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	Priest Admits He's a Father news.com.au August 25, 2007 http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,22308148-1702,00.html Italy — AN Italian priest has admitted before his flock that he is the father of a nine-month-old boy. "I don't want to do like Adam and Eve did when they hid from the call of God after the original sin," Father Sante Sguottithe, the 41-year-old parish priest of Monterosso told about 200 worshippers. "The fruit of one's fertility should be a cause for joy," said Sguotti, who has been asked by Padua Archbishop Antonio Mattiazzo to leave the parish, home to some 800 people. "Maybe those who say priests are all false are right," he said. "I feel false, because it is not easy to walk alone along the path to truth. "Sometimes you need to find someone to walk with." Sguotti apparently has the support of many of his parishioners. Some young people were seen wearing T-shirts inscribed with "Don Sante Is My Priest" as he delivered his homily but stopped short of presiding over communion. "This could not be a normal celebration. I'll officiate the Liturgy of the Word, I'll pronounce the homily, but not the rite of the Eucharist," he said, adding that he did not want to get into "a vulgar arm-wrestling match" over the issue. The Roman Catholic Church requires priests to be celibate, with few exceptions.
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