He did not know how to interpret the condemnation of homosexuality in the Bible – he will lead the Episcopate of Switzerland

Bishop Charles Morerod was elected president of the Swiss Episcopal. In the past, the average of the Diocese of Lausanne-Geneva-Fryburg has caused controversy. He did not intervene in his diocese in a substance of breaking the vow of celibacy, and during 1 interview he said that he did not know how to "interpret" the condemnation of homosexuality in the Holy Scriptures.

Charles Morerod, Bishop of Lausanne-Geneva-Fryburg became the fresh president of the Conference of Bishops of Switzerland (SBK). This was reported at the end of the three-day plenary gathering of the Swiss Episcopal on 4 December in Engelberg.

Alongside a 63-year-old Dominican, bishops elected to the Presidium of the Episcopal Conference for a period of 3 years the 76-year-old bishop of the Diocese of Chur, Joseph Maria Bonnemain and the Auxiliary Bishop of Basel, 63-year-old Josef Stübi.

Bishop Morerod OP was already president of the Swiss Episcopal from 2016 to 2018. At the turn of the year, he would again presume this function after the current chairman, 58-year-old Felix Gmüra, who, according to the Statute, could not be elected again.

The revealed cases of sexual harassment and the results of a pilot survey commissioned by the Church at the University of Zurich on cases of sexual harassment in the Church have caused fear in fresh months among many believers. The front pages of the newspapers besides reported a Vatican investigation concerning the conduct of respective present and retired Swiss bishops and another clergymen against sexual crimes.

The Vatican besides investigated the case of Bishop Morerod, who has been bishop of the French-speaking Swiss Diocese of Lausanne-Geneva-Fryburg since 2011. This included allegations concerning the explanation of cases of harassment at the time of his leadership of the diocese. As in the case of 5 another bishops, any of whom are already retired, the Vatican Bishops' Dicastery gave in October a reprimand for "formal irregularities", but found no evidence of a crime or cover-up.

But there is no deficiency of another controversy around the clergyman. In May 2021, it was revealed that 1 of the priests of his diocese had remained in a relation with a erstwhile nun for decades. erstwhile the Presbyter was already on the verge of death, he informed his superior. The hierarchy reaction was outrageous. He felt that this fact did not adversely affect the ministry of the clergy and sent a letter to all the priests of the diocese, in which he praised his work and urged "honestness."

For this last Bishop Morerod came alone during 1 of the interviews. In a conversation with the French-speaking average “Le Matin”, the clergyman stated that “it is hard for him to say how to interpret” passages of Scripture condemning homosexual acts.

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