section_path: Same-sex marriage/Religious performance
section_name: Religious performance
paragraph_text: Religious performance
  
  The Catholic Church opposes same-sex marriage and does not allow its clergy to officiate at such marriages. In 2007, Archbishop of Vaduz Wolfgang Haas criticized efforts to legalize same-sex registered partnerships, calling same-sex unions " both the order of creation and the order of salvation". He reiterated his opposition in 2010, calling the introduction of registered partnerships "completely wrong". In March 2022, Haas called same-sex marriage a "diabolical attack ". Protesting the passage of a same-sex marriage motion in the Landtag, he announced in December 2022 that he would cancel a Mass traditionally held on New Year's Day at the opening session of Parliament. Haas said that same-sex marriage "runs counter to natural sensibility, to natural law in accordance with reason and, in particular, to the Christian concept of the human being." Prime Minister Risch criticized the cancellation, accusing Haas of "put the dividing before the unifying". In December 2023, the Holy See published Fiducia supplicans, a declaration allowing Catholic priests to bless couples who are not considered to be married according to church teaching, including the blessing of same-sex couples.
  
  The Federation of Evangelical Lutheran Churches in Switzerland and the Principality of Liechtenstein does not perform same-sex marriages, but Hartwig Janus, the priest of the Vaduz church between 2004 and 2011, called for the acceptance of same-sex partnerships in 2010.