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Cardinal Gerhard Müller echoed Monsignor Graulich's concerns, telling LifeSite the ‘basic approach of German Synodalism is anti-Catholic and therefore the employer can also no longer insist on the unity of life and doctrine.’
(LifeSiteNews) — The German Monsignor Markus Graulich, S.D.B., under-secretary of the Pontifical Council for Legislative Texts, has just published in German an article challenging the German bishops conference’s plans to change their labor law (Arbeitsrecht) and to drop any demands regarding their employees’ private lives. Cardinal Gerhard Müller, in comments to LifeSiteNews, endorsed Graulich’s commentary and critic and pointed out that the German Synodal Path’s demands for a new morality is an “open farewell to Christianity.”
In May of this year, the German bishops had published a draft for the new church labor law which would drop the demand that their employees’ lives have to be ordered according to Church teaching, that is to say that they should not live in immoral relationships such as same-sex unions and cohabitation. Should employees not live according to Church teaching, that might soon no longer be a reason to be dismissed from their jobs.
But here is where Monsignor Graulich raised his voice. He wrote in his commentary published in the German journal Herder Korrespondenz: “If one gives up the loyalty obligations [toward the Church’s teachings] what is the need for an ecclesiastical labor law?” Furthermore, he asks in his one-page commentary: “But how ecclesiastical is a church labor law that abandons the church’s moral teachings?”
Up to now, a Church employee can be dismissed from his job, for example when he apostatizes or when he leaves the Church, thus causing “a serious scandal,” as Monsignor Graulich explained. These rules, he went on to say, are to serve “the Church’s mission and credibility.” The same applied in the past to the private moral lives of the employees.
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Vatican canon lawyer criticizes German bishops' plan to allow employees to flout Catholic teaching - LifeSite
(LifeSiteNews) — The German Monsignor Markus Graulich, S.D.B., under-secretary of the Pontifical Council for Legislative Texts, has just published in German an article challenging the German bishops conference’s plans to change their labor law (Arbeitsrecht) and to drop any demands regarding their employees’ private lives. Cardinal Gerhard Müller, in comments to LifeSiteNews, endorsed Graulich’s commentary and critic and pointed out that the German Synodal Path’s demands for a new morality is an “open farewell to Christianity.”
In May of this year, the German bishops had published a draft for the new church labor law which would drop the demand that their employees’ lives have to be ordered according to Church teaching, that is to say that they should not live in immoral relationships such as same-sex unions and cohabitation. Should employees not live according to Church teaching, that might soon no longer be a reason to be dismissed from their jobs.
But here is where Monsignor Graulich raised his voice. He wrote in his commentary published in the German journal Herder Korrespondenz: “If one gives up the loyalty obligations [toward the Church’s teachings] what is the need for an ecclesiastical labor law?” Furthermore, he asks in his one-page commentary: “But how ecclesiastical is a church labor law that abandons the church’s moral teachings?”
Up to now, a Church employee can be dismissed from his job, for example when he apostatizes or when he leaves the Church, thus causing “a serious scandal,” as Monsignor Graulich explained. These rules, he went on to say, are to serve “the Church’s mission and credibility.” The same applied in the past to the private moral lives of the employees.
Continued below.
Vatican canon lawyer criticizes German bishops' plan to allow employees to flout Catholic teaching - LifeSite
