{"id":1360968,"date":"2022-03-06T10:54:07","date_gmt":"2022-03-06T15:54:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1360968"},"modified":"2022-03-06T10:54:11","modified_gmt":"2022-03-06T15:54:11","slug":"german-bishops-chairman-gay-sex-does-not-harm-ones-relationship-with-god","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/german-bishops-chairman-gay-sex-does-not-harm-ones-relationship-with-god\/","title":{"rendered":"German Bishops Chairman: Gay Sex Does Not Harm \u2018One\u2019s Relationship with God\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fgerman-bishops-chairman-gay-sex-does-not-harm-ones-relationship-with-god%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1360968&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/rainbow-cake-gay-wedding-grooms-getty.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">ROME \u2014 The Chairman of the German Catholic Bishops\u2019 Conference, Bishop Georg B\u00e4tzing, has urged the Catholic Church to change its teaching on sexual morality, insisting that gay sex does not harm a person\u2019s relationship with God.<\/p>\n<p>Same-sex relations are <a href=\"https:\/\/de.catholicnewsagency.com\/story\/ethiker-kritisiert-bischof-baetzings-aussagen-zu-sexualmoral-der-kirche-10274\">okay<\/a>, Bishop B\u00e4tzing told the German <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bunte.de\/\">magazine<\/a> <em>Bunte<\/em> in its March 4 issue, \u201cas long as they are carried out with loyalty and responsibility.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cIt doesn\u2019t affect one\u2019s relationship with God,\u201d the bishop added.<\/p>\n<p>B\u00e4tzing went on to say that how a person lives their personal intimacy \u201cis none of my business.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In the interview, the Limburg bishop asserted that no one follows Church teaching on sexuality anymore \u2014 which only allows sex in marriage \u2014 and therefore \u201cwe have to partially change the catechism. Sexuality is a gift from God. It\u2019s not a sin.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>Last year Bishop B\u00e4tzing made headlines when he publicly opposed a Vatican declaration forbidding the blessing of same-sex couples.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI believe that we have to assess homosexuality and lived partnerships outside of marriage differently,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rnd.de\/politik\/bischof-batzing-zur-segnung-homosexueller-paare-es-steht-veranderung-an-6YW74SLZHRESXFFNVF763CUMLA.html\">said<\/a> B\u00e4tzing at the time. \u201cWe can no longer proceed solely from natural law, but have to think much more in terms of care and personal responsibility for one another.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn this regard, I would like to see a further development of Catholic teaching on sexual ethics,\u201d the bishop said.<\/p>\n<p>B\u00e4tzing said that people in homosexual relationships want the blessing of the Church, and the Church must \u201caddress this desire.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe can no longer answer these questions simply with a \u2018yes\u2019 or \u2018no.\u2019 That is not possible,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B3\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cI understand the negative opinion of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, it reflects the state of Church teaching,\u201d he said. \u201cBut that doesn\u2019t help, because there has long been a pastoral development that goes beyond that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd that means change is coming,\u201d he declared.<\/p>\n<p>In March 2021, the Vatican\u2019s doctrinal office (CDF) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/faith\/2021\/03\/15\/vatican-denies-the-possibility-of-blessing-homosexual-couples\/\">issued<\/a> a statement declaring that the Church has no authority to bless homosexual unions, noting that God Himself \u201cdoes not and cannot bless sin.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Blessings require both \u201cthe right intention of those who participate\u201d and \u201cthat what is blessed be objectively and positively ordered to receive and express grace, according to the designs of God inscribed in creation,\u201d stated the text, published with the express approval of Pope Francis.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor this reason, it is not licit to impart a blessing on relationships, or partnerships, even stable, that involve sexual activity outside of marriage,\u201d it read, \u201cas is the case of the unions between persons of the same sex.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"twitter-follow-button\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/tdwilliamsrome?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" data-show-count=\"false\">Follow @tdwilliamsrome<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ROME \u2014 The Chairman of the German Catholic Bishops\u2019 Conference, Bishop Georg B\u00e4tzing, has urged the Catholic Church to change its teaching on sexual morality, insisting that gay sex does<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1360968","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1360968","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1360968"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1360968\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1360968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1360968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1360968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}