Fiducia Supplicans fights resemble other church conflicts

Bishop Martin Mtumbuka pulled no punches when passing judgment on the Vatican's declaration that Catholic clergy could bless couples living in 'irregular relationships,' such as same-sex unions.

This 'looks to us like a heresy, it reads like a heresy, and it affects heresy,' he said. 'We cannot allow such an offensive and apparently blasphemous declaration to be implemented in our dioceses' in sout…