Fiducia supplicans is a declaration published by the Holy See's Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith on December 18, 2023, signed by Prefect Cardinal Víctor Manuel Fernández and approved with a signature by Pope Francis.[1][2] The declaration has sparked considerable controversy and criticism among Catholics, Conservative commentators, clerical congregations, and a number of high-profile individuals.[3][4]

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References

  1. ↑ Fiducia Suplicans
  2. ↑ Fiducia Suplicans Official Press Release
  3. ↑ Coppen, Luke (19 December 2023). "'Fiducia supplicans': Who's saying what?". The Pillar. Archived from the original on 21 December 2023. Retrieved 21 December 2023.
  4. ↑ Imray, Gerald (December 22, 2023). "Some Catholic bishops reject Pope's stance on blessings for same-sex couples. Others are confused". AP News. Archived from the original on 23 December 2023. Retrieved 24 December 2023.
  5. ↑ "Bispos da CEAST em revolta contra decisão do Papa". Voice of America (in Portuguese). 2023-12-24. Retrieved 2024-01-02.
  6. ↑ "Statement from the Bishops of the Antilles Episcopal Conference on the Declarations, "Fiducia Supplicans"". Antilles Episcopal Conference. 2023-12-22. Retrieved 2024-01-02.
  7. 1 2 3 Atemanke, Jude (4 January 2024). "Fiducia Supplicans: Plus de réactions des évêques catholiques d'Afrique sur la bénédiction des couples de même sexe" [Fiducia Supplicans: More reactions of African Catholic bishops on the blessings of same-sex couples]. aciafrique (EWTN) (in French). Retrieved 10 January 2024.
  8. ↑ Atemanke, Jude (2023-12-21). "Fiducia Supplicans: Catholic Bishops in Burkina Faso, Niger Urge Calmness, "firm" Faith". ACI Africa. Retrieved 2024-01-02.
  9. ↑ "COMMUNIQUE DE LA CONFERENCE DES EVEQUES CATHOLIQUES DU BURUNDI CONCERNANT LA DECLARATION FIDUCIA SUPPLICANS DU DICASTERE POUR LA DOCTRINE DE LA FOI". Eglise Catholique du Burundi (in French). 2023-12-23. Retrieved 2024-01-02.
  10. ↑ Djene, Erel (2023-12-22). "Les Évêques du Cameroun contre les bénédictions des couples homosexuels (Déclaration)". Actu Cameroun. Retrieved 2024-01-01.
  11. ↑ Aineah, Agnes (2023-12-21). "We've No "rites for such things": Bishop in Ghana on Blessing of Same-Sex Couples". ACI Africa. Retrieved 2024-01-02.
  12. ↑ "Haïti - FLASH : Le Vatican autorise la bénédiction des couples homosexuels, réactions des évêques d'Haïti - HaitiLibre.com : Toutes les nouvelles d'Haiti 7/7". HaitiLibre.com. 2023-12-24. Retrieved 2024-01-02.
  13. ↑ "A Magyar Katolikus Püspöki Konferencia (MKPK) közleménye az áldásokról" [Announcement of the Hungarian Catholic Bishops' Conference (MKPK) on blessings]. Magyar Kurír (in Hungarian). 27 December 2023. Retrieved 2 January 2024. Hazánk lelkipásztori helyzetét mérlegelve a Püspöki Konferencia útmutatásként fogalmazza meg a lelkipásztorok számára, hogy nemi identitásától és szexuális orientációjától függetlenül egyénenként minden embert megáldhatunk, mindig kerülni kell azonban azt, hogy a pusztán párkapcsolatban együtt élő, az egyházilag nem érvényes házasságban vagy egynemű párkapcsolatban élő párok számára közös áldást adjunk. [Considering the pastoral situation in our country, the Episcopal Conference formulates guidance for pastors, stating that we can bless each person individually, regardless of their gender identity and sexual orientation. However, it is always necessary to avoid giving a joint blessing to couples living together in non-church-sanctioned marriages or same-sex partnerships.]
