Hi Anita,

Thank you for your reply! I agree with everything you said, getting the cameras rolling is the answer as that is the best way to get the message out in the open. I’ve always been a bit shy but am trying to get up the courage to do this! I live in the UK but am friends with several priests children in the US, through copinginternational.com. I think the founder of coping international is planning a big media thing later this year and wants as many secret children (it is a good term!) to join in, the problem is that many have been threatened and are very scared of talking in public – I was threatened too but eventually decided to do it anyway. I have a facebook page that also talks about the book https://www.facebook.com/spiritualjourneysNDEs/ but I think the idea of a website is really good. Its really hard to estimate numbers of priests children around the world because of the secrecy and fear that stops people talking (many think they are the only ones in that situation) but in the UK and Ireland there is minimum 6000 secret children, in the US, where Richard Sipe says only half of Catholic priests are celibate at any one time, there are thousands, in South Africa someone did a study and found 45% of Catholic priests there are not celibate and many have families, in Kenya a priest recently said he thinks at least half the priests there are not celibate, and in the Philippines there is apparently a crèche for priests kids!

Thanks so much for your help and support xxx