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Catholic women’s groups in Europe protest Vatican’s moralist backlash against rising marriage and LGBTQ equality
BERLIN Five Catholic women‘s organizations in German-speaking areas have released an open letter calling for the Vatican to reverse its position that priests cannot bless same-sex unions. The letter to the Vatican’s orthodoxy office, was signed by the heads of two groups in Germany and one each in Austria, Switzerland and northern Italy’s largely German-speaking South Tyrol region. The groups say they have about a million members in total. “The church’s mission to be effective as a sign of salvation in the world means countering homophobia and standing up for gender equality, also on the basis… Read More