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After priest’s conviction for sexual assault, a Louisiana chapel he built removes his name
Anthony Odiong was convicted of sexually victimizing congregants; now a chapel he helped found is distancing itself from him At the suburban New Orleans healing chapel he once helped build in his role as a Roman Catholic priest, hours after he had ...
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Anthony Odiong was convicted of sexually victimizing congregants; now a chapel he helped found is distancing itself from him At the suburban New Orleans healing chapel he once helped build in his role as a Roman Catholic priest, hours after he had ...
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According to The Guardian’s source item, After priest’s conviction for sexual assault, a Louisiana chapel he built removes his name, Anthony Odiong was convicted of sexually victimizing congregants; now a chapel he helped found is distancing itself from him At the suburban New Orleans healing chapel he once helped build in his role as a Roman Catholic priest, hours after he had been convicted on Friday in Texas of criminal clergy sexual assault, Anthony Odiong’s name had already been removed. But what still remained inscribed among lists of hundreds of supporters outside the Our Lady of Guadalupe healing chapel in Luling, Louisiana, were the names of two women whom Waco, Texas, prosecutors revealed were part of a broader group whom Odiong victimized before his conviction on charges of illicitly exploiting his spiritual authority as a clergyman to pursue sex with devout female parishioners. Continue reading…
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