Meet Australasia’s Biggest Sex-Offender: Catholic Father Denis McAlinden

Hard to believe, this is the smiling face of ‘evil’.

Press reports from Australia, indicate Father McAlinden’s grooming tactics, began with the archetypal ‘bag of lollies and chocolates’ and progressed from there.

McAlinden then found opportunities to be alone with his young victims for extended periods and molested them in his car or while getting them to sit on his knees in empty churches.

When opportunity arose, he was not adverse using the privacy of the confessional booth – a perfect vehicle for a deviate of his nature.

N.Z Truth Magazine (26th March 2009) describes McAlinden as “addicted to preying on girls under the age of 12”.

One victim said he stopped his abuse when she began menstruating, around 12.

The truth of the matter is Father Denis McAlinden is likely to have been Australasia’s worst known sex-offender.

Despite the scale of longevity of his criminal activities, McAlinden died in Western Australia in complete anonymity, whilst on the run from Police, unpunished for his crimes.

The true number of his Australian and New Zealand victims, and extent of his crimes, will never be known, but offences must surely number in the hundreds if not thousands.

Over his five plus decades of abuse, victims and their families repeatedly reported his offending to Catholic Church authorities in New South Wales and Western Australia.

The in-house ‘punishment’(if one can term it that) meted-out to their brother in Christ was to shuffle him ‘back & forward’ from his home diocese in Newcastle, NSW to Western Australia, Papua Guinea and then to the East Coast of New Zealand, via Hamilton.

No one in the Catholic Church on either side of the Tasman bothered to warn parishioners he was a predator and a threat to any child in his care, nor to take the obvious course of action.

That was to, report him to the civil authorities.

It took till 2007, two years after McAlindens death, for the Maitland-Newcastle Catholic diocese to publicly apologise for their 50 year policy of inactivity & remaining silent in the face of the overwhelming evidence. And, that was only after victims ‘went public’ and their lawyers came knocking.

Such is the magnitude & length of his offending, investigations have subsequently shown McAlinden had a ‘tainted record’ dating back prior even to his arrival in Australia from Ireland in 1949.

The now deceased Catholic Bishop of Waikato, Edward Gaines, surely must have known McAlinden was ‘a bad apple’ when he was shoved into his care for six months in 1984. By that stage McAlinden has been in no less than 10 different dioceses, all of which he was forced to leave 'under a cloud'.

For the current Catholic Bishop of Waikato, Dennis Brown (N.Z Truth Magazine, 26th March 2009) to belatedly express his indignatious “horror” at McAindens offending is to completely ignore the ‘public record’ and more to the point, the files that the his church (now facing civil action from victims) keeps from public view.

The very files Bishop Brown and his cohorts (plus their Corporate lawyers, well versed in defending cases of this nature, by now) well know exist, and would reveal the complicit role successive Bishops both here and in Australia had in this sordid affair.

The time for expressing “horror” was when the first of these complaints of ‘inappropriate touching’ was issued - less than a year after his arrival in Australia.

In case Bishop Dennis Brown, needs reminding that first known complaint was in 1950, thirty-four years before his name-sake in a dog-collar arrived in New Zealand.

Bishop Brown wants to take a reality check.

Father Denis’s dubious record, dating back three plus decades and more, must have ‘swept before him’ before his arrival to Hamilton, and it’s therefore hard to consider Bishop Gaines any less complicit in this cover-up than the three Bishops (1949-1995)in Australia overseeing him.

Unequivocally, half-a-centuries of allegations of abuse by Father McAlinden, were systematically ‘buried’ and stymied by The Catholic Church in both Australia and New Zealand.

By default victims were created by The Catholic Church, and then ignored.

The preservation of The Churches name was paramount - little else.

This fertile ‘hunting’ ground was exploited mercilessly by a heartless pedophile of McAlinden’s nature.

Given what we know, it is little wonder, Catholic Father Denis McAlinden gained the dubious distinction as Australasia’s Biggest Sex Offender, and the Catholic Church in Australia (including N.Z claimants) now faces paying millions-out in compensation.

