The disgraced Alabama priest who fled to Italy with an 18-year-old woman over the summer is now married to the teenager, as an archbishop revealed Wednesday that the Vatican will likely take steps to officially expel him from the priesthood.
Alex Crow, a 30-year-old Catholic priest, married the young woman who graduated from high school in 2023, according to a marriage certificate filed Monday in Mobile County.
He only turned 18 in June, according to the document.
The teen attended McGill-Toolen Catholic High, where Crow occasionally visited theology classes, according to reports.
The couple’s affair became evident when authorities learned of a love letter she received from Crow on Valentine’s Day while she was still a student.
Crow and the woman went to Europe over the summer before returning to the United States earlier this month, AL.com reported.
Crow, now suspended, has likely given his last sermon, Archbishop Thomas J. Rodi noted this week.
Catholic priest Alex Crow married the young woman who graduated from high school in 2023, according to a marriage certificate. catholic pillar
“The recent news of Crow’s civil marriage only confirms the archbishop’s judgment. “Archbishop Rodi anticipates that the Vatican will eventually laicize Alex Crow,” reads a statement from the Archdiocese of Mobile.
Rodi, in an earlier statement, lashed out at the spiritual leader and said his actions were “totally unbecoming of a priest.”
Crow and the 18-year-old girl he met when she was a high school student got married this month.AL.com
“The archbishop has informed him that he can no longer exercise ministry as a priest, nor tell people that he is a priest, nor dress like a priest,” he said.
Mobile County Sheriff Paul Burch said over the summer that he believed “something was brewing” between Crow, who was ordained a priest in 2021, and the teen, considering their age difference.
But the county district attorney announced earlier this month that an investigation into criminal wrongdoing has reportedly been closed.
District Attorney Keith Blackwood said the girl met with prosecutors and refused to answer questions.
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