Saints
“An exception has been made for me, it is the goodness of the Church, I am very happy to resume my ministry”
, assures Stephen Raine.
A native of Coventry, this 73-year-old Englishman is preparing to become a priest this Sunday alongside… his wife Rosemary, with the consent of Pope Francis.
Father of a son in his thirties, this married man will receive the sacrament from the bishop of Angoulême (Charente), Hervé Gosselin, in the church of Montmoreau, a village of 2,550 inhabitants where the couple has settled permanently since 2014. Former priest Anglican, Stephen Raine will have exercised his ministry in the Church of England for nearly three decades, before leaving and joining France.
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His "vocation" never abandoned him, however, to the point of regularly taking him to the parish of Éric Pouvaloue, the parish priest of Montmoreau.
“His approach is extraordinary.
I accompanied his journey before he joined the Catholic community”
, explains this priest who wrote the petitio, a request…
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