other country. Women can do whatever the fuck they want. There's just a big disconnect just like in the US with rural areas and large city populous. Most Conservatives in the US live in rural areas just like in Turkey and support batshit crazy things like pro-life and shit. It's just that nobody really cares about the progressive half of Turkey thanks to media coverage. It'll be funny if the Democrats lose the next election. I expect the same sanctions and media coverage for the US, but that wont happen bc money.",
">\n\nErdogan is called authoritarian, which he is, not the Turkish people. Nothing propaganda about that",
">\n\nDamn, you know you fucked up when erodgan is calling you out lmao.",
">\n\nTaliban ban",
">\n\nThere ain't no ban like a Taliban ban",
">\n\nAin’t no ban like a taliban",
">\n\nTall Taliban ban",
">\n\nThey are Muslim in name only. Similar to the Christian Nationalists. They are only Christian in name. Both groups use only the parts of the respective religions to control people and neither group follows the primary precept of both religions, which is love.",
">\n\nCant have a discussion about Islam without the inevitable \"just like Christians tho!\"",
">\n\nInhuman is a better term",
">\n\nYes, 100%, but.. Taliban don't consider \"inhuman\" a necessarily bad thing. On the other hand, their only claim to legitimacy as a group is being Islamic - hence their ban on opium and boy-rape. So accurately calling this as un-Islamic bears a lot more relevance in this context."
] |
>
Let them fight! | [
"Every time I read his name it feels like it’s always in a sentence\nI wouldn’t expect",
">\n\nIt's because he has no ideology. I mean he sort of has one, but it's never consistent. He is the Trump of Turkiye, he could have been a Democrat 20 years ago, and now a Republican. Right now Erdogan is ver nationalistic, but 20 years ago he was spearheading the movement against nationalism. 10 years ago, he wanted to be known as the leader who solved racism against Kurdish people. He just wants and says things that would make himself more powerful. He had his liberal phase, he now has his autocratic phase. He is a fierce capitalist, but promise him a lifetime of leadership and he'll turn his entire power structure into a communist party tomorrow.\nNot giving any education to women is a pretty unpopular take, so it's no surprise he'd be against it.",
">\n\nCalling Erdogan the \"Trump of Turkiye\" is dangerous for a number of reasons, not in the least because Erdogan is much smarter than Trump. He has always been very sly and thoughtful when it comes to Turkey's role on the international stage, careful to do enough to stay in the good graces of everyone, and in doing so, giving himself more wiggle room with his domestic policies despite how they may be perceived, by other members of NATO for example.\nSaudi Arabia and Iran are often cited as the two major Muslim powers battling for dominance, but Erdogan no doubt sees an opportunity for Turkey to take on a greater role in Middle Eastern affairs, what with Iran melting down from the inside-out. Certainly, Turkey would not want to see the Saudis become more powerful.",
">\n\nIran is Persian, not Arab.\nEdit: I am getting down voted because the person I responded to changed Arab to Muslim after I pointed it out, lol",
">\n\nAnd were did he say Iran was Arab?",
">\n\nI see an asterisk so they may have edited their comment from \"Arab\" to \"Muslim\" after having the mistake pointed out",
">\n\nThis guy's an embodiment of RNG.",
">\n\nReal life mad lib",
">\n\nFlip a coin, every time.",
">\n\nErdogan is speed running his telenovela good/evil personality changes.\nOne day,dressed in black with a mustache twirl. Next, dressing in white, rescuing puppies from crocodiles.",
">\n\nThird day, killing crocodiles.",
">\n\nThat's Bob Katter's job",
">\n\nMan Turkey is the most chaotic neutral country ever. \nYou never know what side they will take on some issue. \nIt's like rolling a d20",
">\n\nThats Erdogan for you. He doesn’t believe in anything at all. He’s an opportunist, and a populist, and his stance on anything is subject to change. That being said, saying you should allow women education isn’t very controversial.",
">\n\nI feel like he wants to rebuild the center of Islamic power around Turkey and be his own fashion of Ottoman Sultanate.",
">\n\ntruth to be to told, Islam really needs more moderate people.",
">\n\nThe last, I’d say, two centuries have been very problematic for Islam. Last nail in the coffin was the British involvement in the Middle East during and around WW1.",
">\n\nThat was 100 years ago, at some point they got to realize it's their problem to fix and no historic blaming will do the trick.",
">\n\nSure but stability doesn’t happen so quickly. The geopolitical situation in the Middle East is a quagmire. The area is continually being destabilized by many different forces, internal and external. And radicalization is the natural conclusion for the impoverished and the uneducated, which makes the problems there cyclical.",
">\n\nNot sure why people are surprised. Women are actually free to go to the university in Turkey. Afghanistan Taliban is just hella backwards by every standard.",
">\n\nConsidering the ever more authoritarian government in Turkyie it's just nice to see that not everything is bad.",
">\n\nThis is just the European propaganda machine because they don't like Turkish foreign policy. They call them authoritarian so they can sanction the shit out of them. In Turkey people drink, take drugs, fuck around party like in any other country. Women can do whatever the fuck they want. There's just a big disconnect just like in the US with rural areas and large city populous. Most Conservatives in the US live in rural areas just like in Turkey and support batshit crazy things like pro-life and shit. It's just that nobody really cares about the progressive half of Turkey thanks to media coverage. It'll be funny if the Democrats lose the next election. I expect the same sanctions and media coverage for the US, but that wont happen bc money.",
">\n\nErdogan is called authoritarian, which he is, not the Turkish people. Nothing propaganda about that",
">\n\nDamn, you know you fucked up when erodgan is calling you out lmao.",
">\n\nTaliban ban",
">\n\nThere ain't no ban like a Taliban ban",
">\n\nAin’t no ban like a taliban",
">\n\nTall Taliban ban",
">\n\nThey are Muslim in name only. Similar to the Christian Nationalists. They are only Christian in name. Both groups use only the parts of the respective religions to control people and neither group follows the primary precept of both religions, which is love.",
">\n\nCant have a discussion about Islam without the inevitable \"just like Christians tho!\"",
">\n\nInhuman is a better term",
">\n\nYes, 100%, but.. Taliban don't consider \"inhuman\" a necessarily bad thing. On the other hand, their only claim to legitimacy as a group is being Islamic - hence their ban on opium and boy-rape. So accurately calling this as un-Islamic bears a lot more relevance in this context.",
">\n\nIt's worth noting that while the Taliban call themselves Islamic, their sect, called Wahabi, is not recognized by any other sect of Islam. The ideology of Wahabis violates several major rules of Islam. The largest offense has been their attempts to force Islam on others, which is explicitly forbidden in Islam.\nWahabis believe Muslims have not taken the religion seriously enough, and the two groups seek to destroy each other. Actual Muslims staunchly and violently resist these Wahabi groups. The distinction is critical, and real Muslims hate the Taliban, Al Qaeda, and ISIS even more than NATO does."
