New president of JPII Institute for Marriage and Family comes out in favor of homosexual blessing...

[Michie]

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He will take office in Rome at the end of the summer. But Philippe Bordeyne (in the photo), the new president of the John Paul II Pontifical Theological Institute for Marriage and Family Sciences, has already shown his cards in advance. And he has done so precisely on the most explosive issue in the Church today, that of the blessing of homosexual couples.

In an essay in “Transversalités,” the magazine of the Institut Catholique of Paris of which he has been rector up to now, Bordeyne holds that yes, it is a good thing to bless homosexual couples “when they solicit the Church’s prayer to accompany their love, their union,” albeit with the double precaution of blessing them “preferably” in a liturgical form “of a private nature” and with a personal blessing for each member of the couple, “in order to mark the difference with the nuptial blessing prayers.”

The essay is worth reading in its entirety. But this is already enough to understand how Bordeyne ranks not among the obedient but among the rebels against the “Responsum” with which on March 15 the congregation for the doctrine of the faith prohibited the blessing of homosexual couples. A “Responsum” immediately rejected by bishops, priests, and faithful above all from Germany and thereabouts, including Cardinal Christoph Schönborn, and instead defended with drawn sword by another cardinal like Camillo Ruini, with Pope Francis in the middle leaning now this way and now that, without ever making it clear which side he will end up on for good.

Now, that the new president of the John Paul II Pontifical Theological Institute for Marriage and Family Sciences should thus place himself at the antipodes of the doctrine and pastoral care of the perennial Church - and on “something that the Church cannot do, neither now nor ever,” as Cardinal Ruini has reiterated, because “only what is in keeping with God’s plan can be blessed, not what is contrary to it, such as unions between persons of the same sex” - is a sign of a definitive route reversal in the history of this institute, just as it celebrates its forty years of life.

Continued below.
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[eastcoast_bsc]

These are such deceptive weasel words. Once that camel nose gets under the tent then there will no stopping them unless Christ intervenes. They seek to destroy the faith.

“when they solicit the Church’s prayer to accompany their love, their union,” albeit with the double precaution of blessing them “preferably” in a liturgical form “of a private nature” and with a personal blessing for each member of the couple, “in order to mark the difference with the nuptial blessing prayers.”