But the CDF went further than simply prohibiting blessing for legal unions, and stated that it is “not licit to impart a blessing on relationships, or partnerships, even stable, that involve sexual activity outside of marriage (i.e., outside the indissoluble union of a man and a woman open in itself to the transmission of life), as is the case of the unions between persons of the same sex.”
Ping
Protestants admit that they are not Catholic.
The Pope, however, has not yet admitted it.