] |
>
You say that as if average Muslims are also the bad guys here, even though the whole point is that they reject extremism in Islam and are inherently enemies with the terrorist groups who launch violent attacks against everyone | [
"Every time I read his name it feels like it’s always in a sentence\nI wouldn’t expect",
">\n\nIt's because he has no ideology. I mean he sort of has one, but it's never consistent. He is the Trump of Turkiye, he could have been a Democrat 20 years ago, and now a Republican. Right now Erdogan is ver nationalistic, but 20 years ago he was spearheading the movement against nationalism. 10 years ago, he wanted to be known as the leader who solved racism against Kurdish people. He just wants and says things that would make himself more powerful. He had his liberal phase, he now has his autocratic phase. He is a fierce capitalist, but promise him a lifetime of leadership and he'll turn his entire power structure into a communist party tomorrow.\nNot giving any education to women is a pretty unpopular take, so it's no surprise he'd be against it.",
">\n\nCalling Erdogan the \"Trump of Turkiye\" is dangerous for a number of reasons, not in the least because Erdogan is much smarter than Trump. He has always been very sly and thoughtful when it comes to Turkey's role on the international stage, careful to do enough to stay in the good graces of everyone, and in doing so, giving himself more wiggle room with his domestic policies despite how they may be perceived, by other members of NATO for example.\nSaudi Arabia and Iran are often cited as the two major Muslim powers battling for dominance, but Erdogan no doubt sees an opportunity for Turkey to take on a greater role in Middle Eastern affairs, what with Iran melting down from the inside-out. Certainly, Turkey would not want to see the Saudis become more powerful.",
">\n\nIran is Persian, not Arab.\nEdit: I am getting down voted because the person I responded to changed Arab to Muslim after I pointed it out, lol",
">\n\nAnd were did he say Iran was Arab?",
">\n\nI see an asterisk so they may have edited their comment from \"Arab\" to \"Muslim\" after having the mistake pointed out",
">\n\nThis guy's an embodiment of RNG.",
">\n\nReal life mad lib",
">\n\nFlip a coin, every time.",
">\n\nErdogan is speed running his telenovela good/evil personality changes.\nOne day,dressed in black with a mustache twirl. Next, dressing in white, rescuing puppies from crocodiles.",
">\n\nThird day, killing crocodiles.",
">\n\nThat's Bob Katter's job",
">\n\nMan Turkey is the most chaotic neutral country ever. \nYou never know what side they will take on some issue. \nIt's like rolling a d20",
">\n\nThats Erdogan for you. He doesn’t believe in anything at all. He’s an opportunist, and a populist, and his stance on anything is subject to change. That being said, saying you should allow women education isn’t very controversial.",
">\n\nI feel like he wants to rebuild the center of Islamic power around Turkey and be his own fashion of Ottoman Sultanate.",
">\n\ntruth to be to told, Islam really needs more moderate people.",
">\n\nThe last, I’d say, two centuries have been very problematic for Islam. Last nail in the coffin was the British involvement in the Middle East during and around WW1.",
">\n\nThat was 100 years ago, at some point they got to realize it's their problem to fix and no historic blaming will do the trick.",
">\n\nSure but stability doesn’t happen so quickly. The geopolitical situation in the Middle East is a quagmire. The area is continually being destabilized by many different forces, internal and external. And radicalization is the natural conclusion for the impoverished and the uneducated, which makes the problems there cyclical.",
">\n\nNot sure why people are surprised. Women are actually free to go to the university in Turkey. Afghanistan Taliban is just hella backwards by every standard.",
">\n\nConsidering the ever more authoritarian government in Turkyie it's just nice to see that not everything is bad.",
">\n\nThis is just the European propaganda machine because they don't like Turkish foreign policy. They call them authoritarian so they can sanction the shit out of them. In Turkey people drink, take drugs, fuck around party like in any other country. Women can do whatever the fuck they want. There's just a big disconnect just like in the US with rural areas and large city populous. Most Conservatives in the US live in rural areas just like in Turkey and support batshit crazy things like pro-life and shit. It's just that nobody really cares about the progressive half of Turkey thanks to media coverage. It'll be funny if the Democrats lose the next election. I expect the same sanctions and media coverage for the US, but that wont happen bc money.",
">\n\nErdogan is called authoritarian, which he is, not the Turkish people. Nothing propaganda about that",
">\n\nDamn, you know you fucked up when erodgan is calling you out lmao.",
">\n\nTaliban ban",
">\n\nThere ain't no ban like a Taliban ban",
">\n\nAin’t no ban like a taliban",
">\n\nTall Taliban ban",
">\n\nThey are Muslim in name only. Similar to the Christian Nationalists. They are only Christian in name. Both groups use only the parts of the respective religions to control people and neither group follows the primary precept of both religions, which is love.",
