null / Credit: PixabayCNA Staff, May 23, 2024 / 18:21 pm (CNA).A priest in Florida bit the forearm of a woman he says was desecrating the Eucharist in a Communion line at church this past Sunday and has now been charged with one count of battery.Father Fidel Rodriguez, 66, admitted to police that he bit the woman but said he did so only after she reached into the ciborium and tried to grab a host from it, damaging other hosts as she did so."The only defense that I found to defend something that for us, for all of us, is sacred, was biting her. I have recognized that I bite her. I m not denying that," Rodriguez told police, according to body camera video obtained by CNA."I recognize that I bite her, as a defense, and as defending myself and defending the sacrament," he said in English with a Spanish accent.The woman told police the priest denied her Communion after she refused to answer his questions about whether she had been to confession recently."I just want
While Father Fidel Rodriguez admitted to the bite during Mass, there are contrasting versions of what led up to the unusual fracas at the St. Thomas Aquinas Church in St. Cloud, Florida.
A Florida priest has been accused of biting a woman with whom he got into a dispute at Sunday mass. Police are investigating the incident, NBC Miami reported.
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