Vicar's other faces
Many priests are really beasts in dog-collars, according to former wives of vicars. Alison Crosthwaite, who has been happily married to the Rev. Roger Crosthwaite for 18 years, told the “Daily Express” that the problem was so great that she had started Broken Rites — a pressure group of the former wives. Her phone had not stopped ringing — and the stories of misery and woe were amazing, she said. There was the case of the well-respected vicar who would leave the pulpit and go home to beat his wife. Another had moved a young choir girl into the vicarage. Then there are those with drinking problems, those who are chased by female parishioners ... “When wives complain, nobody believes that the nice caring vicar could do such things,” Mrs Crosthwaite said. — London.
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