CNA Deutsch, Sep 25, 2025 / 14:03 pm

The chairman of the German Bishops’ Conference defended his country’s controversial guidelines on same-sex blessings this week, asserting that there was no contradiction with Vatican teaching, despite Pope Leo XIV’s recent criticism .

Bishop Georg Bätzing of Limburg used his closing address at the autumn assembly to address the concern. “To construct the matter of ‘episcopal disobedience’ on the part of German bishops from Pope Leo XIV’s statements on  Fiducia Supplicans  is simply absurd,” Bätzing said.

Pope Leo made the statement in a recent interview with Crux .

“In Northern Europe, they are already publishing rituals of blessing ‘people who love one another,’ which goes specifically against the document that Pope Francis approved,” the pon

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