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Posted on 10/22/2026 3:35:33 PM PDT by ebb tide
Today, the Vatican’s Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith, headed by the soft-porn author and Cardinal Víctor “Tucho” Fernández, has published Venite ad Me (“Come to Me”), a document on transmitting the Catholic faith. He disclaims “terminological precision and systematic treatment,” instead adopting a more discursive approach.
Tucho creates a contrast between faith and its doctrinal formulations. Paragraph 29 of the document states: “The faith is not transmitted primarily as a body of doctrinal content or religious information, but as a form of ecclesial life into which the believer is gradually introduced.”
Tucho’s document uses a “not primarily X, but Y” construction, whereas John Paul II explicitly warns against opposing doctrinal instruction and Christian life.
In his 1979 apostolic exhortation 'Catechesi Tradendae', the pope wrote that "no opposition is to be set up between a catechesis taking life as its point of departure and a traditional doctrinal and systematic catechesis."
John Paul II added: “It is quite useless to campaign for the abandonment of serious and orderly study of the message of Christ in the name of a method concentrating on life experience.”
Furthermore, Tucho believes that the transmission of the faith is not confined to language that can be labeled as ‘scholastic,’ ‘dogmatic,’ or ‘moralistic.’”
However, the Vatican's General Directory for Catechesis teaches that secure possession of the language of faith is an indispensable condition for living that faith.
From the apostolic period onwards, the Church has transmitted faith through definitive creeds, catechesis, and doctrinal instruction.
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