African cardinal: Same-sex ‘blessings’ document ’caused a lot of harm’
Cardinal Ambongo said he believes Pope Francis ‘changed his mind’ about the release of Fiducia Supplicans after speaking with the African prelate.
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Fr. Radcliffe says article linking same-sex ‘blessings’ rejection to foreign money was ‘misinterpreted’
Cardinal-elect Timothy Radcliffe denies claims that the African bishops’ rejection of same-sex ‘blessings’ was influenced by foreign financial pressures, saying his words were ‘misinterpreted’ in a controversial article.
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Cardinal says Fr. Radcliffe did not write article linking same-sex ‘blessings’ rejection to foreign money
Cardinal Fridolin Ambongo told LifeSiteNews that Fr. Timothy Radcliffe denied authoring an article that attributed Africa’s rejection of same-sex ‘blessings’ to foreign influences, adding that ‘this does not correspond at all to his personality.’
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Cardinal-elect Radcliffe blames ‘Russian money’ for African bishops rejecting homosexual ‘blessings’
Father Timothy Radcliffe, spiritual assistant to the Synod on Synodality, claimed that the African bishops’ rejection of blessings for homosexual couples comes from external pressures from ‘Evangelicals,’ ‘Russian money,’ and Muslims.
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Top African cardinal says Fiducia Supplicans ‘has been buried’ on the continent
Cardinal Fridolin Ambongo, the president of the African bishops’ conference and an advisor to Pope Francis, endorsed Cardinal Robert Sarah’s recent strong critique of Fiducia Supplicans and homosexual ‘blessings.’
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Oregon bishop rejects blessings of homosexual ‘couples,’ others in ‘irregular’ situations
If a priest attempts to bless a same-sex ‘couple,’ the ‘subtle distinctions of Fiducia Supplicans will not keep bystanders from concluding that the Church the priest represents no longer believes as she always did before, but is now endorsing the unions of unmarried couples,’ Bishop Cary wrote.
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Pope Francis directly involved in Africa’s rejection of blessings for homosexual ‘couples’
According to Cardinal Ambongo, the process of drafting the January 11 letter was conducted in such close collaboration with Pope Francis that they regularly called him as they wrote the letter to obtain his approval of the wording.
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Northern African bishops’ conference endorses blessings for homosexual ‘couples’
The bishops' conference of the north of Africa announced plans to bless couples 'in an irregular situation,' eschewing both Catholic teaching and the recent continent-wide declaration against blessing such unions.
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Pope Francis backs down, permits African bishops to ban blessings of homosexual ‘couples’
Cardinal Ambongo’s letter declared that none of the Catholic bishops in Africa and Madagascar will offer blessings to homosexual 'couples,' while also saying that the widespread rejection comes with the 'agreement' of Pope Francis and Cardinal Fernández.
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Africa’s leading cardinal wants continental response to Vatican’s same-sex blessings text
Cardinal Fridolin Ambongo asked all prelates of the continent about drawing up a single response to the document issued by Pope Francis and Cardinal Victor Manuel Fernández approving blessings for same-sex couples.
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