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The website of the German Bishops' Conference , katholisch.de,  reported yesterday  on the first case of a practicing homosexual permitted to remain in a position at a Catholic Church institution despite a flagrant and public violation of the Church's moral law. The woman who heads a Caritas Day Care Center in Bavaria , had been asked in April to leave her position due to her announcement that she was going to “marry” a woman.  The decision has now been rescinded, according to Fr. Hans Lindenberger, head of the Caritas in Munich, Germany . Cardinal Reinhard Marx , who is the Archbishop of the Diocese of Munich, has agreed to implement the Church's new Labor Law on August 1. The new Church Labor Law,  approved by the German Bishops' Conference  at the end of April 2015, drastically liberalized the Catholic Church's disciplinary rules in Germany . In the past, employees who did not live according to the Church's moral teaching might have been asked to ...

Image via Wikipedia According to the Bishop of Munich , homosexuals “are part of the church community and are welcome to work in the parish" What space do homosexuals have within the Catholic Church ? Ten years after the law on same sex civil unions was introduced in Germany on 1 August 2001, the question divides German bishops. On the one hand there are those who, like the Archbishop of Munich and Freising ,   Reinhard Marx , is convinced that homosexuals "are part" of the church community and are also welcome to work in the parish. On the other hand those who, like Franz-Josef Overbeck , who besides being the Bishop of Essen is also the military Bishop of the Bundeswehr ,   believes that homosexuality is "a sin.” “ All who want to participate, open up to the Gospel and join the community of the Church, are welcome ,”   Marx said, in an interview with Süddeutsche Zeitung .  “ I cannot bless a gay relationship, but I can pray for people who request it.  It...