Tag: Catholicism

Pierre Valkering / Image via Facebook A Catholic priest was fired after he came out as gay. It seems that the Catholic faith has been especially strict against gay members in recent history. Two schools were told to fire their gay teachers by high ups within the Catholic faith. And now, one Dutch priest was fired after his sexuality was made public. 57-year-old Pierre Valkering came out during a mass in Vredeskerk, Amsterdam earlier this year. He then released an autobiographical book titled...

A Dutch priest is blowing the whistle after he says he was fired by the Catholic Church for being gay. Pierre Valkering’s troubles began back in March when he was suspended from his duties after coming out during a mass in the Vredeskerk in Amsterdam. During the mass, the 57-year-old priest talked about the “big pink elephant” within the Catholic Church and criticized its culture of silence around homosexuality, saying he had “suffered a lot” because of it. Around that same time,...

Pope Francis, often praised for his outreach to queer people, sat by silent this week as the Vatican released documents referring to transgender people as seeking to ‘annihilate the concept of nature.’ The document, referred to as Male And Female He Created Them, further maligns the transgender community as “nothing more than a confused concept of freedom in the realm of feelings and wants.” The Vatican describes the document as an educational tool for teachers and parents. The 31-page report also...