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Full Text: Vatican Doctrinal Office’s Response to a Question on the Blessing of Same-Sex Unions

Archbishop Luis Ladaria SJ at a book presentation at the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome, Nov. 27, 2014.

Daniel Ibanez
Archbishop Luis Ladaria SJ at a book presentation at the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome alongside Cardinal Gerhard Mueller, Nov. 27, 2014.

The Vatican’s doctrinal office on Monday clarified that the Catholic Church does not have the power to give liturgical blessings of homosexual unions.