The controversy it stirred in the Church in the West by the DDF’s “blessings” document has somewhat abated, but opposition to it and how it was implemented continues apace. Even some supporters of the Vatican document are disappointed that it seemed to lack synodality, in that it “appeared to circumvent the entire synodal process,” suddenly handing down the declaration “from above.” One Jesuit notes the document’s “Jesuitical” trait of forbidding the blessing of a union while at the same time approving “a joint blessing of a couple in that same union.”