DRAWING ASIDE THE PURPLE CURTAIN. By Shaun Willcock.
The Invisible Children, or When Priests Father Children, PDF format
In mid-2019 I wrote an article entitled, The Next Great Priestly Scandal: Priests who Have Fathered Illegitimate Children.[1] The reader is urged to read that article before reading this one. The article dealt with the fact that all over the world, today no less than in times gone by, Roman Catholic priests, who are forbidden to marry and have to take a vow of celibacy, have fathered illegitimate children. This sin had not been given the attention it deserved, in large measure because the worldwide scandal of the sexual abuse of children by priests had dominated world headlines for decades, and also because, as the Roman Catholic new source, Zenit, admitted, “The topic of ‘children of priests’ has long been considered taboo”.[2]
But from 2010 onwards the issue of priests fathering children began to attract attention, when many former lovers of priests, and their children, prepared to mount lawsuits. And the Vatican admitted in 2019 that it actually had a document of guidelines for priests who have violated their vow of celibacy and fathered children.[3] According to Vincent Doyle, himself the illegitimate son of a priest and who established a “support group” for children of priests worldwide, “It is the next scandal [to hit the Roman Catholic priesthood]. There are kids [of priests] everywhere.”[4]
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