ITALY
iafrica
Fri, 14 Dec 2012
A Sicilian priest stunned his congregation by announcing during a mass that he would soon be a father and was quitting to marry his partner, Italian media reported Friday.
“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.
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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