We warned right here on TGP that the brand new Vatican Head of doctrine was a prepare wreck ready to occur – effectively, it did.
Most non-Catholics don’t have any concept about what the ‘Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith’ is – and this title additionally doesn’t ring a bell with many members of the Church.
However name it by its authentic title, and almost everybody will realize it: the Holy Inquisition.
It’s the oldest among the many departments of the Roman Curia, based to defend the Catholic Church from heresy – and is the physique accountable for ‘promulgating and defending Catholic doctrine’.
Its seat is the Palace of the Holy Workplace in Rome.
In 1965, it grew to become known as because the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Religion earlier than receiving its current title – but it surely’s nonetheless informally often known as the ‘Holy Office’.
It’s a really prestigious workplace, former Pope Benedict XVI – then known as Archbishop Joseph Ratzinger – headed it with nice success throughout John Paul II’s papacy.
It’s the Pope’s ‘Doctrinal Watchdog’ accountable for ‘guaranteeing that Vatican documents and Catholic theological publications meet minimum standards of orthodoxy’.
Pope Francis, being the pontiff hell-bent in ‘reforming’ (many say destroying) Catholic Doctrine, selected the ‘perfect’ man for the ‘task’.
Again in July, I printed right here in TGP an article known as Pope Francis Places Controversial Argentinean Bishop as New Head of Discipline and Doctrine – Monsignor Fernández Wrote Book About the ‘Art of Kissing’, and Is Accused of Covering up Sexual Abuse Allegations in His Archdiocese
Beneath is an excerpt of it, to remind us:
“Globalist Pope Francis continues unabated in his wrestle to remake the church based on his very peculiar view. Now the Argentinean pontiff has chosen a controversial countrymen for probably the most highly effective posts within the Ecclesiastic Hierarchy, in a transfer that generated protest in sectors each inside and out of doors the Church.
Associated Press reported:
“Pope Francis on Saturday selected a bishop who’s a trusted theological advisor from his native Argentina for one of many Vatican’s strongest positions — head of the watchdog workplace that ensures doctrinal orthodoxy.
Francis named Monsignor Victor Manuel Fernández, the archbishop of La Plata, Argentina, because the prefect, or chief, of the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Religion.”
“The Dicastery, or department, enforces orthodoxy of church teaching and disciplines theologians deemed to have strayed from Catholic doctrine in their lectures or publications. But it has taken on considerably more importance to rank-and-file faithful as the stain of pedophile priests spread across the globe in recent decades. Among the department’s duties are evaluating and processing sex abuse allegations against clergy.”
ABC News reported:
“A U.S.-based group that tracks how the Catholic hierarchy deals with allegations of sexual abuse by clergy says Pope Francis made a ‘troubling’ choice in appointing an Argentine prelate to a powerful Vatican office that handles such cases.”
In 2019, Fernández ‘refused to believe’ victims who accused a priest within the La Plata archdiocese of sexually abusing boys, and disregarded the accusations.
That’s disturbing, for a bishop set to have the duty of judging and punishing clergymen who abuse kids.”
“Francis ‘made a baffling and troubling choice’, the group mentioned in assertion emailed late Saturday within the U.S., citing how Fernández dealt with the case.
‘In his response to allegations, he stoutly supported the accused priest and refused to believe the victims’, BishopAccountability.org mentioned. Fernández ‘should have been investigated, not promoted to one of the highest posts in the global church’.”
And the criticism additionally comes from contained in the church, as many conservative catholic have reservations about his theological work and his adherence to the orthodoxy he’s to defend.
Catholic information web site The Pillar reported:
“Fernández is the writer of greater than 300 theological works, together with the 1995 ‘Heal me with your mouth. The art of kissing’, which was not included on the checklist of his publications launched July 1 by the Vatican.
The Holy See press workplace mentioned that the archbishop’s writings had been marked by ‘a significant biblical basis and a constant effort to create a dialogue between theology and culture, evangelizing mission, spirituality, and social issues’.”
{That a} e-book like that’s inappropriate for a person in his place is half-admitted by Fernández himself within the first paragraph of his e-book: “I want to clarify that this book was not written so much based on my own experience, but based on the lives of people who kiss. In these pages I want to synthesize the popular feeling, what people feel when they think of a kiss, what mortals experience when they kiss.”
So, realizing the person, it’s straightforward to grasp why Fiducia Suplicans is such a large flop. In spite of everything, who desires the writer of ‘The Art of Kissing’ to be reforming millenary doctrine?
Christopher R. Altieri wrote in The Catholic World Report:
“Fiducia supplicans is crowded with caveats and brimming with qualifications, many very carefully drawn, over 5,000 words. It is evident that the declaration’s author and his commissioning principal both knew it would make waves. But it is unlikely either Fernandez or Pope Francis expected the tsunami of reaction that came in short order.”
Some dioceses in liberal-decadent western Europe made a present of enthusiastically embracing the enterprise.
“From different jurisdictions—a lot of them geographically positioned within the international south—the reception ranged from frigid to actively hostile, with a number of nationwide bishops’ conferences flatly refusing to implement the declaration in any respect.
The cardinal-president of the Symposium of Episcopal Convention of Africa and Madagascar (SECAM), Fridolin Ambongo, issued a name mid-week for talks amongst African bishops with a view to getting ready a unified “continental” response.”
Ambongo, it bears saying, is a member of Pope Francis’s C9 “small council” of cardinal advisors.
Fernández instructed The Pillar that there isn’t a change within the doctrine on marriage — male-female, unique, indissoluble, naturally open to the technology of recent life.
“It’s good to have the DDF prefect on file saying there isn’t any change in mentioned factors of doctrine, however the truth he needed to say it itself makes it troublesome to credit score the concept that there may be a lot readability in both Fiducia’s specific propositions or the theological articulation it offers for them. Now, the sensible realities going through each the DDF prefect and his principal are certainly daunting.
[…] Pope Francis has put himself in an unimaginable scenario. Popes do this, once in a while. It normally isn’t that large a deal. Within the age of instantaneous communications and 24-hour information cycles, nonetheless, a sufficiently big disaster may put the implosion of a preach on show for all the world, in actual time.”
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