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The Advertiser
[Msgr. Richard Mouton Funeral Announcement – News15]
Claire Taylor , ctaylor@theadvertiser.com June 21, 2017
Monsignor Richard von Phul Mouton of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Lafayette passed away Wednesday. He was 86 years old.
Mouton died at 2:21 p.m. Wednesday at Lafayette General Medical Center, according to his brother, Frank Anthony Mouton.
Funeral arrangements are not complete but will be handled by the diocese, he said.
“The monsignor would be the first to admit he didn’t walk on water,” Ted Power, former Daily Advertiser publisher, wrote in response to Mouton’s passing. “But he was a man with immeasurable passion for his faith and he spent his life driven to instill that passion and faith in others.” …
When Mouton was pastor at St. Mary Magdalene Church two parishioners approached him in 1976 with allegations about the Rev. Gilbert Gauthe, according to Jason Berry, an investigative reporter at the time with The Times newspaper. Mouton, he wrote, confronted Gauthe and required him to see a psychiatrist.
Gauthe pled guilty to 34 counts of sexually abusing children and served time in jail.
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