Tucho Fernandez and Jimmy Martin, S.J.
Distant cousins, both light in the loafers?
Posted on 01/20/2024 2:53:46 PM PST by ebb tide
One month after the Vatican released Fiducia Supplicans allowing the blessing of same-sex couples, the backlash the document triggered shows no signs of diminishing.
The criticism has been so pointed and widespread, in fact, some historians say that never before has a papal document provoked such opposition and confusion, leaving many observers to wonder how the fallout can be resolved.
“The existence of a sharp contrast between bishops and cardinals within the Church is now a reality that cannot be denied,” Church historian Roberto de Mattei told the Register. Pope Francis, he believes, “is provoking a deeper crisis than all the previous ones, not only because of the breadth of opposition, but also because of the fact that it comes from those ‘peripheries’ that Pope Francis has indicated as the authentic expression of the Church.”
Approved by Pope Francis and published shortly before Christmas on Dec. 18, the declaration specifically allows, for the first time, non-liturgical blessings of same-sex couples and others in “irregular relationships.” The Vatican described its publication as an “innovative” step, broadening the meaning of blessings while at the same time remaining “firm” on the “traditional doctrine of the Church about marriage.”
It came just two years after the Vatican, in a less authoritative document called a responsum ad dubium (a response to a question), clearly ruled that the Church did not have the power to give blessings to unions of persons of the same sex.
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Pope Faggotry strikes again
Distant cousins, both light in the loafers?
Humane Vitae received more opposition and more sustained opposition.
“The danger is when I don’t like something and I set it in my heart, I become a resistance and come to ugly conclusions,” he added. “This has happened with this last decision about blessing everyone.”
It is hard to understand teaching that is contrary to two thousand years of church teaching.
It is obligatory to oppose heretical teaching.
One must always resist those who would lead the faithful in to error.
Romans 1 shows no sign of “abating.”
Have not heard ONE SINGLE syllable about it in any sermon, or read anything in any letter, from any consecrated person in several dioceses around me.
I have seen conservative Catholics in the press and online going nuts, as usual, but, the people in authority seem to be accepting of it.
Can anyone help me see and hear all the backlash?
Almost all the bishops’ conferences of Africa and several other countries in the global south — what Francis has collectively called the “peripheries” — have rejected it not only because blessing same-sex couples is opposed to their cultures and laws, as Cardinal Fernández had said, but because they recognized it as giving the appearance of approving something contrary to the natural law and sacred Scripture. Writing on behalf of the bishops’ conferences of Africa and Madagascar (SECAM), Cardinal Fridolin Ambongo of Kinshasa said the language used in the document is “too subtle for simple people to understand” and that bishops in Africa could not carry out such blessings “without exposing themselves to scandals.”
Critics also came from Central Eastern Europe and Asia with at least one Hungarian bishop calling it a “falsifying of the Gospel.”
Confraternities made up of hundreds of priests in Britain, the U.S. and Australia rejected the document as essentially unworkable, and because they are concerned it conveys a message at odds with Church teaching. Meanwhile, some opposed it for not going far enough, with at least one Church leader in Germany calling the declaration “misanthropic and discriminatory” for failing to approve same-sex acts.
It’s easy to see the backlash in certain other countries, but here I don’t believe you can infer assent from silence at this point. Just have to wait and watch for actions.
A few confraternities of priests protesting quietly along the chain of command is not what I was referring to.
What I would consider backlash would be a bishop in New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, etc., going public with a condemnation of this document.
Or local priests rejecting it in front of their flocks.
Not seeing that at all.
I am seeing intimidated and/or agreeing priests not saying a peep about it.
No backlash is visible.
It's not invisible to us: it's right there in the catholic news including this article.
Africa, Asia and Central Europe dwarf the U.S.
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