Rev. Elvis Elano, a visiting Catholic priest ordained in the Phillipines, has been accused in a $25-million lawsuit of luring Judith Rodrigues-Lytwyn, a distraught divorcee into having a seven-month affair with him.  In addition, Elano who was visiting Texas and had served in Brooklyn and Queens parishes in New York, has been barred by church officials from serving in the city.
 
Initially, the woman was reluctant to name the priest nor identify the parish in which the priest had served, but later she even provided photographs of the priest that showed him shirtless and kneeling next to her bed, another that showed them both embracing each other on a Long Island beach, a third that shows him clenching a rose in his mouth.

The suit, filed in Brooklyn state Supreme Court, states the affair between the priest and the 50-year-old plaintiff began when during confession at Our Lady of the Snows Church in Queens, she told him of her divorce from an abusive husband.  According to the woman, the priest began to woo her, encouraging a sexual liaison with him to overcome her marital depression, calling their encounters ‘ordained by God’.

She only ended the relationship after the priest e-mailed her about contracting a sexually transmitted disease, probably a result of his sexual liaisons with other women.

The priest according to the Diocese of Brooklyn has been suspended from serving in the city, while declining to comment on the case and refusing to give contact information on Elano or his lawyer.