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| Father with his gay partner Edouard at the press conference in Rome |
Photo courtesy: AFP
Forty-three-year-old Polish Catholic priest, Father Krzysztof Charamsa, in a press conference in Rome today, publicly admitted that he has been a gay (homosexual) and he has a regular partner, named Edouard. In spite of official Catholic Church teaching against homosexual acts, many Catholic priests practise homosexuality in secret, and this Polish priest, holding high Vatican posts, is a rare one coming out publicly.
According to the Vatican Radio, Father Charamsa -- a theologian -- has been living in Rome for the past 17 years and has worked at the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith (CDF) since 2003. He was an assistant secretary of the Theological Commission and was teaching theology at two Pontifical universities in Rome -- Pontifica Universita Gregoriana (Pontifical Gregorian University) and Ateneo Pontificio Regina Apostolorum (Pontifical Academy of the Queen of Apostles).
Father Federico Lombardi, the director of the Holy See press office in the Vatican, announced that Father Charamsa would no longer be holding the positions with immediate effect.
For more details on this subject, please read the following:
According to the Vatican Radio, Father Charamsa -- a theologian -- has been living in Rome for the past 17 years and has worked at the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith (CDF) since 2003. He was an assistant secretary of the Theological Commission and was teaching theology at two Pontifical universities in Rome -- Pontifica Universita Gregoriana (Pontifical Gregorian University) and Ateneo Pontificio Regina Apostolorum (Pontifical Academy of the Queen of Apostles).
Father Federico Lombardi, the director of the Holy See press office in the Vatican, announced that Father Charamsa would no longer be holding the positions with immediate effect.
For more details on this subject, please read the following:
- Holy See rocked as senior Vatican priest comes out as gay (The Irish Times)
- Vatican fires gay priest on eve of bishops' meeting (The Irish Times)
- Vatican responds to CDF official's coming out (Catholic News Agency -- CNA)
- Vatican fires priest after he comes out as gay (cbc.ca)
- Gay priest to be stripped of duties at Vatican (CNN)
- On the eve of synod, a Vatican official comes out as gay (johnthavis.com)
- Vatican Theologian Confesses: "I'm Happy To Be Gay and I Have a Partner," (Corriere della serra, Italy)
- Gay CDF Priest 'Comes Out,' Declares Church Must Change (churchmilitant.com)
- Senior Vatican priest comes out as gay and is immediately sacked (The Mirror, UK)
- Father Lombardi reacts to revelations by gay prelate (Vatican Radio)
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