And Tucho “declares” what he wasn’t allowed (?) to put in the document sheer gall: At a Vatican press conference introducing the new document, Cardinal Fernandez offered a pre-emptive defense against his critics. First he defended the controversial DDF statement Fiducia Supplicans, which has been widely criticized for recommending church blessing of same-sex couples. Then he read from the Code of Canon Law (#751), noting that the faithful are obliged to give “religious submission of the intellect and the will” to statements of the magisterium.
At the same time, Cardinal Fernandez declined to defend the statement of the Catechism of the Catholic Church that a homosexual orientation is “intrinsically disordered.” He suggested that the Church will eventually find better words to express the proper complementary of the sexes.
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