Pope approves blessings for same-sex couples that must not resemble marriage
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Pope Francis formally approved letting Catholic priests bless same-sex couples, the Vatican announced Monday.

Pope Francis has formally approved allowing priests to bless same-sex couples, with a new document explaining a radical change in Vatican policy by insisting that people seeking God’s love and mercy shouldn’t be subject to “an exhaustive moral analysis” to receive it.

  • akilou@sh.itjust.works
    4·
    9 months ago

    Crazy how God created the universe 13.8 billion years ago and then changes his mind on policies now. If I didn’t know better, I’d think that people were making up these policies arbitrarily.

  • Alien Nathan Edward@lemm.eeEnglish
    3·
    9 months ago

    far too little and thousands of years too late. the catholic church is a violent, authoritarian child rape and child genital mutilation cult and needs to be entirely destroyed.

  • teft@startrek.website
    2·
    9 months ago

    And who wants to predict the flood of catholics saying the pope isn’t catholic because of this statement?

    • The Barto@sh.itjust.works
      4·
      9 months ago

      They already did that when he told people to be nice to trans people. He didn’t tell them to embrace them into their lives, just treat them nice and they lost their shit about it.

      • some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org
        1·
        9 months ago

        To be fair, he said be nice. Modern christianity demands brutal suppression of anyone you don’t like.

  • Son_of_dad@lemmy.world
    0·
    9 months ago

    He says they “can” but knows they won’t or quietly tells them not to. This pope is all PR and bullshit he knows they won’t follow through on. The Pope can pretend that Catholics are now tolerant of gay people, but go to a Catholic Church throughout most of the planet, particularly the third world and see how tolerant they are and how much they follow the Pope. They are tolerant of pedophiles in their clergy though, since they don’t seem to want to fix that issue

  • Zombiepirate@lemmy.worldEnglish
    0·
    9 months ago

    The new document repeats that rationale and elaborates on it, reaffirming that marriage is a lifelong sacrament between a man and a woman. And it stresses that blessings should not be conferred at the same time as a civil union, using set rituals or even with the clothing and gestures that belong in a wedding.

    So no real moral progress from the Catholic Church; just more PR to get people back in the pews.

    If Catholic God was real, he should be seeking out our love and mercy.