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Priest says he was fired for being gay, church says he was fired for...
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,...
