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Lutheran Pastor’s Leaked Confessional Touches Off Unholy Legal War

‘BREAKS MY HEART’

When a potentially ruinous secret was divulged to his wife, it “was like the sacraments turning poison,” Rev. Anthony H.T. Stephens told The Daily Beast.

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