WILL FAITHFUL PRIESTS BE PUNISHED FOR REFUSING TO BLESS MORTAL SIN?
Today, in a statement to The Boston Globe, Cardinal Sean O’Malley, the Archbishop of Boston, publicly endorsed the Vatican’s departure from perennial Catholic teaching about the intrinsic immorality of homosexual relations.
“We thank the Holy Father for his love and care of all the people in the flock,” O’Malley said in his statement.
On December 18th, the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith, with the approval of Pope Francis, issued the Declaration Fiducia Supplicans, authorizing priests to bless same sex couples. This was a reversal of the 2021 Responsum of the same Dicastery, which held that God “does not and cannot bless sin.”
The Catholic Action League of Massachusetts is raising the issue therefore, of whether orthodox Catholic priests in the Archdiocese of Boston—who are faithful to Sacred Scripture, natural law and Catholic tradition—will be punished, deprived or sanctioned for refusing to impart such blessings.
The President of the Austrian Bishops’ Conference, Archbishop Franz Lackner, has already stated that priests in that country must comply with requests for blessings by homosexual couples.
Catholic Action League Executive Director C. J. Doyle made the following comment: “Given the removal of Bishops Joseph Strickland and Daniel Torres, the punitive measures against Cardinal Raymond Burke, and the sanctions imposed upon the Franciscan Friars of the Immaculate, it is only reasonable to ask if Fiducia Supplicans will be one more pretext to purge the Church of Papa Bergoglio’s ideological adversaries.
No Catholic priest should be forced, against his conscience, to bless mortal sin. No Catholic priest should be coerced into acts which are in opposition to the Bible, the Catechism and two thousand years of Catholic teachings.
Cardinal O’Malley’s scandalous endorsement of the improvident decision by Pope Francis to repudiate Divine Revelation and natural law, must not result in faithful priests being canceled, removed or driven out the Church.
The Catholic laity must support those priests who remain faithful to the highest law of the Church, the salvation of souls.”
The answer is YES.
SEE https://www.theamericanconservative.com/paul-kalchik-persecuted-priest-chicago-cupich/
YAY! There actually is at least one Roman Catholic Prelate with a pair of cojones. Imagine that!
Archbishop Tomash Peta of Kazakhstan BLASTS Fiducia supplicans as an EVIL document–
https://onepeterfive.com/archdiocese-condemns-evil-vatican-document-and-prohibits-same-sex-blessings/
African Bishops have cojones, BLAST Fiducia supplicans and Francis the Apostate Commie–
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2023/12/african_bishops_hurl_thunderbolts_at_pope_franciss_call_to_bless_gay_couples_in_samesex_marriages.html