You are an example to us all. God bless you for your honesty.T

i’ll pray for you, God bless you, you’re a good man & God willing you will be saved if you continue to seek Him :)❤️

Amen brother 🙏

I commend you for being faithful and willing to follow Christ in a world that tells you to follow your temptations. God bless you bro and stay strong!🙏

As long as you’re not expressing the sin, than you’re good. Idk if homosexuality is something you can control, I feel like you can perhaps. But don’t act on it, as it leads to degradation from what I know.

It's exactly what it means, despite the "naïve" explanation Fr Casey is trying to give out of good will.

That's in the document. paragraph 31. They can't be blessed as a couple unless they admit that their union is disordered in which case the blessing must also be a call to repentance and celibacy. If the couple is unrepentant while requesting the blessing they can not receive the blessing.

@@WC3isBetterThanReforged thank you for the explanation 👍👍👍

Bingo

​@@habibak.6234I mean no disrespect, but I truly hope you read the comment below yours. A lot of people are causing scandal, criticizing the pope without reading the document.

What do you mean?

Well the doctrine isnt changing. The ones causing scandal are the rad trads.

​@@christopherjohnson9167respectfully I don't even think it's the rad trads, it's the people who don't attend church but learn all their Biblical knowledge through KZfaq. Have you seen how many videos Living Waters has made to attack the Catholic just to be debunked.

The ones causing scandal are those spreading misinformation.

​@@christopherjohnson9167 no, both rad libs, rad Trads and Catholics that still believe mainstream media are all confused. Unfortunately, like the modern Church always does, It's change management is lacking and clumsy. Thank God for people like father Casey.

As well as individuals who got divorced and are in new relationships. It's not marriage but, it seems like it's condoning something the church is supposedly against

Polygamy is next, or perhaps adultery. “Hello Father, my girlfriend and I really love each-other and we also love the Mass. Perhaps one day we’ll get around to annulling my prior marriage, but you know, the kids and all… Hey! How about a blessing!”

Totally agree

​@@stephenlight647A blessing isn't just words. You are negating the supernatural aspect of it. Priests have consecrated hands. If two homosexuals ask for a blessing from a priest, it will provide something good for them. It can help them to abandone their sin.

@@fernandogomez8705 too bad their consecrated hands sometimes like to squeeze altar boys. At least here the police can help to abandon their sin.

Listen to his words and heart. He needs to get people astray close as Jesus went to the sheep who was lost. Jesus never wanted to be with the righteous only. Let the Pope show them they are loved and not vile and his child That's all it is. .

God bless you!

You still have a church. Don't worry about media soundbites. The Pope hasn't changed the doctrine. Keep your eyes fixed on the cross, stay close to the Eucharist and pray your rosary. You made a courageous choice, given the wicked world we live in. Keep honouring God and He will preserve and honour you as He does His Church. The media twists things. God doesn't. I wish I could pray with you, but I will pray for you. ❤

Stay strong with what the Catholic Church taught for 2.000 years.

Hello friend!. I'm a Protestant on his way to Rome. I don't think it is a coincidence that this morning while reading "Surprised by Truth" I came accross a word I did not know. "Donatist"... The amount of Donatism and Calvinism that have crept into my heart and theological beliefs is alarming, to say the least. It has crippled my ability to serve Him. Perhaps even more than the sin in my life. ( Wanna compare? I betchya I'm a 'better' sinner than you! betchya a dollar to a dime! /s ) And now, a story! My first foot fall towards Rome took place when I, an Anarchist Protestant, Donatist and Calvinist (delightfully contradictory, I know.)... Humbled myself, Trusted God to forgive me if I was wrong... and received a blessing from a Priest in leu of the Eucharist that was calling my name. A blessing upon me, as a person, not on my then held beliefs. It seems readily apparent that this behavior regarding blessing humans, is not the same as condoning an interior belief or behavior. Nor is it the same as blessing the Sin in a persons life. Evidentally, we needed the reminder. So, we have been reminded. I am well on my way to Rome and we still have the Church. Mathew 16:18 - of course, confirms this. Now don't y'all cradle Catholics go and let an old leather lung trained Protestant beat you out on Theology. /s Love y'all. -b

You touched the heart of it that many are trivializing! The togetherness of the couple bears substantial moral implications.

