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It is of the nature of blessings that they convey a message of approval and support simply by being blessings.
Remember Humpty-Dumpty? He turns up in Lewis Carroll’s fantasy Through the Looking Glass and makes this famous assertion:
This naturally was the line adopted by the people in Rome regarding their new document. But not just them. I found it also in reactions by bishops that included such locutions as these: The blessings “do not imply any approbation of the relationships,” they “do not imply that the Church is officially validating the status of the couple,” and the blessings must take place “without creating an impression of approval or legitimation of status.”
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Remember Humpty-Dumpty? He turns up in Lewis Carroll’s fantasy Through the Looking Glass and makes this famous assertion:
I thought of that while reading attempts to give a benign interpretation to the new Vatican document on blessings for people in “irregular” relationships, including same-sex couples and Catholics in second marriages whose first marriages haven’t been annulled. The Humpty-Dumpty spin was that to bless same-sex unions does not mean approving them.
This naturally was the line adopted by the people in Rome regarding their new document. But not just them. I found it also in reactions by bishops that included such locutions as these: The blessings “do not imply any approbation of the relationships,” they “do not imply that the Church is officially validating the status of the couple,” and the blessings must take place “without creating an impression of approval or legitimation of status.”
Continued below.
A Blessing Is a Blessing
It is of the nature of blessings that they convey a message of approval and support simply by being blessings.
