Okay, I did tell him to nudge Bp. Morgan if he sees him, but only before Mass in the confessional, so he may accidentally be bound by the confessional seal. Here's a short recap / timeline of what happened (for Bp. Stobnicki):
- A YouTube personality, Brendan Kavanaugh and his wife have a private Catholic chapel on their property where they have a monthly TLM
- Brendan has about 2.6 MILLION subscribers on YouTube
- Brendan had good connections to Bishop Williamson, as evidenced by this photograph in 2015 (?):
- In early 2025 they were recommended a priest by a Catholic family, endorsed by Bishop Morgan
- The priest in question ("Fr." Kerry Moran) had unusual demands for secrecy and wouldn't reveal basic information about his ordination
- After the visit, Brendan became suspicious due to red flags, he sent a reference to the Catholic archdiocese in Martinique (Novus Ordo), where the priest had previously worked
- Three weeks later, he received an official email stating the priest had been defrocked due to child abuse and should not be operating as a priest
- Brendan forwarded this official docuмent to Bishop Morgan, who had recommended Fr. Moran
- - Instead of investigating, Bishop Morgan blocked him.
So that was the initial problem. After that, Kavanaugh uploaded his first video to the channel of a friend, Robert Nugent. This video is now deleted, but the remains are on the German Wikipedia page:
In a video posted in spring 2025, Irish-Canadian Catholic YouTuber Robert Nugent quoted two letters about a priest who had been ordained as a deacon in Fort-de-France on August 26, 2017, and had lost his clerical status on February 6, 2024, after being found guilty of child abuse.
According to Nugent, one letter came from Abbé Benoît Paul-Joseph in Fort-de-France and confirmed the outcome of the investigation and the verdict, while the other came from Carlo Maria Viganò, who stated that this man was extremely deceitful, that contact with him should be avoided, and that he should under no circuмstances have contact with children and young people. Ballini had been informed but had unfortunately taken no action.
Two days later, YouTuber Brendan Kavanagh contacted Nugent's channel and explained that this “dodgy priest” had celebrated Mass in his private chapel in the UK, but had behaved so strangely during the visit to his property that he had inquired in Martinique and learned that the man was no longer a clergyman for the reasons mentioned above.
He had obtained the man's phone number from the SSPX Resistance and hired him “on good faith.” He forwarded the response from Martinique to Bishop Paul Morgan. Morgan, who according to Kavanagh had vouched for the man, also responded to the statement from Martinique with silence. The former priest himself claims that he is the victim of a conspiracy and that the archbishop of Martinique personally pressured children to make false statements against him.
So, Viganò already found these issues credible and said, we should not associate with him. At this point, I already wrote to Broadstairs, this was on the 20th of May this year:
[...] What I will remark is that the British group really needs to clear up the „dodgy priest“ allegations, because the German Wikipedia page now slanders the Resistance as hiding pedos. [...] Now I say: it was reported to the police, the police didn’t find anything so far, so a simple statement by +Morgan „the priest hasn’t been officially convicted, so we still work with him“ would be enough [...]. If you could forward this to +Morgan, that’d be great. [...]
The response came back the same day:
[...] I must say the 'dodgy priests' allegations are complete nonsense. In fact with the recent claims, the couple who started the rumours a few months ago were arrested by the Police and charged with criminal harassment. Clearly the Police believed the allegations were nonsense. As BpW often said the Church ways are different from the ways of the world and so statements are not put out against these defamations and lies. The Church has never operated like that. All the so-called resistants know the truth.
- Broadstairs knew that there were arrests going on, even back in May.
- The suspicious part is that they alleged to the arrest as a form of "proven guilty"
- I didn't know that "the couple who started the rumors" referred to Kavanaugh and his wife
So I thought the issue was done.
But then, on the 25th of June, the video at the beginning of this thread was posted, in which Kavanaugh explains that
he had been arrested by the police for "harrassment" because of the e-mails that he sent to Bishop Morgan. At face value, this is clearly extremely weird. So on the 27th of June, I wrote another e-mail, since I remembered that the Broadstairs group knew about the situation. The entire text is
here, but it's very friendly in tone.
I only asked for a clarification on the situation, because in the meantime the scandal reached more than 100.000+ views on YouTube (the arrest video had more than ONE MILLION VIEWS). I did not receive any response so far, nor does anyone know anything about the scandal.
- So far, the only apparent "defense" of Fr. Moran was posted here, claiming that there is evidence that the allegations of the diocese are made up. However, this is only an anonymous post here, not backed up by any evidence and does not explain the silence of Bp. Morgan, Bp. Ballini or Broadstairs. The priest (? - he was merely a deacon in the Novus Ordo seminary?) is still running around, somehow "connected" to the Resistance in Ireland and the UK, which has caused such a scandal that some people have gone back to the neo-SSPX.
For Bp. Stobnicki: Please ask Bp. Morgan what on earth is going on, who ordained this guy and why, if there is any counter-evidence to the diocesan claims and why we are associating with this guy against the warnings of Abp. Viganò.
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