(see related)Polish theologian
Krzysztof Olaf Charamsa, a high-ranking Catholic prelate who was
stripped of his duties after coming out at the weekend as a gay
man in a committed relationship, said Monday "all is in the
hands of God".
"One is always sorry to leave Italy," the 43-year-old
prelate said at Fiumicino airport on his way to Barcelona after
losing his jobs as an official of the Congregation for the
Doctrine of the Faith, adjunct secretary to the Vatican's
International Theological Commission, and professor at two
Vatican universities.
"I will continue to face up to my vocation - my being a man
and a priest - and in the same way one must wish every person,
every Christian, (the ability to) be oneself on the path of
faith, within the truth of one's own nature," he added.
"That is, with the courage to face who we are...otherwise
we live a lie, which is no good to anyone".
In an interview with Corriere della Sera paper at the
weekend, Charamsa said "I want the Church and my community to
know who I am: a homosexual priest who is happy and proud of his
identity".
"I am ready to pay the consequences, but the time has come
for the Church to open its eyes to gay believers and for it to
understand that the solution it offers them - that of total
abstinence from a love life - is inhumane," Charamsa told
Corriere.
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