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Vatican Responds to Widespread Backlash On Same-Sex Blessing Directive, by Courtney Mares – Brown Pelican Society of Lousiana

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By Courtney Mares, for CNA, Catholic World Report, January 4, 2024

Vatican City, Jan 4, 2024 / 10:10 am (CNA) – The Vatican’s doctrine office issued a response on Thursday to “clarify the reception of Fiducia Supplicans” amid widespread international backlash to the Vatican’s recent declaration on same-sex blessings.

Cardinal Victor Manuel Fernández, prefect of the Vatican’s Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith (DDF), published a five-page press release on Jan. 4 that refers to Fiducia Supplicans as “perennial doctrine” and underlines that pastoral blessings of couples in irregular situations should not be “an endorsement of the life led by those who request them.” …

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