Tucho Demotes Doctrine While Baggio Decentralizes the Church

Rome dates its propaganda with charming precision. January 8, 2026. Two curial pieces, two polished smiles, one message: the postconciliar project lives; it merely changes its wardrobe. Leo XIV “asks us to reread” Evangelii gaudium and the machine obediently hums. Fernández offers the theological perfume, Baggio provides the managerial blueprint. Together they perform the same trick the system has performed for sixty years: reduce the Catholic faith to a warm nucleus, demote everything that makes it Catholic to “secondary,” then call the demolition “reform,” “listening,” and “mission.”
They claim to be rescuing the heart of the Gospel. They are, in fact, burying it under a therapeutic slogan, a sociological program, and a bureaucracy trained to treat dogma as clutter.
Fernández begins with an order: reread Evangelii gaudium, as though a document’s relevance is created by papal fiat rather than by fidelity to what Christ handed down. He insists it “did not expire,” and then reveals …