Bishop Kurt R. Burnette of the Byzantine Catholic Eparchy of Passaic, New Jersey (USA), is the second Eastern-rite Catholic bishop to formally reject gay blessings approved by Pope Francis. In today’s world, people are demanding Catholic Liturgical blessings for junctions that are not sacramental unions, and in some cases, are even contrary to natural law. The scriptures foretold false teachers in the Church. The Holy Apostle Jude warned us, “Certain people have crept in unnoticed who long ago were designated for this condemnation, ungodly people, who pervert the grace of our God into sensuality and deny our only Master and Lord, Jesus Christ. … just as Sodom and Gomorrah and the surrounding cities, which likewise indulged in sexual immorality and pursued strange flesh, are set forth as an example, suffering the vengeance of eternal fire … they are hidden reefs at your love feasts; they feast with you without fear, shepherds who feed only themselves. They are waterless clouds driven by the wind. They are like trees in autumn that are doubly dead, for they bear no fruit and are uprooted waves on an angry sea throwing up foam of shame. They are wandering stars for whom is reserved the blackness of darkness forever.” Similarly the Holy Apostle Peter warns us, “There were also false prophets among the people, even as there will be false teachers among you, who will secretly bring in destructive heresies, even denying the Lord who bought them. … For when they speak great pompous words of emptiness, they allure through the lusts of the flesh, through lewdness, the ones who have actually escaped from those who live in error. While they promise them liberty, they themselves are slaves of corruption … For if after they have escaped the pollutions of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, they are again entangled in them and overcome, the latter end is worse for them than the beginning. For it would have been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than having known it, to turn from the holy commandment delivered to them.” The full declaration here: https://byzantinela.com/some-though...ation-of-fiducia-supplicans-from-bishop-kurt/
Those who criticize gay blessings are hypocrites, says the Pope "The gravest sins," the Pope adds, "are those that disguise themselves with a more 'angelic' appearance. No one is scandalised if I give a blessing to an entrepreneur who perhaps exploits people: and this is a very serious sin. Whereas they are scandalised if I give it to a homosexual... This is hypocrisy! We must all respect each other. Everyone! The heart of the document is welcome." Source: https://www.vaticannews.va/en/pope/...yAhQavBeFrSK0edsl2QGJR6qStlXrSHMa7QpfvMDrI_sk
In fact, what Francis is saying here is that those who reject gay blessings are hypocrites because their real concern as Catholics should be the issues between the proletariat and the patronage and and they should value homosexual welcome in the Church...
Very good article found in the Remnant: The Remnant Newspaper - Francis is Gaslighting the World Into Thinking Christianity is a Hate Crime But, the horror of this is that these people don't need a same sex couple blessing, they need SALVATION BLESSING. This is the real gaslighting.
That's shocking. Do you think he might be a bit addled in the head? We're supposed to love each other into Heaven which includes telling those we love to turn away from sin. No wonder the world's in a mess.
This argument that he only blesses people who love each other could easily legitimize polygamy; after all, who could judge what goes on in the heads of each of the "spouses"?
"Luv" is a hippy concept. Wouldn't be long before paedophiles would be looking for blessings, after all they're attempting to legitimise their desires as being only part of a spectrum and thus differentiating these desires from their actions, which they will leave to a later date to legitimise, once the first step is achieved. For now, they "luv" children. Cardinal Muller sets things straight: https://www.firstthings.com/web-exclusives/2024/02/does-fiducia-supplicans-affirm-heresy
He may be whacky from possession maybe but it's pretty obvious that he has an agenda to destroy the Church. This gaslighting towards good Catholics is just to make us look like evil people and it's working well.
In one of the Narnia books--I think its the Silver Chair the two children and this Marsh creature are captured and sent underground to this kingdom that duplicates in every way the world above ground on the land. Even an artificial sun. And they almost fall for it. They are almost lulled into buying into this false world when suddenly one of the children cries "No!" And plunges his hand into a brazier of fire to wake himself up. To break the spell through the terrible pain. The white witch fails. Her gaslighting is resisted. I must reread these books.
