{"id":12387,"date":"2012-05-02T19:06:39","date_gmt":"2012-05-02T23:06:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/?p=12387"},"modified":"2012-05-02T19:07:14","modified_gmt":"2012-05-02T23:07:14","slug":"i-think-celibacy-has-to-go-as-a-prerequisite","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/2012\/05\/i-think-celibacy-has-to-go-as-a-prerequisite\/","title":{"rendered":"“I think celibacy has to go as a prerequisite”"},"content":{"rendered":"

A Catholic priest in Australia has publicly admitted that he has been married for a year and claimed “there are more like me.”<\/p>\n

“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\u00a0told Australia’s 7News<\/a>,\u00a0<\/strong>a partner of NBC News.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

He said there were others like him around the world.<\/p>\n

“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.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Other priests do it so there! What a rich theological explanation.<\/p>\n

So brave to when you disagree with a discipline that you just ignore it. Now I have much sympathy for priests that fall, those that fall and deny they fell – not so much.<\/p>\n

In an update to its original report, 7News reported that Lee had been removed from his position as parish priest and then excommunicated by the church.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Well media reports of excommunication are usually wrong. No doubt he has had his faculties removed, but I haven’t seen a statement by the bishop on this.<\/p>\n

“I think celibacy has to go as a prerequisite for being a minister in the Catholic religion,” he added.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Kind of like a married man after being caught in adultery saying “I think fidelity has to go as a prerequisite for being married in the Catholic religion.”<\/p>\n

“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.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Most of them? I call bs on that.<\/p>\n

[Source<\/a>]<\/p>\n

I doubt Bishop Anthony Fisher, who is a Dominican, bought Father Lee’s defense.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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