The Vatican's recent directive banning the blessing of same-sex unions has sparked defiance among some priests in Europe and left bishops perplexed on how to minister to gay Catholics, the Reuters website reports today (March 17, 2021).
Conservatives praised the ruling issued on March 15 by the Vatican's Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, but it disappointed gay Catholics.
"I feel vicarious shame for my Church," Johan Bonny, the Roman Catholic bishop of Antwerp, Belgium wrote in a commentary today in the Flemish newspaper De Standard.
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