Meet the Dominican Friar Mistaken for a Member of the KKK

I posted on this a couple days back, and now the Dominican priest at the center of the story is revealed: 

Meet Father Jude McPeak, a Dominican friar, an active member of the St. Paul’s Catholic Church network, and the man of the cloth whose great habit contributed to the biggest false alarm IU has encountered since Read Residence Center’s most recent literal false alarm.

He’s actually been an active member of the community since he became an ordained priest and came to St. Paul’s in Bloomington two years ago. In fact, he was doing the Lord’s work with students the night of his rise to IU celebrity.

“I help run a men’s group that meets in the Wright formal lounge Monday nights,” Father Jude explained.

He didn’t know his white-robed presence was causing mass alarm when he went with the student group to the 10th St. Red Mango. It wasn’t until the next day he realized how much things had been blown out of proportion.

“I thought it was kind of funny,” Father Jude said. “A lot of my friends have been teasing me. It’s been humbling.”

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Photo: from TheTab.com