The Catholic Church in Italy has occasionally been blamed for staying idle and even accepting the mafia at times, however, in recent decades, it has taken a strong anti-mafia stance.
The Catholic Church does not have the power to bless same-sex unions although it can give blessings to individual persons "with homosexual inclinations," the Vatican has said.
The 11-page text published only in Italian on Feb. 3 reiterates that for all sacraments in the Catholic Church, the ‘observance of both matter and form has al.