Post by robeiae on Mar 15, 2021 14:24:38 GMT -5
www.bbc.com/news/world-56402096
Here is the response in full: press.vatican.va/content/salastampa/it/bollettino/pubblico/2021/03/15/0157/00330.html#ing
This bit cracks me up:
That's an argument essentially founded on the assumption that the blessings from the Church are not symbolic, but impart actual benefits, i.e. it's the Church saying that IT has the power of God and can freely exercise that power.
The Catholic Church does not have the power to bless same-sex unions, the Vatican office responsible for doctrine has said.
It is "impossible" for God to "bless sin", the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith (CDF) said on Monday.
It is "impossible" for God to "bless sin", the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith (CDF) said on Monday.
Here is the response in full: press.vatican.va/content/salastampa/it/bollettino/pubblico/2021/03/15/0157/00330.html#ing
This bit cracks me up:
Blessings belong to the category of the sacramentals, whereby the Church “calls us to praise God, encourages us to implore his protection, and exhorts us to seek his mercy by our holiness of life”[4]. In addition, they “have been established as a kind of imitation of the sacraments, blessings are signs above all of spiritual effects that are achieved through the Church’s intercession”[5].
Consequently, in order to conform with the nature of sacramentals, when a blessing is invoked on particular human relationships, in addition to the right intention of those who participate, it is necessary that what is blessed be objectively and positively ordered to receive and express grace, according to the designs of God inscribed in creation, and fully revealed by Christ the Lord. Therefore, only those realities which are in themselves ordered to serve those ends are congruent with the essence of the blessing imparted by the Church.
Consequently, in order to conform with the nature of sacramentals, when a blessing is invoked on particular human relationships, in addition to the right intention of those who participate, it is necessary that what is blessed be objectively and positively ordered to receive and express grace, according to the designs of God inscribed in creation, and fully revealed by Christ the Lord. Therefore, only those realities which are in themselves ordered to serve those ends are congruent with the essence of the blessing imparted by the Church.
