There is a certain tendency for peoples to relativize – or even forget – the disasters that have punctuated their history. This mentality surrounds the first anniversary of the promulgation of Fiducia Supplicans in the Church.
It was December 18, 2023, a day that will unfortunately remain attached to a debacle in the history of the Church: the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith (DDF) published a Declaration on the blessing of “irregular couples and same-sex couples,” a document that the Sovereign Pontiff had expressly approved.
It was a text received with hostility in a Catholic universe that was unanimous enough to denounce all its ambiguities and to speak out against its application. The reaction in Africa is sufficiently well known on this subject, but the resistance – or even the refusals – were, in a sense, universal.
A year later, the hoped-for success in progressive circles has not been forthcoming, as a sociologist of religions Jean-Louis Schlegel laments in La Croix: “Does Fiducia supplicans constitute an advance in Catholic mentalities, or a step backwards, given the extent of this revolt that has demonstrated the growing cultural gap and the persistent violence against homosexuality in the world?”
But one gap can hide another more worrying one, which is quickly overlooked: the one that exists between a sterile progressivism stemming from the post-conciliar period and the 2000-year old Tradition of the Church.
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