'Happy gay priest' wants the 'many other' gay clergy to out themselves

The gay priest sacked by the Vatican last month said that there are many more gay priests in the Catholic church and they “must hate themselves”.

In an interview published today (5 November), Mgr Krzysztof Charamsa told The Associated Press that he hoped that more Catholic priests would come out of the closet “to destroy the code of silence in the church”.

“Many priests, many bishops, many persons in Catholic clergy are gay, are homosexual people,” Mgr Charamsa told AP.

“With sensitivity of homosexuals. But they must hate themselves.”

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Since he was fired from his Vatican role at the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, Mgr Charamsa’s home diocese of Pelplin, in Gdansk, Poland, has suspended him as a priest and he said that he could no longer wear priestly vestments.

He added that he was a “happy gay priest” now that he was living in Barcelona with his partner Eduard Planas.

Mgr Krzysztof Charamsa has been suspended by his diocese in Poland (PA)

“And I can say it with transparency, with all my truth,” he added. “We fought this horrible lying of my Church, of the Vatican. And as for the Vatican I think their first reaction was panic.

"Panic and automatic elimination of this man. In one moment I was out from the Vatican.”

Earlier this month, he wrote in a letter to Pope Francis that he can no longer bear the "homophobic hate of the Church, the exclusion, the marginalisation and the stigmatisation of people like me", whose "human rights are denied" by the Church.