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By Rachel Quackenbush, Catholic Vote, March 31, 2025

CV NEWS FEED // In a striking departure from established Church teaching, Cardinal Víctor Manuel Fernández has signaled that sex “change” surgeries may be morally acceptable under certain conditions.

Cardinal Fernández, the prefect of the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith (DDF) offered this perspective in a conference he delivered via video to a Theological congress organized by the Catholic University of Cologne (Germany) in mid January. But then in March, the Cardinal posted the conference as an official “clarification” of Dignitas infinita, the Church’s 2024 declaration on human dignity.

While Dignitas infinita firmly rejected gender ideology and condemned sex “change” procedures as incompatible with human dignity, Cardinal Fernández’s “clarification” — posted in the dicastery’s official website exclusively in German and Italian — introduces a reinterpretation that departs from the document’s original moral clarity.

Dignitas infinita states, “[A]ny sex-change intervention, as a rule, risks threatening the unique dignity the person has received from the moment of conception.” ….

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