Lawsuit Claims Texas Priest’s Affair With Married Parishioner Tore Apart Family

A lawsuit seeking over a million dollars in damages originally filed in December against the Catholic Diocese of Brownsville claims an Edinburg priest’s longtime affair with one of his parishioners caused her divorce and led her to neglect her children so much that one of them began calling the priest “El Diablo.”
In the suit, Jose “Joe” Gonzalez claims his wife Sylvia Vega reignited a sexual affair with Father Alejandro Flores by at least 2024, when the diocese transferred him to be the pastor of St. Joseph’s Catholic Church in Edinburg.
That relationship, Gonzalez alleges, resulted in Vega spending so much of her time with Flores that it severely harmed the five children he and Vega raised together over the past decade and a half.
Gonzalez sued the diocese on behalf of himself and as next friend of four of Vega’s children, identified only by initials in court documents.
Three of those individuals appear to be adults and another a minor.
“Priests are supposed to pursue integrity, …