Polish gay ex-priest calls out Catholic Church

Charamsa a real improvement of life and it can be reversed.

A former priest who was stripped of his title after announcing publicly that he was gay has called out the “homophobic hate” of the Roman Catholic Church.

Prior to his removal from service, Charamsa was serving as a member of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, the Vatican body tasked with defending Catholic theology.

Pope Francis blesses the faithful at the end of his weekly general audience in St. Peter’s Square, at the Vatican, Wednesday, September 30, 2015.

He said the Church knows only how to persecute homosexuals. They also described the need to empower women, both in society as a whole and within the church, according to Crux.

Speaking to the ANSA news agency, Italian Cardinal Pietro Parolin, the Vatican’s Secretary of State, said the pontiff will write an apostolic exhortation on the family in the upcoming months.

Just a few days after ending a synod that flirted with the Catholic Church changing language and attitudes toward divorced people and gays and lesbians, Pope Francis celebrated 50 years of a document that significantly altered the language and attitudes of the church toward Jews. The language on homosexuality moves the Church along the same trajectory, Westen warned.

Parents, perhaps today more than ever, face tremendous challenges in raising and educating their children.

The priest writes that LGBT Catholics have a right to family life, “even if the Church does not want to bless it”. “The church, incapable of confronting humanity, must shut up if it is not capable to use reason”, he added.

Charamsa called for all statements from the Holy See that are “offensive and violent” against homosexuals to be withdrawn and cancelled, and for “the obscene instructions of Benedict XVI” forbidding the admission to the priesthood of homosexuals to be annulled as well.

His diocese in Poland then suspended him indefinitely from his functions as a priest, urging him to return to the “true teaching of the church and Christ’s priesthood”.

“Let us pray also for the Jewish people, to whom the Lord our God spoke first, that he may grant them to advance in love of his name and in faithfulness to his covenant”. They “recognize the paternity of Abraham, venerate Jesus as a prophet, honor his virgin mother, Mary, await the day of judgment, and practice prayer, almsgiving and fasting”, he said.

Ms O’Leary Connors works with the Southside Travellers Action Group and her mother was part of the extended Connors family left devastated by the fire in the halting site in Glenamuck over two weeks ago.