Daniel Ibañez
Cardinal Victor Manuel Fernández, prefect of the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith, speaks during a press conference about a new Vatican document on human dignity on April 8.
Cardinal Víctor Manuel Fernández, the Vatican’s top doctrinal watchdog, said Monday that the latest Vatican document is as much a reflection of Pope Francis’ pastoral thinking as it is a summary of the Church’s magisterial teaching that ‘the dignity of every human being prevails beyond all circumstances.’