Putting doctrine firmly at the service of mission
Archbishop Victor Manuel Fernandez, rector of the Catholic University in Argentina, and Archbishop Sviatoslav Shevchuk of Kiev-Halych, major archbishop of the Ukrainian Catholic Church, talk as they arrive for a session of the Synod of Bishops on the family at the Vatican Oct. 12. (CNS/Paul Haring)
Few theologians have ever gone out of their way to meet with the Vatican’s doctrinal watch body, the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith, preferring, with good reason, to give it a wide berth. That is precisely what I did, however, in my capacity as president of the 800 member European Society for Catholic…