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Gay marriage and remarriage are no grounds for dismissal: the Catholic Church is changing its labor law

2022-11-23T12:55:58.096Z


Gay marriage and remarriage are no grounds for dismissal: the Catholic Church is changing its labor law Created: 11/23/2022, 1:45 p.m By: Claudia Möllers The Catholic Church changes its labor law. This is a great relief for many employees. © IMAGO/Manfred Segerer The Catholic Church has changed its labor law. Employees can no longer be dismissed because of a same-sex marriage or a second marri


Gay marriage and remarriage are no grounds for dismissal: the Catholic Church is changing its labor law

Created: 11/23/2022, 1:45 p.m

By: Claudia Möllers

The Catholic Church changes its labor law.

This is a great relief for many employees.

© IMAGO/Manfred Segerer

The Catholic Church has changed its labor law.

Employees can no longer be dismissed because of a same-sex marriage or a second marriage in general.

Munich – The tremors and existential fears of employees in the Catholic Church who live with a new partner after a divorce or are connected in a homosexual partnership are now also legally a thing of the past.

Yesterday the Catholic bishops agreed on the draft of a new church labor law.

It applies to around 800,000 employees in dioceses, parishes, schools, daycare centers, clinics and social institutions run by the church and in Caritas.

In the Archdiocese of Munich and Freising there are over 25,000 people.

They no longer have to expect termination because of their personal lifestyle.

New labor law at the Catholic Church: Same-sex marriage and second partnership are no longer grounds for termination

"The core area of ​​private life is not subject to any legal assessments and cannot be accessed by the employer," says a press release from the German Bishops' Conference.

"This legally inviolable zone includes in particular the relationship life and the private sphere," it is expressly stated.

All employees could be “regardless of their specific tasks, their origin, their religion, their age, their disability, their gender, their sexual identity and their way of life representatives of the unconditional love of God and thus of a church that serves people,” it says in Article 3 of the new constitution.

However, a positive basic attitude and openness towards the message of the gospel and the willingness to respect the Christian character of the institution and to bring it to bear in one's own area of ​​responsibility would be required.

As the spokesman for the Archdiocese of Munich, Bernhard Kellner, emphasizes, no one in the archdiocese has been dismissed for years because of their lifestyle.

With the exception of exceptional cases with “serious reasons”, leaving the Catholic Church remains an obstacle to hiring and a reason for dismissal.

Even those who publicly express anti-church attitudes – the propagation of abortion or xenophobia are cited as examples – cannot be hired or retained.

Caritas President sees reform in Catholic labor law as "urgently overdue"

The Caritas Association reacted with relief to the planned change in the basic church order and described it as a "paradigm shift".

The reform is "urgently overdue", according to Caritas President Eva Maria Welskop-Deffaa.

As Caritas, they want to show that "all people of good will are invited to be Caritas with us - regardless of age and gender, skin color and sexual identity".

In the church environment, numerous cases of hidden partnerships are known.

From employees who have different telephone numbers to disguise their personal living conditions.

The basic order must now be converted into diocesan law in the individual dioceses.

In the Archdiocese of Munich and Freising, this should take place promptly.

There is talk of early 2023. In the Vatican, however, the new order is viewed critically.

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More and more Catholics are leaving the church.

However, current figures are of an unprecedented magnitude - and the low point has probably not yet been reached.

Source: merkur

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