L.G.B.T. Catholics and their allies are reacting with dismay to a statement released Mondayby the Vatican Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith prohibiting priests from blessing same-sex unions, in which church officials assert that God “does not and cannot bless sin.”
The Rev. Bryan Massingale, a gay Catholic priest and professor of theology and social ethics at Fordham University, said priests who want to engage in pastoral outreach to the gay and lesbian community “will continue to do so, except that it will be even more under the table...than it was before.”
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