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Of course meant a civil value. Of course in the religion that marriage has been practiced tp it will have its own spiritual one.

The Pope is not a global censuring big brother. You have to point to your state/country’s Christian representation if it has any power in the media or politics.

You might also want to generalize that a priest of any religion can be problematic.

Entirely depends on where you live. Where I do, that is illegal to the extent that it simply has no value. You just don’t show as married to the state, and you will get in a burocracy mess if you try to do ANYTHING as a couple

Also, about the second question.

No, the church isn’t doing such donations. Maybe the local one in your country, but the church of the Vatican City has lost all political influence by also being its own country with its own political background. In Italian law, the separation of church and state is clearly defined and becoming even more defined with the slow change in the religion lesson in every school changing their now 1 hour per week dedicated to it from teaching christianity to either history of the religions in the world or debate lesson.

I think I covered this with “redefining”

At least in Italy, a religious marriage is legally bidining as much as a civil marriage because it is a byproduct of such.

For a civil marriage only, one only needs to show certain documentation, and the only requirement is both to be Italians, be 18 years old or more and both not already civil married (no gender requirements).

A religious marriage is not valid unless a civil marriage is iniciated first, where the rules of the religion of both partecipants are followed and applied in this case. Mixed religions/beliefs are allowed too, but they usually come with extra rules (for example, a marriage between a atheist and a chatolic is possible in a christian church as long as the atheist signs a swear to allow future children from the marriage to receive the chatholic education)

The choice of only a civil marriage or the added religious marriage brings the same rights and duties in the Italian law.

You don’t get legal beneficts from having a religious marriage. Only for a legal marriage, that is always possible unless your state is a behind hell hole

It’s not disingenious. By the official scriptures, a religious marriage is between a man and a woman. A change like the current one needs already to be accepted by the highest cardinals, that have been in history notoriously fundamentalist.

A religious marriage is still not allowed. But the receiving of an “informal” blessing for future happiness and prosperity now is.

This is a necessary step to slowly allow more, that will come with the slow redefining and adaptation to modern times of the scriptures.