If God is against Abortion, Pedophilia, Slavery, Racism etc why doesn’t he simply just say so?

Whilst doing my recent article on Adam and Eve, I came to the realisation, that the Christian Bible, turns a blind-eye to a whole range of what believers term sins, and what mainstream secular world often deems illegal practices.

Polygamy.

Abortion (not illegal in most countries, but clearly a bone of contention)

Pedophilia.

Illegal Drug taking.

The list goes-on.

The Bible deafly is silent on a whole raft of sins – unlike its followers, who come up with all sorts of erroneous ‘join the dots’ links to scriptural passages, to try and justify their stand based on ‘Gods word’ - when in reality there are no specifics.

Cobbling passages together and placing them under another banner, doesn’t answer the crux of this dissertation:

Why didn’t God didn’t simply come-out and say “Child Sex is not permissible” etc and put it down in print for the benefit of mankind??

Why not include one line to say “terminating pregnancy is not on”?

Another line to indicate “One wife is ample”?

Remember this is the God fella here, not some mortal who forgot to look at his research notes.

Therefore we need to ask ourselves - who made polygamy, abortion, pedophilia and drug taking etc, sinful?

Clearly not, the God geezer from The Bible.

Nor evidently for that matter, does the God bloke give a rats-arse about similarly un-important subjects like, contraception, slavery, racism etc.

Glaringly Mr God didn’t say “boo” directly on any of these themes and Christian theologians over the centuries, have been left instead to interpret and cut & paste where necessary – all to justify their stands on a gambit of ‘sins’ which mainstream society recognises as crimes/injustices - but for which there is sadly not one iota of direct mention in their holy book.

Conversely the God bloke had time in his memoirs to include things that are of greater concern to him personally, and clearly more relevant to the day-to-day existence of his playthings.

So instead of telling us not to enslave another human, priority in his best-seller, is given to more important matters at hand, like:

“No one whose testicles are crushed or whose male organ is cut off shall enter the assembly of the Lord” [Deuteronomy 23:1]

“Then said Abishai the son of Zeruiah unto the king, Why should this dead dog curse my lord the king? let me go over, I pray thee, and take off his head”.[ 2 Samuel 16 or something]

"...do not plant your field with two kinds of seed. Do not wear material woven of two kinds of material." (Leviticus 19:19)

“But all in the seas or in the rivers that do not have fins and scales, all that move in the water or any living thing which is in the water, they are an abomination." (Leviticus 11:10)

One can only conclude God chappy thinks it’s more important issuing sanctions on footwear and eating oysters, than child sex.

Rape & Pedophilia now legalised in Afghanistan.

That’s right, you read the heading correctly.

A husband can now rape his wife legally in The Islamic Republic of Afghanistan, under new laws President Hamid Karzai just rushed through parliament - all to appease Islamic fundamentalists, ahead of elections in August.

Also created was new legislation which creates a loophole, allowing child-marriage.

A man can say take a 9 year old as a bride.

Don’t forget, this is the archaic wasteland is where your fellow countrymen are spilling blood.

This is the very same degenerate & medieval corner of the globe your taxes are being sent to.

The wife-rapists and child f*ckers from Kabul and Kandahar etc, send their heart filled thanks.

This latest affront to morality goes to prove the Afgani’s brand of religion is so endemic and entrenched in life, there’s zero chance for reform and modernisation, any time in the next few hundred years.

So why bother giving this backward country another cent in aid, when this is what their idea of ‘a new’ Afghanistan is?

Their brand of democracy legitimises rape and pedophilia.

That aid money would be better spent on building a large electrified-fence around the country, and leaving them to their own depraved ‘Mad-Max’ life-style.

No on second thoughts, the terrain would prevent a ‘Berlin Wall’ like venture.

Far better and cheaper, to render whole tracts of it’s surrounding mountains uninhabitable with a liberal dose of radiation.

