Responding to the recent CDF document stating that the Church does not have the power to bless same-sex unions, Bishop Paul Dempsey of Achonry, Ireland, said that “many have found this deeply offensive” and that many persons in homosexual relationships have “enriched the life of the Church and continue to do so in parishes across the world.”
POPE FRANCIS TO CONFER NEW LAY MINISTRIES FOR FIRST TIME IN ST. PETER’S BASILICA
The Vatican has announced that Pope Francis will confer the ministries of catechist, lector, and acolyte upon lay men and
