A Louisiana Catholic parish burned the church’s altar after a parish priest was caught having sex with two women on it, reports the Miami Herald via Yahoo News.
The now defrocked priest, Travis Clark, was arrested September 30th with Mindy Dixon and Melissa Cheng after a passerby saw them engaged in a menage a trois on the altar. The three have been charged with obscenity charges, and police confiscated sex toys, stage lights and two recording devices from inside the church.
“The church is a very holy place,” Archbishop Gregory Aymond of New Orleans said Sunday, WDSU reported. “When a church has been used for unholy things and it has been desecrated, we must drive away the evil spirit, and that is what we do today.”
Aymond said the old altar had been removed from the church and burned, saying Clark’s “behavior was obscene, his desecration of the altar is demonic,”