Footnotes
- Random House (January 14, 2025).
- See Michael Haynes, “Pope Francis Says God Loves Homosexuals ‘as They Are’ in new Memoir, https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/pope-francis-god-loves-homosexuals-as-they-are-in-new-memoir/; Cindy Wooden, Pope looks back on his life, urges people to look to future with hope, https://www.usccb.org/news/2025/pope-looks-back-his-life-urges-people-look-future-hope 1/3/25
- Commonly, the term homosexual is used to refer not to those who have a deviant tendency but resist and maintain chastity but to those who indulge in vice. In the current context and the Fiducia Supplicans, which allows homosexual “couples” to be blessed, it is clear that this is referring to those who practice homosexuality.
- Psalms 5:7.
- Summa Theologica, I, q. 20, a.2 ad 4.
- Michael Haynes, Pope Francis says God loves homosexuals ‘as they are’ in new memoir, https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/pope-francis-god-loves-homosexuals-as-they-are-in-new-memoir/; Cindy Wooden, Pope looks back on his life, urges people to look to future with hope, https://www.usccb.org/news/2025/pope-looks-back-his-life-urges-people-look-future-hope 1/3/25
- Msgr. Giuseppe Graneris, Sin (Actual), in Roberti-Palazzini, Dictionary of Moral Theology, The Newman Press, 1962, p. 1134.
- Cornelius Damen, C.SS.R., Lust (Wantonness), in Roberti-Palazzini, p.719.
- 1 John 3:8.
- Antonio Spadaro, SJ, ‘The Water Has Been Agitated,’ https://www.laciviltacattolica.com/the-water-has-been-agitated/ 1/31/25.
- Id. Ibid.
- See Pope Francis Authorizes Blessing Homosexual Couples and Adulterers with a Declaration and a “Clarification” that Favor Sin by Luiz Sérgio Solimeo February 1, 2024, https://www.tfp.org/pope-francis-authorizes-blessing-homosexual-couples-and-adulterers-with-a-declaration-and-a-clarification-that-favor-sin/
- Summa Theologica, II-II q.153; Fr. Antonio Royo Marín, O.P, Teología Moral Para Seglares, https://www.mercaba.org/MORAL/ROYO/208-217_cap_ii_pecados_especiales.htm#ARTICULO%20II
- I Cor. 6:9-10.
- Wisdom 4:1. Douay-Rheims Bible.
- Matt. 5:8.
- 1 John 3:8.