Bingo

It's not that the Church is seeking to bless couples it's more that if you approach as a couple and you are seeking to get a blessing you will get only a pastoral blessing that in no way legitimizes your relationship but instead asks God for his grace to live faithfully according to the Gospel. This is helpful specially in countries like Germany where it sets rules for blessings so that priests won't try to bless in a way that legitimize sinful relationships and if they do well they are going against what the Pope has approved and what the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith has explicitly ruled and published. " In such cases, a blessing may be imparted that not only has an ascending value but also involves the invocation of a blessing that descends from God upon those who-recognizing themselves to be destitute and in need of his help-do not claim a legitimation of their own status, but who beg that all that is true, good, and humanly valid in their lives and their relationships be enriched, healed, and elevated by the presence of the Holy Spirit. These forms of blessing express a supplication that God may grant those aids that come from the impulses of his Spirit-what classical theology calls “actual grace”-so that human relationships may mature and grow in fidelity to the Gospel, that they may be freed from their imperfections and frailties, and that they may express themselves in the ever-increasing dimension of the divine love. 32. Indeed, the grace of God works in the lives of those who do not claim to be righteous but who acknowledge themselves humbly as sinners, like everyone else. This grace can orient everything according to the mysterious and unpredictable designs of God. Therefore, with its untiring wisdom and motherly care, the Church welcomes all who approach God with humble hearts, accompanying them with those spiritual aids that enable everyone to understand and realize God’s will fully in their existence.[22]

Exactly!

It's called incrimentalism. It's one step toward their desired outcome.

The text is crystal clear. Mass Media are the ones causing confusion. Many of them on purpose, I'm afraid.

Yeah... Francis is funny like that.

Christ did very much the same, to be fair.

Not really. You have some people in the media that know full well if they print a headline that says "Pope supports blessing gay couples". They will get massive hits. The alphabet people will read it and ultimately be mad and real Catholics will read it and be confused and have to find out the truth from the source. This has been going on for a long time. Well before the current Pope.

@@drac7478 Constantly.

It is more than confusion, it is clearly an endorsement of the sin. Same as blessing an unmarried couple of man and woman who live in sin. Why would a priest bless such couple?

​@@habibak.6234In order for them to repent? You are forgeting God's influence in a blessing. It isn't just words from a priest.

​@@habibak.6234 Please read paragraph 11 of the document

Because they are children of God wanting a relationship with him under difficult human circumstances.Jesus never turned anyone away he knows their heart.

​@@marynayna6327 thank you for this. This topic hits close to home for me and I was getting quite discouraged by reading so many judgmental comments.

Except, it is specifically disallowed to bless their togetherness (at least sexually) and the sin itself is still clearly called a sin.

If the priest blessed a heterosexual couple who happens to use birth control, I suspect few would be all that concerned, but that's effectively the same thing as blessing a homosexual couple.

Thank you for that point !!

No, its not the same thing at all. The heterosexual couple can repent, stop using birth control, seek absolution, and they are regularized. Even an adulterous couple can, with declarations of nullity, have their relationships regularized. A homosexual couple can NEVER have their intrinsically disordered relationship regularized. Same with polygamists. Same with incestual relationships, all of which may now receive a "non-liturgical" blessing.t @user-bc7cb8uu7e

Have you read the document?

The problem would be that priest then, not the Holy See. You think that priest would be a priest if he didn't know catholic doctrine?

A priest blessing a gay union or marriage is wonderful. What's the problem?

If I need two eggs for a recipe, and I ask someone to get me a couple of eggs, does that necessarily imply the eggs are going to get married?

