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🗓️ 20 December 2023
⏱️ 20 minutes
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0:00.0 | Welcome to the Council of Trend Podcast, a production of Catholic Answers. |
0:05.0 | Hey everyone, welcome to the Council of Trend Podcast. I'm your host, Catholic Answers |
0:10.4 | Apologists and speaker Trendhorn. I wasn't planning on talking about the |
0:14.1 | issue of the new Vatican document on blessings for same-sex couples and couples in |
0:18.7 | irregular situations because a lot of other voices were addressing it, but Ben Shapiro asked me to come on to his show to give my perspective. |
0:27.0 | So I thought this would be a good opportunity to discuss this issue and the Catholic faith in a broader way to his audience. |
0:35.1 | In the interview that I had with Ben, which I'll share with you shortly, I wanted to |
0:39.0 | communicate that some reports about this new Vatican changed its teaching on marriage or that the church is now |
0:50.5 | now allowing for formal liturgical blessings for same-sex couples that resemble gay |
0:56.4 | weddings. |
0:57.4 | That's not true. |
0:58.4 | The church has not changed its teaching on marriage and it has prohibited the kinds of things being advocated for in Germany, |
1:05.0 | like formal blessings in the ritual or liturgy for so-called same-sex couples. |
1:11.0 | But I also wanted to affirm that this document is confusing and Catholics |
1:17.0 | can rightly criticize it for lacking certain elements including references to things |
1:22.2 | like seeking God's blessing, specifically |
1:25.3 | to lead people to repentance from sin. |
1:28.8 | One thing I should have added in our interview is the scandal of this document blurring the lines between blessing |
1:35.8 | individuals who are in a sinful relationship so as to lead them closer to God and |
1:40.9 | creating a situation where it looks like a priest is blessing the sinful |
1:46.4 | relationship itself. |
1:48.6 | Even the phrase gay couple in the document can create this impression, and so it should have been avoided. |
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