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Pope Upholds Same-Sex Blessings Decree Amid Global Clash

5/10/2026

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Pope Leo XIV upheld the 2023 Fiducia Supplicans decree that permits blessings for same-sex couples.
The synod report published testimonies from a married Portuguese gay man and another gay man describing isolation and condemning conversion-therapy.
Cardinal Victor Manuel Fernández warned that German bishops’ same-sex blessing guidelines conflict with Fiducia Supplicans.
African bishops in Kenya and Uganda rejected expanded blessings as ideological neocolonialism.

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Pope Leo XIV upheld the 2023 Fiducia Supplicans decree that permits blessings for same-sex couples.
The synod report published testimonies from a married Portuguese gay man and another gay man describing isolation and condemning conversion-therapy.
Cardinal Victor Manuel Fernández warned that German bishops’ same-sex blessing guidelines conflict with Fiducia Supplicans.
African bishops in Kenya and Uganda rejected expanded blessings as ideological neocolonialism.