“I struck her various times on the head with my hand. I shouldn’t have done it,” Father Antonio Caetano told daily newspaper Jornal de Noticias.
Caetano said he became angered when the 39-year-old woman refused to leave his private residence in the northern village of Souto Redondo where she had come to request that her daughter be allowed to attend his weekly religious studies classes.
Maria de Fatima told the paper the priest tried to push her out the door after the argument became heated but when she still did not move he began hitting her on the head.
The woman, who has filed a complaint with the local bishop, sought hospital treatment for minor bruises and was immediately released, the paper said.
Caetano said he would be “very happy” to be relocated.
“I have been asking for a long time to leave this parish,” he said.
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Well maybe in his next parish women should wear hard hats under their chapel veils.
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Oh, puh-lease! A priest isn’t allowed to protect himself and his home from trespassers?! Of course we hold priests to a higher standard than others, but we can’t expect them to be punching bags for others. I think this woman in question has been watching American TV, and is filing the complaint to get attention and maybe some $$$.
Christ: I share your Cynicism that perhaps her story isn’t accurate, but then again that doesn’t mean the priest isn’t at fault. If we don’t know exactly what happened, shouldn’t we wait a bit before we condemn the woman?
sounds fishy, my instinct tells me to defend the priest
Christ: I share your Cynicism,/i>
I’m sorry, but that’s a funny typo!
well the Jornal do Noticias has a habit of picking up wacky but true stuff – like the priest who denounced the local slughter house who had been selling condemned meat to the local Butchers ! This denunciation was done from the Ambo during Sunday Mass