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Fri May 4, 2012, 07:32 PM May 2012

Priest admits to be secretely married

A Catholic priest in Australia has publicly admitted that he has been married for a year and claimed "there are more like me."

"So I've fallen in love and I've got married and it's outside of most people's awareness, but I'm sure people within the church could have had a suspicion," Father Kevin Lee told Australia's 7News, a partner of NBC News.

Lee, a priest for 20 years, told his congregation that he had been living a secret double life with his wife Josephina, breaking the Church's rule that priests should remain celibate.

He said there were others like him around the world.

Read more: http://worldnews.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/05/02/11497228-catholic-priest-in-australia-ive-been-secretly-married-for-a-year


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