By Father Raymond J. de Souza, EWTN News, January 4, 2024
Father Raymond J. de Souza is the founding editor of Convivium magazine.
COMMENTARY: The Jan. 4 press release on the Dec. 18 declaration from the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith shows its prefect distancing himself from his own document.
When Pope Francis appointed Cardinal Víctor Manuel Fernández to be the prefect of the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith (DDF) in July, he took the unusual step of writing a letter to accompany the appointment.
“What I expect from you is certainly something very different,” he wrote.
The Holy Father got all that, and then some.
No prefect has ever conducted himself quite like Cardinal Fernández now does, frantically trying to contain the fractures opened up by Fiducia Supplicans. …