">\n\nCant have a discussion about Islam without the inevitable \"just like Christians tho!\"",
">\n\nInhuman is a better term",
">\n\nYes, 100%, but.. Taliban don't consider \"inhuman\" a necessarily bad thing. On the other hand, their only claim to legitimacy as a group is being Islamic - hence their ban on opium and boy-rape. So accurately calling this as un-Islamic bears a lot more relevance in this context.",
">\n\nIt's worth noting that while the Taliban call themselves Islamic, their sect, called Wahabi, is not recognized by any other sect of Islam. The ideology of Wahabis violates several major rules of Islam. The largest offense has been their attempts to force Islam on others, which is explicitly forbidden in Islam.\nWahabis believe Muslims have not taken the religion seriously enough, and the two groups seek to destroy each other. Actual Muslims staunchly and violently resist these Wahabi groups. The distinction is critical, and real Muslims hate the Taliban, Al Qaeda, and ISIS even more than NATO does.",
">\n\nLet them fight!"
] |
>
They “reject extremism” while stoning women for adultery and hanging atheists and everyone who leaves Islam. That’s not rejecting extremism. | [
"Every time I read his name it feels like it’s always in a sentence\nI wouldn’t expect",
">\n\nIt's because he has no ideology. I mean he sort of has one, but it's never consistent. He is the Trump of Turkiye, he could have been a Democrat 20 years ago, and now a Republican. Right now Erdogan is ver nationalistic, but 20 years ago he was spearheading the movement against nationalism. 10 years ago, he wanted to be known as the leader who solved racism against Kurdish people. He just wants and says things that would make himself more powerful. He had his liberal phase, he now has his autocratic phase. He is a fierce capitalist, but promise him a lifetime of leadership and he'll turn his entire power structure into a communist party tomorrow.\nNot giving any education to women is a pretty unpopular take, so it's no surprise he'd be against it.",
">\n\nCalling Erdogan the \"Trump of Turkiye\" is dangerous for a number of reasons, not in the least because Erdogan is much smarter than Trump. He has always been very sly and thoughtful when it comes to Turkey's role on the international stage, careful to do enough to stay in the good graces of everyone, and in doing so, giving himself more wiggle room with his domestic policies despite how they may be perceived, by other members of NATO for example.\nSaudi Arabia and Iran are often cited as the two major Muslim powers battling for dominance, but Erdogan no doubt sees an opportunity for Turkey to take on a greater role in Middle Eastern affairs, what with Iran melting down from the inside-out. Certainly, Turkey would not want to see the Saudis become more powerful.",
">\n\nIran is Persian, not Arab.\nEdit: I am getting down voted because the person I responded to changed Arab to Muslim after I pointed it out, lol",
">\n\nAnd were did he say Iran was Arab?",
">\n\nI see an asterisk so they may have edited their comment from \"Arab\" to \"Muslim\" after having the mistake pointed out",
">\n\nThis guy's an embodiment of RNG.",
">\n\nReal life mad lib",
">\n\nFlip a coin, every time.",
">\n\nErdogan is speed running his telenovela good/evil personality changes.\nOne day,dressed in black with a mustache twirl. Next, dressing in white, rescuing puppies from crocodiles.",
">\n\nThird day, killing crocodiles.",
">\n\nThat's Bob Katter's job",
">\n\nMan Turkey is the most chaotic neutral country ever. \nYou never know what side they will take on some issue. \nIt's like rolling a d20",
">\n\nThats Erdogan for you. He doesn’t believe in anything at all. He’s an opportunist, and a populist, and his stance on anything is subject to change. That being said, saying you should allow women education isn’t very controversial.",
">\n\nI feel like he wants to rebuild the center of Islamic power around Turkey and be his own fashion of Ottoman Sultanate.",
">\n\ntruth to be to told, Islam really needs more moderate people.",
">\n\nThe last, I’d say, two centuries have been very problematic for Islam. Last nail in the coffin was the British involvement in the Middle East during and around WW1.",
">\n\nThat was 100 years ago, at some point they got to realize it's their problem to fix and no historic blaming will do the trick.",
">\n\nSure but stability doesn’t happen so quickly. The geopolitical situation in the Middle East is a quagmire. The area is continually being destabilized by many different forces, internal and external. And radicalization is the natural conclusion for the impoverished and the uneducated, which makes the problems there cyclical.",
">\n\nNot sure why people are surprised. Women are actually free to go to the university in Turkey. Afghanistan Taliban is just hella backwards by every standard.",
">\n\nConsidering the ever more authoritarian government in Turkyie it's just nice to see that not everything is bad.",
