Brandon Ambrosino / X (Left), Adobe Stock (Right)
CV NEWS FEED // The pro-LGBT New Ways Ministry (NWM) recently highlighted arguments from a self-proclaimed homosexual theologian who has complained that the blessings proposed in the Vatican document Fiducia Supplicans – which has been celebrated by pro-LGBT lobbyists within the Church and condemned by orthodox bishops throughout the world as contrary to the faith – are insufficient.
The dissident New Ways Ministry, which openly departs from Catholic sexual morality, this week reported an article focused on the comments from Brandon Ambrosino. The article was first published in Commonweal.
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Ambrosino complains of Fiducia Supplicans’ “hierarchy of blessings,” which he described as, “real liturgical ones versus non-liturgical consolation prizes.” He argues the latter are not what people in a same-sex relationship actually want.
He writes, “So married gay people can be blessed but not their unions, and only if they ‘do not claim a legitimation of their own status.’ But what constitutes such a claim? Isn’t such a legitimation implicit in the very decision to get and stay married? Does the document mean that married gay people can only be blessed if we believe our marriages are fake?”
He continued, “Offer a blessing, it says, but make it clear that it’s in no way liturgical. Accompany gay people on their journey, but only partway. Welcome gays but make it clear that you do not join them in their marital delusions. Pay careful attention to what the couple is wearing. Pay attention to who might be watching. But at the same time, be sure your blessing feels ‘spontaneous.’”
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Ambrosino claimed the “real scandal” of Fiducia Supplicans lay in the inequality of its treatment of heterosexual marriage – which the Church has always taught is the only kind of marriage – and same-sex “marriage.”
To merely offer a “non-liturgical blessing,” Ambrosino claimed, was “to throw a cheap consolation prize in the name of God and send them on their way, into the non-liturgical world, while you congratulate yourself for protecting the liturgy from contamination.”
Following the Vatican’s release of Fiducia Supplicans, NWM was one of the pro-LGBT groups within the Church that joined the secular media in celebrating the document, claiming it was a “step” toward the Church embracing same-sex “marriage.”
The German bishops and the Flemish bishops have both approved liturgical blessings for same-sex “couples” in heterodox moves which, along with the supposed “non-liturgical” blessings proposed by Fiducia Supplicans, many bishops throughout the world have condemned as a grave departure from Catholic morality.
Cardinal Robert Sarah and most of the bishops of Africa have wholly rejected Fiducia Supplicans as contrary to the faith, and Cardinal Gerhard Muller has condemned it as containing at least a contradiction to the Catholic doctrine on blessings, which requires that what is blessed be pleasing to God, as well as an implication of a denial of the revealed doctrine on marriage and the grave sinfulness of sodomy.
