“This Is Insanity" - Orthodox Priest Condemns Fiducia Supplicans

  

"Lord, have mercy," Rev. Mousa Haddad, the parish priest at St Mary Antiochian Orthodox Church in Palos Heights, Illinois, said of Francis pamphlet 'Sodoma Supplicans' in his homily on 7 January.

"We sympathise with the many Catholics around the world who are trying to make sense of what is happening in their Church, because it doesn't make sense."

Father Haddad recalls that as recently as March 2021, Francis "forbade" German bishops and priests to bless homosexual couples because God cannot bless sin.

But on the other hand, already in 2013, when asked about his position on homosexuality, Francis said: "Who am I to judge?" Haddad on this: "The role of the bishop in the Church is to lead us to repentance, not to condone a sinful and unnatural way of life".

He notes that in October 2020 Francis called on the governments to recognise homosexual concubinage, and in November 2023 he claimed that transvestites could be baptised and serve as godparents. "This progression has paved the way for what we see today," the priest concludes.

He adds that "homosexuality is condemned in both the Old and New Testament. Rev. Haddad cites Leviticus ("if a man lies with a man as with a woman, both have committed an abomination") and 1 Corinthians ("do not be deceived, neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor homosexuals, nor sodomites will inherit the kingdom of God").

He comments on Francis' trick of blessing a [non-existent] "couple" but not the "union", "It's like telling your child you can't be homosexual, but then telling them to do it anyway".

"Would you give your child a blessing to do something that was unhealthy for them physically, spiritually or emotionally?"

"If your child came to you and asked for a blessing to have a relationship with someone of the same sex, what would be the purpose of that blessing?"

"If you bless sin, what incentive do they have to change and repent, and how will Catholic parents respond to their children when they say, 'Well, the Pope allows the blessing of same-sex couples'?"

Rev. Haddad knows that Christ ate with tax collectors and prostitutes, but "to call them to repentance, not to affirm or support their sinful way of life or to bless the opposite of what he commanded".

The Orthodox priest tells Francis that a true experience of Christ transforms a person, it leads him to repentance, it does not leave him the same: "If we do not fight against sin, how can we enter the kingdom?"

Rev. Haddad notes that Bergoglio's decision "doesn't lead people to repentance, it does the opposite, it promotes the homosexual agenda".

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Source: Gloria.tv