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May 05, 2021
CWN Editor s Note: Cardinal Camillo Ruini, the retired vicar general of Rome, told the Italian daily
Il Foglio that he fears a schism resulting from the German bishops’ move to bless same-sex unions. “I hope with all my heart that there will not be any schism, and I pray for this,” the Italian cardinal said. But the German hierarchy, he said, risks breaking the unity of the universal Church.
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Cardinal Camillo Ruini answers questions at the Vatican press office on June 17, 2014. / Daniel Ibáñez/CNA.
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Rome Newsroom, May 4, 2021 / 12:00 pm (CNA).
Italian Cardinal Camillo Ruini has said that he is praying there will be no schism in Germany, as priests and bishops in the country announce their disagreement with a document from the Vatican saying the Church cannot bless same-sex unions.
In a May 4 interview with the newspaper Il Foglio, Ruini said: I hope with all my heart that there will not be any schism, and I pray for this.
The 90-year-old cardinal referenced Pope Francis 2019 letter in which he asked German Catholics to keep a connection with the universal Church.
ROME â Cardinal Camillo Ruini, the former vicar of Rome, reaffirmed Tuesday the importance of a recent Vatican text banning clergy from blessing homosexual unions.
âPersons can certainly be blessed, but in order for them to be converted, not so that they be confirmed in their sin,â Cardinal Ruini told the Italian daily Il Foglio. âGod himself blesses a sinful person so that he will let himself to be changed by Him, but He cannot bless sin.â More…