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German Catholics took their next steps in the Synodal Way with the second assembly last weekend that included approval of a text which speaks positively about LGBTQ people and calls for the church to bless their relationships.
Pastoral workers in Germany released an open letter to protest one archdiocese’s reprimanding of a priest who allegedly blessed a same-gender couple earlier this year.
Priests are speaking out about why they are participating in the “#liebegewinnt (Love Wins)” campaign this week, which includes more than 100 events in Germany and Switzerland to bless same-gender couples.
Will Germany’s Synodal Way, especially its rethinking of church teachings about sexuality and the question of blessing same-gender couples, lead to a schism? Some conservative observers have sounded alarms. As a day of blessing such relationships kicks off in that country and Switzerland, Bondings 2.0 provides the latest updates and takes a look at that question.
A co-chair of the German Synodal Way’s working group on sexuality said that a majority of the forum’s members had expressed support for blessing same-gender couples, even after the Vatican attempted to ban such blessings.
In response to the Vatican’s responsum on blessing same-gender unions this week, nearly 1,000 pastoral ministers in Germany, as well as other Catholics, have signed a letter in support of such blessings. Elsewhere in the country, bishops and priests are raising objections to the ban at an increasing pace.
Today’s post includes news items about a Catholic reform network’s condemnation of insurrectionist violence in the U.S., a German bishop’s reiterated support for church blessings of same-gender couples, and more.
In today’s post from Sr. Jeannine Gramick, she writes about how Fr. Tony Flannery’s refusal to sign Vatican oaths on women’s leadership and on LGBTQ equality actually “shows a real love for this Church.”
Austria’s Archdiocese of Salzburg has published a new book which explores the blessings of same-gender unions, an important step towards formal recognition of LGBTQ+ relationships in a country where marriage equality was instituted in 2019.