An Auckland woman says she wants the Catholic Church to acknowledge her father was a priest who broke his vow of celibacy.
The woman, who RNZ has agreed not to identify, has broken a half century of secrecy to talk about the man she now knows to be her father, even though the relationship was never admitted by him or her mother.
Auckland Bishop Patrick Dunn tells Guyon Espiner he has huge respect for the woman.
"I'm trying to work with her siblings too, to find out the truth," The siblings have conflicting scientific evidence, Bishop Dunn says.
"I just wish someone had spoken the truth back then [when the woman was born].
"I know of one other priest in Auckland who fathered a child in the 25 years I've been here... About 20 years ago," he told Morning Report.
