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Fired gay priest: Catholic church ‘needs its own Stonewall’
Catholic priest Krzysztof Charamsa, who was defrocked after publicly coming out as gay, has said the Catholic Church needs a revolution led by homosexual Christians.
Formerly a high-ranking Mosignore in the Vatican, Charamsa was fired from all positions on 3 October, after he came out as gay; more than two weeks later he was defrocked by a Polish bishop.
Speaking to Austrian TV channel Servus TV’s chat show Talk im Hangar 7, in a discussion on the situation on the Catholic Church and whether Pope Francis is set to fail, Charamsa said he felt the church had to apologize to him.
‘I told my church: I’m gay and I demand for you to respect me, and I’m not going to ask anyone for forgiveness. Not even you, my dear church,’ he said.
‘Because it’s you who has to ask me for forgiveness for all the hate and the oppression you brought into my heart while I entrusted myself to you and served you.’
The Vatican, Charamsa said, had been ‘infiltrated by a political war’ going against everything the evangelium stands for.
‘It’s hard, if not impossible, to change something in the Vatican. The Vatican is not going to be able to free itself,’ he said.
‘It needs international help – control and reforms. Those introduced by the pope are currently being counteracted.
‘The Vatican is an institution where a downright pope-phobia rules.’
As for changing things, the former Monsignore said he believes the only way to bring on change would be in the form of a revolution – or, as he put it when speaking to the Washington Post, the Catholic Church needs its own version of Stonewall.
‘I’m convinced that the church needs a revolution of homosexual believers who are being discriminated against, whose lives are destroyed,’ Charamsa said.
‘These days I receive many mails and letters from those believers who are opening their hearts to me, saying: finally. Finally there’s someone telling the Church it’s enough.’
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Stefanie Gerdes
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