An Interview With Fr. Gerald E. Murry: Fiducia Supplicans Should Be Revoked

An interview with Fr. Gerald E. Murry by Diane Montagna, First Things, March 7, 2024

Diane Montagna is an American journalist in Rome accredited to the Holy See… The Rev. Gerald E. Murray, JCD, is pastor of Holy Family Church in New York.

In March 2021, the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith published, under its former prefect, Cardinal Luis Ladaria Ferrer, a Responsum that replied in the negative to the question: “Does the Church have the power to give the blessing to unions of persons of the same sex?”

Just under three years later, under its new prefect, Cardinal Víctor Manuel Fernández, the now renamed Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith issued Fiducia Supplicans (FS), which asserts that the blessings referred to in the Responsum are “liturgical blessings” and introduces a new kind of priestly blessing—a “pastoral blessing”—which it claims can be imparted to “same-sex couples.” But what are pastoral blessings and what does the Declaration mean by “couples”? …

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