The chairman of the German Bishops’ Conference has rejected suggestions that his country’s guidelines on same-sex blessings contradict Vatican teaching and despite Pope Leo XIV’s recent criticism of such initiatives.
Bishop Georg Bätzing of Limburg addressed the controversy during his closing speech at the bishops’ autumn plenary assembly, dismissing accusations of disobedience. “To construct the matter of ‘episcopal disobedience’ on the part of German bishops from Pope Leo XIV’s statements on Fiducia Supplicans is simply absurd,” he said.
