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One of Mo's fellow boy diddlers is trying to come up with a cover story. I'm not sure why this guy isn't a dot head but that is beside the point.
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NEW DELHI, India (AP) -- The Vatican has suspended a Roman Catholic bishop in southern India after he adopted a 26-year-old woman, a senior church official said Saturday.
Bishop John Thattungal's conduct will be investigated by a three-member committee of bishops.
Bishop John Thattungal, 58, will be barred from performing any religious or administrative duties until a formal inquiry into his conduct is completed, said the Rev. Stephen Alathara, a spokesman for the Kerala Catholic Bishops' Council, in a telephone interview from the southern Indian city of Kochi.
Alathara said the bishop's adoption of the woman earlier this year had upset other priests in the Kochi diocese.
"The majority of the priests were unhappy and asked for his resignation," he said, adding that the Vatican ordered the suspension on Thursday.
He said there are questions surrounding the legality of the adoption because the woman is not a minor.
Thattungal could not be reached for comment, but news reports in Kerala have quoted him as saying, "I have only fatherly love toward the woman who has spiritual powers. This relation is giving me spiritual refreshment."
Bishop John Thattungal's conduct will be investigated by a three-member committee of bishops. Bishop John Thattungal, 58, will be barred from performing any religious or administrative duties until a formal inquiry into his conduct is completed, said the Rev. Stephen Alathara, a spokesman for the Kerala Catholic Bishops' Council, in a telephone interview from the southern Indian city of Kochi.
Alathara said the bishop's adoption of the woman earlier this year had upset other priests in the Kochi diocese.
"The majority of the priests were unhappy and asked for his resignation," he said, adding that the Vatican ordered the suspension on Thursday.
He said there are questions surrounding the legality of the adoption because the woman is not a minor.
Thattungal could not be reached for comment, but news reports in Kerala have quoted him as saying, "I have only fatherly love toward the woman who has spiritual powers. This relation is giving me spiritual refreshment."
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