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".
The 43-year-old 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".
He says he can no longer bear the "homophobic
hate of the Church, the exclusion, the marginalisation and the stigmatisation
of people like me", whose "human rights are denied" by the
Church.
Pope Francis has yet to respond.
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