{"id":5318,"date":"2010-12-01T16:57:09","date_gmt":"2010-12-01T16:57:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/deaconsbench\/2010\/12\/deacon-kills-self-after-hes-denied-priestly-ordination.html"},"modified":"2010-12-01T16:57:09","modified_gmt":"2010-12-01T16:57:09","slug":"deacon-kills-self-after-hes-denied-priestly-ordination","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/deaconsbench\/2010\/12\/deacon-kills-self-after-hes-denied-priestly-ordination.html","title":{"rendered":"Deacon kills self after he’s denied priestly ordination"},"content":{"rendered":"

The sad details, from ANSA: <\/a><\/p>\n

\nAn aspiring priest has killed himself after the Vatican cancelled his ordination, his bishop said Wednesday.<\/p>\n

Luca Seidita, 29, threw himself from a rocky outcrop in this central Italian hilltown Tuesday, shortly after learning that the Holy See had decided not to elevate him from his position as deacon.<\/p>\n

Local media reported there had been “murmurings” he might be gay but Orvieto Bishop Giovanni Scanavino ruled this out.<\/p>\n

“There were only some issues about friends of his,” Msgr Scanavino said.<\/p>\n

“For me, he was ready to be a priest, but the Vatican said he wasn’t mature enough,” the prelate said.<\/p>\n

Police said Seidita left a note saying he was taking his own life because of the Vatican decision.<\/p>\n

“I wanted to become a priest and all my life was devoted to that,” he wrote. “I am fragile and I ask for forgiveness,” Seidita added.<\/p>\n

Bishop Scanavino said Seidita’s receiving a fax on Monday cancelling the ordination had been “an absolute drama” for the young man from Lecce in Puglia.<\/p>\n

The bishop quoted Deacon Seidita as saying, “over and over again”: “What have I done, tell me what I’ve done”.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Eternal rest grant unto him, O Lord, and let perpetual light shine upon him…<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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