They had heard from airport chaplain Nicky Lees who told of her alarm after finding the images.
She said: “I was insulted, deeply offended and I was alarmed.”
As the unanimous verdicts were delivered, smartly-dressed Taylor simply raised an eye-brow, but showed no other emotion.
Taylor, of Griffin Street, Salford, Greater Manchester, declined to comment after his conviction on all three counts of religiously aggravated intentional harassment, alarm or distress from November 2, 26, and December 12, 2008. Earlier in the day he had posed for a photographer outside court.
Neville Biddle, prosecuting, who had told Liverpool Crown Court jurors they were acting as the “conscience of our society” revealed Taylor already has two convictions from May 18, 2006 for using abusive, insulting words or behaviour.
He told how on that occasion Taylor had left similar offensive material in St Anne's Church in the centre of Manchester. A postcard he left featured a picture of a monk with his middle finger raised and the words 'Father f*****'. When he was arrested sexual cartoons were found in his possession.
Judge Charles James said he wanted to know all the details from Taylor’s previous convictions. He also ordered a pre-sentence reported be prepared on him, but gave no indication of the sentence.
The judge granted Taylor bail until sentencing on April 23 with a condition not to enter John Lennon airport.
