The Catholic Church's approval of blessings of couples in same-sex relationships "will remain" under Pope Leo XIV, the head of the Vatican's doctrine office told an Italian reporter in a brief interview.

Cardinal Victor Manuel Fernández made the statement in response to a question from a journalist for the Rome-based daily Il Messaggero as he left the Holy See Press Office on July 3.

Fernández's remarks are the clearest indication to date since Pope Leo's election of a likely continuation of Pope Francis' gay-blessings declaration. However, the impromptu interview falls short of an explicit, official statement from the Vatican.

Under Francis, the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith in December 2023 released a document entitled "Fiducia Supplicans: On the Pastoral Meaning of Blessings," which opened the door to church blessings for couples in "irregular" situations, including same-sex relationships.

The document, signed by Fernández and his deputy Msgr. Armando Matteo, and approved by Pope Francis, stressed that such blessings could not take the form of a liturgical rite, and did not imply formal approval of "irregular" unions.

The blessings document generated considerable conservative backlash, and some critics of the late Pope Francis had expressed hope that Pope Leo would rescind or ignore it.

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[–] 41 points 1 year ago (2 children)
  • [–] 53 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    The blessings document generated considerable conservative backlash, and some critics of the late Pope Francis had expressed hope that Pope Leo would rescind or ignore it.

    Conservatives as always doing a fantasticdemonstrating why they should be chronodeported 2 millennia back.

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  • [–] 24 points 1 year ago

    Gaymen 🙏

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  • [–] 33 points 1 year ago (16 children)

    Jokes on them. I don’t even want to go to heaven unless I can suck a bag of dicks on the other side of the gates.

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago* (5 children)

    Depending on your interpretation of the Bible, you're at least minimum guaranteed marriage to Jesus. Revelations 19

    But from my lay perspective there is not a passage in the Bible that says gay sex is worse than eating shellfish so do with that what you will. The thing Jesus actually mentions several times explicitly was adultery aka being unfaithful as in cheating. So as long as its consensual and your not wrecking houses.....

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago* (4 children)

    Isn't Jesus already married to every Nun?

    Also, just to note, there is a whole lot of talk about "sexual immorality"in the Bible, which is nearly universally translated to mean "homosexuality".

    What the fuck does "sexual immorality" even mean? The only thing I can think of would be rape, but I sincerely doubt that was the intention.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago* (3 children)

    Rape incest and pedophilia are the immoralities as written out in the Bible. Also lust to an extent.

    Also, technically yes, all the nuns who have taken vows of Chastity are married to the church as are the pastors...

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago* (2 children)

    Rape, incest and pedophilia

    Oh so kind of like when Lot's daughters raped him?

    How did humanity arise from Adam and Eve without incest?

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago* (1 child)

    The Bible isn't always meant to be taken literally good luck trying to explain that to a Baptist though. (Jesus almost exclusively spoke in metaphors AKA parables ) The first part of Genesis is describing how early hominids became humans. Personally I like the idea that God is more of a 4th dimensional entity that time does not constrain in any form. Basically a mad scientist using what we call evolution to slowly shape and change his petri dish of a planet.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

    Isn't it cool how you can just decide which parts are real and which ones aren't?

    Edit: Also, it's kind of hard to call Adam and Eve "allegory" or whatever, when there's massive sections of the Old Testament dedicated to outlining their fucking bloodline...

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago

    Are these like normal blessings but rainbow?

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  • [–] 21 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    You will be shocked to learn that gays don't need a 'blessing' or the 'church'. We are quite happy (gay!!) without any of that.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago

    As they should.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    If I am going to choose between imaginary symbolic gestures I rather have G̵̡͖̜̊Ã̴̩̐͂̽Y̴͖̘̤̌́ ̷̨̦͍̜́͊ Ç̷̲̺͕̅͛̌̎͠U̶̟̦͎̼̎R̴̝͚̲̭̣͛̂̕Ś̴̲̼̟͚̈̅E̶̙̩͖͐̑̿̚S̷͈̺̐͆ 😈

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    May your enema be forever empty, and may you have always just gained 3 pounds

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago* (1 child)

    In the future, when we're transcendent tentacled robofurries doing poly in virtual space, on drugs (think Yivo from Futurama), we will look back in confusion at why so many people hate homosexuality so much. Like... don't they have other things to worry about?

    Or humanity will be all dead, I guess.

    And I'm talking about the mega conservatives protesting this; at least the Vatican is baby stepping and trying to minimize their cruelty.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    I don't care what the international child r*** ring has to say about the gays.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    "exclusive, stable, and indissoluble union between a man and a woman, naturally open to the generation of children"

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  • [+] -13 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    How is this news? Magic isn't real and they still think the gays are icky, let's not imagine meaningful progress where none exists.

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  • [–] 26 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Perfection is the enemy of progress.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago

    I mean, sometimes. But this is still like a... few decades behind. This is like white people not saying the n-word in public anymore. That's technically better than before, but still woefully behind. The Catholic Church is never going to be on the forefront of real progress.

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