The Vatican has come under fire after dismissing a high-ranking Polish priest on the same day he revealed that he was gay.
Father
Krzystof Charamsa, who held a post in the Vatican's branch for
protecting Catholic dogma, urged the Catholic church to change its
'backwards' attitude to homosexuality.
The
43-year-old revealed that he also had a Spanish partner, in two
separate interviews with an Italian newspaper and a Polish news program
Father Krzystof Charamsa, who held a post in the Vatican's branch for
protecting Catholic dogma, urged the Catholic church to change its
'backwards' attitude to homosexuality
The high-ranking Polish priest said that his decision to come out as gay
was motivated by the Church's 'inhuman' attitude to homosexuality
'It's time
for the Church to open its eyes about gay Catholics and to understand
that the solution it proposes to them – total abstinence from a life of
love – is inhuman,' he told the Italian daily Corriere della Sera,
saying he wanted to challenge the Church's 'paranoia'
'I know that I will have to give up my ministry which is my whole life
'I know that
the Church will see me as someone who did not know how to fulfil his
duty [to remain chaste], who is lost and who is not even with a woman
but with a man!'
The
priest, who had held a post at the Congregation of the Doctrine of the
Faith since 2003, later held a news conference with his Catalan partner
and gay activists at a restaurant in Rome.
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