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Pope Francis Homosexual Couples Blessing Fallout (50+ articles)

Fiducia Supplicans – Blessings for Homosexual Unions – 12/18/23

1. Pope Francis publishes norms for clergy to ‘bless’ homosexual unions (lifesitenews.com) – 12/18/23 – Fiducia Supplicans
2. Pope Opens Possibility of Blessing ‘Same-Sex Couples,’ Those in ‘Irregular Situations’ – CatholicVote org – 12/18/23
3. Bishop Strickland urges bishops to say ‘no’ to Francis’ ‘blessings’ of homosexual couples – Lifesitenews.com – 12/18/23
4. Archbishop Peta, Bishop Schneider ban ‘blessings’ of homosexual couples in Kazakhstan archdiocese – Lifesitenews.com – 12/19/23 – CLIP: Bishop Schneider on blessing ‘same-sex unions’ (lifesitenews.com) – 12/19/23
5. Former homosexual: Pope Francis is inviting humanity to join Satan in mocking Christ and His Church – Lifesitenews.com – 12/19/23
6. Homosexual Blessings: Austrian bishop says priests CAN’T refuse & Malawi bishops say NO WAY (lifesitenews.com) – 12/19/23
7. Most American bishops are going along with Pope Francis’ ‘blessings’ for homosexual couples – Lifesitenews.com – 12/19/23
8. CLIP: Bishop Schneider on Pope Francis’ papacy (lifesitenews.com) – 12/20/23
9. Bishop Schneider: Blessing of same-sex unions is ‘an abomination’ (lifesitenews.com) – 12/20/23
10. Prominent canon lawyer Gerald Murray excoriates new Vatican doc endorsing ‘blessings’ of gay couples – Lifesitenews.com – 12/20/23
11. Two Commentaries by Two Prominent Priests on Fiducia Supplicans (complicitclergy.com) – 12/30/23 – Raymond J. De Souza, Fr. Gerald E. Murray: A disordered sexual relationship brought into being by self-indulgent shameless acts is not bless-able. FS is a scandal and a disaster for claiming it is.
12. Archbishop Viganò: Bergoglio’s ‘blessings’ for homosexual couples show he is a ‘servant of Satan’ – Lifesitenews.com – 12/21/23
13. Blessing Same-Sex Couples: a CA Roundtable | Catholic Answers Magazine – 12/21/23 – Dicastery of the Doctrine of the Faith (DDF)
    1. Trent Horn – Given the practical difficulty involved in the wide variety of ministers giving and individuals seeking these “spontaneous blessings,” I would not have released the document—or at I least I would have included the reminder from the 2021 DDF ruling, still in force, that God “does not and cannot bless sin.”
    2. Karlo Broussard – the DDF is safe doctrinally but has failed (gravely?) in exercising pastoral prudence. The damage has been done. Confusion is setting in. Let’s implore God that he will bring order out of disorder and peace out of chaos.
    3. Cy Kellett – At every talk I give, I meet people who are at their wits‘ end with Francis and people who are at their wits‘ end with those who oppose Francis. Everybody seems on edge. This isn’t helping… Fiducia Supplicans, in my view, is basically correct in its approach to blessings—if what it’s saying is that Pope Francis wants people to receive the blessings of the Church without priests actually blessing sinful unions.
    4. Todd Aglialoro – Fiducia Supplicans suggests that it is not their false claim to legitimate conjugal union or the sinful sexual acts that accompany it, but rather “all that is true, good, and humanly valid in their lives and their relationships”. This strikes me as, at best, an unrealistic view.  I fear that the result of this document will be to present confusion and scandal to the world… to dishearten and impede the efforts of faithful clerical and lay ministers currently resisting the tide of sexual libertinism…
    5. Joe Heschmeyer – So what has the DDF now added to the conversation? The idea that in certain contexts, a priest might give an informal blessing to a “same-sex couple.” It’s not true, therefore (as some have said), that the DDF is okaying the blessing of same-sex “unions.” But it’s also not true (as others have claimed) that this is nothing new, since it’s just about blessing same-sex-attracted individuals. It’s not about individuals or unions, but a third thing, seemingly in between the two: a “couple.”
