Church and Homosexuals

Gay priest decries 'inhuman' treatment of homosexual Catholics

The priest has accused the Church of causing "immeasurable suffering" to homosexual Catholics

                                           

His decision to "come out" has caused consternation in some Roman Catholic circles

                     

The 43-year-old Krzysztof Charamsa  says that while the Roman Catholic clergy is "full of homosexuals",

it is also "frequently violently homophobic",

and he calls on "all gay cardinals, gay bishops and gay priests [to] have the courage to abandon this insensitive,

unfair and brutal Church".  :-[

The Vatican immediately stripped him of his post after he held a news conference in a restaurant in Rome

to announce that he was both gay and in a relationship.


Roman Catholic priests are meant to be celibate. 

At the time, the Holy See said the priest's decision to come out on the eve of the Vatican's synod on the family

had been "irresponsible, since it aims to subject the synod assembly to undue media pressure".

The Synod on the Family ended on Sunday, but made no change to its pastoral attitude to gay Catholics

                                     

Pope Francis is thought to have a more lenient attitude on homosexuality than some of his predecessors

                             

Meseret , watcha think 

Pastor Krzyztof should just Forkoff ?  :-[

coming "out" during Family synod....

Since he took a vow of celibacy, then he has to step down.  Although it is common knowledge that other priests do it, they don't announce it to the world.


He will of course (or should) be allowed to practise his faith.

dunno about that : he should be excommunicated  >

Excommunication is an institutional act of religious censure used to deprive, suspend, or limit membership

in a religious community or to restrict certain rights within it, in particular reception of the sacraments.

He should not be deprived from practising his faith on a personal level.