ROME — Bishops in the Netherlands, once known for their progressive leanings, have rejected en masse the Vatican's recent tolerance for blessing same-sex couples.
Dutch bishops have accepted the Vatican's call for “intimacy and companionship” for people in same-sex relationships and remarried divorcees, but have rejected the Vatican's Dec. 18 legal reform introducing same-sex couples. It rejects the novelty of celebrating. sentence of the title Fiducia supplicant.
In their 292 words response to Fiducia SupplicanThe bishops point out that it is possible to pray for individual believers living in irregular relationships, something the Catholic Church has always held.
“In this prayer, we can ask God for strength and help under the call of the Spirit so that we can continue to understand and grow in His will for our lives.” They clearly distinguish it from blessing. the couple itself.
Sister Janine Gramick, co-founder of the LGBTQQIAAP2S+ advocacy group New Ways Ministries, has been denied the title “Catholic” by church authorities.
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“This makes it clear in the wording chosen that this is not a blessing or confirmation of an irregular relationship, and that, according to the Catholic Church, marriage can only be between a man and a woman. It also avoids confusion with
In this statement, the Dutch bishops are effectively returning to previous Vatican teaching that individuals are blessed but irregular relationships are not.
In 2021 statement In this regard, the Vatican's Secretariat for the Doctrine of the Faith has stated that blessings “are given to individuals with homosexual tendencies who express their will to live faithfully to the revealed plan of God as proposed by the teachings of the Church”; He said it was illegal. “Every form of blessing that tends to acknowledge their union as such.”
Because God himself “does not and cannot bless sin,” the statement says, “the Church does not and cannot have the power to bless same-sex unions.”
The Dutch bishops' conference is the latest synod to challenge the religion's novel teachings. Fiducia Supplicanthis seems to many to contradict the constant moral teaching of the Church on this issue.
Not only the African bishops' conference, but also the bishops' conferences of Hungary, Poland, and Kazakhstan. Rejected The Vatican's call to grant extra-liturgical blessings to people in irregular relationships.
The French Bishops' Conference accepted for their part that: Fiducia Supplican However, nine French bishops publicly opposed the request to bless same-sex couples.
