Festival of Heresy: Francis "Allows" Homosexual "Blessings"
He claims to be offering a "broadening and enrichment" of the "Catholic" understanding of the blessings. However, he instead presents an absurdity that he sarcastically calls "a real development".
To deceive his audience, he first copied a few lines from the Catechism. Fernández correctly states that all sexual relations find their natural, proper and fully human meaning only in a marriage between a man and a woman, open to the procreation of children.
"The Church's teaching on this point remains firm," he says. Nevertheless, he suggests that a liturgical rite of homosexual "blessing" - the "blessing" of mortal sin - is possible. It should just not contradict the aforementioned truth or create confusion, what is precisely the case.
Tucho believes that the Church can "bless" mortal sin as long as those involved in it agree that their concubinage is not marriage or implies "an extramarital sexual practice".
But then he goes on to say that "pastoral prudence and wisdom" (sic) allow a priest to "join in the prayer of those persons who, although in a [gravely sinful] union that cannot in any way be compared to marriage, wish to entrust themselves to the Lord and to his mercy".
In this way, Tucho comes up with "the possibility of blessing couples in irregular situations and for couples of the same sex.
He insists that the form of these sacrilegious "blessings" should not be officially defined, "to avoid confusion with the blessing proper to the sacrament of marriage". In practice, therefore, the same forms will be used as for the "sacrament of marriage" in the Novus Ordo.
Picture: Tucho Fernández © Mazur/cbcew.org.uk, CC BY-NC-ND, #newsHwmkzoglvt
