By Blessing Homosexual Unions, German Catholics Are Fomenting Schism — Again Posted on Ceremonies blessing same-sex unions by German Catholic priests this week represent a challenge to the Vatican from which it dare not shrink. The German Catholics are at it again. Catholic priests across Germany have been blessing same-sex unions this week in open defiance of the Vatican, which explicitly forbade such practices in March, reflecting long-settled and unchangeable Church doctrine. According to a report in the Wall Street Journal, such ceremonies have been conducted in private for years, but ...