Despite a postponed vote last month, a German prelate has said he is confident the country’s bishops will change Church rules to allow employment of remarried divorcees and men and women living in same-sex relationships, despite growing opposition to the move.
Archbishop Stephan Burger of Freiburg im Breisgau said the German bishops’ conference “will revise” the ecclesiastical labor laws, according to a December 9 interview with the German news website Morgenweb.
He said the changes will be made in the interests of maintaining the Church’s “credibility” in the eyes of the general public. Continue reading
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