A high-profile Catholic girl states a bishop wouldn’t normally have experienced sex with a lady unless he liked her.
Joy Cowley, a celebrated youngsters’ writer of publications like The Silent One and Nest in a Falling Tree, told RNZ the intimate relationship would have made Charles Drennan a significantly better bishop.
The Pope accepted the resignation of Father Drennan, as Bishop of Palmerston North, after he admitted to improper intimate behaviour having a young woman.
Charles Drennan Picture: Supplied / Catholic Church
“this can be a tragedy since it’s a man that is beautiful happens to be simply completely wiped so far as Rome is worried,” Ms Cowley stated.
“It is this kind of waste to see him sidelined over some indiscretion. And I think it had been quite little given that it undoubtedly was not situation of punishment”.
“Maybe this had a need to occur to supply the church a shift that is seismic” she stated.
She stated she had been defending clergy whom acted to their intimate urges.
“How can you will do this to a person to be individual?”
The 83-year-old, who lives in Wairarapa and leads Catholic religious retreats, penned an online post final week saying the truth revealed mandatory celibacy for priests should always be dumped since it had been unnatural.