Today, 08:29 AM
The following is taken from pages 32-33 of this issue of The Recusant:
Is this what the Americans call a dumpster fire? And just why does the Fake Resistance seem to have such a disturbing approach to clerical child-molesters? All is not well in the…
Readers will recall that our article about Fr. Kerry Moran in Recusant 63, ended with the words: “In the meantime, this may not be the last we have heard of the matter. Stay tuned…” It seems our instincts were correct. That was not the last we heard of the matter, although none of us could have begun to imagine just what bizarre twists and turns things have taken since then! In the intervening weeks and months, several people have been in touch, more has come to light and things look even worse than they did when that article was written.
Recent Developments
So what has been happening over the past six months? Unbeknownst to us, things had already begun to happen before our article had even appeared. So, let us begin at the start of April 2025 when Dr and Mrs Kavanagh were arrested by the police and taken away in handcuffs in front of their children. An obvious abuse of power by the state, such arrests have become worryingly common in our country in recent years. Police bodycam footage of the whole shameful incident can be seen online here and here.
Many readers will have worked out that the arrest was, in effect, due to the two having raised the alarm about Kerry Moran. Who went to the police? Who sought to have them arrested? An over-zealous Williamsonist faithful, perhaps, or one of Moran’s Fake Resistance clerical colleagues? Tempting though it may be to speculate, we strongly suspect that it was Moran himself, and not merely because that is the simplest answer, but also because of the picture of the man and his personality that has begun slowly to emerge. A man who craves secrecy, anonymity, a life in the shadows, it seems he will go to any lengths to silence his critics and keep his name out of minds and off lips. But more about that later.
Not long after, the story had begun to spread to the Novus Ordo and an Irish diocesan bishop, Donal McKeown, used the presence of Moran within the Ballini Fake Resistance apostolate as an excuse to issue a warning to everyone to stay away. Then the mainstream secular press began to notice, and on 15th April the Belfast Telegraph ran an article about it. Although mostly just repeating McKeown’s denunciation of “SSPX Resistance” (meaning Ballini, Moran & co.), it did nonetheless contain some interesting information of its own.
From the sound of it, Moran’s unnatural vice had already got the better of him more than once before he ever went to Martinique. We commented at the time that there must surely be a reason why an older white man from Wales would choose to do his seminary in a black, French-speaking colonial outpost on the other side of the world. It seems we were right. Anyone else out there with any experience of priests such as this will recognise this kind of behaviour, the constant “moving on” and having to shed all his old friends and reinvent himself, perhaps even using a new name, as a big red flag. The craving for secrecy is another red flag and is obviously related to this. It is, moreover, almost Moran’s signature.
Much more on pages 33-52 here.
Is this what the Americans call a dumpster fire? And just why does the Fake Resistance seem to have such a disturbing approach to clerical child-molesters? All is not well in the…
Williamsonist Wasteland: Paedo Problems
Readers will recall that our article about Fr. Kerry Moran in Recusant 63, ended with the words: “In the meantime, this may not be the last we have heard of the matter. Stay tuned…” It seems our instincts were correct. That was not the last we heard of the matter, although none of us could have begun to imagine just what bizarre twists and turns things have taken since then! In the intervening weeks and months, several people have been in touch, more has come to light and things look even worse than they did when that article was written.
Recent Developments
So what has been happening over the past six months? Unbeknownst to us, things had already begun to happen before our article had even appeared. So, let us begin at the start of April 2025 when Dr and Mrs Kavanagh were arrested by the police and taken away in handcuffs in front of their children. An obvious abuse of power by the state, such arrests have become worryingly common in our country in recent years. Police bodycam footage of the whole shameful incident can be seen online here and here.
Many readers will have worked out that the arrest was, in effect, due to the two having raised the alarm about Kerry Moran. Who went to the police? Who sought to have them arrested? An over-zealous Williamsonist faithful, perhaps, or one of Moran’s Fake Resistance clerical colleagues? Tempting though it may be to speculate, we strongly suspect that it was Moran himself, and not merely because that is the simplest answer, but also because of the picture of the man and his personality that has begun slowly to emerge. A man who craves secrecy, anonymity, a life in the shadows, it seems he will go to any lengths to silence his critics and keep his name out of minds and off lips. But more about that later.
Not long after, the story had begun to spread to the Novus Ordo and an Irish diocesan bishop, Donal McKeown, used the presence of Moran within the Ballini Fake Resistance apostolate as an excuse to issue a warning to everyone to stay away. Then the mainstream secular press began to notice, and on 15th April the Belfast Telegraph ran an article about it. Although mostly just repeating McKeown’s denunciation of “SSPX Resistance” (meaning Ballini, Moran & co.), it did nonetheless contain some interesting information of its own.
Quote:“Bishop Mckeown’s correspondence was issued after a parish in Wales contacted the diocese to warn that a defrocked cleric linked to SSPX Resistance may be operating in the area. The concerns from the Archdiocese of Cardiff relate to an individual who was involved with it around 20 years ago. […]
The concerns relayed by the Archdiocese of Cardiff are believed to relate to the excleric’s conduct with minors. It is understood the individual was not a priest at the time, and was instead a volunteer within the diocese, holding an unofficial role. He then moved to St Mary’s Priory in London, where he studied for a period of three years before being asked to leave following allegations of similar inappropriate behaviour. He subsequently travelled to Martinique, where he was ordained, became a deacon, and was later defrocked.”
From the sound of it, Moran’s unnatural vice had already got the better of him more than once before he ever went to Martinique. We commented at the time that there must surely be a reason why an older white man from Wales would choose to do his seminary in a black, French-speaking colonial outpost on the other side of the world. It seems we were right. Anyone else out there with any experience of priests such as this will recognise this kind of behaviour, the constant “moving on” and having to shed all his old friends and reinvent himself, perhaps even using a new name, as a big red flag. The craving for secrecy is another red flag and is obviously related to this. It is, moreover, almost Moran’s signature.
Much more on pages 33-52 here.
"So let us be confident, let us not be unprepared, let us not be outflanked, let us be wise, vigilant, fighting against those who are trying to tear the faith out of our souls and morality out of our hearts, so that we may remain Catholics, remain united to the Blessed Virgin Mary, remain united to the Roman Catholic Church, remain faithful children of the Church."- Abp. Lefebvre