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A 2006 essay demonstrates at least four areas where the Prefect-elect’s commitment to Catholic moral teaching is severely compromised; here is a close analysis of two of those areas.
Argentine prelate Víctor Manuel Fernández, prefect-elect of the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith, should either recant his erroneous positions on sexual morality or resign his post at the DDF. A calm, competent, and clear-eyed analysis of Fernández’s 2006 essay entitled “The Trinitarian Dimension of Morality” shows that this statement is not only entirely warranted but an appropriate expression of concern for the welfare of the Church.
Fernández’s essay demonstrates at least four areas where his commitment to Catholic moral teaching is severely compromised: (i) his rejection of the Church’s prohibition of the use of contraception in marriage; (ii) his disregard for the teachings of Veritatis Splendor and Catholic moral doctrine on intrinsically evil acts and absolute moral norms; (iii) his departure from the traditional understanding of conscience and his shuffling between objective and subjective guilt/imputability in regard to those who choose acts of grave matter; and (iv) his implicit adoption of the condemned moral theory known as proportionalism.
This article engages the first two. The latter two are saved for future essays.
Fernández’s ethical method
Continued below.
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Argentine prelate Víctor Manuel Fernández, prefect-elect of the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith, should either recant his erroneous positions on sexual morality or resign his post at the DDF. A calm, competent, and clear-eyed analysis of Fernández’s 2006 essay entitled “The Trinitarian Dimension of Morality” shows that this statement is not only entirely warranted but an appropriate expression of concern for the welfare of the Church.
Fernández’s essay demonstrates at least four areas where his commitment to Catholic moral teaching is severely compromised: (i) his rejection of the Church’s prohibition of the use of contraception in marriage; (ii) his disregard for the teachings of Veritatis Splendor and Catholic moral doctrine on intrinsically evil acts and absolute moral norms; (iii) his departure from the traditional understanding of conscience and his shuffling between objective and subjective guilt/imputability in regard to those who choose acts of grave matter; and (iv) his implicit adoption of the condemned moral theory known as proportionalism.
This article engages the first two. The latter two are saved for future essays.
Fernández’s ethical method
Continued below.
An examination of Archbishop Fernández’s erroneous positions on sexual morality
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