South Dakota's Catholic bishops are basically telling Bergoglio and LGBTQ+ people to go to hell.
Quote:The two Bishops of South Dakota in a recent letter shared the concern of a growing number of faithful Catholics who fear the Vatican document Fiducia Supplicans may normalize “serious sin.”
“[We] have received a number of inquiries from the faithful concerning Fiducia Supplicans, a Vatican document published Monday on the topic of blessings,” the bishops’ letter stated.
They wrote that “controversy has followed publication of this document, as some have hailed a supposed novel change in the Church’s perennial teaching on sexuality, or praised it as a ‘step’ towards such a change.”
“These pronouncements, even celebrations of a particular interpretation, have been heard both within and outside the Church,” they wrote. “It is important to understand that the document itself makes explicit that the Church’s teaching on marriage and human sexuality is unchanged. Nor can it change.”
"Any misappropriation of the teaching office of the Church in a way that normalizes sin contributes to leading people further from Jesus’ loving heart rather than closer to it, and must be repudiated."
“There should be no ambiguity as regards this truth: the ministers of the Church have no power to bless sin. To do so would be a perversion of the very purpose of a blessing,” the bishops continued, insisting that “any sort of blessing that would give the semblance of condoning sin is not to be granted.”
https://catholicvote.org/sd-bishops-warn...rious-sin/
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"