">\n\nThis is just the European propaganda machine because they don't like Turkish foreign policy. They call them authoritarian so they can sanction the shit out of them. In Turkey people drink, take drugs, fuck around party like in any other country. Women can do whatever the fuck they want. There's just a big disconnect just like in the US with rural areas and large city populous. Most Conservatives in the US live in rural areas just like in Turkey and support batshit crazy things like pro-life and shit. It's just that nobody really cares about the progressive half of Turkey thanks to media coverage. It'll be funny if the Democrats lose the next election. I expect the same sanctions and media coverage for the US, but that wont happen bc money.",
">\n\nErdogan is called authoritarian, which he is, not the Turkish people. Nothing propaganda about that",
">\n\nDamn, you know you fucked up when erodgan is calling you out lmao.",
">\n\nTaliban ban",
">\n\nThere ain't no ban like a Taliban ban",
">\n\nAin’t no ban like a taliban",
">\n\nTall Taliban ban",
">\n\nThey are Muslim in name only. Similar to the Christian Nationalists. They are only Christian in name. Both groups use only the parts of the respective religions to control people and neither group follows the primary precept of both religions, which is love.",
">\n\nCant have a discussion about Islam without the inevitable \"just like Christians tho!\"",
">\n\nInhuman is a better term",
">\n\nYes, 100%, but.. Taliban don't consider \"inhuman\" a necessarily bad thing. On the other hand, their only claim to legitimacy as a group is being Islamic - hence their ban on opium and boy-rape. So accurately calling this as un-Islamic bears a lot more relevance in this context.",
">\n\nIt's worth noting that while the Taliban call themselves Islamic, their sect, called Wahabi, is not recognized by any other sect of Islam. The ideology of Wahabis violates several major rules of Islam. The largest offense has been their attempts to force Islam on others, which is explicitly forbidden in Islam.\nWahabis believe Muslims have not taken the religion seriously enough, and the two groups seek to destroy each other. Actual Muslims staunchly and violently resist these Wahabi groups. The distinction is critical, and real Muslims hate the Taliban, Al Qaeda, and ISIS even more than NATO does.",
">\n\nLet them fight!",
">\n\nYou say that as if average Muslims are also the bad guys here, even though the whole point is that they reject extremism in Islam and are inherently enemies with the terrorist groups who launch violent attacks against everyone"
] |
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You realise the people who do such things are the wahabbis just mentioned right? | [
"Every time I read his name it feels like it’s always in a sentence\nI wouldn’t expect",
">\n\nIt's because he has no ideology. I mean he sort of has one, but it's never consistent. He is the Trump of Turkiye, he could have been a Democrat 20 years ago, and now a Republican. Right now Erdogan is ver nationalistic, but 20 years ago he was spearheading the movement against nationalism. 10 years ago, he wanted to be known as the leader who solved racism against Kurdish people. He just wants and says things that would make himself more powerful. He had his liberal phase, he now has his autocratic phase. He is a fierce capitalist, but promise him a lifetime of leadership and he'll turn his entire power structure into a communist party tomorrow.\nNot giving any education to women is a pretty unpopular take, so it's no surprise he'd be against it.",
">\n\nCalling Erdogan the \"Trump of Turkiye\" is dangerous for a number of reasons, not in the least because Erdogan is much smarter than Trump. He has always been very sly and thoughtful when it comes to Turkey's role on the international stage, careful to do enough to stay in the good graces of everyone, and in doing so, giving himself more wiggle room with his domestic policies despite how they may be perceived, by other members of NATO for example.\nSaudi Arabia and Iran are often cited as the two major Muslim powers battling for dominance, but Erdogan no doubt sees an opportunity for Turkey to take on a greater role in Middle Eastern affairs, what with Iran melting down from the inside-out. Certainly, Turkey would not want to see the Saudis become more powerful.",
">\n\nIran is Persian, not Arab.\nEdit: I am getting down voted because the person I responded to changed Arab to Muslim after I pointed it out, lol",
">\n\nAnd were did he say Iran was Arab?",
">\n\nI see an asterisk so they may have edited their comment from \"Arab\" to \"Muslim\" after having the mistake pointed out",
">\n\nThis guy's an embodiment of RNG.",
">\n\nReal life mad lib",
">\n\nFlip a coin, every time.",
">\n\nErdogan is speed running his telenovela good/evil personality changes.\nOne day,dressed in black with a mustache twirl. Next, dressing in white, rescuing puppies from crocodiles.",
">\n\nThird day, killing crocodiles.",
">\n\nThat's Bob Katter's job",
">\n\nMan Turkey is the most chaotic neutral country ever. \nYou never know what side they will take on some issue. \nIt's like rolling a d20",
">\n\nThats Erdogan for you. He doesn’t believe in anything at all. He’s an opportunist, and a populist, and his stance on anything is subject to change. That being said, saying you should allow women education isn’t very controversial.",
