FRANCE
Monsters and Critics
Sep 6, 2005, 12:42 GMT
PARIS, France (UPI) -- Two Roman Catholic priests in France have been discharged from parish duties after they admitted to fathering children.
Archbishop Hubert Herbreteau, head of the southern French archdiocese of Agen, has given the Rev. Bernard Chalmel, 58, and the Rev. Pierre Bignol, 60, a year to reflect following their acknowledgments of fathering children, Le Figaro newspaper reported.
Chalmel, head of the Saint-Joseph Paris of the French town of Villeneuve-sur-Lot, is father of two children, ages 7 and 9. Bignol, head of the Port-Sainte-Marie church has a 16-year-old child.