Jesuit's talk in Pamplona in defence of the blessing of homosexual couples is suspended

The Archdiocese of Pamplona has intervened to suspend the talk by Jesuit priest and theologian Josep Baquer.

On Monday 8 May, the Jesuit school of St Ignatius in Pamplona was to host a controversial talk by Jesuit priest Josep Baquer, who is a staunch defender of homosexual relations.

The controversial Jesuit was to give a talk "to open 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.

InfoVaticana sounded the alarm on Monday. Both the public denunciation of this media and the mobilisation of numerous users on social networks have provoked the intervention of the Archbishopric of Pamplona. Archdiocesan sources have confirmed to InfoVaticana that the session has been suspended.

Through social networks, a call was generated to ask the Archdiocese, which is headed by Monsignor Francisco Pérez, to stop this talk.

What the Archdiocese has suspended

Thanks to the intervention of the Archdiocese of Navarre, the school of St. Ignatius of Pamplona will not host the session of Josep Baquer author of the book 'The human couple' which he gave 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 argues 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".

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