OREGON
The Oregonian
Thursday, September 15, 2005
The first time Stephanie Collopy saw Arturo Uribe at a Holy Redeemer Parish Mass in 1991, the 33-year-old seminarian had, she said, "an aura about him. An orange-yellow glow around his head and shoulders. Maybe it was the lighting from the windows."
Maybe. It certainly wasn't the halo of purity and celibacy. Collopy and Uribe soon had dinner together, during which Uribe confessed he was lonely and uncertain about his destiny as a Roman Catholic priest. Within weeks, they were sleeping together; in May 1992, Collopy discovered she was pregnant.
By the frantic evening when she called Uribe and broke the news, and he refused to come see her, that heavenly glow had disappeared.
Collopy and her story escaped the yoke of a confidentiality agreement this summer when she went to court in Multnomah County seeking additional child support from Uribe, now a Redemptorist priest in good standing in Whittier, Calif.