Morning Catholic must-reads: 07/05/15

Church employees who remarry or enter same-sex civil unions will no longer automatically lose their jobs, the German bishops’ have ruled.

Pope Francis will visit Chile in 2016, the Latin American nation has confirmed.

The Vatican has advanced the Causes of a priest and lay catechist killed by Communists in Laos in 1960.

Organisers of a Muhammad cartoon exhibition in Texas were pouring “gasoline on the fire”, L’Osservatore Romano has said.

Bloomberg’s Jeremy Kahn discovers that Francis “has big plans” for the Vatican bank.

John Allen asks if the Pontiff can reduce “long-simmering tensions between church and state” in France.

And Rome Reports captures the moment Harlem Globetrotters taught the Pope a basketball trick (video).

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