The Recusant #63 - Easter 2025

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Taken from pages 42-45 of this issue of The Recusant:

First Fr. Abraham. Then Fr. Peignot. Now there’s a third paedo priest on the loose, protected and enabled by the Fake Resistance. What are the odds? At what point does it become a pattern? And why is it that so many people who knew him were/are seemingly paralysed? Why are so many more still trying to defend him? Expect all the hard questions to go unanswered by the cult-personality groupies.

Who is Fr. Kerry Moran?
(and why does it matter?)

Kerry Michael Moran is a priest of the Fake Resistance. Since mid-2024 he has said Mass and heard confessions in England for the Mass centres of Bishop Paul Morgan, staying intermittently at Broadstairs and has since then spent time in Ireland where he said Mass heard confessions for the Mass centres of Bishop Giacomo Ballini, though we are told that in Ireland he went by the name Ciaran Moran. He also stayed at the house in Cork where Ballini lives with his priests and seminarians. In March of this year, an old acquaintance drew our
attention to this in early 2025 after he received this email in reply to an enquiry:

Very little effort is required to ascertain that this email is 100% genuine. Note the fact that it was sent not from the priest’s personal email account, but from the email address belonging to the chancery of the diocese (www.eglisemartinique.fr) is the website of the conciliar church in Martinique, a colonial outpost of France situated near Barbados in the Caribbean. The title under his name, “Chancellier intérimaire” means that he is the chancellor of the diocese, but as a temporary, not yet permanent, appointment. “Interim Chancellor” we might say. The same diocese website also reveals that the interim chancellor of the diocese is one Fr. Benoit Paul-Joseph, priest of the Fraternity of St Peter. The above email is therefore not a random email from an unknown stranger intent on causing mischief. It is not even an email from Fr. Benoit-Joseph as an individual priest: it is an official response from the chancellor of a conciliar diocese in his capacity as chancellor of that diocese.

The next question is this: is it true that the priest Kerry Moran is originally from the diocese of Fort - de - France in Martinique? Is this diocese really in a position to know what they are talking about when they warn people about him? Again, a quick internet search is our friend.

“Among the visiting clergy were Fr Emmanuel Chaulvet and Deacon Kerry Moran who are based in Martinique.” says a Novus Ordo news article from May 2018, about ordinations in Port of Spain diocese, in Trinidad and Tobago (https://catholictt.org/2018/05/25/it-can-bedone/).

Another publicly visible article from February 2017 reads:

“Mgr. David Macaire, Archbishop of our diocese will this year make a pastoral visit to our district from Monday 8th to Wednesday 10th May 2017, and will meet with the leaders of various different groups and movements in the following order: […] 11. The Mass servers with the seminarian Kerry Moran, diocesan MC” ...

(“Les servants de messe avec le séminariste Kerry Moran, cérémoniaire diocésain.” -
original article in French, translation is ours - http://paroissedufrancois.fr/visite-demg...d-macaire/ ).

As before, this is a Novus Ordo news website from that part of the world, in this case from Martinique. So we can gather that he was a seminarian in early 2017 and a deacon by May 2017. Remember that the conciliar church don’t do minor orders: your status is “seminarian” and nothing else, right up until you become a deacon. These dates fit with what the chancellor of Fort de France diocese says, that he was ordained deacon for that diocese in August 2017.

On the website of the Latin Mass Society of England and Wales, we find a 2014 article which mentions him thus:

“Please pray for vocations, especially for the following young men of the Archdiocese… Pray for Matthew Palmer (FSSP), Royston Price, Kerry Moran who have entered the religious life…”
(https://lmscardiff.org.uk/vocations_to_t...ious_life/)

Exactly what “religious life” he had entered in 2014 remains unclear, but we gather that he tried his vocation a number of different places before ending up in Martinique. And come to think of it, what is a white guy from Wales doing in a black Caribbean French-speaking diocese? Not a crime, of course, and there might be a perfectly innocent explanation. But it does require an explanation, it isn’t normal. And was he eventually ordained a priest by that diocese or only deacon, in which case who ordained him a priest? One version we have heard is that it was Archbishop Vigano who ordained him to the priesthood. He himself, it seems, has been telling people that Bishop Williamson conditionally ordained him to the priesthood. So who knows what the truth is, there seem to be at least three possibilities there.