​@@rickshelley1287logical impossibility like saying a square that's a circle. Homosexual and Catholic are incompatible

​@rickshelley1287 what planet are you on, its a mortal sin.

I think this is exactly what it is. Incrementalism. If we are already blessing people and not relationships, then why even put out this ruling in the first place?

Slippery slope remains undefeated

If you believe that the church is stablished by Christ, and guided by the Holy Spirit that won't happen.

@@GabrielPereira-hm1cz 🙏

@@GabrielPereira-hm1cz Yeah, and it won't happen cause people will wake up to what is happening here and stop it

I'm glad I'm not a part of that alphabet community anymore and finally found peace within the church

amen! me too@@CheeseGuy-uc5or

Good luck ever hearing Pope Francis saying something like that.

@@CheeseGuy-uc5or thank you Jesus for bringing this beautiful soul back to your flock

@@ethel8959 Thank you

And you are correct in your concern... walks like a duck... quacks like a duck.... sneaky little Jesuits....

They can try to change it, but they won't be able to because God is still the head of the Church and will put a stop to them. You can't change doctrine ever so slightly to the direction of falsehoods unless God doesn't exist.

There is a major change here although it is being denied. COUPLES are being blessed, and the togetherness of the couples is a sinful act. This does not fit Fr. Casey’s explanation that we were sinners could use blessings to find their way to God. That could only happen if the blessing was for the individual and not the couple

…just like the Vatican II documents.

Because it is heresy , It is Francis ‘ opportunity to get in this diabolical deception., Bishop Schneider is right, this is a word play, semantics . Francis is permitting the condoning and blessing of so ful lifestyle that will damn the souls of these SS couples he is telling priests to bless. And he is removing top down autbority to give it to clergy at lowest levels to do as they please. This is not love but diabolical hatred leading souls to hell. Shane on Fr Casey and all who dare to condescend by telling g is to RELAX. That being a well understood insult . Praying for your soul and your priesthood, Fr Casey, and for all the many souls you most surely mislead .

they are not in communion with Rome. Anglican church is just another Protestant denomination.

Bravo reasoning and predictable.

@@_eemjee_ yes, I was using them as an example?

Have you read the document?

Do you know many gay people that asked for a blessing 20/30 years ago? The church has always clarified its views over time. The gospel states that Mary was ' full of grace' but the dogma of the immaculate conception didn't come until 1950. The church clarifies teaching when questions are asked.

@@roddycavin4600 Ergo: The next “clarification” will be gay marriage, eh?

@@cindiloowhoo1166 no need as it's been clarified here. Some LGBT advocates are furious with the language used. Like so many things in the media it made a good headline.

Prior to Vatican II, females could not be alter servers either. And the mass was performed solely in Latin.

@@Aerykian You say that like those are bad things!😉

Plenty of Catholics in the comments here more than happy to help.

@@BreakingInTheHabit I’m not the one confused…

Confusion is within a mind. People become confused by thoroughly non-confusing things, simply by being tired. -but Confusion is 'a lack of understanding, uncertainty" You cannot logically assert that some one else is confused. Only mistaken. As we mortals cannot see the heart. The admonition against confusion, is for the confused. -not the allegedly confusing. For Example. This Document is not confusing, but some people are confused. Think of it like an interception in a sports ball game. Truth is sent out, the devil confuses people about it. Jesus hung out with Mary Magdalene. Christ was not confused, or confusing. Yet..... people were confused. and are confused -even to this day. We humans even made up more stuff about her to help us along in our confusion. You are correct, Satan is a "Confuser", but I would hesitate to call him a Master of anything at all.

@@jck6920 so help those who are confused

it's not just "couples" it's any person and being gay he is trying to show them they aren't on the outside they way they feel. I get it. I know many gay people, didn't grow up in a bubble. Many left the church for Episcopal and other denominations and feel like they aren't wanted under any circumstance. Are they supposed to wear a shirt saying "I'm gay and chaste?" I don't think most people would care, it's just the "gay" that matters. He wants them to feel welcome but wont change church rules.

