Fallen friar: The Reverend Peter Petroske was busted
after police say they found him drunk and naked while driving around town
A Catholic priest could head from the pulpit to
prison after he was discovered drunk driving and naked, police said.
Reverend Peter Petroske, the 57-year-old ex-pastor
of Sacred Heart Parish in Dearborn, Michigan was subsequently sacked from his
post by the Archdiocese of Detroit, and stowed away on administrative leave.
He was banned from the grounds of the parish, as
well as its Roman-Catholic school where he formerly tended to his flock.
Reverend Petroske faces misdemeanor counts of
operating while intoxicated and disorderly/obscene conduct from the incident
last Thursday. Continue after the cut:
'The archdiocese takes such matters seriously and is
cooperating fully with law enforcement,' said a spokesman, according to The Detroit News
'This is a difficult time for the parish community,
and we ask for prayers for all who are impacted.'
Meanwhile, Mr Petroske's name had already been
conspicuously wiped away by Wednesday from Sacred Heart's website, which
instead listed the recently-retired Rev. Robert Blondell as its now-pastor.
No mention or explanation of the incident appeared
there, MailOnline discovered.
The apparently-addled holy man was born in
Frankfurt, Germany, and orphaned at a young age, according to a short
autobiography The Detroit News previously found on the Sacred Heart website.
Doing God's work: Petroske, 57, reportedly faces
misdemeanor counts of operating while intoxicated and disorderly/obscene
conduct stemming from the bizarre incident
After his ordination to the cloth in in 1984, Mr
Petroske bounced around several Michigan parishes before signing on with the
urban Archdiocese of Detroit.
'Eventually some significant changes took place in
my family and my own life,' Mr Petroske reportedly wrote.
'As a result, I applied for incardination into the
Archdiocese of Detroit in 1991.'
Mr Petroske added in that bio that: 'After having
moved to the Archdiocese, I had taken some graduate courses in clinical
counseling and psychology.'
Protect the children: By Wednesday, Petroske's name
had been erased from Sacred Heart's website, and the prelate barred from the
parish's grounds
Dearborn police would not comment on arrests until
the accused has appeared in court.
Mr Petroske will be arraigned before Dearborn
District Court Judge Richard Wygonik on August 14.
Culled from Daily Mail Report
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