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Same-Sex Blessing

Coptic

Coptic Orthodox Church confirms dialogue with Catholic Church suspended over same-sex blessings

Edward Pentin|Mar 9, 2024|5 Min Read

Pope Francis is seen through a detail of a sculpture as he meets with priests and deacons working in the Diocese of Rome Jan. 13, 2024, in Rome's Basilica of St. John Lateran. (CNS photo/Vatican Media)

Pope fields questions from Rome clergy, including about blessings

Cindy Wooden|Jan 15, 2024|2 Min Read

Africa

World

African bishops say ‘no’ to blessing of same-sex unions, citing ‘scandal’

Ngala Killian Chimtom|Jan 12, 2024|4 Min Read

Pentecostal

Black Pentecostal leader urges pope to withdraw same-sex blessing document

Tyler Arnold|Dec 29, 2023|3 Min Read

Blessings

Vatican note on blessing same-sex unions draws mixed US reaction

John Lavenburg|Dec 19, 2023|5 Min Read

Servers lead a procession into the Vatican’s Paul VI Audience Hall at the start of prayer during the first working session of the assembly of the Synod of Bishops on Synodality Oct. 4. (CNS/Vatican Media)

Assessing the lay of the land after a whirlwind of a week in Rome

John L. Allen Jr.|Oct 8, 2023|5 Min Read

People are silhouetted against the Cologne Cathedral in Germany in 2016. (CNS/Wolfgang Rattay, Reuters via Crux)

World

Catholic priests defy archdiocese, bless same-sex couples in Germany

OSV News|Sep 23, 2023|6 Min Read

Same-sex blessing

World

Church of England allows priests to bless same-sex civil marriages, bans same-sex church weddings

Simon Caldwell|Feb 10, 2023|5 Min Read

A gay couple holds their adopted children during the Lesbian and Gay Pride rally in central Brussels in this May 18, 2013, file photo. The Flemish-speaking bishops of Belgium have authorized a prayer for committed gay couples on the condition it is clear that it is not equivalent to a wedding blessing. (CNS photo/Laurent Dubrule, Reuters)

World

Bishops in Belgium authorize prayer for committed gay couples

Catholic News Service|Sep 21, 2022|4 Min Read

In this June 30, 2017 file photo, men with rainbow flags stand in front of the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin. (Michael Kappeler/dpa via AP/Crux)

World

Head of German bishops says same-sex blessing event ‘not helpful’

Elise Ann Allen|Apr 30, 2021|5 Min Read

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World

Bishop urges prayer, fasting in response to blessings of same-sex couples in Germany

Catholic News Agency|Apr 19, 2021|3 Min Read

Limburg Bishop Georg Bätzing, president of the German bishops' conference, is pictured on Sept. 15, 2019. (CNS/Harald Oppitz, KNA)

Simple sentences and same-sex blessings

Robert Brennan|Mar 29, 2021|4 Min Read

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