A five-minute video of a man who angrily confronted a Catholic priest in Pampanga for allegedly committing adultery with his wife went viral on social media today.
The man was seen slapping his family’s portrait in front of the priest while in the social hall of the church where the priest is assigned to the city of San Fernando.
He also threw the suitcase and bag next to the priest and said he was leaving his wife with him.
The man added by saying one of the ten commandments “thou shalt not covet their neighbor’s wife.”
When the priest said “sorry,” the man’s head seemed to heat up even more and he hit the family portrait several times while saying that his family had been destroyed.
Also included is the seeming son of the couple who even warned the priest that it was being investigated.
The man also called the priest a snake several times, because he was close to the family and seemed to be taking advantage of his wife.
The wife was silent, even the priest accused of adultery in the five-minute video.
Video of priest accused of adultery went viral
In a text message sent to the news team by Archbishop Florentino Lavarias of the Archdiocese of San Fernando, he said that he is in contact with the priest and the family involved. They pray for God’s guidance in clarifying the matter.
Clerical celibacy is the discipline within the Catholic Church by which only unmarried men are ordained to the episcopate, to the priesthood (with individual exceptions) in some autonomous particular Churches, and similarly to the diaconate (with exceptions for certain categories of people). In other autonomous particular churches, the discipline applies only to the episcopate.
The Catholic particular church which principally follows this discipline is the Latin Church, but among the Eastern Catholic Churches, at least the Ethiopic Catholic Church applies it also.
Adultery is punishable by imprisonment of Prision Correcional in its medium and maximum period ( range of 2 years, 4 months and 1 day to 6 years imprisonment).
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