  14. ↑ "Religion : l'Église catholique de Côte d'Ivoire demande aux prêtres de s'abstenir des bénédictions de couples de même sexe et ceux en situation irrégulière (Officiel) - Abidjan.net News". abidjan.net (in French). 2023-12-27. Retrieved 2024-01-02.
  15. ↑ Fr. James A (Faith-Chat Platform) (2023-12-20). "The Catholic Bishop's Conference of Nigeria releases a statement on the new document "Fiducia Supplicans"". Twitter. Retrieved 2024-01-01.
  16. ↑ EWTN. ""Blessings for same sex unions of any kind are not permitted in Malawi": Catholic Bishops". ACI Africa. Retrieved 2024-01-07.
  17. ↑ Secretariado Geral (2023-12-28). "Nota Pastoral da Conferencia Episcopal de Mocambique sobre o significado das Bencaos". Conferencia Episcopal de Mocambique (in Spanish). Retrieved 2023-01-01.
  18. ↑ Gęsiak SJ, Leszek (21 December 2023). "Rzecznik Episkopatu: Deklaracja Fiducia supplicans w niczym nie zmienia dotychczasowego nauczania Kościoła | Konferencja Episkopatu Polski". Polish Episcopal Conference (in Polish). Retrieved 7 January 2024. Zarówno Deklaracja jak i Nota stwierdzają, że „nie wyklucza [się] udzielania błogosławieństwa pojedynczym osobom o skłonnościach homoseksualnych, które przejawiają pragnienie życia w wierności objawionym planom Bożym, tak jak naucza Kościół". Chodzi zatem o pojedyncze osoby żyjące w całkowitej wstrzemięźliwości. [Both the Declaration and the Note state that "the blessing of individual persons with homosexual tendencies who manifest the desire to live in fidelity to the revealed plans of God, as taught by the Church, is not excluded." Therefore, we are talking about individual people living in complete abstinence.]
  19. ↑ Arnold, Tyler (22 December 2023). "Polish bishops: Church does not have authority to 'bless same-sex unions'". Catholic News Agency. Retrieved 7 January 2024. Catholic bishops in Poland have ruled out the possibility of blessing "same-sex unions" but remain open to blessing individuals with homosexual tendencies, only if they are "living in complete abstinence" of sexual activities. [...] The Polish bishops' statement did not expressly criticize the Vatican declaration but appeared to conflict with the guidance contained within it.
  20. ↑ Archdiocese Of Kigali (2023-12-20). "Itangazo ry'Abepiskopi Gatolika mu Rwanda ku mugisha wahabwa umugabo n'umugore babana bitemewe na Kiliziya n'ababana bahuje igitsina". Twitter (in Kinyarwanda). Retrieved 2024-01-01.
  21. ↑ Secretum Meum Mihi (2023-12-28). "Obispos de Senegal toman posición sobre Declaración Fiducia supplicans". Blogspot (in Spanish). Retrieved 2024-01-02.
  22. ↑ "RORATE CÆLI: Ukraine Bishops Conference Chooses Sides: Against Francis' Gay Declaration - "There is no blessing for living in sin": "The document does not provide clear distinctions"". RORATE CÆLI. 2023-12-19. Retrieved 2024-01-02.
  23. ↑ Staff, Crux (2023-12-24). "Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church announces Fiducia Supplicans 'has no legal force' for its followers". Catholic Herald. Retrieved 2024-01-07.
  24. ↑ https://ugcc.ua/en/data/communiqu-on-the-reception-in-the-ugcc-of-the-declaration-of-the-dicastery-of-the-doctrine-of-the-faith-fiducia-supplicans-on-the-pastoral-meaning-of-blessings-823/
  25. ↑ Fr. Edmond Nyoka (2023-12-20). "Zambia Episcopal Conference. My neighboring country". Twitter. Retrieved 2024-01-01.
