An international coalition of Catholic associations has delivered an open letter to Pope Leo XIV urging him to revoke the Vatican documents relating to blessings of same-sex couples and to Communion for the divorced and remarried, warning that a “powerful lobby” is seeking to alter Catholic teaching.
The “filial appeal”, dated 15 September and presented to the Pope by courier this week, calls on him to revoke Fiducia Supplicans (2023) – while reaffirming that homosexual acts are “objectively and intrinsically disordered” – and to annul Amoris Laetitia (2016), due to its controversial interpretation by some bishops on access to the sacraments of the Eucharist and Reconciliation for divorced persons or who have civilly remarried.
