Vatican’s Blessing Guidelines: Global Responses to Fiducia Supplicans a Year Later
The close of the special jubilee for communicators provides an opportunity to reflect on the impact of this document.
Results from Tag: 'Fiducia Supplicans'
One Year Later, Vatican Document on Same-Sex Blessings Not Causing Much of a Stir
The Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith issued ‘Fiducia Supplicans’ in December 2023.
Dutch Bishop: Fiducia Supplicans Too Much ‘in Tune With Zeitgeist’
Bishop Mutsaerts wrote a foreword to a new book that attacks the declaration.
Leaving ‘Pride’ Behind: Answering the ‘Fiducia Supplicans’ Confusion
COMMENTARY: Focusing on the sojourners who have moved away from an LGBT identity is a scientifically, theologically and pastorally sound response.
Assessing ‘Fiducia Supplicans’: The First 100 Days
ANALYSIS: Cardinal Fridolin Ambongo Besungu of Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo, called the document in a March 17 interview a form of ‘cultural colonization.’
Copts Halt Ecumenical Talks Over Rome’s ‘Change of Position’ on Homosexuality
Coptic leaders said their church believes in human rights and freedoms but that these freedoms must not be used to ‘violate the laws of the Creator.’
Orthodox and Catholic Prelates in Russia Sharply Criticize ‘Fiducia Supplicans’
The Russian Orthodox Biblical-Theological Commission and the Conference of Catholic Bishops in Russia were the latest to weigh in on the controversial document.
‘Non-Liturgical’ Blessings Do Not Exist
A recent Vatican News article used a 2000 instruction by Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger to justify the blessing of irregular couples.
‘Fiducia Supplicans’: Unequivocal Leadership Needed to Manage Fallout
EDITORIAL: The continuing confusion over the Vatican’s Dec. 18 document is recent evidence of this phenomenon.
Cardinal Müller: Efforts to Explain ‘Fiducia Supplicans’ Add to Confusion Over Document
Cardinal Müller lamented that as a consequence of the declaration, ‘nobody is speaking about the blessing of marriage, of children, of the family,’ which is ‘our duty,’ and ‘not to divide the Church.’
