SPAIN
Yahoo! News
By HERNAN MUNOZ and ALAN CLENDENNING
BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — The Polish monsignor who came out as gay and was fired by the Vatican just before a meeting of bishops about outreach to gays, divorcees and more traditional Catholic families says that a “special kind of homophobia” exists among priests, because those who are homosexual are forced to hate themselves.
Krzysztof Charamsa told The Associated Press in an interview that he hopes more priests will come out “to destroy the code of silence in the church.”
“Many priests, many bishops, many persons in Catholic clergy are gay, are homosexual people,” Charamsa said. “With sensitivity of homosexuals. But they must hate themselves.”
Charamsa was a mid-level official in the Vatican’s doctrine office who came out in interviews in Italian and Polish media last month a day before the bishops met, saying he was happy and proud to be a gay priest and in love with his boyfriend.
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