The Vatican has come under fire after dismissing a high-ranking Polish priest on the same day he revealed that he was gay.
Father
Krzystof Charamsa, who held a post in the Vatican's branch for
protecting Catholic dogma, urged the Catholic church to change its
'backwards' attitude to homosexuality. The
43-year-old revealed that he also had a Spanish partner, in two
separate interviews with an Italian newspaper and a Polish news
programme.