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By Edward Pentin, National Catholic Register, April 10, 2025
Edward Pentin is the Register’s Senior Contributor and EWTN News Vatican Analyst. He began reporting on the Pope and the Vatican with Vatican Radio before moving on to become the Rome correspondent for EWTN’s National Catholic Register.
The prefect of the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith has not addressed concerns that his recent remarks may contradict the Church’s moral teaching on bodily integrity.
VATICAN CITY — The prefect of the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith, who recently appeared to some observers to support “sex change” surgery in especially difficult cases, has not responded to questions aimed at clarifying his comments.
Addressing via video link a theological conference in Germany in February, Cardinal Victor Fernández upheld the Church’s opposition to such surgery and gender ideology, but said, “We do not want to be cruel and say that we do not understand the conditioning of people and the deep suffering that exists in some cases of ‘dysphoria’ that manifests itself even from childhood.” …
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