A news article dated 22 December 2023 reporting Major Archbishop Sviatoslav Shevchuk's statement that the Vatican's Fiducia Supplicans declaration on non-liturgical same-sex blessings applies solely to the Latin Church and has no legal force for the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church's faithful, citing canon 1492 of the Code of Canons of the Eastern Churches, and quoting Shevchuk that a blessing cannot in any way contradict the teaching of the Catholic Church about the family as a faithful, indissoluble and fruitful union of love between a man and a woman.
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Citation
PublisherCatholic World Report
Publication Year2023
URLhttps://www.catholicworldreport.com/2023/12/22/ukrainian-archbishop-says-same-sex-blessings-document-doesnt-apply-to-eastern-churches/
Source Typejournalism
Assessment
Reliability Tier2
Specialist Catholic news journalism quoting the Major Archbishop directly, paired with an independent account from Crux. NotesCited for the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church's sexuality-position, marriage-position and both their details.
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