A Catholic priest who admitted discussing bombing mosques and shooting Black people in the head in neo-Nazi online chatrooms has been sentenced to a 12-month community order.
Father Mark Rowles, 57, used the name “skinheadlad1488” in a chatroom called Aryan Reich Killers where grotesquely offensive messages about Muslims were written.
On Thursday, Rowles, of St John Lloyd Catholic Church in Cardiff, admitted three counts of sending menacing or offensive messages using the Telegram app in May and June 2024. He will complete 150 hours of community service, pay £199 in costs, and be subject to a Criminal Behaviour Order for three years. The Catholic Church in Wales will conduct its own review.
The court was told he described himself in an online profile as a 16-year-old skinhead neo-Nazi and a loner. His profile picture showed a young white man with a face covering, alongside a German flag and the words “right hand path always.”
I think because they have a simple, shallow, understanding of the world.
They believe racist is bad. But they don’t really know or accept why.
They believe they are a good person. Axiomatically.
Thus, they cannot be racist because racist is bad.
Yep. My father lost his shit a couple of weeks ago when I told him it was racist to assume that the brown person being brutalized by ICE thugs in the video I sent him was a criminal.