[The Herald] A priest has denied knowing how gay porn images appeared on a screen during a presentation he was giving to parents of children preparing for First Communion. Fr Martin McVeigh was setting up the PowerPoint display when the explicit sex scenes flashed up on the screen. He was about to give a talk to the parents of First Communicants but abandoned the presentation after the pornographic images appeared. One of those present said the pictures appeared on the screen after the priest put a USB memory stick into the computer at St Mary’s School in Pomeroy, Co Tyrone. “There were plenty of shocked faces. There’s a lot of parents very angry about it.” School principal Sean Devlin is understood to have contacted the Armagh diocese about the incident, which is being investigated by the diocese child protection office. The Church authorities also went to the police, who said no crime had been committed. The Archdiocese of Armagh has refused to say whether Fr McVeigh has been suspended from duties or had restrictions imposed on his position while the investigation is under way. The priest himself insists the pornographic images can be “legitimately explained”. He told the Ulster Herald newspaper he had no knowledge of how the images appeared on the computer. A statement from Cardinal Sean Brady said: “The archdiocese immediately sought the advice of the PSNI who indicated that on the basis of the evidence available no crime had been committed.”
First: “A priest has denied knowing how gay porn images appeared on a screen…”
Later: “The priest himself insists the pornographic images can be ‘legitimately explained’.”
Huh? Listen, everybody knows you got your memory sticks mixed up. Tough break, too, because you seemed to be going about your closet masturbatory habit in a much smarter way than most of your brethren. No websites, nothing saved to a shared computer’s hard drive, no face-fucking altar boys. (more…)