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German priest resigns after 37 years to marry his 'great love'

 

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German priest resigns after 37 years to marry his 'great love'

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A German priest has announced his resignation from his parish after 37 years of service after revealing a previously secret romantic relationship with a woman.

"The reason is that I am getting married," Andreas Unfried stated on the website of the St Ursula parish, located in the Taunus region near Frankfurt in western Germany.

He said he had informed Bishop Georg Bätzing of Limburg of his decision to step down in order to marry his "great love."

What’s wrong with the right-wing ‘heritage American’ story

 

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The holiness of Dolly Parton

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The holiness of Dolly Parton

Dolly Parton performs in concert in Tokyo, July 30, 1979.
Dolly Parton performs in concert in Tokyo, July 30, 1979. Credit: AP Photo/Tsugufumi Matsumoto

Like millions of others, I found myself surprisingly saddened, even to the point of tears, by the death of Dolly Parton.

Of course, like those same millions of people, I was a huge fan of this woman with an outsized musical talent. She was a regular voice on the radio from my earliest years; I vividly remember eating cereal as a 13-year-old on a school morning and hearing her plaintive cri de coeur, “Jolene,” on the pink, plug-in, Bakelite radio that sat atop  our kitchen counter. Around that time, I also remember catching her on “The Tonight Show” with Johnny Carson, when I would kiss my parents good night, as they sat propped up in bed watching Johnny and Dolly.