The following report is by The National Catholic Reporter:
While extremely narrow in scope, the Dec. 18 “declaration” from the powerful Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith may serve as the most concrete pastoral shift on the church’s stance toward gay couples in the church’s centuries’ long history.
SEE: Pope Francis Says ‘Being Homosexual Is Not A Crime’
The publication of the eight-page document, “Fiducia supplicans: on the pastoral meaning of blessings,” comes less than three months after Pope Francis had personally opened the door to such a possibility in response to five retired conservative Catholic cardinals who had written to the pontiff about whether such blessings might be possible.
While the new document distinguishes between liturgical blessings and spontaneous or personal ones, it states that Catholic priests may offer blessings to gay couples or those in “irregular” unions, if requested as a matter of popular piety or devotion. It also states that the couples “should not be required to have prior moral perfection” as a precondition for obtaining the blessing.
A blessing may be imparted that not only has an ascending value but also involves the invocation of a blessing that descends from God upon those who — recognizing themselves to be destitute and in need of his help — do not claim a legitimation of their own status, but who beg that all that is true, good, and humanly valid in their lives and their relationships be enriched, healed, and elevated by the presence of the Holy Spirit.
The document states
Blessings under this form, the document says, serve as a prayer that God may aid such relationships so they “may mature and grow in fidelity to the Gospel, that they may be freed from their imperfections and frailties, and that they may express themselves in the ever increasing dimension of the divine love.”
While the declaration paves new ground for the pastoral practices of individual priests, it explicitly forbids that such blessings take place within the context of a liturgical celebration and does not allow for them to “be performed with any clothing, gestures, or words that are proper to a wedding.”
Under the limited conditions the new guidelines outline, such blessings must be personally administered by the minister without any prepared texts or rituals developed by a national bishops’ conference.
The new Vatican instructions could force a course correction to a number of Catholic bishops’ conferences in Europe, where various guidelines have been drafted or published in recent months.
In September, the Catholic bishops of Belgium published guidelines that included a prayer and blessing for same-sex unions, while distinguishing those blessings from sacramental marriage ceremonies.
In March, Catholic bishops in Germany voted to approve plans for same-sex blessings, and in September, several priests in Cologne held a public blessing of gay couples in defiance of their diocese’s conservative leader.
Earlier this month, the Church of England officially sanctioned same-sex blessings for couples, including within the context of its liturgies, though the church still forbids church weddings for gay couples. As within the Catholic Church, the move has been the source of intense debate for years.
The Dec. 18 Vatican declaration marks a significant tonal shift from past Catholic documents on gay blessings and is co-signed by the prefect of the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith, Cardinal Víctor Manuel Fernández, and the office’s doctrinal secretary, Msgr. Armando Matteo.
In July, Francis initiated a major shakeup at the doctrinal office when he appointed Fernández, a fellow Argentine and longtime theological adviser, to lead the office.
In one of his first interviews, Fernández indicated that the question of gay blessings would likely be examined, following a controversial decree on the same issue from the office in 2021 that tersely said God “cannot bless sin.”
While the new declaration acknowledges the 2021 decree, it states that it is time to “broaden” the church’s perspective on blessings.
There is the danger that a pastoral gesture that is so beloved and widespread will be subjected to too many moral prerequisites, which, under the claim of control, could overshadow the unconditional power of God’s love that forms the basis for the gesture of blessing.
The document states.
AUTHOR COMMENTARY
He that justifieth the wicked, and he that condemneth the just, even they both are abomination to the LORD.
Proverbs 17:15
It’s also important to note that Francis has been suspending and firing bishops in recent months, who have been staunch critics of Francis and his policies, and take a more conservative, traditionalist approach.
The Vatican, including its many backchannels and front groups and agents they use to enact change for the worse – is continuing to use progressivism and Francis as a means of tearing down nations, and ultimately bringing the judgment of God upon these lands, and the truly saved who have fallen victims to their devices. It’s the doctrine of Balaam in a nutshell when you get right down to it.
