The head of the Dallas Diocese said Wednesday he is launching an investigation into Father Arthur Mallinson's activities and his use of a Web site set up for gay priests. The controversy surrounding Father Mallinson is linked to his posting his photo on a Web site for gay priests, a site that involved pornography at times.
"Father Mallinson continues to maintain that his involvement with the Web site was strictly for spiritual and prayerful support," said Bishop Kevin J. Farrell said in a statement Wednesday afternoon.
Barbara Kraylis left Father Mallinson’s new parish, St. Michael Archangel Church in McKinney, because of his past.
“It’s no secret that his photograph was on the Web site," Kraylis said. "People all over the world knew this back in 1999.”
Father Mallinson did not remove his photo until 2001, the year he says he noticed pornography materials online.
Stephen Brady of the Roman Catholic Faithful, the group that exposed that Web site, says it was sexually driven from the start.
“Unless he was totally ignorant, deaf, dumb, and blind, the thing was pornographic from the first day we discovered it in September of 1999,” Brady said.
Kraylis said she thought the Bishop did not know the truth, but the Catholic Church is searching for it now.
“We have received no allegations of criminal activity by Father Mallinson,” Bishop Farrell said.
It is not up to the Bishop, but rather the legal system and law enforcement to decide whether any illegal activity occurred.
In the meantime, Father Mallinson’s former church in Lancaster is trying to get him back. Some parishoners there say he is a respectful, wonderful man with high integrity.
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