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A wooden cross lies on a rainbow flag in Bonn, Germany, March 16, 2021. Experts are responding to a Dec. 18, 2023, Vatican declaration on the possibility of blessing couples in irregular and same-sex unions without officially validating their status or changing in any way the Catholic Church’s perennial teaching on marriage. (OSV News photo/Julia Steinbrecht, KNA)

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'BROADEN AND ENRICH'

Bishop Scharfenberger, experts agree that pastoral charity must be shown to same-sex couples but the nature of marriage will not change.

Bishop Scharfenberger, experts agree that pastoral charity must be shown to same-sex couples but the nature of marriage will not change.

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