The Catholic leadership of the entire continent of Africa has rejected blessings for same-sex unions authorised last month by the Pope.
The African bishops have issued an emphatic, and unified, “no” in response to a December 18 Vatican declaration authorising the non-liturgical blessing of same-sex unions, indicating such blessings would cause confusion on the continent and will not be administered.
Their rejection of Fudicia Supplicans puts the African Church dramatically at odds with the Vatican, which just a week earlier demanded that all bishops assented to the document.
