ROME
The Independent (UK)

Lee Williams @leeroy112 Monday 12 October 2015

A priest sacked by the Vatican after coming out has said there is no gay lobby in the Vatican.

Krzysztof Charamsa told a private Italian TV channel: “I met homosexual priests, often isolated like me… but no gay lobby,” according to the MailOnline.

The 43-year-old Polish ex-priest added that he had met gay priests who were also “homophobes” and had “hatred for themselves and others”.

His remarks are a response to rumours of a gay network within the church seeking to influence the Vatican. The Pope has mentioned such a lobby in the past, telling Catholic leaders in 2013: “The ‘gay lobby’ is mentioned, and it is true, it is there.”