Top 5 Most SINFUL PRIESTS

The priesthood is regarded as a noble vocation. Priest are so close to god that sometimes we forget that they’re people too, just like the rest of us. And like every person on earth, we all have our flaws, and as the people on this list will show, some are much worse then others. These are the top 5 Most Sinful Priests.

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Top 5 MOST SINFUL PRIESTS

5. Reverend Mike Tabb

Fromer Navy chaplain, Rev. Mike Tabb and his family moved from Camp Lejeune, North Carolina to Troup, Texas where The small town of 1,900 people welcomed them with open arms.”

All seemed well within the household until August 5, 2002 when a frantic call from the Reverend reached the local police station. Investigators rushed to the scene at around 6;30 pm, where they found Marla, the reverends wife, lying in a pool of her own blood.

4. Pastor John Canning – Sebring, Florida

In sebring Florida Pastor John Canning delivered a 30-minute eulogy at the funeral of Lee and Hazel Gleese. The slain elderly couple, both 90 years old, were found strangled to death inside their home and Pastor Canning told attendees he was so close to them that he even called them “mom and dad.” Just six weeks later, Canning would be arrested for their murders.

Pastor John studied at the Zion Bible Institute in Rhode Island but was not ordained. Afterwards, he bounced from place to place starting various small churches, But trouble always seemed to push him out.

3. Father Gerald Ridsdale

Born in Western Victoria Australia, Father Ridsdale first took his vows into the priesthood at St. Patrick’s Cathedral in 1961. In the first year of his services, the church already received complaints about his behavior but somehow, they never did anything about it. He was proclaimed chaplain of St. Alipius Primary School, an all-boys boarding school in 1971, and from there, his sexual misconduct only escalated. Initially, the Archdiocese of Ballarat had denied knowing about Ridsdale’s misconducts but later investigations revealed they had known about it earlier than they admitted and somehow, even protected the priest by moving him to different appointments instead.

2 Father Joseph Maskell – Baltimore City, Maryland

Born Anthony Joseph Maskell on Aril 13, 1939, he opted to use the name Joseph when he entered the seminary . Those who knew him describe the preist as being an intelligent man who loved psychology, someone who would often offer his counselling services to students at any time. But underneath the seemingly noble exterior, Maskell was actually a complete monster.

Over the years, 30 victims have come forward detailing sexual abuse by the priest – most of which occurred while he was working as chaplain for the Archbishop Keough High School between 1965 and1975.)

1. Father Hans Schmidt – New York / Louisville, Kentucky

Father Hans Schmidt lived and grew up in Germany. From a young age He exhibited a strong fascination with blood and dismemberment and one relative recalled how he beheaded his mother’s geese and kept their heads in his pocket. During his seminary days, he was charged with forging diplomas. Although prosecutors wanted him jailed, his lawyer managed to get him off the hook due to mental illness, which were said to have been present on both sides of the family.

By December 23, 1904, Schmidt claimed to have been ordained into the priesthood by Bishop Georg Kirstein. His family questioned whether he had the moral and mental fitness to serve as a Catholic priest but nevertheless, he began receiving parish assignments.

So there were the Top 5 MOST SINFUL PRIESTS
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Priests are the pillars of Christianity and deemed to be “people of God”. And while many of them may mean well, sometimes they let ones in that commit heinous and atrocious acts, all while hdiding behind the power of their status.