Who has agreed to pay the funeral costs of Nathan Halbach fathered by Father Henry Willenborg?
Franciscans to pay funeral costs of man fathered by Wisconsin priest November 13, 2009 The Franciscan order has agreed to pay the funeral costs of Nathan Halbach, a 22-year-old brain cancer patient fathered in 1986 by Father Henry Willenborg. Mr. Halbach’s mother, Pat Bond, says that she and Father Willenborg had a five-year affair after she had sought counseling from him to help save her trouble marriage. During the affair, she became a lay leader in the parish; Father Willenborg, she said, ended the affair when he became interested in another woman. “My failure to be faithful to my vows has caused me and many others pain and disappointment,” said Father Willenborg, now suspended from his ministry. “I have regretted this for a long time.” “When it comes to this person who’s my dad, who should be helping me out more than a person on the street, he hasn’t done so throughout my 20-plus years of life,” observed Mr. Halbach. He and his mother have received $223,000 in support from the Fran
Nathan Halbach is 22, with a diagnosis of terminal brain cancer. He knows that “horrible stuff” lies ahead. His mother, Pat Bond, has been taking care of him full time. But when she needed help, she reached out to the Roman Catholic Church.After all, his father is a priest. Nathan was born in 1986, during a five-year affair between his mother and Father Henry Willenborg, the Franciscan priest who celebrated Nathan’s baptism. In a story first reported in the New York Times, it was revealed that The Franciscan Order drew up an agreement acknowledging the boy’s paternity and agreeing to pay child support in exchange for a pledge of confidentiality. Now her son — the youngest of four children — may have just weeks to live. And when the Franciscans balked at paying for his care, she decided she was no longer bound by her pledge of confidentiality. “I never asked for extraordinary amounts. I asked for the basic needs and care of my son,” Bond told CNN’s “AC 360.” But she said the church to
The Franciscan order has agreed to pay the funeral costs of Nathan Halbach, a 22-year-old brain cancer patient fathered in 1986 by Father Henry Willenborg. Mr. Halbach’s mother, Pat Bond, says that she and Father Willenborg had a five-year affair after she had sought counseling from him to help save her trouble marriage. During the affair, she became a lay leader in the parish; Father Willenborg, she said, ended the affair when he became interested in another woman. Sources: http://www.catholicculture.org/news/headlines/index.cfm?
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