Mar 16, 2021VATICAN CITY: The Church does not have the power to bless unions between homosexual people. This is the response given by the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith (pictured) to a "dubium" about the blessing of same-sex unions. Rather, it declares illicit any form of blessing that tends to acknowledge their unions as such. “This all implies a power that the Church does not possess, because she does not have the power over God's designs, which would otherwise be rejected and denied. “The third reason is to avert an error into which one would easily be led: that of assimilating the blessing of unions of persons of the same sex to that of matrimonial unions.

Source: The Herald March 15, 2021 15:56 UTC