Church ‘kills homosexuals through repression’, says sacked gay priest

A former high-ranking priest fired by the Vatican after a very public coming-out says the church is killing homosexuals through persecution. Krzysztof Charamsa, who was sacked from his post working for the Vatican office for protecting Catholic doctrine, said: “I now feel better gay and more of a priest than before." He said he felt liberated and at peace but accused the church of persecuting homosexuals. "It’s not like the Islamic State that hounds homosexuals by killing them. The Catholic Church doesn’t actually kill people, but it kills them psychologically,” he said.

It kills them with its backward stance, with its reject, contempt and constant preaching against homosexuals.

Krzysztof Charamsa

The Polish priest made waves last month when he announced his homosexuality – and said he had a Spanish boyfriend -– on the eve of a bishops’ synod on the family at the Vatican. He has now started a new life in the gay district of Barcelona and plans to write a book about his experiences. The 43-year-old also has a “New manifesto for gay liberation”, which he plans to hand to the Vatican in the hope of changing its stance on homosexuality. It asks the Vatican to discard documents, such as Benedict XVI’s 2005 edict banning bishops from ordaining homosexuals into the priesthood, which are hostile towards homosexuals.

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