A Catholic church in Pearl River, Louisiana, has burned the altar where its former pastor was caught having sex with two women.
“His behavior was obscene, his desecration of the altar is demonic,” said Archbishop Gregory Aymond of New Orleans, who consecrated a new altar at the church Sunday, WVUE reports.
The former pastor at St. Peter and Paul Catholic Church, Travis Clark, has been removed from ministry and is no longer on the diocese payroll, WDSU reported.
Clark, 37, was arrested Sept. 30 with Mindy Dixon and Melissa Cheng on obscenity charges after a passer-by reported seeing them having sex on the church’s altar, the New Orleans Advocate reported.
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Police confiscated sex toys, stage lights and two recording devices from inside the church, according to the publication.
Attorney Bradley Phillips, who represents Dixon and Cheng, called their arrest “appalling,” and said they were engaged in consensual sex with an adult outside public view, the New Orleans Advocate reported.
I used to go to church every Sunday (I was a catholic btw). There was this father who used to preach every Sunday and he seemed a good person only for him to impregnate a 16 year old high school girl. Needless to say I stopped going to church. The same father was involved in money looting scams in the church coffers.
Salvation is personal. I cant go to church to be preached by a sinner!