There is a back story to the Vatican suddenly approving of blessing same sex relationships. 

It has been a plan implemented slowly by a group of mainly European bishops and theologians to change the church

Yesterday's AP headline:

Pope Francis’ 87th birthday closes out a big year of efforts to reform the church, cement his legacy

apparently the death of Pope Benedict has let Francis push his reforms full speed ahead. 

(Pope Benedict's) death has seemingly freed up Francis to accelerate his reform agenda and crack down on his right-wing opponents....

aka Catholics who believe what Christians have believed for 2000 years.

For starters, Francis presided over the first stage of his legacy-making meeting on the future of the Catholic Church. The synod aims to make the church more inclusive and reflective of and responsive to the needs of rank-and-file Catholics.

actually no: it is more likely to make more people flee the church of Francis to join Orthodoxy, schismatic Catholic churches, the local Bible believing church, or just stay home and lose their faith.

The synod stuff is fake: run and attended mainly by activists with an agenda. 

It is coverup to change things, sort of like the encounter groups that we had to attend in the 1960s, where all were welcome to put in their opinion but in reality it was a way for the leaders to manipulate those in the meeting to agree with them (and if you dared say: NO, you were subtly ostracized as not being cooperative with the group's opinion).

 And of course, Francis is pushing out all those who questioned his manipulations.

Bishop Strickland and Burke come to mind. Who is next to get the Vatican hatchet?

But of course his latest is to approve of blessing of same sex unions.

The German bishops are ecstatic, but the press rarely mentions that no one goes to church in Germany.

And the press who is ecstatic about this hasn't noticed how a similar decision has split the Anglican church.

but someone in this article recognized that the spin was upsetting a lot of folks, so hey gaslighting alert: they claim that the Pope really really didn't approve of blessing same sex relationships.

Except he did. No one in their right mind thinks it will stop with a mere blessing. 

CatholicThing vlog parses the document for you and they disagree.

the key here is Gresham's  law: Bad currency drives out good currency.

When I see stuff about "inclusion", I interpret it as saying I am not welcome,

I figure God's mercy covers a lot of sins, especially when we repent and try to do the right thing. Nevertheless, blessing open sin is not a good idea and will scandalize believers.

but anyway, the so called Catholic press and alas a lot of the Bishops hesitate to call out the destruction caused by the Pope. Loyalty they say.

pfft:

can you say narcissistic manipulation children?