    6. Tom Nash – nowhere does FS acknowledge and affirm chaste living, as do faithful apostolates that minister to persons with same-sex attraction. Consequently, whatever good intention he may have, a cleric who attempts to bless the relationship of a same-sex couple will do them a grave disservice.
    7. Christopher Check – within hours of the Dicastery’s publication of Fiducia Supplicans, media all over the globe reported that the Catholic Church had reversed its teaching of 2021 that homosexual couples and “irregular” heterosexual couples cannot be blessed. The Catechism tells us that “scandal is an attitude or behavior which leads another to do evil. why would Rome cause scandal? Did the DDF not know what consequences FS would produce? One telltale sign: the word repent is noticeably absent from the document.
14. Cardinal Müller tells Pope Francis: Blessing homosexual couples is ‘impossible’ and ‘blasphemy’  – Lifesitenews.com – 12/21//23
15. Altier on Obedience of Faith – We Cannot and Will Not Bless Sin (complicitclergy.com) – 12/26/23
16. On the Blessing of Same-Sex Unions | Daughters of Mary, Mother of Israel’s Hope (motherofisraelshope.org) – 12/28/23
17. Bishops can opt diocese out of same-sex ‘blessings,’ Vatican says – Washington Times – 12/28/23
18. 2023: The Fiducia Fiasco, Synodality, Fr Rupnik, and more (youtube.com) – 12/29/23 – The Catholic Thing, Gerald Murray, Diane Montagna, Fr. Rupni, and Cardinal Becciu.
19. Kirby – I Will Not Be Blessing Couples in Irregular Unions (complicitclergy.com) – 12/31/23. These ‘pastoral’ blessings do not require repentance and the desire to change like all other church blessings. These same-sex couples are in a state of sin. Conditions: no vestments, no formal prayers, not in civil union ceremony, must be spontaneous, not part of sacred liturgy. God & the Church cannot bless states of sin.
20. ‘Same-Sex’ Blessings Doc Sparks Sustained Global Pushback: The Bishops and Dioceses Saying ‘No’ – CatholicVote org – 1/1/24
21. Franciscan University professor calls for Pope Francis to resign following homosexual ‘blessings’ text – Lifesitenews.com – 1/2/24
22. The Remnant Newspaper – Fiducia Supplicans rollout… What are faithful Catholics to make of THIS? – 1/3/24
23. ‘Fiducia Supplicans’ 2.0| National Catholic Register (ncregister.com) – 1/4/24
24. The Hidden Agenda Behind Same-Sex Blessings (complicitclergy.com) – 1/4/24
25. Lawler and Arroryo Discuss the Confusion Surrounding Fiducia Supplicans (complicitclergy.com) – 1/4/24 – 21 minute video.
26. LGBT ‘Catholic’ groups celebrate Fiducia Supplicans as an endorsement of homosexual relationships – Lifesitenews.com – 1/5/24
27. Golden Opportunities Missed – The Catholic Thing – 1/5/24 – David Carlin
    1. The first thing we have to note is that most Americans who have heard of FS – whether Catholics or Protestants or non-Christians, and whether they be pro-SR or anti-SR – perceive FS as a significant victory for the LGBTQ+ movement, a movement which, as I see it, has as one of its aims to undermine and destroy the Christian ideal of sexual morality, hence Christianity itself.
    2. Most people see FS as the Catholic Church giving ground to the LGBTQ+ gang.  They see FS as a sign that Catholicism, like liberal Protestantism, will eventually remove homosexual practice from its list of serious sins.  Defenders of FS can tell people, all they want, that they are mistaken to see things that way; all the same, that’s how they see it.
    3. Second, the American Catholic bishops are once again offered a golden opportunity to put themselves at the head of the SR counter-revolution.  But to do this, they will have to do something that is almost a psychological impossibility for a Catholic bishop: they will have to make a public declaration of their disagreement with the pope.
