After pushback by some bishops in Africa, Poland and elsewhere, the Vatican on Thursday defended the recent move by Pope Francis to allow blessings for same-sex couples, insisting there is nothing “heretical” involved.

In a five-page statement, the Holy See’s office to safeguard doctrinal orthodoxy expressed understanding that some bishops’ conferences need more time for “pastoral reflection” on the pontiff’s formal approval for such blessings.

But “there is no room to distance ourselves doctrinally” from the Declaration about the blessings “or to consider it heretical, contrary to the Tradition of the Church or blasphemous,’’ said the statement by the office, formally called the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith.

The new rule of blessings came last month in the form of a declaration, an important Catholic church document.

  • CluelessLemmyng@lemmy.sdf.org
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    10 months ago

    Plenty of people obviously care. The Pope influences the lives of hundreds of millions directly and indirectly. Especially, people in power who have the ability to enact religiou -based laws that affect everything

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      10 months ago

      People that buy into this shit will give up the pope long before they give up their bigotry.

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      10 months ago

      That’s another problem to solve then. Continuing to pretend that an old piece of shit with a big hat is some kind of moral authority does everybody involved a disservice. Don’t give them power, don’t give them attention and don’t vote for their followers.