Archbishop Tomash Peta of Astana, Kazakhstan, together with Auxiliary Bishop Athanasius Schneider, firmly contend that the new declaration, Fiducia supplicans, is a “great deception”, and that its proposed blessings of same-sex couples “directly and seriously contradict Divine Revelation and the uninterrupted, bimillennial doctrine and practice of the Catholic Church,” and they have prohibited priests and faithful from accepting or performing any form of blessing of couples in an irregular situation and same-sex couples.