{"id":1986,"date":"2012-06-01T04:07:40","date_gmt":"2012-05-31T18:07:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/?p=1986"},"modified":"2012-06-01T04:07:40","modified_gmt":"2012-05-31T18:07:40","slug":"catholic-priest-secretly-married-to-a-filipina","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/?p=1986","title":{"rendered":"Catholic priest secretly married to a Filipina"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Father Kevin Lee<\/strong>, a Catholic Priest at Padre Pio Parish in Glenmore Park NSW, admitted to being secretly married. He said that many other priests are likewise married and continues to live a double life.<!--more--> <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;ve fallen in love and I got married [a year ago] and it&#8217;s outside of most people&#8217;s awareness,&#8221; Lee told 7News. &#8220;&#8230; I&#8217;m sure my family is going to be very deeply disappointed about these revelations.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Lee, who met his wife in the Philippines told the television station that he is writing a book about many other priests doing something similar. He added that celibacy should not be enforced.  Father Lee has been a priest for 20 years. <\/p>\n<p>Reacting to what  has been reported in 7News, Parramatta Diocese Bishop Anthony Fisher made a statement that Fr. Lee has been removed from his posting as parish priest of Padre Pio. The bishop denied Lee&#8217;s assertion that other priests are in similar situations. <\/p>\n<p>As of this writing, the bishop of Parramatta diocese has already appointed an administrator  who has replaced Fr. Kevin Lee in the parish of Padre Pio. Bishop Fisher said: &#8220;As Father Kevin is aware, by his actions he can no longer  operate as a priest.&#8221; (Source: The Huffington Post) <\/p>\n<p>It must be noted that in the earliest years of the church, the clergy were mainly married men. However, in the year 390 AD, the Council of Carthage decided that &#8220;&#8230;bishops, priests, and deacons and those in the service of the divine sacraments observe perfect continence.&#8221; Thus, the discipline of celibacy has since been enforced. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Father Kevin Lee, a Catholic Priest at Padre Pio Parish in Glenmore Park NSW, admitted to being secretly married. He said that many other priests are likewise married and continues to live a double life.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,60],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1986"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1986"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1986\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}