[13] I know thy works, and where thou dwellest, even where Satan’s seat is: and thou holdest fast my name, and hast not denied my faith, even in those days wherein Antipas was my faithful martyr, who was slain among you, where Satan dwelleth. [14] But I have a few things against thee, because thou hast there them that hold the doctrine of Balaam, who taught Balac to cast a stumblingblock before the children of Israel, to eat things sacrificed unto idols, and to commit fornication. [15] So hast thou also them that hold the doctrine of the Nicolaitans, which thing I hate. [16] Repent; or else I will come unto thee quickly, and will fight against them with the sword of my mouth. Revelation 2:13-16
Satan, who ultimately runs the Vatican, and through the Vatican’s co-opted networks they’ve taken over, will continue to use all these progressive ideologies to continuously destroy the nations with. It will stay this way until the population has been cut down to size, and the outcry and fury of those that remain demand if not even force a change to occur. Then, the Vatican will begin to more openly get radical and divert back to the fascist side of them, playing on people’s sentiments of anger demanding a new order and new structure.
[7] Who goeth a warfare any time at his own charges? who planteth a vineyard, and eateth not of the fruit thereof? or who feedeth a flock, and eateth not of the milk of the flock? [8] Say I these things as a man? or saith not the law the same also? [9] For it is written in the law of Moses, Thou shalt not muzzle the mouth of the ox that treadeth out the corn. Doth God take care for oxen? [10] Or saith he it altogether for our sakes? For our sakes, no doubt, this is written: that he that ploweth should plow in hope; and that he that thresheth in hope should be partaker of his hope. (1 Corinthians 9:7-10).
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Well, if there was any doubt that the Roman Catholic Church was of Satan, here’s the proof.
Rev 17:4 And the woman was arrayed in purple and scarlet colour, and decked with gold and precious stones and pearls, having a golden cup in her hand full of abominations and filthiness of her fornication:
Rev 17:5 And upon her forehead was a name written, MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS AND ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH.
Letters from five bishops….well, there’s your signal to the initiated. Death, the delight & twisted ‘hope’ and ‘salvation’ of the satanic & devils. The day five fowls of the air and creatures of the sea warped to prince of the power of the air and Leviathan, & Genesis 5 KJB. But also God’s good creation and provision for his own, relationship by the word and Spirit as we walk with him: grace that is sufficient to any trial, the added hope of the rapture translation, reminding God’s people of the blessed hope & the light of his word, the need to circumspect and separated living, to stand firm, awake, alert and sober, and with both eyes wide open: watching. Striving, encouraging, exhorting one another with charity amongst the brethren not to grow weary of well-doing, the plain duty and good works we are saved to, relying on his grace and righteousness, enjoying the blessings along the way that remain, even now in these darkening days. Sharing God’s good will toward mankind while hating and fearing, be-waring of that flesh stained with sin.
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I see they use the ‘buzzwords’ of the builders and the ‘gods’ calling lies truth and evil good, mixing the holy with the profane: ‘ever-expanding divine love’ and ‘elevation’. Puff, puff, puffing sin & pride, and climb, climb, climbing….even upon & over the piles of betrayed and dead bodies in their any means to their master’s end & counterfeit ‘salvation’. No peace nor rest for the wicked.
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In agreement that it is indeed the sorcerous tactic of Balaam and that old tempter and accuser of the brethren: ever-expanding fornications & corruptions, abominations of idolatrous humanism; and climbing that Babel pyramid ladder of antichrist and false Pontifex Maximus. Sophist philosophers with their evolving truth and tradition…..noting the lack of silver in & about her, too. Utter lack and all flesh, earthly and devilish spirit of Man vomit and wallows, and with Rome and her Zephaniah chemarim necromancers promoting all of the abominations of Leviticus 18 and Deuteronomy 18, lifting and worshipping their Molech and Chiun, their star of Remphan, and their 666 fools’ gold while pretending that their own service to & embrace of those things & their 1 Timothy 4 abominations aren’t the root & a large part of the cause of what they then turn & pretend to stand against.
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Come soon.
That seals it folks! undeniably confirmed ONCE AGAIN the children of the white horse rider with the bow over his head.
Hope them souls come running off the heaping coal pews now. The time is at hand.