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The German Bishops have just formally announced<\/a> what many bishops in the U.S. would like to see; we will no longer screen ‘catholic’ employees for faithfulness.<\/p>\n This is generally the case already, but with this official change in Church law, the Germans are making sure that no-one ever fires or refuses to hire someone for a Catholic reason.\u00a0 It’s a nightmare and it’s coming here quickly.<\/p>\n With potentially far-reaching consequences, the bishops of Germany have voted by more than a two-thirds majority to relax Church labor laws to allow civilly remarried employees or those living in same-sex unions to retain their jobs with Church institutions.<\/p>\n In an announcement<\/a> Tuesday, the German bishops\u2019 conference in Bonn said the majority of bishops had ruled that immediate dismissal will only be a \u201clast resort\u201d for employees who are divorced and subsequently \u201cremarry\u201d or those living in a registered partnership.<\/p>\n Until now, such employees were required to be dismissed from such employment, although the rules were often ignored. The Church is the second-largest employer in Germany.<\/p>\n \u201cAn automatic dismissal may now in future be ruled as out of the question,\u201d said Alois Gl\u00fcck, president of the Central Committee of German Catholics, the country\u2019s top lay Catholic organization. From now on, he said, any public violation of loyalty to Church teachings must be examined on a case-by-case basis.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n As limited as his reach seemed to be, can you imagine this kind of thing happening if Pope Benedict hadn’t become sidelined?\u00a0 It would be unfaithful to lay the blame of any of this on Pope Francis, right?\u00a0 He’s too holy to let that happen.\u00a0 It’s amazing how much he’s just like the Pope we would get if they sort of muscled Pope Benedict out, isn’t it?<\/p>\n The amendment, when enacted by a bishop, explicitly overturns a 2002 ecclesiastical law, which stipulated that all Church employees need to be loyal to the magisterium. Gl\u00fcck said the change \u201crepresents a substantial paradigm shift in the application of ecclesiastical law,\u201d adding that the new regulation will \u201copen the way\u201d for decisions to be made in accordance with \u201chuman justice.\u201d<\/p>\n The lack of unanimity among bishops means the new regulation is left to Germany\u2019s 27 bishops to implement the reform in their dioceses. But in practice, it could be unlikely that any bishop will be able to resist the new measures. According to the official statement, the bishops\u2019 conference is setting up \u201can additional working group\u201d to examine the question of whether the Church\u2019s labor law can be \u201cmore institutionally oriented\u201d in a bid to make it a nationwide and uniform labor structure. The bishops\u2019 conference has also instructed dioceses to publicize the changes in their diocesan newsletters. This is required to formally enact the law.<\/p>\n \u201cI expect and hope this will happen everywhere,\u201d Cardinal Rainer Woelki, the archbishop of Cologne, said in a May 6 interview<\/a> with Katholisch.de. The cardinal, who headed the committee that drew up the new law, said the first objective of the amendment is to ensure \u201ccompliance with lived practice,\u201d but denied the amendment in any way undermines the principle of the indissolubility of marriage.<\/p>\n Caritas Germany, which employs 591,000 staff, welcomed the change. President Peter Neher said Church institutions need a \u201cbroader understanding of the concept of loyalty\u201d and that ecclesiastical labor law should reflect how the Catholic Church \u201cstands alongside\u201d those who live broken lives.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Everything is always about Caritas.<\/p>\n The erasure of the Faith is never an organic thing.\u00a0 It’s always a top-down leveraged affair.\u00a0 The Christian Faith is natural.\u00a0 It functions and it lives.\u00a0 Murder, on the other hand, requires some force.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n The German Bishops have just formally announced what many bishops in the U.S. would like to see; we will no longer screen ‘catholic’ employees for faithfulness. 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