NORTHERN IRELAND
Irish Central
By
ANTOINETTE KELLY,
IrishCentral Staff Writer
Published Tuesday, April 24, 2012
The Catholic priest at the center of a gay porn controversy has taken temporary leave from his duties as the parish priest of Pomeroy in County Tyrone.
According to the Irish Times, Father Martin McVeigh asked the Primate of All-Ireland, Cardinal Sean Brady for a temporary leave after a meeting between local parents and the representatives of the archdiocese on Friday night proved ‘inconclusive.’
The archdiocese, in an attempt to address the controversy, has reportedly been conducting an inquiry into how 16 pornographic images were ‘inadvertently’ shown by the priest to a group of about thirty parents and one child during a powerpoint presentation on children’s first Confessions on March 26.
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