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French Homosex Activist Leaves Priesthood

Matthieu Jasseron, 39, until June parish priest in Joigny, Yonne, announced on 20 October that he was leaving the priesthood. He was ordained in 2019 in the archdiocese of Sens-Auxerre in Burgundy, headed at the time by Archbishop Hervé Giraud.

Jasseron is known for videos on TikTok in which he mocks the liturgy and propagates homosexual sins.

He sees himself as a "victim" of a failing church system and blames "certain behaviours of his hierarchy": "It seems to me that I'm no longer sufficiently in tune with the institutional Church to remain".

Jasseron makes serious accusations, including calling parts of the Catholic hierarchy "traitors": "I was abused and physically assaulted by a bishop," he accuses, without naming the alleged culprit.

He even claims that an intelligence service pressured him not to attend a church meeting for fear of exposing "scandals involving certain prelates" which sounds as if he had psychiatric problems (persecution mania).

LaCroix.com has learned that those in charge of the Orléans seminary where he was trained had warned his bishop before the ordination that he was psychologically noticeable.

An extension of his diaconate was requested to allow for a thorough psychological examination.

Jasseron was described as a person with a taste for "provocation" and "an enormous need for recognition" who had "a difficult relationship with authority" [which sounds like a narcissist].

In August 2021, he posted a video on homosexual sins in which he blatantly lied that "nowhere" in the Bible or the Catholic Church's Catechism is it written that "practising homosexuality is a sin".

He left social media in December 2023 and his parish in June this year.

Jasseron also caused financial problems. Against the orders of the archdiocese, he launched a fundraising campaign for a two-million-euro renovation project for the church.

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