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In his latest remarks about blessing same-gender couples, Pope Francis criticized as hypocrites those faithful who seem to negatively obsess about LGBTQ+ people, while ignoring the world’s real injustices. Today’s post includes this news and more updates on the reception of Fiducia Supplicans that remains ongoing.
For Franciscan Fr. Daniel Horan, Fiducia Supplicans, the Vatican’s declaration allowing blessings for of same-gender couples, is a small, but important step towards LGBTQ+ visibility in the church.
“Let us hear your voice. Let us hear your stories. Use us to make sure that it’s amplified.” This was the exhortation made by a delegate to the Synod on Synodality’s General Assembly while speaking to LGBTQ+ Catholics and allies last week.
Pope Francis has opined for the second time this year in defense of Fiducia Supplicans, the Vatican declaration allowing blessings for same-gender couples and others in “irregular” situations. Today’s post features that news and other updates on reception of the declaration.
“The Church is for sinners.” With this statement, gay priest and theologian James Alison summarizes the underlying message of Fiducia Supplicans and explains the document’s significance will “open a way forward that will allow LGBT Catholics to be listened to on their own terms while maintaining the unity of the Church.”
Bishops in North Africa have endorsed “Fiducia Supplicans,” the Vatican declaration on blessings, breaking from a African bishops’ wider statement rejecting the declaration in harsh terms. Today’s post features this story and other development in the debate over blessings same-gender couples and others in “irregular” situations.
The debate over Fiducia Supplicans, the Vatican’s declaration allowing blessings for couples in “irregular” situations, continues unabated. In posts yesterday and today, Bondings 2.0 is reporting on the latest developments. Today’s post focuses on global bishops’ responses, particularly in Africa.
“There is…fresh hope for the church to develop a truly ‘catholic’ (inclusive) stance toward its LGBTQ+ members,” one theologian opined in evaluating the Synod on Synodality’s first General Assembly that concluded last fall.
LGBTQ+ Catholics can learn a lot from Dr. King. And as I read his words, I couldn’t help but hear the echoes of what Pope Francis has been teaching the church about synodality.
In Fiducia Supplicans—and even more so in the pro-LGBTQ+ movements in Germany, Flanders, and elsewhere that brought it about—I see the lived diversity that Pope Francis says “should make us rejoice!”