BISHOPS, ROME HAS SPOKEN: NO ROOM TO RESIST

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Soviet crossdressers at a gay wedding in Petrograd in 1921. The wedding was organized by a member of the secret police to arrest homosexuals, but his plan was thwarted when Soviet Russia decriminalized homosexuality

Cardinal Victor Manuel Fernández' Fiducia Supplicans (FS) is as full of caveats as New Zealand's Labour Government's legacy to the new coalition is littered with landmines. 

"For in their mouth there is no truth, their heart is full of mischief. Their throat is an open grave, with their tongues they deal deceitfully, judge them, O God" (Ps 5).

Less than 3 weeks after stating in FS that “no further responses should be expected " blah blah blah, +Fernández issues another 5 pages of  responses. His blessing of homosexual behaviour ('irregular situations') is yet another reminder of Our Lady's warning at Fatima: "Russia will spread her errors throughout the world". Acceptance of homosexuality is a touchstone of Communism.

The Vatican is telling us lies. Jorge Mario Bergoglio, antipope, might be called Communist, but not any longer Catholic. 

The reason for that is explained by the Magisterium of the Church, which teaches that to be a Catholic one must believe ALL that the One, Holy, Roman Catholic and Apostolic Church believes and teaches. Bergoglio and the CDF's +Fernández manifestly believe that blessing same-sex couples -  a reality that is contrary to God's created order of male and female - is now, for the first time in history, possible. It is not.

Ergo, Bergoglio and Fernández are not Catholics. They are of course priests forever, " according to the order of Melchisedech" Ps 110, 4), but they surely cannot be counted as Catholic priests and so, not a Catholic pope nor a Catholic cardinal. They are very much in need of the prayer and penance of faithful Catholics the world over.

Cardinal Gerhard Müller, Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith - and the penultimate predecessor of the mountebank +Fernández who, it's authoritatively said, wrote the heretical Amoris Laetitia which opened the door to all this - until rudely dismissed by Bergoglio, confirmed in July last year that the Vatican’s doctrinal office had a file containing theological concerns about Fernández. 

The file, also confirmed by a second senior Church source, dates to when Cardinal Jorge Bergoglio of Buenos Aires appointed the then-Father Fernández rector of the Pontifical Catholic University of Argentina in 2009. ... Father Fernández was not able to take the oath of office until May 2011, two and half years after his unofficial appointment, due to the ongoing concerns raised in the file about some of his theological views. https://www.ncregister.com/news/cardinal-mueller-confirms-vatican-doctrinal-office-had-file-warning-about-archbishop-fernandezvb/

Cardinal Müller now affirms that “blessings” of homosexual couples constitute “blasphemy” and that the document is “self-contradictory.” 

'A blessing has to do with the order that God has created and that He has declared to be good. This order is based on the sexual difference of male and female, called to be one flesh. Blessing a reality that is contrary to creation is not only impossible, it is blasphemy.' https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/cardinal-muller-tells-pope-francis-blessing-homosexual-couples-is-impossible-and-blasphemy/

 

 

Cardinal Müller - rudely dismissed by Bergoglio

 

Cardinal Victor Fernández has released a press statement intended to “clarify” his Fiducia Supplicans text which allowed blessings of same-sex couples, in an attempt to limit the widespread opposition from bishops to such blessings. Fernández also warned that there “is no room to distance ourselves doctrinally” from Fiducia Supplicans.

Issued January 4, Cardinal Fernández’s press release was an attempt “to help clarify the reception of Fiducia Supplicans, while recommending at the same time a full and calm reading of the Declaration so as to better understand its meaning and purpose.” 

Fiducia Supplicans was released December 18, 2023, and allowed “blessings for couples in irregular situations and for couples of the same sex,” while adding that the Church’s teaching on marriage between one man and one woman remained unchanged.

READ: Pope Francis publishes norms for clergy to ‘bless’ homosexual couples

Its unannounced arrival caused a storm in the Church, with large numbers of bishops and bishops’ conferences around the world expressing outrage and opposition to the text. Such rejections of the document have been particularly strong across Africa.

Referencing these reactions, though without naming any in particular, Fernández wrote that “the understandable statements of some Episcopal Conferences regarding the document Fiducia Supplicans have the value of highlighting the need for a more extended period of pastoral reflection.”

