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[Unholy vows– The Weekend Australian Magazine]

HARRY EDWARDS THE AUSTRALIAN NOVEMBER 11, 2013

A FORMER NSW priest who kept a marriage secret for over a year and blew the whistle on child sexual abuse in the Catholic Church is among the thousands killed by Typhoon Haiyan in The Philippines.

Kevin Lee, 49, was a parish priest at the Padre Pio Church in Glenmore Park in western Sydney and one-time police chaplain. He is reported to have been killed while swimming as part of a religious ritual.

The Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade confirmed a 49-year-old man from NSW had died in the storm but declined to confirm the name.

Mr Lee spoke out on abuse in the Catholic Church, including in his book Unholy Silence.

Last year he provided NSW police with information about at least one Catholic school teacher who he believed had…