VATICAN CITY
BBC News
A Catholic bishop who fathered two children has stepped down.
Pope Benedict has accepted the resignation of Gabino Zavala, an auxilliary bishop of Los Angeles, the Vatican said.
The Archbishop of Los Angeles, Jose Gomez, wrote in a letter to worshippers that Bishop Zavala told him in December that he was the father of two minor teenage children.
The children live with their mother in another state.
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