The Church Of Randy

PennLive via Tribune News Service (NY Daily News):

Priest had threesome on Louisiana church altar, police say

What vow of celibacy?

A Louisiana priest had sex with two women on the altar of his church, police said.

The Rev. Travis Clark, 37, was removed from the priesthood last week, but the New Orleans Archdiocese left out the details of his “obscenity of women,” local CBS affiliate WWL reported. Police, however, had no such reservations.

Cops said a passerby filmed Clark half-naked with two women and several sex toys on the altar of Saints Peter and Paul Catholic Church on Sept. 30, according to WWL. The passerby sent the video to police, who arrived and arrested Clark along with two women, Melissa Cheng, 23, and Mindy Dixon, 41.

Investigators said the church sex was being recorded on a mobile phone, NOLA.com reported. Dixon is reportedly an adult film star who works for hire as a dominatrix. She wrote on social media about heading to New Orleans to “defile a house of God.”

Police did not say if the three had left room for Jesus.

Clark, Cheng and Dixon were charged with having sex in a public place — namely the altar, according to WWL. They’ve all posted bail and are no longer detained.

In Roman Catholic tradition, the altar is among the most sacred of church spaces. According to church law, known as canon law, when sacred places are violated they must be “repaired by penitential rite” before they can be used again in the Mass.

Days after Clark’s arrest, Archbishop Gregory Aymond went to Sts. Peter and Paul and performed a ritual to restore the altar’s sanctity, the Times-Picayune reported.

Clark was ordained in 2013 and became the priest at Sts. Peter and Paul in Pearl River, La., across Lake Pontchartrain from downtown New Orleans, in 2019, WWL reported.

He had recently taken over as chaplain at a local high school after the previous chaplain was accused of sexually abusing a minor.

This brings to mind one of the main reasons you can't trust Christians.

Let's assume the offending priest is to be held to account. Who's to judge him, other than god?

Assuming he can and does demonstrate his contrition, which fallible humans get to determine that he's contrite enough to warrant forgiveness according to church canon?

I'm pretty sure the church hierarchy is supposed to be able to deal with this shit, but when I look at the problems they've had with pederasty, how do I not see a system with a giant gaping loophole that let's anybody off the hook as long as his act is convincing?

As pious as some of these guys may well be, they can't know for sure, because they can't see into this guy's heart, because they ain't god for fuck sake.