READ: Archbishop Aguer: Francis’ document Fiducia Supplicans must not be obeyed

He argued – seemingly against undeniable evidence – that the responses from bishops’ conferences “cannot be interpreted as doctrinal opposition, because the document is clear and definitive about marriage and sexuality.”

Quoting from his own introduction to Fiducia Supplicans, along with paragraphs 4, 5, and 11 – which presented Church teaching on marriage – Fernández argued that “evidently, there is no room to distance ourselves doctrinally from this declaration or to consider it heretical, contrary to the Tradition of the Church, or blasphemous.”

So we may safely assume that the Novus Ordo-ites in the pews tomorrow morning will not have distanced themselves doctrinally from this declaration. Are they giving their implicit blessing to FS? Millions would thereby placing themselves in great danger of losing their souls.

Bishops’ rejection of blessings

Opposition to Fiducia Supplicans has not been sparked by its pronouncements on the nature of marriage, however. Bishops have welcomed how the text outlines the true teaching on the sacrament. Rather, the opposition is to blessings being offered to same-sex couples.

The new prefect of the Congregation (now Dicastery after its down-grade by Bergoglio) for the Doctrine of the Faith (CDF) admitted that “some bishops, however, express themselves in particular regarding a practical aspect: the possible blessings of couples in irregular situations.” 

Fiducia Supplicans section 31 reads clearly that:

Within the horizon outlined here is the possibility of blessings of couples in irregular situations and of same-sex couples, the form of which should not find any ritual fixation on the part of ecclesial authorities, in order not to produce confusion with the blessing proper to the sacrament of marriage.

Fernández argued that this was calling for blessings of people who are together, but not of their unions per se: “the Declaration contains a proposal for short and simple pastoral blessings (neither liturgical nor ritualised) of couples in irregular situations (but not of their unions), underlining that these are blessings without a liturgical format which neither approve nor justify the situation in which these people find themselves.”

As Dr Peter Kwasniewski points out, blessings are always inherently liturgical, a point made in Vatican II's Sacrosanctum Concilium, so in that respect FS is anti-Vat2 (quelle horreur!)

Writing that different dioceses will implement Fiducia Supplicans at different times “depending on local contexts and the discernment of each diocesan Bishop with his Diocese,” and that each bishop has authority of his own diocese, Fernández nevertheless prohibited bishops banning priests from acting in line with Fiducia Supplicans: 

Prudence and attention to the ecclesial context and to the local culture could allow for different methods of application, but not a total or definitive denial of this path that is proposed to priests.

Veiled warning to Africa

The response form Africa’s various bishops’ conference has been notably strong, with numerous bishops warning priests against any blessings of same-sex couples.

READ: FULL LIST: Where do bishops stand on blessings for homosexual couples?

Cameroon’s bishops issued a statement of nearly unmatched forthrightness in which the bishops declared “we formally forbid all blessing of ‘homosexual couples’ in the Church of Cameroon.” Contrary to many liberal societies in the West, homosexuality is not socially accepted behavior throughout much of Africa,  a reality highlighted by a number of bishops on the continent in their respective responses. 

Fernández, while noting the differing laws prohibiting homosexuality, warned against any opposition to Fiducia Supplicans even in principle. “It remains vital that these Episcopal Conferences do not support a doctrine different from that of the Declaration signed by the Pope, given that it is perennial doctrine,

... 'perennial' doctrine - for a fortnight or so! ... 

but rather that they recommend the need for study and discernment so as to act with pastoral prudence in such a context,” he wrote. 

 

Philip Anyolo, Archbishop of Nairobi

READ: Archbishop of Nairobi prohibits blessings of same-sex ‘couples’

In countries where homosexuality is illegal, Fernández called on local bishops not to re-iterate the church’s own condemnation of homosexual actions, but to focus on the “great and wide-ranging pastoral responsibility that includes training, the defense of human dignity, the teaching of the Social Doctrine of the Church, and various strategies that do not admit of a rushed response.”

A key debate which has raged since the emergence of Fernández’s December 18 text is the question of the blessing itself. Fernández argued at the time that blessings for same-sex couples were “pastoral,” while numerous bishops argued that such an attempted differentiation for a blessing of such a couple was mere equivocation. 

