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Fiducia supplicans ("Supplicating Trust") [1] is a 2023 declaration on Catholic doctrine that allows Catholic priests to bless couples who are not considered to be married according to church teaching, including same-sex couples.
After the promulgation of the 2023 declaration Fiducia supplicans, a third camp of dissent emerged, consisting of theologians and bishops who adhered to Catholic moral teaching on homosexual acts but objected to the document's teaching that persons in homosexual relationships could receive pastoral blessings outside a formal liturgical context.
German cardinal Reinhard Marx and Bishop Franz-Josef Bode have both opined that the blessing of same-sex unions would be possible in Catholic churches in Germany. [ 68 ] [ 69 ] [ 70 ] In Austria the blessing of same sex unions are allowed in at least two churches, [ 71 ] both located in the Roman Catholic Diocese of Linz .
Bishops in Africa have effectively rejected the Fiducia Supplicans. In some African countries, homosexuality is severely punished, with prison sentences or even the death penalty. (Reporting by ...
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Pope John Paul II asked "the bishops to support, with the means at their disposal, the development of appropriate forms of pastoral care for homosexual persons.” [80] Several assemblies of the Synod of Bishops have struck similar themes, while maintaining that same-sex sexual activity is sinful and that same-sex marriage cannot be permitted. [81]
The declaration was welcomed by several bishops. Bätzing said he was "grateful", "The declaration Fiducia supplicans addresses the issues that have become apparent in the recent past around the topics of requests for blessing and blessings from a pastoral perspective and in a theologically moderate and calm language. The declaration applies ...
A delegation of German bishops is expected in Rome soon after the Vatican insisted they scrap a planned vote this week on a controversial proposal to let laypeople participate in a decision-making ...