SEA ISLE CITY — Saint Joseph Catholic Church on Monday celebrated a Wedding of the Sea in honor of the Feast of the Assumption. The celebration began at 4 p.m. with a special Mass in honor of ...

The Vatican’s newly released document addressing the blessing of same-sex couples doesn’t pave the way for gay weddings at churches or with Catholic priests as officiants. But it does now ...

Dozens of Catholic priests in Germany plan defy the Vatican and bless homosexual partnerships, with many set to live-stream the blessings online. In March, the Vatican decreed that the Catholic ...

Couples can’t wear traditional wedding clothes, for example, during a blessing. And significantly: The church is still firm that the sacrament of marriage can only be between a man and a woman.

A Chicago priest in liturgical garb performed a blessing of a same-sex couple at the church, which was video-recorded and described on Instagram as "a blessing of our marriage." ...

Pope, in Radical Policy Shift for Catholic Church, Approves Blessings for Same-Sex Couples The pontiff stresses that such blessings should not be conferred at the same time as a civil union, using set ...

Zerkowski said, “we are in step with the Church, not out of step with the Church, so we see ourselves doing the same thing, over and over. Showing people that they are a blessing and giving a ...

Vatican City • In an unprecedented opening by the Catholic Church toward welcoming LGBTQ people, the Vatican’s Dicastery of the Doctrine of the Faith approved the blessing of same-sex couples ...

A wedding proceeded at the Barasoain Church in Malolos, Bulacan, even as the venue was submerged in floodwaters.