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| The priest has accused the Church of causing immeasurable suffering to homosexual Catholics |
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
criticized what he called the Vatican's hypocrisy in banning gay priests, even
though he said the clergy was "full of homosexuals".
Pope
Francis has yet to respond.
Until
3 October, Monsignor Charamsa held a senior post at the Vatican at the worshippers
for the Doctrine of the Faith, the department that upholds Roman Catholic
doctrine.
The
Vatican right away stripped him of his post after he held a news talks in a
restaurant in Rome to declare 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 "reckless, since it aims to subject
the synod assembly to undue media pressure".