IRELAND
International Business Times
By Amrutha Gayathri:
April 3, 2012
The Roman Catholic Church in Ireland has said that it is looking into claims that a priest inadvertently showed gay pornographic images during a PowerPoint presentation to the parents of children who were set to receive their first communion.
Priest Martin McVeigh has been accused of showing a series of “indecent images of men” while using a projector March 26 to a group of 26 parents at a grade school in Pomeroy, County Tyrone, Northern Ireland, the BBC reported.
The parents, who were shocked to watch as many as 16 sleazy images on the big screen, told reporters that the images were from the memory stick the cleric inserted into the computer port before the presentation. However, the priest said that he had no knowledge of the images. “I don’t know how it happened but I know what happened,” McVeigh was quoted as saying.
“He was visibly shaken and flustered,” a parent told the BBC. “He gave no explanation or apology to the group and bolted out of the room. The coordinator and the teachers then continued with the presentation.”
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