{"id":17674,"date":"2023-12-18T23:34:11","date_gmt":"2023-12-19T04:34:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usa.businessupturn.com\/?p=17674"},"modified":"2023-12-18T23:34:11","modified_gmt":"2023-12-19T04:34:11","slug":"pope-francis-approves-blessings-for-same-sex-couple-if-the-rituals-do-not-resemble-marriage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/pope-francis-approves-blessings-for-same-sex-couple-if-the-rituals-do-not-resemble-marriage\/17674\/","title":{"rendered":"Pope Francis approves blessings for same-sex couple if the rituals do not resemble marriage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pope Francis has formally permitted priests to perform blessings for same-sex couples, a move that stops short of sanctioning same-sex marriages, but is still being herald by some LGBTQ+ advocates as historic.<\/p>\n<p>The document obtained from the Vatican\u2019s doctrine office on Monday reassures its previous statement that marriage remains sacrament between a man and a woman. However, it also states that the blessings towards the same-sex couple should not be denied, so long as the blessing is not conferred at the time as a civil union, using set rituals or with the clothing and gestures that are a part of a wedding.<\/p>\n<p>GLAAD President and CEO Sarah Kate Ellis reacted to the Monday\u2019s statement as she said, \u201cthe latest in a historic pattern of actions and announcements from Pope Francis which shows that LGBTQ people should not be used as a dividing issue, and we are worthy of love, respect and compassion.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She continued that the Pope has accurately recognized the LGBTQ people by removing the barrier, and has affirmed that the LGBTQ relationships are worthy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pope Francis has formally permitted priests to perform blessings for same-sex couples, a move that stops short of sanctioning same-sex\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":175,"featured_media":17700,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[5462,1264,5461],"class_list":["post-17674","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-lgbtq","tag-pope-francis","tag-same-sex-couples"],"reading_time":"1 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17674","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/175"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17674"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17674\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17700"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}