By Robert Royal, The Catholic Thing - The tsunami of controversy after the publication of the Declaration mostly revolved around whether Fiducia Supplicans (FS) allowed blessings of “same-sex unions” (which it does not) or same-sex “couples” (which it does, Intro, paras 2, 31, 41). Some defenders of the document tried to claim the blessings were for “individuals” – mentioned once (para. 38), but that is not really the thrust of the whole text.