[Gideon7]

The media reports are grossly exaggerated.

Media Mudders: No, Pope Francis Did Not OK Blessings for Same-Sex Relationships

[NorthMountain]

It is precisely in this context that one can understand the possibility of blessing couples in irregular situations and same-sex couples without officially validating their status or changing in any way the Church’s perennial teaching on marriage.

Yes. One can understand it as the camel's nose entering the tent. Acknowledging a pair of sodomites as being a "couple" is necessarily acknowledging the sodomitic nature of their "coupleness". Your author makes a distinction that can fairly be described as "Jesuitical". And Bergoglio is a Jesuit ...

[Oystir]

https://www.vaticannews.va/en/vatican-city/news/2023-12/fiducia-supplicans-doctrine-faith-blessing-irregular-couples.html

Directly from the Vatican

[ealgeone]

III. Blessings of Couples in Irregular Situations and of Couples of the Same Sex