The Catholic Church Will Never — and Can Never — Condone Same-Sex Marriage

On Monday morning, the Vatican released a bombshell declaration: Priests are officially allowed to bless same-sex couples.

According to the New York Times, the formal statement, Fiducia Supplicans, was Pope Francis’s “most definitive step yet to make the Roman Catholic Church more welcoming to LGBTQ Catholics and more reflective of his vision of a more pastoral, and less rigid, church.”