Synod delegate, known as the TikTok/Twitter nun defends blessings for homosexual couples

Criticism of a nun who defended blessings to homosexual couples in Germany

After defending blessings for homosexual couples in Germany through the social network TikTok, the nun Xiskya Valladares, known as "the Twitter nun", received various criticisms.

In a video that responded to the analysis of Alejandro Bermúdez, director of the ACI Group, about the blessings carried out in Germany on May 10, Valladares said: "What problem do we have to reject so much and transmit so much hatred to homosexual couples?"

“I sincerely see Jesus welcoming, I see Jesus integrating. I don't see Jesus sowing division and rejecting or excluding,” she continued.

The nun said that “I do not understand why there is a sector of the Church that continues to be determined, first, to see sin in everything related to sex. And yet, they see no sin in the tares that are sown."

"And second, judging the conscience of the priests who cannot deny the blessing (to homosexual couples)," she concluded.

Sister Xiskya Valladares, a 52-year-old nun belonging to the Purity of Mary Congregation, is a native of Nicaragua and currently lives in Spain.

Together with Fr. Daniel Pajuelo, a Marianist priest, Ella Valladares founded the iMisión platform, which is dedicated to evangelization on the Internet.

On Twitter, Sister Xiskya Valladares is followed by more than 71,000 people. On TikTok she has more than 452 thousand followers. Through her networks she shares catechism and evangelization messages.

iMisión has more than 47.5 thousand followers on Twitter.

The events that iMisión has organized have featured important personalities of the Church, and Pope Francis himself shared a greeting and encouragement with them in a video message in 2019.

The blessing of homosexual couples in Germany

On May 10, priests and pastoral agents in various locations in Germany, in open defiance of the Vatican, gave their blessing to gay couples, assuring that "we respect and value their love, and we also believe that God's blessings are upon them."

Almost a month earlier, on April 15 of this year, with the approval of Pope Francis, the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith published a document in which it stated that "it is not lawful to impart a blessing to relationships, or even stable couples." , which imply a sexual praxis outside of marriage (...), as is the case of unions between people of the same sex”.

The Church, assured the Vatican department, "does not bless and cannot bless sin: it blesses sinful man, so that he recognizes himself as part of his plan of love and allows himself to be changed by him."

“Mistake after another mistake”

Without mentioning the name of the nun, Fr. José Antonio Fortea, a well-known Spanish theologian, said in an article that "on the occasion of the 'precisma' that is happening in Germany, it has given me immense sorrow to see a nun who intends to do apostolate on the Internet to attack those who defend good doctrine”.

"I am not going to analyze the words of this consecrated woman because they were one mistake after another mistake," he said.

In such a case, said Fr. Fortea, one should not “criticize people. Defend orthodoxy, but not denigrate the religious. Not a single word against charity.”

“When the schism takes place, that is, when the disobedience becomes formal, when the rupture is staged perfectly, these appearances by priests, religious and consecrated women will become commonplace in the media. It will inevitably offer a painful image, ”he said.

Then Fr. Fortea reiterated his request that "we do not attack consecrated persons."

“Of course, every priest, every nun, has a superior. And the superior has some duties, duties that are serious. But, in the midst of the ecclesial storm that is coming, we must not criticize a superior, a bishop, or the Roman Curia that supervises the bishop either.

"We who do not have ecclesial power, let us leave this matter of clerical discipline in the hands of Jesus Christ, the Head," he said.

"Jesus, who welcomes the sinner, demands his conversion"

For his part, Fr. Hugo Valdemar, Penitentiary Canon of the Primatial Archdiocese of Mexico, told ACI Prensa that "the Vatican made it clear that what cannot be blessed is sin."

"It is a matter of elementary common sense, God's blessing cannot be given to a sinful act, such as homosexual relationships that contravene natural law and God's law."

The Mexican priest stressed that "making Catholic morality clear does not mean rejecting sinful people or hating them."

"On the contrary, it is an act of love and charity to make the sinner see his error and invite him to conversion," he said.

Fr. Valdemar stressed that “Jesus comes to fight the evil one and sin, not to welcome and integrate it. Jesus, who welcomes the sinner, demands his conversion. Because sin is death and slavery."

The Mexican priest, who for 15 years was director of Communications under the pastoral government of Cardinal Norberto Rivera in the Archdiocese of Mexico, said that “no one has judged the conscience of those priests. Their actions have been judged, and every Christian has the right to tell them that they are false shepherds, because they are leading their sheep to the precipice, to eternal damnation, and they are going with them”.

"A series of fallacies"

The Spanish priest Francisco José Delgado, with a degree in Philosophy and Theology, told ACI Prensa that Sister Xiskya Valladares "uses, in her commentary, a series of fallacies clearly intended to promote confusion and error, something that can never come from the Holy Spirit".

"Those of us who defend the Church's doctrine and praxis of not blessing sinful situations do not reject people, nor do we hate them, but we reject and hate the sin that is asked to be blessed," he specified.

Fr. Delgado indicated that "when a homosexual couple, as the nun herself points out, asks for a blessing, each member of the couple does not ask for a blessing as an individual, something that there would be no reason to deny."

"Instead, they ask for it as a couple who, in a public way, declares to be in a stable situation of sin, since they simulate the married life that, obviously, supposes the practice of homosexual acts."

Regarding the concern of the Nicaraguan nun for "the tares that are sown", the Spanish priest pointed out that "it is evident that those who act as sowers of tares are, evidently, the priests and religious who promote error about the doctrine of the Church about homosexuality," he said.

Fr. Delgado stressed that "I have not heard anyone judge the conscience of those priests, but rather their words and their public acts (publicized by themselves) of disobedience and rejection of the Church's doctrine."

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