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the General Assembly voted to remove “sexual orientation and gender identity”

Dicasteries•Homosexuality•Local Church

Vatican contradicts German bishops: text for blessing same-sex couples was not approved

Bishop Georg Bätzing, head of the DBK, has repeatedly defended the initiative. At the September assembly, he told journalists the document had been produced “in transparent consultation with the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith” (DDF), portraying it as a contextual application of the Vatican’s 2023 declaration Fiducia supplicans

Homosexuality•Local Church•Pope Leo XIV

On the controversy in the German episcopate regarding Leo XIV’s clear “no” to liturgical blessings for gay couples

The Pope’s remarks on same-sex blessings were characteristically nuanced but left little room for ritual experimentation. He acknowledged that all persons may receive God’s blessing but cautioned against the creation of liturgical formulas for couples, a practice he said runs contrary to the 2023 Vatican declaration «Fiducia Supplicans».