We warned right here on TGP that the brand new Vatican Head of doctrine was a practice wreck ready to occur – properly, it did.
Most non-Catholics don’t have any concept about what the ‘Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Religion’ is – and this identify additionally doesn’t ring a bell with many members of the Church.
However name it by its unique identify, 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 answerable for ‘promulgating and defending Catholic doctrine’.
Its seat is the Palace of the Holy Workplace in Rome.
In 1965, it grew to become referred to as because the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Religion earlier than receiving its current identify – nevertheless it’s nonetheless informally often called the ‘Holy Workplace’.
It’s a really prestigious workplace, former Pope Benedict XVI – then referred to as Archbishop Joseph Ratzinger – headed it with nice success throughout John Paul II’s papacy.
It’s the Pope’s ‘Doctrinal Watchdog’ answerable for ‘guaranteeing that Vatican paperwork and Catholic theological publications meet minimal requirements of orthodoxy’.
Pope Francis, being the pontiff hell-bent in ‘reforming’ (many say destroying) Catholic Doctrine, selected the ‘good’ man for the ‘activity’.
Again in July, I revealed right here in TGP an article referred to 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
Under is an excerpt of it, to remind us:
“Globalist Pope Francis continues unabated in his wrestle to remake the church in keeping with his very peculiar view. Now the Argentinean pontiff has chosen a controversial countrymen for one of the crucial highly effective posts within the Ecclesiastic Hierarchy, in a transfer that generated protest in sectors each inside and outdoors 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 division, enforces orthodoxy of church instructing and disciplines theologians deemed to have strayed from Catholic doctrine of their lectures or publications. However it has taken on significantly extra significance to rank-and-file devoted because the stain of pedophile monks unfold throughout the globe in current many years. Among the many division’s duties are evaluating and processing intercourse abuse allegations towards clergy.”
ABC News reported:
“A U.S.-based group that tracks how the Catholic hierarchy offers with allegations of sexual abuse by clergy says Pope Francis made a ‘troubling’ selection in appointing an Argentine prelate to a robust Vatican workplace that handles such instances.”
In 2019, Fernández ‘refused to consider’ 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 accountability of judging and punishing monks who abuse youngsters.”
“Francis ‘made a baffling and troubling selection’, 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 consider the victims’, BishopAccountability.org mentioned. Fernández ‘ought to have been investigated, not promoted to one of many highest posts within the international 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 together with your mouth. The artwork of kissing’, which was not included on the record of his publications launched July 1 by the Vatican.
The Holy See press workplace mentioned that the archbishop’s writings have been marked by ‘a big biblical foundation and a relentless effort to create a dialogue between theology and tradition, evangelizing mission, spirituality, and social points’.”
{That a} guide like that’s inappropriate for a person in his place is half-admitted by Fernández himself within the first paragraph of his guide: “I need to make clear that this guide was not written a lot primarily based alone expertise, however primarily based on the lives of people that kiss. In these pages I need to synthesize the favored feeling, what individuals really feel after they consider a kiss, what mortals expertise after they kiss.”
So, understanding 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 Artwork 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 fastidiously drawn, over 5,000 phrases. It’s evident that the declaration’s writer and his commissioning principal each knew it will make waves. However it’s unlikely both Fernandez or Pope Francis anticipated the tsunami of response that got here in brief 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 informed The Pillar that there is no such thing as a change within the doctrine on marriage — male-female, unique, indissoluble, naturally open to the technology of latest life.
“It’s good to have the DDF prefect on report saying there isn’t any change in mentioned factors of doctrine, however the reality he needed to say it itself makes it tough to credit score the concept there may be a lot readability in both Fiducia’s specific propositions or the theological articulation it offers for them. Now, the sensible realities dealing with each the DDF prefect and his principal are certainly daunting.
[…] Pope Francis has put himself in an not possible scenario. Popes do this, infrequently. It normally isn’t that massive a deal. Within the age of prompt communications and 24-hour information cycles, nevertheless, a sufficiently big disaster may put the implosion of a hold forth on show for the complete world, in actual time.”
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