{"id":2261,"date":"2014-10-01T07:51:41","date_gmt":"2014-10-01T07:51:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/?p=2261"},"modified":"2014-10-01T07:51:41","modified_gmt":"2014-10-01T07:51:41","slug":"bishop-accused-of-adultery-says-hes-happy-his-secret-is-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/?p=2261","title":{"rendered":"Bishop accused of adultery says he\u2019s happy his secret is out"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/bisp1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-2262\" alt=\"bisp1\" src=\"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/bisp1-300x225.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/bisp1-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/bisp1.jpg 531w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>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 \u2018I\u2019m so glad my affair secret is out.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>\u2018It has been difficult keeping the secret,. \u2018In 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\u2019t think it got in the way of my job, I don\u2019t think people would say I have been a bad bishop. But I can\u2019t defend myself. I did wrong. Full stop,\u2019 he tells Mail.<\/p>\n<p>In a handwritten love letter dated earlier this month, he wrote to the 43-year-old woman: \u2018It\u2019s all right to say that [your husband] did bad things, but you knew that he didn\u2019t love you. You know (I hope) that I did. And I did, and do.\u2019 The letter was signed: \u2018your K xxxxxx.\u2019 He however denied that they had a sexual relationship, although he admitted she had stayed at his house in Pease Pottage, West Sussex.<\/p>\n<p>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\u2019s husband threatens to sue church bosses who he claimed knew of the affair for years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 \u2018I\u2019m so glad my affair secret is out.\u2019 \u2018It has been difficult keeping the secret,. \u2018In some respects I feel very [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2262,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2261","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/bisp1.jpg","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4oswh-At","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2261","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2261"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2261\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2263,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2261\/revisions\/2263"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2262"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}