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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.
As the debate over Fiducia Supplicans continues unabated in 2024, so, too, seem to be Pope Francis’ interventions about the declaration, which allows blessings for same-gender couples. Today’s post features news about the pope’s remarks and other developments.
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.
As state legislatures in the U.S. begin new sessions, one Catholic bishop’s exhortation from last fall to focus more on helping people’s material conditions and less on fighting LGBTQ+ equality seem prescient.
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.
If the LGBT issue is raised, “then the Lord himself, through collective discernment, will tell us that for this topic, you need to follow this direction.”
Last Monday, the Vatican released a document from Pope Francis in which he expressed an openness to church blessings for same-gender couples. A number of Catholic leaders have responded positively, including Lexington’s Bishop John Stowe.
Yesterday, Bondings 2.0 announced New Ways Ministry’s new resource that details what participants in the upcoming Synod assembly in October have said or done when it comes to LGBTQ+ issues. Today, a second batch of participants has been added to that resource.
Today’s post contains news about a Pride message sent out by Bishop John Stowe, new writings by LGBTQ+ Catholics, and more.