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Church and Homosexuals - ketchim - 10-28-2015
Gay priest decries 'inhuman' treatment of homosexual Catholics
The priest has accused the Church of causing "immeasurable suffering" to homosexual Catholics
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Re: Church and Homosexuals - ketchim - 10-28-2015
His decision to "come out" has caused consternation in some Roman Catholic circles
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Re: Church and Homosexuals - ketchim - 10-28-2015
The 43-year-old Krzysztof Charamsa says that while the Roman Catholic clergy is "full of homosexuals",
it is also "frequently violently homophobic",
and he calls on "all gay cardinals, gay bishops and gay priests [to] have the courage to abandon this insensitive,
unfair and brutal Church". :-[
Re: Church and Homosexuals - ketchim - 10-28-2015
The Vatican immediately stripped him of his post after he held a news conference in a restaurant in Rome
to announce that he was both gay and in a relationship.
Roman Catholic priests are meant to be celibate.
Re: Church and Homosexuals - ketchim - 10-28-2015
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 "irresponsible, since it aims to subject the synod assembly to undue media pressure".
The Synod on the Family ended on Sunday, but made no change to its pastoral attitude to gay Catholics
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Re: Church and Homosexuals - ketchim - 10-28-2015
Pope Francis is thought to have a more lenient attitude on homosexuality than some of his predecessors
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Re: Church and Homosexuals - ketchim - 10-28-2015
Meseret , watcha think
Pastor Krzyztof should just Forkoff ? :-[
coming "out" during Family synod....
Re: Church and Homosexuals - Meseret - 10-28-2015
Since he took a vow of celibacy, then he has to step down. Although it is common knowledge that other priests do it, they don't announce it to the world.
He will of course (or should) be allowed to practise his faith.
Re: Church and Homosexuals - ketchim - 10-28-2015
dunno about that : he should be excommunicated >
Excommunication is an institutional act of religious censure used to deprive, suspend, or limit membership
in a religious community or to restrict certain rights within it, in particular reception of the sacraments.
Re: Church and Homosexuals - Meseret - 10-28-2015
He should not be deprived from practising his faith on a personal level.