DARIEN, IL – A man who called himself “Father John” at Our Lady of Peace Catholic Church in Darien ended up being charged with criminal trespassing, police said.
The 50-year-old man lives in the 5600 block of Forest Hills Drive in Clarendon Hills, police said.
Patch obtained the police report through a public records request.
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Shortly after 7 a.m. July 13, police were called to the church at 701 Plainfield Road. The Rev. Michael Baker, the parish administrator, told an officer that a man made several parishioners uncomfortable by hugging and kissing them on the cheeks without permission.
The priest asked the man to leave, but the man continued to approach people in the church and the parking lot, the report said. Baker wanted the man prohibited from the property.
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In an interview with the officer at the church, the man denied touching or kissing people or knowing he was not wanted there.
The officer told him that he would be given a trespass notice for the property, meaning he would be arrested if he returned.
The man replied that the church would “fall apart without me” and that Jesus talks to him.
He then said he understood the trespass notice meant he would be barred from the premises “for a while.” But the officer told him he was banned permanently.
The man called his 74-year-old father to pick him up, but his father refused, police said.
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