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Polish priest with Vatican ties sacked after revealing he is gay
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Father Krzystof Charamsa has urged the Catholic church to change its “backwards” attitude to homosexuality
A Polish priest who has worked for the Vatican for more than a decade has been sacked after he revealed he was gay and had a partner.
Father Krzystof Charamsa, 43, who held a post in the Vatican’s branch for protecting Catholic dogma, urged the Catholic church to change its “backwards” attitude to homosexuality.
He disclosed in two separate interviews with an Italian newspaper and a Polish news programme that he had a Spanish male partner.
The announcement on Saturday came on the eve of a major synod of bishops on the family, which will address a range of subjects including homosexuality.
The priest and his partner later posed for photographs at a press conference held in a restaurant in Rome. They had planned a demonstration in front of the Vatican but changed the venue several hours before it was due to have started.
“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’.
Polish priest with Vatican ties sacked after revealing he is gay | World news | The Guardian
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