JILL Meagher’s family have condemned a Catholic priest’s “shameful” and “disgusting” comments to parishioners that if the murdered woman had been “more faith-filled” she would have been home in bed.

According to 3AW, a priest sparked outrage after he mentioned the woman’s rape and murder during a homily at St Christopher’s Primary School in Melbourne’s west in front of about 100 parishioners.

During the address he reportedly held up a newspaper report about rapist Adrian Bayley and said if Ms Meagher had been “more faith-filled” she “would have been home in bed” and “not walking down Sydney Rd at 3am” when she was raped and murdered by Bayley in September 2012.

In a Facebook post, Ms Meagher’s husband Tom has described the address as “disgusting”.

“What a truly abhorrent lesson to teach a child,” he wrote.

“How a human being with such dangerous and misogynistic views can be allowed pass those messages on to children is depressing. Shameful.”

Ms Meagher’s mother-in-law Joan told theIrish Independent she was shocked by the priest’s “ridiculous” comments.

“It’s nothing to do with anything except the guy who killed her. It’s a stupid thing to say, but I don’t care what people like that say.

“Even religious people get killed in not-so-nice ways.”

A Catholic Archdiocese of Melbourne spokesman reportedly denied the priest commented on Ms Meagher’s faith but he said the priest had apologised for the offence and upset his address caused.

“He acknowledges that the homily wasn’t appropriate,” Monsignor Greg Bennett told 3AW.

Bayley was found guilty of raping three other women last Thursday, for offences dating back to before his attack on Ms Meagher.

He has been found guilty of more than 20 rape offences in total.