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Posted on 06/27/2026 6:24:55 AM PDT by ebb tide
The future Cardinal Víctor Manuel Fernández blatantly endorsed universalism, or the idea that all are saved, in a recently uncovered paper written more than 30 years ago.
In a 46-page 1995 essay titled “Romanos 9-11: gracia y predestinación” (Grace and Predestination) first reported by El Wanderer, the future Prefect of the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith wrote extensively on the Church’s teaching on salvation and predestination, citing the works Saints Augustine and Thomas Aquinas, though the then-priest focused on what they wrote on God’s mercy while largely ignoring His justice. Ultimately, Fernández concluded his work by stressing that he “firmly trusts” that “everyone will be saved,” adding that this is not a “mere wish” but based on what he “know(s) of God and His specific plans.”
“I believe that everything we have reflected on allows us to say the following: ‘I firmly trust that everyone will be saved; a trust that is not based on a mere wish, nor on my compassion for humanity, but on what I know of God and His specific plans thanks to His Revelation,'” Fernández wrote. “It is, then, a ‘most firm confidence’ that is grounded in reality, in the divine way of dealing with humanity in this specific plan of salvation.”
While the Catholic Church teaches that while God desires for all to be saved and does not predestinate anyone to hell, the faithful must work out their salvation by cooperating with God’s grace to be saved. In Sacred Scripture, Our Lord also implored his followers to enter by the “narrow gate,” strongly indicating that most people are not saved.
READ: Priest questions validity of SSPX excommunication threat from Cardinal Fernández
In contrast, Fernández’s words appear to endorse the “univeralist” view of salvation that all people are saved. That view has been condemned by the Church.
Interestingly, in his essay, Fernández cites from the Roman canon “Deliver us from eternal damnation and count us among your chosen ones” to correctly disprove that God predestines people to hell. Ironically, however, this prayer would disprove his ultimate universalist conclusion as everyone being saved would render the prayer moot.
During a homily in 2023, the Argentine prelate made similar heterodox remarks detesting the fact that the Church prevents some faithful from receiving the Holy Eucharist:
You know that for many centuries the Church went in another direction. Without realizing it, it developed an entire philosophy and morality full of classifications, to classify people, to put labels on them … this one is like this, that one is like that; this one can receive Communion, this one cannot; this one can be forgiven, this one cannot … it is terrible that this happened to us in the Church. Thanks be to God, Pope Francis helps us free ourselves from those schemes.” (emphasis added)
Fernández has previously stirred controversy over his many unearthed pornographic writings.
Most notably, in 2023, a sexually explicit book Fernández had written in 1995 titled Heal Me with Your Mouth: The Art of Kissing, about kissing and the sensations it evokes, resurfaced. In 2024, another erotic book written by the future prefect in 1998 titled Mystical Passion: spirituality and sensuality, which discusses “particularities of men and women in orgasm also occur in some way in the mystical relationship with God” and downplays the immoral nature of homosexuality also was rediscovered.
In late 2025, three more pornographic texts written by Fernández that graphically discussed the human body were uncovered.
READ: New ‘pornographic’ texts by Cardinal Fernández uncovered
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The Synodal "church" is marching onwards.
All people COULD be saved if all of them had put their complete trust in Jesus, but has this happened? I think not and remember that once they die that’s all in the past if they have never trusted Jesus.
So how in Cardinal Fernandez’s view are monsters like Hitler and Stalin saved?
The Fallen Angel (my Sunday School teacher, his name is similar to the ring name of a fake wrestler with that gimmick) used Luke 15 to debunk universalism. It’s been burned brightly into my mind. And it’s things such as that which the church I was run off never taught.
Churches that never discern and warn of false teachers will be subject to these false teachers.
The following spells out that God is not a vending machine: “Neither do I. Go and sin no more.” Jesus did not say, have fun I’ll be waiting, rather, sin no more. Maybe we are born saved and that makes sense to me, but it has limits.
A Woman Caught in Adultery
8 Jesus returned to the Mount of Olives, 2 but early the next morning he was back again at the Temple. A crowd soon gathered, and he sat down and taught them. 3 As he was speaking, the teachers of religious law and the Pharisees brought a woman who had been caught in the act of adultery. They put her in front of the crowd.
4 “Teacher,” they said to Jesus, “this woman was caught in the act of adultery. 5 The law of Moses says to stone her. What do you say?”
6 They were trying to trap him into saying something they could use against him, but Jesus stooped down and wrote in the dust with his finger. 7 They kept demanding an answer, so he stood up again and said, “All right, but let the one who has never sinned throw the first stone!” 8 Then he stooped down again and wrote in the dust.
9 When the accusers heard this, they slipped away one by one, beginning with the oldest, until only Jesus was left in the middle of the crowd with the woman. 10 Then Jesus stood up again and said to the woman, “Where are your accusers? Didn’t even one of them condemn you?”
11 “No, Lord,” she said.
And Jesus said, “Neither do I. Go and sin no more.”
Impunity is Tucho’s calling card.
Looking out from all of the photographs taken of him, he seems to be saying: Just try to hold me accountable. Don’t you know I’m untuchoable?
That is only true for Republicans as Democrats all go to hell.
Bible verses that prove the point.
Acts_2:21 And it shall come to pass, that whosoever shall call on the name of the Lord shall be saved.
Act 16:31 And they said, Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved, and all thy house.
Rom_10:1 Brethren, my heart's desire and prayer to God for Israel is, that they might be saved. (This was after the death and rising of the Messiah)
Mat 10:32-33 Whosoever therefore shall confess me before men, him will I confess also before my Father which is in heaven. But whosoever shall deny me before men, him will I also deny before my Father which is in heaven.
The cross wasn’t an invitation; it was used to take back what was His. Your salvation is not based on your participation. People confuse salvation with the “Kingdom of God” the two are completely different. Salvation is based on Christ and the cross, entering the “Kingdom of God” depends on the individual. We teach a strange doctrine. We teach that Jesus came and died on the cross to forgive all our sins, and yet we teach that you will answer for those sins in the final judgement with a loss of salvation. Both can’t be true. Paul explains it in 1 Corinthians 3:10-14. We will be accountable for our actions (Hitler and Stalin) but it doesn’t change the power of the cross: Salvation. If we believe that a majority of humanity will spend eternity in hell, then we are teaching that Satan defeated the power of the cross. God’s will is that everyone will be saved. I don’t see man or Satan changing God’s will
The only thing I learned from Tucco is when you have to shoot...shoot...don’t talk
Now I have to think about what "being saved" really means.
At first I thought he meant everyone goes to Heaven when they die, no matter what they did on Earth. I hate that idea. There are lots of people here I don't want to see when I enter paradise --- not if they act the same way they did here.
OTOH, consider the idea that we all have a "soul", a spirit that exists after we die. That spirit is "saved" but not necessarily in Heaven --- maybe in the Lake of Fire?
to correctly disprove that God predestines people to hell.
If God didn’t choose some, NONE would get to the kingdom.
Tuco Benedicto Pacifico Juan Maria Ramirez (AKA "The Rat") was at least honest about being a sinner. Not repentant, just honest.
This "Tucho" dude doesn't even rise to that level.
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