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 ...

Despite these blessings for same-sex couples being far short of marriage, lifelong Catholic Sergio Guzmán says what he and his partner Javier López received from the priest in Mexico a few years ...

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 ...

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 ...

the declaration is about blessings and what they mean in the Catholic Church. Blessings, in this pastoral sense, are events when our human dependence on God’s mercy is expressed as a desire for ...

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 ...

A meeting between Germany’s Catholic bishops and lay representatives agreed Friday to call for the church to approve blessings of same-sex unions. The three-day gathering, which is part of the ...

(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 ...