Here,
meet Tucho, the newly named prefect for the Vatican Dicastery for the Doctrine of Faith, Ratzinger's and Müller's onetime job.
Tucho, ghostwriter of
Amoris Laetitia among other recent docuмents, also made a name for himself as an
erotic poet. Warning: Excerpts of said poetry in that linked article are less a near occasion of sin than a near occasion of projectile emesis.
Tucho's
academic career nearly faltered, though:
On Dec. 15, 2009, Cardinal Bergoglio appointed him as rector of the Pontifical Catholic University of Argentina. However, he was not able to take the oath of office until May 20, 2011, after he had answered objections to his appointment raised by Vatican officials who expressed concerns about the orthodoxy of certain elements of his scholarship.
An avid writer, by the time Archbishop Fernández was chosen by Bergoglio as the UCA rector, he had written hundreds of articles and books, including, Incarnated Spiritual Theology (2004), a book that was featured in the Argentinian soap opera Esperanza Mía, about an illicit love affair between a priest and a nun.
(Illicit love affair between a priest and a nun? Will the ironic synergies never end?
https://www.cathinfo.com/sspx-resistance-news/vigano-on-the-persecution-of-some-texas-carmelites/msg891152/?topicseen#msg891152 )
Tucho (OK, his legal name is Victor Manuel Fernandez) nonetheless in 2018 got
favored fast track service on the way to becoming Archbishop of La Plata, the second largest archdiocese in Argentina after Buenos Aires. The previous archbishop, having just turned 75, was booted so quickly and rudely that he was not even allowed to say a public Sunday Mass and found himself homeless.
If the Archbishop had simply had his resignation accepted at the mandatory age of seventy-five, the story might end there. But there is more at work.
Some of the following information stems from Archbishop Aguer’s own last homily given on 2 June, as well as from a piece published on the well-informed Argentine traditionalist blog, the Wanderer (not to be confused with the American Catholic newspaper of the same name). What is depicted is the rapid and even callous removal of a beloved prelate and pro-life champion who had served his diocese for almost two decades — but who had also been one of Jorge Bergoglio’s most noteworthy conservative opponents within the Argentine episcopacy. From the Wanderer report, we read:
As Bishop Aguer himself explained in his farewell homily [on 2 June] and as other sources confirmed, his resignation was presented [to the Holy Father] when he turned 75 on May 24. Seven days later [on 31 May], he received a call from the Nunciature to receive the pontifical orders: Corpus Christi [on 2 June] was to be his last public liturgy; [La Plata’s Auxiliary] Bishop [Alberto] Bochatey was appointed apostolic administrator; he must leave the archdiocese immediately after the celebration, he can not reside in it as archbishop emeritus, nor may he transfer his own headquarters to his successor.
Tucho's current
marching orders from today's announcement:
“The dicastery that you will preside over in other epochs came to use immoral methods. Those were times when more than promoting theological knowledge they chased after possible doctrinal errors. What I expect from you is something without doubt much different,” Francis said.
Pope Francis asks the new prefect to promote theological thinking more than controlling it, and not to occupy himself so much with the abuse question, for which there is a disciplinary sector in the dicastery, so as to concentrate on the theological area that requires development. “Given that for disciplinary questions—related especially to the abuse of minors—there was recently created [in the dicastery] a specific section with very competent professionals, I ask you that as prefect you dedicate your personal commitment in a more direct way to the principal aim of the dicastery, which is ‘to safeguard the faith,’” Francis wrote.
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