Fiducia supplicans

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Fiducia supplicans ("Supplicating Trust") is a 2023 declaration on Catholic doctrine that allows Latin Catholic priests and deacons to bless couples who are not married according to church teaching, including individuals in same-sex relationships. Subtitled "On the Pastoral Meaning of Blessings", the document is dated 18 December 2023 and was released on the same day. Fiducia supplicans was issued by the Holy See's Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith (DDF) and approved with a signature by Pope Francis. It was the first declaration issued by the DDF since Dominus Iesus in 2000. Fiducia supplicans has been widely interpreted. Francis advised that the Holy See's bureaucrats should avoid "rigid ideological positions" three days after the document was issued. Prefect of the DDF Víctor Manuel Fernández later said in an interview that the declaration did not permit blessing the unions, with a DDF press release in January 2024 repeating this. While most coverage reported that Fiducia supplicans...

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