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Pope suggests blessings for same-sex unions possible in response to 5 conservative cardinals
ABC News ^ | October 2, 2023 | Nicole Winfield

Posted on 10/02/2023 1:13:14 PM PDT by ebb tide

Pope suggests blessings for same-sex unions possible in response to 5 conservative cardinals

Pope Francis has suggested there might be ways to bless same-sex unions

VATICAN CITY -- VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis has suggested there could be ways to bless same-sex unions, responding to five conservative cardinals who challenged him to affirm church teaching on homosexuality ahead of a big meeting where LGBTQ+ Catholics are on the agenda.

The Vatican on Monday published a letter Francis wrote to the cardinals on July 11 after receiving a list of five questions, or “dubia,” from them a day earlier. In it, Francis suggests that such blessings could be studied if they didn't confuse the blessing with sacramental marriage.

New Ways Ministry, which advocates for LGBTQ+ Catholics, said the letter “significantly advances" efforts to make LGBTQ+ Catholics welcomed in the church and “one big straw towards breaking the camel’s back” in their marginalization.

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TOPICS: Apologetics; Catholic; Moral Issues; Theology
KEYWORDS: abcnews; antipope; apostatepope; blessingsodomy; fakeheadline; frank; frankenchurch; newwayministries; newwaysministry; nicolewinfield; sinnod; sodomy
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1 posted on 10/02/2023 1:13:14 PM PDT by ebb tide
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Ping


2 posted on 10/02/2023 1:13:46 PM PDT by ebb tide
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To: ebb tide

I’ve been saying it for years...Frankie and his communist minions think Jesus was an idiot and his way is not the “”best “” way.....


3 posted on 10/02/2023 1:16:24 PM PDT by Hambone 1934 (Dems love playing Nazis.....The republicans love helping them)
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To: ebb tide

This “suggestion” has already produced a follow-up Dubia from the five Cardinals in question. Old news.


4 posted on 10/02/2023 1:16:53 PM PDT by one guy in new jersey
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To: ebb tide

So what else can be blessed by the Catholic church?

Abortion?
Adultery?
Murder?


5 posted on 10/02/2023 1:17:21 PM PDT by taxcontrol (The choice is clear - either live as a slave on your knees or die as a free citizen on your feet.)
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To: taxcontrol

>>So what else can be blessed by the Catholic church?

Pretty much anything that keeps the money flowing in.


6 posted on 10/02/2023 1:18:26 PM PDT by qwerty1234
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To: ebb tide

I’m not exactly the biggest supporter of papa Frank, but I’ll reserve judgement over this since the news source is ABC — Always Bash Christians.


7 posted on 10/02/2023 1:19:20 PM PDT by Tell It Right (1st Thessalonians 5:21 -- Put everything to the test, hold fast to that which is true.)
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Below is the revised dubia question that was presented by the five dubia cardinals to Bergoglio about blessing sodomite unions. It was posed in this manner with a request for a simple "Yes" or "No" answer:

So let us rephrase our dubium: Is it possible that in some circumstances a pastor could bless unions between homosexual persons, thus suggesting that homosexual behavior as such would not be contrary to God’s law and the person’s journey toward God? Linked to this dubium is the need to raise another: does the teaching upheld by the universal ordinary magisterium, that every sexual act outside of marriage, and in particular homosexual acts, constitutes an objectively grave sin against God’s law, regardless of the circumstances in which it takes place and the intention with which it is carried out, continue to be valid?

8 posted on 10/02/2023 1:19:29 PM PDT by ebb tide
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To: ebb tide
Some day this "Pope" will issue a proclamation that's consistent with what the nuns taught me during 10.5 years of Catholic schools in the 1950s and 1960s.

But it hasn't happened yet.

9 posted on 10/02/2023 1:20:39 PM PDT by Gay State Conservative (Two Words: Banana Republic)
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To: ebb tide

He is an anti-Christ who will spend eternity with his father, Satan.


10 posted on 10/02/2023 1:22:42 PM PDT by Obadiah
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To: one guy in new jersey

Old news?

The initial dubia and follow up dubia just broke the news today.


11 posted on 10/02/2023 1:23:06 PM PDT by ebb tide
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To: ebb tide

Just as long as pedophilia stays in tack....


12 posted on 10/02/2023 1:26:13 PM PDT by wardamneagle
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To: ebb tide

No, just no.


13 posted on 10/02/2023 1:29:57 PM PDT by rdl6989 ( )
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14 posted on 10/02/2023 1:31:24 PM PDT by al_c (Democrats: Party over Common Sense)
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To: Hambone 1934

They’re heretics.


15 posted on 10/02/2023 1:35:20 PM PDT by No name given (Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
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To: ebb tide

This Pope is the Joe Biden of the Catholic Church. He’s an anti-Catholic imposter, installed by the radical left Cardinals inside the Church.
The Catholic faithful do not owe this man their trust or allegiance.
Look at what happened to the Episcopal Church after the New Hampshire Bishop Gene Robinson came out as a homosexual. He “married” another homosexual, left his church then got divorced.
The Episcopal Church disintegrated over this incident, and this issue of homosexual “marriage”. Their church attendance dropped so precipitously that their church has ceased to function as a legitimate faith.
Perhaps that’s what this supposed Catholic imposter is attempting to accomplish, as the traditional Catholic Church and its timeless teachings are the greatest threat to what Biden calls “…the liberal world order…”.


16 posted on 10/02/2023 1:35:47 PM PDT by Thapsus_epiphany (Socialism is a prison, Communism is a death camp )
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To: ebb tide

No doubt in my mind this “pope” will bless abortions before he kicks the bucket. None. He is the Obama of popes set out to “fundamentally transform” the church.


17 posted on 10/02/2023 1:35:59 PM PDT by Organic Panic (Democrats. Memories as short as Joe Biden's eyes)
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To: ebb tide

18 posted on 10/02/2023 1:39:23 PM PDT by Chode (there is no fall back position, there's no rally point, there is no LZ... we're on our own. #FJB)
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To: Chode

Exactly!


19 posted on 10/02/2023 1:39:50 PM PDT by Reno89519 (DeSantis 2024. Successful Governor, Honorable Veteran, Respectful, Respected. No Baggage, No Drama.)
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To: taxcontrol

“So what else can be blessed by the Catholic church?“

It’s not the church. It’s the people running it. Same as how Joe B and the uniparty don’t go by the constitution


20 posted on 10/02/2023 1:44:12 PM PDT by stanne
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