A
leading Roman Catholic Bishop of Arundel and Brighton, Kieran Conry has
resigned after his shame affair with a 43-year-old married parishioner.
The 63-year-old who confessed on Saturday Sept 27 of being unfaithful
says 'I'm so glad my affair secret is out.'
‘It
has been difficult keeping the secret,. ‘In some respects I feel very
calm. It is liberating. It is a relief. I have been very careful not to
make sexual morality a priority [in his sermons]. I don’t think it got
in the way of my job, I don’t think people would say I have been a bad
bishop. But I can’t defend myself. I did wrong. Full stop,’ he tells
Mail.
In a handwritten love letter dated earlier this month, he wrote to the 43-year-old woman:
‘It’s all right to say that [your husband] did bad things, but you knew
that he didn’t love you. You know (I hope) that I did. And I did, and
do.’ The letter was signed: ‘your K xxxxxx.’ He however denied that
they had a sexual relationship, although he admitted she had stayed at
his house in Pease Pottage, West Sussex.
Conry
is also been accused of a second affair with a married parishioner 20
years his junior, who spent at least three nights at his home.
Meanwhile, the woman’s husband threatens to sue church bosses who he
claimed knew of the affair for years.
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