President Lugo resigned from church after women told Vatican of affairs bishop claims

Apr. 21, 2009
A Roman Catholic bishop has claimed that Fernando Lugo Paraguay's president resigned from the church in 2004 after at least two women in his parish told a Vatican official he had fathered their children.
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