Francis accepts resignation of bishop who quit after affair

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Francis accepts resignation of bishop who quit after affair

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Pope Francis has accepted the resignation of British Bishop Kieran Conry who admitted to having an affair with a married parishioner. Their affair was exposed after the estranged husband of the woman hired a private detective to trail his wife when their marriage failed. The 64-year-old Conry said in a letter to parishioners that while he might have strayed from the precepts of the Catholic Church, his actions were “not illegal and did not involved minors.”

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