RE: Damned Catholics
October 30, 2025 at 11:51 am
(This post was last modified: October 30, 2025 at 11:55 am by Fake Messiah.)
Catholic priest admits sending racist messages in neo-Nazi chat
A Catholic priest who admitted discussing bombing mosques and shooting black people in the head in neo-Nazi online chatrooms has been sentenced to a 12-month community order.
Father Mark Rowles, 57, went by the name "skinheadlad1488" in a chatroom called Aryan Reich Killers to write offensive messages about Muslims.
On Thursday, Rowles, of St John Lloyd Catholic church in Cardiff, admitted three counts of sending menacing or offensive messages using the Telegram app in May and June 2024.
He will serve 150 hours community service, pay £199 in costs, and be bound by a Criminal Behaviour Order for three years. The Catholic Church in Wales will be carrying out its own review.
Rowles wrote offensive messages about Muslims, including a message where he said "bomb mosques".
In one expletive-filled message which included an extreme racial slur, he wrote, "they should all be strung up or shot".
In another discussion, in a neo-Nazi chatroom, he and another user discussed the ethnicity of Londoners.
Rowles wrote "a few bullets to their brains would help".
The court was told he described himself in an online profile as a 16-year-old skinhead neo-Nazi and a loner.
His profile photo was of a young white man wearing a face covering, there was a German flag and the words "right hand path always".
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c4gj927l64qo.amp
A Catholic priest who admitted discussing bombing mosques and shooting black people in the head in neo-Nazi online chatrooms has been sentenced to a 12-month community order.
Father Mark Rowles, 57, went by the name "skinheadlad1488" in a chatroom called Aryan Reich Killers to write offensive messages about Muslims.
On Thursday, Rowles, of St John Lloyd Catholic church in Cardiff, admitted three counts of sending menacing or offensive messages using the Telegram app in May and June 2024.
He will serve 150 hours community service, pay £199 in costs, and be bound by a Criminal Behaviour Order for three years. The Catholic Church in Wales will be carrying out its own review.
Rowles wrote offensive messages about Muslims, including a message where he said "bomb mosques".
In one expletive-filled message which included an extreme racial slur, he wrote, "they should all be strung up or shot".
In another discussion, in a neo-Nazi chatroom, he and another user discussed the ethnicity of Londoners.
Rowles wrote "a few bullets to their brains would help".
The court was told he described himself in an online profile as a 16-year-old skinhead neo-Nazi and a loner.
His profile photo was of a young white man wearing a face covering, there was a German flag and the words "right hand path always".
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c4gj927l64qo.amp
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"
