VATICAN CITY
Appeal-Democrat
VATICAN CITY (AP) — The Vatican has fired a monsignor who came out as gay on the eve of a big meeting of the world’s bishops to discuss church outreach to gays, divorcees and more traditional Catholic families.
Monsignor Kryzstof Charamsa was a mid-level official in the Vatican’s doctrine office. In newspaper interviews published in Italy and Poland Saturday, Charamsa said he was happy and proud to be a gay priest, and was in love with a man whom he identified as his boyfriend.
In a statement Saturday, the Vatican spokesman, the Rev. Federico Lombardi, said Charamsa’s public statements were “serious and irresponsible” coming on the eve of the synod and that he could no longer continue working at the Vatican or its pontifical universities.
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