{"id":127744,"date":"2024-03-18T17:03:32","date_gmt":"2024-03-18T21:03:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=127744"},"modified":"2024-03-18T16:06:21","modified_gmt":"2024-03-18T20:06:21","slug":"church-times-pope-under-pressure-over-fiducia-supplicans-after-orthodox-churches-break-off-dialogue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=127744","title":{"rendered":"(Church Times) Pope under pressure over Fiducia Supplicans after Orthodox Churches break off dialogue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pressure is growing on Pope Francis to rethink a doctrinal declaration, Fiducia Supplicans, allowing Roman Catholic clergy to bless same-sex couples&#8230;, after the largest Christian denomination in the Middle East responded by halting its dialogue with the Vatican.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe affirm our firm rejection of all homosexual relationships, because they violate the Holy Bible and God\u2019s law in creating mankind as male and female \u2014 we consider any blessing of such relations, whatever its type, to be a blessing for sin,\u201d the Coptic Orthodox Church\u2019s governing Holy Synod, chaired by Pope Tawadros II, said in a statement released last week.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAfter consulting with sister-Churches of the Eastern Orthodox family, it was decided to suspend theological dialogue with the Catholic Church, re-evaluate the results achieved by this dialogue from its beginning 20 years ago, and establish new standards and mechanisms for the dialogue to proceed in future.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.churchtimes.co.uk\/articles\/2024\/15-march\/news\/world\/pope-under-pressure-over-fiducia-supplicans-after-orthodox-churches-break-off-dialogue\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Pressure is growing on Pope Francis to rethink a doctrinal declaration, Fiducia Supplicans, allowing RC clergy to bless same-sex couples, after the largest Christian denomination in the Middle East responded by halting its dialogue with the Vatican<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/lki87tr36O\">https:\/\/t.co\/lki87tr36O<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Church Times (@ChurchTimes) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ChurchTimes\/status\/1769739796631405004?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 18, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pressure is growing on Pope Francis to rethink a doctrinal declaration, Fiducia Supplicans, allowing Roman Catholic clergy to bless same-sex couples&#8230;, after the largest Christian denomination in the Middle East responded by halting its dialogue with the Vatican. \u201cWe affirm<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=127744\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[175,158,168,418,177,414,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-127744","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anthropology","category-ecumenical-relations","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-orthodox-church","category-pastoral-theology","category-roman-catholic-other-churches","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127744","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=127744"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127744\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":127746,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127744\/revisions\/127746"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=127744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=127744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=127744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}