Little boys aren’t the only thing priests are attracted to
As someone who grew up Catholic, I found this article very interesting. It is about a priest who carried on an affair with a woman for a number of years, and fathered a son who now has cancer. The Church paid her a lot of money to keep her quiet, and she had to sign some pretty severe confidentiality agreements. And of course, they did nothing to the priest but move him around to different jobs. Kinda like their response to the sex abuse scandals.
This brings up the whole debate about priest celibacy, and whether it is a good idea. It seems that priests have always been having sex, either with women or altar boys, so maybe it’s a good idea to scrap the policy…