">\n\nI feel like he wants to rebuild the center of Islamic power around Turkey and be his own fashion of Ottoman Sultanate.",
">\n\ntruth to be to told, Islam really needs more moderate people.",
">\n\nThe last, I’d say, two centuries have been very problematic for Islam. Last nail in the coffin was the British involvement in the Middle East during and around WW1.",
">\n\nThat was 100 years ago, at some point they got to realize it's their problem to fix and no historic blaming will do the trick.",
">\n\nSure but stability doesn’t happen so quickly. The geopolitical situation in the Middle East is a quagmire. The area is continually being destabilized by many different forces, internal and external. And radicalization is the natural conclusion for the impoverished and the uneducated, which makes the problems there cyclical.",
">\n\nNot sure why people are surprised. Women are actually free to go to the university in Turkey. Afghanistan Taliban is just hella backwards by every standard.",
">\n\nConsidering the ever more authoritarian government in Turkyie it's just nice to see that not everything is bad.",
">\n\nThis is just the European propaganda machine because they don't like Turkish foreign policy. They call them authoritarian so they can sanction the shit out of them. In Turkey people drink, take drugs, fuck around party like in any other country. Women can do whatever the fuck they want. There's just a big disconnect just like in the US with rural areas and large city populous. Most Conservatives in the US live in rural areas just like in Turkey and support batshit crazy things like pro-life and shit. It's just that nobody really cares about the progressive half of Turkey thanks to media coverage. It'll be funny if the Democrats lose the next election. I expect the same sanctions and media coverage for the US, but that wont happen bc money.",
">\n\nErdogan is called authoritarian, which he is, not the Turkish people. Nothing propaganda about that",
">\n\nDamn, you know you fucked up when erodgan is calling you out lmao.",
">\n\nTaliban ban",
">\n\nThere ain't no ban like a Taliban ban",
">\n\nAin’t no ban like a taliban",
">\n\nTall Taliban ban",
">\n\nThey are Muslim in name only. Similar to the Christian Nationalists. They are only Christian in name. Both groups use only the parts of the respective religions to control people and neither group follows the primary precept of both religions, which is love.",
">\n\nCant have a discussion about Islam without the inevitable \"just like Christians tho!\"",
">\n\nInhuman is a better term",
">\n\nYes, 100%, but.. Taliban don't consider \"inhuman\" a necessarily bad thing. On the other hand, their only claim to legitimacy as a group is being Islamic - hence their ban on opium and boy-rape. So accurately calling this as un-Islamic bears a lot more relevance in this context.",
">\n\nIt's worth noting that while the Taliban call themselves Islamic, their sect, called Wahabi, is not recognized by any other sect of Islam. The ideology of Wahabis violates several major rules of Islam. The largest offense has been their attempts to force Islam on others, which is explicitly forbidden in Islam.\nWahabis believe Muslims have not taken the religion seriously enough, and the two groups seek to destroy each other. Actual Muslims staunchly and violently resist these Wahabi groups. The distinction is critical, and real Muslims hate the Taliban, Al Qaeda, and ISIS even more than NATO does.",
">\n\nLet them fight!",
">\n\nYou say that as if average Muslims are also the bad guys here, even though the whole point is that they reject extremism in Islam and are inherently enemies with the terrorist groups who launch violent attacks against everyone",
">\n\nThey “reject extremism” while stoning women for adultery and hanging atheists and everyone who leaves Islam. That’s not rejecting extremism."
] |
>
Erdogan is really a hit or miss | [
"Every time I read his name it feels like it’s always in a sentence\nI wouldn’t expect",
">\n\nIt's because he has no ideology. I mean he sort of has one, but it's never consistent. He is the Trump of Turkiye, he could have been a Democrat 20 years ago, and now a Republican. Right now Erdogan is ver nationalistic, but 20 years ago he was spearheading the movement against nationalism. 10 years ago, he wanted to be known as the leader who solved racism against Kurdish people. He just wants and says things that would make himself more powerful. He had his liberal phase, he now has his autocratic phase. He is a fierce capitalist, but promise him a lifetime of leadership and he'll turn his entire power structure into a communist party tomorrow.\nNot giving any education to women is a pretty unpopular take, so it's no surprise he'd be against it.",
">\n\nCalling Erdogan the \"Trump of Turkiye\" is dangerous for a number of reasons, not in the least because Erdogan is much smarter than Trump. He has always been very sly and thoughtful when it comes to Turkey's role on the international stage, careful to do enough to stay in the good graces of everyone, and in doing so, giving himself more wiggle room with his domestic policies despite how they may be perceived, by other members of NATO for example.\nSaudi Arabia and Iran are often cited as the two major Muslim powers battling for dominance, but Erdogan no doubt sees an opportunity for Turkey to take on a greater role in Middle Eastern affairs, what with Iran melting down from the inside-out. Certainly, Turkey would not want to see the Saudis become more powerful.",
