A priest of Mobile, Alabama, who left the United States with a teenage woman last summer under murky circumstances, returning last fall, has officially been laicized effective immediately, the archdiocese announced on Jan. 5.
Though no power on earth can erase the sacramental imprint of a priest’s ordination, laicization strips the clergyman of the legal status of being a cleric.
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Alex Crow was originally suspended from ministry in July after he abandoned his assignment in the archdiocese and left the country with a woman after she turned 18.