Thank you Father Casey for coming to the rescue. You cleared the fog out there. Social media really does not have the correct news in this case. Thank you for the short common sense anfd vcorrect meaning of blessing Viva fr casey...😂

Who knows? It could be the start of this hypothetical couple's journey to conversion. I suggest reading the forward to Dunstan Thompson's "Here At Last Is Love", a collection of poems by a gay Catholic author who came back into full communion with the Church and inspired his Anglican-raised partner to also become Catholic. Little known fact: Oscar Wilde, the somewhat infamous gay icon, reverted to the Catholic faith while he was dying of kidney disease, and brought his partner Lord Douglas and several other gay men in their social circle into the Church as well. Long before his reversion, he wrote a glowing tribute to the beauty and splendor of the Tridentine Latin Mass ...in his novel "The Picture of Dorian Grey".

Would this also take into consideration the variable of them living together and laying in the same bed ? Which is a mortal sin when done so outside of marriage. Even for heterosexual couples. In this case since they are homosexual, they’d are stuck in a perpetual cycle of mortal sin. There also must be the earnest intent of repentance in one’s heart.

@@MatrixRefugee Yes can you imagine if Jesus saw the women at the well and didn't approach her? No she's not perfect like the people online. Many have conversions, some slow when meeting certain religious. Mostly from the love they showed, not the condemnation.

Yep. Like helping a drug addict by blessing their stash.

You didn’t watch the video

​@@timothyjackson4653r u seriously comparing homosexuality, a completely and totally harmless state of being and action) to something which actually does cause harm like drug addiction?

You didn't watch the video did you? Blessing is not for the holy people. It is for the sinful people who want to be holy, who want to realign themselves to God.

@@shoshishoshi127 The togetherness of such couples is inconsistent with wanting to be holy and realign themselves to God. Conversion can only happen at the individual level, so they should come as individuals for blessings to aid their conversion. The document imposes a disjunction between blessing and validation, which is irreconcilable with scripture. The old and new Testaments emphasize blessings for the righteous and repentant, and demise for those who persists in sin.

Good point!

Bless pets. Bless a boat. “Bless this mess” in people’s homes. Okay, the last one was a bit cheeky :) But you’re right.

Ok So what was the purpose of this doctrine and why was it necessary? Are you suggesting Priests were turning away individuals trying to change their behavior and desires?

​@pa_2600Being welcoming to marginalized people has all the sense of the world. They are getting into wokeism precisely because we have been neglecting them. I think this Pope is witty in that regard, those people have souls and they won't get saved if they become slaves to weird ideologies.

Can a witch ask a priest to bless her psychic shop? Can a couple ask a priest to bless their abortion? Can a CEO exploiting workers ask a priest to bless his business decisions? The answer is no, because you can't bless sin.

Exactly.

Because what this person wanted was probably a complete change of Catholic dogma, which cannot happen.

Yeah, here in Chile too. They were dissapointed because the document doesn't aprove homosexual relationships and mantains catholic doctrine regarding to marriage

The church will never change. We are made in God's image not the reverse.

@@BreakingInTheHabit The Pope is damned if he does damned if he doesn't .

I don't think it would matter. The Vatican has declared that it cannot change church teaching something conveniently missed by the media.

In fairness, they kind of did. That is the purpose of the directive that Father Casey was reading from. It is more fair to be angry at the media that will intentionally misconstrue and misrepresent the Vatican’s statement. After all, satan in the garden specifically resorted to misconstruing God’s words and used them to say something else.

@@glassfibersweater6063 I agree, I don't mean to say the Vatican did anything wrong or that there is anything unorthodox about the document. I just wish it was written in such a way that we didn't have this tremendous scandal now, especially with how the past statements on the topic have been received. But as you say, this has been Satan's game ever since the beginning (misinterpreting God’s word).

