Andreas Rentz
Nini and Juliana Weinmeister-Bisping sit in St. Johannes XXIII Catholic Church prior to Brigitte Schmidt, a pastoral worker, blesses the same-sex couple on May 10, 2021, in Cologne, Germany.
NEWS ANALYSIS: Critics of the recent text proposing a liturgy for blessings of same-sex couples note that the Belgian bishops are adopting an erroneous interpretation of Pope Francis’ apostolic exhortation ‘Amoris Laetitia.’