"I don't regret what I did, it was a gift from God."
Words of Don Antonio Scala, the priest who in recent days resigned from all his ecclesiastical roles in Ischia because of an affair with a married parishioner . "I don't know the future, I hope to continue with this woman because we love each other," he added, interviewed by phone by Storie Italiane on Rai1.
"For me it was something very strong," he says, "otherwise we would have drifted apart like after a walk, you go to your house, I go back to mine and we hide everything. But we didn't succeed. We can deceive men, but God in the end sees everything and knows everything. I thought about going to the bishop and telling him 'I did this' and taking responsibility, it takes a bit of time for everyone ." "I love the community," he concluded, "I carry everyone in my heart, I hope they don't distance themselves from the Church. But this is my life, my choice that has nothing to do with them. I'm not going back, I'm done now and I don't feel like being a priest anymore. A confession wouldn't be enough, it takes a conversion."