  26. ↑ Catholic Sat (2023-12-22). "The Bishops of Zimbabwe: "In respect of the law of the land, our culture and for moral reasons we instruct pastors to desist from actions that may be deemed as the blessing of same sex unions bringing confusion and even scandal to our people"". Twitter. Retrieved 2024-01-01.
  27. ↑ Ravasi, Javier Olivera (2023-12-19). "Un arzobispo prohíbe la bendición de parejas en su arquidiócesis". InfoCatólica (in Spanish). Retrieved 2024-01-02.
  28. ↑ "Video di monsignor Viganò sulla "Fiducia supplicans"". Aldo Maria Valli (in Italian). 2023-12-21. Retrieved 2024-01-02.
  29. ↑ Viganò, Carlo Maria (2023-12-21). "Declaration on "Fiducia supplicans"". EXSURGE DOMINE. Retrieved 2024-01-07. The delirious Declaration Fiducia Supplicans, recently published by the parody of the former Holy Office renamed the Dicastery, definitively pierces the veil of hypocrisy and deception of the Bergoglian Hierarchy, showing these false shepherds for what they really are: servants of Satan and his most zealous allies, beginning with the usurper who sits - an abomination of desolation - on the Throne of Peter.
  30. ↑ "Mons. Chaput sobre Fiducia supplicans: "La ambigüedad deliberada o persistente no es de Dios"". InfoCatólica (in Spanish). 2023-12-23. Retrieved 2024-01-02.
  31. ↑ Tapia, Carlos (2023-12-24). "Sturla cree que instrucción de Vaticano sobre parejas del mismo sexo "no debió surgir en Navidad" y no bendecirá este tipo de uniones". EL PAIS (in Spanish). Retrieved 2024-01-02.
  32. ↑ kath.net (2024-01-05). ""Die weltweite negative Reaktion aus großen Teilen des Weltepiskopates" auf Fiducia supplicans". kath.net katholische Nachrichten (in German). Retrieved 2024-01-05.
  33. ↑ Luxmoore, Jonathan (5 January 2024). "Episcopate gives Rome a rough ride over Fiducia Supplicans declaration". Church Times. Retrieved 7 January 2024. Another former Vatican Prefect, German Cardinal Müller, rejected the Declaration on 21 December, however, branding it a "sacrilegious and blasphemous act against the Creator's plan", which "directly contradicted" previous Vatican guidance and was "not based on any church doctrine, biblical teaching, writings by church Fathers or Doctors of the Church".
  34. ↑ jesus sanz montes (2023-12-22). "Es controvertida Fiducia Supplicans. Innecesaria tras lo dicho por el mismo Dicasterio y avalado por el mismo Papa hace sólo 2 años. Una prisa poco sinodal y una pretensión ambigua en un documento que confunde y defrauda. Bendecimos las personas no las relaciones y circunstancias". Twitter (in Spanish). Retrieved 2024-01-01.
  35. ↑ "Mons. Munilla explica por qué la Iglesia no puede bendecir uniones homosexuales ni hoy ni nunca". InfoCatólica (in Spanish). 2023-10-10. Retrieved 2024-01-02.
  36. ↑ Esteban, Carlos (2023-12-19). "Obispo Strickland: Tenemos que decir "no" a la bendición de parejas homosexuales". Info Vaticana (in Spanish). Retrieved 2024-01-01.
  37. ↑ "Mons Aillet sobre Fiducia Supplicans: bendecir solo a personas, no a parejas y con llamada previa a la conversión y a pedir ayuda". InfoCatólica (in Spanish). 2023-12-30. Retrieved 2024-01-02.
