Did you see this
news story? A man who has had been a priest for 20 years now admits
he’s married (my emphases
throughout):
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.
…
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.
No, Father. Not "a pretender": a liar, a fraud.
And you've known since before you were ordained that, after ordination, any
attempt to marry would be invalid. So you've lied twice: once in presenting
yourself as a celibate priest of the Catholic Church, and a second time in
presenting yourself as a married man.
[Lee]
said he pitied what he called "sacrificing" priests around the world
who were denying themselves a relationship.
…"I
think celibacy has to go as a prerequisite for being a minister in the Catholic
religion," he added.
You knew what was required
when you “signed up” for it, Father. Now you seek to paint holy priests who
live their celibacy in joy and sacrifice with your liberal brush. How dare you
besmirch the name of the good priests who are true to the Church, true to their
vocation, and humble in facing the temptations that beset them.
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