Local critics of the Catholic Church had a field day on Monday when one of the links on the religious website was accidentally set up to redirect readers to a pornographic page.
A press release on the appointment of Reverend Luis Antonio G. Tagle as the 32nd Metropolitan Archbishop of Manila was posted on the parish’s website, rcam.org, on Monday morning.
At the bottom of the page, the link “tvmaria.com” was posted, supposedly to direct readers to a live-streaming page for people that wanted to watch Bishop Tagle’s installation rites, scheduled for 9 a.m. on Monday.
However, readers were instead redirected to pornographic page, featuring the page of a man dressed in a woman’s lingerie while lying on a couch.
While it appeared to be the work of Internet hackers at first, the confusion was likely a mistake since typing in “tvmaria.net” sent readers to the correct page.
The site link was corrected by 3 p.m., Monday.
Critics of the Catholic Church were quick to take advantage of the mistake on social networking sites.
Tour guide Carlos Celdran, an outspoken critic of the Catholic Bishops Conference of the Philippines (CBCP) over the issue of reproductive health, seemed to promote the erroneous link on the page by posting its address on Twitter.com.
“The CBCP booboo has made it to the news.” Celdran said in a “tweet.”