In early January 2024, after Fiducia Supplicans drew mixed reactions worldwide, including public reservations from several African bishops' conferences, the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith issued a communique clarifying its reception. The communique reiterated that a blessing given under the declaration is brief, non-liturgical and requested by the individuals themselves, that it does not bless the union as such and carries no implication of approving the couple's way of life, and that bishops' conferences may set the pace and manner of its application in their own regions without contradicting the declaration's substance.
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A communique issued in early January 2024 by the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith, publisher the Holy See, clarifying the reception of its own December 2023 declaration Fiducia Supplicans after mixed reactions, including public reservations from several African bishops' conferences. Top tier reflecting the Church's own supreme doctrinal office speaking on its own prior instrument, fully authoritative for what the Dicastery itself said it meant. Its limit is that it is the doctrinal office's own account, not an independent record of how the clarification was in turn received by bishops, clergy and laity. Custodian
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Custodian BodyDicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith
Custodian BasisA communique of the Church's own doctrinal office clarifying how its own December 2023 declaration is to be received. Authoritative for what the Dicastery itself said in response to the reception of Fiducia Supplicans; not an independent account of how bishops, clergy and laity around the world went on to apply it.
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AuthorVictor Manuel Fernandez, Prefect of the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith
PublisherDicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith, Holy See
Publication Year2024
Source Typeprimary-text
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