The Catholic Church’s approval of blessings of couples in same-sex relationships “will remain” under Pope Leo XIV, the head of the Vatican’s doctrine office told an Italian reporter in a brief interview.
Cardinal Victor Manuel Fernández made the statement in response to a question from a journalist for the Rome-based daily Il Messaggero as he left the Holy See Press Office on July 3.
Fernández’s remarks are the clearest indication to date since Pope Leo’s election of a likely continuation of Pope Francis’ gay-blessings declaration. However, the impromptu interview falls short of an explicit, official statement from the Vatican.
Under Francis, the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith in December 2023 released a document entitled “Fiducia Supplicans: On the Pastoral Meaning of Blessings,” which opened the door to church blessings for couples in “irregular” situations, including same-sex relationships.
The document, signed by Fernández and his deputy Msgr. Armando Matteo, and approved by Pope Francis, stressed that such blessings could not take the form of a liturgical rite, and did not imply formal approval of “irregular” unions.
The blessings document generated considerable conservative backlash, and some critics of the late Pope Francis had expressed hope that Pope Leo would rescind or ignore it.
Depending on your interpretation of the Bible, you’re at least minimum guaranteed marriage to Jesus. Revelations 19
But from my lay perspective there is not a passage in the Bible that says gay sex is worse than eating shellfish so do with that what you will. The thing Jesus actually mentions several times explicitly was adultery aka being unfaithful as in cheating. So as long as its consensual and your not wrecking houses…
Isn’t Jesus already married to every Nun?
Also, just to note, there is a whole lot of talk about "sexual immorality"in the Bible, which is nearly universally translated to mean “homosexuality”.
What the fuck does “sexual immorality” even mean? The only thing I can think of would be rape, but I sincerely doubt that was the intention.
Rape incest and pedophilia are the immoralities as written out in the Bible. Also lust to an extent.
Also, technically yes, all the nuns who have taken vows of Chastity are married to the church as are the pastors…
Oh so kind of like when Lot’s daughters raped him?
How did humanity arise from Adam and Eve without incest?