Posted on 10/10/2020 5:53:47 PM PDT by marshmallow
CNA Staff, Oct 9, 2020 / 05:54 pm MT (CNA).-
The Archbishop of New Orleans said Friday that a priest’s filming of a pornographic videotape atop a church’s altar was demonic, and that the priest will never again serve in Catholic ministry.
Fr. Travis Clark’s “obscene behavior was deplorable,” Aymond said in a statement released by the Archdiocese Oct. 9.
“His desecration of the altar in Church was demonic. I am infuriated by his actions. When the details became clear, we had the altar removed and burned. I will consecrate a new altar tomorrow,” Aymond said.
Clark is a New Orleans priest who was arrested Sept. 30 on obscenity charges, when he was observed filming himself in a sexual act with two women atop an altar in his Louisiana parish. The priest was removed from ministry, although the archdiocese did not disclose in detail what had happened; which was described in court records made public Oct. 9.
Clark, 37, was the pastor of Sts. Peter and Paul in Pearl River, Louisiana. He was arrested together with Mindy Dixon, 41, and Melissa Cheng, 23.
A local resident told police they noticed the lights were on in the parish church, and upon looking in the windows, saw the three engaged in sexual activity on the altar.
According to reports, the altar of the church had been outfitted with stage lighting.
Dixon is a pornographic performer and “dominatrix.” According to Nola.com, she had posted on her social media the day before her arrest that she was headed to New Orleans to "defile a house of God” alongside another “dominatrix,” presumably Cheng.
Police believe the sexual encounter to have been consensual, and have not filed charges related to sexual assault. The obscenity charge stemmed from the fact that the sex act was visible from......
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What that priest did, Dennis Prager calls taking God’s name in vain. In Judaism that is the one sin that God will not forgive.
A Sanfransicko diocese will hire him for pelosi’s church or maybe feinswines.
The Bishop has made a stand. Maybe it will inspire him to further actions. God bless all in that Parish.
WHAT is going on in the catholic church! Rampant homosexuality in the Vatican, massive financial fraud, thousands of children suffered sexual molestation at the hands of clergy...then something like this. A priest invites two dominatrix to desecrate the altar.
Good grief man!
Not good and Jesus called it.
It is heartening to see bishops, successors of the Apostles, finally waking up.
In another time that priest would have been burned along with the wooden altar.
So raping kids Doesn’t get you kicked out but a porno tape on the altar dies. Nice standards they got there /s
Sounds like he's embracing diversity. Maybe he ought to look into the PCUSA or the ECUSA.
First thing I said after I read the news.
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