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Title: Linz priest who opposed bishop's appointment admits living with girlfriend
Post by: Irenaeus on March 11, 2009, 09:14:26 PM

Linz priest who opposed bishop's appointment admits living with girlfriend
March 09, 2009
http://www.catholicculture.org/news/headlines/index.cfm?storyid=2238

An Austrian priest who helped rally opposition to the Pope's appointment of an auxiliary bishop for the Linz diocese has admitted that he keeps a mistress, the German-language Kath.net news service has revealed. Father Josef Friedl, one of the 31 deans who said they would refuse to accept the episcopal ordination of Father Gerhard Maria Wagner, told a public forum that he opposes the discipline of priestly celibacy and lives with his girlfriend; he said that his parishioners have no objections. According to the daily Der Welt, Friedl is one of several deans of the Linz diocese who lives openly with a woman. Meanwhile another Austrian prelate, Bishop Egon Kapellari of Graz, said that Father Wagner-- who has withdrawn from the episcopal appointment-- had "traumatized" the Austrian public with his public statements of opposition to ɧoɱosɛҳųαƖity and insistence that God punishes sin.

Title: Linz priest who opposed bishop's appointment admits living with girlfriend
Post by: Irenaeus on March 11, 2009, 09:23:29 PM

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Father Wagner-- who has withdrawn from the episcopal appointment-- had "traumatized" the Austrian public with his public statements of opposition to ɧoɱosɛҳųαƖity and insistence that God punishes sin.

 
I wonder how they'll feel when they die and face judgement?  It will be a little worse than "trauma".