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Father Nicola Bux: ‘Non-Liturgical’ Blessings Do Not Exist – Brown Pelican Society of Lousiana

Father Nicola Bux: ‘Non-Liturgical’ Blessings Do Not Exist

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Pope Benedict XVI during general audition. May 2, 2007. Own work. Tadeusz Górny. Permission. Public domain. I, the copyright holder of this work, release this work into the public domain. This applies worldwide. This is a file from the Wikimedia Commons.

By Father Nicola Bux, EWTN News, March 4, 2024

Father Nicola Bux is an Italian theologian and former consulter to the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith. …

 

A recent Vatican News article used a 2000 instruction by Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger to justify the blessing of irregular couples.

On Feb. 27, Vatican News published an article headlined: ‘Fiducia Supplicans,’ Non-liturgical Blessings and Pope Benedict’s Distinction.

The aim of the article was to assert that distinguishing between rituals inserted into liturgical books and pastoral or spontaneous prayers is the same criterion now being used to admit the possibility of blessing irregular couples.

The article juxtaposes the recent Declaration with some passages from the Vatican instruction Ardens Felicitatis, promulgated by Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger and the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith on Sept. 14, 2000. …

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