UNITED KINGDOM
The Sunday Times
Margarette Driscoll
A ROMAN CATHOLIC bishop who has been forced to resign after claims of a love affair with a parishioner says he wants to remain a priest, despite breaking his vows of celibacy.
Kieran Conry, the Bishop of Arundel and Brighton, resigned last week after the estranged husband of one of the women with whom he was said to have had a relationship threatened to sue the church.
The man had hired a private detective to follow his wife.
Conry, 63, says that he has received hundreds of messages of support and only one angry response.
He has admitted one previous sexual relationship. “I did wrong.” he said.
“Celibacy may be a tradition rather than an article of faith but the vast majority of priests are faithful to their promise.”
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