21 Feb, 2024 02:06
Russian church blasts Vatican over gay blessings
The Catholic church’s view on same-sex couples goes against Christian teachings, the Russian priests argue
The Vatican’s recent decision to permit the blessings of same-sex couples is a gross deviation from the Christian faith, the Russian Orthodox Church has said.
According to the statement published on the church’s website, Patriarch Kirill of Moscow had asked the Synodal Biblical and Theological Commission to “analyze” the document adopted by the Vatican in December 2023.
The commission met on Tuesday and“unanimously agreed that this novelty represents a drastic departure from Christian moral teachings,”the statement read.
Kirill said in the past that the Russian Orthodox Church will “never” endorse same-sex marriages and has condemned “the dangerous and destructive LGBT ideology.”The church’s views are consistent with the position of the Russian authorities, which in December 2022 vastly expanded the existing ban on “LGBT propaganda.”
The Vatican’s declaration titled ‘Fiducia Supplicans’ was authored by two top officials at the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith -- Cardinal Victor Manuel Fernandez and Father Armando Matteo. The document examines “the possibility of blessing couples in irregular situations and same-sex couples without officially validating their status or changing in any way the Church’s perennial teaching on marriage.”
According to the declaration, Catholic priests can bless same-sex couples. However, “this blessing should never be imparted in concurrence with the ceremonies of a civil union… nor can it be performed with any clothing, gestures, or words that are proper to a wedding.”
The authors argued that the text was based on “the pastoral vision” of Pope Francis, who has been described as more friendly toward same-sex couplesand the members of the LGBTQ community than his predecessors.
Cardinal Fernandez was appointed to lead the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith in July 2023. According to the Associated Press, he wrote a book in the late 1990s titled ‘The Mystical Passion: Spirituality and Sensuality’, which contains graphic descriptions of human sexual activity.
https://www.rt.com/russia/592818-russian-church-vatican-same-sex-couples/
When you bless someone, you are asking God to care for him or her, or in the case of a couple, honor their union. When the union is a sin, such as in homosexuality, you are turning Christianity on it's head. You enter the realm of Satan, and say that what he is doing is a good thing. Why not bless murderers and thieves?? Child molesters? This can NEVER be accepted. The Catholic Church under this satanic Pope is DONE.
PRAY FOR YOUR ENEMIES - JESUS
THATS WHAT A BLESSING IS.
You people will do anything to not look at the truth because the truth is that Catholicism was started by Jesus and you are supposed to be Catholic. You live in an anti Catholic nation run by Jews and Freemasons so all literature and education comes through an anti-Catholic lens.
Protestant nation is being brought to its knees by Qaabalists (Jews and Freemasons) and rather than join the one team who opposes that, Catholicism, you’d rather lie or remain ignorant. Anything to not be Catholic. Unreal.
This is going to be unpopular but I think we should pray for everybody. We can't imagine what people like that have going on internally. We're all victims of sin in some way.
The union is not blessed. Read the document. It’s like people poo-pooing Q but didn’t read the drops.
Pope Francis is a great Pope but the media inaccurately portrays him because those who run the media are enemies of the Catholic faith…the Freemasons. Same group (Judeo-Mason) who runs the FBI and they target Catholic Churches, not your goofy Protestant church.