German Progressive Catholics Defy Vatican Ban on Blessing Gay Unions
10 May 2021
Progressive Catholics in Germany have announced their intent to offer blessings to same-sex couples at dozens of churches around the country this week in defiance of a recent Vatican ban on the practice.
The “Love Wins” campaign, which began in Hamburg, said it aims to celebrate “the diversity of people’s different life plans and love stories” and to ask for God’s blessing on those plans, beginning on May 10.
In mid-March, the Vatican’s doctrinal office (CDF) released a document declaring that the Church has no authority to bless homosexual unions, noting that God Himself “does not and cannot bless sin.”