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Sinners -- including priest and dominatrices -- charged in altar threesome
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Publishing date:Mar 22, 2021 • 34 minutes ago • 1 minute read • comment bubbleJoin the conversation
The Rev. Travis Clark and two dominatrices were charged with vandalism following an alleged altar threeseome in Louisana.
The Rev. Travis Clark and two dominatrices were charged with vandalism following an alleged altar threeseome in Louisana. PHOTO BY ST. TAMMANY PARISH SHERIFF'S OFFICE /SCREEN GRAB
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Lord have mercy, indeed.
A former Lousiana priest and a pair of dominatrices faced vandalism charges for having sex atop a church alter last September, according to a report.
Travis Clark, 37, Mindy Dixon, 41, and 28-year-old Melissa Cheng were initially charged with obscenity following the alleged unholy rendezvous inside Saints Peter and Paul Catholic Church in Pearl River, La., NOLA.com reported. However, the St. Tammany Parish District Attorney’s Office has since announced lesser charges for the trio’s alleged tryst.
Court records indicate they were caught by a passerby who saw them through a church window and reported the sins to police.
The dominatrices were wearing corsets and high heels during the threesome, which was being recorded, according to court documents. Also recovered at the scene? Sex toys, stage lights and recording devices.
No word if there were handcuffs involved before, as well as after.
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Mandy Dixon. ST. TAMMANY PARISH SHERIFF’S OFFICE
Mandy Dixon. ST. TAMMANY PARISH SHERIFF’S OFFICE
An attorney for Dixon and Cheng told NOLA.com that state prosecutors “overstepped their bounds” by bringing the charges against them.
The women confessed to cops at the time they were at the church to film “roleplay” with the priest — and cops determined the activities were all consensual. However, the trio was arrested on obscenity charges because they were in view of the public.
Melissa Cheng. Mandy Dixon. ST. TAMMANY PARISH SHERIFF’S OFFICE
Melissa Cheng. Mandy Dixon. ST. TAMMANY PARISH SHERIFF’S OFFICE
Clark was reportedly removed from the church the day after his arrest.
The church’s altar, meanwhile, was burned and a new one consecrated last fall.
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The Rev. Travis Clark and two dominatrices were charged with vandalism following an alleged altar threeseome in Louisana.
The Rev. Travis Clark and two dominatrices were charged with vandalism following an alleged altar threeseome in Louisana. PHOTO BY ST. TAMMANY PARISH SHERIFF'S OFFICE /SCREEN GRAB
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Lord have mercy, indeed.
A former Lousiana priest and a pair of dominatrices faced vandalism charges for having sex atop a church alter last September, according to a report.
Travis Clark, 37, Mindy Dixon, 41, and 28-year-old Melissa Cheng were initially charged with obscenity following the alleged unholy rendezvous inside Saints Peter and Paul Catholic Church in Pearl River, La., NOLA.com reported. However, the St. Tammany Parish District Attorney’s Office has since announced lesser charges for the trio’s alleged tryst.
Court records indicate they were caught by a passerby who saw them through a church window and reported the sins to police.
The dominatrices were wearing corsets and high heels during the threesome, which was being recorded, according to court documents. Also recovered at the scene? Sex toys, stage lights and recording devices.
No word if there were handcuffs involved before, as well as after.
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Mandy Dixon. ST. TAMMANY PARISH SHERIFF’S OFFICE
Mandy Dixon. ST. TAMMANY PARISH SHERIFF’S OFFICE
An attorney for Dixon and Cheng told NOLA.com that state prosecutors “overstepped their bounds” by bringing the charges against them.
The women confessed to cops at the time they were at the church to film “roleplay” with the priest — and cops determined the activities were all consensual. However, the trio was arrested on obscenity charges because they were in view of the public.
Melissa Cheng. Mandy Dixon. ST. TAMMANY PARISH SHERIFF’S OFFICE
Melissa Cheng. Mandy Dixon. ST. TAMMANY PARISH SHERIFF’S OFFICE
Clark was reportedly removed from the church the day after his arrest.
The church’s altar, meanwhile, was burned and a new one consecrated last fall.
Sinners -- including priest and dominatrices -- charged in altar threesome
Lord have mercy, indeed.
Toronto Catholic school board to recognize Pride Month after Halton veto
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Publishing date:May 07, 2021 • 1 day ago • 1 minute read • 56 Comments
A rainbow flag is waving in the wind.
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The Toronto Catholic District School Board says it will celebrate Pride Month every June, starting this year.
The TCDSB trustees voted in favour of proclaiming Pride Month on Thursday night.
The decision comes 10 days after the Halton Catholic District School Board voted against flying the rainbow flag or recognizing Pride Month.
Pride Month honours the 1969 Stonewall Uprising in New York City, a rallying point for the LGBTQ+ community.
A Pride flag will be flown at the TCDSB’s office and all of its schools for the month of June.
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In response, to the Halton Catholic District School Board vote, all nine Catholic high schools in Halton Region posted a rainbow-themed message of support to LGBTQ+ students and parents.
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A rainbow flag is waving in the wind.
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The Toronto Catholic District School Board says it will celebrate Pride Month every June, starting this year.
The TCDSB trustees voted in favour of proclaiming Pride Month on Thursday night.
The decision comes 10 days after the Halton Catholic District School Board voted against flying the rainbow flag or recognizing Pride Month.