God was a Naturist

Remember how we are sold the story that Adam and Eve were created intrinsically ‘good’ by the God chap.

They lead a pristine life ‘naked as jay-birds’ until they ate that dreaded fruit.

It was only after they ate the fruit, thanks to the convincing spiel from a talking snake, that they realised it was in-fact actually ‘bad’ to go about starkers, and started donning fig-leaves.

It was the wearing of the fig-leaves that alerts the God chap, something is up with his pet creations.

Now the contradiction is obvious here.

Being naked was part of Adam & Eve’s sinless pre-apple days.

Being clothed is a part of Adam & Eves life as sinners.

So there are only two logical ways, one can look at this conundrum …..

1.) Being naked is what God wants of his highest creations.

2.) There was sin before, Adam and Eve ate the apple, destroying a basic tenant of Christianity.

So which one is it?

It’s time for Atheist Only Airline.

On the 6th August 2005, a twin-engined Tuninter ATR-72 turboprop aeroplane was flying from the Italian city of Bari to the Tunisia when it ran out of fuel and came down in the sea some 13km off the northern coast of Sicily.

It was later discovered the accident was caused by a faulty fuel-gauge.

Out of the total of 35 passengers and five crew on board, 21 survived. Many had to swim for their lives, while others clung on to floating pieces of the fuselage (above).

Included amongst the survivors was the Tunisian pilot Chafik Garbi, who was found guilty last-week on 14 counts manslaughter, by an Italian Court.

He was jailed for 10 years.

Instead of taking the necessary emergency procedures to save the aircraft, including the decision to land at sea when two airstrips were available, Garbi opted to pray & little else.

The last five minutes of the cockpit voice recorder audio were littered with religiously oriented interjections such as "Allah save us!", as air-traffic-controllers futilely tried to stop the panicked pilot ditching at sea.

Evidently Allah heard his prayers, but not those of the 14 who drowned.

Open-Letter to celebrity-atheist Richard Branson.

Dear Sir,

Have you ever thought of an atheist only airline?

With the danger these religious nut-cases pose, plus the related security costs - surely this is an idea, that has come of age?

I look forward to your approval, and ticket for the inaugural flight, along with a dishy hostess thrown-in for good measure.

Ray Comforts lost masterpiece ‘Bugged by Jehovah’s Witnesses?’

Looking at the cover of this booklet, and considering Ray himself is amongst the worlds most overt and passionate prophesiers, the subject matter here seems to be a little bit ‘rich’ – the proverbial 'pot calling the kettle black'.

But the initial assumptions one draws from the cover-art, are well wide of the mark.

These 16 pages, penned purportedly in 1981, are all about Ray slamming The Jehovah Witness Church (or sect as he frames it) and following “The True Church”.

I am not going to bore you with the theological claims he uses to preserve what he calls “the deity of Christ” nor regurgitate the endless bible passages he uses to expand on his position – suffice to say, Ray has 'issues' with The Jehovah Witnesses interpretation of the same book.

It’s highly doubtful a single J.W was deterred by his act of interdenominational ‘brotherhood’.

The Christchurch Library, issues this booklet under the headings (1.) Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society (2.) Controversial Literature.

They got it right, on one score.

This is one booklet, I’m sure Ray is embarrassed to say is mine.

By the way - I’m still confused, how about you?

Footnote: I have another project I’m working-on so this will be the last blog on Ray Comfort for a few weeks, but it won’t be the last. There a few more juicy titles of his, that deserve one more airing.

Ray Comfort takes us into ‘The Pit of Hell’.

‘The Pit of Hell’ is yet another of Ray Comforts fledgling New Zealand publications, which by my count there were 26 there-of, but this is probably on the short side, and there’s bound to be more floating around some where (some publications were essentially the same contents re-hashed)

This 32 page booklet, produced by Living Waters Publications, is listed by The Christchurch Library as coming-out in 1983, but this date is contestable, given many of these works came minus the date of publication we normally expect. 1983 is therefore ‘best guess’.

