Fiducia Supplicans
Hungarian Bishop Conference: ‘Avoid Common Blessing for Couples’
The Hungarian Catholic Bishops’ Conference issued a stern directive in wake of the controversy generated by the Vatican’s latest declaration on blessings for same-sex couples. “We celebrated at Christmas the ...
Who Accepts or Rejects the Teachings of Fiducia Supplicans?
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The Doctrine That Doesn’t Matter Remains Unchanged
When the first rites of blessing for same-sex couples came out in the Anglican church, they were accompanied by a lot of bluster about how they were not to be ...
Ghana Bishop: Same-Sex Marriage is an Abomination
Most reverend John Kobina Louis, the Auxiliary Bishop of Accra Archdiocese has said Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer and Intersex (LGBTQI+) practices are an abomination to Ghanaian culture as such ...
WATCH: Malawi Bishop’s Powerful Homily Denouncing Fiducia Supplicans
Bishop Martin Anwel Mtumbuka, Bishop of the diocese of Karonga, Malawi, delivered this powerful homily during the Christmas Vigil liturgy on December 24, 2023at St Anne's Parish (Chiluma). Bishop Mtumbuka ...
Blessing Same-Sex Couples: Even Popesplainers Now See The Light?
The Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith (DDF) has published the declaration Fiducia Supplicans (FS), which reflects on the theology of blessing and, for the first time, sanctions clerical ...
WATCH: Fr. Altier on Obedience of Faith – We Cannot and Will Not Bless Sin
Fr. Robert Altier reflects on on St. Paul's call to obedience and why priests cannot bless irregular unions. Fr. Altier’s can be found on YouTube, Gab, GETTR, Gloria.TV and Rumble ...
Fiducia Supplicans: Not in the Kenyan Church!
Public Service Cabinet Secretary Moses Kuria has joined Archbishop of the Catholic Archdiocese of Nairobi Philip Anyolo in defying the Pope's directive on same sex unions. In a statement on ...
Don’t Give Up On The Church – And Certainly Not Because Of Fiducia Supplicans
As we argue about the contents of Fiducia Supplicans, with Catholics threatening to walk away from the Church, Anglicans crowing that converts to Catholicism have gone from the frying pan ...
The Spectacular Failed Launch of Fiducia Supplicans
It isn’t every day that the top papal lieutenant goes on the record to discuss something about which he’d just said there would be no further clarification, but that’s what ...
Nairobi: Archbishop Anyolo Forbids Blessing of Same-Sex Couples
In a move that is against a Vatican document approved by the Pope Francis, Nairobi Archbishop Philip Anyolo has opposed the decision to allow Catholic priests to bless same-sex couples ...
An Open Letter to Lay Catholics with Dubia for American and European Clergy
AN OPEN LETTER TO CATHOLIC LAITY WITH DUBIA FOR AMERICAN AND EUROPEAN CLERGY A debate is currently underway in the Catholic Church about the Church’s teaching on homosexuality and the ...
Sons of the Most Holy Redeemer: Fiducia Supplicans MUST be Opposed by Us and by All Catholics
ON THE DECLARATION FIDUCIA SUPPLICANS - Our Lord is already too much offended. The Congregation of the Sons of the Most Holy Redeemer stands with Cardinal Müller, the bishops of ...
Argentine Archbishop: Francis’ Document Must Not Be Obeyed
The Dicastery of the Doctrine of the Faith has become a Dicastery of confusion. This is precisely what the Argentinean Cardinal Víctor Manuel Fernández promotes. Not only the confusion of ...
Bishop Schneider on Fiducia Supplicans: “A Mockery of the Natural and Revealed Law of God”
As a strong and steady backlash to the Vatican’s declaration on blessings for same-sex couples continues to flow in from Catholic Bishops around the world, Bishop Athanasius Schneider is referring ...
Monsignor Charles Pope Notifies DC Parishioners He Will NOT Bless Irregular Unions
Msgr. Charles Pope, pastor of Holy Comforter-St. Cyprian Church in Washington, D.C., said he will not offer blessings of same-sex couples because it would “lead to confusion and scandal among ...
Zimbabwe Bishops Reject Blessing Same-Sex Unions
The Zimbabwe Catholic Bishops’ Conference issued on December 22 an official pastoral statement clarifying the content of DDF document Fiducia Supplicans, since they recognize it to be causing “anxiety and ...
Archbishop Chaput: The Cost of “Making a Mess”
One of the standards the Church uses to measure the quality of her leaders is a simple line from Scripture: “God is not the author of confusion but of peace” ...
Fiducia: The Defense of Incompetence
One more thought on Fiducia Supplicans, and then I’ll turn to more pleasant topics. (And nearly everything short of the bubonic plague is a more pleasant topic.) If you draft ...
Cardinal Napier: ‘Fiducia Supplicans’ Lacks One ‘Essential Word’: ‘Repent’
On December 21 Cardinal Wilfrid Napier posted on X (formerly known as Twitter): The “Fiducia Supplicans” debate lacks one essential word. Yet that word was the first on Jesus’ lips ...
Ukrainian Greek Catholic Bishops Rejects Francis’ Same-Sex Couple Blessings
COMMUNIQUÉ regarding the reception by the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church of the declaration of the Dicastery of the Doctrine of the Faith "Fiducia Supplicans" on the pastoral significance of blessings ...
