\nThe Polish priest who declared his homosexuality\u00a0<\/strong>on the eve of the Synod on the Family, Fr. Krysztof Charamsa, has been laicized. Bishop Ryszard Kasyno, bishop of Pelplin (Poland), sent a letter to Fr. Charamsa on Wednesday, October 21, notifying him that he may no longer celebrate Mass, administer the sacraments or wear a cassock.<\/p>\nThe action against Fr. Charamsa comes as no surprise,<\/strong>\u00a0considering the priest\u2019s carefully executed attack on the Church he served. Charamsa, who held a press conference October 2 with his boyfriend and announced their love relationship, had apparently been planning to disrupt the Synod with his \u201ccoming out.\u201d He presented a 10-point \u201cliberation manifesto\u201d against \u201cinstitutionalized homophobia in the Church\u201d and announced the upcoming publication of a book detailing his twelve years at the heart of the Vatican bureaucracy.<\/p>\nHe was immediately fired by the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith,<\/strong>\u00a0where he had worked as a senior official; but it took just a little longer to complete the investigation which resulted in his removal from priestly service.<\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
My friend\u00a0Kathy Schiffer has the story. Remember the high-ranking Vatican priest who chose the opening of the Synod on Marriage to announce that he\u2019s gay and then ride\u00a0off into the sunset with his boyfriend and a book deal? His bishop has laicized him. I wonder how this guy managed to rise so\u00a0high in the Church […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1155,"featured_media":29774,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,134,7228,6269,5321,1],"tags":[7800,214,6179],"class_list":["post-30668","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-catholic","category-clergy","category-corruption-2","category-destruction-of-the-family-2","category-synod","category-uncategorized","tag-defrocked-priest","tag-gay-marriage","tag-gay-priest"],"yoast_head":"\n
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