Texas Priest Resigns After Involvement in Gay Porn Site Exposed
Pastor Dale Morgan
Texas Priest Resigns After Involvement in Gay Porn Site Exposed*
By Michael Baggot
MCKINNEY, TX, May 14, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Yesterday evening, Fr.
Mallinson resigned from his new position as priest after the Dallas
Catholic Diocese received numerous complaints about his involvement in a
prominent, pornographic online network for actively homosexual priests
and religious workers
As was reported yesterday, Dallas Bishop Kevin Farrell appointed Fr.
Mallinson the priest of the newly constructed St. Michael's Parish in
McKinney, Texas, despite the priest's previous connection with the
infamous St. Sebastian's Angels (SSA) website.
As his own diocese confirmed, Fr. Mallinson's picture appeared on the
now-defunct SSA site, which included lewd comments, pornographic images,
and insults against Pope John Paul II and then-Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger.
Dallas Diocese spokeswoman Annette Gonzales-Taylor told LifeSiteNews.com
that SSA's original intent was to support priests and religious in
living chastity and that Fr. Mallinson ceased involvement in the group
in 2001 due to the site's turn towards immoral content.
However, as Stephen Brady pointed out to LifeSiteNews.com, a 2001
departure would have given Fr. Mallinson more than a year's activity
with a site that Brady's Roman Catholic Faithful organization exposed as
pornographic in September 1999.
Shortly after Fr. Mallinson's appointment, Catholic author Barbara
Kralis encouraged readers to contact the Bishop in a Sunday column for
CatholicCitizens.org. Additional press coverage followed Kralis's
exhortation and led to a flood of messages to Bishop Farrell's Chancery.
Kralis expressed her thanks yesterday for those involved in covering
McKinney controversy.
"We need to be grateful to Channel 8 TV Dallas' Steve Stoler, to
John-Henry Weston and Michael Baggot of LifeSite, to Catholic Citizens
of Illinois, to Robert Kumpel and his blogspot StJohnsValdosta and to
Steve Brady of Roman Catholic Faithful for the interviews he gave the
media."
"You were the one who broke the camel's back with your coverage of the
Mallinson scandal," Kralis told LifeSiteNews.com in a separate message
of thanks.
Kralis also expressed sorrow that the duty to address Fr. Mallinson's
appointment required so much involvement from the laity.
"The Bishop had to do what he should have done in the first place. It's
sad that we, the laity, have to correct the clergy, but remember, Canon
Law gives us that right and duty. Spiritual Works of Mercy. They're not
fun to do, but they are the most important of all works."
Kralis also encouraged prayers for Fr. Mallinson.
"We pray for Art Mallinson and for his conversion, for his soul's
eternal salvation through chastity."