EWTN News reports that the Vatican has published a 2024 letter from the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith rejecting a German proposal for formalized blessings of same-sex couples. The letter, signed by Cardinal Víctor Manuel Fernández, reiterates that the Church cannot legitimize unions incompatible with doctrine. However, the timing of its release, amid Pope Leo XIV’s contradictory statements, reveals the conciliar sect’s fundamental incoherence on matters of sexual morality and its continued drift toward the normalization of grave sin.
The Contradictory Statements of the Usurper in Rome
The article presents a muddled picture of the neo-church’s position. On one hand, the 2024 letter from the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith, signed by Cardinal Víctor Manuel Fernández, states categorically that the “Church does not have the power to confer its liturgical blessing when this, in any way, might offer a form of moral legitimation to a union that purports to be a marriage or to an extramarital sexual practice.” This appears, at first glance, to uphold immutable doctrine.
However, the article then quotes Pope Leo XIV’s statements from April 2026, which fundamentally undermine this position. Leo XIV stated: “the unity or division of the Church should not revolve around sexual matters” and that “there are much greater and more important issues, such as justice, the equality, freedom of men and women, freedom of religion, that would all take priority before that particular issue.” This is a direct echo of the modernist error condemned by Pope Pius XI in Quas Primas, where he lamented that “the Christian religion began to be equated with other false religions and shamelessly placed in the same category.” By placing “freedom of religion” and “equality” above the condemnation of sodomy, Leo XIV reveals his adherence to the very secularism Pius XI identified as the plague of the age.
The Heresy of Fiducia Supplicans and Its Logical Conclusion
The article correctly notes that the 2024 letter is a response to the German bishops’ attempt to implement the document Fiducia Supplicans, which itself opened the door to blessing couples “in irregular situations.” The letter warns that such blessings could be interpreted as legitimization. Yet, this is a classic case of having one’s cake and eating it too—a hallmark of modernist duplicity.
As the document Fiducia Supplicans itself states, it sought to allow blessings without equating them to marriage. However, as St. Thomas Aquinas teaches, “the thing signified must be greater than the sign” (Summa Theologiae III, q. 60, a. 4). A blessing is a sacramental that invokes God’s favor. To invoke God’s favor upon a state of life that is intrinsically disordered and gravely sinful is not merely a disciplinary error; it is a sacrilege and a profanation of sacred things. The 2024 letter’s attempt to draw a line between “formal” and “informal” blessings is a distinction without a difference in the eyes of God, who sees the intent of the heart and the objective disorder of the act.
The German Heresy and the Synodal Way
The article mentions that the German episcopate drafted a “vademecum” for “Blessings for Couples Who Love Each Other.” This is a direct fruit of the German “Synodal Way,” which has been a hotbed of heresy and schism. The German bishops, led by figures like Cardinal Reinhard Marx, have consistently pushed for the normalization of sodomy and the ordination of women. Their proposal for “official regulation” and “acclamation” in blessings is an attempt to create a pseudo-liturgy for sin, effectively establishing a counter-church within the structures of the conciliar sect.
The Vatican’s response, while seemingly critical, is ultimately inadequate. It does not condemn the underlying heresy of the German bishops but merely their method. This is consistent with the conciliar sect’s approach: it tolerates heresy as long as it is not “formalized,” thereby creating a climate of doctrinal confusion and indifferentism. As Pope Pius IX warned in the Syllabus of Errors, the Church cannot tolerate the idea that “the civil liberty of every form of worship… conduce more easily to corrupt the morals and minds of the people” (Proposition 79).
The Silence on Mortal Sin and the Loss of the Sense of the Supernatural
The gravest omission in the article, and in the statements of Leo XIV, is the complete silence on the state of mortal sin and the eternal consequences of sodomy. The Catechism of the Council of Trent teaches that “the sin of sodomy is a sin against nature, and is to be detested as a most abominable crime.” By reducing the issue to one of “unity” or “pastoral care,” the neo-church reveals its loss of the sense of the supernatural and its descent into pure naturalism.
Leo XIV’s statement that “everyone is invited to follow Jesus, and everyone is invited to seek conversion in their own lives” is a banal truism that avoids the hard truth: that some must repent or perish. The Church’s mission is not to affirm people in their sins but to call them to conversion. As Our Lord said, “Go and sin no more” (John 8:11). The neo-church’s refusal to speak this truth is a betrayal of its divine mandate.
Conclusion: The Bankruptcy of the Conciliar Sect
The publication of the 2024 letter, far from being a defense of doctrine, is a symptom of the conciliar sect’s terminal illness. It attempts to hold together two contradictory positions: the immutable truth that sodomy is a grave sin, and the modernist desire to affirm and bless those who practice it. This is the inevitable result of the “hermeneutic of continuity” and the “spirit of Vatican II,” which have led to a church that is neither Catholic nor Protestant, but a paramasonic structure dedicated to the destruction of the faith.
The true Church, the Church of all ages, has always taught that “without holiness no one will see the Lord” (Hebrews 12:14). She has never blessed sin, nor has she ever placed human “rights” above the laws of God. The conciliar sect, in its attempt to be “relevant” to the modern world, has become irrelevant to the only thing that matters: the salvation of souls. Let us pray for the true Church, which endures in the faithful who profess the integral Catholic faith and are led by bishops with valid sacraments and validly ordained priests, and let us reject the abomination of desolation that occupies the Vatican.
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Vatican publishes 2024 letter prohibiting formal blessings for homosexual couples in Germany (ewtnnews.com)
Date: 04.05.2026