Gay marriage: Pope Leo XIV is a bridge builder | EUROtoday

The Vatican has repeatedly and clearly conveyed this to the German bishops, even throughout the time period of workplace of his predecessor Francis. At a “flying press conference” on the best way again from his journey to Africa, the Pope additionally identified the present apply of normal blessings. “When a priest gives the blessing at the end of the Mass, when the Pope gives the blessing at the end of a great celebration, then there are blessings for all people,” mentioned Leo.

In the common Church, the sacrament of marriage is reserved for the lifelong union of a girl and a person. The Holy See is not going to intervene in opposition to “informal” blessings of different communities in Germany – and elsewhere within the more and more secularized West – but it surely is not going to encourage it both.

Furthermore, the query of unity or division of the Church “should not revolve around sexual questions,” the Pope continued. This can also be a smart advice from the Pontiff.

In Africa, for instance, the place the common church grows and thrives, homosexuality remains to be prohibited by regulation in lots of nations. For the Church, alternatively, the way more urgent query is how the Holy See ought to take care of polygamous unions. What would Cardinal Reinhard Marx, Archbishop of Munich-Freising, say to a baptized Catholic from sub-Saharan Africa who needed him to bless his polygamy with a number of girls?