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Synod organizer Cardinal Hollerich: Catholic Church in Africa ‘not afraid to speak’
Cardinal Jean-Claude Hollerich, relator general of Synod on Synodality, speaks to the media on June 20, 2023, at the temporary headquarters of the Holy See Press Office in Vatican City. / Credit: Daniel Ibáñez/CNA
Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Aug… […]
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Dutch bishop: Fiducia Supplicans too much ‘in tune with zeitgeist’
Bishop Rob Mutsaerts, auxiliary bishop of the Diocese of ’s-Hertogenbosch, in the Netherlands. / Credit: Danny Gerrits/wikiportret.nl via Wikimedia (CC-BY-SA 4.0)
CNA Newsroom, Jun 7, 2024 / 16:45 pm (CNA).
A Dutch bishop has described the Vati… […]
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Kentucky parish offers scheduled appointments for same-sex blessings
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CNA Staff, Jun 6, 2024 / 14:15 pm (CNA).
A parish in the Diocese of Lexington, Kentucky, is openly promoting blessings for same-sex couples despite a Vatican directive that suggests such blessings should be “spontaneous… […]
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Cardinal Fernández meets with Coptic Church leader over same-sex blessing rift
Cardinal Víctor Manuel Fernández, prefect of the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith, and Coptic Pope Tawadros II of Alexandria. / Credit: Vatican Media; ANDREAS SOLARO/AFP via Getty Images
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Chicago priest apologizes for same-sex blessing, saying it violated Church norms
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CNA Staff, May 14, 2024 / 07:48 am (CNA).
A priest in Chicago has apologized for the controversial way in which he blessed a same-sex couple in April, calling it a “very poor decision” that … […]
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Chicago priest blesses same-sex ‘spouses,’ says Fiducia Supplicans allows it
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CNA Staff, May 3, 2024 / 13:00 pm (CNA).
A priest in Chicago last month blessed a same-sex couple, saying that the Vatican’s recent document Fiducia Supplicans authorized such blessings. Father Joseph Willi… […]
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Redeemed from sexual libertinism, prostitution, and occult, Fran Orvich tells his story
Orvich said he wanted to share his experience with same sex attraction “so that the Lord might touch hearts and that people repent and try returning to a chaste life." / Credit: Fran Orvich
ACI Prensa Staff, Apr 23, 2024 / 07:00 am (CNA).
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African cardinal: Fiducia Supplicans seen as ‘cultural colonization, Western imperialism’
A screenshot of Fridolin Cardinal Ambongo during the March 17 interview with KTO. / Credit: KTO
ACI Africa, Mar 20, 2024 / 09:00 am (CNA).
Fiducia Supplicans, the declaration by the Vatican Dicastery for the Doctrine of Faith (DDF) permitting t… […]
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Head of the Ukrainian Catholic Church talks war, the pope, and same-sex blessings
Sviatoslav Shevchuk is major archbishop of Kyiv–Galicia and primate of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church. / Credit: Screenshot/EWTN News Nightly
Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Mar 16, 2024 / 08:00 am (CNA).
In an exclusive interview with EWTN New… […]