  38. ↑ Esteban, Carlos (21 December 2023). "Obispo emérito suizo: "No puede bendecirse una unión pecaminosa"" [Swiss bishop emeritus: "A sinful union cannot be blessed"]. InfoVaticana (in Spanish). Retrieved 2024-01-01. El llamado magisterio de Francisco, que se presenta como algo nuevo y sin precedentes en comparación con la tradición, es un neologismo conceptual sin sentido del cardenal Fernández [...] Por lo tanto, sigue siendo cierto que una práctica y unión pecaminosas no pueden ser bendecidas porque contradice el orden de la creación y la voluntad de Dios, y en tal caso, la bendición no puede ser dada ni recibida fructíferamente [...] Por eso [personas] pueden recibir la bendición para crecer en la gracia y para el éxito de sus esfuerzos morales y de sus próximos pasos en la buena dirección, pero no como pareja por el malentendido y la imposibilidad de tal bendición. [The so-called magisterium of Francis, which is presented as something new and unprecedented compared to tradition, is a meaningless conceptual neologism of Cardinal Fernández [...] Therefore, it remains true that a sinful practice and union cannot be blessed because it contradicts the order of creation and the will of God, and in such case, the blessing cannot be given or received fruitfully [...] Therefore [people] can receive the blessing to grow in grace and to the success of their moral efforts and their next steps in the right direction, but not as a couple due to the misunderstanding and the impossibility of such a blessing.]
  39. ↑ "Statement of the Bishops of South Dakota – Joint Letter of Fiducia Supplicans". Catholic Diocese of Sioux Falls. 2023-12-22. Retrieved 2024-01-01.
  40. ↑ Kinyanjui, Moses (2023-12-24). "Archbishop Anyolo defies Pope's decision, forbids blessing of same-sex couples in Nairobi". Citizen Digital. Retrieved 2024-01-02.
  41. ↑ Onyalla, Fr. Don Bosco (2023-12-24). "Nairobi Archbishop Prohibits Blessing of Irregular Unions, Explains "concept of blessing"". ACI Africa. Retrieved 2024-01-02.
  42. ↑ "https://www.prelaturademoyobamba.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/24.01.02-Mensaje-del-Ob.-de-Moyobamba-sobre-Fiducia-Supplicans.pdf" (PDF). {{cite web}}: External link in |title= (help)
  43. ↑ Sarah, Robert (8 January 2024). "Messaggio di Natale" [Christmas message]. www.diakonos.be (in Italian). Retrieved 8 January 2024.
  44. ↑ Staff, Crux (2023-12-24). "Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church announces Fiducia Supplicans 'has no legal force' for its followers". Catholic Herald. Retrieved 2024-01-07.
  45. 1 2 Luxmoore, Jonathan (5 January 2024). "Episcopate gives Rome a rough ride over Fiducia Supplicans declaration". Church Times. Retrieved 7 January 2024. Several Orthodox leaders, including Metropolitan Hilarion (Alfeyev), formerly the Russian Orthodox Church's Foreign Minister and now Metropolitan of Budapest, have also strongly criticised Fiducia Supplicans, while the Primate of the Greek Catholic Church in Ukraine, Major Archbishop Svetoslav Shevchuk, said in a statement last week that the Declaration would not apply to the world's 23 autonomous Eastern Rite Catholic confessions, which followed separate canonical rules.
  46. 1 2 Peta, Thomasz; Schneider, Athanasius (19 December 2023). "Statement of the Archdiocese of Saint Mary in Astana regarding the Declaration Fiducia supplicans, published by the Dicastery of the Doctrine of Faith and approved by Pope Francis on December 18, 2023". Catholic Herald. Retrieved 6 January 2024. The fact that the document does not give permission for the "marriage" of same-sex couples should not blind pastors and faithful to the great deception and the evil that resides in the very permission to bless couples in irregular situations and same-sex couples. Such a blessing directly and seriously contradicts Divine Revelation and the uninterrupted, bimillennial doctrine and practice of the Catholic Church. To bless couples in an irregular situation and same-sex couples is a serious abuse of the most Holy Name of God, since this name is invoked upon an objectively sinful union of adultery or of homosexual activity. [..] With such blessings, the Catholic Church becomes, if not in theory, then in practice, a propagandist of the globalist and ungodly "gender ideology".
