Tucho Issues Clarification of Sodoma supplicans: "No Room For Doctrinal Dissociation"
Cardinal Tucho Fernández issued a five-page statement on January 4 to "clarify" the scrawl 'Fiducia Supplicans', published 17 days earlier.
Tucho argues now that the implementation may vary in different cultural and ecclesial contexts. But the scrawl must be respected as “a text signed and approved by the Pope himself”. There can be “no total or definitive rejection of this way proposed to priests.”
And, “There is no room to distance ourselves doctrinally from this Declaration or to consider it heretical, contrary to the Tradition of the Church or blasphemous.”
For Tucho, the real novelty of the scrawl is not the pairwise blessing of sinners but the invention of “spontaneous or pastoral” blessings as distinct from liturgical or ritual ones [which, despite the sophistry, are the same in nature]:
“We all need (!) to grow equally in the conviction that: non-ritualized blessings […] are not a justification of all their actions, and they are not an endorsement of the life that they lead.”
Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith proposes blessing
Finally, Tucho suggests a rite for his non-ritual blessing. It should last between 10 and 15 seconds. This is the liturgical prayer:
"Lord, look at these children of yours, grant them health, work, peace and mutual help. Free them from everything that contradicts your Gospel and allow them to live according to your will. Amen".
Rubrics: “Then it concludes with the sign of the cross on each of the two persons.”
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Tucho argues now that the implementation may vary in different cultural and ecclesial contexts. But the scrawl must be respected as “a text signed and approved by the Pope himself”. There can be “no total or definitive rejection of this way proposed to priests.”
And, “There is no room to distance ourselves doctrinally from this Declaration or to consider it heretical, contrary to the Tradition of the Church or blasphemous.”
For Tucho, the real novelty of the scrawl is not the pairwise blessing of sinners but the invention of “spontaneous or pastoral” blessings as distinct from liturgical or ritual ones [which, despite the sophistry, are the same in nature]:
“We all need (!) to grow equally in the conviction that: non-ritualized blessings […] are not a justification of all their actions, and they are not an endorsement of the life that they lead.”
Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith proposes blessing
Finally, Tucho suggests a rite for his non-ritual blessing. It should last between 10 and 15 seconds. This is the liturgical prayer:
"Lord, look at these children of yours, grant them health, work, peace and mutual help. Free them from everything that contradicts your Gospel and allow them to live according to your will. Amen".
Rubrics: “Then it concludes with the sign of the cross on each of the two persons.”
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