ITALY
Sky News
A Sicilian priest has stunned his congregation by announcing during a mass he’s set to become a father and is quitting to marry his partner.
‘It’s my last mass. I am in love with a woman and in a few months I will be a father,’ Vito Lombardo, 33, told his flock in the city of Trapani in northwestern Sicily, local newspapers said on Friday.
The relationship had been going on for a while but the priest waited until his partner was five months pregnant before announcing his departure, the reports said.
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