Oklahoma City Archbishop Drops Suit Against Devil Worshipping Group

The Most Reverend Paul S. Coakley was installed as the fourth archbishop of the Oklahoma City Archdiocese in a ceremony at St. John the Baptist Catholic Church in Edmond , Oklahoma Friday, Feb. 11, 2011. More than 3... The Most Reverend Paul S. Coakley was installed as the fourth archbishop of the Oklahoma City Archdiocese in a ceremony at St. John the Baptist Catholic Church in Edmond , Oklahoma Friday, Feb. 11, 2011. More than 30 bishops and several hundred priests from throughout the archdiocese attended. Here, he greets a family from one of the parishes in his new assignment. At left is Deacon Norman Mejstrik. Coakley was previously the bishop of Salina, Kansas. (AP Photo/ Jim Beckel, The Oklahoman) MORE LESS
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Oklahoma City’s archbishop has decided to drop his lawsuit against the group of devil-worshippers that had previously said they wanted to defile a consecrated communion wafer, according to The Wall Street Journal.

The wafer, according to the Journal, had allegedly been stolen from the Catholic Church.

Lawyers for the archbishop, Paul Coakley, filed a lawsuit on Wednesday demanding for the return of the wafer from the group of devil-worshippers, called Dakhma of Angra Mainyu.

The lawsuit followed the Satanic group saying that it planned to perform a “carnal sacrifice” at a “Black Mass” ceremony in the city’s Civic Center Music Hall in September.

A lawyer for the Satanic group said that once the lawsuit was dropped they could have the wafer back.

“Once the Catholic Church has dropped the lawsuit, they can collect it from my attorney,” the attorney, Adam Daniels, told the Journal. “I don’t feel like wasting thousands of dollars fighting over a cookie.”

Read the lawsuit, via the Journal, here.

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  1. Archbish… Love your gown, but your purse is on fine!

  2. Demanding a wafer be returned? Religious people are weird.

  3. Avatar for estamm estamm says:

    Talk about a joke that got a bit out of hand. Jeeesh.

  4. Avatar for glans glans says:

    If they really stole the wafer, they’re assholes.

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