The Catholic Church took a big step forward with this week’s announcement that priests can now offer blessings to same-sex couples.
The Vatican explained the major shift in policy by noting that all blessings are “an invitation to draw ever closer to the love of Christ,” but the church remains firm on its traditional doctrine about marriage. Priests can now offer blessings to couples “in irregular situations and same-sex couples without officially validating their status or changing in any way the Church’s perennial teaching on marriage.”