The entire document is a clarification regarding statements Pope Francis made in October. It literally could not be clearer if people read it.

​@@BreakingInTheHabit that's the problem, I'm afraid: IF people READ it.😅

Oh the Ronan Catholic church has had a don't ask don't tell policy regarding divorce and remarriage. It is not as if any Priest turns away anyone from holy communion including same couples, folk having relationship and not married or even adulters ... How many would be left in the pews if the church made an issue of sexual relationships

I think it's actually more effective if both parties of a sinful relationship are to be blessed instead of just one of them.

Again, blessing is not for the holy people. It is for the people who want to be holy. So it makes great sense that participants of sinful relationships need to be blessed so they can realign themselves to the path of righteousness.

dont worry brother got that covered. believe in God and he always got your back

Please don't be taken over by culture wars and conspiracy theories.

Why enlightened people like you would want to remain in the church of Rome whose leaders don't even believe or follow the teachings of Jesus and the early apostles ,as this latest scandalous edict by Francis proves baffled me even more. 🤔

Watch the video.

This has been my point as well. There is no end to the mischief this will cause.

*Hears conjecture* I'll wait for Friar Casey, thanks.

​@@savedawretchwhy not read the document for yourself?

Did you expect him not to totally and unabashedly back whatever the Pope says or does. I have literally heard the Pope tell a young child that his atheist father can in no way be in Hades, I bet Casey would be able to defend that as well, I would you a link to the video of the Pope saying this but you can google it.

They didn't, as you can read in paragraphs 4-6.

Bless sin, or bless sinners. Saint Paul said that he who says he is without sin; is a liar. Since we are all sinners; I suppose that we all can*t get blessed. Are we all damned. The opposite of being blessed; is being cursed. +Serious difference+.

People are not sin. If anyone who sins can't be blessed, the churches would be empty

@@MD-il8dlAnd then article 7 talks about broadening and enriching the understanding of blessing in a manner that has never been done before.

Did you not watch the video?

Yes, the Pope wants to bless gay couples.

Both couple can be bless individually if they come together. Why it is so hard to use commense?

Many Pharisees among us still. Very sad to see the harshness of people's hearts.

PLease stop accusing people who are genuinely concerned about the salvation of all sinners of being hateful,you're making large assumptions and not being charitable when you do that.Peace,love and blessings to you and you alone father @@BreakingInTheHabit

Bang on!

Yes. I think the moral implications of the togetherness of such couples are being given very cavalier regard. I was also shocked by the differentiation between blessing and validation in the introduction.

The couple is being blessed in this document. Ignoring this fact is not helpful

@@danielscalera6057 yes. Despite all the whitewashing attempts, Pope Francis contradicts what he said in 2021 that sinful unions cannon be blessed.

Priest perform weddings for divorced people - I think the bridge of blessing sinful sexual relationships was crossed long ago. No one cares

To individuals no problem, but when speaking of couples their togetherness has moral implications.

Why gay couples then why not gay individuals?

@@beliciamathias Yes, you identified the “major change” that is being denied.

This!!!! Love all of it!♥️🙏🏻

Was this needed? Does the Church need to provide more media fodder adding to confusion amongst the faithful??

Grace can do anything. God can do all things.

@@matthewschmidt5069 God can not and will not contradict himself. The Gospels are the truth... to be in a state of grace you must repent. You must go to confession and with a contrite heart make penance. A practicing homosexual is not in grace and never will be. Read your catechism.

@@wesbrown3831 You don't have to be in a state of grace to receive a blessing. Don't you know anyone who goes up the communion line receives a blessing

I think it allows blessings for the relationship insofar as it's a raw friendship of sorts, given all the emphasis on prayer for the couple to walk in conformity to the teaching of the Church, and all the repeated prohibitions on making this blessing look like a marriage blessing in any way. I mean, if you hear gay couples talk about their relationships, even the ones in sin will often expound on their friendship more than the sexual component, so if such a pair has a conversion experience, even a partial one, and seeks blessing frpmGod to grpw in general holiness together, then blessing them would be more about giving them strength to purify their relationship while strengthening the friendship aspect...