  47. ↑ Luxmoore, Jonathan (5 January 2024). "Episcopate gives Rome a rough ride over Fiducia Supplicans declaration". Church Times. Retrieved 7 January 2024. In one of the strongest RC reactions, Archbishop Tomasz Peta of Kazakhstan's Astana diocese, said that Pope Francis had disregarded "truth of the gospel" and should revoke the blessing permit, which "most seriously abused the Holy Name of God" and embodied a "great deception and evil".
  48. ↑ "El obispo emérito de Baní pide a todas las conferencias episcopales del mundo que se planten contra las bendiciones a parejas homosexuales". Info Vaticana (in Spanish). 2023-12-22. Retrieved 2024-01-01.
  49. ↑ Secretum Meum Mihi (2023-12-20). "Obispos de Nigeria sobre Declaración Fiducia supplicans: "No Hay, por tanto, posibilidad en la Iglesia de bendecir las uniones y actividades entre personas del mismo sexo"". Blogspot (in Spanish). Retrieved 2024-01-02.
  50. ↑ Colsy, Thomas (21 December 2023). "UK's Confraternity of Catholic Clergy publishes letter reaffirming traditional Church teaching after Fiducia Supplicans". Catholic Herald. Retrieved 5 January 2024. We see no situation in which such a blessing of a couple could be properly and adequately distinguished from some level of approval. Thus, it would inevitably lead to scandal – to the individuals concerned – to those involved directly or indirectly in the blessing – or to the minister himself. Furthermore, we fear that the practice of these blessings would confuse the faithful over the actual theology of marriage and human sexuality. Indeed, from the comments in the media over the past few days, and from concerns passed on to us by the faithful, we can already see such misunderstandings. We believe that genuine charity always follows true doctrine and that such blessings would work against the legitimate care a priest owes is flock.
  51. ↑ "PETICION AL SANTO PADRE POR AMOR A LA VERDAD Y EN FIDELIDAD AL EVANGELIO DE NUESTRO SEÑOR JESUCRISTO". CORPORACIÓN DE ABOGADOS CATÓLICOS (in Spanish). Retrieved 2024-01-01.
  52. ↑ Confraternity (2022-07-31). "Statements - Confraternity of Catholic Clergy". Retrieved 2024-01-05.
  53. ↑ Feed, CV News (2023-12-22). "Marians of the Immaculate Conception to Refrain from Blessing Same-Sex Couples". CatholicVote org. Retrieved 2024-01-06.
  54. ↑ https://fsspx.news/en/news/communique-superior-general-sspx-41522
  55. ↑ Thompson, Damian (4 January 2024). "Tweet by Damian Thompson". X. Retrieved 7 January 2024. This is an embarrassing mess, written in a cold sweat of panic by Cardinal Fernandez. He's clearly worried that Fiducia Supplicans could cost him his job – as indeed it should. Bishops are being treated with contempt, and the reckoning will come at the conclave.
  56. ↑ Thompson, Damian (22 December 2023). "Tweet by Damian Thompson". X. Retrieved 7 January 2024. Fiducia Supplicans is a screw-up of historic proportions and certain to influence the next conclave.
  57. ↑ de Souza, Raymond J. (4 January 2024). "'Fiducia Supplicans' 2.0". NCR. Retrieved 7 January 2024. It is startling that the prefect thought it necessary to issue a press statement insisting that the DDF is not teaching heresy or promoting blasphemy. Memory fails to recall an example of Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger doing the same during his more than 23 years as prefect. It was, only months ago, assumed that the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith was neither heretical nor blasphemous. Given that many bishops are questioning that, we have an inversion of the previous order of things. It used to be that the doctrinal office would clarify orthodox teaching and then others would defend their orthodoxy. Now, the dicastery pronounces itself, and when local bishops object, the prefect protests his orthodoxy. This is "certainly something very different" indeed.
