Dignitas Infinita: To Play Down Free Will and Original Sin is a Very Dangerous Business, by Gavin Ashenden

The latest reconfiguration of Catholic theology to emerge from Rome has come in the form of the document Dignitas Infinita, on human dignity and gender identity issues. It has been rightly praised as holding the line on the traditional deposit of faith against the latest eruption of politicised gender dysphoria into a form of group psychosis that has swept through Western culture. Nonetheless, critics claim it distorts Catholic teaching by a mixture of theological insinuation and changing the hierarchical order of theological dogmas.

Some of the background thinking to the document emerged when the Prefect of the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith, Cardinal Víctor Manuel Fernández, mused at the press conference launching it that one of the reasons why freedom of will and original sin had been downplayed in the document was that the Pope still liked to ponder on the question of whether perhaps, hell might be empty. …

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