Abstract

Relying on the work Les bonnes raisons des motions Principes et m thode pour l tude du discours motionn 2011 by Christian Plantin we carried out a short argumentative analysis of a responsum issued by the Holy See in the year of 2021 which addresses the subject of the blessing imparted to same-sex unions This is an official statement published by the highest leadership of the Catholic Church which in response to questions arising from lower hierarchical levels of the institution asserts that the Church does not have the power to bless such unions Following Plantin s understanding 2011 we aim to look at a presumed dichotomy between reasons and emotions in our corpus It is in the light of this approach which takes emotion as one of the constraints of discourse that we argue about the inseparability of reasons and emotions in the argumentation of the selected text