‘Next Pope’ Winks at Italy’s First Gay Blessing
by Jules Gomes, Church Militant:
Cardinal Matteo Zuppi, the president of the Italian Episcopal Conference, is tacitly approving Italy’s first public same-sex blessing, held in his archdiocese of Bologna.
Father Gabriele Davalli blessed homosexual couple Pietro Morotti and Giacomo Spagnoli on Saturday at the parish church of San Lorenzo, Budrio, in flagrant violation of the Vatican’s recent prohibition of same-sex blessings.
Davalli, who heads the Pastoral Office for the Family under Cdl. Zuppi, presided over an illicit “Thanksgiving Mass” to celebrate the union of Morotti and Spagnoli, just after the two homosexuals registered their civil union in the municipality of Budrio.
Zuppi is one of the leading papabile candidates listed by Vaticanist Edward Pentin in his book The Next Pope: The Leading Cardinal Candidates. Last month, Italy’s Gay.it described him as “one of the cardinals closest to the LGBTQ + community ever.”
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