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Elton John called out the Vatican for their “hypocrisy.”
“How can the Vatican refuse to bless gay marriages because they ‘are sin’, yet happily make a profit from investing millions in ‘Rocketman’ – a film which celebrates my finding happiness from my marriage to David?? #hypocrisy” John wrote.
How can the Vatican refuse to bless gay marriages because they “are sin”, yet happily make a profit from investing millions in “Rocketman” – a film which celebrates my finding happiness from my marriage to David?? #hypocrisy@VaticanNews @Pontifex pic.twitter.com/sURtrWB6Nd
— Elton John (@eltonofficial) March 15, 2021
Blessings require both “the right intention of those who participate” and “that what is blessed be objectively and positively ordered to receive and express grace, according to the designs of God,” the CDF declared, with the approval of Pope Francis.
“For this reason, it is not licit to impart a blessing on relationships, or partnerships, even stable, that involve sexual activity outside of marriage” because the union itself is “not ordered to the Creator’s plan,” the document stated.
The text notes that homosexual unions are not “in any way similar or even remotely analogous to God’s plan for marriage and family.”
“But he does not and cannot bless sin.”
“The Church does not have, and cannot have, the power to bless unions of persons of the same sex in the sense intended above,” the document concluded.
The Vatican sunk $1.1 million into the steamy Elton John film.