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By
Maike Hickson and John-HenryWesten
The website of the German Bishops'
Conference, katholisch.de, reported two days ago on the first case of a practicing homosexual
permitted to remain in a position at a Catholic Church institution despite a
flagrant and public violation of the Church's moral law.
The woman who heads a Caritas Day
Care Center in Bavaria, had been asked in April to leave her position due to
her announcement that she was going to “marry” a woman. The decision has
now been rescinded, according to Fr. Hans Lindenberger, head of the Caritas in
Munich, Germany.
Cardinal Reinhard Marx, who is the
Archbishop of the Diocese of Munich, has agreed to implement the Church's new
Labour Law on August 1. The new Church Labor Law, approved by the
German Bishops' Conference at the end of April 2015,
drastically liberalized the Catholic Church's disciplinary rules in Germany. In
the past, employees who did not live according to the Church's moral teaching
might have been asked to leave their position in institutions of the Church.
Three German bishops, Bishops
Stefan Oster, Rudolf Vorderholzer, and Gregor Hanke, have decided not to
implement the new Church law in their own dioceses.
Bishop Stefan Oster of Passau
explained his stance in a recent Facebook post.
He asked rhetorically whether the Church's institutions would not lose their
Catholicity even more than they already have with the new regulations. Would
the service institutions which say “Catholic” on the outside have any faith on
the inside? he asked. Are people working there from Christian conviction or
only on the basis of what is professionally and economically viable? He warned
that it was a self-imposed secularization of the Church.
Bishop Oster is under pressure
from the priests of his diocese to give in to the new law. Twenty liberal
priests in the diocese have issued a public letter asking
the bishop to relent.
To comment on Bishop Oster’s
Facebook page visit here.
Source: LifeSiteNews
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