![]() ![]() I wondered what this ordeal had cost him, and what his plans were for the future. I had been friends with Williams for 20 years. On receiving it, he was married in the Church. ![]() Some people were appalled, some reached out to him in support, others simply chose to pray in silence.Ī year later, after a period of discernment, Williams announced that he had applied to the Holy Father for a dispensation from his priestly ministry to care for his child and the child’s mother. Is there life after disgrace? In May 2012, the Catholic world was shocked by the revelation that Father Thomas Williams, perhaps the best-known Legionary priest and a regular presence on television and in the media, had fathered a child almost ten years before. He first stepped down from all his functions as a Legionary priest, then left the priesthood to take care of his son and to marry the child’s mother. But two years ago, it became public that he had fathered a son ten years ago. As a leader of the Legionaries of Christ, Father Thomas Williams was a leading moral theologian in Rome. ![]()
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