The correspondent of half french catholic The crossLoup Besmond, noted in an article on March 5 that theologians have been working on the document for the past five years and that Cardinal Fernández has “completely revised it and that the Pope has specifically instructed him to do so.”
“The next document is said to focus on central themes of Francis’ pontificate, such as migration and the environment, while the first version was limited to issues of bioethics,” Besmond wrote, predicting that the new text could “provoke more shocks throughout the Church”.
Cardinal Fernández has long assisted Pope Francis in drafting documents, dating back to the Latin American and Caribbean bishops’ conference in Aparecida in 2007, when he helped then-Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio draft the assembly’s final document. .