The Synod of the Chaldean Church, led by Cardinal and Patriarch Louis Raphael Sako, has publicly announced that it refuses to bless homosexual unions in order to preserve the sanctity of marriage. In the same statement, they indicate the need to raise awareness among priests about the seriousness of sexual abuse of minors.
The Chaldean Church, which has given a good number of martyrs to the Catholic Church in recent times, killed out of hatred for the faith by Islamist fundamentalists of ISIS, follows the pattern set by the Eastern churches, whether they are in communion with Rome or not, and by a good part of the world's Latin-rite episcopate, and refuses to bless homosexual unions.
The Chaldean Church is one of the twenty-four sui iuris Churches that make up the Catholic Church. It is an Eastern Catholic Church that follows the Chaldean (or East Syrian) liturgical tradition, using East Syriac as its liturgical language and Peninsular Arabic as its auxiliary language. It is presided …More