{"id":133890,"date":"2023-12-21T19:59:30","date_gmt":"2023-12-21T19:59:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/12\/21\/well-not-bless-same-sex-marriages-catholic-bishops-in-nigeria-assure\/"},"modified":"2023-12-21T19:59:30","modified_gmt":"2023-12-21T19:59:30","slug":"well-not-bless-same-sex-marriages-catholic-bishops-in-nigeria-assure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/12\/21\/well-not-bless-same-sex-marriages-catholic-bishops-in-nigeria-assure\/","title":{"rendered":"“We\u2019ll Not Bless Same-Sex Marriages” \u2013 Catholic Bishops In Nigeria Assure"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/p>\n

\n

The Catholic Bishops Conference of Nigeria has assured that their churches in the country would not bless same-sex unions.<\/p>\n

The bishops said that the blessing of same-sex union is against God\u2019s law, the teachings of the church, and the law of the country.<\/p>\n

They made this known in a statement released and signed by the President of the conference, Lucius Ugirji and the Secretary, Donayus Ogun on Wednesday.<\/p>\n

The statement reads: \u201cThe Catholic Bishops Conference of Nigeria assures the entire People of God that the teaching of the Catholic Church on marriage remains the same. There is, therefore, no possibility in the teaching of the Church of blessing same-sex unions and activities.<\/p>\n

\n

\u201cThat would go against God\u2019s law, the teachings of the Church, the laws of our nation, and the cultural sensibilities of our people.\u201d<\/p>\n

The bishops clarified the Pope Francis\u2019s remarks by saying: \u201cThe declaration seeks to clarify the different forms of blessing that can be given to persons and objects in the Catholic Church, including the possibility of blessing persons in irregular unions. Such unions include but are not limited to divorced and remarried couples whose previous marriages had not been annulled, those living in same-sex unions, those in polygamous unions, in concubinage, etc.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThe declaration acknowledges and carefully distinguishes between ritual, liturgical, and informal blessings. While ritual or liturgical blessings are imparted according to the established norms of the Church, informal blessings refer to prayers over people who ask for them outside the liturgy or any formal declaration offers a consideration of the possibility of extending the informal blessing to all Cod\u2019s children, irrespective their moral condition, when they ask to be blessed.<\/p>\n

READ MORE:\u00a0Pope Suggests Catholic Church Could Bless Same-Sex Couples As \u2018Pastoral Charity\u2019<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cNevertheless, the Declaration insists that the blessing of persons in irregular unions- and never the union of itself- can only take a non-liturgical form to avoid confusion. It should not be imparted during or in connection with connection with a civil wedding ceremony or with clothing, words, and signs associated with a wedding.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Declaration reiterates the Catholic Church\u2019s perennial teaching on marriage as an \u201cexclusive, stable and indissoluble union of a man and woman, naturally open to the generation of children\u201d and emphatically states that the Church does not have the power to impart a blessing on irregular unions.<\/p>\n

\n

\u201cThe Declaration also reinforces the truth about God\u2019s mercy. For one to willingly ask for a blessing demonstrates one\u2019s trust in God and the desire to live according to God\u2019s commandments. Asking for God\u2019s blessing is not dependent on how good one is. Imperfection is the reason for seeking God\u2019s grace. Therefore, those in irregular unions are invited never to lose hope but rather to ask for God\u2019s grace and mercy while remaining open to conversion.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

