Make no mistake about it, the Africans want to maintain communion with the papacy, but not blind obedience to mistakes the papacy might make in this, that or another opinion, stated off-the-cuff, in an interview or in lesser documents.
FS is a very orthodox document except for the “novel” section of a new form of informal blessings.
That novel section goes from the sublime of the rest of the document to the ridiculous. That the pope or the prefect of the DDF thinks it needs to regulate simple, informal blessings, which anyone can give, even a lay person, but without the liturgical priestly Trinitarian Blessing with his anointed hand, appears as a smoke screen to destabilize the Catholic Church’s teaching on chastity according to one’s state in life and open the door to accepting same sex “marriage” as well as the anthropological ideology of those trying to colonize the Church and world with the LGTBQ+++ fascism. It is like the enemy infiltrating the Church to change the Church according to the enemies’ demands.
It also destabilizes the Church’s teaching on the nature of sexuality as pro-creative and genitality finding its proper place between a man and a woman in Holy Matrimony. Genital expression outside of Holy Matrimony is sinful, either in a venial way or mortal way regardless of the sexual orientation of the person. Sodomy is disordered and always seriously evil and wrong.
Those living in a sexual relationship outside of marriage are living in sin, not just committing sin. This means they love their sin, their partner and way of life more than they love God and thus are breaking not just the 6th Commandment but also the first two Commandments.
The Church’s pastors, meaning bishops, priests and deacons are spiritual and moral doctors. For us to make a diagnosis about the sinful or immoral acts or lifestyles of our people isn’t being judgmental, it is a diagnosis, like a doctor in his office, hospital or clinic. For a medical doctor to tell someone that their obesity is caused by their out-of-control eating, especially of junk food, is not a judgment, it is a diagnosis and the first step toward a remedy that might save the person’s life.
Priests are called to save their people’s life from sin and the fires of hell. Making the proper diagnosis about that is necessary, not doing so is malpractice!
One would think that Pope Francis who describes the Church as a field hospital would understand what happens in field hospitals. Proper diagnosis is made for people suffering from a sickness or injury. Palliative care is given to comfort the person. Then antibiotics or surgery is offered. In some cases amputation is necessary for a diseased or injured limb. The field hospital metaphor for the Church is wonderful if the pope would only bring that metaphor to its full import as it concerns spirituality and morality and orthodox belief!
The problem with today’s Church as it concerns sexuality is that our pope and bishops have distanced themselves from Humanae Vitae. Chasity is never discussed and what it means. One does not need to get into orientation. The clergy and laity simply need to value chastity and never do anything that offends what God intends for us in this life and the life to come.
We need prophets like the bishops in Africa to name the sin of ideological colonialization of the Church not only by ideologues that oppose Humanae Vitae who are outside the Church but especially those who are in the Church and in the highest levels of her leadership:
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