“I don’t believe it will come out late, after a year, as has happened in other synods and with other popes”, he told the Italian daily newspaper Corriere della Sera October 26.
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In the letter, he takes the church to task for “persecuting” and bringing “immeasurable suffering” to LGBT Catholics and their loved ones.
The pope has yet to respond to the letter.
A Polish bishop last week defrocked the 43-year-old priest for failing to abide by his vow of celibacy.
Charamsa’s home diocese of Pelplin, based in Gdansk, said on Wednesday that his punishment could be reversed if he returns to “true teachings of the church and Christ’s priesthood”.
The bishops opposed same-sex marriage saying it was not “remotely analogous” to marriage between a man and a woman.
Charamsa has been a fervent supporter of the church his whole life, calling it “a place where freedom is possible”.
The synod’s final report, he said, proposed priests help divorced and remarried couples undergoing conversion and repentance so they recognised whether or not they were worthy to receive the Eucharist.
While criticising the synod’s final document for repeating stereotypes on homosexuality, Monsignor Charamsa singled out the words of Cardinal Robert Sarah of Guinea, who had told the bishops, “What Nazi-Fascism and Communism were in the 20th century, western homosexual and abortion ideologies and Islamic fanaticism are today”.
“‘Haven’t you read, ‘ he replied, ‘that at the beginning the Creator made them male and female, and said, “For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh”.
It could be a text, Nichols said, “to set us off in a real, deeply prayerful appreciation of the grace at work in so many families”.
As TheBlaze previously reported, Charamsa was sacked after making his announcement on the eve of the Catholic Church’s much-publicized synod meeting of bishops to discuss topics ranging from outreach to gays to divorce.
Separately, Francis created a secretariat for communications, to gather together all the Vatican’s varied media entities under one administrative roof, and also announced he would merge three Vatican offices, on the family, laity and a bioethics think tank, into a single department.
Rabbi David Rosen of the American Jewish Committee, a longtime partner in interfaith dialogue with the Vatican, recalled in a briefing with reporters that “Nostra Aetate” was approved following the horrors of the Holocaust, when the Catholic Church was forced to undergo a “reckoning of the soul” over its relationship with the Jewish people. Francis previously said in 2013 “If someone is gay and he searches for the Lord and has good will, who am I to judge?” via Quartz.
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Charity, “where compassion especially counts, can unite with us many people who do not consider themselves to be believers or who are seeking God and truth”, and with anyone who makes those in need a priority, he said.
