Catholics furious at YouTube desecrations

YouTube has failed to remove videos of a teenager violently desecrating consecrated Hosts in spite of almost 20,000 Catholic complaints.

Videos of a young man appearing to desecrate Hosts reappeared on the internet site YouTube only a few hours after the site pulled them down. In over 40 videos the man, a French Canadian from Quebec who assumes the pseudonym FSMdude but who also calls himself Dom, is shown desecrating the Eucharist in various ways including "crucifying" it and flushing it down the toilet.

FSMdude, whose pseudonym is a reference to the Flying Spaghetti Monster, a spoof religion set up by atheists in 2005, first posted a video at the end of July in which he denied the Holy Spirit and desecrated a consecrated Host by ripping it to shreds and chewing it violently. A written statement accompanied the first video and said: "So here I am. Me, and a bunch of consecrated Eucharist, ready to take the EUCHARIST CHALLENGE.

"Me and my friends will work together to get our hands on a consecrated Eucharist, each day. From now on, one Eucharist desecration a day, and each day a different method. If they want blaspheme (sic), we'll give 'em blaspheme."

Full story at Catholic Herald