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Vatican defends blessings for same-sex couples after bishops’ pushback
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The Vatican said it is “vital” that all bishops’ conferences respect the decision made by Pope Francis last month.
The Vatican has defended Pope Francis’ decision to allow blessings for same-sex couples after receiving backlash from more conservative bishops who called the move heretical.
But while the office recognised the need for these bishops for “pastoral reflection”, it added that “there is no room to distance ourselves doctrinally” from the pope’s declaration about blessings, “or to consider it heretical, contrary to the Tradition of the Church of blasphemous.”
“Prudence and attention to the ecclesial context and to the local culture could allow for different methods of application” of the new blessings rule, “but not a total or definitive denial of this path that it proposed to priests,” Thursday’s statement said.
The Vatican also said that it would be “imprudent” to bless same-sex couples in countries where “there are laws that condemn the mere act of declaring oneself as a homosexual with prison and in some cases with torture and even death.”
Despite the progress made by Pope Francis towards making the Catholic Church more inclusive of LGBTQ+ people, the Vatican stressed that its position “remains firm on the traditional doctrine of the Church about marriage, not allowing any type of liturgical rite or blessing similar to a liturgical rite that can create confusion.”
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