Pope Francis responded to questions from five conservative cardinals in a way that marks a reversal from the Vatican's current official position.
has suggested there could be ways to bless same-sex unions, responding to five conservative cardinals who challenged him to affirm church teaching on homosexuality ahead of a big meeting where LGBTQ+ Catholics are on the agenda.
The Vatican holds that marriage is an indissoluble union between man and woman. As a result, it has long opposed gay marriage. But evenFrancis’ response to the cardinals, however, marks a reversal from the Vatican’s current official position. In an explanatory note in 2021, the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith said flat-out that the church couldn’t bless gay unions becauseIn his new letter, Francis reiterated that matrimony is a union between a man and a woman.
Francis added that there is no need for dioceses or bishops conferences to turn such pastoral charity into fixed norms or protocols, saying the issue could be dealt with on a case-by-case basis “because the life of the church runs on channels beyond norms.
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