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After pushback by some bishops in Africa, Poland and elsewhere, the Vatican on Thursday defended the recent move by Pope Francis to allow blessings for same-sex couples, insisting there is nothing “heretical” involved.

In a five-page statement, the Holy See’s office to safeguard doctrinal orthodoxy expressed understanding that some bishops’ conferences need more time for “pastoral reflection” on the pontiff’s formal approval for such blessings.

But “there is no room to distance ourselves doctrinally” from the Declaration about the blessings “or to consider it heretical, contrary to the Tradition of the Church or blasphemous,’' said the statement by the office, formally called the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith.

The new rule of blessings came last month in the form of a declaration, an important Catholic church document.

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[-] betterdeadthanreddit@lemmy.world -4 points 10 months ago

I'll clarify but there's only so much of the reading comprehension I can do for you. What they are doing now and what they have done in the past is harmful. My interpretation of the tiny little steps they're taking toward being less awful is that they're trying to find the minimum acceptable level of forward progress to ward off the executioner for a little while longer. No praise for this exercise in self-preservation, it's the very least they can get away with and even then, it's long overdue.

[-] modifier@lemmy.ca 1 points 10 months ago

Well, that was a valiant attempt to establish a cohesive through-line to your various points. Let's just chalk it up to my poor reading comprehension and let it go there. Have a good one.

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