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Kentucky parish offers scheduled appointments for same-sex blessings

June 6, 2024 Catholic News Agency 3

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CNA Staff, Jun 6, 2024 / 14:15 pm (CNA).
A parish in the Diocese of Lexington, Kentucky, is openly promoting blessings for same-sex couples despite a Vatican directive that suggests such blessings should be “spontaneous… […]

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Pope Francis: Benedict XVI defended me in face of accusations ‘that I promoted gay marriage’

April 3, 2024 Catholic News Agency 8

Pope Francis blesses a baby at his Wednesday general audience on March 20, 2024, in St. Peter’s Square at the Vatican. / Credit: Vatican Media

ACI Prensa Staff, Apr 3, 2024 / 17:30 pm (CNA).
In a new book interview with Pope Francis, the Holy F… […]

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Catholic chapel where two men celebrated ‘marriage’ now subject to deconsecration

February 28, 2024 Catholic News Agency 4

Both the pastor of nearby San Bernabé parish in El Escorial, Fr. Florentino de Andrés, along with the Archdiocese of Madrid, anticipate the deconsecration of the chapel as a result of the ceremony. / Credit: Zarateman/Wikimedia Commons

Madrid, … […]

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Greece becomes first Orthodox Christian country to legalize same-sex marriage

February 16, 2024 Catholic News Agency 7

Greek Parliament Building in Athens, Greece. / Credit: Andrey Starostin/Shutterstock

CNA Staff, Feb 16, 2024 / 15:00 pm (CNA).
Greece this week legalized same-sex marriage at the national level, becoming the first officially Orthodox Christian … […]

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Pope Francis: To be ‘scandalized’ by gay couple blessings is ‘hypocrisy’

February 7, 2024 Catholic News Agency 45

Pope Francis greets pilgrims at his general audience on Wednesday, Jan. 24, 2024, at the Paul VI Audience Hall at the Vatican. / Credit: Vatican Media

Rome Newsroom, Feb 7, 2024 / 13:00 pm (CNA).
Pope Francis this week again defended the Vatica… […]

The Dispatch

Cardinal Fernández: Vatican’s same-sex blessings guidance is ‘clear answer’ to German bishops

January 3, 2024 Catholic News Agency 18

Cardinal Víctor Manuel Fernández. / Credit: Daniel Ibáñez/ACI Prensa

Rome Newsroom, Jan 3, 2024 / 18:20 pm (CNA).
Amid significant confusion about the Vatican’s recent guidance on same-sex blessings, the document’s architect has lashed out at t… […]

The Dispatch

Chris Christie ties his shift on gay marriage to Vatican ruling on same-sex blessings

December 29, 2023 Catholic News Agency 42

GOP Presidential Candidate Chris Christie at a town Hall in Bedford, New Hampshire on Dec. 19, 2023. / Credit: Sophie Park/Getty Images

CNA Staff, Dec 29, 2023 / 17:30 pm (CNA).
Republican presidential candidate Chris Christie, once an opponent… […]

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Fiducia Supplicans ‘not a topic’ for Christmas season, Uruguayan cardinal says

December 27, 2023 Catholic News Agency 0

Cardinal Daniel Sturla is Archbishop of Montevideo, Uruguay. / Credit: EWTN Noticias

ACI Prensa Staff, Dec 27, 2023 / 16:00 pm (CNA).
Cardinal Daniel Sturla, archbishop of Montevideo, Uruguay, said in a recent interview that the Fiducia Supplic… […]

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Same-sex blessings: Sinners can be blessed but not their sin, Spanish bishop says

December 20, 2023 Catholic News Agency 1

Bishop José Ignacio Munilla of Orihuela-Alicante, Spain. / Credit: Archdiocese of Valladolid

ACI Prensa Staff, Dec 20, 2023 / 18:30 pm (CNA).
The bishop of Orihuela-Alicante in Spain, José Ignacio Munilla, is focusing on the implications of pas… […]

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Bishops around the world are divided over Vatican’s same-sex blessing declaration  

December 20, 2023 Catholic News Agency 21

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Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Dec 20, 2023 / 18:10 pm (CNA).
Catholic bishops around the world are deeply divided on a Vatican declaration that permits nonliturgical blessings of homosexual couples:… […]

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