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After the Vatican's no to the blessing of same-sex couples, a nationwide resistance among clergy has formed.
"We do not want to fixate on this very narrow and outdated view of sexuality, we see loving people," said the Würzburg university pastor Burkhard Hose.
Together with pastor Bernd Mönkebüscher from Hamm, who publicly came out as homosexual two years ago, Hose started a signature campaign against the ban on blessings last Monday.
Almost 2,000 people have signed by the weekend, according to him - most of them Catholic theologians, priests, religious, pastors, parish officials or parish officials.
Collecting will take place by Palm Sunday, then the list will be handed over to the chairman of the German Bishops' Conference, Georg Bätzing, and the chairman of the “Sexuality and Partnership” forum, Birgit Mock.
An exact date has not yet been set - preferably before Easter.
Bishops criticize the Vatican's ban on blessing
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Two bishops also sharply joined the criticism.
"It can only fail to want to end a discussion," said Aachen Bishop Helmut This on Friday evening at a discussion event.
“That is naive and has done a lot of damage.
We have to bring that to Rome as bishops. "
The Roman Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith made it clear on Monday that the church was not authorized to bless homosexual couples.
Any form of blessing that recognizes a homosexual partnership is not permitted.
The latter said that he did not understand “how one could shoot such a sheet of paper in this synodal process”.
He was referring to the current reform process in the Catholic Church in Germany, the Synodal Way.
Among other things, there is a renewal of the church's sexual morality.
Prior to that, Ruhr bishop Franz-Josef Overbeck had requested in a letter to all parishes in the diocese of Essen a “serious and deeply appreciative reassessment of homosexuality” by the Catholic Church.
Overbeck reported that in the past few days he had received numerous letters from pastors who had communicated their open rejection of the position of the Vatican.
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The doctrine of the Church urgently requires an expanded perspective on human sexuality, according to Overbeck.
The declaration of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith offended and hurt many people with a homosexual orientation.
Such a position is no longer accepted today.
The attitude of the faithful should not be ignored by the Vatican.
The issue of homosexuality has been causing lively discussions in the Catholic Church for years.
On March 15, the Vatican Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith announced in a statement: Any form of blessing that recognizes same-sex partnerships is inadmissible.