Pride Month honours the 1969 Stonewall Uprising in New York City, a rallying point for the LGBTQ+ community.
A Pride flag will be flown at the TCDSB’s office and all of its schools for the month of June.
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In response, to the Halton Catholic District School Board vote, all nine Catholic high schools in Halton Region posted a rainbow-themed message of support to LGBTQ+ students and parents.
Toronto Catholic school board to recognize Pride Month after Halton veto
The Toronto Catholic District School Board says it will celebrate Pride Month every June, starting this year.
Four years after death, nun's body shows no signs of decay
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Published May 25, 2023 • Last updated 1 day ago • 2 minute read
Sister Wilhelmina’s remarkably well-preserved body in the tiny town of Gower, Mo.
Sister Wilhelmina’s remarkably well-preserved body in the tiny town of Gower, Mo. PHOTO BY STEPHANIE LYNN/FACEBOOK /TORONTO SUN
This was, apparently, no sister act.
A nun’s exhumed body showed no visible signs of decomposition a whopping four years after being buried — and it’s bringing people out in droves to the tiny rural Missouri town of Gower, some 64 kilometres north of Kansas City.
People are making the pilgrimage to see to well-preserved body of Sister Wilhemina Lancaster and it’s being called the “miracle in Missouri,” according to The New York Post.
Lancaster was 70 when she founded Benedictine Sisters of Mary, Queen of the Apostles.
She died in May 2019 at age 95, according to the Catholic News Agency.
Benedictine nuns dug up Lancaster’s coffin last Thursday to move it to beneath the altar in the convent’s chapel, a customary exercise.
“We were told by cemetery personnel to expect just bones in the conditions, as Sister Wilhelmina was buried without embalming and in a simple wood coffin,” one nun told Newsweek, according to the Post.
However, Mother Abbess Cecilia Snell looked through a crack in the coffin and saw “a totally infact foot with the sock on, looking just like it did when we buried her.”
She told the Eternal World Television Network her first reaction was disbelief: “I didn’t just see that.”
Flashlight in hand, she then took a closer look and confirmed her initial observation, prompting cheers from the other nuns.
When they eventually opened the coffin, the sisters were astonished to find Lancaster’s body with almost no signs of decay.
“The dirt that fell in early on had pushed down on her facial features, especially the right eye, so we did place a wax mask over it,” a nun told Newsweek. “But her eyelashes, hair, eyebrows, nose and lips were all present, her mouth just about to smile.”
The nuns then reportedly lifted Lancaster’s’ body, which they estimated weighed as much as 90 pounds.
After the nuns washed some mold and mildew off Lancaster’s body, her habit and the crown and bouquet of flowers with which she was buried all appeared in perfect condition.
“I mean, there was just this sense that the Lord was doing this,” Snell said. “Right now we need hope. We need it. Our Lord knows that. And she was such a testament to hope. And faith. And trust.”
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Sister Wilhelmina’s remarkably well-preserved body in the tiny town of Gower, Mo.
Sister Wilhelmina’s remarkably well-preserved body in the tiny town of Gower, Mo. PHOTO BY STEPHANIE LYNN/FACEBOOK /TORONTO SUN
This was, apparently, no sister act.
A nun’s exhumed body showed no visible signs of decomposition a whopping four years after being buried — and it’s bringing people out in droves to the tiny rural Missouri town of Gower, some 64 kilometres north of Kansas City.
People are making the pilgrimage to see to well-preserved body of Sister Wilhemina Lancaster and it’s being called the “miracle in Missouri,” according to The New York Post.
Lancaster was 70 when she founded Benedictine Sisters of Mary, Queen of the Apostles.
She died in May 2019 at age 95, according to the Catholic News Agency.
Benedictine nuns dug up Lancaster’s coffin last Thursday to move it to beneath the altar in the convent’s chapel, a customary exercise.
“We were told by cemetery personnel to expect just bones in the conditions, as Sister Wilhelmina was buried without embalming and in a simple wood coffin,” one nun told Newsweek, according to the Post.
However, Mother Abbess Cecilia Snell looked through a crack in the coffin and saw “a totally infact foot with the sock on, looking just like it did when we buried her.”
She told the Eternal World Television Network her first reaction was disbelief: “I didn’t just see that.”
Flashlight in hand, she then took a closer look and confirmed her initial observation, prompting cheers from the other nuns.
When they eventually opened the coffin, the sisters were astonished to find Lancaster’s body with almost no signs of decay.
“The dirt that fell in early on had pushed down on her facial features, especially the right eye, so we did place a wax mask over it,” a nun told Newsweek. “But her eyelashes, hair, eyebrows, nose and lips were all present, her mouth just about to smile.”
The nuns then reportedly lifted Lancaster’s’ body, which they estimated weighed as much as 90 pounds.
After the nuns washed some mold and mildew off Lancaster’s body, her habit and the crown and bouquet of flowers with which she was buried all appeared in perfect condition.
“I mean, there was just this sense that the Lord was doing this,” Snell said. “Right now we need hope. We need it. Our Lord knows that. And she was such a testament to hope. And faith. And trust.”
Nun’s body exhumed 4 years after death shows no signs of decay, sparks ‘miracle’ claims
Catholics have been flocking to Gower, Missouri, to view the incorrupt body of Sister Wilhelmina Lancaster, who died in 2019.
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HOLY!: Four years after death, nun's body shows no signs of decay
A nun's exhumed body showed no visible signs of decomposition a whopping four years after being burial.