Posted on 02/05/2018 6:09:08 PM PST by marshmallow
Frankfurt, Germany, Jan 24, 2018 / 03:00 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- A German bishop’s proposal that the Catholic Church could provide blessing ceremonies for gay couples, as well as divorced and civilly remarried couples, gained support at a Church conference in Frankfurt this weekend.
Earlier this month, Bishop Franz-Josef Bode suggested that the Church develop a ceremony for blessing same-sex unions during an interview with Neue Osnabrucker Zeitung.
"We need to think about how we can differentiate a relationship between two same-sex people," said the bishop, who is deputy chairman of the German Bishops' Conference: "Is not there so much that is positive, good and right that we have to be fairer?"
The bishop said that same-sex unions are a reality in the country. “We must therefore ask ourselves how we meet those who enter into this relationship and who are also partly involved in the Church,” he said.
“How do we accompany them pastorally and liturgically? How do we live up to them?"
On Jan. 20, Father Johannes Zu Eltz, the city-dean of the Catholic Church in Frankfurt and a senior official in the Diocese of Limburg, said that the Church should consider "theologically founded blessing ceremonies" for couples who do not meet the requirements for marriage in the Church.
The suggestion was made during the Frankfurt City Church Forum II, attended by 170 Church leaders. Such forums are used to discuss reforms that can be made within the local Church.
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He has no right wearing clerical garments. Not in a Christian church, anyway.
bergoglio’s with it.
“...same-sex unions are a reality in the country...”
So is smoking weed, wife beating, and pedophilia. Will the Kraut apostates have a special blessing for those?
One reality in the country is that the German culture is dying. It has now been replaced by a trendy European culture that stands for political correctness and the whims of pop culture. And that is being replaced by the mongrel immigrant and Islamic cultures that are increasing their numbers by continuing their migration and actually having children.
If you read more closely, you’ll see that he’s Catholic.
Yes. A very misguided Catholic who should turn in his alb and crucifix for a Bible to read.
We must ask ourselves do we want to have this extra source of church income from the tax they will pay if they are members of the church.
I fixed it.
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