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Fr. Daniel Duigou appeared with Pope Francis on the cover of the priest's
March 2018 book 'Lettre ouverte d'un curé au pape François'
March 28, 2018 (LifeSiteNews) – A French priest has announced in a televised interview that Pope Francis approved of his blessing of homosexual couples. The news comes in the wake of silence from the Pope at the suggestion of one of his main advisor Cardinals that spiritual encouragement of homosexual couples should be undertaken and blessings for homosexual couples should not be ruled out.
Father Daniel Duigou, priest of the Church Saint-Merry in Paris, France, is a late vocation and a former journalist who holds progressive views. According to a recent interview he gave to the international news service Konbini News, he just published an Open Letter to Pope Francis (Lettre Ouverte d'un Curé au Pape François) in the form of a book in which he calls for a “reinvention” of the Church and for a removal of the “monopoly” of the role of the priests in the Church.
Most importantly, Father Duigou also claimed to have received Pope Francis' personal support for blessing homosexual and “remarried” couples.
In the interview, Duigou said that he had a 45-minute personal meeting with Pope Francis. The photo on the cover of his book released this month supports his claim of the private meeting.
“The first question he [the pope] asked me was: 'Do you bless divorced and remarried couples?' which is one of the big questions today in the Church,” explained Duigou. He recalled responding, “I listen and I bless, and I also bless homosexual couples.”
According to Duigou the Pope responded: “Yes, because to bless means that God thinks well of people and that God thinks well of all people.”
The news show host asked incredulously: “Well, does this mean that the Pope is in favor of blessing homosexual couples?”
The French priest responded: “Yes, absolutely. It is not about marrying them.”
When asked whether this is the official position of the Church, Father Duigou responded that it is the position the Pope put forward during an inflight interview.
Duigou may have been referring to the Pope's famous “Who am I to Judge” made on a 2013 flight.
But he also could have been referring to a 2016 interview during the Pope's return flight from his visit to Georgia and Azerbaijan. The Pope told reporters that he had invited a homosexual couple to visit him in the Vatican. Pope Francis referred to a woman who “felt like a man” but “was physically a young woman.” After a sex-change surgery in her twenties, Pope Francis said, “he got married.” Referring to the woman who mutilated herself and took hormones to appear like a man, the Pope said, "He wrote me a letter saying that, for him, it would be a consolation to come [see me] with his wife. I received them and they were very happy."
Later in the interview, the French priest said that it was probable that in the future there will be married men who will be priests as well as women priests. He responded with “But of course,” when asked if there will be married priests. And addressing women priests he said: “Why won't we ordain tomorrow or in two days women? This would be an extraordinary sign on the side of the Church.”
With regard to the question of whether abortion is a sin, Duigou responded: “No. There are situations that make that if the child is not wanted, the child is in danger.” There are “extreme cases,” he explained, “and there can be many extreme cases,” and there “it could be preferable to abort.”
The interviewer then told Father Duigou that his own grand-uncle was a “traditionalist” priest with “cassock” and all. The interviewer said that his ordained grand-uncle would likely accuse Duigou of betraying the Church.
Duigou, when asked how he would respond to such a claim, replied: “I would say that he lives in the 19th century, and not in the 21st.” Duigou said the Church is engaged in an evolution that one should not fear. “One has to open oneself,” he added.
When asked whether he is concerned about the fact that there are less and less church-goers on Sundays, the priest answered: “In some ways, that reassures me,” because it is “a free act,” and not anymore done out of social pressure.
The French traditionalist Catholic website Riposte Catholique, which reported on this interview, titled its report: “How can Father Duigou remain a priest?”
LifeSiteNews reached out to Vatican press office director Greg Burke, asking him for comment and for a possible denial of the claims made by Father Duigou. No response was given.
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ReplyDeleteReparation is a Catholic baptismal obligation, not only for the lifetime of sins that we commit individually, but also for the sins others commit. This is a Catholic understanding reinforced by Our Lady of Fatima that sinners go to hell because no prays for them. These public sins mandate that faithful Catholics must make reparation via private and public prayer.
“Oh, you, who are my friends, and my faithful children, look and see if there be any sorrow like mine. Everywhere My enemies despise and insult both my Eternal Father and My Church, the cherished Spouse of My Heart. Will no one rise up to console Me by defending the glory of My Father, and the honor of My Spouse, which has been so cruelly attacked? I can no longer remain in the midst of a people that will continue to be so heedless and so ungrateful. Look at the torrents of tears that stream from My eyes! Can I find no one to wipe away these tears by making reparation to My Father, and imploring forgiveness for the guilty?”
— Words of Our Lord to Sr. Mary of St. Peter
Offering of the Holy Face of Our Lord Jesus Christ
to God the Father
Eternal Father, turn away Your angry gaze from our guilty people whose face has become unsightly in Your eyes. Look instead upon the Face of Your beloved Son, in Whom You are well pleased. We now offer You this Holy Face, covered with shame and disfigured by bloody bruises, in reparation for the crimes of our age, in order to appease Your anger, justly provoked against us. Because Your Divine Son, our Redeemer, has taken upon His Head all the sins of His members, that they might be spared, we now beg You, Eternal Father, to grant us mercy. Amen.
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