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[Catholic Caucus] Cardinal Fernández issues ‘clarification’ to Vatican document, suggests Church approval of gender mutilation in ‘severe dysphoria’ casesIn a striking departure from established Church teaching, Cardinal Víctor Manuel Fernández has signaled that sex “change” surgeries may be morally acceptable under certain conditions. Cardinal Fernández, the prefect of the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith (DDF) offered this perspective in a conference he delivered via video to a Theological congress organized by the Catholic University of Cologne (Germany) in mid January. But then in March, the Cardinal posted the conference as an official “clarification” of Dignitas infinita, the Church’s...

[Catholic Caucus] Archbishop Fernández, new DDF prefect, has ‘troubling record on abuse,’ group warnsVATICAN CITY (VATICAN CITY)Catholic Culture - Trinity Communications [San Diego CA]July 3, 2023Pope Francis’s decision to appoint Argentine Archbishop Víctor Manuel Fernández as prefect of the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith is “a baffling and troubling choice,” Anne Barrett Doyle, co-director of BishopAccountability.org, said in a statement.BishopAccountability.org hosts the largest public collection of information on the clergy abuse crisis.“Fernández’s recent handling of a clergy sex abuse case in his home Archdiocese of La Plata raises great concern,” said Doyle. “In his response to allegations, he...

[Catholic Caucus] Has Francis Found a New Smurf for the CDF?Francis is looking for a new Prefect for the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith and his candidate is Hildesheim Bishop Heiner Wilmer, 61, Germany, writes MessaInLatino.it (December 13).Wilmer is a Sacred Heart Father and former Superior General of his order who was appointed a bishop in April 2018.In December 2018 he called the German “theologian” Eugen Drewermann, 82, who left the priesthood and the Church “a prophet of our time misrecognised by the Church" and said that "abuse of power is in the DNA of the [Vatican...

Dec. 14 (UPI) -- People with Type 2 diabetes who fast intermittently may no longer need medication, a small study suggests. After an intermittent fasting diet intervention, most patients in the study achieved complete diabetes remission -- defined as having a stable HbA1c, or average blood sugar, level of less than 6.5% for at least three months -- after discontinuing all anti-diabetic medications. This is according to findings published Wednesday in the Endocrine Society's Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism. "Type 2 diabetes is not necessarily a permanent, lifelong disease. Diabetes remission is possible if patients lose weight by changing...