Edward Pentin of the National Catholic Register writes, “Pope Francis appears to open the door to same-sex blessings in his response to dubium no. 2, saying that priests may use their discretion in giving such blessings, so long as they don’t imply a same-sex union is equivalent to a heterosexual marriage:
a) The Church has a very clear conception of marriage: an exclusive, stable, and indissoluble union between a man and a woman, naturally open to the begetting of children. It calls this union “marriage.” Other forms of union only realize it “in a partial and analogous way” (Amoris Laetitia, 292), and so they cannot be strictly called “marriage.”
b) It is not a mere question of names, but the reality that we call marriage has a unique essential constitution that demands an exclusive name, not applicable to other realities. It is undoubtedly much more than a mere “ideal.“
c) For this reason the Church avoids any kind of rite or sacramental that could contradict this conviction and give the impression that something that is not marriage is recognized as marriage.
d) In dealing with people, however, we must not lose the pastoral charity that must permeate all our decisions and attitudes. The defense of objective truth is not the only expression of this charity, which is also made up of kindness, patience, understanding, tenderness, and encouragement. Therefore, we cannot become judges who only deny, reject, exclude.
e) For this reason, pastoral prudence must adequately discern whether there are forms of blessing, requested by one or more persons, that do not transmit a mistaken conception of marriage. For when a blessing is requested, one is expressing a request for help from God, a plea for a better life, a trust in a Father who can help us to live better.
f) On the other hand, although there are situations that from an objective point of view are not morally acceptable, pastoral charity itself demands that we do not simply treat as “sinners“ other people whose guilt or responsibility may be due to their own fault or responsibility attenuated by various factors that influence subjective imputability (cf. St. John Paul II, Reconciliatio et Paenitentia, 17).
g) Decisions which, in certain circumstances, can form part of pastoral prudence, should not necessarily become a norm. That is to say, it is not appropriate for a diocese, an episcopal conference or any other ecclesial structure to constantly and officially authorize procedures or rites for all kinds of matters, since everything “what is part of a practical discernment in particular circumstances cannot be elevated to the level of a rule,“ because this “would lead to an intolerable casuistry“ (Amoris Laetitia, 304). Canon law should not and cannot cover everything, nor should the episcopal conferences claim to do so with their various documents and protocols, because the life of the Church runs through many channels in addition to the normative ones.”— Edward Pentin on ‘X’
http://edwardpentin.co.uk/full-text-of-n…
https://edwardpentin.co.uk/full-text-of-new-dubia-sent-to-pope-francis-by-five-cardinals/
Note: I think it is probable Francis himself gives no “answers” at all. His Progressivist ghost writers likely do the real thinking and writing. And the clear aim of this “mafia” is to counter the theology of Benedict XVI, John Paul II and so, in effect, to maliciously spin the entire coherent content of the Catholic tradition and, of necessity, the Holy Scriptures. The aim is to conform the Church to the world. Pope St. Pius X exposed their modus operandi in Pascendi Dominici Gregis way back at the dawn of the twentieth century. And now his warning appears to be coming to some kind of fruition thanks to this pontificate. — SH
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Cardinal Burke: Synodality versus True Identity of the Church as Hierarchical Communion
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Michael Lofton? Naivete I think is dangerously close to deception here too. Our fathers teach us that we must not follow either mischievous theological novelty or theological recklessness.
Is it not clear that it is precisely the unnatural “union” that is being asked to be blessed by rainbow advocates, and not individuals desiring to be delivered from this evil?
— When popes denounced theological ambiguity as “the art of deception”
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— NWO: Tucker Carlson and Victor Davis Hanson look at an even wider “Jacobin Revolution”
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