A Polish bishop today (October 21, 2015) defrocked a high-ranking Catholic priest fired by a furious Vatican earlier this month after he came out as gay on the eve of a key synod of the family, according to the Yahoo News website.
Bishop Ryszard Kasyna decided that Krzystof Charamsa should no longer be able to celebrate mass, administer sacraments like communion and baptism, or wear a cassock.
Charamsa had held a senior position working for the Vatican office for protecting Catholic dogma, the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith.
The 43-year-old priest sparked outrage at the Vatican on October 3 by publicly declaring his homosexuality on the eve of a bishops' synod set to touch on the divisive issue of the Catholic Church's relationship to gay believers.
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