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BONN, Germany (CNS) Catholic chaplains in parishes across Germany plan to invite people to blessing services for lovers on and around May 10.
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Some German parishes plan blessings for lovers, including gays
May 3, 2021
BONN, Germany (CNS) Catholic chaplains in parishes across Germany plan to invite people to “blessing services for lovers” on and around May 10.
The campaign, “Love Wins,” was launched in Hamburg, reported the German Catholic news agency KNA. The campaign’s website said the aim was to celebrate “the diversity of people’s different life plans and love stories” and to ask for God’s blessing.
Gay and lesbian couples are also invited, which is attracting public attention because the Vatican Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith said in mid-March that the Catholic Church had no authority to bless same-sex relationships.
German parishes plan blessings for lovers, including gays
Campaign aims to celebrate the diversity of people s different life plans and love stories and to ask for God s blessing
Updated: May 04, 2021 05:58 AM GMT
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Catholic parishes across Germany plan to offer blessing services for lovers in a campaign that will heighten the pressure in the church debate on the issue.
Catholic chaplains in parishes across Germany plan to invite people to blessing services for lovers on and around May 10.
The campaign, Love Wins, was launched in Hamburg, reported the German Catholic news agency KNA. The campaign s website said the aim was to celebrate the diversity of people s different life plans and love stories and to ask for God s blessing.
A wooden cross lies on a rainbow flag in Bonn, Germany, March 16, 2021. (CNS photo/KNA/Julia Steinbrecht)
BONN, Germany Catholic chaplains in parishes across Germany plan to invite people to blessing services for lovers on and around May 10.
The campaign, Love Wins, was launched in Hamburg, reported the German Catholic news agency KNA. The campaign s website said the aim was to celebrate the diversity of people s different life plans and love stories and to ask for God s blessing.
Gay and lesbian couples are invited, which is attracting public attention because the Vatican Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith said in mid-March that the Catholic Church had no authority to bless same-sex relationships.
May 03, 2021
Catholic parishes across Germany plan to offer “blessing services for lovers” on and around May 10 in a campaign that is aimed in part at gay and lesbian couples – and will heighten the pressure in the church debate on the issue. In this 2015 file photo, LGBTQ supporters wave a flag outside the U.S. Supreme Court in Washington. (CNS photo/Tyler Orsburn)
Bonn (KNA) “Love wins” – that is the name of the initiative in which Catholic chaplains in parishes across Germany plan to invite people to “blessing services for lovers” on and around May 10. It was launched in Hamburg at the weekend.