Before continuing to my acerbic review of it’s contents, for readers who have arrived at this site without having read my previous reviews on some of Rays earlier material and his time in Christchurch, it would pay to read them first. This way my summation on ‘The Pit of Hell’ will make more sense.

As I intimated above, a lot of these works go over the same content matter, and I can’t be bother repeating it.

I would like also to pay tribute to Ray Comforts charity work in the field of Drug Rehabilitation, during his days here in Christchurch. Clearly Ray and I are polls apart when it comes to the subject of God, evolution etc etc, but credit where credit is due, his charity work is worthy of mention.

Nor do I believe Ray has a malicious bone in his body – nowadays at least.

Ray has been blinded by his faith and I’m sure if he still reads his earlier stuff, he too would cringe & giggle.

It’s impossible to avoid the amateurish naivety of ‘The Pit of Hell’ and the ilk.

The ‘cuddly’ Ray, Americans are confronted with on their television screens is not the same one I remember from his days in The Christchurch Square, and my contention is best evidenced in his earlier writings, which I’m publishing for biographical posterity.

So this is not an exercise in character assassination, more one of historic record.

I look this, like one would look lost recording from a rock star’s first garage band resurfacing.

So on to ‘The Pit of Hell’ (some sort of heat repellent clothing is recommended).

Prospective readers are confronted with the tabloid-like headlines, in big letters:

‘Unbelievable Satanic Deception Flooding the Earth!

‘Don’t Ignore this Booklet’.

The dark charcoal cover (regrettably hard to copy decently) also has the following enticing bullet-points, to entice readers inside:

- The Occult
- Demonic Rock Music
- Blood Drinking Rites
- The Spirit of Murder and Punk Rock

So what are the contents of a booklet with such an intriguing cover?

A few pages-in, Ray rapidly moves the reader back to that stalwart of his – possession.

It’s back to Jane we read about in ‘Killer on the Loose’ and her trinket necklace, which he now describes in one line as “made of silver” and then in the next as “resembling either Tinkerbell or Peter Pan” and to confuse us more “probably a goddess of fertility or something similar” – which one of these three options is left to your own imagination (having an vivid imagination is something I recommended with any of these writings)

Ray expands on Jane’s exorcism proceedings, his crew is now down from the four he told us about in the first book to two, and he’s introduced a new prop – a hammer!

Here’s what he has to say “Whatever it was, it had a real hold on that young girl”. “I ripped it (being the necklace) from her hand and took it to the other side of my office and hit it with a hammer”

So you can stay with me, we were told earlier about the spirit of Miranda Smith the wife of Joseph Smith founder of The LDS Church possessing the teenage girl Jane via the portal of the necklace in question, Rays hitting with a hammer whilst his team hold her down.
”I had my back to her, and yet every time I hit the necklace demons in her screamed”. “It was like something out of a horror movie”.

After that vivid description, and a small diversion to another of his pet-hates ouiji boards, he cuts to one of the main areas of occult activity.

We get to the chapter on “Good O’ Rock’ .

Yes, every bad thing you read about with rock music is true and more.

We are told Alice Cooper is the son of a Baptist preacher who allowed a spirit to inhabit his body in exchange for fame and fortune. Iron Maiden have a song ‘The Number of The Beast’ pointing they are in collusion with the devil. Ozzie Osborne gets a notable mention for chewing the head of bats and doves. Jimmy Page is into black magic ceremonies and if you play ‘Stairway to Heaven’ backwards you’ll hear the phrase “here’s to my sweat Satan”.

After dealing to heavy metal, he attacks punk music and sets his sights on The Dead Kennedys and decries seeing KISS perform on a children’s television programme (horror of horrors) He is sure on a roll and as the chapter on the evils of rock music ends Ray wants us to know “One of Satan’s major methods of snaring the generation has been the international method of Rock Music”.

Parents are warned “To encourage children into Rock Music is to place them into the white hot arms of Molech and the beat and power behind the music will drown out the cries of your child as occultic powers consume him and drag him into the fires of hell!”.

Ya have to laugh!