@@maryangelica5319 a friendship and perverted relationship are very different, don't try to water it down

@@maryangelica5319 There's no emphasis on repentance when they're walking up there. Gays will go up there thinking what they're doing is fine and not have a clue it's not. Official Blessings Priests may perform on say porn addicts may ask those seeking it: How long have you had this problem? How often and for how long do you fall into this sin? Would you like help with this? Nothing like this is taking place. It's all seemingly hidden away and all we're left with are two gays walking up holding hands getting a blessing to move closer to God. Give me a break.

I read myself and listen to people like Bishop Barron who try to explain things in a way people can understand which is what the Pope said but worded slightly differently. I don't get the angst, I hope and it seems so, more people understood than didn't.

Doesn't sound very respectful.

​​@@BreakingInTheHabit Neither does blessing a gay couple as a couple and not as individuals is respectful towards God. Would you bless a couple in an adulterous relationship? Or in a more extreme case, in a pederastic one? By blessing these as a couple, is like affirming this relationship, while we could easily bless people individually...

I think he answered that starting at minute 4:39

@@MD-il8dl I've known gay friends and coworkers for almost all of my 60 years. All have been wonderful human beings and I hate hearing such vile utterings about them like they are subhuman. Until that changes, love will never be what Jesus wants. This is not love. They aren't "them". They are loving, wonderful human beings and imperfect like the rest of us. This gay fear is ignorant.

@@workinprogress-ye5or /offers you a huge gay hug/ Thank you, my fellow human. You said the words I needed to hear today.

@@workinprogress-ye5or I get what you are saying when it comes to insults and hatred and as Catholics we are called to love the sinner not the sin. Many who have called themselves Christians have insulted these people with the F word and other derogatory terms and violence instead of just explaining why that lifestyle is wrong and trying to guide them in the light of the Gospel if they are willing to listen. We should love them like we love anyone else just not support their lifestyle/sexual acts/unions.

Exactly. Or what about a man with his mistress who he is cheating on his wife with? Is he going to bless them too?

So does this document. But Jesus also says that we should love and welcome even those who are not perfect.

@@BreakingInTheHabit still marriage is between a man and a woman ✝️🛐🕊❤️‍🔥 that Jesus say

The Roman Catholic teaching is that marriage can't be between people who are divorced - not just man and woman. There are other requirements such as undertaking to raise children in the Faith Yet, the Priest marry divorced people, those who are adulterers are offered communion.

These Catholics are just so deceived they've actually placed their souls in the care of the Pope. If tomorrow he recants and said he erred in judgement they will all agree and say he did the right thing.

You approve of what?. When the priest gives us the blessing at the end of the Mass....he approves what?. That doesn't make sense.

A general blessing is different then a specific blessing over two people in relationships is different and homosexualty is one of the sin God has destroyed entire cities for

Did you even watch the video?

@@BreakingInTheHabit yes loved the video see we are dealing with the spirit of the age also this is in line with some of the words of the blessed mother in medjugorje I love your channel but let's be honest we are playing Semantics I just know I am getting my bees wax candles and going to confession monthly thank for all you do father

They explain it better then I can

Why, but why in the world you people feel that you are a saint and do not want others seeking God's guidance, fulfill their desires of change? We are all sinners!

Novus COVID Ordo religion is dead.

Gotta love Christians rejecting the pope for saying that we should bring people to God. What a world we live in when people are more concerned with culture wars than evangelization and mercy.

The world will teach you to see things in left and right, but the Church pursues the will of God, even if it upsets everybody in some way.

in no way panders to the left, however it does "pander" to gay people in the church

It's a way to help sinners to abandone their sin. Lack of charity is a sin too, treating people with homosexual tendencies like lepers can end in their condemnation (and ours). We have to care for them. People in habitual sin take time to convert, a blessing can strengthen their resolution.

