Cardinal Pietro Parolin, Secretary of State of the Holy See, stated that it is “premature” to speak of sanctions against the German bishops who have promoted formalized blessings for same-sex couples, although he did not rule out a possible intervention from Rome.
The statements were made on Wednesday during the presentation of a book at the Augustinianum Patristic Institute in Rome, where the cardinal responded to journalists’ questions about the controversy sparked by the application that several German bishops have made of the declaration Fiducia supplicans .
“It is premature now to speak of sanctions. Let us hope that we never have to resort to sanctions and that problems can be resolved peacefully, as should happen in the Church,” the Secretary of State affirmed.
The statements come after several members of the German Bishops’ Conference have formalized blessings for homosexual couples in their dioceses, a practice that has been subject to corrections by the Holy See.
The controversy intensified following the publication of a letter from the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith sent in 2024, which recalled that Fiducia supplicans does not authorize ritualized or institutionalized blessings of same-sex couples.
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