The Vatican accepts the blessing of homosexual couples without considering them marriage

He Vatican accepted the “possibility of blessing” couples “in an irregular situation” or of the same sex without equating them with marriage, according to a document published today by the Congregation for the Doctrine of Faith.

In the text, the prefect of the congregation, the Argentine cardinal Victor Manuel Fernándezreplied that “one can understand the possibility of blessing couples in an irregular situation and couples of the same sex, without validating officially its ‘status’ nor alter in any way the teaching perennial doctrine of the Church on Marriage”.

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This possibility, which follows the wishes of Pope Francis, represents a change of position compared to what the Congregation published in March 2021, then led by the Spanish Luis Ladaria Ferrer, and that he said the Catholic Church could not grant its blessing to same-sex unions.

The “Declaration” is titled “Fiducia Supplicans: on the pastoral meaning of blessings” and it is the first that the Doctrine of the Faith, formerly the Holy Office, has published in the last 23 years, since “Dominus Jesus” (2000).

Firstly, it is a long text in which the origin and theological meaning of the act of blessing is analyzed, reviewing it from the beginning Old testment and in the Scriptures.

“In his mystery of love, through Christ, God communicates give your Church the power to bless. Granted by God to human beings and granted by them to their neighbors, the blessing transforms into inclusion, solidarity and pacification. It’s a message positive comfort, attention and encouragement”, says the text.

However, despite the openness of the blessing of these couples, the Vatican rejects as “inadmissible” any “rite or prayer that may create confusion between what constitutes marriage”, cSuch as, for example, those carried out by the German clergy, who offer “acts of blessing” despite the disagreement of the Holy See.

“A ritual should not be promoted or predicted. blessings of couples in an irregular situation, but the proximity of the Church to each situation in which the God’s help through a simple blessing”affirms the Doctrine of Faith in its “Declaration”.

The blessing for couples homosexuals any “irregular“, that is, they are not canonically married by Churchmay be preceded by a “short prayer” in which the priest may ask the blessed “peace, health, spirit of patience, dialogue and mutual aid.

Source: Elcomercio

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