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Priests in around 100 Catholic churches in Germany are offering blessings to same-sex couples from Monday.
The Love Wins movement emerged after the Catholic Church said in March that God cannot bless sin . Couples who take part should receive the blessing that God wants to give them - without any secrecy, the group wrote earlier.
Pope Francis has previously said he believes same-sex couples show be allowed to have civil unions .
Last year, he told a documentary that these couples have a right to be in a family .
German Catholics Openly Blessing Same-sex Unions in Progressive Move Defying Vatican Ban
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Country Music Association of Ontario 2021 award nominees include:
Single of the year: All I Can Do (Buck Twenty), F-150 (Robyn Ottolini), Girls Like Me (Meghan Patrick), No Truck Song (Tim Hicks), Thank Her for That (Owen Barney)
Album of the year: All Woman (Nicole Rayy), Highway Mile (Aaron Allen), Jade Eagleson (Jade Eagleson), Love Wins (Kelly Prescott), The I’m Not Always Hilarious EP (Robyn Ottolini)
Songwriter(s) of the year: Callie McCullough and Scotty Kipfer for After Midnight (recorded by McCullough); Jamie Appleby, Owen Barney, Alyssa Reid, Dave Thomson and Mike Wise for Thank Her for That (recorded by Barney); Meghan Patrick, Jobe Fortner and Ryan Nelson for Girls Like Me (recorded by Patrick); Robyn Ottolini, Mark Schroor and Erik Fintelman for F-150 (recorded by Ottolini), and Tim Hicks, Bruce Wallace and Jeffrey Coplan for No Truck Song (recorded by Hicks)