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A Catholic priest in Australia has publicly admitted that he has been married for a year and claimed “there are more like me.”
“So I’ve fallen in love and I’ve got married and it’s outside of most people’s awareness, but I’m sure people within the church could have had a suspicion,” Father Kevin Lee told Australia’s 7News, a partner of NBC News.
Lee, a priest for 20 years, told his congregation that he had been living a secret double life with his wife Josephina, breaking the Church’s rule that priests should remain celibate.
He said there were others like him around the world.
“That’s one of the reasons that’s motivated me to make public my admission that I’m one of those people who’s been a pretender: To draw to the attention of the public that there are more like me, in fact most of them,” he said.
Lee said he had made little effort to hide his relationship and suspected people within the church hierarchy knew about his marriage.
He and Josephina met in the Philippines and married in secret. [more, including video]
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I wonder how long the marriage will last?
EDITOR please do something to stop my comments from being deleted when I hit the add button
Mornig Tony.
Had a similar problem and Jim helped me fix it.
My posts were getting tossed for the word ent-i-ty. Have to use the dashes or the post disappears.
Tony — actually, early this morning, it appears the editors have fixed the problem. Here’s the evidence: entity; constitution; chastity
Wait,as much as I am for married priests this guys biggest difficulty is being honest and authentic. 20 years ago he took a public vow that he w
Would never marry, then he enters into a marriage and promises to love his wife till death. Marriage, no matter how secret is a a public act.
How do you spe ll LIar
Tony — there are four acceptable spellings of liar: (1) LIAR; (2) OBAMA; (3) PELOSI; (4) BIDEN. P.S. Tony — this is just me saying good morning to you. Do you take your coffee black?
Morning Jim.
You are a strange bird but I will figure you out.
Spell liar anyway you want. Just remember there :
Liars, damn liars, and statisticians.
Dennis — actually, I’m not hard to figure out at all. I say what I mean and I mean what I say. I pitch the ball right over the plate, no break to it, at 90 MPH. I do like metaphors, though, and sometimes people have trouble following them.
I am an Eastern Rite Catholic, and it is a prerequisite that a priest should be married, so marriage in the Eastern Churches is not a problem. What I don’t like about this situation is that he got married in “secret” and against his initial vows, so who needs a priest that is a really cheater??
I guess you’re saying that celebate priests are “abnormal”?
I know many good celebate priests who give so much time and energy in their parish mission and are compensated so little. Though I am for optional celebacy, I see a value in a priest dedicating his life to the church without the reponsibilities towards a wife and family. There is a statistic that shows a high rate of divorce among protestant ministers. Be aware the a married clergy isn’t all it seems to be. By the way RC, are you going to up your contribution to the church to make sure that married priests have enough money to feed, cloth, house and educate their families. They can’t do it on what they’re getting now.
The only shock value on the attached video is that this guy is perfectly normal.
RC — I guess, then, using your definition of “normal”, those who are disingenuous about serious matters are “normal.” Well, statistically they may be normal — i.e., perhaps the average person is indeed disingenous about serious matters — but that definition of normal is not equivalent to “good.”