Good Lord - Priest Held for Cocaine Party

By Philip Willan
The Times
July 17, 2014

http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/news/world/europe/article4150582.ece

Pope Francis has urged Catholic priests to reach out to sinners living on the margins of society, but one cleric appears to have taken it too far after he was arrested at a rowdy cocaine party.

Father Stefano Maria Cavalletti was detained in Milan last week when a drug-fuelled party he was attending got out of hand. Police were called by a neighbour after one of the revellers flew into a rage.

Police found traces of cocaine in Father Cavaletti’s bathroom, along with fragments of his passport, which he had allegedly torn up to try to avoid identification.