ACI Prensa Staff, Jan 11, 2024 / 18:30 pm
The Permanent Council of the French Bishops’ Conference has expressed carefully delineated support for the Fiducia Supplicans declaration of the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith on pastoral blessings.
In a Jan. 10 statement, the French Bishops Council acknowledged that the declaration addresses a sensitive topic, namely “the accompaniment in the Church for homosexual persons living as a couple” and “divorced persons engaged in a life as a couple.”
The Permanent Council said it received the declaration “as an encouragement to pastors to generously bless people who approach them humbly asking for God’s help.”
Pastors, the French prelates said, “thus accompany them on their journey of faith so that they discover the call of God in their own existence and respond concretely to it.”