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Cardinal Marx Expands Gay Blessings, Defying Vatican Line, by Nick Hallett – Brown Pelican Society of Lousiana

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Cardinal Reinhard Marx is president of the bishops' conference of Germany (photo: Wikimedia Commons)

By Nick Hallett, European Conservative, April 22, 2026

Nick Hallett is an assistant news editor for europeanconservative.com. He has previously worked as a journalist for Breitbart and as the online editor for The Catholic Herald.

 

The move to standardise same-sex blessings intensifies a growing rift within the Catholic Church.

Cardinal Reinhard Marx has moved decisively to normalise the blessing of same-sex couples in his Archdiocese of Munich and Freising—an intervention that lays bare the deepening doctrinal confusion at the heart of the Catholic Church in Germany.

In a letter to clergy, Marx instructed that the pastoral guideline Segen gibt der Liebe Kraft (‘Blessing Strengthens Love’) should serve as the “foundation of pastoral practice.” The document, a product of Germany’s long-running Synodal Path, explicitly provides for the blessing of couples who cannot receive the sacrament of marriage, including homosexual couples and divorced-and-remarried Catholics. …

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