Cardinal Victor Fernandez Archives

Cardinal Victor Fernandez

View from the (journalistic) pew in Rome: Cardinal ‘Tucho’ Fernandez opens up on his doctrinal declarations

April 16, 2024

The Vatican press conference to introduce Dignitas Infinita was that rare thing in the history of Vatican press conferences – it was interesting. Not thanks to the document itself, which was a hodge-podge of things-we-already-knew, but because it was the first press conference given by Cardinal Victor Fernandez, known as Tucho, the new head of the Dicastery

Pope’s blessings for ‘same-sex couples’ definitively sink ecumenical dialogue with Copts

March 09, 2024

One of the most influential Oriental Orthodox Churches has suspended theological dialogue with the Catholic Church and reaffirmed its opposition to “all forms of homosexual relationships,” in the latest blow to a recent Vatican document which sets a way for blessing members of same-sex relationships. The declaration – “Fiducia Supplicans: On the Pastoral Meaning of

No, the Church has not changed her doctrine on the liceity or blessing of same-sex unions

December 20, 2023

The Vatican’s latest declaration bombshell, authored by one of the most senior clerics in the Roman Curia, has duped the international press and its readers alike into believing that the Catholic Church has softened its position on homosexuality. It hasn’t. In describing how sinners, who may be in a same-same relationship, may ask for a