The Vatican’s Real Housewives: 26 Women Petition Pope to Let Priests Marry
A group of women claiming to be the secret paramours of priests have written to Pope Francis to urge him to roll back the churchs celibacy requirements.
A popular pontiff, Pope Francis receives hundreds of letters every daybut a recent one, signed by 26 women who would like his permission to have sex with their priest-boyfriends, was undoubtedly not like most of the others.
The letter, published by La Stampa newspapers Vatican Insider website on Sunday, began with a plea for the pontiff to take heart and make celibacy optional for the signatories paramours, who happen to be priests. Dear Pope Francis, we are a group of women from all over Italy (and further afield) and are writing to you to break down the wall of silence and indifference that we are faced with every day, wrote the women (who signed with their first names and a last initial). Each of us is in, was or would like to start a relationship with a priest we are in love with. Their phone numbers were also apparently made available in case the pope would like to call the women to discuss the issue.
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