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CRISTINA CAMARGO
Driven by Pope Francis’ remarks in Brazil last week about homosexuals, former Brazilian priest Father Beto, excommunicated this April after statements in support of gays, has decided to go to court to try to void his exclusion from the Catholic Church. Roberto Francisco Daniel, 48, known as Father Beto, hired lawyers and filed a restraining order on Monday against the Diocese of Bauru (329 km or 204 miles) from Sao Paulo).
He questions the manner in which he was expelled from the church by a court in which, according to him, he attended without knowing what was going on and without any rights to counsel. “I was treated like an adolescent. I have been publically ousted,” he says. “This lawsuit is also for every Brazilian that understands that no institution can do this to a person.”
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