Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Before 2021, several dioceses had permitted the blessing of same-sex couples, including Linz in Austria and Basel in Switzerland. [16] [17] On 15 March 2021, the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith (renamed the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith in 2022) issued a responsum ad dubium ("response to doubt") that responded in the negative to the question of whether the Church has "the ...
The blessing, as outlined in the document, connotes God's love for people in their complexity, Schmalz said. "Pope Francis is saying that God wants you to know that he's there with you in the ...
Pope Francis has formally approved allowing priests to bless same-sex couples, with a new document released Monday explaining a radical change in Vatican policy by insisting that people seeking ...
The Vatican said on Monday in a landmark ruling approved by Pope Francis that Roman Catholic priests can administer blessings to same-sex couples as long as they are not part of regular Church ...
The Companions of the Cross, abbreviated CC, is a Catholic society of apostolic life of diocesan right for men based in Ottawa, Ontario. It is a community of Catholic priests that is Eucharistic, Charismatic, Marian and magisterial. It was founded by Fr. Robert Bedard in 1985 and was approved in 2003 by the Vatican as a society of apostolic ...
The prayer group in Potomac, which is within the Archdiocese of Washington, began communicating with these and other groups and soon Catholic Charismatic prayer groups began springing up throughout the U.S. and eventually all over the world. The group in Potomac became a catalyst for the start of other new prayer groups within the Washington, D ...
Pope Francis formally approved letting Catholic priests bless same-sex couples, the Vatican announced Monday, a radical shift in policy that aimed at making the church more inclusive while ...
In May 2021, CBC News reported that Catholic priests in Germany had been secretly blessing same-sex unions for years. [293] In the Diocese of Aachen, five same-sex unions received a blessing in Mönchengladbach in 2003, [294] while over fifty blessings of same-sex unions have been held in recent years. [295]