On December 24th 1993, the Sydney Morning Herald did a four page article on William Kamm, exposing his activities then, and exposing just how he behaved in Bayside while he was there.
After the article appeared, William threatened to sue. He even took up a collection from his followers. However, there is no record whatsoever that he even complained to the Press Council of Australia. He just took the money from his poor, duped followers.
Then again, William has threatened to sue the entire Catholic church for billions of dollars, but he cannot find a lawyer who would take it on. Which is not really surprising.
Here is an extract from that article. It suggests quite clearly what kind of an individual William Kamm is, and what motivates him.
By Susan Borham and Rosa Maiolo:
In a confidential report to the Vatican on the Little Pebble, prepared by the staff of the Bishop of Wollongong, Bishop William Murray, Kamm’s former parish priest, Father Leo Stevens, noted: “From the very beginning of my acquaintance with William Kamm I became aware of his very strong interest in apparitions approved by the Church and numerous alleged apparitions.
I remember well that I advised him to give less emphasis to apparitions in his religious life, However, as time went by, Mr Kamm’s interest in apparitions
increased.It was after he traveled to Bayside, New York, that he began to announce that he, himself, was also receiving apparitions and messages. I noted, and pointed out to him, the similarity between the format and phraseology of the Bayside events and those of Mr. Kamm’s….“
Sydney In fact, Kamm had made two trips to an infamous mission in Bayside, New York, operated by a now seriously discredited “seer” named Veronica Lueken.
Lueken also claims she is a “voice-box” for the Virgin Mary – delivering her “end-time” messages to the worldThousands regularly flock to her evening vigils in Bayside, a suburb in the borough of Queens in New York City, where blue and red lights flash to alert worshippers to the presence of the Virgin Mary and Jesus respectively.
Short, quiet and bespectacled, Kamm went largely unnoticed among Lueken’s thousands of followers on his first trip to Bayside in 1980. However, he attracted the unfavourable attention of the “seer” herself during his second visit in 1981.
A Canadian journalist, Arnie Cillis, the only reporter ever to gain access to Lueken, was asked by Lueken to help dismiss Kamm from the Bayside mission.
Cillis was, for a brief time, involved in Bayside - before exposing it in a publication titled Bayside Backstage, published in Canada by The Archangel Press in 1986.
Speaking from her home in Ottawa last week, Cillis gave details of her encounter with Kamni in Bayside.
“I was visiting the mission with my four daughters and we were offered a tour of the place where Veronica’s volunteer workers print and distribute her literature” Cillis recalled.“My daughters asked if they could help. They were stuffing envelopes for a mail-out.
“One of my daughters came down to me and said: ‘Mummy, there is the funniest man upstairs. He keeps leaning close to me and breathing down my neck, and he keeps looking at me with his eyes half open. I’m scared of him.’
“She said he had been kissing the ears of the women stuffing the envelopes. I told her to go upstairs and get her sisters to come down.
“Later he came downstairs and my daughter said ‘Mummy, that’s the man’. He had his shirt half undone to the waist, showing his hairy chest. It was William Kamm.
“Later that afternoon Frank Albas, the man in charge of Veronica’s workers, invited us to supper at the apartments where the workers lived. Veronica rented two apartments together in the Bronx and 12 of the workers who were from other cities lived there, including William Kamm”
Cillis said that, while they were there, Lueken telephoned and asked Frank Albas to get rid of Kamm.
"She told him she’d had too many complaints about him from women workers. She said it didn’t look good to nave him around.
“Frank didn’t want to have to do it, So Veronica called me to the phone and asked if I would be with Frank when he told William to leave.“She said she’d never met Kamm personally and didn’t know who he was. She just wanted him to leave. Eventually, I agreed to do it. After all, one of my own daughters had been harassed by him.
“We called Kamm into a room and told him Veronica wanted him to go back to Australia and why. I remember saying to him:
‘Morally speaking, you are a disaster”.
“He was arrogant and scornful and so cynical in his response. We eventually said: ‘Either you leave now or we’ll get you thrown out in the morning.’
“He then walked over to the door and put his hand on his hip in this sexy pose and said: ‘Well, I guess it’s time Australia got its own seer.’”
Cilhis didn’t see Kamm again.
But, about a year later, religious literature on a seer called the Little Pebble began arriving in New York from Australia.
“At first we all wondered who the Little Pebble was,” Cillis said. “Then something arrived with his picture on it We couldn’t believe
It was William Kamm.
“We all said ‘He’s gone back to Australia and done exactly what he said he was going to do!’
“See, he’d been at Bayside and watched the money rolling in in bags. He’d learned the ropes of how to operate a bogus seer operation.”
ASKED during an ABC radio interview in 1986 why he was dismissed from Bayside, Kamni would only say: “That was a personal issue. She [Lueken] didn’t believe I was receiving messages.”
So here we see William Kamm, as far back as 1981, with his own agenda.