Blessings for same-sex couples were yesterday given the green light by the German Synodal Way.
Delegates voted by 176-14, with 12 abstentions, for a five-page document called “Blessing ceremonies for couples who love each other”.
Of the German bishops who voted, a total of 38 were in favour of the text and nine were against, while 11 of them abstained.
The document request that bishops “officially allow blessing ceremonies in their dioceses for couples who love each other but to whom sacramental marriage is not accessible or who do not see themselves at a point of entering into a sacramental marriage”.
