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Cardinal Fernandez rips claims of gender ideology
February 18, 2025
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CWN Editor's Note: Cardinal Victor Fernández, the prefect of the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith, criticized the “claim to omnipotence” implicit in gender ideology, in a February 17 address to a theological conference in Germany.
Cardinal Fernandez remarked that the attempt to change one’s sexual identity surgically reflects a mistaken belief that one can “create an alternative reality at will.”
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