… to the consternation of many CDS sufferers.
A question to the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith about whether or not the Church has the “power to give the blessing to unions of persons of the same sex” was answered in the “negative” by the congregation’s prefect, Luis Cardinal Ladaria Ferrer. The congregation’s statement was assented to by Pope Francis. While the statement was signed Feb. 22, it was only released today.
February 22 is the Feast of the Chair of St. Peter. Was the statement’s timing a coincidence? Possibly, from a purely human viewpoint. But God knew what day it was.
The Congregation stated that it is “not licit to impart a blessing on relationships, or partnerships, even stable, that involve sexual activity outside of marriage (i.e., outside the indissoluble union of a man and a woman open in itself to the transmission of life), as is the case of the unions between persons of the same sex.”“The presence in such relationships of positive elements, which are in themselves to be valued and appreciated, cannot justify these relationships and render them legitimate objects of an ecclesial blessing, since the positive elements exist within the context of a union not ordered to the Creator’s plan,” the statement read.
Scripture, the teachings of the Church Fathers, and the consistent doctrine of the Magisterium are unambiguous on this matter. Even if a pope were to make statements in conflict with solemnly defined Catholic sexual morality, he could be safely ignored since the older and more authoritative magisterial teaching would trump his personal heterodox opinion.
Happily, not even Pope Francis flaked on this one, despite enormous pressure to cave to the World.
Speaking of popes …
This tweet from a Death Cultist seething over the pope remaining Catholic illustrates a number of useful points.
First, he drops the mask and claims papal authority. It’s phrased as a joke, but every Cultist really does run his morality grift this way. Each one tries to set himself up as the ultimate moral authority–his own pope, if you will.
Second, note how the Cultist simultaneously undermines the source of the moral authority he’s trying to usurp. “The pope isn’t even mentioned in the Bible, which is a fake bronze age fairytale anyway!”
The Witch Test exposes the Death Cultists’ false dealing to everyone, which is why they have no answer for it.
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