Vatican Preparing Document on the ‘Transmission of the Faith’
Cardinal Fernández said that bishops from around the world have expressed ‘concern’ over the breakdown in handing on the faith and ‘proposed a study on the problem and possible ways of resolving it.’
The Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith (DDF) is preparing a major new document on the transmission of the faith, drawing on a wide-ranging consultation with episcopal conferences across the globe.
Cardinal Víctor Manuel Fernández, prefect of the DDF, revealed news of the document to the Register May 15, saying that the forthcoming text is being prepared “in dialogue with the Dicastery for Evangelization.” The cardinal did not specify a date for the text’s publication.
Cardinal Fernández said the document’s origins date back in part to Pope Francis’ 2013 apostolic exhortation Evangelii Gaudium (The Joy of the Gospel). The late pontiff “highly valued popular piety and the family as means of transmitting the faith,” the cardinal said, but had stated in Evangelii Gaudium — although not in these exact words — “that this transmission had been broken.”
Cardinal Fernández said work on the document gathered momentum after bishops from around the world, while on various ad limina visits to the Vatican, had “expressed this concern and proposed a study on the problem and possible ways of resolving it.”
The initiative then took on greater significance when cardinal and bishop members of the DDF were consulted at two of their monthly meetings — called Feria IV. During the first of those meetings, the need for such a document was confirmed and a “fruitful dialogue took place.” Several consultations were then held with experts and a “first draft was prepared” which “forms the basis” for the document in process.
The cardinal said that during further ad limina visits, the scope of the topic was expanded, and at the second Feria IV meeting the DDF decided to “conduct a very broad consultation with all episcopal conferences, various specialists and research centers.”
“The response has been enormous,” Cardinal Fernández observed, adding that “many conferences have already sent their opinions and useful resources.” He noted that the dicastery has been “surprised both by the quantity and the length of the responses received” and predicted it will “take a great deal of time to read and make use of all this material.”
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I would be far more comfortable if there was a new Cardinal in charge of the DDF. I don't trust Fernandez one bit.
First they need to recant their apostasy and heresy.