Gay and Catholic: How this couple reconciles their faith with their sexual identity [Video]

From the outside, Erwin Ottenbreit looked like a traditional Catholic high school teacher. He taught Christian ethics in Regina, was married to the same woman for more than 25 years and raised three children.

“Things started changing, I think, late in the marriage,” he told CBC’s This is Saskatchewan podcast in its latest episode. “It was a feeling that something wasn’t right. Something was lacking in my life.”

Erwin Ottenbreit taught at Regina Catholic high schools for decades. He was married and raised three children with his wife. Today, Erwin is married to a man. Sam Maciag sat down with Erwin and his husband David to talk about how they met, sexual identity, and staying Catholic.

That something, he came to realize, was a growing distance in his marriage as he started questioning his identity and accepting he was attracted to men.

His wife was the first person he told. While she was …