CELIBACY DOESN'T MEAN CHASTITY.

James C. Graham of South Carolina has to forgive two fathers.  "James C. Graham was tormented by a simple, but profound question: Why did his father seem to dislike him so much?"  That was his adoptive father, and recent developments in privacy law and DNA testing reveals the truth.  "'You’ve driven all the way from South Carolina to find out whether Father Thomas Sullivan was your father, and I’m here to tell you that he was,' said Ann Marie Mires, director of forensic criminology at Anna Maria College."

Do I have to be the Old Curmudgeon and point out that there are two distinct words in the dictionary for a reason?

With those words, Graham entered a little-known coterie of people fathered by Catholic priests who break their promise of celibacy. Though their exact number can’t be known, with more than 400,000 priests worldwide, there may be thousands of people like Graham, often growing up without the love and support of their biological fathers or shamed into keeping their father’s identity secret.

The road from Mr Graham's birth to the recent release of records is full of intrigue, duplicity, and official stonewalling.