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This priest may need your prayers because he appears to be in a real pickle.

Father Sean P. Thomson, 52, of Alaska was arrested last week for drunk driving, refusing to take an alcohol test, drugs, carrying a firearm while intoxicated and not telling the trooper he was carrying the handgun.

All this, according to the New York Daily News.

The father had a breath-alcohol content three times the legal limit, the Fairbanks Daily News-Miner reported. He is a priest at University of Alaska Fairbanks.

And according to the Daily News account, Trooper Christopher Bitz spotted the parish priest speeding and weaving his pickup truck on a rural highway south of Fairbanks.

The officer described Thomson as disoriented during the traffic stop, according to the police complaint.

Thomson told the trooper about the .357-caliber handgun in the back of the truck, but forgot to mention the pistol in his back pocket, the Daily News reported.

The trooper found the 9-mm. handgun in priest's back pocket and a small bag of marijuana in his sweatshirt, according to the police complaint.

Thomson admitted he was drunk, the officer wrote in the compliant, but the father refused to take another alcohol test, described as more accurate.

Thomson has since pleaded not guilty to the trio of charges and has been released on bail.

Does this father have a prayer of a chance in court?

Tell us.