The Vatican’s newly released document addressing the blessing of same-sex couples doesn’t pave the way for gay weddings at churches or with Catholic priests as officiants. But it does now ...

In an extraordinary pushback against Pope Francis, Catholic bishops from Africa to Poland say they will not implement a new Vatican policy allowing blessings for same-sex couples. Credit ...

Vatican City • In an unprecedented opening by the Catholic Church toward welcoming LGBTQ people, the Vatican’s Dicastery of the Doctrine of the Faith approved the blessing of same-sex couples ...

This formula has been introduced into Roman Catholic worship as well. In the Gospel of Matthew, Jesus pronounces blessings on the poor, the humble, and the persecuted in the Beatitudes at the ...

Pope Francis has granted his formal approval allowing Catholic priests to bless same ... and any priests granting a blessing to a same-sex couple must "avoid any form of confusion or scandal ...

push back and exclude" in an eight-page response to questions from five cardinals Franco Origlia/Getty Pope Francis has suggested he would be open to some Catholic priests blessing same-sex ...

Germany’s Catholic bishops voted to adopt formal ceremonies for the blessing of same-sex relationships, defying the Vatican and testing church unity on what has become one of the most ...

(RNS) — The Vatican approved same-sex blessings, but there are a few caveats. VATICAN CITY (RNS) — In an unprecedented opening by the Catholic Church toward welcoming LGBTQ people, the Vatican ...

He and Kazakh Archbishop Tomash Peta said in a statement on the Catholic Herald magazine's website that they had prohibited priests in their archdiocese from performing "any form of blessing ...