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.
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German Catholics flout Vatican ban with blessings of same sex unions 1 minute read
Berlin, May 10 (EFE).- A hundred Catholic churches across Germany this week are holding open worship services that feature blessings of gay couples.
The initiative under the slogan “Liebe Gewinnt” (‘Love wins’) has been organized in response to a Vatican ruling in March that said the Catholic clergy could not approve same-sex unions because God “cannot bless sin.”
The initiative was inspired by two parish priests Burkhard Hose, of Würzburg in the southern state of Bavaria, and Bernd Mönkebüscher, of Paderborn in the northwestern industrial region of North Rhine-Westphalia who called for a public appeal in March following the Vatican’s refusal to bless marriages of couples of the same sex.