NEW ZEALAND
RNZ
October 16, 2019
By Phil Pennington
A high-profile Catholic woman says a bishop would not have had sex with a woman unless he loved her.
Joy Cowley, a celebrated children’s author of books like The Silent One and Nest in a Falling Tree, told RNZ the sexual relationship would have made Charles Drennan a better bishop.
The Pope accepted the resignation of Father Drennan, as Bishop of Palmerston North, after he admitted to inappropriate sexual behaviour with a young woman.
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