Not so, Your Holiness. Your misplaced rationale is predicated upon your use of a flawed example. Because it most certainly would be perceived by, not only the Faithful but indeed, the entire world as highly scandalous and sacrilegious if an entrepreneur who is publicly KNOWN and recognized as one who criminally exploits innocent victims, and is also publicly known to be unrepentant in that exploitation …More
Not so, Your Holiness. Your misplaced rationale is predicated upon your use of a flawed example. Because it most certainly would be perceived by, not only the Faithful but indeed, the entire world as highly scandalous and sacrilegious if an entrepreneur who is publicly KNOWN and recognized as one who criminally exploits innocent victims, and is also publicly known to be unrepentant in that exploitation — such as a notorious mafia personality (a criminally exploitive enterprise against which Your Holiness often rails and whose syndicate members even you yourself have declared are excommunicate ipso facto) — would be publicly received by Your Holiness or by any other Prelate or Priest for that matter, and upon their request, be given a “blessing.” In such a case, it cannot be denied that the receptive object of that “blessing” will assuredly be perceived by the public as being the recipient’s criminal behavior and the exploitive undertakings and activities they are known to be engaged in.
There can be no doubt or debate then, that such a priestly invocation offered under those circumstances would be seen and understood as a blasphemous and sacrilegious act, an act which would most certainly be offensive to God and bring enormous and irrevocable scandal to His Holy Church. Just as there can be no doubt nor debate whatsoever under any circumstances that the invocation of a priestly blessing upon so-called same-sex couples is a grave and grievous sacrilege that awards their unholy, unclean, unnatural union with the Church's approval, while it sanctions the mortal sin of sodomy along with those who commit it.
Thus, a Priest could no more “bless” a sodomite “couple” than he could “bless” the organized criminality of the mafia and those “entrepreneurs” who lead its murderously exploitive operations.