Very strange. Other people use the computer and the police don’t think it was tampered with. The organization is comfortable with how it has handled this. Most people don’t know how to answer police questions in a way that doesn’t incriminate them. His answers sound evasive- or angry or arrogant. It could also be that he knows who did it and doesn’t want to say. Or it could have been him. It’s also not clear if it was a few hits or a pattern of hits.
If he’s innocent and wrongly accused, he needs our prayers.
If he’s guilty of a few hits out of sinful curiosity, he’s probably been punished enough, and could use some prayers.
If he’s guilty of regular viewing of porn, he certainly needs prayers.
We’ve all done foolish and sinful things so I can’t condemn him for that. No one is perfect and most of us have done something we are deeply ashamed of in our lives. It’s what we do AFTER that that matters.
There isn’t enough factual information in this article to form an opinion, in my opinion!
I agree. Very good post, all of it.
I agree. I also agree that many people just aren't aware that their comments to the police can be misconstrued, or when looked at, out of the context of the question, can be damaging.
If that computer is available to others, it can also be that someone else viewed it, but the priest didn't want to get someone else in trouble.
We gave my husband's brother, so is Pastor of a med. size Parish, a computer, and it was in his rectory, but he moved it from the public room for just that reason. He didn't want someone else possibly downloading stuff, and him get blamed for it. He doesn't even have a personal e-mail account anymore. If I want to send him an article, or a flight itinerary or something, I send it to the Office Manager, and she prints it out for him.