Africa's Catholic hierarchy refuses same-sex blessings, says such unions are contrary to God's will ( apnews.com )

In the greatest rebuke yet to Pope Francis, the Catholic bishops of Africa and Madagascar issued a unified statement Thursday refusing to follow his declaration allowing priests to offer blessings to same-sex couples and asserting that such unions are “contrary to the will of God.”

The statement, signed by Congolese Cardinal Fridolin Ambongo on behalf of the symposium of African national bishops conferences, marked the closest thing to a continent-wide dissent from the declaration Francis approved Dec. 18 allowing priests to offer such blessings.

That declaration from the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith has sent shock waves through the Catholic Church, thrilling LGBTQ+ Catholics as a concrete sign of Francis’ message of welcome but alarming conservatives who fear core doctrines of the church are being ignored or violated.

ArgentRaven ,

The Catholic Church thought they could pour their brand of religion into the entire continent for hundreds of years, gaining loyal support and broadening their power. Looks like they just found out they exported the bigotry, but couldn't force loyalty when they change the message.

This is the danger we keep seeing when people use a religion as a power vehicle, and wrap it in "fear of the other". Doesn't matter if it's Catholicism or something else. We'll continue to repeat history over and over because clearly it'll work THIS time and that leader will be able to control it.

CrayonRosary ,

Here comes another schism!

abbotsbury ,
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African Orthodox now!

SlopppyEngineer ,

The same God's Will was used to justify black slavery. It sure is a versatile tool.

CanadaPlus ,

It never could have lasted millenia if it wasn't.

N0body ,

Time to add "a new schism in the Catholic Church" to the end of days bingo card.

dylanmorgan ,

The new Protestant reformation?

CanadaPlus ,

This time, nailed to someone's door:

"95 reasons why u r gae"

DonkeyShot ,

Well, the catholic church is basically a faschist organization by it's organigram. Obey to the leader you fucks or go to hell (literally).

Bwaz ,

Looks like someone is trying to tell God what to do.

VikingHippie ,

You know what else would be contrary to the will of a loving God if one existed?

Being the main driver of the African AIDS epidemic that's claimed tens if not hundreds of millions of lives.

Fuck the catholic church and ESPECIALLY fuck THESE catholic church monsters! 🖕🖕🖕

tacosanonymous ,

Defying the choice of God seems like a bold choice. Almost like there are no actual rules or punishments. Weird.

Jaysyn ,
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Now ex-communicate them.

ThompsonJr ,

Black or white they are the same shit, wish they were like brown-rpg like Osama so we could hate on them normally...

MisterNeon ,
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What are they gonna do about it? It's not like they can write down their grievances on a piece of paper and nail it to a cathedral door.

hottari ,

You are responding to exactly what they are doing about the situation!

aew360 ,

New schism just dropped

humorlessrepost ,

Actual religion

Gazumi ,

This will be interesting! A new break away Pope?

teft ,
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They’re called antipopes. The last one was in the 15th century.

Neato ,
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What happens if a Pope and Antipope collide?

teft ,
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When popes and antipopes collide, the popes destroy each other, with a huge energy release. Depending on the colliding popes, not only is there a great energy release, but new, different popes may also be produced (such as neutrinopes and various flavours of quarkpopes – see figure below). These new popes will have a lower mass than those in the original collision, due to the law of conservation of ecclesiastical energy and Einstein’s very famous equation E=mc2 – some of the energy goes into heat and light, some into forming the new popes.

evranch ,

What happens to the pope hats, are they conserved

hydroptic ,

Yes, conservation of funny hats is pretty much a universal phenomenon

teft ,
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We actually can't tell if the funny hats are conserved. We call this the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle.

This guy Heisenberg came up with it:

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/fb8b4529-8b76-4d22-aceb-b481ea87e3bf.jpeg

FaceDeer ,

In my experience funny hats can be created out of non-funny hats pretty easily. I don't think that conservation law holds.

twack ,

That is because all non-funny hats are also funny hats at the same time. It is only at the moment of observation that a hat decides whether it is funny or not funny.

We refer to this phenomenon as Schrödinger's hat.

hydroptic ,

Ah but the total funniness of the hats is still conserved; you may be creating a funny hat from non-funny hats, but the total funniness is the same as the sum of the earlier hats.

dylanmorgan ,

I think you forgot to post the figure you referred to.

CanadaPlus ,

neutrinopes

Pope number is conserved confirmed.

limonfiesta ,

Call me a traditionalist, but I much prefer the antichrist.

hydroptic ,

Episode IV – A New Pope

Gazumi ,

Oh that's just brilliant! A New Pope - I am so wishing that I'd thought of that.

Kbobabob ,

I say, let them fight

Reverendender ,
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Two Popes enter

autotldr Bot ,

This is the best summary I could come up with:

VATICAN CITY (AP) — In the greatest rebuke yet to Pope Francis, the Catholic bishops of Africa and Madagascar issued a unified statement Thursday refusing to follow his declaration allowing priests to offer blessings to same-sex couples and asserting that such unions are “contrary to the will of God.”

The statement, signed by Congolese Cardinal Fridolin Ambongo on behalf of the symposium of African national bishops conferences, marked the closest thing to a continent-wide dissent from the declaration Francis approved Dec. 18 allowing priests to offer such blessings.

“Within the church family of God in Africa, this declaration has caused a shockwave, it has sown misconceptions and unrest in the minds of many lay faithful, consecrated persons and even pastors, and has aroused strong reactions,” he wrote.

A few weeks ago, Burundi’s President Evariste Ndayishimiye said “people of the same sex who marry in this country should be taken to a stadium to be pelted with stones, once discovered.” In a radio broadcast Dec. 29, he asked Burundians living abroad who practice homosexuality “not to return home.”

Ambongo said the symposium statement was a “consolidated summary” of the positions adopted by individual national bishops conferences, and said it had received the “agreement” of Francis and the doctrine office’s new prefect, Cardinal Victor Manuel Fernández.

No such extra documentation or preparation accompanied Fiducia Supplicans, as the text is known, and its rollout was marked by individual bishops and entire national conferences voicing confusion and opposition.

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