The bishops adopted the more liberal guidelines for the approximately 800,000 employees of the Catholic Church and the Caritas social services organization.
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German bishop calls current Catholic teaching on sexuality ‘too simple’
Homosexuals have a right to church support and blessing, said Bishop Helmut Dieser, who is the spokesman on abuse issues for the German bishops’ conference.
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Swiss cardinal apologizes for comparing German Synodal Path to Nazi ideology
Swiss Cardinal Kurt Koch apologized for offending people and said he never intended to imply that supporters of the German church’s Synodal Path were acting similar to a group of Christian supporters of the Nazis in the 1930s.
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German bishops outraged after Swiss cardinal compares synodal path to rise of Nazism
The president of the German bishops’ conference demanded an apology from a cardinal who seemed to compare the German Synodal Path with a Nazi ideology.
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‘We are not going to stop here’: German synod proposes far-reaching reforms on women, LGBT Catholics and governance
The fourth plenary assembly of the Synodal Path in Frankfurt ended Sept. 10 with a series of far-reaching reform resolutions.