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Cardinal Sarah finally speaks out on Fiducia Supplicans

January 09, 2024

Cardinal Robert Sarah has given his first in-depth and public interview on Fiducia Supplicans, the controversial new document on same-sex blessings from the Vatican’s Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith (DDF) released in December. The former Prefect for the Congregation for Divine Worship, the Vatican’s Liturgical Office now headed by former Bishop of Leeds Cardinal

Vatican’s doctrinal chief explains how he came to write erotically charged book on ‘mystical passion’ as young priest

January 09, 2024

ROME – A book written 25 years ago by now-Cardinal Víctor Manuel Fernández giving an in-depth spiritual reflection on human sexuality and the meaning of orgasms has resurfaced amid disputes over the Argentine prelate’s recent approval of non-liturgical blessing of same-sex couples. Titled La pasión mística: espiritualidad y sensualidad, meaning, “Mystical passion: spirituality and sensuality”, the

Vatican issues ‘clarification’ on same-sex blessings amid Fiducia Supplicans backlash

January 04, 2024

ROME – Less than a month after issuing an instruction outlining the reasoning and method for giving non-liturgical blessings to same-sex couples and those in irregular unions, the Vatican has published a clarification amid a flurry of backlash and confusion. In a 4 January press release, the Vatican’s Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith

Don’t give up on the Church – and certainly not because of Fiducia Supplicans

December 24, 2023

Christmas is coming, the goose is getting fat and a lot of Catholics are arguing after the release of Fiducia Supplicans. Welcome to the contentious end of 2023! Back in 2018 I was at a Catholic event and ran into Austen Ivereigh, the Catholic journalist, author and biographer of Pope Francis. I explained to him that

Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church announces Fiducia Supplicans ‘has no legal force’ for its followers

December 24, 2023

ROME – Amid myriad reactions unleashed by Fiducia Supplicans, a new Vatican document advising on non-liturgical blessings of same-sex couples, Ukraine’s Greek Catholic Church has become the first eastern communion to declare explicitly that the document does not apply outside the Latin Church. “On the basis of canon. 1492 of the CCCC this Declaration concerns purely

Fiducia Supplicans: an exercise in smoke and mirrors, where spin becomes substance and appearance reality

December 21, 2023

St John Henry Newman once considered the possibility of the crisis that would emerge if a Church council or a pope introduced a doctrine that contradicted a previous council or a pope. It would shatter the notion of doctrinal development. At first sight the recent document Fiducia Supplicans suggests that this might have happened. Commentators have been

UK’s Confraternity of Catholic Clergy publishes letter reaffirming traditional Church teaching after Fiducia Supplicans

December 21, 2023

An organisation representing some 500 priests in Britain has released a signed letter reaffirming the Church’s teaching regarding marriage and same-sex unions after “widespread confusion” following the Fiducia Supplicans declaration released by the Vatican. The letter’s signatories at the Confraternity of Catholic Clergy explain they felt “impelled to re-assert the traditional teaching of the Catholic

No, the Church has not changed her doctrine on the liceity or blessing of same-sex unions

December 20, 2023

The Vatican’s latest declaration bombshell, authored by one of the most senior clerics in the Roman Curia, has duped the international press and its readers alike into believing that the Catholic Church has softened its position on homosexuality. It hasn’t. In describing how sinners, who may be in a same-same relationship, may ask for a