@@fernandogomez8705 it's politicized religion, like this Pope has been doing the whole time Has he said that divorced and remarried people can also have their marriages blessed?

Why do you say the left like it's some kind of organized cult that thinks the same about all things. You automatically dehumanize people by labeling them.

The declaration was a mass of contradictions and made completely clear that the Church is here to bless couples that are intrinsically sinful... Oh wait, but that is heresy!!

read again -- At no. 31

...Here appears the possibility of blessings... the form of which should... avoid producing confusion with the blessing proper to the Sacrament of Marriage. ...a blessing that descends from God upon those who...do not claim a legitimation of their own status, but who beg that all that is true, good, and humanly valid in their lives and their relationships be enriched, healed, and elevated by the presence of the Holy Spirit. Yeah, that's pretty clear.

While this is possible, the document explicitly forbids such a thing to be done. We must pray that church discipline will be exercised against such abuses.

This is the intention of Vatican. Deliberately staying confusing then hiding behind wrong interpretation to allow their evil agenda to continue to spread.

It's like you're saying exorcists should only bless and pray for the possessed person when they are no longer possessed.

@@shoshishoshi127 my point is, “If I am living in sin (not repenting) how can I be Blessed?”

@@shoshishoshi127 eg, for argument sake, I am a prostitute, before going to make money, I ask a priest to bless my profession. Is this right?

That’s what I loved most about the current issue. People are taking more intellectual interest in the Church, asking questions and learning what they were ignorant of.

Very true 👍

It does clearly say that.

Everyone except the perpetual Popesplainers are looking at the Francis mess rationally and asking this question.

It's about mercy and meeting people where they are. I don't have the slightest problem offering this sort of blessing.

Don't even bring up trying to eliminate the TLM

Anything beyond yes or no is from the evil one. Just the fact that someone has to go to great lengths to explain it is enough evidence for me.

let he who is without sin cast the first stone

@@hughmungus4089 it’s not about casting the first stone, this not the topic! Can you Bless Sin? “‘As the Father has sent me, even so I send you.’ And when he had said this, he breathed on them, and said to them, ‘Receive the Holy Spirit. If you forgive the sins of any, they are forgiven; if you retain the sins of any, they are retained’” (John 20:21-23). *If you are living in sin, how can it be Blessed? You are not repenting! Pray, tell me how can this be Blessed?

@@gazzadazza8341 I'm not here to argue have a good day

@@hughmungus4089 it’s not an argument, it’s a discussion, on what’s right and wrong.

@@gazzadazza8341 not my position to discuss or argue leave it up to God

Send them to the bible and to their prayer closet. Thats the best thing you could do. Have them turn off the news.

They should just ignore Francis and endure in the True Faith. Francis doesn't believe in Christ's divinity as he told his atheist friend. He is an apostate. We can't "relax" because we know the Faith. My priest is going to add additional holy hours and other penances in reparation for Bergoglio's most recent heresy.

You should go to Church sometime it could give you a new view of different things, one mass can’t hurt

As I said in the video... it is not a blessing of the union but of people. I said this many times.

​@BreakingInTheHabit since it is being done as a couple, effectively the union is being blessed; at the very least, an impartial observer will see it that way. For the sake of your soul, I pray you never 'bless' such a couple.

To explain the meaning of the document.

@@BreakingInTheHabit Nope not really. Your intention is sugarcoating the pill for the ultraconservatives and digressing from the real topic

When my friend saw this on Google headlines he right away showed me and said, "And the gates of hell have prevailed against it."

I'm not sure I'm missing the problem at all. We have become too concerned with judging others that we've lost any sense of actually walking with and converting them. Condemning and judging helps no one. A blessing is simply a prayer to help them on the journey. The fact that those in the media have misconstrued this message is not the problem of the Church.

​@@BreakingInTheHabit why not "prayer"? Why blessing? 😅