Divorcing elderly wife ends priesthood hopes
Matthew Benns; 13/7/08
A trainee priest due for an audience with the Pope this week has agreed to leave a seminary after church officials discovered he had an ex-wife 56 years his senior and that he claimed his late father may have been involved in murdering close family and friends. But Salvatore Scevola, 36, still plans to get in to see the Pope through his media accreditation with Vatican television channel Telepace. Catholic officials became concerned about Mr Scevola’s suitability for the priesthood when they discovered that in his 20s he was married to a woman 56 years older than him, eventually divorcing after 5½ years.
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