Belgian bishop lashes out at Vatican over gay unions decree

ABC News ^ | March 17, 2021 | RAF CASERT

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Belgian bishop lashes out at Vatican over gay unions decree

A Belgian bishop has lashed out at the Vatican over its decree that the Catholic Church won’t bless same-sex unions

BRUSSELS -- A Belgian bishop has lashed out at the Vatican over its decree that the Catholic Church won’t bless same-sex unions since God “cannot bless sin.”

Antwerp Bishop Johan Bonny wrote in an opinion piece Wednesday that he feels “shame for my Church” and “intellectual and moral incomprehension” after Pope Francis approved the “negative” response to a question about whether Catholic clergy have the authority to bless same-sex unions. The official response said God “does not and cannot bless sin."

Bonny, who was part of a Vatican 2015 synod on marriage and family, said: “I want to apologize to all for whom this is painful and incomprehensible.”

The conference of Belgian bishops backed Bonny's concerns, saying LGBT faithful and their families saw the Vatican decree as “exceptionally painful.” The conference urged everyone to work on “a climate of respect, recognition and integration.”

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Keep an eye on Bonny. Bergoglio will probably give him a red hat after this stunt.

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Ping

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“ LGBT faithful ”?

Might as well say the pedo faithful or the sadistic bastard faithful or the abortionist faithful....

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Time for the Pope to fire that Bishop.

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Which U.S. bishops attended the XIV Ordinary General Assembly of the Synod of Bishops
The full list of participants and auditors can be found on the Vatican News website. The bishops from the United States were Archbishop Joseph E. Kurtz (Louisville, USCCB President), Cardinal Daniel DiNardo (Galveston-Houston, USCCB Vice President), Archbishop Jose Gomez (Los Angeles), Archbishop Charles Chaput (Philadelphia), Archbishop Blase Cupich (Chicago), Bishop George Murry (Youngstown), Cardinal Donald Wuerl (Washington, member of the Ordinary Council of the Synod of Bishops), Cardinal Timothy Dolan (New York, member of the Ordinary Council of the Synod of Bishops), and Bishop Kurt Burnette (Byzantine Eparchy of Passaic, NJ), representing Archbishop William Skurla (Archeparchy of Pittsburgh, Byzantine Catholic). Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone (San Francisco) was named as an alternate.

Note the presence of queer-friendly Cupich and Wuerl at Bergoglio's 2015 Sin-Nod. Francis elevated Cupich to the college of cardinals the following year.