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Black Pentecostal leader urges pope to withdraw same-sex blessing document

December 29, 2023 Catholic News Agency 6

Rev. Eugene F. Rivers III. / Credit: Ben P L from Provo, USA, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Dec 29, 2023 / 12:20 pm (CNA).
With some African bishops expressing concerns about the Vatican’s new same-sex blessing … […]

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Fernández: ‘It’s proper for each bishop’ to discern application of Fiducia Supplicans

December 27, 2023 Catholic News Agency 6

Archbishop Victor Manuel Fernandez. / Daniel Ibanez/CNA

ACI Prensa Staff, Dec 27, 2023 / 17:00 pm (CNA).
The prefect of the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith (DDF), Cardinal Víctor Manuel Fernández, commenting on the reluctance expressed … […]

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Polish bishops: Church does not have authority to ‘bless same-sex unions’

December 22, 2023 Catholic News Agency 3

A plenary meeting of the Polish bishops’ conference on March 15, 2022. / episkopat.pl.

CNA Staff, Dec 22, 2023 / 15:40 pm (CNA).
Catholic bishops in Poland have ruled out the possibility of blessing “same-sex unions,” but remain open to blessin… […]

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Bishop Munilla: Fiducia suplicans not ‘heretical’ but application will be ‘chaotic’ 

December 21, 2023 Catholic News Agency 2

His Excellency José Ignacio Munilla is bishop of the Orihuela-Alicante Diocese in Spain. / Credit: Diocese of Orihuela-Alicante, Spain

ACI Prensa Staff, Dec 21, 2023 / 18:15 pm (CNA).
The bishop of Orihuela-Alicante in Spain, José Ignacio Munil… […]

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More bishops voice criticism — and support — for Vatican document on blessing same-sex couples

December 21, 2023 Catholic News Agency 2

Bishops gathered at the19th Plenary Assembly of the Symposium of Episcopal Conferences of Africa and Madagascar in Accra, Ghana, July 2022. / Courtesy of SECAM.

Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Dec 21, 2023 / 16:51 pm (CNA).
More Catholic bishops hav… […]

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Same-sex blessings: Sinners can be blessed but not their sin, Spanish bishop says

December 20, 2023 Catholic News Agency 1

Bishop José Ignacio Munilla of Orihuela-Alicante, Spain. / Credit: Archdiocese of Valladolid

ACI Prensa Staff, Dec 20, 2023 / 18:30 pm (CNA).
The bishop of Orihuela-Alicante in Spain, José Ignacio Munilla, is focusing on the implications of pas… […]

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Bishops around the world are divided over Vatican’s same-sex blessing declaration  

December 20, 2023 Catholic News Agency 21

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Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Dec 20, 2023 / 18:10 pm (CNA).
Catholic bishops around the world are deeply divided on a Vatican declaration that permits nonliturgical blessings of homosexual couples:… […]

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Bishops in Malawi declare ‘blessings for same-sex unions of any kind are not permitted’

December 20, 2023 Catholic News Agency 2

Members of the Episcopal Conference of Malawi (ECM). / Credit: ECM

ACI Africa, Dec 20, 2023 / 12:50 pm (CNA).
Bishops in Malawi have prohibited the implementation of the Vatican declaration on the blessing of “same-sex couples” and couples in o… […]

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U.S. dioceses respond to Vatican declaration on same-sex couple blessings

December 19, 2023 Catholic News Agency 4

Cardinal Seán O’Malley, Bishop Andrew Cozzens, and Cardinal Blase Cupich. / Credit: Daniel Ibañez/CNA and Diocese of Crookston

Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Dec 19, 2023 / 15:30 pm (CNA).
Several American Catholic dioceses have already issued stat… […]

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U.S. bishops: Vatican declaration does not change Church teaching on marriage 

December 18, 2023 Catholic News Agency 12

The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops meets for its fall plenary assembly meeting Nov. 14, 2023, in Baltimore. / Credit: Joe Bukuras/CNA

Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Dec 18, 2023 / 18:20 pm (CNA).
A Vatican-issued declaration on blessi… […]

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