Posted on 11/27/2016 7:04:23 PM PST by marshmallow
Father Matthew Despard had written a book about a powerful gay mafia in the Catholic Church in Scotland and is set to resign after pressure from the bishop.
A Catholic priest at the centre of a gay mafia row is being pressurised to resign as parish priest after a three-year battle with the church.
Father Matthew Despard was sent a three-page letter from Bishop of Motherwell, Joseph Toal, calling for him to quit his post at St John Ogilvie’s Parish in Blantyre.
Father Despard wrote a book claiming that a “powerful gay mafia” was operating at the top of the Catholic Church in Scotland and was responsible for sexual bullying.
The Amazon-published book, Priesthood in Crisis, was later withdrawn from sale.
It’s understood that the 52-year-old priest will resign before the Tuesday deadline set by the bishop.
The missive hit out at Fr Despard, who was ordered to leave the parish house last year after a legal battle with the Diocese of Motherwell.
Bishop Toal wrote: “This caused considerable scandal which affected the church in general but in particular the parish of St John Ogilvie… and some of whose parishioners were written about in a derogatory manner in the book.
“Your behaviour on being called to account for publishing such a book caused serious division in the parish and showed disregard for authority.”
He also said a church investigation into his behaviour found him guilty of behaviour “unbecoming” of a priest.
The bishop added: “From the evidence… you seemed to have clashed with parishioners in a manner that caused them to leave the parish distressed and offended by the way they had been treated.”
Bishop Toal said the publication of the book was “a grave violation of your duty of care towards your parishioners and a serious wounding of their......
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Sodomites burrow into organizations and thoroughly corrupt them. The Catholic Church is just one example. Our military may become another.
The powerful gay mafia claims another victim and confirms the veracity of the book. The Catholic Church doesn’t have a pedophile problem - it has a pedastry problem - male homosexuals targeting teens whether inside the Church or in broader society. It’s an inherent part of their deviancy.
Despard, why don’t you come to your senses?
Hahahahaha...feel like I shouldn’t laugh but that was just funny.
“Do all Catholics suck or just the pope?”
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Classy.
Your comment says a lot about you.
I worked with a fellow that was dead set on becoming a priest. He is from a large catholic family.
Until he went to seminary he told me he left when he learn 90 percent of the men there were queer.
He is now happily married with a 4 children and a strong career out side the church
May?
This is not particular to Catholicism. Southern Methodist University's seminary is similarly infested with open homosexuals. The seminary is virtually a bath house.
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