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Austrian archbishop: priests cannot refuse same-sex blessings
December 20, 2023
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CWN Editor's Note: The president of the Austrian bishops’ conference has said that in light of the new Vatican document Fiducia Supplicans, if a same-sex couple asks for a priest’s blessing, “Basically he can no longer say No.” Archbishop Franz Lackner of Salzburg told a television interviewer that “the Church recognizes that a relationship between two people of the same sex is not entirely without truth.”
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