In a Colorado neighborhood where the family members of Sage Sweetwater live.

FREDERICK, Colo. - A Catholic priest faces an indecent exposure charge after jogging in the nude about an hour before sunrise.

The Rev. Robert Whipkey told officers he had been running naked at a high school track and didn't think anyone would be around at that time of day, a police report said.

He told officers he sweats profusely if he wears clothing while jogging. "I know what I did was wrong," he said in the report.

Whipkey did not return phone messages. His attorney, Doug Tisdale, told the Daily Times-Call of Longmont that Whipkey had no comment.

Whipkey, 53, was arrested around 4:30 a.m. June 22 in this town about 20 miles north of Denver.

The Archdiocese of Denver said it takes the incident seriously but is awaiting the outcome of the case. Whipkey remains an active priest.

If convicted of indecent exposure, a misdemeanor, he would have to register as a sex offender, prosecutors said.

Copyright 2007 The Associated Press.


Authors Note:  Sage Sweetwater lives at the base of a mountain 30 acres away from an Episcopalian Archdiocese who maintains a church camp and the other half is owned by the Catholic Diocese where the monks train.  Sage watches the monks daily from her living room window.  How sad that the Catholic Diocese and also the Episcopalian Archdiocese have had to combine their monetary efforts to restructure and now, sell off this beautiful thousand-acre-multi-million-dollar ranch facility in close proximity to Sage, right out her front door a fourth of a mile across the road , to pay Child molesting lawsuits.  Sage worked for this Ranch Episcopalian Diocese as a young girl in the 1970s.  She cleaned the dormitories, made up the bunk beds, and groomed the horses for new church retreat members.