Vatican’s Doctrine Chief Erodes Church’s Divine Mandate to Teach
VaticanNews portal (January 27, 2026) reports Cardinal Victor Fernández opened the plenary assembly of the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith (DDF) with a meditation entitled “Do Not Ask the Light, but the Fire,” invoking “intellectual humility” and declaring that “no one possesses the whole truth.” The Argentine prelate warned against “fallacious arguments” used to justify historical tragedies—improperly equating the Church’s defense of faith with Nazi genocide—while urging theologians to recognize human limitations in grasping reality’s totality. This plea for epistemological restraint from Catholicism’s former doctrinal guardian exemplifies the conciliar sect’s systemic apostasy from its divine teaching mission.
Relativism Disguised as Piety
Fernández’s appeal to ubi humilitas, ibi sapientia constitutes theological sleight-of-hand, replacing the Church’s munus docendi (teaching office) with Protestant subjectivism. When he asserts that
“we are incapable of interpreting all the meanings and nuances of a reality, a person, a historical moment, or a truth,”
he denies Christ’s promise that the Holy Spirit “will guide you into all the truth” (John 16:13). The First Vatican Council dogmatically condemned this error, teaching that God grants the Church “the understanding of her immutable doctrine” (Dei Filius, Ch.4). By reducing theological certainty to human limitation, Fernández revives the Modernist heresy condemned by St. Pius X: “In the Church there is no such thing as a philosophy received by all” (Pascendi Dominici Gregis, 39).
Equating Divine Truth with Human Atrocities
The Cardinal’s blasphemous parallel between the Holy Office and the Shoah reveals his contempt for the Church’s divine constitution. Unlike Nazi genocide—a product of atheist materialism—the Inquisition sought to “deliver such a one to Satan for the destruction of the flesh, that his spirit may be saved” (1 Cor 5:5). Pius XII affirmed this distinction: “The Church has always used… severity united with mercy” (Allocution to Roman Rota, Oct 6, 1946). Fernández’s moral equivalence constitutes what Pius XI termed “the apostasy of the society which today is in the public domain” (Quas Primas, 18), abandoning supernatural judgment for worldly sentimentality.
Omission of Christ’s Kingship Over Intellects
Nowhere does Fernández acknowledge the regnum Christi over human minds, a cornerstone of Catholic integralism. Pius XI’s encyclical Quas Primas (11) declares Christ’s reign extends to intellects because “He Himself is Truth.” The dicastery prefect’s silence on this dogma exposes the conciliar sect’s naturalism. When he claims
“no one possesses the whole truth; we must all humbly seek it together,”
he denies Christ’s establishment of an infallible Magisterium to “teach all nations” (Matt 28:19). This contradicts Boniface VIII’s bull Unam Sanctam: “It is necessary to salvation that every human creature be subject to the Roman Pontiff.”
Systemic Apostasy in Doctrinal Governance
Fernández’s admission that the DDF risks “losing the breath of our perspective” when correcting errors admits the conciliar sect’s illegitimacy. The true Holy Office operated under Pius X’s mandate: “to safeguard the integrity of faith and morals” (Sapienti Consilio, 1908). By contrast, Fernández reduces doctrinal authority to collaborative guesswork, fulfilling Paul IV’s warning in Cum ex Apostolatus Officio (1559) that heretical prelates lose jurisdiction automatically. His invocation of St. Bonaventure is particularly cynical, as the Seraphic Doctor wrote: “The Roman Church is the head and mother… nor is there salvation outside of her” (Apologia Pauperum, Ch.12)—a truth Fernández’s relativism renders unthinkable.
Conclusion: Humility as Cowardice
This meditation completes the conciliar sect’s transformation into what St. Pius X called “a miserable counterfeit” of Christ’s Church (Pascendi, 39). When the supposed guardian of doctrine fears to condemn error—equating dogmatic certainty with Holocaust justification—he confirms Bellarmine’s axiom: “A manifest heretic cannot be Pope” (De Romano Pontifice, II.30). Fernández’s “intellectual humility” constitutes cowardice before modern errors, betraying his office’s divine mandate to “contend earnestly for the faith once delivered to the saints” (Jude 1:3). As Pope Leo XIII warned: “When the light of religion is diminished… the civil power itself must totter and fall” (Humanum Genus, 35).
Source:
Cardinal Fernández opens DDF plenary with call to ‘intellectual humility’ (vaticannews.va)
Date: 27.01.2026