28. Catholic priest wearing rainbow stole gives ‘blessing’ to women civilly ‘married’ for 22 years – Lifesitenews.com – 1/5/24
29. Cardinal Müller: Global rejection of Fiducia Supplicans should give Vatican ‘food for thought’ – Lifesitenews.com – 1/5/24
30. Bishop Strickland: Pope Francis using ‘sleight of hand’ to undermine Catholic teaching – Lifesitenews.com – 1/5/24
31. ‘Lies, Compromise, and Confusion’: Cardinal Sarah Blasts Fiducia Supplicans – CatholicVote org – 1/8/24
32. Scandalous book on orgasms surfaces from Cardinal Fernández – Lifesitenews.com – 1/8/24
33. Archbishop Viganò: Swiss guards should arrest Bergoglio and Fernandez, expel them from the Vatican – Lifesitenews.com – 1/8/24 – ‘The Swiss Guards have sworn to defend the See of Peter, not the one who is systematically demolishing it. Let them therefore be faithful to their oath and arrest these heretical perverts!’
34. ‘Evil & destructive’ — Bishop Strickland REACTS to Chris Christie’s LGBT stance citing Pope Francis (lifesitenews.com) – 1/9/24
35. Cardinals vs Cardinals on the Vatican’s heretical blessing of homosexual couples (lifesitenews.com) – 1/9/24
36. Cardinal Sarah accuses Pope Francis of HERESY over G*Y Blessings? (youtube.com) – 1/10/24
37. Vatican official says St. Peter’s Basilica will bless homosexual ‘couples’ – Lifesitenews.com – 1/11/24
    • Viganò rebukes Vatican official’s remarks on blessing homosexual ‘couples’ in St. Peter’s – Lifesitenews.com – 1/11/24
    • Arcivescovo Carlo Maria Viganò on X: “True Catholics – bishops, priests, religious and laity – oppose Fiducia Supplicans and condemn Bergoglio’s subservience to the Globalist Agenda. On the other side, his courtiers scurry to demonstrate their cowardly servility. This already happened with the idol of the Pachamama… https://t.co/InsaY4qTAN” / X (twitter.com) – 1/11/24
38. ‘No Blessing for Homosexual Couples in the African Churches,’ African Bishops Conferences Announce – CatholicVote org – 1/11/24
39. POWERFUL: Bishops REJECT Pope Francis’ latest document about blessing same-sex ‘couples’ (lifesitenews.com) – 1/11/24
40. Murray condemns Fiducia Supplicans: ‘Pope Francis has not upheld the Catholic faith’ – Lifesitenews.com – 1/12/24 – ‘There are heretical teachings contained in Fiducia Supplicans’.
41. Pope Francis Knew His Doctrine Chief was an Erotic Author – OnePeterFive – 1/13/24
42. Bishop Strickland calls on Pope Francis to ‘rethink’ Fiducia Supplicans – Lifesitenews.com – 1/14/24
43. Bishop Schneider strongly condemns Fiducia Supplicans: ‘We should never accept such deception’ – Lifesitenews.com – 1/15/24
44. Pope Francis accuses those rejecting Fiducia Supplicans of reaching ‘ugly conclusions’ – Lifesitenews.com – 1/15/24
45. Marking One Month of ‘Fiducia Supplicans’: Opposition Shows No Signs of Abating| National Catholic Register (ncregister.com) – 1/18/24
46. Cardinal Zen warns of ‘error’ in Fiducia Supplicans, calls for Cdl. Fernández to resign – Lifesitenews.com – 1/23/24
47. JPII Academy Calls on Pope to Fire Doctrinal Chief (churchmilitant.com) – 1/24/24
48. Pope Francis Says He Expects ‘Fiducia Supplicans’ to be Gradually Accepted Worldwide – CatholicVote org – 1/29/24
49. Crisis Magazine Opinion: Filial Appeal to All Cardinals and Bishops of the Catholic Church – 2/2/24
50. Cardinal Müller: Fiducia Supplicans ‘leads to heresy,’ Catholics cannot accept it – Lifesitenews.com – 2/16/24
51. Cardinal Müller calls Pope Francis’ homosexual ‘blessings’ an attack on marriage – Lifesitenews.com – 3/26/24