">\n\nIran is Persian, not Arab.\nEdit: I am getting down voted because the person I responded to changed Arab to Muslim after I pointed it out, lol",
">\n\nAnd were did he say Iran was Arab?",
">\n\nI see an asterisk so they may have edited their comment from \"Arab\" to \"Muslim\" after having the mistake pointed out",
">\n\nThis guy's an embodiment of RNG.",
">\n\nReal life mad lib",
">\n\nFlip a coin, every time.",
">\n\nErdogan is speed running his telenovela good/evil personality changes.\nOne day,dressed in black with a mustache twirl. Next, dressing in white, rescuing puppies from crocodiles.",
">\n\nThird day, killing crocodiles.",
">\n\nThat's Bob Katter's job",
">\n\nMan Turkey is the most chaotic neutral country ever. \nYou never know what side they will take on some issue. \nIt's like rolling a d20",
">\n\nThats Erdogan for you. He doesn’t believe in anything at all. He’s an opportunist, and a populist, and his stance on anything is subject to change. That being said, saying you should allow women education isn’t very controversial.",
">\n\nI feel like he wants to rebuild the center of Islamic power around Turkey and be his own fashion of Ottoman Sultanate.",
">\n\ntruth to be to told, Islam really needs more moderate people.",
">\n\nThe last, I’d say, two centuries have been very problematic for Islam. Last nail in the coffin was the British involvement in the Middle East during and around WW1.",
">\n\nThat was 100 years ago, at some point they got to realize it's their problem to fix and no historic blaming will do the trick.",
">\n\nSure but stability doesn’t happen so quickly. The geopolitical situation in the Middle East is a quagmire. The area is continually being destabilized by many different forces, internal and external. And radicalization is the natural conclusion for the impoverished and the uneducated, which makes the problems there cyclical.",
">\n\nNot sure why people are surprised. Women are actually free to go to the university in Turkey. Afghanistan Taliban is just hella backwards by every standard.",
">\n\nConsidering the ever more authoritarian government in Turkyie it's just nice to see that not everything is bad.",
">\n\nThis is just the European propaganda machine because they don't like Turkish foreign policy. They call them authoritarian so they can sanction the shit out of them. In Turkey people drink, take drugs, fuck around party like in any other country. Women can do whatever the fuck they want. There's just a big disconnect just like in the US with rural areas and large city populous. Most Conservatives in the US live in rural areas just like in Turkey and support batshit crazy things like pro-life and shit. It's just that nobody really cares about the progressive half of Turkey thanks to media coverage. It'll be funny if the Democrats lose the next election. I expect the same sanctions and media coverage for the US, but that wont happen bc money.",
">\n\nErdogan is called authoritarian, which he is, not the Turkish people. Nothing propaganda about that",
">\n\nDamn, you know you fucked up when erodgan is calling you out lmao.",
">\n\nTaliban ban",
">\n\nThere ain't no ban like a Taliban ban",
">\n\nAin’t no ban like a taliban",
">\n\nTall Taliban ban",
">\n\nThey are Muslim in name only. Similar to the Christian Nationalists. They are only Christian in name. Both groups use only the parts of the respective religions to control people and neither group follows the primary precept of both religions, which is love.",
">\n\nCant have a discussion about Islam without the inevitable \"just like Christians tho!\"",
">\n\nInhuman is a better term",
">\n\nYes, 100%, but.. Taliban don't consider \"inhuman\" a necessarily bad thing. On the other hand, their only claim to legitimacy as a group is being Islamic - hence their ban on opium and boy-rape. So accurately calling this as un-Islamic bears a lot more relevance in this context.",
">\n\nIt's worth noting that while the Taliban call themselves Islamic, their sect, called Wahabi, is not recognized by any other sect of Islam. The ideology of Wahabis violates several major rules of Islam. The largest offense has been their attempts to force Islam on others, which is explicitly forbidden in Islam.\nWahabis believe Muslims have not taken the religion seriously enough, and the two groups seek to destroy each other. Actual Muslims staunchly and violently resist these Wahabi groups. The distinction is critical, and real Muslims hate the Taliban, Al Qaeda, and ISIS even more than NATO does.",
">\n\nLet them fight!",
">\n\nYou say that as if average Muslims are also the bad guys here, even though the whole point is that they reject extremism in Islam and are inherently enemies with the terrorist groups who launch violent attacks against everyone",
">\n\nThey “reject extremism” while stoning women for adultery and hanging atheists and everyone who leaves Islam. That’s not rejecting extremism.",
">\n\nYou realise the people who do such things are the wahabbis just mentioned right?"
