WATCH: Paulist Fathers bash Vatican decree against blessings for homosexual couples
One priest went so far as to criticize the Church’s call to celibacy for those who, he said, are ‘not able to be in a heterosexual sacramental marriage.’
March 23, 2021 (LifeSiteNews) — Clergy from America’s first order of Catholic priests openly criticized in homilies on Sunday the Vatican’s formal decree that the Church cannot bless homosexual couples.
Priests from the Missionary Society of St. Paul the Apostle in parishes in New York, Boston, and Los Angeles openly lambasted the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith’s (CDF) decree last week that the Catholic Church cannot bless homosexual relationships. While saints such as Augustine held that once “Rome has spoken, the case is closed,” one Paulist Father said that instead of closing the matter, the CDF’s teaching “opened up a volcano.”