Brazil priest breaks news of fatherhood during mass A priest in northeastern Brazil stunned his parishioners by announcing during mass that he would soon become the father of a little girl and leave the priesthood. Father Geronimo Moreira, from the small town of Gaviao in Bahia state, said he fell in love with a local girl and got her pregnant. "With time we noticed that our friendship had something more: love, but we always sought to leave it at the level of friendship," the 32-year-old priest said in a letter he read to the faithful during mass last Sunday. "I said that if I could not keep my vow of celibacy, I would first leave the priesthood so as not to create a scandal in the community," he said. "Things did not turn out as I had expected and we developed a concrete relationship, and today she is pregnant and I want to assume paternity." Moreira met the young lady, who is now 23, in 2007 when he was still at seminary. The couple plan to have a Catholic wedding, but this will require permission from Pope Francis, who visited Brazil in late July to attend World Youth Day.
Posted on: Thu, 29 Aug 2013 08:50:02 +0000
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