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Priests should exercise “pastoral prudence” depending on attitudes towards homosexuality within their countries.
Gay people in Africa and elsewhere continue to face extreme prejudice and persecution. Homosexuality is prohibited in more than 30 countries on the continent. The president of Burundi recently said that gay people should be stoned.
There has been fierce opposition to the blessing of gay couples in nations such as Zambia, Nigeria and Malawi.
The Archbishop of Kinshasa in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Cardinal Fridolin Ambongo, said last month: “The ambiguity of the declaration, which lends itself to numerous interpretations and manipulations, is causing much perplexity among the faithful.”
In Uruguay, Cardinal Daniel Sturla, the archbishop of Montevideo, said the blessing of gay couples was “a controversial issue and it’s creating divisions within the Church”.
In Kazakhstan, an archbishop prohibited the new blessing, saying that it contradicts the 2,000-year-old “doctrine and practice of the Catholic Church”.
The Vatican’s clarification, issued on Thursday, came less than three weeks after the original declaration was released, highlighting the consternation it had caused in many parts of the Catholic world.
The blessing of gay couples should not be seen as “a justification of all their actions, and they are not an endorsement of the life that they lead”, the doctrinal office said.
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