{"id":82382,"date":"2026-04-23T08:51:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-23T12:51:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/?p=82382"},"modified":"2026-04-23T08:51:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T12:51:08","slug":"german-cardinal-instructs-priests-to-facilitate-same-sex-couple-blessings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/german-cardinal-instructs-priests-to-facilitate-same-sex-couple-blessings\/","title":{"rendered":"German Cardinal Instructs Priests To Facilitate Same-Sex Couple Blessings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <em>Catholic World Report:<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Cardinal Reinhard Marx, who has served as archbishop of Munich and Freising in Germany since 2008, has instructed the priests and full-time pastoral staff\u00a0in the archdiocese to introduce the controversial handout \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dbk.de\/fileadmin\/redaktion\/diverse_downloads\/presse_2025\/2025-065a-Gemeinsame-Konferenz-SW-Anlage-Segnung-fuer-Paare.pdf\">Blessing Gives Strength to Love<\/a>\u201d as the basis of pastoral care.<\/p>\n<p>Priests who do not want to carry out such blessing celebrations for homosexual marriages or remarried divorced people must refer the couples to the dean or other staff.\u00a0A letter from the cardinal, which\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.die-tagespost.de\/kirche\/aktuell\/kardinal-marx-will-umstrittene-segensfeiern-in-muenchen-einfuehren-art-274288\">Die Tagespost<\/a>\u00a0reported on Monday, indicates that the handout should be \u201cthe basis of pastoral care\u201d and beginning in June, various offices within the archdiocese are to offer further training as to the design of the blessing celebrations for all full-time officials in pastoral care.<\/p>\n<div class=\"gsp_post_data\" \r\n\t            data-post_type=\"post\" \r\n\t            data-cat=\"news\" \r\n\t            data-modified=\"120\"\r\n\t            data-created=\"1776934268\"\r\n\t            data-title=\"German Cardinal Instructs Priests To Facilitate Same-Sex Couple Blessings\" \r\n\t            data-home=\"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Catholic World Report: Cardinal Reinhard Marx, who has served as archbishop of Munich and Freising in Germany since 2008,.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-82382","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-news","7":"entry"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82382","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=82382"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82382\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":82383,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82382\/revisions\/82383"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}