{"id":26499,"date":"2026-04-24T15:04:55","date_gmt":"2026-04-24T22:04:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/?p=26499"},"modified":"2026-04-24T15:04:55","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T22:04:55","slug":"pope-leo-xiv-affirms-informal-blessing-for-homosexual-couples-and-downplays-sexual-sin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/pope-leo-xiv-affirms-informal-blessing-for-homosexual-couples-and-downplays-sexual-sin\/","title":{"rendered":"Pope Leo XIV affirms informal \u2018blessing\u2019 for homosexual couples and downplays sexual sin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On a return flight from Africa Thursday, Pope Leo XIV responded to a question about the Church in Germany issuing formalized \u201cblessings\u201d for homosexual \u201ccouples,\u201d saying that the Vatican has objected. He made it clear, however, that the impromptu \u201cblessings\u201d of homosexual \u201ccouples\u201d and those in adulterous unions was still permitted, as the Vatican document\u00a0<em>Fiducia Supplicans<\/em>\u00a0teaches, contrary to the Tradition of the Church.<\/p>\n<p>Read more at: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lifesitenews.com\/analysis\/pope-leo-xiv-affirms-informal-blessing-for-homosexual-couples-and-downplays-sexual-sin\/?utm_source=featured-news\">lifesitenews.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On a return flight from Africa Thursday, Pope Leo XIV responded to a question about the Church in Germany issuing formalized \u201cblessings\u201d for homosexual \u201ccouples,\u201d saying that the Vatican has objected. He made it clear, however, that the impromptu \u201cblessings\u201d of homosexual \u201ccouples\u201d and those in adulterous unions was still permitted, as the Vatican document\u00a0Fiducia &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/pope-leo-xiv-affirms-informal-blessing-for-homosexual-couples-and-downplays-sexual-sin\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Pope Leo XIV affirms informal \u2018blessing\u2019 for homosexual couples and downplays sexual sin<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":21348,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26499","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/white_horse_blog-300x100-300x100-1.jpg","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8fAkI-6Tp","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26499","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26499"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26499\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26500,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26499\/revisions\/26500"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21348"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}