Catholic Deacon Arrested On Child Porn Charges

While the morally bankrupt Pope Benedict XVI continues to rail against gay rights, the filth within the ranks of the Catholic Church clergy continues unabated.  In Montreal, a Catholic deacon who is the former communications director for the Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops in Ottawa, has been arrested on child pornography charges.  The deacon,  William Kokesch (pictured at left),was also entrusted by the conference to coordinate the Canadian delegation to World Youth Day Catholic celebrations in Cologne, Germany.   The Montreal Gazette has details.  These are highlights:

MONTREAL — A prominent West Island deacon — who used to comment on church sexual abuse scandals — is expected to appear in court on Monday after being charged on the weekend with the production and distribution of child pornography.

William Kokesch, a 65-year-old deacon of St. Edmund of Canterbury Parish in Beaconsfield, was arrested Friday after police carried out two search warrants — one at his home in Pointe Claire and the other at the church.

Police seized more than 2,000 computer files as well as messages left on chat-room sites on the Internet.  “Police conducted the searches after receiving a complaint from a citizen,” said Constable Danny Richer.

Kokesch, a Vancouver native who is married and the father of five adult children, was formally charged via a video conference on Saturday. He did not enter a plea at his arraignment, and he is to appear in court again on Monday morning.

Kokesch, who was ordained as a “permanent deacon” in the diocese of Montreal in 1981, then served as the communications director for the Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops in Ottawa. In 2005, he was entrusted by the conference to coordinate the Canadian delegation to World Youth Day Catholic celebrations in Cologne, Germany.

 I continue to believe that much of the sex abuse problems within the ranks of the Catholic Clergy derives directly from the Church's bizarre fixation on all things sexual and the maladjusted psycho sexual development that stems from such an unnatural depiction of normal sexuality as something dirty.