What It Means To Bless Something or Someone, by Russell Shaw

Remember Humpty-Dumpty? He turns up in Lewis Carroll’s fantasy Through the Looking Glass and makes this famous assertion: “When I use a word, it means just what I choose it to mean–neither more nor less.”

I thought of that while reading attempts to give a benign interpretation to the new Vatican document on blessings for people in “irregular” relationships, including same-sex couples and Catholics in second marriages whose first marriages haven’t been annulled. The Humpty-Dumpty spin was that to bless same-sex unions does not mean approving them. …..

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