] |
>
He is like 99% miss | [
"Every time I read his name it feels like it’s always in a sentence\nI wouldn’t expect",
">\n\nIt's because he has no ideology. I mean he sort of has one, but it's never consistent. He is the Trump of Turkiye, he could have been a Democrat 20 years ago, and now a Republican. Right now Erdogan is ver nationalistic, but 20 years ago he was spearheading the movement against nationalism. 10 years ago, he wanted to be known as the leader who solved racism against Kurdish people. He just wants and says things that would make himself more powerful. He had his liberal phase, he now has his autocratic phase. He is a fierce capitalist, but promise him a lifetime of leadership and he'll turn his entire power structure into a communist party tomorrow.\nNot giving any education to women is a pretty unpopular take, so it's no surprise he'd be against it.",
">\n\nCalling Erdogan the \"Trump of Turkiye\" is dangerous for a number of reasons, not in the least because Erdogan is much smarter than Trump. He has always been very sly and thoughtful when it comes to Turkey's role on the international stage, careful to do enough to stay in the good graces of everyone, and in doing so, giving himself more wiggle room with his domestic policies despite how they may be perceived, by other members of NATO for example.\nSaudi Arabia and Iran are often cited as the two major Muslim powers battling for dominance, but Erdogan no doubt sees an opportunity for Turkey to take on a greater role in Middle Eastern affairs, what with Iran melting down from the inside-out. Certainly, Turkey would not want to see the Saudis become more powerful.",
">\n\nIran is Persian, not Arab.\nEdit: I am getting down voted because the person I responded to changed Arab to Muslim after I pointed it out, lol",
">\n\nAnd were did he say Iran was Arab?",
">\n\nI see an asterisk so they may have edited their comment from \"Arab\" to \"Muslim\" after having the mistake pointed out",
">\n\nThis guy's an embodiment of RNG.",
">\n\nReal life mad lib",
">\n\nFlip a coin, every time.",
">\n\nErdogan is speed running his telenovela good/evil personality changes.\nOne day,dressed in black with a mustache twirl. Next, dressing in white, rescuing puppies from crocodiles.",
">\n\nThird day, killing crocodiles.",
">\n\nThat's Bob Katter's job",
">\n\nMan Turkey is the most chaotic neutral country ever. \nYou never know what side they will take on some issue. \nIt's like rolling a d20",
">\n\nThats Erdogan for you. He doesn’t believe in anything at all. He’s an opportunist, and a populist, and his stance on anything is subject to change. That being said, saying you should allow women education isn’t very controversial.",
">\n\nI feel like he wants to rebuild the center of Islamic power around Turkey and be his own fashion of Ottoman Sultanate.",
">\n\ntruth to be to told, Islam really needs more moderate people.",
">\n\nThe last, I’d say, two centuries have been very problematic for Islam. Last nail in the coffin was the British involvement in the Middle East during and around WW1.",
">\n\nThat was 100 years ago, at some point they got to realize it's their problem to fix and no historic blaming will do the trick.",
">\n\nSure but stability doesn’t happen so quickly. The geopolitical situation in the Middle East is a quagmire. The area is continually being destabilized by many different forces, internal and external. And radicalization is the natural conclusion for the impoverished and the uneducated, which makes the problems there cyclical.",
">\n\nNot sure why people are surprised. Women are actually free to go to the university in Turkey. Afghanistan Taliban is just hella backwards by every standard.",
">\n\nConsidering the ever more authoritarian government in Turkyie it's just nice to see that not everything is bad.",
">\n\nThis is just the European propaganda machine because they don't like Turkish foreign policy. They call them authoritarian so they can sanction the shit out of them. In Turkey people drink, take drugs, fuck around party like in any other country. Women can do whatever the fuck they want. There's just a big disconnect just like in the US with rural areas and large city populous. Most Conservatives in the US live in rural areas just like in Turkey and support batshit crazy things like pro-life and shit. It's just that nobody really cares about the progressive half of Turkey thanks to media coverage. It'll be funny if the Democrats lose the next election. I expect the same sanctions and media coverage for the US, but that wont happen bc money.",
">\n\nErdogan is called authoritarian, which he is, not the Turkish people. Nothing propaganda about that",
">\n\nDamn, you know you fucked up when erodgan is calling you out lmao.",
">\n\nTaliban ban",
">\n\nThere ain't no ban like a Taliban ban",
">\n\nAin’t no ban like a taliban",
">\n\nTall Taliban ban",
">\n\nThey are Muslim in name only. Similar to the Christian Nationalists. They are only Christian in name. Both groups use only the parts of the respective religions to control people and neither group follows the primary precept of both religions, which is love.",
">\n\nCant have a discussion about Islam without the inevitable \"just like Christians tho!\"",
">\n\nInhuman is a better term",
">\n\nYes, 100%, but.. Taliban don't consider \"inhuman\" a necessarily bad thing. On the other hand, their only claim to legitimacy as a group is being Islamic - hence their ban on opium and boy-rape. So accurately calling this as un-Islamic bears a lot more relevance in this context.",
">\n\nIt's worth noting that while the Taliban call themselves Islamic, their sect, called Wahabi, is not recognized by any other sect of Islam. The ideology of Wahabis violates several major rules of Islam. The largest offense has been their attempts to force Islam on others, which is explicitly forbidden in Islam.\nWahabis believe Muslims have not taken the religion seriously enough, and the two groups seek to destroy each other. Actual Muslims staunchly and violently resist these Wahabi groups. The distinction is critical, and real Muslims hate the Taliban, Al Qaeda, and ISIS even more than NATO does.",
">\n\nLet them fight!",
">\n\nYou say that as if average Muslims are also the bad guys here, even though the whole point is that they reject extremism in Islam and are inherently enemies with the terrorist groups who launch violent attacks against everyone",
">\n\nThey “reject extremism” while stoning women for adultery and hanging atheists and everyone who leaves Islam. That’s not rejecting extremism.",
">\n\nYou realise the people who do such things are the wahabbis just mentioned right?",
">\n\nErdogan is really a hit or miss"
] |
>
Better than his buds. Putin and Xing are 100% miss | [
