![]() God, the CDF said, “does not and cannot bless sin.” As such, they can only be imparted on that which conforms to the nature of sacramentals. In a two-page explanation approved by Pope Francis and jointly signed by Cardinal Luis Ladaria, prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, and Archbishop Giacomo Morandi, the congregation’s secretary, the CDF stressed that blessings are sacramentals and have “singular importance” in the Church’s liturgy. In its responsum to a dubium, or formal question, about whether the Church has the authority to bless same-sex unions, the CDF affirmed March 15 that the Church does not have the authority to bless same-sex unions. ![]() “I feel especially intellectual and moral incomprehension,” Bishop Bonny continued, adding that the statement’s teaching that the Church cannot approve of sin was “precisely the language the synod fathers didn’t want to use” and is “not the language of Amoris Laetitia” - Pope Francis’ 2016 apostolic exhortation on the synod. VATICAN CITY - A Belgian bishop has strongly criticized the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith’s recent clarification that the Church cannot bless same-sex relationships, saying it is contrary to the “dynamic” of the 2015 Synod on the Family and undermines the “credibility of the ‘synodal path’ advocated by Pope Francis.”īishop Johan Bonny of Antwerp, who was in favor of the blessing of same-sex unions at the family synod, apologized in a March 17 article in Belgium’s De Standaard newspaper “to all those for whom the Vatican’s position is painful” and said he felt “vicarious shame for my Church.”
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