The 60-year-old priest was questioned by the investigating judge and placed under arrest, the prosecutor's office said.

A British clergyman died after a night of sex and drugs with a Belgian priest who has since been arrested on drug-related charges, Belgian authorities said on Saturday.

The 69-year-old, who has not been named, was spending the evening with his fellow cleric, 60, at a clergy house in Kalmthout north of Antwerp on Thursday when he became unwell, the prosecutor office said.

Shortly after midnight, the Belgian priest called the emergency services, who could not resuscitate his companion.

“It appears that the two men had used ecstasy and poppers together and had had sex. Two ecstasy pills were also found,” the prosecutor’s office said.

  • Wimopy@feddit.ukEnglish
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    12 hours ago

    Not even the denomination is named. I know a trans person who is religious and looking to become clergy because their church is open like that. We don’t know anything about these people and their beliefs or why they became priests.

    Besides, your unedited message makes it sound like they deserve to go to hell simply because they had drugs or gay sex, not for any other views they had.

    • TheBlackLounge@lemm.eeEnglish
      6·
      11 hours ago

      They’ll be Catholics, the default in Belgium. These days very open minded, all our churches have rainbows and such. Belgian moral panic Christians generally don’t go to church.