Vatican sacks gay priest after highly public coming out

Monsignor Krzysztof Charamsa leaves a restaurant after a press conference in downtown Rome, Saturday Oct. 3, 2015 {PHOTO: COURTESY}

The Vatican on Saturday dismissed a Polish priest from his Holy See job after he came out as gay and called for changes in Catholic teachings against homosexual activity on the eve of a major Church meeting on the family.

Monsignor Krzysztof Charamsa, a theologian, had worked at the Congregation of the Doctrine of the Faith, the Vatican's doctrinal arm, since 2003, and taught theology at pontifical universities in Rome, which have also dismissed him.