"Every time I read his name it feels like it’s always in a sentence\nI wouldn’t expect",
">\n\nIt's because he has no ideology. I mean he sort of has one, but it's never consistent. He is the Trump of Turkiye, he could have been a Democrat 20 years ago, and now a Republican. Right now Erdogan is ver nationalistic, but 20 years ago he was spearheading the movement against nationalism. 10 years ago, he wanted to be known as the leader who solved racism against Kurdish people. He just wants and says things that would make himself more powerful. He had his liberal phase, he now has his autocratic phase. He is a fierce capitalist, but promise him a lifetime of leadership and he'll turn his entire power structure into a communist party tomorrow.\nNot giving any education to women is a pretty unpopular take, so it's no surprise he'd be against it.",
">\n\nCalling Erdogan the \"Trump of Turkiye\" is dangerous for a number of reasons, not in the least because Erdogan is much smarter than Trump. He has always been very sly and thoughtful when it comes to Turkey's role on the international stage, careful to do enough to stay in the good graces of everyone, and in doing so, giving himself more wiggle room with his domestic policies despite how they may be perceived, by other members of NATO for example.\nSaudi Arabia and Iran are often cited as the two major Muslim powers battling for dominance, but Erdogan no doubt sees an opportunity for Turkey to take on a greater role in Middle Eastern affairs, what with Iran melting down from the inside-out. Certainly, Turkey would not want to see the Saudis become more powerful.",
">\n\nIran is Persian, not Arab.\nEdit: I am getting down voted because the person I responded to changed Arab to Muslim after I pointed it out, lol",
">\n\nAnd were did he say Iran was Arab?",
">\n\nI see an asterisk so they may have edited their comment from \"Arab\" to \"Muslim\" after having the mistake pointed out",
">\n\nThis guy's an embodiment of RNG.",
">\n\nReal life mad lib",
">\n\nFlip a coin, every time.",
">\n\nErdogan is speed running his telenovela good/evil personality changes.\nOne day,dressed in black with a mustache twirl. Next, dressing in white, rescuing puppies from crocodiles.",
">\n\nThird day, killing crocodiles.",
">\n\nThat's Bob Katter's job",
">\n\nMan Turkey is the most chaotic neutral country ever. \nYou never know what side they will take on some issue. \nIt's like rolling a d20",
">\n\nThats Erdogan for you. He doesn’t believe in anything at all. He’s an opportunist, and a populist, and his stance on anything is subject to change. That being said, saying you should allow women education isn’t very controversial.",
">\n\nI feel like he wants to rebuild the center of Islamic power around Turkey and be his own fashion of Ottoman Sultanate.",
">\n\ntruth to be to told, Islam really needs more moderate people.",
">\n\nThe last, I’d say, two centuries have been very problematic for Islam. Last nail in the coffin was the British involvement in the Middle East during and around WW1.",
">\n\nThat was 100 years ago, at some point they got to realize it's their problem to fix and no historic blaming will do the trick.",
">\n\nSure but stability doesn’t happen so quickly. The geopolitical situation in the Middle East is a quagmire. The area is continually being destabilized by many different forces, internal and external. And radicalization is the natural conclusion for the impoverished and the uneducated, which makes the problems there cyclical.",
">\n\nNot sure why people are surprised. Women are actually free to go to the university in Turkey. Afghanistan Taliban is just hella backwards by every standard.",
">\n\nConsidering the ever more authoritarian government in Turkyie it's just nice to see that not everything is bad.",
">\n\nThis is just the European propaganda machine because they don't like Turkish foreign policy. They call them authoritarian so they can sanction the shit out of them. In Turkey people drink, take drugs, fuck around party like in any other country. Women can do whatever the fuck they want. There's just a big disconnect just like in the US with rural areas and large city populous. Most Conservatives in the US live in rural areas just like in Turkey and support batshit crazy things like pro-life and shit. It's just that nobody really cares about the progressive half of Turkey thanks to media coverage. It'll be funny if the Democrats lose the next election. I expect the same sanctions and media coverage for the US, but that wont happen bc money.",
">\n\nErdogan is called authoritarian, which he is, not the Turkish people. Nothing propaganda about that",
">\n\nDamn, you know you fucked up when erodgan is calling you out lmao.",
">\n\nTaliban ban",
">\n\nThere ain't no ban like a Taliban ban",
">\n\nAin’t no ban like a taliban",
">\n\nTall Taliban ban",
">\n\nThey are Muslim in name only. Similar to the Christian Nationalists. They are only Christian in name. Both groups use only the parts of the respective religions to control people and neither group follows the primary precept of both religions, which is love.",
">\n\nCant have a discussion about Islam without the inevitable \"just like Christians tho!\"",
">\n\nInhuman is a better term",
">\n\nYes, 100%, but.. Taliban don't consider \"inhuman\" a necessarily bad thing. On the other hand, their only claim to legitimacy as a group is being Islamic - hence their ban on opium and boy-rape. So accurately calling this as un-Islamic bears a lot more relevance in this context.",
">\n\nIt's worth noting that while the Taliban call themselves Islamic, their sect, called Wahabi, is not recognized by any other sect of Islam. The ideology of Wahabis violates several major rules of Islam. The largest offense has been their attempts to force Islam on others, which is explicitly forbidden in Islam.\nWahabis believe Muslims have not taken the religion seriously enough, and the two groups seek to destroy each other. Actual Muslims staunchly and violently resist these Wahabi groups. The distinction is critical, and real Muslims hate the Taliban, Al Qaeda, and ISIS even more than NATO does.",
">\n\nLet them fight!",
">\n\nYou say that as if average Muslims are also the bad guys here, even though the whole point is that they reject extremism in Islam and are inherently enemies with the terrorist groups who launch violent attacks against everyone",
">\n\nThey “reject extremism” while stoning women for adultery and hanging atheists and everyone who leaves Islam. That’s not rejecting extremism.",
">\n\nYou realise the people who do such things are the wahabbis just mentioned right?",
">\n\nErdogan is really a hit or miss",
">\n\nHe is like 99% miss"
] |
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