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Vatican moves to calm bishops clashing same-s3x blessings approval

January 5, 2024
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Vatican moves to calm bishops clashing same-s3x blessings approval

VATICAN CITY  – The Vatican on Thursday moved to calm Catholic bishops in some countries who have balked over last month’s approval of blessings for same-s3x couples, telling them that the measure is not “heretical” or “blasphemous”.

In a five-page statement, the Vatican’s doctrinal office also acknowledged that such blessings could be “imprudent” in some countries where people who receive them might become targets of violence, or risk prison or even death.

Catholic bishops in some countries, particularly in Africa, have expressed various degrees of dissent over the Dec. 18 declaration, known by its Latin title Fiducia Supplicans (Supplicating Trust), which was approved by Pope Francis.

The fact that the Vatican needed to issue a five-page clarification of an eight-page declaration – little more than two weeks after it was issued – appeared to underscore the extent of the confusion it caused in many countries.

After the original declaration was issued, a number of Catholic bishops’ conferences issued statements stressing that the blessings did not amount to an official approval of gay s3x or a sacrament of marriage for same-s3x couples.

The doctrinal office, known as the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith, stressed these aspects in its statement on Thursday, saying that blessings for same-s3x couples should not be seen as “a justification of all their actions, and they are not an endorsement of the life that they lead”.

The office said it wanted “to clarify the reception of Fiducia Supplicans while recommending at the same time a full and calm reading” of the Dec. 18 declaration, which it said is “clear and definitive about marriage and s3xuality”.

It added: “Evidently, there is no room to distance ourselves doctrinally from this declaration or to consider it heretical, contrary to the Tradition of the Church or Blasphemous.”

The Church teaches that same-sex attraction is not sinful but homos3xual acts are. Since his election in 2013, Francis has tried to make the more than 1.35-billion-member Church more welcoming to LGBT people, without changing moral doctrine.

Still, some African bishops’ conferences have made clear that they will not allow their priests to conduct such blessings. Thursday’s statement advised “pastoral prudence” depending on local laws and circumstances.

Last week, Burundi’s President Evariste Ndayishimiye called on citizens to stone gay people.

Uganda passed a law last May that carries the death sentence for certain categories of same-s3x offences and lengthy jail sentences for others – a move that was widely condemned by Western governments and human rights activists.

“If there are laws that condemn the mere act of declaring oneself as a homos3xual with prison and in some cases with torture and even death, it goes without saying that a blessing would be imprudent,” the Vatican statement said.

The original declaration and Thursday’s statement both said blessings of people in same-s3x relationships should not be included in Church rituals or in any way resemble a wedding. Thursday’s statement said they should be short.

“We are talking about something that lasts about 10 or 15 seconds. Does it make sense to deny these kinds of blessings to these two people who ask for them?” it said.

 

SOURCE  : US NEWS

Tags: Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faithe Fiducia Supplicans (Supplicating Trust)PopeVATICAN CITY

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