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A Catholic priest in Australia has confessed to the public that he was secretly married last year. Now former Father Kevin Lee of Padre Pio parish in Glenmore Park, Australia, says the Church should relax its rules on celbacy for priests.  Continue Reading

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  1. johnny
    1 year ago

    if you could not keep up with your vow, it is not for the RC establishment to bend on your wishes. it is you who have to get out.

  2. Joseph
    1 year ago

    The whole Vatican II 'if it feels good do it' mentality has to be finally and ruthlessly ditched - it has brought nothing but shame, scandal and dishonour to the Church. Benedict XVI is doing sterling work in clearly stating that the trendy Vatican II period is dead in the water. Over. Finished. Kaputt. Time to get back to who we really are: the Church of God on planet Earth - disciplined, focused, obedient and self-giving. And if any lingering, self-deceiving locked-in-a-time-warp 1970s trendies don't like it? Out the door they go.

  3. Deanne
    1 year ago

    These dissident priests are allowing themselves to be used by the devil as wolves to confuse the sheep and scatter the flock. satan is trying in every way to infiltrate the Catholic Church but Jesus said that the gates of hell will never prevail against it and His Word is True.


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