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Vatican fury as top priest comes out on eve of bishops meet


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The Vatican reacted furiously on Saturday after a Polish priest employed as a senior official publicly declared his homosexuality on the eve of a bishops' synod set to touch on the divisive issue of the Catholic Church's relationship to gay believers. In a statement, a Vatican spokesman said Krzystof Charamsa's action had been "very serious and irresponsible", and that the priest would be automatically kicked out of his post as a theologian in the Vatican. Charamsa, flanked by his Catalan boyfriend Eduardo and wearing his priest's collar, told a news conference in Rome he had been compelled to speak out against what he said was the hypocrisy and paranoia that shapes the Church's attitude to sexual minorities.

 

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