Helmut Dieser (born March 15, 1962, in Neuwied) is a German Roman Catholic bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Aachen.
Helmut Dieser (born March 15, 1962, in Neuwied) is a German Roman Catholic bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Aachen.
Dieser studied Roman Catholic theology and philosophy in Trier and Tübingen. On 8 July 1989 Dieser became priest. On 5 June 2011 Dieser became ordained titular bishop of Narona. Since 12 November 2016 Dieser is bishop of Aachen. [1] [2]
In March 2019, Dieser said, exceptions from clerical celibacy in the Catholic Church should be allowed. In his opinion, there should be a reform of the Catholic sexual morality and sexual acts between homosexual partnerships no longer a sin in Roman Catholic catechism. [3] In June 2020, Dieser said blessing of same-sex partnerships should be allowed in the Roman catholic church. [4]
Same-sex marriage has been legal in Germany since 1 October 2017. A bill for the legalisation of same-sex marriage passed the Bundestag on 30 June 2017 and the Bundesrat on 7 July. It was signed into law on 20 July by President Frank-Walter Steinmeier and published in the Federal Law Gazette on 28 July 2017. Previously, the governing CDU/CSU had refused to legislate on the issue of same-sex marriage. In June 2017, Chancellor Angela Merkel unexpectedly said she hoped the matter would be put to a conscience vote. Consequently, other party leaders organised for a vote to be held in the last week of June during the final legislative session before summer recess. The Bundestag passed the legislation on 30 June by 393 votes to 226, and it went into force on 1 October. Germany was the first country in Central Europe, the fourteenth in Europe, and the 22nd in the world to allow same-sex couples to marry nationwide.
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Clerical celibacy is the discipline within the Catholic Church by which only unmarried men are ordained to the episcopate, to the priesthood in the Latin Church, and similarly to the diaconate. In other autonomous particular churches, the discipline applies only to the episcopate. According to Jason Berry of The New York Times, "The requirement of celibacy is not dogma; it is an ecclesiastical law that was adopted in the Middle Ages because Rome was worried that clerics' children would inherit church property and create dynasties." For several hundred years after the imposition of celibacy on secular (non-monastic/religious) clergy the sale of church offices continued. The first male issue of non-married concubines of celibate clergy became set to continue the dynasty. To curtail this clerical abuse, the Latin Church imposed a ban on the ordination of bastards. This policy ended almost 800 years later in the 20th century.
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