At about 100 churches across the country, Germany’s powerful Roman Catholic progressives are openly defying a recent Vatican prohibition on blessing same-sex unions. But the response has been particularly acute in Germany, where the German church has been at the forefront of opening discussion on hot-button issues such the church’s teaching on homosexuality as part of a formal process of debate and reform. The dozens of church services celebrating blessings of gay unions are the latest escalation in tensions between conservatives and progressives that have already sparked alarm, primarily from the right, that part of the German church might be heading into schism. “We’re struggling in Germany with a lot of seriousness and intensive theological discourses for the right path,” Mock added. Advertisement“We need systemic changes, also regarding a reassessment of the ecclesiastical morality of sexuality,” Mock said.

Source: Los Angeles Times May 10, 2021 07:41 UTC