\n
\"\"<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Catholic Bishops Conference of Nigeria has assured that their churches in the country would not bless same-sex unions. The bishops said that the blessing of same-sex union is against God\u2019s law, the teachings of the church, and the law of the country. They made this known in a statement released and signed by the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":133891,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-133890","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nigeria-news"],"yoast_head":"\n"We\u2019ll Not Bless Same-Sex Marriages" \u2013 Catholic Bishops In Nigeria Assure - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/12\/21\/well-not-bless-same-sex-marriages-catholic-bishops-in-nigeria-assure\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\""We\u2019ll Not Bless Same-Sex Marriages" \u2013 Catholic Bishops In Nigeria Assure - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The Catholic Bishops Conference of Nigeria has assured that their churches in the country would not bless same-sex unions. The bishops said that the blessing of same-sex union is against God\u2019s law, the teachings of the church, and the law of the country. They made this known in a statement released and signed by the […]\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/12\/21\/well-not-bless-same-sex-marriages-catholic-bishops-in-nigeria-assure\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2023-12-21T19:59:30+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Catholic-Bishops-Conference-of-Nigeria-CBCN-1.jpeg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"640\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"427\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Ghana News\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Ghana News\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/12\/21\/well-not-bless-same-sex-marriages-catholic-bishops-in-nigeria-assure\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/12\/21\/well-not-bless-same-sex-marriages-catholic-bishops-in-nigeria-assure\/\",\"name\":\"\\\"We\u2019ll Not Bless Same-Sex Marriages\\\" \u2013 Catholic Bishops In Nigeria Assure - Ghanamma.com\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/12\/21\/well-not-bless-same-sex-marriages-catholic-bishops-in-nigeria-assure\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/12\/21\/well-not-bless-same-sex-marriages-catholic-bishops-in-nigeria-assure\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Catholic-Bishops-Conference-of-Nigeria-CBCN-1.jpeg\",\"datePublished\":\"2023-12-21T19:59:30+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2023-12-21T19:59:30+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/#\/schema\/person\/6f91dab2e50bbbfe895c93e7e84e7f74\"},\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/12\/21\/well-not-bless-same-sex-marriages-catholic-bishops-in-nigeria-assure\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/12\/21\/well-not-bless-same-sex-marriages-catholic-bishops-in-nigeria-assure\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/12\/21\/well-not-bless-same-sex-marriages-catholic-bishops-in-nigeria-assure\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Catholic-Bishops-Conference-of-Nigeria-CBCN-1.jpeg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Catholic-Bishops-Conference-of-Nigeria-CBCN-1.jpeg\",\"width\":640,\"height\":427},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/12\/21\/well-not-bless-same-sex-marriages-catholic-bishops-in-nigeria-assure\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"“We\u2019ll Not Bless Same-Sex Marriages” \u2013 Catholic Bishops In Nigeria Assure\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/\",\"name\":\"Ghanamma.com\",\"description\":\"Ghana mma provides breaking news, top stories in Ghana, Africa, business, entertainment, politics and more.\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/#\/schema\/person\/6f91dab2e50bbbfe895c93e7e84e7f74\",\"name\":\"Ghana News\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/22cb97c2b08df229330efb2b8c2645feaae8d3ca3ee434035fbb668b5b82f570?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/22cb97c2b08df229330efb2b8c2645feaae8d3ca3ee434035fbb668b5b82f570?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"Ghana News\"},\"sameAs\":[\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\"],\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/author\/ghanamma\/\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"\"We\u2019ll Not Bless Same-Sex Marriages\" \u2013 Catholic Bishops In Nigeria Assure - Ghanamma.com","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/12\/21\/well-not-bless-same-sex-marriages-catholic-bishops-in-nigeria-assure\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"\"We\u2019ll Not Bless Same-Sex Marriages\" \u2013 Catholic Bishops In Nigeria Assure - Ghanamma.com","og_description":"The Catholic Bishops Conference of Nigeria has assured that their churches in the country would not bless same-sex unions. The bishops said that the blessing of same-sex union is against God\u2019s law, the teachings of the church, and the law of the country. They made this known in a statement released and signed by the […]","og_url":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/12\/21\/well-not-bless-same-sex-marriages-catholic-bishops-in-nigeria-assure\/","og_site_name":"Ghanamma.com","article_published_time":"2023-12-21T19:59:30+00:00","og_image":[{"width":640,"height":427,"url":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Catholic-Bishops-Conference-of-Nigeria-CBCN-1.jpeg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"Ghana News","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Ghana News","Est. reading time":"2 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/12\/21\/well-not-bless-same-sex-marriages-catholic-bishops-in-nigeria-assure\/","url":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/12\/21\/well-not-bless-same-sex-marriages-catholic-bishops-in-nigeria-assure\/","name":"\"We\u2019ll Not Bless Same-Sex Marriages\" \u2013 Catholic Bishops In Nigeria Assure - Ghanamma.com","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/12\/21\/well-not-bless-same-sex-marriages-catholic-bishops-in-nigeria-assure\/#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/12\/21\/well-not-bless-same-sex-marriages-catholic-bishops-in-nigeria-assure\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Catholic-Bishops-Conference-of-Nigeria-CBCN-1.jpeg","datePublished":"2023-12-21T19:59:30+00:00","dateModified":"2023-12-21T19:59:30+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/#\/schema\/person\/6f91dab2e50bbbfe895c93e7e84e7f74"},"breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/12\/21\/well-not-bless-same-sex-marriages-catholic-bishops-in-nigeria-assure\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/12\/21\/well-not-bless-same-sex-marriages-catholic-bishops-in-nigeria-assure\/"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/12\/21\/well-not-bless-same-sex-marriages-catholic-bishops-in-nigeria-assure\/#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Catholic-Bishops-Conference-of-Nigeria-CBCN-1.jpeg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Catholic-Bishops-Conference-of-Nigeria-CBCN-1.jpeg","width":640,"height":427},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/12\/21\/well-not-bless-same-sex-marriages-catholic-bishops-in-nigeria-assure\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"“We\u2019ll Not Bless Same-Sex Marriages” \u2013 Catholic Bishops In Nigeria Assure"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/","name":"Ghanamma.com","description":"Ghana mma provides breaking news, top stories in Ghana, Africa, business, entertainment, politics and more.","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/#\/schema\/person\/6f91dab2e50bbbfe895c93e7e84e7f74","name":"Ghana News","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/22cb97c2b08df229330efb2b8c2645feaae8d3ca3ee434035fbb668b5b82f570?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/22cb97c2b08df229330efb2b8c2645feaae8d3ca3ee434035fbb668b5b82f570?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"Ghana News"},"sameAs":["https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023"],"url":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/author\/ghanamma\/"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133890","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=133890"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133890\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/133891"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=133890"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=133890"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=133890"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}