Congo’s Cardinal Ambongo: Fiducia Supplicans ‘caused a lot of harm’
September 18, 2025
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CWN Editor's Note: Cardinal Fridolin Ambongo Besungu of Kinshasa said that the Vatican document Fiducia Supplicans, allowing for blessings of same-sex couples, “caused a lot of harm to the Catholic faithful, and even beyond,” in an interview with OSV News.
The cardinal spoke to OSV while in Poland, where he was speaking about an initiative to promote negotiations that might end the bloodshed in the Democratic Republic of Congo. He said that the initiative, backed by the Church, was gaining wide support, although the country’s government is “not very enthusiastic.”
Questioned about Pope Leo XIV, the cardinal said that the new Pope “is a man who speaks very little but listens a lot.” He added that he believed Pope Leo will “listen widely before making a decision, to avoid what we had with Fiducia.”
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