Cardinal Fridolin Ambongo Besungu has revisited the fracas around the 2023 Vatican declaration permitting blessings for same-sex couples, saying the issue felt like something that was “imposed” on Africa due to a Western preoccupation with the issue.
At the same time, the Congolese cardinal pushed back against the narrative that is it was only Africans who objected to Fiducia Supplicans, reports the Catholic News Agency (CNA).
Ambongo, who is the archbishop of Kinshasa in the Democratic Republic of Congo and who heads the Symposium of Episcopal Conferences of Africa and Madagascar (SECAM), spoke to EWTN News about the controversial 2023 declaration following a Vatican press conference on 1 July about a document on climate justice and ecological conversion.
