Posted on 10/04/2022 6:31:17 PM PDT by marshmallow
'Situations that are objectively wrong from a moral point of view cannot be blessed. God's grace does not shine on the path of sin,' said Cardinal Willem Eijk of Utrecht.
UTRECHT, Netherlands (LifeSiteNews) – The Cardinal Archbishop of Utrecht, Willem Eijk, has called for the Flemish bishops of Belgium to be corrected by ecclesiastical authorities for their departure from the Church’s moral and sacramental discipline with their publication of a “rite of blessing” for same-sex couples.
The Flemish bishops’ document, with its proposed liturgical “blessing” for same-sex couples, was issued on September 20, shortly after the German bishops approved documents of their Synodal Way insisting on acceptance of homosexual unions by the Church.
Cardinal Eijk of Utrecht strongly objected to the so-called rite of blessing, pointing out several reasons it must be rejected and the bishops responsible publicly corrected. Although the “blessing” does not claim the status of equality with the sacrament of marriage, the cardinal drew attention to the fact that it nonetheless clearly models itself on the rite of marriage.
“The declaration prayer,” Eijk said, “in which same-sex couples commit to each other shows an unequivocal analogy with the ‘I do’ that a man and a woman say to each other during the marriage ceremony.”
However, as is obvious to Catholics who adhere to the Church’s teaching on the sinfulness of homosexual acts and the inherent disorder of homosexual inclinations, such “commitment to each other” on the part of same-sex couples would constitute grave public sin and stand contrary to the natural order of human sexuality established by God, an order founded upon the sexual complementarity of man and woman for the sake of procreation. Therefore, as the cardinal insists, such a commitment by same-sex couples cannot be blessed by God or the Church.
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