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catholicworldreport.comGerman Cardinal Instructs Priests to Facilitate Same-Sex Couple Blessings
Daniel Ibáñez/EWTN News Cardinal Reinhard Marx at the Vatican Press Office on Oct. 17, 2014. | Credit: Daniel Ibáñez/EWTN News Cardinal Reinhard Marx, archbishop of Munich and Freising, has instructed priests and full-time pastoral staff to introduce the controversial handout 'Blessing Gives Strength to Love.'
Cardinal Marx Expands Gay Blessings, Defying Vatican Line
Cardinal Reinhard Marx has moved decisively to normalise the blessing of same-sex couples in his Archdiocese of Munich and Freising—an intervention that lays bare the deepening doctrinal confusion at the heart of the Catholic Church in Germany. In a letter to clergy, Marx instructed that the pastoral guideline Segen gibt der Liebe Kraft (‘Blessing Strengthens Love’) should serve as the “foundation of pastoral practice.” The document, a product o…
A year ago, the Episcopal Conference created the basis for the blessing of same-sex couples in the Catholic Church. Some priests do not go far enough to relax.
Reinhard Marx has set a new direction in the practice of the Catholic Church in Germany: the head of the Archdiocese of Munich-Freising has issued a decree according to which priests will in future be able to bless same-sex couples as well as remarried divorced people.
The fact that the universal Church rejects blessing ceremonies for divorced and remarried people, same-sex and queer couples for good reasons is sacrificed by the Archbishop of Munich to the practical "away from Rome" theology.
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