Posted on 03/01/2024 4:43:43 PM PST by ebb tide
The Conference on Catholic Bishops of Russia has released a statement condemning the blessing of “same-sex couples” as instructed in the Vatican’s December Declaration Fiducia Supplicans as “unacceptable.”
In a Friday statement, the nation’s senior prelates lamented the “misunderstandings that have arisen” as a result of Pope Francis’ document Fiducia Supplicans. As a result, the bishops wrote that ,“In order to avoid temptation and confusion,” the conference “highlights the fact that the blessing of any type of couples that persist in relationships that are unregulated from the point of view of Christian morality (cohabitation, bigamous second marriages, same-sex marriages) is unacceptable.”
The bishops noted that it was their duty to uphold marriage and the family “as a privileged community and the primary unit of society,” consequently deeming it “necessary to emphasize that the [Roman] Catholic doctrine of family and marriage remains unchanged,” explaining that “[o]nly a man and a woman united in marriage form a family together with their children.”
The full statement can be found HERE.
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I don’t think any papal document in history other than perhaps Exsurge Domine (rejecting the theses of Martin Luther) has received as much dissent and pushback as Fiducia Supplicans. In a papacy filled with confusion, division, errors and missteps, Bergoglio truly outdid himself on this one.
Pontifical academy raises questions, confusion, on 'Humanae vitae
The Pontifical Academy for Life has triggered renewed speculation that Pope Francis could be planning a new document addressing the Church’s teaching on the immorality of artificial contraception, after one of its social media accounts said that Humanae vitae, Pope St. Paul VI’s 1968 encyclical letter on the subject, is not infallible.
Funny
how the west embraces marxism
The Russians are fed up
Gog marxist usa
MaGog marxist nato - un
Rev 13
I wasn’t around in 1968, but it’s certainly the case that much of the church ignored Humanae Vitae. I’m not sure, though, whether there was over pushback from the bishops like we’re seeing with Fiducia Supplicans. There were certainly bishops who didn’t like HV but were they issuing statements like “Paul VI got this one wrong. We reject it in our diocese”?
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