  58. ↑ Ashenden, Gavin (21 December 2023). "Fiducia Supplicans: an exercise in smoke and mirrors, where spin becomes substance and appearance reality". Catholic Herald. Retrieved 7 January 2024. [The distinction between orthodoxy and orthopraxy] is for many confusing. Once again, the hallmarks that have coloured the last ten years or so of this papacy re-emerge: ambiguity, confusion and perhaps chaos. [...] At this point, in some act of metaphysical subtlety, too swift for the eye to follow or the mind to understand, they have been blessed as "individuals who presented as a couple". To some this may seem a little Jesuitical. [...] The homespun wisdom amongst hunters or the rural community that "If it looks like a duck, swims like a duck, and quacks like a duck, then it probably is a duck", becomes for faithful Catholics: "If it looks like heresy, reads like heresy, and effects heresy, then it probably is heresy."
  59. ↑ ""Contextual" theology and Fiducia Supplicans". Position Papers. 2024-01-01. Retrieved 2024-01-06.
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  61. ↑ Shaw, Joseph. "Briefing from the Chairman 3 - The Blessing of Irregular Relationships". Mad Mimi. Retrieved 2024-01-06. The predictable headlines on the Church accepting sex outside marriage undermine the proclamation of the Gospel and harm souls. Good priests are demoralised, and bishops wishing to teach authentically risk being told that they are contradicting the Pope.
  62. ↑ Coppen, Luke (2023-12-19). "'Fiducia supplicans': Who's saying what?". The Pillar. Retrieved 2024-01-07. The question before us is not necessarily about the doctrine of marriage, which remains unchanged, but whether the Church and its pastors have any mandate to bless 'irregular' and same-sex relationships (para 4 and passim). Based on Scripture and the unvarying teaching of the Church down the ages, the answer has always been that the Church cannot do this. The 2021 Responsum was clear about this. [...] Blessings can be for individuals, families or groups (para 8). This is not the same as blessing relationships which the Church teaches are outside the will of God for humanity. [...] There seems to be some unclarity in the declaration about the distinction between intercessory prayer and blessing. [...] Loving persons is not the same as endorsing and blessing everything they may be doing.
  63. ↑ Kwasniewski, Peter (5 January 2024). "A Clarification That Obfuscates". Crisis Magazine. Retrieved 7 January 2024. In many ways, the clarification published by Cardinal Fernández on January 4, 2024, is even worse than the original document it purports to clarify [...] For what it's worth, that makes Fiducia Supplicans a good example of the ivory-tower, armchair, ideological theology Francis criticized in Ad Theologiam Promovendam.
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  65. ↑ Marshall, Taylor (19 December 2023). "Tweet by Dr Taylor Marshall™️". X. Retrieved 7 January 2024. Every Catholic priest will now be forced to give blessings to same sex couples. If they refuse, they will be reported to diocese & punished. This is a systemic plan to reshape the priesthood globally. Time will prove my observation to be true, unless a future Pope fixes it.
  66. ↑ Marshall, Taylor (18 December 2023). "Tweet by Dr Taylor Marshall™️". X. Retrieved 7 January 2024. This is Jesuit trickery: #INFILTRATION
  67. ↑ Mohler, Albert (19 December 2023). "The Briefing". albertmohler.com. Retrieved 7 January 2024. The bottom line is that this is a disaster. It's a disaster I think on many fronts, but in particular it's a disaster because the impact of this in the larger culture is going to be to add momentum to the very forces that are tearing apart gender, tearing apart sexuality, tearing apart civilization, tearing apart marriage, tearing apart sexual morality, and all the rest.
  68. ↑ Webb, Katelyn (19 December 2023). "Franklin Graham says Pope Francis doesn't have the right to bless 'what God calls sin'". The Christian Post. Retrieved 7 January 2024. So-called 'blessings' from religious leaders won't save you from the judgment of God!" wrote Graham, the president of the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association and Samaritan's Purse. "Pope Francis has now approved Catholic priests' blessing' same-sex couples. But none of us, including the Pope, has the right to 'bless' what God calls sin. 'Woe to those who call evil good and good evil…' (Isaiah 5:20).
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