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Engraving depicting the marriage of the Duke of Bourbon and Mademoiselle de Nantes at Versailles in 1685, with a nuptial veil held over the couple. The nuptial veil, which is also referred to as the care cloth, carde clothe or wedding canopy, is an ancient Christian wedding tradition where a cloth is held over the heads of the bride and groom during the Nuptial Blessing.
On 1 October 2021, a significant majority of German Catholic bishops and laity supported blessings of same-sex marriages in a document at the Synodal Path. [316] On 11 May 2022, blessings of same-sex marriages were celebrated in more than a hundred Catholic churches in Germany, such as in the cathedral in Magdeburg , and in Essen was first time ...
Additionally, in 2007, one same-sex union received a blessing in the German town of Wetzlar in the Roman Catholic Diocese of Limburg. [74] A blessing of a same-sex union, equivalent to marriage except in name, was made by a Catholic Dominican priest in Malta in 2015. He was not publicly censured by his local bishop. [75] [76]
Nevertheless, any sort of blessing for gay couples is unprecedented in the history of Catholic pastoral practice. In 2021, the same Vatican dicastery issued a seemingly definitive statement saying ...
The Catholic Church says people seeking God’s love and mercy shouldn’t be subject to “an exhaustive moral analysis” to receive […] The post Pope approves blessings for same-sex couples ...
Priest reading the blessing at a Catholic wedding, 2018. In the Latin Church, marriage may be celebrated during Lent even within a Nuptial Mass; however, it is considered inappropriate to have such a celebration during Holy Week and impossible during the Easter Triduum. In principle, no day of the week is excluded from marriage. [94]
Major Archbishop Sviatoslav Shevchuk said the Vatican document "interprets the pastoral meaning of blessings in the Latin Church" but made no reference to issues governing the eastern, or Greek ...
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 ...