Spanish Pro-Homosex Priest Leaves Priesthood

Damián Montes Nieto has announced in an Instagram video that he is finally leaving the priesthood: “I have decided to withdraw from the exercise of priestly ministry.”
He was a Redemptorist and ordained to the priesthood in 2013 at the Santuario del Perpetuo Socorro in Granada, Spain.
He prefers to keep private the “serious reasons” that turned his ministry into a “very sad and very difficult” experience.
Looking to the future, he hopes for “the opportunity for a new life, shared with someone, or to start my own family.”
He has taken up employment within an educational community and has assumed the role of Academic Vice Director at an international institution. Montes was "born a poet and an artist.”
As a missionary priest, Montes had the opportunity to visit countries such as India, Honduras, Thailand, and Colombia, as well as various cities in Spain and Italy.
Radical Pro-Homosex Priest
Montes was one of the most openly homosex-affirming Catholic priests in Spain.
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