Priest charged with dealing cocaine from campus rectory

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Priest charged with dealing cocaine from campus rectory
AXcess News
9.12.08

(AXcess News) Chicago - Illinois police arrested a Catholic priest Wednesday, charging him with dealing cocaine on the campus of the University of Illinois from the church rectory.

The Reverand Christopher Layden appeared in Court the following day with his attorney, entering a not guilty plea.

Layden,33, was charged with two counts of delivery of less than 1 gram of cocaine within 1,000 feet of a church and one count of possession with intent to deliver 1 to 15 grams of cocaine near a church.

The Catholic Diocese of Peoria has suspended Layden from his priestly duties pending an outcome at his trial.

A search of Reverand Layden's home turned up 3 grams of coke and drug paraphernalia, court records indicate.

When the Catholic priest was arrested, Illinois police picked him up at St. John's Catholic Newman Center following the search of his home and office.

No information was released as to how police caught onto the alleged coke dealing member of the Catholic clergy. The Catholic Diocese in Peoria has not commented on the case.

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It's been said that altar-boys and cocaine are a good mix...
 
There are daughters of ministers children of clergy
There are amiable honarables barristers verging
On every single section of today’s society
Have thrown figs to the wind and embraced with such glee
The most wonderful pastime to have come around in years
Yes policemen and plumbers road sweepers and peers

Simply everyone’s taking Cocaine

-Murray Lachlan Young
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What a bummer.
 
^ why?

priests and other official religious people are human (even the pope is! its a POLITICAL process which runs the church and elects the male pope. organized religions, aka including non catholic religions, are not exempt from any of the problems of individual vices or group/politics vices

eg sexual desires, hunger for power, desire to hoard money, addictions, etc
 
Ahh, the body of Christ.
Certainly more exciting than a wafer no?
'Do a line of this and 10,000 Hail Mary's'...
 
I love how its somehow "more illegal" to sell drugs near a church -- as opposed to near any other hunk of bricks that serve some sort of abstract purpose.
 
+1, nice one roger. Your wit has gotten even better since your NDE... ;)
 
God, that's just horrible. My uncle is a Catholic priest, so I know intimately how priests live and how they are human like everyone else. (It sucked when he told my mom he could smell marijuana smoke on my clothes once) But to sell out of the rectory of a church...how can you put yourself in such denial?
 
My sister works with the choir at St. Johns. I cracked a joke about this to her and she got pretty angry. Apparently she knew the guy and was pretty upset about the whole deal.

When I first heard about this on the news, they made it seem like he was some huge blow dealer. Come to find out they only seized 3 grams.

edit - I had lunch with my sister today and she gave me the update on this situation. Apparently there was a police informant, some guy who got busted and ratted out the priest. He claimed to have travelled with him to Chicago several times to buy coke, and had done coke with him on 40-50 different occasions. Including in the rectory, and even off of a picture of the priest and a bishop.
 
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