German bishops weigh hiring homosexual partners, remarried divorcés
November 26, 2014
The German Catholic bishops have discussed—but eventually tabled—a proposal to allow Church institutions to hire workers who are divorced and remarried, or who are in active homosexual relationships.
Current Church policies forbid the hiring of employees whose living arrangements are in clear contradiction of Christian moral law. But journalist Edward Pentin reports that at a meeting this week, a majority of the German bishops, led by Cardinal Reinhard Marx, were prepared to change that policy.
The drive for change was stalled, at least temporarily, by an adamant minority, Pentin reports. The bishops ultimately agreed to postpone a policy decision until next April.
Ironically, the bishops met to discuss the issue just after a German court ruled that a Catholic hospital in Dusseldorf did not violate the legal rights of a doctor who was dismissed from the staff because he was divorced and remarried. The court found that Catholic institutions have a right to require conformity with the moral teachings of the Church.
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