ACI Prensa Staff, Feb 5, 2024 / 18:00 pm (CNA).
Héctor Aguer, the archbishop emeritus of La Plata, Argentina, criticized two cardinals who have expressed their support for the Vatican declaration Fiducia Supplicans, which allows for the blessing of homosexual couples.
In an article titled “The Consequences of F.S,” published Feb. 2 in Infovaticana, Aguer referred to “the division pulsating in the Church” that is evident in the reactions to the declaration made last December by the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith (DDF).
After enumerating various indicators of the secularization of the West, the archbishop points out that “the vital reality of the Church is moving toward the East and is flourishing in Africa and Asia. I say it with sadness: I am the grandson of Europeans, and the culture that I have assumed is European, but the spirit of the revolution has devastated Christian culture; the crisis is expressed in ecclesiastical progressivism, complicit in a revolution that liquidates the natural order of creation.”
The archbishop emeritus went on to criticize the position of Cardinal Matteo Zuppi, president of the Italian Bishops’ Conference, who spoke on Jan. 22 at the beginning of the winter session of that country’s permanent bishops’ council.
The prelate referred to the arguments that Zuppi used to justify Fiducia Supplicans, when the latter referred to the document as an “outlook of mercy” and the “loving gaze of the Church on all the children of God, without undermining the teachings of the magisterium.”
“Once again the contradiction: Even the example that [DDF prefect Cardinal Victor Manuel] Fernández offers of ‘blessing’ extends this to the mutual help that the members of the couple provide to each other, in other words, homosexual unions are approved,” the Argentine archbishop continued.
Aguer also pointed out what he characterized as errors in the theology of Cardinal Giuseppe Betori, the archbishop of Florence, who expressed his support for the declaration when he indicated that “the love of God has no boundaries, and his work tries to overcome the difficult situations in which man finds himself.”
The Argentine prelate responded that indeed, “the love of the Father has no boundaries, and that is why he can bless a homosexual person, calling him to live in chastity, but he cannot be pleased with a homosexual’s permanent union with another of the same type, which is to continue in sin.”
Aguer recalled that every Catholic must live “conversion to God and abandonment of sin,” because “God loves virtue and invites man to live virtuously.”
This story was first published by ACI Prensa, CNA’s Spanish-language news partner. It has been translated and adapted by CNA.
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When love of our God who knows no boundaries is misinterpreted as love absent of being loved, as mistakenly taught by Florentine Cardinal Betori, an emeritus Argentine Archbishop Aguer calls him out. Aguer identifies this universalist error in Betori’s Love absent of being loved.
When we refuse to become like Christ, as holy as he is holy, we fail ourselves as creatures in his image seeking to recreate what God made. Love is proved by abidance to God’s commandments. The ugliness of self infatuation is proved by remaking God in our own putrid image. This tidal wave of moral leprosy, the epitome of satanic self love is inundating us by what’s being presented in FS, AL as the authentic magisterium.
There’s the unity of God (rather than dualist Arianism); there’s the unity of Christ (rather than dualist Nestorianism); and there’s the unity of indissoluble and complementary marriage….Rather than, say, homosexual couplings and a boundary-free and dualist-anthropology imposing a full range of divergent (aka “diverse”) alternatives.
In the interests of a broadened Synod 2024, should consultation/voting rights be extended to monogamous and binary animals within an “integral ecology”: the Albatross, Black Vultures, Gray wolves, Prairie voles, Coyotes, Barn Owls, Swans, French angelfish, Sandhill cranes, Shingleback lizards, California mice, Beavers, Gibbons, and of course Diplozoon paradoxum (a parasitic flatfish)?
Or, maybe these backwardist species should be confined to continental and culturally retarded Africa where, like bishops, they can be quarantined from a more welcoming and global Church? And, likewise, maybe to Poland, Hungary, Kazakhstan, Peru, Ukraine, or parts of France and Spain and now part of Argentina?