May 10, 2021
Jesuit Father Jan Korditschke, who will lead blessings for same-sex couples in Berlin in the this week, poses for a photo at the Canisius Church in Berlin, Germany. Germanyâs Catholic progressives are openly defying a recent Holy See pronouncement that priests cannot bless same-sex unions by offering exactly such blessings at services in about 100 different churches all over the country. The blessings at open worship services are the latest pushback from German Catholics against a document released in March by the Vaticanâs orthodoxy office, which said Catholic clergy cannot bless same-sex unions. (AP Photo/Michael Sohn)
BERLIN (AP) Germany’s powerful Catholic progressives are openly defying a recent Holy See pronouncement that priests cannot bless same-sex unions by offering such blessings at services in about 100 different churches all over the country this week.
05-10-2021
Vicar Wolfgang Rothe, left, blesses the couple Christine Walter, center, and Almut Muenster, right, during a Catholic service with the blessing of same-sex couples in St Benedict s Church in Munich, Sunday, May 9, 2021. (Felix Hoerhager/dpa via AP)
Germany s powerful Catholic progressives are openly defying a recent pronouncement from the Roman Catholic Church that priests cannot bless same-sex unions by offering such blessings at services in about 100 different churches all over the country this week.
The blessings at open worship services are the latest pushback from German Catholics against a Vatican document released in March.
As CBN News reported, the Vatican s orthodoxy office, the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, said Catholic clergy cannot bless same-sex unions because God cannot bless sin.
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Find below the text of CNA’s conversation with Weigel:
CNA: Bishop Bätzing seems to want to walk a fine line between remaining faithful to Rome while not displeasing those who are already announcing “reforms”. Is there such a middle ground? If so, what would that middle ground realistically look like?
Weigel: The issue is not “Rome” vs. “reforms.” The issue is fidelity to the truth of the Gospel vs. fidelity to the Zeitgeist, the “spirit of the times.” Put another way, the issue at stake in the German “synodal way” is whether divine revelation on the indissolubility of marriage, on worthiness to receive holy communion, on the proper ordering of our human loves is real and has binding power over time, in every cultural situation. That was also the issue at the Synods of 2014, 2015, and 2018.
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