Published February 14, 2024
ROME — Cardinal Gerhard Müller, the former head of the Vatican’s doctrinal office, has slammed the Vatican’s opening to blessing gay couples as “relativizing the truth and cheapening grace.”
In an interview with the National Catholic Registerpublished Monday, Cardinal Müller lamented the Vatican’s Dec. 18 publication of the declaration Fiducia Supplicans, which allowed for the blessing of same-sex couples for the first time in the Church’s history.
“You can betray yourself, you can betray the others, but nobody can betray God,” the German cardinal stated.
The Vatican text, which sparked widespread consternation and opposition from faithful and prelates all over the globe, notably the entire African continent, reversed the clear position of a 2021 Vatican document declaring that the Church has no authority to bless gay couples since God Himself “does not and cannot bless sin.”
