ROME – An Africa cardinal who recently led the continent’s bishops in rejecting blessings for same-sex couples has now taken to task the timing of the Vatican document that opened the door to such a move, calling it “damaging” to the synodal process convened by Pope Francis.
Cardinal Fridolin Ambongo Besungu of Kinshasa in the Democratic Republic of Congo said that because the 18 December release of Fiducia Supplicans, which authorised non-liturgical blessings of persons involved in same-sex relationships, came between the two Synods of Bishops on Synodality, it created the misleading notion that the document was the fruit of synodal discussions.
