US Catholic bishop with secret family, Gabino Zavala, quits

[Eugene]

Source: BBC

4 January 2012 Last updated at 16:37 GMT

US Catholic bishop with secret family, Gabino Zavala, quits

A Catholic bishop who fathered two children has stepped down.

Pope Benedict has accepted the resignation of Gabino Zavala, an auxiliary bishop of Los Angeles, the Vatican said.

The Archbishop of Los Angeles, Jose Gomez, wrote in a letter to worshippers that Bishop Zavala told him in December that he was the father of two teenage children.

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Archbishop Gomez said that the archdiocese was offering the family "spiritual care," as well as funding to help the children with college costs.

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[MarkCharles]

1. Well, even a Bishop is human, I guess, but why would one

father children and pretend to be living a celibate life?

Puzzling why people misuse the concept of religion to advance their own personal goals.

[lindysalsagal]

2. They're teenagers. He's been lying for over a decade.

They're all hypocrites. I can't get why anyone listens to this degenerate organization.

[MarkCharles]

3. They don't "listen" to the organization, they listen to their own...

fantasies as to what that organization was supposed to be, from what they learned in early life, from that very same organization.