Nevertheless, Fernández has reiterated his position in his January 4 press release:

The real novelty of this Declaration, the one that requires a generous effort of reception and from which no one should declare themselves excluded, is not the possibility of blessing couples in irregular situations. 

It is the invitation to distinguish between two different forms of blessings: “liturgical or ritualized” and “spontaneous or pastoral.” The Presentation clearly explains that “the value of this document […] is that it offers a specific and innovative contribution to the pastoral meaning of blessings, permitting a broadening and enrichment of the classical understanding of blessings, which is closely linked to a liturgical perspective.”

This “theological reflection, based on the pastoral vision of Pope Francis, implies a real development from what has been said about blessings in the Magisterium and the official texts of the Church,” he added.

Especially in Vatican II's Sacrosanctum Concilium! 

READ: Archbishop Peta, Bishop Schneider ban ‘blessings’ of homosexual couples in Kazakhstan archdiocese

He argued that the “central theme” of Fiducia Supplicans “which invites us especially to a deeper pastoral practice which enriches our pastoral praxis, is to have a broader understanding of blessings and of the proposal that these pastoral blessings, which do not require the same conditions as blessings in a liturgical or ritual context, flourish.”

So the central theme is blessings, not whom the blessings bless? Your Eminence, tell that to the Marines. Are you saying that the LGBTQI movement was begging for a broader understanding of blessings?   

As such, he called on the entire Church to change its understanding of blessings:

Although some Bishops consider it prudent not to impart these blessings for the moment, we all need to grow equally in the conviction that: non-ritualized blessings are not a consecration of the person nor of the couple who receives them, they are not a justification of all their actions, and they are not an endorsement of the life that they lead. When the Pope asked us to grow in a broader understanding of pastoral blessings, he proposed that we think of a way of blessing that does not require the placing of so many conditions to carry out this simple gesture of pastoral closeness, which is a means of promoting openness to God in the midst of the most diverse circumstances.

There are Novus Ordo Catholics out there who believe this sophistry. They must do, or they wouldn't show up at their N O Mass to hear 'Pope Francis' reverently invoked; they wouldn't be putting their Planned Giving envelope in the plate to finance further blasphemies. They'd seek out a traditional Latin Mass, where they would be told the truth.  

‘15 second’ blessings

Offering concrete guidance on how a blessing for a same-sex couple might take place, Fernández suggested a formula for priests to use despite his previous statement that such blessings much be “spontaneous” and not formalized:

“Lord, look at these children of yours, grant them health, work, peace, and mutual help. Free them from everything that contradicts your Gospel and allow them to live according to your will. Amen.” Then it concludes with the sign of the cross on each of the two persons.

"Allow them" to live according to your Will? You mean, your Eminence, that God has prevented these children of His from living according to His Will? You're saying then, that these sodomites do not possess God's gift of free will which allows them to choose  not to live according to His Will? This 'blessing' in itself contradicts Christ's Gospel.

He stated that such blessings would be a request to God “for peace, health, and other good things,” along with the request by the one giving the blessing for the couple to “live the Gospel of Christ in full fidelity and so that the Holy Spirit can free these two people from everything that does not correspond to his divine will and from everything that requires purification.”

READ: EXCLUSIVE: Cardinal Fernández says blessings are for ‘every’ person in ‘every situation’

“We are talking about something that lasts about 10 or 15 seconds,” he said. “Does it make sense to deny these kinds of blessings to these two people who ask for them?”

What doesn't make sense is to give these kinds of blessings to two people whose lifestyle clearly shows they defy God's commandments. "You are my friends, if you do the things that I command you "(Jn 15:14). Same-sex couples are not Christ's friends and a ten-second piece of synodal argot won't make them so. What will make them His friends is repentance and absolution. 

Closing, Cardinal Fernández stipulated that “we will all have to become accustomed to accepting the fact that, if a priest gives this type of simple blessings [sic], he is not a heretic, he is not ratifying anything, nor is he denying Catholic doctrine.”https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/cardinal-fernandez-bishops-banned-from-total-or-definitive-denial-of-fiducia-supplicans/

Methinks the pretender Cardinal protesteth too much.  

 

The Epiphany (Peter Paul Rubens)

 

  “Begotten before the daystar and before all ages, the Lord our Saviour is this day made manifest to the world.”