Krzysztof Charamsa, who was fired by the Vatican last month after
he publicly announced his homosexuality says he has no regrets and is
planning a book about his experience. The 43-year-old Polish priest also
revealed he had a Spanish boyfriend.
“I now feel better gay and more of a priest than before,” he
told AFP at a hotel in the heart of Barcelona, where he now lives in the
gay district.
He said he felt “liberated” and “at peace”, but still had a lot to
say about the Church, which he accuses of persecuting homosexuals.
“It’s not like the Islamic State (group) 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.”
Charamsa detailed his “New manifesto for gay liberation”, which he
plans to hand over to the Vatican in the hope of changing the Church’s
stance on homosexuality.
“A form of new Ten Commandments to apply in this field”, it asks
the Vatican to discard Church documents that are hostile towards
homosexuals, such as Benedict XVI’s 2005 edict banning bishops from
ordaining homosexuals into the priesthood.
As such, the manifesto calls on the Vatican to allow gays to become
priests, and also to revise its interpretation of Biblical texts on
this issue.
The manifesto also suggests kick-starting dialogue with Evangelists
and Anglicans, whom Charamsa says are more open on gay rights, and asks
for apologies from the Vatican “for its omissions and silences,
persecutions and crimes against homosexuals throughout the centuries.”
The now unemployed theology professor hopes to be able to start
teaching again at university and write a book about his experience as a
homosexual in the Vatican. He would like all homosexual priests to come
out of the closet “to show the Vatican that we exist and that we are
good priests.”
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