Russian Catholic bishops consider blessings for any couple in unusual circumstances unacceptable (Information kalika) The Russian Catholic bishops do not differ from the Orthodox in blessing couples living in sin and reject the content of Fiducia Supplicans. They confirmed this in a statement issued today. In light of the misunderstandings surrounding the Declaration of Fiducia Supplicans, CCER feels it necessary to emphasize that Catholic teaching on the family and marriage remains unchanged. Only a man and a woman united in marriage, together with their children, are a family. The Church recognizes its special responsibility to support and strengthen marriage and the family as a privileged group and the primary unit of society (see CIC, 2002-2009). The Church blesses and surrounds marriage and family with pastoral care. In the spirit of evangelical charity and motherly love, the Church has not and does not refuse to intercede with people in every situation, asking for God’s grace to convert them, to strengthen goodwill, to initiate or continue the path of righteousness. They said: In order to avoid temptation and confusion, CCER draws attention to the fact that the blessings of any type of couple who persist in an unregulated relationship (cohabiting, cohabiting, same-sex) are not acceptable. Absolutely no to Fiducia Supplicans Despite attempts to disguise it, Fiducia Supplicans explicitly talks about the possibility of blessing couples and same-sex couples in abnormal situations in its introduction, and its third chapter is titled “Blessings for Couples and Same-Sex Couples in Abnormal Situations “. Following the example of the vast majority of African bishops and other episcopal conferences (such as Belarus, the Netherlands Antilles, France, the Netherlands, etc.) and bishops around the world, the Russian Catholic bishops countered with facts the facts they were looking for. Citing cultural reasons is a poor excuse for their opposition. All expressed their rejection based on Scripture, tradition, and ecclesiastical authority. Many believers are becoming more and more aware that cultural reasons Rather, they exist among those who defend it. Sources: https://sparkchronicles.com/russian...couple-in-unusual-circumstances-unacceptable/ https://www.infocatolica.com/?t=noticia&cod=48867
Chaldean bishops join other Eastern Rite Catholics in officially rejecting Fiducia Supplicans CV NEWS FEED // Bishops from the Eastern-Rite Chaldean Church have formally rejected the principles contained in Fiducia Supplicans, a December 2023 Vatican directive that authorized blessings for same-sex couples. Joining other Eastern Catholic churches, such as the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church and the Byzantine Catholic Eparchy of Passaic, New Jersey, the Chaldean Bishops recently decided at their annual synod in Baghdad that blessings for same-sex couples would not be permitted within the rite. The Chaldean Synod first published initial conclusions on the Patriarchate of Bahdgad’s website on July 19, in which it addressed grave concerns related to ongoing conflicts throughout the Middle East. However, on July 22, the Synod published another statement in Arabic, in which it announced its decision to forbid blessings for same-sex couples. The statement does not explicitly mention Fiducia Supplicans, but it deals directly with its contents. “As for the union of homosexuals (two people of the same sex), they adopted the following decision,” the statement reads: The Chaldean Church in Iraq and the world does not consider the union of homosexuals to be a marriage, because it considers the marriage between a male and a female to be the correct legal marriage for building a family, and refuses to bless the union of homosexuals, in order to preserve the sanctity of marriage, which is one of the seven sacraments. Eastern churches (both those in and out of communion with Rome) have largely rejected the controversial Vatican document, which the Dicastery for the Doctrine of Faith released on the heels of the Synod on Synodality last year. As CatholicVote previously reported, the Coptic Orthodox Church rejected Fiducia Supplicans in March, “after consultation with the sister churches of the Eastern Orthodox family.” The church further suspended theological dialogue with Rome, stating that it would need to “establish new standards and mechanisms,” for the relationship to be restored. - Source: https://catholicvote.org/eastern-rite-chaldean-church-rejects-fiducia-supplicans/
It seems that Malachi Martin was right when he said that salvation would come from the East: Eastern churches defending tradition, along with Africa, under the mantle of protection of Our Lady of Fatima, whose devotion to her Immaculate Heart still faces restrictions in Russia.
