Fiducia Supplicans

Queer PoliFaith

Welcome to this episode of Queer PoliFaith. Today, we will be talking about the declaration Fiducia Supplicans put out by the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith from the Roman Catholic Church. There have been a lot of articles and people saying that this is a massive and good thing or that it is the first step for the church to become fully welcoming for queer people. Unfortunately, these are overselling what the declaration gives us. In this episode I:

a. Discuss my background and how it may affect my analysis of the declaration

b. Discuss levels of authority for Catholic documents (read this for more)

c. Summarize the declaration, reading various important paragraphs and explaining them. When we get to section III, I read the entire thing and explain it paragraph by paragraph.

d. Give my thoughts about the declaration (good and bad) and explain why I see it as not nearly as titanic a document as people claim.

My thoughts are not the final thoughts, but I think that we need to not just look at this declaration through rose-colored glasses, but fit them into the larger pattern of how the Catholic Church has historically treated queer and trans people (and in this case, remarried people) and how you can make marginal changes but still be harmful at the core.

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