The Vatican’s latest declaration bombshell, authored by one of the most senior clerics in the Roman Curia, has duped the international press and its readers alike into believing that the Catholic Church has softened its position on homosexuality. It hasn’t.
In describing how sinners, who may be in a same-same relationship, may ask for a “spontaneous blessing” from a priest – a type of blessing that has never been denied to any, nor been given on a discriminatory basis – Cardinal Victor Manuel Fernandez in “Fiducia Supplicans: On the Pastoral Meaning of Blessings” has introduced nothing new.
