“I want to celebrate the love of homosexuals with these blessings because the love of homosexuals is something good.â€.
The 44-year-old said it is important that homosexuals can show themselves within the Catholic Church and gain more visibility long-term.“The fact that they ask for God’s blessing and thank him for all the good in their lives — also for relationships lived with mutual respect and full of love — that is deeply based on the Gospel,†Mock said, adding that she herself was planning to attend a church service with gay blessings in the western city of Hamm on Monday in which she would pray for â€the success of the synodal path in which we, as a church, recognize sexuality as a positive strength.â€