Swiss Bishops Allow Homosexual Priests: "No Rules for Lifestyle"

The Swiss bishops on Monday published new guidelines outlining how they intend to handle the employment and relationships of priests, deacons, and lay pastoral workers.

Main phrase: "We have decided not to publish a catalogue of rules and criteria".

Ten Commandments No More

They declare their acceptance of 'current lived realities' and the 'irregularities' of clergy and Church employees - without explicitly naming what this includes, though the implications are obvious: cohabitation, adultery, or homosexuality.

The bishops write: "The teaching of Pope Francis has emphasized that people in partnerships and family forms that do not conform to Catholic tradition and doctrine embody values that deserve respect and recognition […]. The path of the Church is […] the path of mercy and inclusion."

Bishops Accept Situation Ethics

The guidelines indicate that it is no longer appropriate to exclude persistent sinners from paid pastoral roles. Personal situations should be evaluated in dialogue and a case-by-case discernment.

"Every person's reality is unique, and according to the Gospel, one can act justly only if one considers this in its entirety."

And: "Two people can do the same thing, and yet it is not the same. Not only the external action, but also the disposition of the heart determines whether our actions are in accordance with the Gospel."

Private Life Is Not Sinful Double Life

While clergy are recognized as public figures, the bishops insist they have a right to privacy and to a private life.

They want to employments "in such a way that both Church guidelines and the private lives and privacy of pastoral workers are respected.” Supervisors should be expected to "act in such a way that nothing needs to be concealed."

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mccallansteveNov 18

The chastisement cannot be far off.

yuca2111Nov 18

Im sure false prophet Leo XIV is high fiving somewhere in the Vatican over this news.

eva . .Nov 18

The homosexual clergy no longer want to hide their vice and therefore appoint others who are openly sodomites

Everyday for Life CanadaNov 18

They cover up a lot of evil with their pride flags..like Lucifer does...their smiles are not real, just pretended happiness....

JANET ZIMMERNov 18

I find it impossible to believe they don't realize they have morphed into Protestants. Their intellectual dishonesty and lack of integrity (not to mention their evident desire to continue getting a regular paycheck) are disgusting. They should have formally left the Church years ago.

OrthocatNov 18edited

To address the last section on "private life" - seems eerily similar to the plea that "everyone has a RIGHT to his good name" that was spouted by bishops in response to sexual abusive priests.

De ProfundisNov 18

A priest can have bees or an obsession with books or become a perfect cook. That is private life.

OrthocatNov 18

Agreed, but what's at issue is not about hobbies. One main rationale for celibacy is that priests are "men for others" and are not tied down to relationships or commitments of a familial or romantic nature. In other words, a priestly vocation is not just a 9-5 JOB that someone does and after that he's free to live as he pleases.

De ProfundisNov 18

That's it! The Swiss Bishops confuse that. Hobbies are allowed private life - even if there could be something holier - that bishops cannot sanction.

tearlachNov 18

We need more prayer, more sacrifices, more living the gospel instead of preaching it with our mouths or going into arguments against each other or against protestants, we ought to live and evangelize with our example.
Offer any ailments, discomfort, illnesses you may have for their salvation at this height of the game time for conversion is almost impossible, so ask for the salvation of all of us sinners, judging, criticizing, getting angry or behaving with indignation helps no one at all, not the sinner, not the one who thinks is in grace and still has no knowledge of his.her own mortal sins.
Time to act people we got no more time at all. May God have mercy on us all especially on those catholics who think they live such a righteous life that they can cast stones.
God bless.