A high-ranking Polish priest from the Vatican revealed he was gay on Saturday, saying he wanted to challenge the church’s “paranoia” on the eve of a key synod on the family.
“I know that I will have to give up my ministry which is my whole life,” he told the Italian daily.
“I know that the church will see me as someone who did not know how to fulfil his duty (to remain chaste), who is lost and who is not even with a woman but with a man!”
It is time that the church opened its eyes to gay believers and understood that the solution is it proposing – total abstinence and a life without love – is not humane,” he said.
“I am not doing it in order to be able live with my partner, I am doing it for me, for my community and for the church. It is a much deeper decision borne out of my reflection on what is advocated by the church,” he said.
“Wake up, church, stop persecuting the innocents,” he said, insisting his aim was to help the Catholic church.
“My coming out is a plea to the Synod that the church stop its paranoid actions with regards to sexual minorities,” he said.
Good for him, though. It must be hard, especially being a Vatican priest 
