“At a practical level as a priest, I welcome the clarity in this document. The pope is very clear that these pastoral blessings are not a kind of a liturgical or ritual acknowledgment that these unions are equivalent or in any way analogous to the marriage between a man or a woman,” he told OSV News.
“At the same time, it shows that the issues and the hurts experienced by people identifying as LGBT+ have certainly been heard very loudly within the church. I do hope that people who may have felt excluded in the past, will see this as some step towards them with the love and mercy of Christ,” Archbishop Martin said.
https://www.osvnews.com/2023/12/21/beware-of-reading-too-much-too-quickly-into-same-sex-blessings-document-say-global-bishops/
