The Vatican reacted furiously on Saturday after a
Polish priest employed as a senior official publicly declared 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.
In a statement, a Vatican spokesman said Krzystof
Charamsa's action had been "very serious and irresponsible", and that
the priest would be automatically kicked out of his post as a theologian
in the Vatican.
