‘God Does Not And Cannot Bless Sin’: Vatican Bars Priests From Blessing Same-Sex Unions The Vatican holds that gay people must be treated with dignity and respect, but that gay sex is ‘intrinsically disordered’ AP/PTI Associated Press (AP) 2021-03-16T19:33:46+05:30 ‘God Does Not And Cannot Bless Sin’: Vatican Bars Priests From Blessing Same-Sex Unions outlookindia.com 2021-03-16T19:39:45+05:30 Also read The Vatican decreed Monday that the Catholic Church won't bless same-sex unions since God “cannot bless sin”. The Vatican's orthodoxy office, the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, issued a formal response Monday to a question about whether Catholic clergy have the authority to bless gay unions. The answer, contained in a two-page explanation published in seven languages and approved by Pope Francis, was “negative".