The internet is now afire with the discovery of a sick and positively pornographic book, authored by the bishop and cardinal who currently presides over the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith, Tucho Fernández. The writing is too disgusting to even recount here.
This is the man who penned—under papal approval—the recent Vatican document endorsing priestly blessings for couples in public (if not unnatural) sexual sin; a document that has predictably given rise to public liturgical rites for the same, rainbow stoles and all.
Go figure.
Now, in the earthly hierarchy of the Church, cardinals have long been regarded as “princes.” And, after the pope, Fernández currently sits in the highest seat of doctrinal authority on earth.
Pervert that he is, before taking episcopal office, he would have publicly vowed to “maintain the deposit of faith, entire and incorrupt, as handed down by the apostles and professed by the Church everywhere and at all times.”
By our count, if that doesn’t make Fernández a perjurer, it at least makes him a traitor, a betrayer, an oathbreaker.
The deepest circle of Hell is reserved for such. Kyrie eleison.
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The above is all more than sickening scandal: it is a stain upon the image of Christ’s Immaculate Bride on earth. How long must the earthly Church endure such insanity, such corruption and profligacy in her highest offices?
Even so, we may take further comfort in the (now positively prophetic) work of a different prince of the Church: the crystal-clear treatment of certain sexual sins and the blessing thereof, found in the Credo catechism (which WOR folks have commented and “memed” upon elsewhere).
Some bracing Credo excerpts on the topic are given below.
Would you hear these at the RCIA nearest you?
Is the public normalization of sexual sin a clear mark of a decaying civilization? Yes. As demonstrated many times throughout history, the society that normalizes any sexual sin — especially sodomy — is on the way to collective destruction.
What of those who habitually experience same-sex attractions? One must distinguish between same-sex attraction, and homosexual behavior or acts. Involuntary sexual feelings, even if they are against nature, are not sinful unless one consents to them. Those who merely experience such attractions are to be treated with compassion, and are called to chastity and personal holiness no less than others.
Are sins of lust between persons of the same sex very grave? Yes. Two persons of the same sex sin gravely when they seek venereal pleasure from each other, because homosexual acts are contrary to nature, reason, and divine law (see Lv 18:22; 20:13; Rom 1:24–28; 1 Cor 6:9–10; 1 Tm 1:10; and Jude 7).
Does the Church deny Holy Communion to public sinners? Yes. In her reverence for the Eucharist, care for the unity of her members, and concern for the sinner’s salvation, the Church denies Communion to anyone in a public state of objectively grave sin; such as concubinage, adulterous cohabitation, public (especially political) support for abortion, same-sex civil unions, homosexual activity, etc.
Why is the redefinition of marriage in civil law such a great evil? Governments that enact such measures — particularly those granting legal recognition to same-sex unions — are complicit in sins crying to heaven for vengeance, and place their nation on the path of moral and physical destruction.
May a so-called “same-sex marriage” in civil law ever be blessed by the Church? No. Any unions that have the name of marriage without the reality of it are not capable of receiving the blessing of the Church, as these are contrary to natural and divine law.
May the Church nonetheless support so-called “civil unions” between persons of the same sex? No. Even if such arrangements do not receive the name of “marriage” in law, they plainly imitate it — thus encouraging grave sin and causing serious scandal, which the Church can never approve or appear to condone.
Should persons in in state-recognized same-sex unions be eligible to adopt children? No. Their public rejection of natural and divine law renders them habitually unholy, unstable, and unfit to care for children, and organizations permitting such adoptions are complicit in grave sin, enacting a real moral violence against children.
May we ever attend the celebration of such unions? No. To do so would be a failure in charity and justice, and cause serious scandal. “Woe to those that call evil good” (Is 5:20*), for, “if you do not warn him . . . the wicked man will die in his iniquity, and I will hold you responsible for his blood” (Ez 3:18*).
May Our Lady and the holy angels soon deliver us from Francis the Scourge, and the other wolves and hirelings in the princedoms of the Church. May they repent and do penance, while there is still time.
“For yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lord so cometh as a thief in the night.” (1 Thes 5:2)
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