Commentary: Can the Church of England’s and Pope Francis’ strides on same-sex marriage help save dying institutions?
by Charlotte Lytton, Los Angeles Times
Dec 21, 2023
3 minutes
It was a simple blessing: a giving of thanks for love, friendship and commitment. Yet this prayer, read at a church in Suffolk, east England, on Sunday morning, has become a lightning rod for England’s premier religious institution.
After midnight Saturday, the Church of England — the state church, whose supreme governor is the king — sanctioned same-sex couples to be blessed for the first time in its 489-year history. Backlash to this move, as well as those recently made by
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