Pamplona Jesuits propaganda central for blessing of same-sex couples

The Jesuits of Pamplona organise a talk in defence of the blessing of same-sex couples

The Jesuit priest and theologian Josep Baquer will give a talk entitled "the blessing of the human couple".

On Monday 8 May, the Jesuit priest Josep Baquer, who is a staunch defender of homosexual relationships, will give a talk at the Jesuit school of St Ignatius in Pamplona, Pamplona.

More at home in a hard hat than a collar

Baquer has a degree in biblical theology and will give a talk "to open up a horizon from a theological point of view, taking as a background the situation of homosexual people, their environment and their life project in the Church, addressing the concept of love as a sacrament and his vision of the blessing of homosexual couples", according to the promotional poster for the event published by the Loyola Centre.

Josep Baquer is the author of the book 'The Human Couple', which he presented to Pope Francis. A book in which he defends a vision of marriage radically opposed to what the Church teaches. In other sessions given by this Jesuit, he equates homosexual and heterosexual relationships "if there is love and fidelity". He even maintains that if there is "love and fidelity with a family project between two homosexual persons it can be a sacrament as a living expression of how Christ loves his Church".

Baquer has explicitly asked to recover the third chapter of the Constitution Lumen gentium. "We should begin to overcome this paternalistic circle; and this means that we should give our opinion in all freedom and we should put everything we know and that we research, at the service of the community," he defended in a session in 2019.

In his book Baquer also includes a reading of basic texts of the Social Doctrine of the Church: "With great surprise, when one reads all the biblical argumentation that is used in moral books to say 'homosexuality, no'". The Jesuit considers, texts in hand, "that absolutely nothing can be proved of what they pretend to prove with the official doctrine". And he concludes that "you cannot manipulate the Bible to explain what you want to explain".

Under the false pretext of freedom of expression, this Jesuit priest will, if nothing and no one else will prevent it, give a session on 8 May in which he will defend his heretical positions contrary to the faith, morals, doctrine, Magisterium and Tradition of the Church. In short, doctrines contrary to the Gospel and therefore to the message of Christ.

What does the Church say about the blessing of homosexual couples?

The Vatican, through the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, responded to a question sent to the dicastery on whether the Church could impart the blessing to same-sex unions. The answer was categorical: no. And that answer has been approved by Pope Francis.

The note describes how in some ecclesial environments "projects and proposals for blessings for same-sex unions are spreading". "Not infrequently, these projects are motivated by a sincere desire to welcome and support homosexual persons," the letter says.

To be consistent with the nature of sacramentals, "when a blessing is invoked on certain human relationships, it is necessary - beyond the right intention of those who participate - that what is being blessed be objectively and positively ordered to receive and express grace, according to the designs of God inscribed in Creation and fully revealed by Christ the Lord". "Therefore, only those realities are compatible with the essence of the blessing imparted by the Church which are in themselves ordered to serve these designs", the note explains.

"For this reason, it is not licit to impart a blessing to relationships, or even to stable couples, which involve a sexual praxis outside marriage (that is, outside the indissoluble union of a man and a woman open, in itself, to the transmission of life), as is the case of unions between persons of the same sex," the document states.

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