In a letter written to Pope Francis, Monsignor Krzysztof Charamsa expressed that the church is “frequently violently homophobic”.
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‘All gay cardinals, bishops and priests should have the courage to leave this insensible, unjust and violent church’.
Earlier this month, 13 clerics from around the world, including DiNardo, sent a letter to Francis contending the synod format was stacked against traditionalist views and that there wouldn’t be enough time to review a final draft report.
Charamsa now lives in Spain with his partner.
Charamsa had held a senior position working for the Vatican office for protecting Catholic dogma, the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith.
In one widely noted speech, Cardinal Robert Sarah of Guinea, a top official in the Roman Curia, said that “what Nazi-fascism and communism were in the 20th century, Western homosexual and abortion ideologies and Islamic fanaticism are today”.
Ronnie Fay of Pavee Point, who was in the Vatican for the event, said: “I think it’s really important for all of society…to get a strong message from someone like the Pope to promote tolerance and understanding. The church, incapable of confronting humanity, must shut up if it is not capable to use reason”, he added.
Bishops and other full members of the synod voted separately on each paragraph and the Vatican published those votes.
“Concluding this report, we humbly ask the Holy Father that he evaluate the possibility of issuing a document on the family, so that in it the domestic church may always reflect Christ more clearly, [as] the light of the world”, the relatio stated. “I refuse it on behalf of God, who has created us and who loves us as we are”.
He said he fears for his mother, a woman of unshakeable faith. “I am a minority, but I have my dignity and this must be approved by my church”. In Poland, many Catholics know how to be masters of hate, of stigmatisation and the exclusion of others, and of homophobia. “My mother doesn’t deserve to be offended by that inhuman Polish church”.
But to much dismay, the meeting called Synod on the Family did not yield highly-anticipated changes to the church’s policy toward a different group: gay, lesbian, transgender and bisexual Catholics.
In a summary of the synod for Religion News Service, David Gibson explored five key takeaways from the gathering, emphasizing the church leaders’ increasingly open attitude toward divorced and remarried Catholics and relative silence on homosexual Catholics.
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Reflecting on the synod’s objective, he said: “Certainly, the Synod was not about settling all the issues having to do with the family, but rather attempting to see them in the light of the Gospel and the Church’s tradition and 2000-year history, bringing the joy of hope without falling into a facile repetition of what is obvious or has already been said”.
