Italian Cardinal on Blessings for Gay Unions: ‘God Cannot Bless Sin’

ROME — Cardinal Camillo Ruini, the former vicar of Rome, reaffirmed Tuesday the importance of a recent Vatican text banning clergy from blessing homosexual unions. “Persons can certainly be blessed, but in order for them to be converted, not so that they be confirmed in their sin,” Cardinal Ruini told the Italian daily Il Foglio. “God himself blesses a sinful person so that he will let himself to be changed by Him, but He cannot bless sin.”-- More...