For some, it’s a watershed moment and for others it’s a piddling half-step. But it has the radical potential to encourage some very important conversations. I like to remind friends that December 25 ...

Pope Francis responded forcefully once again to criticism of his recent decision to bless couples in same-sex unions, calling objections from “ideological groups” in the United States and elsewhere ...

MTHATHA, South Africa — The Vatican’s recent declaration allowing the blessing of same-sex couples caused a stir around the world, but perhaps most of all in Africa, a rising center of the Roman ...

LGBTQ+ advocates are celebrating a declaration issued Monday confirming that Pope Francis has approved the blessing of same-sex unions – but not everyone is happy about this. Many conservative ...

Blessing gay people is nothing new to the Rev. Paul Rospond, though the Catholic Church only formally declared priests could bless same-sex couples earlier this week. Rospond, who is chaplain of Out ...

ROME (AP) — The Vatican document explicitly saying Catholic priests can bless same-sex unions lays out the conditions for what such blessings can, and cannot, involve. The overall goal is to make it ...