Cardinal Fernández has been talking up the new declaration since December, indicating it will be less controversial than Fiducia supplicans, the DDF’s last declaration, issued late last year.
As the cardinal sought to calm controversy over the reception of Fiducia, which provided for priests to offer blessings to persons in same-sex relationships, Fernández has said that the dicastery’s upcoming document will treat “not only social issues but also a strong criticism of moral questions such as sex-change surgery, surrogacy, and gender ideology,” and predicted it would prove less controversial than Fiducia.
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