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By Phil Lawler, Catholic Culture, July 24, 2023
The early leader in the competition for the Understatement of the Week is my old friend Robert Royal, with this entry:
Theology departments in Catholic colleges and universities are not exactly noted for slavish orthodoxy, peer pressures to take a strict papal line, or succumbing to alleged threats from Rome.
Writing on his own commentary site The Catholic Thing, Royal was reflecting on a statement by Cardinal-elect Victor Manuel Fernandez. The Argentine prelate, who will soon be the Vatican’s top doctrinal official, had announced that he will take an approach very different from that taken by St. John Paul II in Veritatis Splendor. Although he dutifully praised Veritatis Splendor (VS) as a “great document,” Archbishop Fernandez remarked that it “set certain limits,” and therefore “is not the most adequate text to encourage the development of theology.” …
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Phil Lawler has been a Catholic journalist for more than 30 years. He has edited several Catholic magazines and written eight books. Founder of Catholic World News, he is the news director and lead analyst at CatholicCulture.org.