Cops: Man Twerked Nude On Catholic Church’s Altar

The New Orleans Times-Picayune reports:

A New Orleans man arrested on charges that he repeatedly damaged a 100-year-old statue of the Virgin Mary on the campus of St. Edward the Confessor Catholic Church in Metairie is now accused of illegally entering the church’s locked sanctuary and defiling the altar, the Jefferson Parish Sheriff’s Office said.

Paul Laborde Jr., 56, a registered sex offender who also served time for his father’s beating death in 2004, is accused of rubbing his exposed buttocks on the altar and placing the “front of his body” — with pants pulled down — against the altar and gyrating.

The Archdiocese of New Orleans on Tuesday said the altar at St. Edwards has been cleansed and reblessed.

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In 2020, the New Orleans Archdiocese ceremonially burned a separate church’s altar after a priest filmed himself atop it having sex with two hired dominatrices.