Jesuit Father James Martin wrote in an essay that the Vatican's approval of blessings for same-sex couples is a "major step forward for LGBTQ Catholics."
In a move referred to as "historic" by MP Ina Shofshun, the Ukrainian parliament took unprecedented strides today by approving a bill that targets the Orthodox Church linked to the Moscow Patriarchate.
This recent letter from Pope Francis seems to pivot from a Vatican decree in March 2021, which explicitly stated that priests couldn't bless same-sex unions because God "cannot bless sin."
