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The Synodal Way recently spoke out in favour of a reform of church labour law in its fourth plenary assembly. In the works of the Jesuit Order, too, private life plans and the sexual identity of employees should play no role in labour law. These personal aspects should neither be an obstacle to employment nor any reason for sanctions.

The Provincial of the Order, Fr Bernhard Bürgler SJ, made this clear in a letter to all the works of the Central European Province of the Order. To this end, the Order would use all existing leeway in the Church's labour law.

The "Out in Church" initiative, which went public at the beginning of 2022, and the accompanying television documentary "How God Created Us", in which two Jesuits also came out as homosexual, prompted the Jesuit Provincial, according to his own words, to make a fundamental statement on the subject of diversity, first in a letter to his confreres, and now also in a letter to the works of the Order. It was preceded by several webinars with the heads of the works, who very much welcomed the clarification by the Provincial on this issue.

The Jesuits will also support the ongoing efforts to reform church labour law in Germany accordingly, as also called for by a large majority of the Synodal Way.

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