The parish priest for Sabinillas, Málaga won’t be winning any popularity competitions; that’s for sure. In the two years that Father Nicolás Timpu from Romania has been the parish priest for the village he has knocked up an impressive record of being tactless, bordering on downright nasty.

Take the funeral service for 25-year-old José Luis Benítez, who died in a car crash, for example. The mourners were flabbergasted when Father Nicolás told the congregation to stop crying: “If you don’t stop crying, I’ll stop the service, and if there is no service, there is no burial,” he threatened.

But that’s not all, folks, because he went up to the grieving mother, prodded her in the back and said, “You don’t know how to cry; that’s ugly crying; very ugly – what you are doing is filthy.”

Stunned? Yep, me too, but wait… there’s more. He added, “If he’s dead, it’s because he sinned.”

Now it seems that Father Nick likes to think of himself as an old-school, ‘fire-&-brimstone,’ priest – and that’s probably where they’d like to see Father Nick spending the afterlife, perhaps.

He hates noisy children – who doesn’t, admittedly – and his constant threats of burning in rivers of fire has turned a good few away from Sunday School – and these are kids brought up on 3D, blood & guts video games!

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Oh, and there’s another thing; he is not averse to demanding sizable donations. One young man, who was the Godfather at a Christening, was first told that he should go away as he wasn’t paying attention and then, as an afterthought, informed that if he didn’t donate 50 euros to the church collection he would not allow him to be the godfather to the child.

No, you don’t make a fuss or whimper during Father Nick’s services: an elderly woman at a Confirmation Service fainted, which annoyed the father no end, so he said, “Get her out of here; she interrupting the service.”

You just wait until Franky the Pope gets a whiff of this, Nasty Nick!

(News: Sabinillas, Malaga, Andalucia)