Germany: Several churches offer “blessing service for lovers”, including homosexual unions
Over 100 Catholic churches in Germany are holding public religious ceremonies with a "blessing for lovers", especially on Monday. The celebrations are also expressly open to same-sex couples.
By Vatican News staff writer
dubium published on 15 March by the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith (CDF).
The CDF affirmed that the Church does not have the power to impart a blessing for same-sex unions, stressing, therefore, that it is not licit for priests to bless same-sex couples who have asked for some sort of religious recognition of their union.