The Polish Krzysztof Charamsa, a priest who was expelled from the Vatican after declaring himself gay and announcing that she has a Catalan boyfriend, she has just published her first book, “La prima pietra” (in Spanish, “The first stone”). In this book Krzysztof denounces the pathological homophobia and misogyny that exists within the Catholic Church.
The expelled priest has lived in Barcelona with his boyfriend for nine months and already considers his new city a homeland.
"In my country, Poland, there is a propaganda of the Church, the world of politics and the media against me, but in Barcelona I have lived just the opposite "
“My mother and my family have suffered a lot with this: one of my nephews He was rejected at school because his uncle is a pervert but here people congratulate me when they see me on the street "
The former priest proclaimed gay feels very grateful to Barcelona, which he defines as "a modern, open society that respects others and where I have experienced a true welcome that I humanly needed."
"Here I feel that I am not alone"
About your book: publication and topics it deals with
Regarding his first book, which has just been published in Italy by the publisher Rizzoli, it has been announced that you want to translate into Spanish and Catalan and the author states that it's not gay literature.
The book tells the story of a character who is related to an institution, the Church, in which the individual believes because he is a deeply believer, but at the same time he discovers that it he's silencing and killing a part of himself.
Krzysztof Charamsa also spoke of the vision that was shown to him in the Church on homosexuality, treating it as a pathological disease.
“The Church forced me to think that homosexuality is something pathological, that it is something bad that I have to be ashamed of. I, faithful to all the rules that were imposed on me, locked myself behind an ideological wall for a large part of my life »
«All this made me live a continuous stress: knowing that you have something that contradicts God, unnatural, is like a schizophrenia: you cannot find calm because your nature contradicts your beliefs«
Homosexuality: difference between the word of God and the Church
For his part, in his book the author wants to show another vision of homosexuality as the Church should see it, affirming that God does not condemn homosexuality.
«The word of God does not condemn homosexuality, but is prepared to understand it. In the future the Church will also accept it and understand it, as they did in their day with the theories of Darwin, Copernicus and Galileo ».
Likewise, he also speaks of former colleagues of the clergy who are also homosexuals and who are suffering the same as he suffered.
«In the clergy there are many homosexuals who suffer by its own condition. They try to kill her, forget her, but they cannot and they feel hatred, especially towards people who live freely what they suffer for. It's a huge institutionalized paranoia »
More than homosexuality: other complaints
The book not only denounces homosexuality inside and outside the Church, but also denounces the obstruction of the Church before the recognition of couples who cannot have children and who seek the help of science to be able to have them. He also denounces the treatment of the Church with respect to battered women, who say they must pray and endure violence who suffer without defending themselves because the marriage cannot be broken.
On the other hand, Krzysztof Charamsa did not want to leave any subject untreated and that is why he also includes in his book the pedophilia problem, which qualifies as a “shameful crime that clergy accept more than homosexuality".
«My book is very feminist, women are always present in it. They face a situation that I define as a true misogyny, of a true phobia towards women, but every feminist movement has always been a model of how to propose a social and mental revolution »
"I like to think that my book is the first stone of a free life, of a life consistent with nature itself after liberation"
For my part, I found it interesting to share this news as well as the fact that this former priest has decided to write this book showing the rest of the people what the Church is like, how closed it is to many issues and as an excuse for some crimes that should not be forgiven such as abuse. I think this will open the eyes of many.
If he knew that he was homosexual, why did he continue as a priest, if he had a boyfriend and was stressed by his situation, that he would have done his things as he wanted without hiding but as a man not as a priest, whatever they want but not to hurt People who believe in the church, why are there many people who, although they accept omosexuality, do not agree to many things about it, until a priest now also talks about the fact that he lived this and that and that his stress due to his situation, well yes How sad, but sadder that they believe something that they are not, they must also respect the belief of others, not why some people accept or want that even in the church it is normal or that it is accepted does not mean that that is why all the people agree for some people they do not see anything wrong, others yes and others even if they do not agree they simply accept it but it should also be respected by people who do not have the same idea about this, the important thing is the resp eto for each idea, the one that accepts and the one that does not, so many things that are in the world are worse than it should be published or done about it, such as human trafficking, hunger for children, all those people who suffer from poverty, and the priest writing his book for his reasons for being gay is his life but it also hurts people who do not have the ability to understand or accept that when what matters is respect, I for example respect and accept but I am disappointed that if someone has their beliefs and not only the one that the church instills, but the family at home, one can grow with what they taught us at home and if they said that homosexuality is bad and they constantly instilled that being gay is bad and if that hurt someone in the family, but if that doesn't hurt you like your family then there would be no problem, each head is a world and apparently nothing will ever change anyone's mentality and the only thing we have left is respect for those who agree with homoxiality and with people who disagree it is about not hurting and less the beliefs of each person.
Nobody should be guided by what society says, everyone who is free to believe what they want if the priest was gay, not only did he cheat on him or hurt himself, he also hurt people who do not think the same about this case, that should also be the case. respected, but stand as if they wanted to change the mentality of people who do not accept homosexuality everywhere, respect for homosexuality is requested! But at the same time they stop respecting what other people who do not agree with homosexuality and that there are people who accept it but it does not stop hurting and more when it is seen in the church as in each place as in each family as in each country there are customs in families there are limits there is respect in a family not everyone thinks the same and if there were not respect for each idea of each member of a family it would be a disaster and then for this there are limits with respect so as not to harm people who do not agree.