We gather that Fr. Moran is now telling people that his former diocese are persecuting him because he was too Traditional for them, or something similar. This doesn’t ring true somehow. Apart from being a suspiciously convenient excuse, the chancellor of the diocese happens to be a priest of the Fraternity of St Peter. And anyway, if Moran had always been so Traditional, so Traditional that his own diocese fabricated a very serious charge against him, why would he have chosen a Novus Ordo diocese in which to be a seminarian in the first place? Besides, say what you will about conciliar dioceses, surely they don’t go about inventing charges of child sexual abuse where none exist; they take that sort of thing seriously and are under a lot of pressure to be seen to do so, especially in recent years.

Either way, our correspondents of the diocese of Fort-de-France were also in touch with Archbishop Vigano and received this reply from him:

Fr. Moran’s response to this, we are told, has been to accuse Archbishop Vigano of having it in for him. How convenient. His old conciliar diocese who ordained him deacon and the ‘Traditional’ bishop who he says ordained him priest, both somehow have ended up with a grudge against him, one so serious that they have decided to collude in the same fabricated story against him - does that sound plausible?

It is also important to note that Vigano says he informed Bishop Ballini. Why Ballini for his part decided to ignore the warning is anyone’s guess. Several people have tried to reach him in recent weeks, but he appeared to have gone off to Italy. Our correspondents sent both emails to Bishop Morgan, whom they had known since his SSPX days, and his response was to block them. It is also useful to note that if there is a distinct lack of evidence from the other side, i.e. from the Fake Resistance, that is because of their usual habit of “being discreet” following the advice of Bishop Williamson.

This means that very little is publicly verifiable. Unfortunately, it also means that it creates an atmosphere in which pederasts and child sexual abusers can breathe a little more easily: such people are often consummate liars and not beyond reinventing themselves to outrun their own notorious reputations, and it is usually only by open communication that they are eventually brought to book.

Screenshot from The Recusant, page 45

Fr. Kerry Moran certainly appears very keen to be ‘discreet’. Evidence abounds of how anxious he is not to have his name or even his picture out in public - he is not at all happy about it! Some might say that this is in itself suspicious. His stories to various people about how he is a top-level expert canon lawyer and that he is currently fighting cases in Rome to defend various unnamed Traditionalists also ring hollow to many. To others, he has said that it is himself that he is defending and that once his name gets out in connection with the ‘Resistance’ (by which he presumably means the Fake Resistance), it will ruin his chances of a fair trial. Again, it all rings a little hollow.

And of course, it is impossible to contact the man himself because - you’ve guessed it - everything is top secret, the whole apostolate has to operate behind closed doors, there is no public point of contact anywhere that we can see.


Why Does it Matter?

Apart from the fact that this is now a third homo / pederast child-molester left to the world as part of Bishop Williamson’s “Resistance” legacy, there is the disquieting reaction of all the groupies. It is as though Bishop Williamson can never have done anything wrong, therefore anyone connected to him must be defended at all costs. Bishops Morgan and Ballini refuse to take any responsibility for the man they introduced to their own faithful. Even the laity, some of them it seems, are intent on defending this man, just as some of them have (we are reliably informed) taken in recent years to telling people that Fr. Stephen Abraham is totally innocent and never did anything. Incredible but true. Let us just take a moment to ponder what it must take to produce such a head-in-the-sand response. The mind boggles.

Screenshot from The Recusant, page 45

It is tempting to hope that the stubbornness, blindness and unwillingness to face facts or take responsibility may be the undoing of the Fake Resistance. But let us be realistic: the secular world around us will not make any distinction between us and them, and we will end up being tarred with the same brush. In the meantime, this may not be the last we have heard of the matter. Stay tuned…