Tuesday, December 19, 2023

IN the NEWS - Vatican Challenges God's Word

And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompence of their error which was meet.
Since they thought it foolish to acknowledge God, He abandoned them to their foolish thinking and let them do things that should never be done.
Romans 1:27,28 NLT


"The Vatican has reversed its position banning the blessing of homosexual couples, asserting that a blessing can now be “offered to
all without requiring anything
.”

In March, 2021, the Vatican’s doctrinal office (CDF) issued a statement declaring that the Church has no authority to bless homosexual unions, noting that God Himself “does not and cannot bless sin.”

Under a broader, pastoral understanding of blessings, “one can understand 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,Cardinal Fernández writes in his presentation of the Declaration.
In the text, Cardinal Fernández insists that allowing the blessing of objectively sinful relationships avoids “the danger that a pastoral gesture that is so beloved and widespread will be subjected to too many moral prerequisites,” which “could overshadow the unconditional power of God’s love that forms the basis for the gesture of blessing.”
Such blessings are meant for everyone; no one is to be excluded from them,” the text states.

By extension, since a blessing can now be “offered to all without requiring anything,” one must suppose that sweatshops, drug cartels, prostitution rings, abortion clinics, and child pornography studios should not be denied a blessing if they request one.

The very act of requesting a blessing means acknowledging “that the life of the Church springs from the womb of God’s mercy and helps
us to move forward, to live better, and to respond to the Lord’s will
,” the text states.

Thus, when people ask for a blessing, an exhaustive moral analysis should not be placed as a precondition for conferring it,Fernández writes. “For, those seeking a blessing should not be required to have prior moral perfection.”
This world needs blessings, and we can give blessings and receive blessings,” the Declaration states.
In this way, “every brother and every sister will be able to feel that, in the Church, they are always pilgrims, always beggars, always loved, and, despite everything, always blessed,” it concludes." Breitbart