Pope Leo XIV has moved to shut down expectations that the Church might expand its approach to the blessing of same-sex couples, insisting that the Holy See does not support any formal blessing of such unions and warning that further movement on the issue would risk deepening division in the Church.
Speaking to journalists aboard the papal plane in response to a question concerning Cardinal Reinhard Marx and the position of the German bishops, Leo said the Church must resist reducing moral teaching to questions of sex alone. Far more urgent, he suggested, are the great moral issues of justice, equality, the dignity and freedom of men and women, and religious liberty.
