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[Catholic Caucus] Head of Italian bishops’ conference welcomes papal document permitting blessing same-sex ‘unions’
LifeSite News ^ | January 24, 2024 | LifeSite News Staff

Posted on 01/24/2024 2:26:30 PM PST by ebb tide

[Catholic Caucus] Head of Italian bishops’ conference welcomes papal document permitting blessing same-sex ‘unions’

Cardinal Matteo Zuppi, president of the Italian bishops’ conference, has endorsed Pope Francis' controversial declaration allowing blessings for homosexual 'couples.'

Cardinal Matteo Zuppi, president of the Italian bishops’ conference, has welcomed Pope Francis’ declaration opening up blessings for homosexual “couples.”

In a statement to the winter session of the conference’s Permanent Episcopal Council on Monday, Zuppi stated that he has “accepted the Declaration of the Dicastery of the Doctrine of the Faith, Fiducia Supplicans,” penned by the dicastery’s Prefect Cardinal Victor Manuel Fernández and authorized by Pope Francis on December 16, 2023, which permits priests to bless individuals in “irregular” or homosexual “unions.”

Describing the document as never “derogating from the teachings of the Magisterium,” the cardinal remarked that Fiducia Supplicans is “placed within the horizon of mercy, of the loving gaze of the Church on all the children of God.” Zuppi quoted Florentine Cardinal Giuseppe Betori in characterizing the blessings as “a concrete application of the conviction of faith that the love of God has no boundaries and precisely his work is the basis of overcoming the difficult situations in which man finds himself.”

The full text of Zuppi’s statement can be found HERE.


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1 posted on 01/24/2024 2:26:30 PM PST by ebb tide
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2 posted on 01/24/2024 2:27:19 PM PST by ebb tide
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To: ebb tide

The egregious maladministration of Mr. Bergoglio is having a double effect:

It is strengthening the Faith of We the Faithful.

It is exposing apostasy and the spirits of wickedness in high places.


3 posted on 01/24/2024 2:31:06 PM PST by NorthMountain (... the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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To: ebb tide

Disgusting but expected from a commercialized church run by an idiot.


4 posted on 01/24/2024 2:31:57 PM PST by maddog55 (The only thing systemic in America is the left's hatred of it!)
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To: maddog55

There may be serious consequences for going against God’s law. His Wrath may be upon us already...............


5 posted on 01/24/2024 2:42:38 PM PST by chopperk (e )
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To: NorthMountain

Bingo!


6 posted on 01/24/2024 3:18:58 PM PST by HYPOCRACY (This is the dystopian future we've been waiting for!)
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To: ebb tide

Impossible. It is a Satanic abomination.


7 posted on 01/24/2024 9:01:52 PM PST by FlyingEagle
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