What the media isn’t telling you about the Vatican document on blessing Homosexual couples

The Vatican’s doctrinal office issued a declaration Monday addressing “the possibility of blessing couples in irregular situations and same-sex couples.”

In a preamble to the 5,000-word document Fiducia supplicans, issued Dec. 18, Cardinal Víctor Manuel Fernández said that the text marked “a specific and innovative contribution to the pastoral meaning of blessings.”

The document says that “questions of both a formal and an informal nature about the possibility of blessing same-sex couples” continued to swirl despite its 2021 ruling, which, it noted, had “elicited numerous and varied reactions.”

To help those who thought that the ruling was not “sufficiently clear,” the dicastery decided to “take up the theme again and offer a vision that draws together the doctrinal aspects with the pastoral ones in a coherent manner.”

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The first section of the document talks about the Blessing in the Sacrament of Marriage, the second, the Meaning of the Various Blessings. Third, Blessings of Couples in Irregular Situations and of Couples of the Same Sex. In the fourth section, the document talks about The Church is the Sacrament of God’s Infinite Love.

Be that as it may reports on the document have largely focused on Blessings of Couples in Irregular Situations and of Couples of the Same Sex generating various reactions and confusion among many.

In the video below, Assisting Priest at St Thomas Aquinas Catholic Chaplaincy, Legon, Fr Emmanuel Lanyo, has been explaining the document in details.

Watch video below