Gay priest sacked by the Vatican says he has no regrets, plans on writing a book about his experience

Krzysztof Charamsa, who was fired by the Vatican last
month after he publicly announced his homosexuality says
he has no regrets and is planning a book about his
experience. The 43-year-old Polish priest also revealed he
had a Spanish boyfriend.
"I now feel better gay and more of a priest than before,"
he told AFP at a hotel in the heart of Barcelona, where he
now lives in the gay district.
He said he felt "liberated" and "at peace", but still had a lot to
say about the Church, which he accuses of persecuting
homosexuals.
"It's not like the Islamic State (group) that hounds
homosexuals by killing them. The Catholic Church doesn't
actually kill people, but it kills them psychologically," he said.
It kills them with its backward stance, with its reject,
contempt and constant preaching against homosexuals."
Charamsa detailed his "New manifesto for gay liberation",
which he plans to hand over to the Vatican in the hope of
changing the Church's stance on homosexuality.
"A form of new Ten Commandments to apply in this field", it
asks the Vatican to discard Church documents that are
hostile towards homosexuals, such as Benedict XVI's 2005
edict banning bishops from ordaining homosexuals into the
priesthood.
As such, the manifesto calls on the Vatican to allow gays to
become priests, and also to revise its interpretation of
Biblical texts on this issue.
The manifesto also suggests kick-starting dialogue with
Evangelists and Anglicans, whom Charamsa says are more
open on gay rights, and asks for apologies from the Vatican
"for its omissions and silences, persecutions and crimes
against homosexuals throughout the centuries."
The now unemployed theology professor hopes to be able to
start teaching again at university and write a book about his
experience as a homosexual in the Vatican. He would like all
homosexual priests to come out of the closet "to show the
Vatican that we exist and that we are good priests."