U.S. bishops: Vatican declaration does not change Church teaching on marriage

Fiducia Supplicans states that the Church cannot permit a liturgical blessing for same-sex couples because it would “offer a form of moral legitimacy to a union that presumes to be a marriage or to an extra-marital sexual practice.”  Yet, the declaration states that the prohibition on liturgical blessings does not preclude priests from offering “spontaneous”…

U.S. bishops: Vatican declaration does not change Church teaching on marriage