NORTHERN IRELAND
New York Daily News
Roman Catholic Church investigating how porn slideshow ended up at First Communion class
By Nina Mandell / NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
Tuesday, April 3, 2012
The Catholic Church launched an investigation after an Irish priest inadvertently played a slide show of gay porn to a group of parents who had come for a meeting about their children’s First Communion.
Father Martin McVeigh was setting up a PowerPoint presentation last week when the sexual images popped up on the computer, The Ulster Herald reported.
“There were plenty of shocked faces,” one person at the meeting told the newspaper. “There’s a lot of parents very angry about it.”
Parents said in a statement that McVeigh quickly removed the offending memory card from the computer and bolted from the room.
“He was visibly shaken and flustered,” the statement said, according to The Associated Press. “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.”
McVeigh returned to the meeting 20 minutes later and told parents that children get lots of money for their Holy Communion and should consider giving some of it to the church.
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