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Related: About this forumGay priest decries 'inhuman' treatment of homosexual Catholics
Source: BBC
Gay priest decries 'inhuman' treatment of homosexual Catholics
By Caroline Wyatt
Religious affairs correspondent
28 October 2015 Europe
A senior Vatican priest, stripped of his post after admitting being in a gay relationship, has launched a scathing attack on the Roman Catholic Church.
In a letter to Pope Francis this month, Krzysztof Charamsa accused the Church of making the lives of millions of gay Catholics globally "a hell".
He criticised what he called the Vatican's hypocrisy in banning gay priests, even though he said the clergy was "full of homosexuals".
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The Polish priest has released to the BBC a copy of the letter he sent to the Pope, written the same day as the announcement, in which he criticises the Church for "persecuting" and causing "immeasurable suffering" to homosexual Catholics and their families.
He says that after a "long and tormented period of discernment and prayer", he had taken the decision to "publicly reject the violence of the Church towards homosexual, lesbian, bisexual, transsexual and intersexual people".
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By Caroline Wyatt
Religious affairs correspondent
28 October 2015 Europe
A senior Vatican priest, stripped of his post after admitting being in a gay relationship, has launched a scathing attack on the Roman Catholic Church.
In a letter to Pope Francis this month, Krzysztof Charamsa accused the Church of making the lives of millions of gay Catholics globally "a hell".
He criticised what he called the Vatican's hypocrisy in banning gay priests, even though he said the clergy was "full of homosexuals".
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The Polish priest has released to the BBC a copy of the letter he sent to the Pope, written the same day as the announcement, in which he criticises the Church for "persecuting" and causing "immeasurable suffering" to homosexual Catholics and their families.
He says that after a "long and tormented period of discernment and prayer", he had taken the decision to "publicly reject the violence of the Church towards homosexual, lesbian, bisexual, transsexual and intersexual people".
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Gay priest decries 'inhuman' treatment of homosexual Catholics (Original Post)
Eugene
Oct 2015
OP
Welcome to the club. It only took him 500 years to figure out the RC Church violates human dignity.
Betty Karlson
Oct 2015
#1
Yet, you helped support this organization and its dogma for how many years?
closeupready
Oct 2015
#2
Betty Karlson
(7,231 posts)1. Welcome to the club. It only took him 500 years to figure out the RC Church violates human dignity.
Protestants already knew this. For 500 years.
closeupready
(29,503 posts)2. Yet, you helped support this organization and its dogma for how many years?
Glad to see him realizing the error of having played a role in that, but at the same time, many of us were there many years ago.
Amimnoch
(4,558 posts)4. My thoughts exactly.
Although to be completely fair, we don't know what kind of upbringing he had.. he may have very well be corralled into that life by his own parents.
closeupready
(29,503 posts)5. Sure. As a recovering Catholic, I do know how that is.
Amimnoch
(4,558 posts)6. heh, me too!
cheers
And we had it easy. The article says he was Polish, and depending on his age, he may have had no choice at all in joining the clergy.
And we had it easy. The article says he was Polish, and depending on his age, he may have had no choice at all in joining the clergy.
LostOne4Ever
(9,288 posts)3. Power to the priest! We need more like him! nt