Catholic Priest Who Revealing Himself As Gay Has Been Sacked (Photos)

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 program. 

'It's time for the Church to open its eyes about gay Catholics and to understand that the solution it proposes to them – total abstinence from a life of love – is inhuman,' he told the Italian daily Corriere della Sera, saying he wanted to challenge the Church's 'paranoia'.  

'I know that I will have to give up my ministry which is my whole life. 'I know that the Church will see me as someone who did not know how to fulfill his duty [to remain chaste], who is lost and who is not even with a woman but with a man!' 

'I want to be an advocate for all sexual minorities and their families who have suffered in silence,' he said during the press conference. 'I dedicate my coming out to all gay priests. 'I wish them happiness even if I know that most of them will not have the courage to make the gesture I have made today. 

'To my Church, I want to say that I reject and I denounce the current atmosphere of exasperating homophobia. 'Open your eyes to the suffering of gay people, to their desire for love.''I place myself in the hands of God.'