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Issuing an energetic and thoroughgoing critique of Fiducia Supplicans, Bishop Rafael Escudero of Peru has ordered his priests to “not perform any form of blessing” for same-sex couples or couples in an irregular situation.
“On the day of my episcopal ordination I solemnly swore ‘to preserve the deposit of faith in purity and integrity, in accordance with the tradition always and everywhere observed in the Church since the time of the apostles. For this reason, I admonish the priests of the Prelature of Moyobamba not to perform any form of blessing for couples in an irregular situation or for same-sex couples,” the bishop of the Peruvian territorial prelature of Moyobamba explained in a pastoral message posted on the prelature’s website.
As Bishop Escudero sees it, the dicastery’s document “harms the communion of the Church, since such blessings directly and seriously contradict divine revelation and the doctrine and uninterrupted practice of the Catholic Church, including the recent magisterium of Pope Francis, which is why there are no quotations throughout the declaration that are supported by the previous magisterium.”
“In its 2021 ‘Responsum,’ the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith told us with the signature of the Holy Father that ‘the Church does not have, and cannot have, the power to bless unions of persons of the same sex,’” Bishop Escudero noted.
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“On the day of my episcopal ordination I solemnly swore ‘to preserve the deposit of faith in purity and integrity, in accordance with the tradition always and everywhere observed in the Church since the time of the apostles. For this reason, I admonish the priests of the Prelature of Moyobamba not to perform any form of blessing for couples in an irregular situation or for same-sex couples,” the bishop of the Peruvian territorial prelature of Moyobamba explained in a pastoral message posted on the prelature’s website.
As Bishop Escudero sees it, the dicastery’s document “harms the communion of the Church, since such blessings directly and seriously contradict divine revelation and the doctrine and uninterrupted practice of the Catholic Church, including the recent magisterium of Pope Francis, which is why there are no quotations throughout the declaration that are supported by the previous magisterium.”
“In its 2021 ‘Responsum,’ the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith told us with the signature of the Holy Father that ‘the Church does not have, and cannot have, the power to bless unions of persons of the same sex,’” Bishop Escudero noted.
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Peruvian Bishop Escudero Delivers Comprehensive Critique of Blessing Irregular Couples
Bishop Escudero ordered his priests to not give a blessing to couples of the same sex or in an irregular situation.
