"God the Father loves them with the same unconditional love, loves them as they are, and accompanies them in the same way as all of us, being close, merciful and tender," Pope Francis wrote about homosexuals in his fresh diary Hope. At the same time, the Pope devoted much space to the defence of the blessing of single-sex couples expressed in the paper Fiducia Supplicans.
"These are the people who are blessed, not the unions," wrote Pope Francis, commenting one more time on the controversy surrounding the paper Fiducia Supplicans. However, the text itself speaks of the blessing given to a couple of the same sexes. It is besides hard to bless a couple without considering their intimate relationship; it is their common relation that creates a couple.
Francis' comments from the diary Hope, extend his earlier defence of the paper enabling priests to bless homosexual couples. "Openness, and surely not relativism, nor any change of doctrine, is the spirit and heart of Fiducia supplicans," wrote Francis.
A paper published in December 2023 provoked widespread outrage throughout the Church, and a crucial number of bishops rejected the text in its entirety. The retired Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of religion (today – Dicastery of the Doctrine of Faith) Cardinal Gerhard Müller wrote that the "blessings" of homosexual couples constitute "blasphemousness" and that the paper is "internally contradictory".
Indeed, just 2 years earlier, in 2021, the CSC clearly stated that the Church does not have “power to bless same-sex unions.” KNW wrote that "it is not permitted to give blessings to unions... even unchangeable ones that include sexual activity outside matrimony (i.e. apart from an inseparable relation between a man and a female open to the transmission of life), as is the case in the case of same-sex relationships."
But according to Francis, agreeing to the blessings of the same-sex people "is out of desire not to attribute 1 situation or 1 condition to the full life of those who desire to be enlightened and live with the accompanying blessing."
"Everybody in the Church is invited, including divorced persons, including homosexuals, including transgenders," he added, based on his regular meetings with trans-groups in the Vatican. "When a group of transgenders first came to the Vatican, they came out with tears in their eyes, moved due to the fact that I took their hands, I kissed them... Like I did something peculiar for them. But they are the daughters of God!’
It is unclear whether Francis meant biological women or men who live as "transgender women". On the pages of his diary, Francis condemned the "resistance" of the text as being based on "insufficient cognition or any form of hypocrisy."
By condemning laws against homosexuality, which are peculiarly prevalent in African countries, Francis said that homosexuality “is a human fact” to which the Church cannot respond “without thinking”. The Pope besides seemed to propose that there was no request to convert from a homosexual lifestyle due to the fact that God “loves them as they are”:
"God the Father loves them with the same unconditional love, loves them as they are, and accompanies them in the same way as all of us, being close, merciful and tender," he wrote.
Source: liftsitenews.com
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