This morning the Vatican's doctrine office released Venite ad Me, Cardinal Fernández's new document on passing on the faith. It's right about the problem: the faith isn't reaching the next generation. But its cure is the same "experience over doctrine" approach the Church has tried since the 1970s, and that approach helped cause the crisis. I go through what the document gets right, where it sidelines doctrine, and what Catholic families should actually do to hand on the faith.

0:30 The DDF drops Venite ad Me
3:09 We agree on the problem: the faith isn't being passed on
4:28 The cure? "Kerygma" and faith as experience, not content
7:34 How the document sidelines doctrine
14:09 A thin kerygma: where's "repent and be baptized"?
16:37 Paragraph 94: a tool for lovers of traditional liturgy?
20:02 Proselytism, ecumenism, and synodality as a magic formula
22:40 Why is the doctrine office writing this?
25:09 Women in decision-making roles (¶116)
27:24 What the document gets right: the family as "first tabernacle"
29:42 The big picture: modernism and the emphasis shift
34:06 How to actually transmit the faith to your kids

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Thumbnail photos: Cardinal Víctor Manuel Fernández by Universidad Católica Argentina (Dirección de Relaciones Institucionales), CC BY-SA 3.0; St. Peter's Basilica by Jebulon, CC0; via Wikimedia Commons.