A Polish priest who was recently stripped of his post by the Vatican, after announcing that he’s in a gay relationship, has harshly criticized the Vatican and Roman Catholics worldwide for their treatment of gay Catholics.
In a letter to Pope Francis, head of the Roman Catholic Church, 43-year-old Krzysztof Charamsa accused the Church of making the lives of millions of gay Catholics globally “a hell”.
Pope Francis has not yet responded.
According to the BBC, “Until 3 October, Monsignor Charamsa held a senior post at the Vatican at the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, the department that upholds Roman Catholic doctrine.”
Charasma was stripped of his post because he held a news conference in Rome and announced to the world that he was not only gay but was also in a committed relationship.
However Roman Catholic priests are meant to be celibate.
In his letter, the priest called on “all gay cardinals, gay bishops and gay priests [to] have the courage to abandon this insensitive, unfair and brutal Church”.
He also stated that he was tired of the church’s homophobia and marginalization of gays who he says has human rights too.
Charasma also called the Vatican hypocritical, claiming that they banned gay priests but that the clergy was full of homosexuals.
The BBC reports that, “He also urged the Church to annul a decision taken by his predecessor, Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI, to sign a document in 2005 that forbids men with deep-rooted homosexual tendencies from becoming priests.”
The Roman Catholic Church Synod recently had an official meeting but made no change to its pastoral attitude to gay Catholics.
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