Irish Catholic priest in jail pending trial for attempted sex with a boy hit with more charges
A priest who is currently in custody on a charge of attempted sexual communication with a child has been charged with a further seven offences.
Fr Edward Gallagher, 58, of Orchard Park in Lifford, County Donegal, had been released into police custody for further questioning on Thursday.
He appeared at Londonderry Magistrates' Court on Friday on charges including possessing of an indecent image of a child and possessing extreme pornographic images.
He has also been charged with making an indecent image of a child, distributing indecent images of a child, causing a child to engage in sexual activity, causing a child to watch a sexual activity and sexual communication with a child.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c93k1dlekyzo
‘Sheep do not judge their shepherd’: Sermon after child abuse conviction shocks victims
A senior Sydney priest has warned his followers “sheep do not judge their shepherd” in a sermon about his divided church after a veteran cleric was found guilty of child sexual abuse days earlier – shocking victims and experts.
Meanwhile, a document penned by the paedophile priest himself, which ordered followers “when you are abused, be quiet”, has been quietly removed after decades in a government registry.
Alexis Rosentool was found guilty on June 20 of child sexual abuse dating from the 1980s and 2000s, when he was a priest in the Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia (ROCOR) in Sydney.
Rosentool’s conviction has divided the ROCOR church. Some maintain support for him.
Ignatievsky said members had “succumbed to the sinful temptation” of judging others.
“Sheep do not judge their shepherd, irrespective of who he is,” the priest said. “To judge clergy means to judge Christ himself. So be very, very careful.”
Ignatievsky told the Herald his comments warned against judging “other clergy” who had been accused of supporting, facilitating or covering up for Rosentool.
Boikov said survivors and their families were shocked by Ignatievsky’s comments.
https://www.smh.com.au/national/nsw/shee...5mbq3.html
A priest who is currently in custody on a charge of attempted sexual communication with a child has been charged with a further seven offences.
Fr Edward Gallagher, 58, of Orchard Park in Lifford, County Donegal, had been released into police custody for further questioning on Thursday.
He appeared at Londonderry Magistrates' Court on Friday on charges including possessing of an indecent image of a child and possessing extreme pornographic images.
He has also been charged with making an indecent image of a child, distributing indecent images of a child, causing a child to engage in sexual activity, causing a child to watch a sexual activity and sexual communication with a child.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c93k1dlekyzo
‘Sheep do not judge their shepherd’: Sermon after child abuse conviction shocks victims
A senior Sydney priest has warned his followers “sheep do not judge their shepherd” in a sermon about his divided church after a veteran cleric was found guilty of child sexual abuse days earlier – shocking victims and experts.
Meanwhile, a document penned by the paedophile priest himself, which ordered followers “when you are abused, be quiet”, has been quietly removed after decades in a government registry.
Alexis Rosentool was found guilty on June 20 of child sexual abuse dating from the 1980s and 2000s, when he was a priest in the Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia (ROCOR) in Sydney.
Rosentool’s conviction has divided the ROCOR church. Some maintain support for him.
Ignatievsky said members had “succumbed to the sinful temptation” of judging others.
“Sheep do not judge their shepherd, irrespective of who he is,” the priest said. “To judge clergy means to judge Christ himself. So be very, very careful.”
Ignatievsky told the Herald his comments warned against judging “other clergy” who had been accused of supporting, facilitating or covering up for Rosentool.
Boikov said survivors and their families were shocked by Ignatievsky’s comments.
https://www.smh.com.au/national/nsw/shee...5mbq3.html
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
