It's a convenient dodge to disclaim that anyone speaks for the Catholic Church. Pray tell, if the LEADERSHIP of the Catholic Church don't speak for it, who the HELL does?!!!
Hiring folks is one think. Approving of their relationships is another.
Hiring them to do what? And with what church-provided benefits? The two are on a collision course.
But the Church is clearly within its right of religious freedom to hire only employees whose lifestyles are consistent with Church teaching.
Agreed. But it looks like the Catholic Church is relinquishing this right more and more. It will be impossible to reassert it later.
I can see where you're coming from, because this is indeed absurd and infuriating. However, whoever speaks Church doctrine, is speaking for the Church; and whoever not, is not.
Germans like Marx, Kasper (and others) tend do slither around this by saying doctrine is one thing, and pastoral practice another. As I see it, this is the very definition of moral corruption.
Not nearly so convenient as the Self and Self Alone dodge of relying only on Self and pretending the immense numbers of non-Catholic "Christians" who approve of divorce, remarriage after divorce, queers marrying one another, and anything else society foists on them are not really fruit from the vine as the Self and Self Alone individual doing the dodging.